Sunderland Never Stopped Believing — And We Never Will!
“The Sunderland we know is bold, ambitious and as of right now, they have us in a dream state,” writes Tom Albrighton.
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - MAY 17: Granit Xhaka celebrates after Brian Brobbey of Sunderland scores the first goal for his team during the Premier League match between Everton and Sunderland at Hill Dickinson Stadium on May 17, 2026 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ian Horrocks/Sunderland AFC via Getty Images) | Sunderland AFC via Getty Images This coming weekend, the sun will shine, the clock will strike 4:00pm and Sunderland will embark on their most important game in a generation — a mere twelve months after their last generationally important game. Sunderland have never done things easily.
We’ve never done things normally and yet again, we’re exposed to a season that, when in danger of fizzling out into mid-table mediocrity, found itself veering towards the most dramatic ending it could muster from the circumstances available to us. Whether or not we pull off the miracle of European qualification seems almost irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, because even to have the slightest of hope of such an achievement borders on insanity, especially when juxtaposed against all that came before it. Whatever happens, one can only feel the most immense pride a fan can feel.
A team that’s defied the odds and expectations all season has one final chance to upset them all again on a grand scale, and to reiterate: to even have the opportunity to achieve this is absurd and, to a degree, deserved. Why is it deserved? I could list those reasons and probably get within touching distance of three figures, such is the absurdity and nonsense that’s dogged Sunderland in near enough equal measure for over a decade.
But why this feeling, this dream and this hope is so important is because this team reflects the greatest strength the Sunderland fanbase possesses — we’ve simply never stopped believing. We didn’t stop believing when we spent season after season toying with relegation before we were eventually swallowed up. We didn’t stop believing when the following season, this club dropped like a stone.
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