❤️🔥 You brought the noise throughout 2025-26, backing us all the way during an incredible season in our history. #SAFC supporters, thank you.
2026-27 🛫🇪🇺
How utterly humbling for them.
From Messi selling pies and Cristiano Ronaldo cleaning boots to copying Sunderland with their tails between their legs because they couldn't beat them even with a 4-year, half billion quid head start and and oil-rich nation behind them 😂 #SAFC
'With #SAFC having parked their tanks on Howe’s front lawn, there is a tacit acknowledgment at Newcastle that besting their fierce local rivals and football’s spending regulations will involve copying elements of the Wearside club’s recruitment model.'
https://t.co/QPGk31Sgsk
Glazing Sunderland too hard today but that ‘til the end thing they done for the play offs and now Europe being in the cats eyes is just the coolest fucking thing ever
EUROPA LEAGUE was never the dream.
Not because I didn’t want it.
Because if I’m being honest, I never thought it was possible.
What kid would?
Especially when 12 years ago I was playing non league football in the Ryman Premier and Conference South, just trying to stay alive in the game.
What kid dreams about Europe when, two weeks into the off season, his dad has to tell him he’s been released by Watford F.C. over the phone?
I was heartbroken.
My dad looked at me and said:
“What are we doing tomorrow?”
To which I replied with the words he’d drilled into me my whole life:
“We’re training, Dad.”
So we trained.
Every single day.
My dad emailed every EFL club asking for an opportunity.
One club replied.
One.
That was all I needed.
An opportunity.
@WealdstoneFC and @wwfcofficial , I’ll always be indebted to you.
Then came the move to @SunderlandAFC .
A massive club.
A massive opportunity.
And I couldn’t wait to prove myself.
But 45 minutes into my debut… hooked.
“Rabbit caught in headlights. Waste of money. Get rid.”
Then came the Championship.
“He’s not good enough for this level.”
Then the Premier League.
“Let’s give him a debut and then get rid of him.”
I understood the doubt.
I’ve faced it my whole career.
And truthfully, you doubt yourself too at times.
But I’ve always tried to live by one mindset:
Outwork your doubt.
You don’t always need to see the full journey.
You just need to take the next step.
Then the next one.
And then another.
Even when social media tells you you’re not good enough.
Even when the voice inside your own head whispers the same thing.
Keep working.
Keep learning.
Keep showing up.
Because sometimes the places you end up are bigger than anything your younger self could’ve ever imagined.
To any young player reading this, don’t put a ceiling on yourself too early.
You genuinely have no idea where this game and life can take you.
And to the boys… thank you.
You removed the glass ceiling I’d placed on myself.
What a team.
What a club.
What a fanbase.
Sunderland… rocking all over Europe ❤️🤍
And in the words of Granit Xhaka:
“This is just the beginning.”
Incredible new chant from Sunderland fans after yesterday’s qualification for Europa league…
Is this the way to Lithuania
Fuck Bayern Munich were going Albania
Thursday nights in Transylvania
Europa league awaits for me