Roker Rapport

Chris Wynn was joined by pub crawl extraordinaire (and ITV Tyne Tees Sports Reporter) Simon O’Rourke - to look back at what’s happened at the Stadium of Light since last we spoke in September, and ahead to a nerve-racking end to Sunderland’s 21/22 campaign in League One. What’s the crack? Right. Quite a bit has happened since the heady days of challenging for the automatics... Where do we begin? How does Simon feel about the last few months in particular - what did he make of the spectacular collapse and the chaos that ensued? What did Simon make of the signing of Jermain Defoe? Did it make any sense to him? Kyril Louis-Dreyfus - does Simon feel the club should’ve done better with the PR disaster that was sharegate? What would he have preferred they do? The end of Lee Johnson’s time at the club - that wasn’t the way to go about it all was it? Did he agree with the decision or does it lead to a few questions about the experience level of the people involved? “To run a football club, you have to be a bit of