Rarely have two points been such cause for celebration.
Come the end of the 2015-16 Premier League campaign, that was all that would separate Sam Allardyce’s Sunderland, in 17th, from relegated rivals Newcastle United.
“There’s no better feeling,” lifelong Mackem and host of the Roker Report podcast, Gavin Henderson, tells FFT.
“Big Sam came in that year and saved us, while they went down. Still, it hadn’t been a good season.”
