Last Tuesday night Sunny Singh Gill was centre stage at the Stadium of Light, refereeing Sunderland v Leicester in front of a crowd of more than 40,000. Deep in stoppage time, the home side, trailing 1-0 to the Championship leaders, appealed for a penalty and one of England’s loudest, most passionate, audiences turned up the volume to earsplitting levels.
Sunderland’s home can be an intimidating place in such moments but, almost certainly correctly, Singh Gill remained adamant Daniel Ballard had tumbled in the box a little too easily and Leicester held on to secure a win that could prove pivotal in the race for automatic promotion.
