SUNDERLAND ’TIL I DIE season two has been released – but how can you download and watch the series online?
The first season saw the Black Cats completely flop in the Championship and suffer another relegation to League One.
The Stadium of Light plays host to Sunderland’s home games
The fly-on-the-wall second series focuses on the north-east club’s bid to get out of the third tier of English football.
How can I watch Sunderland ’Til I Die season 2?
Sunderland ’Til I Die season 2 is available on Netflix in the UK from Wednesday 1 April 2020.
There are six new episodes in the season, ranging in length from 30 minutes to just under an hour each.
To watch both seasons you need to have a Netflix subscription, which costs £5.99 a month while new users can try the platform with a 30-day free trial.
How much was Josh Maja’s salary?
One of the main players who feature in the new season is striker Josh Maja, who left the club in January 2019 to join French club Bordeaux.
Nigerian Maja came through the ranks at the Stadium of Light and broke into the first team in the first season of the show.
Going into the final year of his contract ahead of the 2018/19 campaign, Maja made a blistering start scoring 15 goals in 24 games.
He left Sunderland mid-season for the south of France in a £1.5million deal, signing a four-and-a-half-year contract.
While in the north east, Maja was earning less than £1,000 a week, according to the club’s owner Stewart Donald.
He told the Roker Rapport podcast in 2019: “It’s cost us by not having it organised correctly.
“You can argue I should have started that (negotiation) in August instead of end of September but to be fair, when I came to the club, Josh Maja wasn’t particularly well known.
“Every week we were trying to organise a contract, he scored another goal. It was the perfect storm.
“What we should have done is turned around and said when he starts playing, the boy was on less than £1,000 a week, you start earning more money but we get more years.”
Reports in France suggest Maja now earns €65,000 a week (£57,000).
But Maja told the Sunderland Echo he would have stayed if the terms were right.
“It was a bit of… it was up and down,” he said. “Basically, I wanted to stay.
“Given the right contract, I would have stayed. But at the time, I don’t think Sunderland were prepared to give me what I wanted.
“So when the opportunity to play in one of Europe’s top five leagues came up, I couldn’t turn that down.
“It wasn’t an easy decision, but it was one which to improve my career and my game I think I had to make.”
Who is Charlie Methven and why did Sunderland fans hate him?
Another prominent figure in the second season of Sunderland ’Til I Die is director Charlie Methven.
He succeeded former Rangers chief executive Martin Bain, who left following the takeover from a consortium led by Stewart Donald.
In the opening scene of season two Methven is seen given the club’s staff a foul-mouthed assessment of their “failed business”.
He then declared he wanted to change the walk-out music in the stadium from Prokofiev’s Dance of the Knights, The Apprentice theme which has been used for over 20 years to something that’s “a massive rave, a bit like Ibiza”.
Before arriving at Sunderland, Methven had a career in journalism.
Born in Oxfordshire and schooled at Eton, he worked for Sporting Life and the Daily Telegraph before moving into PR when he co-founded Dragon Advisory Limited in 2011.
He supports Oxford United – like owner Donald – and was given a 6% share in the club when appointed as executive director.
He endured a turbulent relationship with Sunderland fans, despite implementing the award-winning ‘Big Seat Change Initiative’ and helping the club break records for attendance.
But Methven called fans who stream illegal streams of football matches ‘parasites’ in a radio interview in September 2018 and claimed in a meeting a year later people in the south “understood” business better.
By then in October 2019 he was working through his three-month notice period at the club and left in December of that year.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
