Leo Pearlman on joining the SAFC board

The lifelong Sunderland supporter and a co-founder and managing director at Fulwell73 has joined the club's board as a non-executive director.

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00:00 So Leo Pullman from Full World 73, obviously as you would have my name and the company,

00:05 Sunderland means a lot to you, but what's brought you to join the board?

00:09 Them asking me, put simply, I can't imagine a greater honour or privilege than to be asked

00:14 to join the board of the club that you grew up supporting and love. To be able to contribute

00:19 in any small way to the continued success is truly, truly a dream come true.

00:27 So how long have you been a Sunderland fan?

00:29 I would say before birth, given that I wasn't given a choice in the matter. So yeah, 44

00:36 years.

00:37 And what's your earliest memory?

00:39 My earliest memory is probably the first game I went to, which was in true Sunderland fashion,

00:44 a crushing defeat. I don't remember the score of the scorers, I just remember being quite

00:49 upset, which is a feeling that as a Sunderland fan you get used to, and yet you keep on coming

00:54 back for more. And I guess that's really at the heart of it, isn't it?

00:57 So you loved the club pre-Dare to Stadium and out then, you were a Rocha-Bargh boy?

01:01 Absolutely. I stood on the Fulwell end with my dad, my cousins, Ben and Gabe, my grandpa,

01:07 my brother, hence the company name Fulwell 73, that constant reminder of where we come

01:13 from and also what you can achieve if you just dare to dream.

01:16 And also the last time we won anything.

01:18 Dare to dream, that's exactly it.

01:20 (laughing)