00:00Yes, happy David, good evening. This is Spine Tingling.
00:09The unmistakable feeling in the air of Matchday on Wearside, but even for this place, this is off the scale.
00:19The passion, the pressure, the privilege, paradise or pain, it's the playoffs.
00:26The Stadium of Light, a modern day football palace, a football temple to which this city flocks.
00:36It demands top level football, elite football. It's time maybe about to come again, but Coventry are here to turn this place down.
00:46Sunderland were given a huge welcome, as you may have seen as the team bus arrived and snaked through the streets outside the Stadium of Light.
00:58The fans have done their bit for Sunderland. Coventry were late arriving there and it's pretty similar to what happened between Southampton and West Bromwich Albion
01:06on the second leg last year when West Bromwich Albion were caught up in traffic.
01:10And the advertising hoardings were moved closer to the pitch to stop Darnell Furlong's long throws.
01:16Sunderland have done similar here tonight to try and stop Milan van Evijk.
01:20They have been moved closer to the touch line.
01:22Sunderland is on the move here, moving up the gears and Wilson's called into action.
01:36The first real bit of work that he's had to do.
01:40Now it's Neil, Isidore making his way forward, makes the connection but couldn't direct it on target.
01:47But listen to this place, Isidore struggling here.
01:54I'm not sure what has happened there but certainly the Sunderland players have rushed up.
02:06What did the officials see? That is the question.
02:10He pulls off to the far post and tries to get the header on but what happens afterwards?
02:17No, nothing is the answer. Nothing.
02:23Well I could have told everybody in the stadium that Wilson Isidore wasn't going to be hurt enough to not continue here.
02:30And we'll leave it there, shall we?
02:33And this was at my end of the chance. Ken does so well, doesn't he?
02:36Just wriggles out of it and then goes through the gears, gets a really good strike off in the end on that right side.
02:42But again, he's been the one. If they can get him in, get turned.
02:46It looked like he could be the difference maker in that final third for Sunderland today.
02:50Sakamoto though, a tireless worker.
02:56There's Haji Wright.
03:00Now Van Eyweyk.
03:03Haji Wright again.
03:08There's Jack Rodoni. Rodoni didn't really catch hold of it.
03:10Another chance for Coventry City. Sakamoto was waiting to pounce on the six-yard line.
03:17Well, it's no coincidence, is it? The strength of this team has been goals from crosses, chances from crosses.
03:23And here's another one. Rodoni, that touch there could have been better.
03:27I'm not sure whether he's actually shooting and gets it horribly wrong, but it goes into a dangerous area.
03:34Sakamoto can't get on the end of it, but another dangerous moment.
03:39Sakamoto's cross, Mason Clark, and Patterson tried to get to it, was beaten to it by Rodoni, who sends it over the top.
03:54Well, Haji Wright is saying that Patterson has cleaned Jack Rodoni out, he wants a penalty.
03:59But this is brilliant again. How dangerous, when he cuts in on that left, those Coventry players know he's going to cut in and deliver a cross.
04:06And it's Efren Mason Clark at the far post. A little knock down.
04:11And Rodoni, it's a bouncing ball, he just can't keep the ball down and under the crossbar.
04:18Tough chance that, you know, as you say, it's really difficult for him to get over the top of the ball.
04:23Well, this rivalry is intense, it is bitter, it catches people out.
04:28A bitter feud ignited back in the late 70s, when Sunderland were relegated from the top division.
04:32Coventry stayed up. Coventry's game against Bristol City was delayed by 15 minutes.
04:37Sunderland lost at Everton, the final score broadcast across the PA system at Highfield Road.
04:41So both Coventry and Bristol City knew the result they had at the time at 2-2 was good enough to keep them both up.
04:47Mayenda.
04:56No way through.
04:58But he urges the south stand of the standing of lights to raise the volume a little bit more.
05:03Well, I said the Sunderland legs might be getting weary, he's definitely don't look like they're getting weary at all, just full of energy.
05:10Approaching the final quarter of this second leg. Sunderland still have the ticket in their hand right now.
05:17Sunderland!
05:23There's Le Fay.
05:250-9.
05:270-9's ball in and Wilson has to react.
05:30He had to get down sharply there.
05:33As Trae Hume set his sacks.
05:34Well, Trae Hume volley at the far post, we've seen that before, haven't we?
05:39They work it really, really well.
05:41And I tell you what, technique is brilliant from Trae Hume.
05:44He gets lots of power.
05:47Trust me, this, it's a smart save.
06:05Radoni.
06:07Van Ayrbeek.
06:08Haji Wright closing in.
06:09And behind him was Ekron Mason Clarke.
06:17Coventry City gave Sunderland a gift on Friday.
06:21Now they've turned up to take it back.
06:25They snatch it from them.
06:27And this tie is level again.
06:30Another cross does the business for Coventry City.
06:34Well, is it Fay?
06:35I just wonder how long Efren Mason Clarke was going to be left on this pitch.
06:40Because to me, the last five or ten minutes, he's looked a little bit tired.
06:44There's an inquest in the Sunderland defence as to why they didn't deal with this cross.
06:49It's one of the few crosses tonight that they haven't dealt with.
06:53And Mason Clarke comes across Trae Hume.
06:56Adi Wright occupies Dan Ballard.
06:58Doesn't allow him to get his head on it.
07:00And it's a smart finish.
07:02It really is.
07:03Gives Anthony Paterson no chance.
07:06We said it was a long time to hold on.
07:08They haven't done it.
07:10The mood changes.
07:11The tie changes.
07:12This is fascinating now, isn't it?
07:18Can Sunderland change their philosophy late in the day?
07:22The nervous wait for these two will go on unless something happens here.
07:35Sakamoto's cross.
07:37Was that the moment?
07:38Yes.
07:39That was it.
07:40That was it.
07:42That was it.
07:43It's timing.
07:44It's way off.
07:46The ball is so good.
07:48All he has to do is get the faintest of touches.
07:52You can see he's onside.
07:53Gets beyond.
07:55Dan Ballard.
07:57Can't control it.
07:58What a chance.
08:00A chance for Coventry City to win it right at the end.
08:04Spurned by Haji Wright.
08:05But the goal from Ephraim Mason-Clarke has levelled the tie.
08:08We will have extra time.
08:12After the 90 minutes is finished on the night.
08:14Sunderland 0.
08:15Coventry City 1.
08:16We are tied at 2-2 on aggregate.
08:18Extra time comes next.
08:24Two ties that you always felt were going to be incredibly tight.
08:28And that is the way it's panned out.
08:38Hume with that ball through to Chris Rigg.
08:40Rigg.
08:41Across the face him.
08:42Goal.
08:43Mundell.
08:44Kept out.
08:45That was Sunderland's big moment.
08:50It's been a much brighter start to this second half of extra time by Sunderland.
08:55And Romain Mundell.
08:56It's actually Josh Eccles.
08:58Sticks out a boot.
09:01Absolutely outstanding defensive work.
09:08For the first time in the game it just feels like Coventry City have not got control.
09:15Is there going to be a twist?
09:17Well, he's still prowling.
09:19Looking calm.
09:20He said he looked calm against Middlesbrough on the final day but he was feeling it inside.
09:24Frank Lampard.
09:26There's Brandon Thomas Asante.
09:27Thomas Asante.
09:28Well, he saw his opportunity.
09:29He went for it.
09:30It will be a Coventry corner.
09:31Jay De Silva.
09:32He's had a good game, hasn't he?
09:33The left back.
09:34Falls nicely.
09:35Brandon Thomas Asante.
09:36Don't tell me he's not feeling it.
09:37He is alright.
09:38And why wouldn't you be?
09:39Is this the final action?
09:40Before penalties?
09:41Grimes with the corner.
09:42And rising high again was Bobby Thomas.
09:43As we head into two additional minutes.
09:44As we head into two additional minutes.
09:45As we head into two additional minutes.
09:46As we head into two.
09:47The night.
09:48will go on.
09:49By the looks of it.
09:50The night will go on.
09:51by the looks of it.
09:52The night will go on.
09:53by the looks of it.
09:54and why wouldn't you be is this the final act before penalties
10:05Grimes with the corner and rising high again was Bobby Thomas
10:11as we head into two additional minutes
10:15the night will go on by the looks of it
10:24Trae Hulme he's gone for the return here
10:34Trae Hulme delivers to Cross a towering header
10:38once again Bobby Thomas rising the highest he had to get to that
10:43well is this gonna be the moment for Sunderland just be wanting a good delivery
10:49make sure that Coventry City have to defend it
10:53can someone go and get ahead on it
11:00could this be any more dramatic any more tense
11:03plenty of movement inside that box
11:13and incredible noise that can almost be heard at Wembley
11:23well just when you thought you'd seen it all I mean you've got to feel for Coventry City but if ever and van deserve to win a playoff semi-final it's Dan Ballard he has been
11:30immense in both legs but it just peels off I mean it's really awkward how on earth he makes that kind of a game
11:38he's almost doubled over in the air and he looks look I mean what header that is and he comes in off the underside of the bar and he looks like he was just a good
11:45Reverend Van deserve to win a playoff semi-final, it's Dan Ballard, he has been immense in both legs, but he just peels off, I mean it's really awkward how on earth he makes that kind of a connection, he's almost doubled over in the air here, look, I mean what a header that is, and he comes in off the underside of the bar, it's joy, it's joy for Sunderland, and it is heartbreak.
12:13The Coventry City, this is the playoff, the playoffs in its glory for almost all of this stadium, but the playoffs in its pain for the Coventry City fans.
12:29Sunderland have been waiting for heroes to feel at home, wearing that heavy shirt, and make this club great again, to stand with the greats again, they could be the players.
12:55One game away, Coventry City, ruined by the playoffs two years ago, ruined again by the playoffs tonight.
13:09Wembley, where the football gods live, where icons are created and tears fall, it will decide Sunderland's destiny, Sunderland's fate.