A love supreme: this Sunderland fan in Australia is happy to embrace nocturnal fandom | Angela Pippos
Being brought to the club through family ties has been a blessing and a curse but Premier League football this season will ease the pain of 5am wake-up calls
Long-term relationships often come with sporting baggage. He gave me Sunderland and I gave him Adelaide Crows. One of us has done much better in this deal.
When we first started dating, I remember asking him, an Englishman, which Premier League team he supported. He was very well spoken so I was expecting a London club, or, because everyone else seemed to support them, one of the glamour teams. So, when he said Sunderland, he caught me off guard.
