Brighton star cannot watch Sunderland ‘Til I Die after Sunderland nightmare

Sunderland ‘Til I Die is back – but one Premier League star is unlikely to be watching the third instalment of the much-loved Netflix series.

Football fans have had to wait nearly four years for one of the most popular sports series in recent times to return, and the wait finally ended on Tuesday as a third season was released.

Unlike the first two seasons, which followed the club across the entire 2017-18 and 2018-19 campaigns, this season focusses purely on Sunderland’s three League One play-off matches in 2022.

One player who featured in the first season is Brighton star Jason Steele – but he says he has never actually watched the popular series due to the struggles he was going through in his career at the time.

Steele had just experienced relegation to League One with Blackburn Rovers in 2016-17 when he was snapped up by Sunderland, who had just been relegated from the Premier League.

Nightmarishly, another relegation followed as Steele and Sunderland dropped down to League One. Steele’s stay at the Stadium of Light would only last one year, and he was snapped up by Brighton in 2018, where he remains.

“I have never watched that,” Steele said of the series last year. “My family have, but I was not in a good place as you can imagine. You go to a team that is local to you, you have a lot of friends and family that support the club. Things didn’t work out.

“I didn’t play an awful lot and when I did I didn’t do myself any favours. I didn’t play at the level I know I can play for various reasons. The opportunity to come here [Brighton] came about and it was one that was exciting for me, a chance to find myself again on and off the pitch, and reconnect with my family again.”