Southampton: a club on the other side of the looking glass

Both Sunderland and Southampton play in red and white and that is where the similarities end. But why is that? In 2011, Southampton won promotion back to the Championship from League One. That same season, Sunderland finished 10th in the top flight despite a poor end to the campaign. It would later turn out to be the highest placed finish of our ten-year stint in the Premier League. Southampton only returned to the top flight in 2012, halfway through our decade in the Premier League and just the