It's the Radio 1 Big Weekend in Sunderland and it's even bigger weekend for the city's football club, who on Sunday face Chelsea in a match that IF they win and the results at Liverpool or Brighton - or indeed both - go their way, could be playing European football for the first time in 53 years. The tantalising prospect of a Conference League final in Istanbul, or even a Europa League final in Frankfurt, would have seemed idiotic if the idea had been mooted to Sunderland fans last summer after the exultation of their dramatic Championship play-off final win. Now, though, every conversation with a Sunderland supporter begins with talk of qualifying for Europe.
