Former Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn believes the former Black Cats owners Stewart Donald and Charlie Methven trampled on something precious during the second series of the infamous 'Sunderland 'Til I Die' Netflix documentary.

"I watched the first one, and do you know why I really liked it?" Quinn told Ladbrokes Fanzone. "Some things I really disagreed with, but above everything else, my biggest takeaway from that documentary was that it showed the world what football means to the people of Sunderland.

"That was the biggest thing for me. Am I certain I'd have allowed it to have happen on my watch? No, because I'd be clever enough to know they're not in there to see all the good stuff you do; they want to capture the mistakes.

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"The people who followed me in those administrative roles up there, didn't come out of the documentary too well, because none of the good stuff they did made the final cut. It was all about panic, mistakes, different things going wrong...

"But the club seems to have come out of that now, after a horrific few years. I think I left in 2012, and every year I spent there was just a joy to stay in the Premier League. We finished 10th in my last year there, which was good.

"Martin O'Neill really looked to be on a solid pathway. Why that didn't kick on, I'll never understand. And then I can remember a couple of other managers coming in; the likes of Gus Poyet and what have you...

"Then Sam Allardyce came along and brought a moment of hope into the club, it looked as though everything was great, and then England came calling, so the club suffered at that time. And then eventually, the club kind of fell apart and faced back-to-back relegations.

"That was hard, watching on from afar. I think I'd been gone five or six years, but watching it all play out on TV, in this documentary, it wasn't easy to watch. I didn't watch the second series; I didn't enjoy it. I'll tell you why I didn't watch it.

"The first, or maybe the second episode, of the second series, they removed Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet from the tunnel. Let me explain; in our tunnel, that would be stretched out onto the edge of the pitch, where the teams line up, always, from the day the Stadium of Light opened, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet was played, which was the most thunderous music which just left the hairs on your neck and shoulders standing up.

"As senior players, we used to say to the young lads "you're playing here now, the most important thing to remember is that tunnel, and Prokofiev pounding at you as you walk out'. And it was great to look at your opponents in that moment; it was a great thrill to be a part of that moment.

"As you ran out onto the pitch, it was elation, it was always a full house; that's what I think of when I think about that stadium. I think it was in the first or second episode of the second series, they got rid of it and said it was a joke.

"I think the quote was "we're going techno-funk". Now, I think there's one letter wrong in there; that's what I think it should've been called!

"That put me off, because I just thought 'you're now trampling on something that's just a little bit too precious for me'. And from that point I just couldn't enjoy it. So that's when I pulled out of watching that documentary."