There is something about the acoustics here, especially on nights as boisterous as this when the decibels are as high as the stakes, that the Stadium of Noise would be a more fitting title for Sunderland's partisan home.
It helps when you have a crowd of 44,742, the highest for a play-off semi-final in the history of the Football League; take that in when you consider the lunacy of the Black Cats even being here in the first place.
It helps, too, when your team comes into the game 13 unbeaten under a new manager.