Nigel Farage claims he has been invited to Sunderland's Stadium of Light

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claims a Sunderland director has offered to host him at a game at the Stadium of Light and discuss the independent football regulator. It follows on from a recent visit to Championship club Ipswich Town and their ground, Portman Road.

The Tractor Boys experienced an intense backlash on social media from some of the club's supporters groups, after allowing the politician to visit the club on Monday before a rally at the town's Trinity Park later the same day.

Farage posed for pictures around the ground and in the club's dressing room, before thanking the people of Suffolk for a 'lovely welcome.'

The Reform UK leader was in Sunderland to launch the party's local election campaign on Thursday evening, inside Houghton-le-Spring’s Sunderland Live Arena.

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Farage said he was hoping to attend a game at the Stadium of Light, and told ITV News: "I am hoping to go to a home game there at some point...