Bramall Lane is nervous. The thunderous collective spirit of yore is dampened – only for Annie’s Song do the unimpressed locals rouse themselves. An inability to believe in the attacking credentials of Richard Cresswell, pleading at the manager for a shot as central striker; a failure to conceive that the runs of Mark Yeates will amount to anything beyond another misplaced final ball; a refusal to comprehend in a central defence shorn of captain and leader Chris Morgan.Their blameless father of chapel is feeling the prickly heat under his collar and not just due to the mild conditions this February. Jamie Ward, small and…
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Great Football League Teams 12: Sheffield United, 1981-2
A warm welcome to Ian Rands, ardent Blade and proprietor of the burgeoning blog, A United View on Football. In recent weeks, Ian has identified the best players in the Championship and compared and contrasted those two Kyles: Walker and Naughton. Here, he reverts the clock back thirty years or so. 1979 saw Sheffield United relegated to the third tier of English football for the first time, just four years after missing out on European football by a point. With the best will in the world no one believed that a drop to the Fourth Division would shortly follow. Saturday 2nd…
The Thursday Preview: Middlesbrough Vs Sheffield United
Twenty years ago, Gordon Strachan and Gary Speed were the wide men as Leeds United captured this League’s title. Speed, a youngster who had broken through that season, scored a memorable fourth goal as the Peacocks defeated their nearest rivals Sheffield United 4-0 in the run in, but even these significant events were topped two years later as the Yorkshire club won the biggest domestic prize of the lot, clinching the last ever top flight Football League title with a dramatic victory at Bramall Lane.So, to have appointed something of a nemesis as their manager will have provoked mild surprise…
TTU 2010/11: Season Preview: Championship (Part Two)
See Part One of the TTU 2010/11 Championship Season Preview here.MiddlesbroughHeadline of the Summer’Scottish Invasion!’ in relation to the number of players from across the border Strachan has recruited.Ins/OutsINAndrew Halliday (Livingston)Kris Boyd (Rangers)Nicky Bailey (Charlton)Stephen McManus (Celtic)Kevin Thomson (Rangers)Tarmo Kink (Győri ETO)OUT:Chris Riggott (released)Emanuel Pogatetz (Hannover 96)Jérémie Aliadière (released)John Johnson (Northampton)Mido (Ajax)Any major worries?Gordon has rightly strengthened the spine of the team but the flanks look a little bare . More signings are promised, having been spearheaded by Estonian winger Tarmo Kink, who agreed terms just to meet our publication deadline. Goalkeeping remains a concern. Brad Jones is yet to…
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