Category Archives: sheffield

Tears…

One part joy, two parts relief. Well done, boys! More tomorrow… It’s tomorrow, and here’s the match report, featuring some sporting words from Preston manager Alan Irvine: I can’t speak for previous play-offs and it wasn’t down to luck this time in any case. Sheffield United were better than us in both games and deserved [...]

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You fill up my senses…

Today’s the day. At 1315 BST, Sheffield United will kick off their game at Crystal Palace and about several miles away, Reading will kick off against Birmingham City. Between them, the results of these two games will determine who will be promoted into the Premiership. This might not have a huge impact on your day, but [...]

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Going Up!

…fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eigh… oh, hello! I was just counting my chickens before they’ve hatched.  In other news, following a nail-bitingly tight 1-0 win at Reading, my beloved Sheffield United now occupy second spot in the Championship. That’s an automatic promotion place, which means that they’ll be back up where they belong in the Premiership next [...]

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Swings and Roundabouts

Or rather, Roundabouts and Swings Said he “the job’s the very spit of what it always were, “It’s bread and bacon mostly when the dog don’t catch a hare, “But looking at it broad, and while it ain’t no merchant kings, “What’s lost upon the roundabouts, we pulls up on the swings.” Roundabouts and Swings [...]

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Not sour grapes…

…but when your team goes out of the FA Cup because of this: GOAL Hull City 1-0 Sheffield United It’s an unbelievably controversial goal and the Blades will be furious about that one. A cross from the Hull right is for some reason headed against the underside of his own crossbar by Kyle Naughton and [...]

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