☰☰☭☰☰ SHEFFIELD UNITED ☰☰☭☰☰ THE OFFICIAL THREAD ☰☰☭☰☰

that was probably when i stopped thinking of tottenham as a big club actually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI0pG0RjQ0g

love the celebration here

was in this pitch invasion. couple of months later i moved to oxford, became a cunt, and that was that. haven't been to a game since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZR2x1INqBI&feature=related

This match contains some of the greatest action ever imo

no kidding. defending from a different planet - winning goal is a dry run for Jamie Pollock's belter

I love that Cantona is in amongst all the hoofs and shanks. The bio on him that I read recently paints the early-nineties English as essentially a breed of noble savages - this match no doubt exerting a strong influence there.

first game:
http://www.wspsoccer.com/matches/1991/12/14/england/premier-league/sheffield-united-fc/aston-villa-football-club/574491/

second game:
http://www.wspsoccer.com/matches/1991/12/26/england/premier-league/sheffield-united-fc/coventry-city-fc/574512/

^^^ soundtrack to my parent's divorce, along with fleetwood mac

Tusk?

tango in the night iirc

This match contains some of the greatest action ever imo

Aaargh! You fucker! That match is one half of the day of my greatest footballing nightmare. Leeds benefitting from a series a bizarre gift goals and then the final indignity at Anfield completing three back-to-back defeats in less than a week.

Yeah, I bet the last eighteen years barely make a dent in the anguish.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

some folk don't know they're born etc

Only three-and-a-bit years before Liverpool reach that stage in the cycle btw.

Yeah, I bet the last eighteen years barely make a dent in the anguish

Oh they certainly make up for it, that's true, but whatever comes afterwards can never change the feeling at the time. There was no way of knowing in 92 what was around the corner - instead it felt Newcastle in 96, the one big chance blown never to return.

my third football match iirc

My first match at Old Trafford (many years after my first actual match) was against Sheffield United in 1991. I'd like to be able to say something about The Blades' performance to add to this thread, but I can't remember anything.

rip big man http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/s/sheff_utd/9151810.stm

heaven needed a forearm smash

big win. still a pretty woeful season tbqfh.

Allardyce in. You heard it here first.

this prediction is going almost frighteningly well

what do you know? is this idea an lj original?

prediction made within minutes of big sam's dismissal based on nothing but intuition. next thing you know, the vacancy is there...

feel like uniting allardyce and morgan would result in a platonic ideal of dislikable club. long shot though i think.

apparently not pesch.

surely o'driscoll wouldn't.........

RIP

RIP

RIP

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Narsil.jpg

lol

surprised there wasn't another round of RIPs after tuesday

rip

rip but there is a little life left in this corpse at least

rip

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/sheff_utd/9492311.stm

first leg had the highest attendence we've had all season

i'll be liveblogging/packing for move to germany tonight. stoked for the madness.

live on http://www.thefa.com/ btw

let's do this

if you want to see the man u 2018 starting line up play a couple of 2018 tottenham reserves and some kids then tune in now!

A Tom Huddlestone-sized 18-year-old centre-half, Maguire is a minor cult figure in South Yorkshire, having dumped Craig Bellamy on his backside three times while making his senior debut against ­Cardiff in April.

these kits are ridiculous.

pogba of man u looks v good

no diving at this level afaict

just don't let him take a penalty

(pogba)

That's the kid they poached from Le Havre, and nearly got in a lot of trouble for but y'know.

lol, just turned on the fa website stream and the commentators that second started talking about that penalty incident.

Heh, I didn't know about that - the youtube comments under the highlights are as partisan as ever, Liverpool all over them til the penalty, referee to blame, credit to the lads, etc

curses

effs sake

I take it isn't going well?

I had two pound on them at 36 to 1.

two man u goals before half time, now 3-1

this is all going to end in tears (i.e. play offs) but i'm having a lovely time so far

we hate leeds iirc. should be a good (bad) game.

I love it when L**ds choke, even though apparently Bielsa is apparently some managerial fucking genius cos he looks like jack duckworth and spies on opposition training grounds - choking is what the white shite do.

Wilder had an interesting take on his goalscorer. “He’s done well to be the match-winner because after 25 minutes he was coming off as he was absolutely useless. But I left him in there. I still don’t think this is a defining result but we’re in the mix.”

https://media.giphy.com/media/CtxPAeWayMoIo/giphy.gif

Everything crossed

lol, someone I used to work with who coached Brighouse Town Ladies fc used to often chat with that premiership manager Chris Wilder.

https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/y/8/6/d/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1oy630.png/1521341240694.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjYWJ0zVaoU

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/250/471/dce.jpg

Dear Blades,

please have a jolly good piss-up on Wednesday night,

signed

Uncle Neil

Like a song for Ched Evans
Like a whinge about Tevez
Like a Dave Bassett long ball
Like a Sean Bean tattoo
Like the fave team of Warnock
Like a sad gammon bastard
Oh Sheffield United,
You'll fuck it again

very likely yes

I just hope they have treacle in their boots tomorrow night, can't be dealing with the potential of a last game relegation like in 2002. My heart can't take it. After Burnley getting into bother for putting out a weakened squad for a dead rubber game it seems we'll up against a full strength xi who have just won 4 on the bounce.

2001 wasn't it?

oops, yeah that is correct. It was a bad year for silly bald guy... and Patrick Stewart. It was a fucking conspiracy of other managers putting out weakened sides, and ulp... we just needed a point for safety in the penultimate game and completely fucked it.

Premiership? your having a laugh! tbh now now I feel deprived of a angst ridden last game cliffhanger

I don't care that he's a gammon and widely despised on ilx. WARNOCK IS GOD!!!!

Wow! Grats to ILx Blades and Terriers.

spare a thought for the 2336 Reading fans who bought tickets for the last game

sparing a thought for anyone from Reading as a matter of course tbh

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/FD25/production/_131950846_billstephenson.jpg

x-post with its grim, up north and Real England&

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-67650086