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We're back, lakin' in't prem.

Ow's yer belly fer spots?

I haven't decided if I like Wilder or not yet. Seems a bit too much stick and not enough carrot atm but I will reserve my judgement for now.


YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2uFtBpy_Rw

Not my favourite thread.

Up The Hammers  ;)

Lol

Turncoat - once a gooner always a gooner.

 ;esochomp;

.YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGTY13jSNAk

Tom, as a Blade, you must know all about this famous Sheffield United footballer from back in the day.

Remind us of his name please.....



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Oh I'm just a novice Blade Mr K, more of a penknife really.

I will hazard a guess though. Is it Chubby Cowell?

Ha. You are on the right lines.

In fact, I think you'd enjoy his Wiki page;



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Foulke_(footballer)

Lovely stuff Tone, thanks.

That wiki page is almost as good as this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kendall_(poker_player)

Chelsea schmelsea.


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Crying with laughter at that wiki brilliant

Interesting news article.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-49715558

Sounds like McCabe has been a silly boy.

Comedy gold at Bramall Lane.

McSue dropped a right bollock, tries to get out of his contract obligations through the courts.
 
Got to sell his shareholding to the Prince for £5m just as they reach the EPL.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke.

 rotflmfao

Abother serious charge for a United player

Oil Mcburnie - drink driving
Chef Evans - we all remember that
Jordan Robertson - killed someone through wreckless driving

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 ;letsparty;

When Leicester won the Prem, what position were they in at this stage?

What? It could happen.

Is Sheffield United the oldest football club?


Founded in 1857, the club is officially recognised as the oldest existing club now playing football in the world. Sheffield FC initially played games under the Sheffield Rules and did not officially adopt the FA rules until 1878.

Think Leics have got 1 more point than the same stage as their title season. 

SUFC v Wolves tomorrow.

Is this on telly anywhere?

Go onto Twitter, send a DM to @highburyvision asking for a 24-hour free trial of his IPTV service, and Bob will be your uncle.

I'll take that as a no then.

All of the EPL games are televised - you just need to find a way to access the streams.

Proper footie supporters find a way  ;nanana;

Do they also PM links to other football supporters?

I'm not allowed to do that or I would have suggested it.

If I did he would spot the "leak" and cancel my service - I've seen him do it to others.

There are streaming sites such as www.firstrowsportz.com/footy and it will be on there.

The simplest way is for you to ask my guy for a 24-hour free trial though..

Thanks Ralph, but I hate signing up to things and that looks like two things.

I'll just listen to it on the radio and mime all the action like my grandad used to do when we listened to the boxing.

I'd love to have seen that - I bet it was almost as good as having a ringside seat.

I'll find a decent stream on the streaming site if I can and PM you the link tomorrow because I'm a daft old softie.

P  W  D  L
4  0   0  4

What the fcuk?

Mind you, Liverpool were invincible last season, but they got well vinced yesterday.

We played you off the park yesterday son but you'll have plenty of easier games than the mighty Arsenal away.

I think thee'll be fine.

It's time we opened our account though Ralph. I'm looking for a place in Europe this season.

I'm not singing any more, I'm not sing ing an y more.

Lol, theyve shot their bolt

We've got Palace today so it's my first team v my second team.

No offence Roy but I hope your boys get snotted today. If we go down it will take us another 12 years to get back up.


Just watching Leeds v Spurs as a warm up. It would be nice to give Jose and Co a black eye.

Well we kept a clean sheet for 3 mins

Feel a bit sorry for them, they just keep getting unlucky and losing by the odd goal.  They seem a better team than West Brom. 

Now they have lost 16 players or so to Covid and injury and they are still playing. I am not sure why they play as others have had postponements.  It seems pretty arbritary but guess there must be a reason. 

Will be the maddest of all escapes if they can do it from here. 

Sorry Tom, that Eze goal was brilliant

You beat me to it. Fabulous goal.

At least we can't lose 1-0 again.

It's so hard to lose so many games (and won none - no rub intended) and have such a relatively decent GD.   Agree with doobs.   West brom are a much worse side for me.   Just shows the value of the Man U keeper i think last season. 

We should beat these bums.


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I'll be rooting for you and the blades!

Red knows football.

How ever did that happen?

Lol, no idea. A popular result though.

Squad was crippled too.  It was a mad game, think you have long deserved a change in luck.

At least Mr Wilder got a bit more rope than Mr Lampard.

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We should beat these bums.

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We should beat these bums.

True dat; they are awful, and yer big man is back up top.   

You're lucky not to be an Arsenal supporter this evening..

Derby's 11 point record for Robbie Savage and co looks safe to survive now.

I hope so, we've broken enough records.

That red card and penalty were a travesty Ralph. You wus definitely robbed.

If you can start doing Pressers like this I'll become a Blade.




https://twitter.com/CanoFootball/status/1356914141970235392

Excellent!
Isn't it great to see someone acting like a human being?

Sorry to disappointed you BTW but you can't just decide to be a Blades fan, you have to serve your time, man and boy or be born within the sound of a ferret shed.

Did you notice that my second team also won last night?

Old Roy prowling around the the technical area in the pouring rain, celebrating goals like they were the first ones he had ever seen while water dripped from the unfasionably long grey hair that clung, madusa like to his unhatted head.

I love Roy.

https://twitter.com/The_Bladesman/status/1356963474287509505


I don't know for sure, but I think that's either Abdullah bin Musa'ad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud or Musaad bin Khalid Al Saud. Both born within hearing range of ferret sheds, obv.

Great link Tony.


This is him as a youngster.




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Brill, i dont want Burnley to go down now.

Every holiday i ever took my kids on we'd do that looky likey thing based on spotting people who looked like my mum from a distance. Genuinely gave us loads of laughs

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We should beat these bums.

We made the last 8.

Has anyone ever won the FA cup and been relegated?

The Everton - Spurs match tho...

Was that the Chelsea - Spurs match between Everton & Spurs?

That's what I said.

Sigh...  Even my fingers are senile.

Wigan did it not long ago. 

That's one record we won't break then.

Chelsea play tonight vs Barnsley, that's what must have confused me.

Go on the Tykes.

I remember Portsmouth losing the final and getting relegated when I was in short-trousers.

This is an interesting story. (Well it is if you're me)

Leeds have bought a replacement pitch from Spurs.

What is a hybrid pitch?

Where were Spurs storing it?


https://theathletic.com/news/leeds-elland-road-pitch/DdksluV6hwBk

We should beat these bums.



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WSBTB.

That's it then. We've had our season in the sun and we're off back down below the horizon and into the shadows.

What a year to make it into the top flight. I wonder how long before they get up again? Maybe never.

BTW- I wouldn't be surprised if Newcastle come down to keep us company.

Looks like you need a new Manager Tom. Who do you fancy for the job?

Klopp? Pep? Hodgson? Big Sam?




https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55254730

Aw,  can't see how they improve on him.   I think it was very much an issue with signings.  They have clearly run bad at times, and the points total was improving.  Think they were likely to comd straight back up if they kept the faith.  Much more likely than West Brom anyway.

I feel sorry for Chris, I think fate conspired against him. It all could have been so different. So many narrow margins...

I think we should give Roy Keane a go.

We only used to lose 1 - 0 under Wilder.

Looks like a Pulis/Stoke situation of being careful what you wish for and the grass not always being greener.   Wilder is fav for the Celtic job now which will probably be a pay rise for him.

I don't think many of Sheffield United fans wished for him to go at all though.

Sure i was talking more about the owner in this case.   Losing most EPL games 1-0 with their squad is probably ahead of reality and expectation.

Yeah, the owner was getting all the criticism from what I have seen.

https://twitter.com/oli_mcburnie/status/1370840948381474819 (https://twitter.com/oli_mcburnie/status/1370840948381474819)

They were certainly doing Ok on the xG last time I saw, and never really looked like getting smashed 5-0.  They were well ahead of West Brom and not far off 4 or 5 others, an dthough they ran above expectation last year, it was still a massive massive achievement considering where they were when Wilder took over. 

The weird thing for me is next season we will be looking for a manger apt at getting teams promoted on smaller budgets and with proven man management/motivational skills. On paper Wilder would be one of the favs for the job he’s just lost.

But, he’s committed the big error that promoted teams make in that he spent the new money the club got like a guy that’s been let loose with a credit card in someone else’s name.If you were the owner and saw your team had 60 million quid worth of new strikers on the bench yesterday and couldn’t score in a brothel I think you have every right to question the manager that’s made those signings and why you’d want to move to a more football operations guy to deal with transfers than the manager having that responsibility. The head of recruitment is a big mate if Wilders too, he should be next to go.

This isn’t aftertiming cos I raged about this on SM at the time, we sold Dominic Calvert L to Everton for 1.5 m a few years ago with no add ons for Prem appearances, Prem goals, International Apps or goals either. At 19 he was one of the best players in his age group in the country. A player he was keeping out of the England  U19 team at the time Lookman was bought by Everton for 11 million soon after.

Sold Ramsdale for 1.5 million and paid 18 to take him back. We had a % of future transfer fee added into that to take 3 mill off it. Imagine how good 20% would look from the next DCL deal too.

I’m sorry to see him go because I think he’s the best man to bring us back again up  but any rookie chairman has every right to wonder how we can’t score goals when his manager has had his pants taken down in the transfer market because the buying was more along the lines of ‘need more bodies’ not ‘need more quality’  and the selling was appalling.

Fair comment that Mr Q.

The new owner has International football people working with him so I fancy it might be a decent European guy next. European mangers are more comfortable working in the football GM deals with recruitment and manger managers  the team set up he wants too. I just hope it’s not a retread of some multiple failure guys like a Mark Hughes type.

Cheers Tom, I’m still trying explain to my 11 year old daughter why Ollie McBurnie is about 6 foot 4 stood tall and about 6 foot 2 when he jumps to head the ball. 18 mill there, 23 for Brewster. 10 for Mousset who I’m told has IBS and don’t think has ever played a full 90 minutes in the two seasons he’s been with us. Ollie Burke is a sprinter in football boots we swapped Callum Robinson for who we paid 8 million for. Tho I think we got 2 million back.

When you’ve spent that much money and the 2 best strikers we have are the two that got us out of the Championship 2 years ago, Mcgoldrick and Sharp then you’ve done something very wrong with 60 million quid haven’t you.

That was one mistake Pulis never made at Stoke until he had enough credit in the bag.  Fuller got a proper run up front for the first two seasons in the EPL after getting them up before Pulis started splashing the cash on Crouchie et al.

Is Big Ron still alive?

If so I reckon he'll have one last hurrah left.

That seems to sum it up nicely.

Wilder worked wonders with the likes of O’Connell, Fleck, Basham, Stevens, McGoldrick etc getting performances in a system that was very successful.

His big money signings have been awful other than Berge who before injury was looking like a class act.

I can see United selling Berge and either Egan or O’Connell for decent money which with parachute payments should comfortably balance the books for 2-3 years.

Hard to see another manager getting the same tune out of the current squad.

As a Wednesday fan, I hope it’s 2-3 year treading water in Championship until the money dries up from EPL. Hopefully more of a Stoke than a Norwich :-)

Ey up!


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We scored 2 and they scored 1

You run Joe Hart's Twitter in your spare time? 

So what's the inside line on this Tom &/or Phil?



https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12040/12277994/sheffield-united-chairman-prince-musaad-bin-khalid-al-saud-steps-down

I’m not really sure Tony tbh.

I agree.

Not sure I've ever seen or heard Tom say "I agree" before.

You don't give me many opportunities.

This is like one of those shit Facebook questions that only people with an IQ of over 130 can get right.  So who has been arrested?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57068729 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57068729)

A 24-year-old man has been arrested after a video emerged on social media appearing to show Sheffield United striker Oli McBurnie in an altercation with some young men.

In the video, a man is seen stamping on the phone he is being filmed on, before fighting with another man.

North Yorkshire Police said that "a 24-year-old man" had been "arrested in connection with an incident which involved another man being assaulted".

He remains in custody

The police statement added: "The 21-year-old victim sustained facial injuries during the incident, which happened shortly before 8.30pm on Saturday, 8 May on High Street in Knaresborough."

Sheffield United had said on Monday that they were "aware" of the video and were "investigating".

Scotland international McBurnie, 24, is part of the Blades squad whose relegation from the Premier League was confirmed on 17 April

He was ruled out for the campaign after fracturing his foot on 11 April during United's 3-0 defeat by Arsenal.

I like the 24 year old man and keep hoping there is some good reason for the video I saw yesterday.  It doesn't look good for the 24 year old man.  FWIW Quite pleased I got Knaresborough correct when I saw the video.

Ha. Can't name him for legal reasons, but here's a few clues.

Doesn’t look great for him from the video doing the rounds.

21 year old man (actor, extra, model, TV Presenter, Radio Presenter*) seems to have some memory issues.

Here he is speaking to the Sun

Elliott said: “We were walking and I saw him arguing with this girl. I was with two of my mates and he was getting a bit aggressive and getting a bit loud.

“I said chill out mate it can’t be worse than getting relegated as a joke.

“He seemed alright at first. He was saying put your phone away lads, put your phone away. I said: ‘Why? Why would I want to put my phone away? And then he’s just smacked me.


and here is another video

https://twitter.com/KopFinest/status/1392100799317217285 (https://twitter.com/KopFinest/status/1392100799317217285)

Presumably 21 year old has said/done a bit more before the original video, as he has followed him down the road from the centre of town (they are about 100 yards apart and 24 year old man has gone past 21 year old man to get there).

Location 2 is here ttps://www.google.com/maps/@54.009964,-1.4694607,3a,75y,193.55h,78.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syIXtIMr_J1hciD7wUq5mew!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (http://ttps://www.google.com/maps/@54.009964,-1.4694607,3a,75y,193.55h,78.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syIXtIMr_J1hciD7wUq5mew!2e0!7i13312!8i6656).  The original is further down the A59 by the town hall. 


* These are his own words too

Why on earth would twatty 21 year old upload that video to Social-Media?

I assume he shared it via WhatsApp or similar and someone in that group read what he was claiming in The Sun.  Guess he could be that hungry for fame and has done it himself?  In his head, he probably thinks he is way cooler than he comes across.

Given McBurnie is heading out of town, I assume he is just trying to walk home and he has had these 3 scrotes following him.   There is a good chance there has been previous handbags too to go with the abuse.   

Yeah. He shouldn't chin him, and we shouldn't blame the "victim", but also wish we had better video of the previous and the comeuppance.  It could have been up there with this.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UhME8dcOqc

I love the Prescot punch. A proper normal visceral male reaction.

Kudos to him.

When i see things like this it always makes me wish i was a total hard man and more like that and would just walk up and smack an idiot provoking me.

Tbh I’m just pleased to see him hit something he was aiming for, for a change. 

ZING

Too good.