- 41. "And Smith must score" – the worst misses are the ones that truly mattered
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- ... City, who lost 1-0 and haven’t reached the Cup final since. And when the Arsenal keeper dropped the ball at his feet in 1936, England winger Bobby Barclay hit it straight back to him. Sheffield United ...
- Created on 20 November 2017
- 42. Life during wartime: how the Second World War exposed football’s regional divides
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- ... Some clubs made extensive use of the system. Notts County faced Sheffield United with no fewer than ten guests in March 1943 and Aldershot and Northampton Town fielded complete teams of guests on ...
- Created on 08 November 2017
- 43. Remembering when Pierre van Hooijdonk went AWOL from Nottingham Forest
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- ... not been reinforced and Van Hooijdonk wasn’t slow to make his feelings known. Pausing only to recommend the club sign his international colleague Wim Jonk (who subsequently joined Sheffield Wednesday instead) ...
- Created on 19 October 2017
- 44. Tribute to Les Mutrie – Hull City’s scoring sensation plucked from non-League
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- ... g season, with Edwards now back at Sheffield United, Mutrie plundered 27 in a remarkable campaign that saw him score 14 goals (including four against Hartlepool) in nine consecutive league games. Not ev ...
- Created on 04 October 2017
- 45. Owls and Blades prepare to resume hostilities in topsy-turvy Steel City Derby
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- Embed from Getty Images It’s been five years since Sheffield Wednesday played Sheffield United and a lot has changed, though power doesn’t tend to stay on one side of the city for too long 22 September ...
- Created on 22 September 2017
- 46. From the archive ~ It’s time to admit football scenes in movies don’t work
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- ... tried. Ricky Tomlinson as England manager. Sean Bean tanking around in a Sheffield United strip. Sylvester Stallone between the sticks. Even Adam Faith as pint-sized proprietor of – oh yes – Leicester ...
- Created on 18 September 2017
- 47. Football fans are so much more diverse than the caricatures seen on TV
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- ... rdback copy here Top photo by Simon Gill/WSC Photos: The TV cameras focus on a beach ball at Brantford v Everton, 2010 Second photo by Simon Gill/WSC Photos: Sheffield United’s Kop, full and bathed in ...
- Created on 31 August 2017
- 48. There’s always last year ~ Championship 2016-17
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- ... finishing the season with a negative goal difference they beat Sheffield Wednesday and then Reading, both on penalties, in the play-offs to seal a remarkable return to the top division after a 45-year ...
- Created on 27 July 2017
- 49. There’s always last year ~ League One 2016-17
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- ... contributors were confident Sheffield United would finally live up to their tag of favourites and take the title, Ian Rands wasn’t quite so sure. “New manager Chris Wilder has a huge task to build his ...
- Created on 26 July 2017
- 50. Jamie Vardy: From nowhere, my story
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- ... he starts playing part-time after being rejected by Sheffield Wednesday, we see a young man who likes going out drinking with his friends as much as playing football. At this point he’s working shifts ...
- Created on 21 June 2017
