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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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... though, and with Sheffield United and Scunthorpe showing little sign of slowing down, points are already starting to become imperative. Jon Callow ...
... just outside the relegation places.
An impressive away win at Sheffield Wednesday was offset by the nature of defeats to Nottingham Forest, QPR and Birmingham City where the team capitulated in miserabl ...
... feels that he doesn’t get enough credit.
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Sheffield United’s lap of honour wasn’t appreciated by everyone at Bramall Lane.
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Everton are not expected to announce their new manager just ye ...
... of a more stolid, crewcut older generation with their flamboyant, long-haired antics.
In 1975, Currie’s Sheffield United were thrashing Leicester City 4-0 when he and Leicester’s Alan Birchenall collided ...
... it is a chance to chat and ask questions about transfer news/rumours before the window closes, whilst sampling the exciting new beer.
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Join in the hunt for Harry the Hoopo.
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Sheffield United ...
... Bridge. Not a great advert for cycling to the game but at least the fag packet is colour coordinated, eh?”
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Sky Sports clearly aren't looking to win friends at Sheffield United, after placi ...
... e way of comparing Brazil's collapse against Germany.
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Sheffield Wednesday's marketing team try to give their matchday hospitality packages a lift – by giving them away free when ordering a fork ...
... with the Football League having lifted its ban on foreign players, Sheffield United manager Harry Haslam set off on a shopping trip to Argentina. His first target was Argentinos Juniors' 17-year-old strike ...
... Vasconcelos had produced a fetching little number in homage to her favourite player."
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Also in the news this week Lee Dixon would like a word. Important signing for Man Utd. Sheffield Wednes ...
... he was a star of the excellent Sheffield United team of the 1890s, alongside the better-remembered likes of William "Fatty" Foulke and Ernest "Nudger" Needham. "A Gipsy by birth, [Howell] perhaps owes s ...
... scorn is reserved for his former manager at Sheffield United, Kevin Blackwell. There's an elongated and blackly comic account of his time working under Blackwell, which culminates in a series of late-night ...
... ly undone in 2007 by managerial "friends" Alex Ferguson and Rafa Benítez, who picked weakened teams against Sheffield United's relegation rivals, and the dodgy Carlos Tévez deal.
Instead the focus is ...
... o Bonetti's face reads like only two-thirds of a story. The lessons learned seem to have been to do with Laws's handling of the media rather than the handling of his players. Later managerial roles at Sheffi ...
... part of a transfer saga which transformed British football. Sabella's move from River Plate, where he was a fringe player, to Sheffield United is less well known than those of Ricardo Villa and Osval ...
... sive. Leeds' 3-2 win at Sheffield United on the same day made them the last Division One champions as the Premier League launched the following season.
Lee Chapman was Leeds' top scorer with 16 goal ...
... final day after drawing at Cardiff while relegation rivals Sheffield Wednesday beat Bolton. Swindon finished bottom after being in the relegation places for almost the entire season. ...
... purs beat Forest 2-1 in the FA Cup final despite the early loss of Paul Gascoigne who injured himself in making a reckless challenge and was out of action for a year. Ron Atkinson's Sheffield Wednesday b ...