A look back at some of the brilliant, beautiful and bitter comments from our first season back in The Premier League…..
Most Arrogant Fans: NORWICH CITY
(Last years winner: West Brom)
Ah, Norwich. So excited and confident when they kicked off the season, The Canaries from Carrow Road ended up being relegated with the 6th lowest points tally in the history of The Premier League. They didn’t start too bad though and the day after they recorded a 3-1 home win against Newcastle in their 2nd game of the season, they turned their attention to The Blades first win of the season as United beat Palace 1-0 in a game shown live on Sky Sports:
“to me they look like a championship team playing in the prem”
“I think Sheff had no problem picking up points against frankly rubbish bottom half Champo teams but raising their level against prem teams every week will be too much.”
“if you look at the summer signings Sheffield does have the look of a club building for a play-off spot next season.”
“Sheff U are going to be hard to beat but are a pretty horrible side – over the top challenges all the time, not overly great to watch. I’d much prefer our ‘style’ over theirs but good luck to them I suppose!”
“Still think Sheff U will struggle. This is as good as they can play I reckon & they struggled. They certainly wanted it more than CP but I feel their, er, robust style may cause them problems in the end.”
“Sheff Utd fans are completely delusional if they think their attacking play is as good as ours – there is no contest whatsoever! They’re pretty robust in defence, I’ll give them that, but that was a very poor Palace side so even that isn’t much of a compliment.
Both looked Championship to me. I’ve got no worries watching that, not exaggerating when I say that I think that’s quite possibly the worst game I’ve ever seen in the Premier League quality wise.”
“There is no Pukki, Buendia, Vrancic, Hernandez, Cantwell, Drmic etc at Sheff Utd as far as I can see, or am I missing something? Time will tell of course, but I’m confident that our focus on attack, and a quality one at that, rather than defence will prove to be more successful in our attempts to staying up this season – sure, we’ll take some beatings along the way, but I don’t think they have enough quality up top to surprise too many teams like we possibly can. “
By October United had been making steady progress whilst Norwich were already in the bottom 3. A 1-0 victory for The Blades at home to Arsenal did little to dent the confidence of the Norwich faithful though:
“They really aren’t very good though. They are exceptionally well drilled and good at defending but Arsenal were pathetic in the last third (had their final ball not been a joke they would have won that) and I will still be disappointed if we finish below Shef U.”
“They’re only 6 or 7 injuries away from being in the shoite.”
“Hate the feckers”
By the time the first meeting of the season between the two came around, The Blades were sitting in mid table with Norwich still in the bottom 3. The confidence of the Canaries fans had been knocked but some felt the tide was about to turn:
“think we stand a fairly good chance. This season the table still hasn’t settled after 15 games with 8 points between us in 19th and Sheffield United in 9th. We still don’t really know who our relegation rivals are going to be although you’d have to assume Watford. To give Sheffield their credit, whilst only winning 1 in the last 6 they’ve drawn 4 so defensive solidarity should be enough. Bournemouth have won 1, lost 4. We’ve won 1, drawn 1, lost 3. Still so much to play for and all the teams are struggling for consistency. “
“.Who is to say we can’t beat Sheff Utd on Sunday and so have got eight points out of twelve in the last four matches, which would be good premier league form”
“Win Sunday and you’re 5pts behind Sheffield United who already have enough points to stay up, apparently”
“They are media hype. They’ve done good, but it’s nothing new or remarkable”
“Buendia will sink Sheff Utd on Sunday”
The Blades won that game 2-1 but Norwich fans were not impressed:
“Our style of play was always going to be more difficult in the prem.”
“First half we showed how shit Sheff United actually are! They turned the heat up second half and we didn’t have a clue what to do. They played 8 at the back with 2 strikers and somehow scored 2….. moral of the story, were shit and we’re going down? Need to invest”
“What makes it even more annoying is that Sheffield United are not particularly good. They don;t have better players than us they are just better drilled, dare I say it better coached and seem to have a hunger that our team has lost this season”
“Sheffield United weren’t even good and they’ve beaten us comfortably”
“Sheffield Utd, not great (but better than us)”
“Sheffield United and Southampton were nothing special but we are making it far too easy for teams to score against us”
“We should be beating teams like Sheffield United, Watford, Brighton, Southampton etc. It’s not good enough.”
“Sheff utd are dirty fuckers”
““They’re not even the biggest club in their own city. Certainly doing very well at the moment though.”
By the time of the return fixture The Blades were pushing for Europe and Norwich sat rock bottom. There was still hope though:
“We have had 5 separate goal scorers over the last two games. Beaten 2 ‘top 5’ teams and kept a clean sheet. Our Keeper has just delivered a stunning performance in goal on global TV, saving penalties.
The force of momentum is built on these aspects, and I can see us getting a result come Saturday against a team that schooled us a few months ago.
We have just gone two games unbeaten, and the team are champing at the bit with superb support behind them.
Are the footballing gods slowly turning towards us?
Momentum! Are we at last putting something positive together?”“A few bumps on the road, but we’ve been playing better for a while now. The dice has started to fall in our favor. It just “had” to happen at some point. There is a real psychological benefit to winning a couple, and even more so if you defend well. Just be a little more confident and it’ll be a bit easier to concentrate, be more resilient to setbacks, a bit more intimidating to the opponent.
Sheffield will now face a team that has recently beaten Leicester and Tottenham.
I wouldn’t want to play against a team that has recently beaten Leicester and Tottenham”
In fairness to The Canaries, The Pre View From before that particular game was extremely respectful. Unfortunately normal service resumed after our 1-0 win:
“The replay clearly showed there was no contact on McBurnie – it was pure cheating to add to the thuggery the ref completely ignored. If you want to watch a team like them you’re welcome to Robbie, but I never would. The ball was 80% over the line but just wouldn’t go in. Have we had any luck go our way this season?”
“The blades team is full of thugs. Two double-footed, off the floor tackles from Fleck unpunished. What the f?”
“I have an irrational hatred of them. I accept there is no real reason – just can’t stand them.”
“Two football players I can’t stand… Billy Sharp and Dean Henderson… so arrogant with no class. Of course they would be the two to rub our noses in it today.”
“A lot of their fans have never ever gotten over that game a few years ago. A real chip on their shoulder.”
“Norwich snd Sheff Utd have a lot in common, both got promoted and trying to stay up by doing things the right way (one more successfully..) yet their fans have this really weird hatred of us because we beat them once 3 years ago and wasted some time. Really odd”
“One of my least favourite grounds after the three of us were offered a fight outside the stadium after we beat them a couple of seasons ago. Yes I’m sure a couple in their ‘50s with their autistic son would be up for some mindless violence… Bizarre!”
“Horrible place, horrible fans who seem to revel in their neanderthal image. Charmless all round”.
Even after their relegation was confirmed, a few Norwich fans still couldn’t resist a dig at The Blades:
“Sheffield United, Excellent season and fair play to them, but it’s going to go wrong, probably sooner rather than later.”
“Be interesting if they struggle next season, which is incredibly possible.”“We could be waving at them as we return next summer and they go the other way.”
No away day europa leuage trip to Barcelona for them it seems, unlike what thier fans have been saying the last few months.
I did call that I fully believed they would get found out at some point, and other than the high of beating Chelsea it does seem to be slowly going that way.
“Anyone else feel second season syndrome might hit them hard? Full credit to Wilder for getting them were they are, very impressive even more so quite a few of thier players have been with them since their league one days and all, but I still think they are a somewhat ugly Burnley/Stoke style”****house team.”
“Still one of my favourites to go down next season”
“Sheffield United are the latest ‘That Championship club’ that routinely surprises the Premier League with a unique tactical take on things for a year or two, are the media darlings and everyone thinks it’s brilliant they’re challenging for Europe. There then comes a time where inevitably they will try and evolve as the league works them out and they can’t keep it going.See Stoke and Swansea for the previous incumbents of this role.”
“Next season will be very interesting for them to see if they avoid that second season syndrome that most clubs suffer.”
“If they don’t keep Henderson they will struggle bug time. It will be very hard for them to find a keeper of similar quality within their budget..”
Most Respectful Fans: LIVERPOOL
(Last years winner: Blackburn Rovers)
Some may say it’s easy to be magnanimous in victory but Liverpool fans really did their club proud with their comments about United across the season. Even as earlier as our first win against Palace The Reds were full of praise for The Blades:
“fantastic atmosphere at Bramall Lane”
“Been impressed with Sheff UTD, with the analysis from experts like Danny Mills I thought they were a hoof ball team, couldn’t be more wrong, they play some nice stuff and break fast and in numbers including the centre backs.I reckon these could stay up as they will provide the other smaller teams massive problems, they may take the odd thrashing but along with Norwich I have been impressed.”
Liverpool had a 100% record when they came to Bramall Lane in September but their fans were still wary:
“We are due a shock defeat. We are also due to thump a team at Anfield. Could this be one of those?”
“this could be a tricky game ..s united are playing well .. and we would be a big scalp for them”
“tricky game”
“Will be a tough game, they are a decent outfit and played really well at Chelsea a few weeks ago.”
“They have had a good start to the season and would love to try to show what they can do. We have become a bit of a target as teams want to measure themselves against us. I expect this to be harder than we might imagine, and we will have to battle before the quality differential becomes apparent.”
“I’ve seen bits and bobs of them, they defend well as a unit and not afraid to attack aggressively when the opportunity presents itself. No star players really jumping out, but their GK (Henderson, on loan from united) is v good.”
““The 3-5-2 is an interesting wrinkle, most of the ‘defend to survive’ promoted clubs are more likely to play a 4-5-1 trying to clog their entire defensive area with as many bodies as possible, and make every game tedious. Sheffield United choose a space to give up (midfield width) in order to have a little more sting.”
The Blades narrowly lost that game and afterwards Reds fans knew they had been in a game:
“Hardest 3 points we’ve got so far this season”
“we’ve been in a game here today.”
“Great performance from Sheffield United. I didn’t expect that” “Even as a Liverpool fan I can say harsh result for Sheffield United. If they keep up that style they will gave A LOT of the “top 6” some scary days.”
“Not many are gonna win at Bramall Lane”
“They have a bit of Yorkshire grit in that side and will be tough to beat for any visiting side especially the top 6 because they will play like this today”
“to be honest that’s probably a harder game than some aways against other top 6 sides.”
“We won’t be the only team at the top to go there and struggle this season. They’re much like Wolves of last season, but without the goal threat of Jiminez.”
“They were superb and with a very loud crowd behind them.”
“Felt like the biggest test ever and we overcame it”
“Sheffield deserved something from that, we are VERY lucky.”
“There is no way in hell we deserved 3 points”
“We were very lucky here. Shef United fair play! Big fan of Chris Wilder.”
“Hats off to Sheffield they’re not pretty but one tough nut to crack.”
“Full credit to Sheffield United, that’s the hardest game we’ve played in a while. They were so well organised and hard working.”
After our win against Arsenal , Liverpool fans were again lauding United:
“Shows how brilliant we are that we came away from Bramall Lane with the win, very tough place to go now but we found a way to win, Arsenal get beat, says it all.Fair play to Sheffield United, they are giving it a right go.”
“If they keep this up, a lot of teams will struggle there. Really tough to beat.”
“Arsenal are dog muck, but tonight shows just how hard earned our win at Bramall Lane was.”
“A Yorkshire football crowd is pretty vocal, difficult places to go, these southerners look shellshocked.”
“The atmosphere is deafening, Id hate to be an away side going there in the middle of February when it’s freezing”
Our 3-3 draw with Man Utd also saw Liverpool fans purring:
“Sheffield United are mentality monsters themselves, they’re a band of absolute warriors. For a promoted side to show so much mental fortitude is unbelievable, God knows what Chris Wilder tells them. Game of the season, for me.”
“He probably tells them they were brilliant when they were brilliant and tells them they were shit when they were shit. Doesn’t hide behind press officer or try to con the fans. It’s how it used to be.”
“No lies!!! They’ve been our toughest opponent this season and were really unlucky to lose to us. Chris Wilder deserve massive credit.”
“Chris Wilder is one of the best managers ever, fam he got my hometown promoted with some dead wood players”
“John Fleck was arguably the best player on the pitch against Manchester United, he’s been the most underrated midfielder in the Premier League this season”
“Mousset is good aswell”
After all the praise Liverpool fans had given us, it was no surprise that they were tentative when they came to face us at Anfield iat the start of the New Year:
“another toughie. only a bad goalkeeping error allowed us to beat them earlier in the season.”
“I assume a lot of cryo therapy will be needed to recover for this one. Sheffield will be another tough opponent.”
“another tough game against a very impressive sheffield united, caught us all out. 3 points please by hook or by var, i don’/t care.”
“This will be a tough game.
Sheffield Utd are well drilled and honest.
Just get the job done and move on.”
“A tough team to beat (i like them) but a new year, new decade and new dawn of LFC dominance so we should get the win”
“Tough one this, important to get an early goal in this one I feel.”
“Another big, tough game but again thankfully at home.
I think it will be another win for us, and most likely another nervy finish.
I expect Milner, Origi and Keita in for this.”
Even after a comfortable 2-0 win, The Reds were still very respectful of United and, in particular, Chris Wilder:
“That was about 1000% more comfortable than I was expecting, which shows the quality of our team rather than showing up Sheff Utd, who we know are a good side. We utterly dominated them, probably the most commanding performance from us I’ve seen this season, and at no point was I worried it wouldn’t be our night.”
“Good team, good manager Sheffield”
“even when you watch us totally outplay them, you know why they are so high in the table. The last game when a side was battered by us and somehow still in the game was Leicester. “
“That was one of the easiest games of the season. I like Sheffield Utd and their manager but they didn’t want any part of us tonight. “
“Anyone see Wilder sit down at one point with his head in his hands?I laughed seeing it, then I felt totally sorry for him. “
“They are a great side for a promoted side and he seems a good bloke but we just sucked the life out of them”
“Wilder is the most classy manager in the league after Klopp. Respects quality when he sees it.”
“Deserves manager of the season if he gets top 8”
“Chris Wilder is a football genius. But to go with it he has humility and respect for a great football side when he sees one.”
“I have never praised an opposition manager but I have a lot of respect for Wilder and his achievements with very limited resources I like him as much as I dislike moaningho the real idiot”
“Huge respect to him and Sheffield, all the best for the rest of the season”
“New found respect to him and Sheffield. Hope they do well and finish in Europe.”
“Absolutely impressed by Sheffield United and what Chris Wilder got from his players. He gets them to play with the passion and pain at losing that he showed towards the end there. We don’t need to hear words of praise from him about our performance which may come anyway, because it was all about their defensive work and spirit. This guy is a worker of minor miracles.”
“Massive respect to them. Any other team today and the score line would have been humiliating.
Defensively very very solid. Hopefully they can take points of our title rivals.”“Chris Wilder is a breath of fresh air. I think he realised we’re the only side this season his team could not out-work. They’ve won a lot of points on grafting alone.”
” Dean Henderson is future star. Pitty, he is owned by the manure”
“Their fans were reasonably funny at times, our champion of Europe, champions of the world etc. was meet with, champions of league 1 , you’ll never sing that.
Robbo walking past them when he was subbed they started chanting, England, England, England. Even Robbo laughed.
Probably the easiest game we have had effort wise I guess, just totally dominated them. They had a couple of chances late on but it was a stroll really. ““All the best to them for the rest of the season”
Just before lockdown I took a look at what fans were saying about United’s season so far and once again we saw Liverpool fans singing our praises:
“I’m a bit in love with this Sheff Utd team.”
“The definition of hardwork, organisation & preparation. You dont need to have the most expensive players to compete in this league, you just need players that know their jobs & give 100% each game. Full credit due to all players & staff at the only decent “United” in the league!”
“Exceptional job, really like Sheff U and Chris Wilder. Seems great team spirit and a load of neat and tidy players. More power to them “
“Met a couple in Turkey last summer and they both thought SUFC would do ok but most likely get relegated. For them alone I’m over the moon for this side. And by the way, so much more than just a well organised defensive team!”
“Would love to see Messi turn up for a Champions League game at Bramall Lane.”
“Wilder has done it with a largely Championship level squad, and a few good additions. Meanwhile, the likes of Hodgson are whinging about no signings and battling relegation, when they’ve got more than good enough resources to be comfortable.”
Funniest Fans: Spurs
(Last years winner: Sheffield Wednesday)
Realistically Sheffield Wednesday win this award again for their latest string of woeful predictions but to make things interesting I have gone for Spurs. Way back in 2015 they gave us some great comedy quotes and they were back again this season with new material. Here are some of my favourites from the season:
“Sheff Utd gonna dick us in our own back yard”
“Buzzing for us getting battered by Sheffield United”
“Team:
Not Eriksen
Not Eriksen – Not Eriksen, Not Eriksen – Not Eriksen
Not Eriksen – Not Eriksen
Not Eriksen – Not Eriksen – Not Eriksen
Not Eriksen”“heard from an Arsenal fan that you you cant beat sheffield this time of year”
“The one thing I feel most comfortable predicting is that I won’t enjoy watching the game and afterwards will wish I had done almost anything else.”
“I honestly can’t go to games this season unless I’m absolutely battered, the only way the stress doesn’t make me cave one of the jobsworth stewards heads in”
“Good news if you have an umbrella under 1 metre , you can take it to the game at the weekend”
“Every one has beaten this Sheff Utd team since the restart… yet we submit like a cheap whore on a good tip”.
“Mourinho and Levy are useless as varicose veins to a wooden leg!”
“Not felt like this since I saw the exit poll last December.”
“It’s not all doom and gloom we are only 8 or 9 quality signings off challenging for the league next season!”
“Typical fudging Tottenham. Seen it a million times over the years. Show up to a tough away ground in our nice pale blue kit. Look nice and tidy on the ball and get turned over because we have fudge all backbone.”
“The referee is a wanker. Looks like he pisses sitting down.”
Shout out in this category to Bayer Leverkusen simply due to my awful attempts at trying to decipher German using google translate after the signing of Retsos:
“Someone in the club has to whisper in Peter’s ear that Retsos was already a regular here at 19. In his eyes he is probably just some talent that has been hurt forever and is of no interest.”
Utterly fudging shameful to lose like this because in a million years, they aren’t 3 goals better than us and on the night they haven’t been 3 goals better than us”.“The boy is good, wide awake. Will prevail.”
“He is a trained IV and is primarily used in the AV positions.”
“His passing us strong, he is duel strong.”
“He played his part um … solidly. It’s ok .. with the many racing pigs in the league that need to be raged, he has to sort his legs first.”
“He is 19 and just out of the A-junior age; still has eggshells behind his ears and understands hardly a word of German here”
““He can do something with the ball. Presented a very neat re-launch of the Greek.”
Mardiest Fans: MANCHESTER CITY
(Last years winner: Norwich City)
It’s not often that you can call a team mardy after they have beaten you but Manchester City really did not like the way we played against their superstars. Maybe we should have seen it coming. After our first home win I was greeted with this on the City board:
“In the premier league and can’t even fill their stadium. What an absolute pub team”
In fairness to City, pre-match in both games against them this season didn’t suggest that there would be any issues as they delivered some respectful and even wary views. Even after the first game, a 2-0 defeat for The Blades, there were only a few murmurings from the blue side of Manchester of what was to come:
“In contrast to the Blades manager, Espirito for Wolves is pure class. Handles some tough questions with aplomb.”
“Annoying commentary on my stream constantly trying to big up Sheffield despite their lack of shots on target they were very unlucky etc.”
“Loads of coins thrown by their fans, I don’t know what they were so worked up by.”
Really though there was nothing to make us think that Manchester City had a problem with us. Then came the game on the 21st January. A 1-0 win for City did nothing to alleviate the sense of injustice felt by their fans:
“Hard fought win against a load of clogging wankers.Remember why I prefer wednesday now”
“Remind me of Stoke when they first got into the prem. hugely physical and aggressive and not what the majority of the leagues players are used to..
They will however get used to and prepare for their style. Will struggle in a season or two imo”“Not much quality otherwise against an team intent on kicking us as much as possible.”
“Bunch of cloggers.
Hard faught win. ““workman like performance, lucky not to pick up injuries”
“sums up the state of this league when Sheff Utd were 7th coming into today, absolute shite”
“scumbag sheffield ****s.”
“Sheff Utd play shit 80s football”
“like watching Wimbledon circa 80’s”
“Utd were dismal, what a poor style of football they play.”
“I despise Sheffield Utd fans
I despise Sheffield Utd players”“Another set of no nothing nobhead fans in the Premier league. See Stoke, Burnley or Wolves”
“Hate them vile team and fans and press keep saying how great they done against us they had 2 shots on target over the the two games give over.”
“Don’t know who was more shite. Jesus, Sterling or the entire Sheff Utd team.”
“Sheffield United attempt to kick us off the park was embarrassing, Wilder is another dinosaur.”
“They really are a team in Colin Wanker’s mould.”
“Great result against a set of thugs sent out to rough us up, fucking Neanderthal tactics,Wilder has taken the mantel of Warnock for me”
“A carbon copy of Sean Dyche”
“Wilder talking shite about pushing us, saying he thinks our fans agree.
I agree they pushed us alright, they pushed our nerves to the limit with neanderthal tackling meant to maim!”
“They are down next year. Wilder is Mark 3 of Bassett and Warnock. Norwich play to entertain and win and they will ultimately prevail when Sheffield are back in the lower leagues.”
“Wouldn’t mind if sheff united fall apart tbh, bunch of cloggers with backwards fans. Also, wilder has a very punchable face.”
“Lost all respect for them tonight.”
“Pathetic set of fans as well – loveed in when our players bassed the ball and ept it for so long that their fans had to give up shouting handball at every touch – as i said – pathetic”
“awful team,beats the shit out of me how they have so many points on the board…”
“One of the dirtiest teams I’ve ever seen and I would imagine they will get relegated next season when the novelty factor wears off.”
“Hope they dont win another game and get relagated”
“It’s the first time I’ve really paid any attention to them, the home game I expected us to win and to be honest it was a bit of a piss up.
the new Burnley I guess.”“game was just as expected, playing Burnley version 2, long ball and at times overly physical.”
“If that lot are 7th the Premier League must be shite. Utter garbage. Mason is a cheat”.
“Good win against a well organised, very physical team playing with 12.”
“Mason couldn’t give it to them, but he tried his best. “
“Usual disgusting cheating officiating by Mason. Club needs a new dossier on him to have him removed from our games as he is the same in every game we have him”
“Mason was shit,equal bookings i think,they set out to cripple eric and whoever else they could,vile club”
“They booed the ref, doesn’t get much more blinkered than that. Except for Liverpool fans of course. “
“The actually think they’re hard done to lol”
“We wasn’t great, but a good battling performance against a bunch of dirty bastards.
We’d see red for them tackles.
Commentary was atrocious, I bet you could watch that on SUFC own channel and it wouldn’t be as biased as that.”“tin pot club…..nobhead fans…..Wednesday shit all over them”
“Have they stopped kicking us yet?”
Yeah, me neither. Just to show that there were hard feelings, following our 2-1 win against Bournemouth they had this to say:
can’t believe how they keep grinding out results they are utter shite”
“They are dire”
“Sheffield United really are shit, Fleck aside”
“Absolute Sunday morning stuff.”
Most Knowledgeable Fans: MANCHESTER UNITED
(Last years winner: Huddersfield Town)
Manchester United fans ran Liverpool close in the most respectful category but they win this award simply as they were the most well informed fans of what The Blades were about this season. More so than most pundits in fact. Here are list of quotes from various points of the season that show they are worthy winners of this award:
“Have to say I really enjoy watching Sheffield United play.
It’s not passing around for passing around sake (unlike their opposition tonight who wanted to get their possession stats up in last 20 minutes). They can knock it long when they want to but they are also capable of playing good quick touch football when that is required and they don’t get enough credit for that. It won them several corners tonight and eventually they scored from one.
Reason 3-5-2 is effective is they actually make it work overloading in corners of the pitch and play quick 1-2s that give their wide players space.
A very nice team to watch and think I’ve said consistantly this season they’ll stay up as to me they have more grit than Norwich who are too easy to score against.”“Very good performance last night. They restricted Arsenal to bits and bobs and always looked more likely to score even though they didn’t have that much possession.
So much to be said for both defending and attacking in numbers, and mixing it up. Stevens is a real threat down the left and the two centre halves wide of the middle man get involved in the attack too. ““They are a good side and aren’t bad to watch at all. The “pundits” who keep lazily calling them basic and long ball clearly aren’t doing their jobs. “
“It’s the first time in a really long time that a newly promoted team have come up and introduced a tactical innovation to the league.”
“One of the best managers in the league, no doubt about it in my mind. ”
“Got a very British team who put the work in but also have a bit of quality here and there. Wilder has done an absolutely fantastic job thus far, and even if they finish 17th he deserves the manager of the year award.”
“Sheff Utd are so good tactically. Wilder should be in the convo next time any English club mgmt job is mentioned. I’m convinced no job is too big for him”
“At times it’s like they have 12 or 13 players on the pitch!”
“Souness referring to Sheff United as a throwback seems a bit lazy and disrespectful. Think they might be the most tactically innovative team in the league and playing good stuff.”
“They arent a set piece team. Chris Wilder is a great coach and the overlapping CBs is extremely innovative. Have a lot of time for their style of play.”
“Without at all wanting to seem patronising, I’d love to see us send more young prospects on loan to them if it was something their management were interested in.
The way Henderson has been allowed and helped to develop there has been exemplary. It just seems to be a well run and well coached club and a place I could see lads like Laird or Mejbri thriving in their development.
Unfortunately for us, I think they have probably outgrown that now and will be looking to entice their own prospects and stars, rather than develop them for clubs they’ll rightly be”
Most Depressed Fans: LEICESTER CITY
(Last years winner: Middlesbrough)
Despise being on a poor run of form, Leicester city were third when they played us with just 3 games to go. The attitude of their fans however would have made you think they were in a relegation battle to stay out of the The National League. Luckily for them The Blades cheered them no end by losing 2-0 at The King Power.
“I will be utterly amazed if we win this. Toothless bottle jobs vs. possibly the grittiest, most determined side in the division. After the Manchester clubs I couldn’t think of a worse team for us to face next. “
“You can see confidence is completely shot .Will be genuinely lucky to get a draw from this”
“As far as I’m concerned its a nailed on Sheffield United win, we don’t have it in us to react, and we don’t have it in us to pick ourselves up. We’ve not done it so far this season since the shit hit the fan, so why now? How many “wake up calls” do we need to kick start our form? Three absolute horror shows to finish on and we will lose all three, and we will lose badly too”
“Based on this weekend’s performances, this could get ugly. However, when is football ever predictable.”
“We are not going to have an easy game against the blades. They are a formidable opponent on their day!”
“These are too good for us, their players are fighting hard for a good finish”
“Not a chance we beat these lot. Come on, they’ve got everything we don’t.”
“This one could be embarrassing, which will teach me for giving my Sheff Utd supporting Mrs so much shit about how we are better than them. “
“I see them winning this by half time. This side can’t take pressure. Sheff United will be all over us. We will crumble. It’s happened every time this season. “
The “We Didnt Know You Cared So Much” Award: SCOTLAND
(Last years winner: Hull City)
We all know that the Rangers and Celtic divide runs deep but the genuine hatred of Oli Mcburnie from half of Scotland took me by surprise at least. Dont worry Oli, we love you:
“Boos for McBurnie as his name was read out. Good, the rat.”
“hate Oli McBurnie, and scoring for Scotland won’t ever change that.”
“The only thing in the world as ridiculous as Oli McBurnie’s beard is Oli McBurnie playing up front for Scotland.”
“Dear Oli McBurnie, Please stop strutting about like you own the joint – you’ve not earned it. Ps. Pull your socks up. Love, The whole of Scotland”
“Oliver McBurnie is the type of guy who shows up to play 5’s in a pair of 400 quid boots, wearing aftershave and refuses to take his turn in goals.”
“Think there’s nobody in the world I hate more than McBurnie. Hope some big Russian breaks every bone in his body”
“£20m doesn’t get you much in football these days”
“A poor mans Steven Fletcher”
“Mcburnie getting the full 90 mins tonight is ridiculous, if he is the striker that we rely on over the next few years then we are well and truly screwed”
“Awful footballer”
“Andy Robertson in possesion looking for Salah coming short or Mane over the top. Gets Oli McBurnie”
“Oli mcburnie is one of the worst players iv ever seen”
“Mcburnie is honestly the worst player in that Scotland squad. Has zero outstanding qualities. Total pile of shite !! Leigh Griff 50% fit is twice the player !!”
“The guy can barely control the ball. His passing is shambolic & his ability of the ball is just as bad.”
“Mcburnie is the worst starting striker Scotland have had in my lifetime. His price tag doesn’t change that.”
“Oli McBurnie being an international striker pretty much gives me hope that I can still be whatever I want to be in life. Just can’t decide between rock star, great novelist or pro golfer. I reckon I’d be about as much use in any of those roles as he is playing for Scotland.”
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“McBurnie is absolutely horrific. Never want to see him play for the team again.”
“McBurnie being worth £20 million tells you a sad story about where modern football is as a sport…mercy wept”
“20 million for your man McBurnie Sheffield United got mugged off”
“Sheffield Utd fans need to ask questions of just why their club would spend that much on someone so poor. Brown bags and motorway service stations is all I can think of.”
“Sheffield Umited actually paid 20 million for mcburnie hahahahahahahahahah”
“£20m for McBurnie?? I’d be asking for £19.5m of that back!”
“Who ever sanctioned 20million for mcburnie needs to have a look at themselves waste of space”
“Going by the English football market, Sam Cosgrove must be worth £40million. He is twice the player of Ollie Mcburnie. Whoever sanctioned £20million for him needs locked up and never let out in civilisation again. He will probably score the winner now.”
Here’s to next season!
