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Stoke boss Mark Robins told BBC Radio Stoke:
“You can make changes, and by the way, the changes that I made, I don’t like the booing because we’ve got a limited squad and those players need the support as well as anybody else.
“I don’t like that. They’re all trying, regardless of what people think. For whatever reason, I’ll make those changes. When that happens, I don’t expect my
Former Sheffield United owner Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was poised to issue a winding-up order on the club over a £10m debt owed to him by new owners COH Sports.
Sky Sports News can reveal Prince Abdullah’s lawyers issued a statutory demand last month, giving the US-based consortium, COH Sports, 21 days to pay the bill. When that deadline came and went, they then gave them a further three
Chris Wilder had not hidden his displeasure at his side’s efforts in last week’s reverse at the Baggies, calling them “lacklustre”.
He made five alterations from that game and one of them, defender Bindon, made a near-instant impact when he headed over Ryan Allsop in the away goal after just five minutes.
Things got worse for the away side when former Blades loanee Doyle sprinted in to an ill-advised challenge
The latest loss is undoubtedly another heavy blow in Cifuentes’ reign but the concern runs deeper than the boss in the dugout.
The points amassed by Leicester so far this season come with a major question – will some be lost to a deduction?
It remains the great unknown for the Foxes as they fight a legal battle with the Premier League over spending breaches relating to the season they
United have made a record-breaking start to the campaign – in an unwanted sense.
No team in second-tier history has ever had a bigger drop-off in points across the first 15 games of a campaign than their hefty deficit of 23 from last season.
The Blades had accrued 33 points by that stage last term – but began Sunday’s derby on just 10.
They have lost 11 league games already,
Sheffield United were held at home by Queens Park Rangers to stretch their winless run to four matches.
Both sides were in dire need of a win after losing their three previous games, but neither could find a way through the opposition’s defence in a game which had plenty of chances.
Sam McCallum twice went closest to scoring for Chris Wilder’s Blades, having one header cleared off the line by
Bonfire Night is an apt time to be writing about Sheffield United with the Blades needing more than a rocket to ignite their failing season.
I’m sure manager Chris Wilder would happily consign this campaign to the pyre if he could.
Unfortunately he can’t, as he picks through the charred remains of the play-off team he re-built in an increasingly testing task to simply keep his club in the Championship.
Having sacked Wilder following last season’s play-off final defeat by Sunderland, the win gives some optimism to Sheffield United after a terrible start to this campaign.
His successor Ruben Selles led the Blades to five successive losses before being replaced by Wilder for his third spell at the club, which began with a 1-0 loss at home to Charlton Athletic last week.
But a further week under Wilder and long-serving
Former Nottingham Forest assistant manager Guilherme Ramos has joined Sheffield United as their new first-team coach.
He is the newest addition to the Blades backroom staff following the managerial return of Chris Wilder alongside long-time staff members Alan Knill and Matt Prestridge.
“As I said to the media when I returned, I was keen to use the opportunity to try and freshen up the coaching side. Guilherme is someone I’ve
Sheffield United fans might not want nor need reminding that, as it stands, they have the outright worst record in the play-offs.
Nine attempts, nine failures.
However, they can be buoyed by the fact that the two other teams who had records of zero from nine now both boast one from 10.
Preston ended their play-off misery at the 10th attempt with a 4-0 hammering of Swindon Town in the