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Following the recent confirmation that the Premier League planned to return on the 17th June, behind closed doors, the planned kick off times for the first four Premier League fixtures have now been announced, along with the FA Cup Quarter Final. Sheffield United will be involved in the first competitive fixture since lockdown, taking on Aston Villa at Villa Park in order to bring the games played in line with the other sides in the league. Playing their game in hand on the same evening...

The 17th June sees the long awaited return of some Premier League action, albeit behind closed doors. Being the Blades game in hand, it’s a fixture that looks to give some parity and get the season back on a level playing, Sheffield United astoundingly able to put themselves into the top five with the right result on the day. We thought we’d take a look back at the reverse fixture which now seems like an age ago. Back in December, Premier League strugglers Aston Villa visited Bramall...

Way back in August, Premier League survival was the ultimate aim for all the sides newly promoted from the Championship. Half way through March and sitting at opposite ends of the table, the Blades’ fortunes were looking starkly contrasted to those of both Norwich and Aston Villa. But your crystal ball would have had to have been pretty damn good to predict a global pandemic temporarily halting the season just as it was about to get interesting… Here, Shoaib Ahmed from Villans Together...

As founding members of the Football League in 1888, Aston Villa were regular opponents of the Blades until the ups and downs of the 1970s and 80s. The two sides have met 135 times in both the league and FA Cup, with Aston Villa winning 63 matches, Sheffield United winning 40 and 32 draws. 1890s: Sheffield United and Aston Villa first met on 2nd October 1893 in Division One, the Blades winning 3-0 at Bramall Lane with goals from Jack Drummond, Harry Hammond and Billy Fleming. Villa however...

Cast your minds back to the halcyon days of last summer. The sun shone (occasionally), the beer flowed freely and the Blades were looking forward to what a top flight season under Chris Wilder and Alan Knill’s tutelage would look like. There were many questions… Would overlapping centre halves work in the top division? Would a team of bargain buys and cast-offs find themselves dazzled by the bright lights that would beam their every move to a worldwide audience of billions? Why on earth was...

The latest in his range of Blades related books, author and journalist Danny Hall has released his latest work in conjunction with ex-Sheffield United keeper Paddy Kenny. Getting across his side on a few of the ‘fruitier’ stories from his career, the book focuses on the man on and off the pitch, with the intentions of not making it more than the usual ‘football book’. With a foreword from who else but the man who signed him many times, Neil Warnock, the book is sure to entertain and give...

Sheffield United 0 – 1 Birmingham City – 7th August 2021 It was far too many months since the majority of those in attendance last took in the sights and sounds of Bramall Lane, an interim, more sanitised dead-rubber v. Burnley aside. With packed hostelries, long overdue catchups amongst friends – and those acquaintances you’ve seen up and down the country for years, but whose names you’ve never known – it was a welcome return to near normality. It was the new faces, however, that...

With their first away game selected for television coverage, Sheffield United get their 2022-23 season under way two days later than the most of the rest of the EFL Championship, beginning their campaign at Vicarage Road on 1st August. Relegated from the Premier League last season, Watford are high amongst the bookies favourites for promotion and should be a tough test for the Blades. The last time the sides met each other was at Bramall Lane on Boxing Day 2019, when an Oli Norwood penalty...

Winning start to the Blades Pre-Season In their opening fixture of the 2023/2024 pre-season, Sheffield United made the short trip to Chesterfield to take on the National League side. 4495 Blades supporters were officially in attendance in a total crowd of 9476 who braved a complete mixture of weathers, Kick Off being delayed slightly due to the queues to enter the stadium. Paul Heckingbottom elected to play a different XI per half in order to get some minutes into the players who arrived...

Sheffield United kicked off their Premier League season at home against Crystal Palace, fifteen hours after an out of character midnight signing announcement – Gustavo Hamer joining on a four-year contract. With Paul Heckingbottom previously admitting he considered the squad light and putting pressure on those above him to make further signings, he chose a starting lineup which relied on the more familiar faces and a young frontline. Blades: Foderingham, Baldock, Ahmedhodžić, Egan (C)...

Sheffield United kicked off their Premier League season at home against Crystal Palace, fifteen hours after an out of character midnight signing announcement – Gustavo Hamer joining on a four-year contract. With Paul Heckingbottom previously admitting he considered the squad light and putting pressure on those above him to make further signings, he chose a starting lineup which relied on the more familiar faces and a young frontline. Blades: Foderingham, Baldock, Ahmedhodžić, Egan (C)...

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