Why Blades fans should cheer Owls in the play-offs

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S5Blade said:
The star has hit a new low......... I dont even understand the point of this "article"

http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foot...-should-cheer-owls-in-the-play-offs-1-8532331

Blades fans, steel yourselves. You won’t like this but it needs to be said - Sheffield United fans should cheer on Wednesday in the play-offs.

Don’t curse, laugh, mumble, groan, screw up the paper or click back to e-bay.


Bear with it. I’m not calling for a fantasy black-and-white 1950s sportsman-like utopia where we all wish each other the very best, touch the peak of our caps and cycle to work as the factory hooter goes off, compelling though that may be.


No, we’re talking about naked Sheffield United self-interest and here are five reasons why:


1. If Wednesday go up it puts pressure on the Bramall Lane board to invest in United so they can get even.

2. United are champions and Wednesday can’t be so you’re one up there.

3. It’s a step nearer having two Sheffield teams in the Premier League – it might not be the step you would have chosen - but it’s a step in that direction.

4. You don’t really want to play them next season do you? Who needs the nerves, the anxiety, the wind-ups at work - not that they will totally disappear obviously but save it until it matters more, in the Premier League.

5. It’s good for the city of Sheffield – that sounds a bit like someone’s gran talking but it’s true.

If Wednesday beat Huddersfield over two legs and then go on to triumph at Wembley, Blades should take the crowing and the mickey-taking, ignore the ‘We are Premier League’ chants and play the longer game.

United won League One as champions with 100 points and games to spare, no team could do more than that. They can’t make up all the lost ground of the last ten years in one season.

Sheffield needs two teams in the Premier League and one of them probably has to get there first.

There will be Owls and Blades full of scorn who don’t give a damn what happens to the other lot, in fact they’d rather they went out of business than do well. Don’t be so small-minded.

Wednesday and United in the Premier League makes Sheffield a world-class football city and that’s good for both of them and everyone else.

So smile Unitedites, remember your 100 points and the champions’ parade through the city last week, cheer on Wednesday and suck it up if they win.

It’s all part of the Sheffield master-plan . . .
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Well, yet again we bite and by doing so we promote the journalist and the newspaper...
 
They must be fucking morons if they think that's going to happen. That reporter must never have been in a single pub or know anyone from sheffield with the slightest interest in either of our teams.
They must be taking the piss is the only conclusion that can be made from this shit.
 
What load of crap for 2 reasons, i want a sheff derby & revenge for madine robbing us of victory in 2012 by rugby tackling simonsen

& 2
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S5Blade said:
The star has hit a new low......... I dont even understand the point of this "article"

http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foot...-should-cheer-owls-in-the-play-offs-1-8532331

Blades fans, steel yourselves. You won’t like this but it needs to be said - Sheffield United fans should cheer on Wednesday in the play-offs.

Don’t curse, laugh, mumble, groan, screw up the paper or click back to e-bay.


Bear with it. I’m not calling for a fantasy black-and-white 1950s sportsman-like utopia where we all wish each other the very best, touch the peak of our caps and cycle to work as the factory hooter goes off, compelling though that may be.


No, we’re talking about naked Sheffield United self-interest and here are five reasons why:


1. If Wednesday go up it puts pressure on the Bramall Lane board to invest in United so they can get even.

2. United are champions and Wednesday can’t be so you’re one up there.

3. It’s a step nearer having two Sheffield teams in the Premier League – it might not be the step you would have chosen - but it’s a step in that direction.

4. You don’t really want to play them next season do you? Who needs the nerves, the anxiety, the wind-ups at work - not that they will totally disappear obviously but save it until it matters more, in the Premier League.

5. It’s good for the city of Sheffield – that sounds a bit like someone’s gran talking but it’s true.

If Wednesday beat Huddersfield over two legs and then go on to triumph at Wembley, Blades should take the crowing and the mickey-taking, ignore the ‘We are Premier League’ chants and play the longer game.

United won League One as champions with 100 points and games to spare, no team could do more than that. They can’t make up all the lost ground of the last ten years in one season.

Sheffield needs two teams in the Premier League and one of them probably has to get there first.

There will be Owls and Blades full of scorn who don’t give a damn what happens to the other lot, in fact they’d rather they went out of business than do well. Don’t be so small-minded.

Wednesday and United in the Premier League makes Sheffield a world-class football city and that’s good for both of them and everyone else.

So smile Unitedites, remember your 100 points and the champions’ parade through the city last week, cheer on Wednesday and suck it up if they win.

It’s all part of the Sheffield master-plan . . .
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The Star can piss right off.

Come on Huddersfield!
 
We really should you know cos they already count us in their attendance and season ticket figures. We should doff our flat caps and thank their massiveness.

REALLY. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT MAN THINKING. HE IS A MASSIVE BOLLOCK BRAINED SNOT GOBBLING PIG SHAGGING COARSEY EDGE FACED WHOREBAG! And as he is a trufflehunter,should not be allowed wax crayons let alone a computer!
 
Forgot to say, ive never heard any fan anywhere in the country when asked would like a local derby next season, no thanks dont like the build up, give me a average game v bristol city & ipswich

What a load of bollocks
 
Are comments disabled on the article? Normally there'd be 10 pages of tit for tat comments after an article like that.
 
The reporter clearly achieved their aim given the number of responses.
It's obviously clickbait but do agree with the sentiment that SWFC going up puts pressure on United to take our next step in the right direction.
 
S5Blade said:
The star has hit a new low......... I dont even understand the point of this "article"

http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foot...-should-cheer-owls-in-the-play-offs-1-8532331

Blades fans, steel yourselves. You won’t like this but it needs to be said - Sheffield United fans should cheer on Wednesday in the play-offs.

Don’t curse, laugh, mumble, groan, screw up the paper or click back to e-bay.


Bear with it. I’m not calling for a fantasy black-and-white 1950s sportsman-like utopia where we all wish each other the very best, touch the peak of our caps and cycle to work as the factory hooter goes off, compelling though that may be.


No, we’re talking about naked Sheffield United self-interest and here are five reasons why:


1. If Wednesday go up it puts pressure on the Bramall Lane board to invest in United so they can get even.

2. United are champions and Wednesday can’t be so you’re one up there.

3. It’s a step nearer having two Sheffield teams in the Premier League – it might not be the step you would have chosen - but it’s a step in that direction.

4. You don’t really want to play them next season do you? Who needs the nerves, the anxiety, the wind-ups at work - not that they will totally disappear obviously but save it until it matters more, in the Premier League.

5. It’s good for the city of Sheffield – that sounds a bit like someone’s gran talking but it’s true.

If Wednesday beat Huddersfield over two legs and then go on to triumph at Wembley, Blades should take the crowing and the mickey-taking, ignore the ‘We are Premier League’ chants and play the longer game.

United won League One as champions with 100 points and games to spare, no team could do more than that. They can’t make up all the lost ground of the last ten years in one season.

Sheffield needs two teams in the Premier League and one of them probably has to get there first.

There will be Owls and Blades full of scorn who don’t give a damn what happens to the other lot, in fact they’d rather they went out of business than do well. Don’t be so small-minded.

Wednesday and United in the Premier League makes Sheffield a world-class football city and that’s good for both of them and everyone else.

So smile Unitedites, remember your 100 points and the champions’ parade through the city last week, cheer on Wednesday and suck it up if they win.

It’s all part of the Sheffield master-plan . . .
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What a Piggy Pratt! That rag reeks of Pork

If he can find ONE instance where those delusional Porcine mugs have ever not wished us to fail, let alone cheered us on I'll think about it.

.As it is I wish them all the bad luck I can give. I want to see them embarrassed and laugh at them as they wipe their distressed Piggy snouts.

Does that make me a bad person. :D
 

LenTednTony said:
REALLY. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT MAN THINKING. HE IS A MASSIVE BOLLOCK BRAINED SNOT GOBBLING PIG SHAGGING COARSEY EDGE FACED WHOREBAG! And as he is a trufflehunter,should not be allowed wax crayons let alone a computer!
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Man United fan :tumbleweed:
 
Pedro's Winger said:
It's obviously clickbait but do agree with the sentiment that SWFC going up puts pressure on United to take our next step in the right direction.
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I couldn't disagree more. McCabe wants to get back for 'unfinished business' and Wendy being there or not, makes no difference.

Most of our fanbase want to get back, but not at ANY cost. If McCabe sold out to the Chinese and they stuck £200m in as a 'punt' it could all still go tits up.

For every sensible Russian at Bournemouth, there are the Indian Numpties at Blackburn.

The last thing we want is to be £150m in debt to someone who doesn't really give a shit about SUFC, and would sell the ground for housing to get some of their money back.

Just watch what happens if they don't go up in the next couple of years.
Tunaman in for the long haul?
Somehow, I don't think so.
 
I should coco said:
I couldn't disagree more. McCabe wants to get back for 'unfinished business' and Wendy being there or not, makes no difference.

Most of our fanbase want to get back, but not at ANY cost. If McCabe sold out to the Chinese and they stuck £200m in as a 'punt' it could all still go tits up.

For every sensible Russian at Bournemouth, there are the Indian Numpties at Blackburn.

The last thing we want is to be £150m in debt to someone who doesn't really give a shit about SUFC, and would sell the ground for housing to get some of their money back.

Just watch what happens if they don't go up in the next couple of years.
Tunaman in for the long haul?
Somehow, I don't think so.
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Sorry but SWFC hob-nobbing with the elite and crowing about it will definitely put pressure on United to get up there.
Nature of the beast.
Doesn't mean we suddenly have to spend £150m but rivalry is definitely a spur.
 
Just be a great end to a great season when/if the pigs fuck up.
Would it be best for them to fuck up against Hudders or the final ?
 
Danny04 said:
Man United fan :tumbleweed:
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Presumably this is the reason he feels able to patronise the fuck out of us simpletons in Sheffield by writing unmitigated rubbish like the piece in question ? We're all a bit thick, us, and we don't really know anything about proper football rivalries.

Would Man Utd supporters feel patronised if the same thing was written about why they should get behind City for a European Cup place ? This piece is just the thinnest of condescending claptrap imaginable.

Biased re football or not (probably not, on balance) the quality of writing, editing and proofing at the Star is light years from what it once was when the Sheffield press was a major presence in the city. I know this, having spent weeks in the central library on Surrey St researching a book in the archives of the Star and Telegraph from the 1940s and 1950s. They were substantial, credible institutions back then. By comparison, today's versions are like badly produced student newspapers from the 1980s.
 
Nade said:
I'll be hoping they win the playoffs. It'll put Sheffield back on the footballing map!

Some of you lot need to get over yourselves.
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You sure you`re not colour blind. Think you you`ve chosen the wrong colour shirt.
 
pommpey said:
Nah. Just think of the hope, the yearning and the 'belief' they'll have in their grunting souls. They will all be dancing about, crossing off lists and hoping Tunaman will buy up countless unavailable individuals for the big push in the big-boys league. They will all be gobbing off ... big trip to Wembley, pissing up in the Green Man, coaches of dismal, souless pricks with that daft badge and ridiculous colours all trotting down to the smoke to see their team of wankers fail hard against an unfancied, out-of-form opposition. The final whistle shrilling out, drowned out by the crying and screaming as they haul ass back up the M1 to face United fans laughing in their fat, bristly faces and the prospect of all that lovely lost moolaah and the grim reality that the Blades are well up for it next season.

Bring. It. On.

pommpey
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NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!

Just - FUCKING NO!

I don't want them anywhere near the final.
I want them to lose the first leg so miserably that they have nothing to play for back at the rust bowl
We can see them rooerin at the Sty - that'll do for me.

One dodgy refereeing decision and your plans are up in a puff of blue smoke.
And I, for one, don't want that being blown up my arse, thank you very much :mad:
 
S5Blade said:
The star has hit a new low......... I dont even understand the point of this "article"

http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foot...-should-cheer-owls-in-the-play-offs-1-8532331

Blades fans, steel yourselves. You won’t like this but it needs to be said - Sheffield United fans should cheer on Wednesday in the play-offs.

Don’t curse, laugh, mumble, groan, screw up the paper or click back to e-bay.


Bear with it. I’m not calling for a fantasy black-and-white 1950s sportsman-like utopia where we all wish each other the very best, touch the peak of our caps and cycle to work as the factory hooter goes off, compelling though that may be.


No, we’re talking about naked Sheffield United self-interest and here are five reasons why:


1. If Wednesday go up it puts pressure on the Bramall Lane board to invest in United so they can get even.

2. United are champions and Wednesday can’t be so you’re one up there.

3. It’s a step nearer having two Sheffield teams in the Premier League – it might not be the step you would have chosen - but it’s a step in that direction.

4. You don’t really want to play them next season do you? Who needs the nerves, the anxiety, the wind-ups at work - not that they will totally disappear obviously but save it until it matters more, in the Premier League.

5. It’s good for the city of Sheffield – that sounds a bit like someone’s gran talking but it’s true.

If Wednesday beat Huddersfield over two legs and then go on to triumph at Wembley, Blades should take the crowing and the mickey-taking, ignore the ‘We are Premier League’ chants and play the longer game.

United won League One as champions with 100 points and games to spare, no team could do more than that. They can’t make up all the lost ground of the last ten years in one season.

Sheffield needs two teams in the Premier League and one of them probably has to get there first.

There will be Owls and Blades full of scorn who don’t give a damn what happens to the other lot, in fact they’d rather they went out of business than do well. Don’t be so small-minded.

Wednesday and United in the Premier League makes Sheffield a world-class football city and that’s good for both of them and everyone else.

So smile Unitedites, remember your 100 points and the champions’ parade through the city last week, cheer on Wednesday and suck it up if they win.

It’s all part of the Sheffield master-plan . . .
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As I posted in the comments - Was there an article published each time we were in the play-offs entitled "Why Wednesday fans should cheer on the Blades"? If so, I'd like to be directed to it. If not, the Star should stfu.

As far as I'm concerned, my season has finished. My team are champions. Why should I be remotely interested in what anyone else is doing?
 
Kenilworth said:
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!

Just - FUCKING NO!

I don't want them anywhere near the final.
I want them to lose the first leg so miserably that they have nothing to play for back at the rust bowl
We can see them rooerin at the Sty - that'll do for me.

One dodgy refereeing decision and your plans are up in a puff of blue smoke.
And I, for one, don't want that being blown up my arse, thank you very much :mad:
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At last, a voice of reason. Losing the first leg by five ir six will do me.
 

Honestly can't believe what I've just read..
Utter shite, totally missed the point of what makes Sheffield football and the derby one of the best in the country even without being in the top league, the rivalry.

Glad Wednesday mates I've spoke to think its as much tripe as us.
 
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