Birmingham City vs Sheffield United

English League Cup Round 1 - Wednesday 13th August 2025 - 20:00 - St Andrews
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Referee: Gavin Ward
Assistants: Hugh Gilroy and Emily Carney
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[Belvedere Blade]

 

[WestYorksBlade]

God help us if we don’t get some actual defenders in.

Enjoyed the last two months of this club not doing their best to spoil my mood. Twats

 

[Tickhill Blade]

Sam Curtis is giving me Daryl Westlake flashbacks

 

[Dimyan93]

I genuinely think it's going to be a double Sheffield relegation this year.

Embarrassing when Doncaster are going to be in the division above us and the more progressive side

 

[Stevo71]

We're just there making the numbers up ..... Utter dogsh!te, one moment of magic is all we had.

 

[Hillsboro Blade]

Ryan One, Tom Cannon, Andre Brooks. Basic ball control training the rest of the week please.

 

[dexter101]

Itv commentary is so far up Birminghams arse they might as well have scored that goal. Make your mind up, they are either the better team or a plucky league 1 promotion side. You can't keep switching between the 2 based on how the game is going

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

Sam Curtis is giving me Daryl Westlake flashbacks

I actually don't think he is national league standard. He looks like he has won a competition

 

[Montytheblade]

I think we're a hoofball side

 

[Esteban Cambiasso]

Itv commentary is so far up Birminghams arse they might as well have scored that goal. Make your mind up, they are either the better team or a plucky league 1 promotion side. You can't keep switching between the 2 based on how the game is going

They are the better team by an absolute mile today

 

[Pintor75]

Is Cannon still on, not seen him in 15 mins

 

[YabbaDabba]

Birmingham not actually not that good. We are making it look like that

 

[RetfordBlade96]

Itv commentary is so far up Birminghams arse they might as well have scored that goal. Make your mind up, they are either the better team or a plucky league 1 promotion side. You can't keep switching between the 2 based on how the game is going

they've done the only thing you can do as a club to succeed... happen to get rich owners, they got rich yanks we got poor yanks, everything else is ephemeral

 

[WestYorksBlade]

they've done the only thing you can do as a club to succeed... happen to get rich owners, they got rich yanks we got poor yanks, everything else is ephemeral

This is why football is a bit shit tbh

 

[RetfordBlade96]

This is why football is a bit shit tbh

yep... and the Media willfull blindness to this is all the more enraging

 

[Champagneblade]

Hamer scores the goal of the season, Davies can't reach 6 inches to his right... fantastic

Davies is awful.

We need a far better back up than him.

It wasn’t a good pass for the opener either but he was so flat footed then too. It was so telegraphed. Sasnauskas will get the blame but his slow reactions didn’t help either.

Bindon had, lets say, an unfortunate start to his Blades career.

Would have been nice to have just nicked it.

I hate the fact we do so poorly in this competition. It’s the one thing a club our size could actually win.

 

[CornwallBlade]

Brooks having a shocker nowhere near the pace of the game

 

[The Crab]

There's no way that's on Davies. I don't rate him, but he's never stopping that.

Horrible deflection

 

[Northernsoulblade]

Can’t remember seeing a worse defence or a lethargic team slow 2nd best to every ball reading of the game non existent

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

Is Cannon still on, not seen him in 15 mins

I've not seen him since January

 

[fifty shades of blade]

Jacko from Brush Strokes mamaging Brumscum

 

[MartBlade]

I don’t like picking on individuals but I’ve never seen a striker so lacking in absolutely everything as Cannon. I just can’t see any positive attribute.

 

[Blade56]

Understanding chaos football much better only 2 games in

 

[Pandev]

Absolute wank. Nothing positive so far. Really disappointing. They don’t look like a team at all. So thin on the ground. Really worrying.

 

[Crabstick]

All of a sudden, turgid 1-0 wins under Wilder seem quite appealing.

 

[Kev Gee]

Better second half. However still miles off it all over the pitch.

 

[Dieforthreepoints]

Is what it is, put on possibly the worst starting 11 we could and narrowly lost in the end.. Just shows how weak we will be come 1 or 2 injuries, let alone full strength

 

[Jon B]

I don’t like picking on individuals but I’ve never seen a striker so lacking in absolutely everything as Cannon. I just can’t see any positive attribute.

To be fair he's hardly had much to work with.

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

They must sign 4 players to go into that starting 11, or at best we end up mid table

 

[Esteban Cambiasso]

I don’t like picking on individuals but I’ve never seen a striker so lacking in absolutely everything as Cannon. I just can’t see any positive attribute.

Brewster was just as useless