Sheffield United vs Birmingham City

S24SU · OFFICIAL MATCHDAY EDITION · 2026/27 · No.2

15th August 2026 - Kick-off 17:30
Sheffield United v. Birmingham City
EFL Championship – Week 1 - Bramall Lane, Sheffield

EFL Championship Week 1 – Saturday 15 August 2026, 17:30 – Bramall Lane, Sheffield
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Match Info

Competition: EFL Championship, Week 1

Kick-off: Saturday 15 August 2026, 17:30

Venue: Bramall Lane, Sheffield

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Officials

Referee: Gavin Ward

Assistants: Bhups Singh-Gill and Darren Williams

Fourth Official: Neil Hair

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[Foxy]

Sheffield United 0 - 0 Birmingham City - FULL TIME - The game finishes goalless

(posted automagically from the match)

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Positives.

Much more solid. Liked a bit of what I saw from Donavon first half although his crossing needs work. Also the GCB sounded immense pre game.

Negatives

Bamford didn't take his big chance and we didn't create more.

 

[BangorBlade]

We are wank

Wilder is wank

My 9 year old has just said it’s one of the most boring games he’s ever watched

So either

A) we have a shit team and the player are t good enough - in which case major reinforcements are needed.

B) team is good enough in whcihbwileer is shit and can fuck off …

So which is it ??

Alan Knil 3 - 0 Wimbledon lol

 

[wf9-Danny]

Long way to go, there were a few strange opening day results. Not time for wetting the bed yet, a point is a point even if it's disappointing at home.

 

[GKhantRebel]

Point gained?

 

[Mario1889]

Feck me that was boring.

 

[wf9-Danny]

Point gained?

100% - we've not had any real kind of refresh so lets take a positive.

 

[dexter101]

Doesn't look like the defence is an issue (although we need more depth). It is creativity we are desperately lacking.

We were reliant on Hamer.

A fit Phillips might be the answer to that...

 

[Addison]

Pluses

We didnt lose but at times looked like we could
Mcg and Tanganga looked solid
Seriki looked a threat down the right first half
One's run down the left was the highlight of the game should have been on much earlier
Coopers handling was good

Minuses

They dominated midfield Solis was everything we lack in the middle.
One shot on target all game
Formation wrong stifles Ohares game
Players seem to be under the impression 4-4-2 is hoof
Bamford and Peck never really in the game
Canon isn't the answer we all know that apart from the manager.

Its a point and no goals conceded but we create little and our frailties are exposed against big physical teams like Brum. Need new recruits otherwise its going to be a long hard season. Seen nothing today to change my view Benjamim Blooms prediction of a 15th place finish was accurate.

 

[originaltrueblade]

Ffs get Cannon off Wilder it's like playing with 10 men

It is

 

[bakeblade]

Long way to go, there were a few strange opening day results. Not time for wetting the bed yet, a point is a point even if it's disappointing at home.

We need some exciting Loan players or its going to be a long, hard, boring season

 

[originaltrueblade]

Watching in a bar in Spain, with Sky Sports commentary. Why they allow Lee Hendrie to cover our games I will never know. He is so far up Birmingham’s arses I swear all you could see are the sale stickers on his sale price Arnes.

He’s the poison elf

 

[Blacksea]

Performances like that turn into 0-3s and 0-4s away from home,and at home against better teams than Birmingham.

 

[Chimpan-A]

He’s the poison elf

In the first minute I predicted to my lad that they would choose Solis as player of the match. He did literally fuck all except give away fouls and lo and behold, goes home with a bottle of EFL cava!

 

[William Large]

Whichever way you look at it that was just not good enough.

Accepting that we have lost creativity (which was always on the cards - so we should have had a plan to replace ) the lack of any kind of play pattern was shocking.

Absolutely zero composure on the ball. No game management, crossing and passing was abysmal.

I’m a big Wilder fan but that was nowhere near good enough.

Even if you have no money, you can at least have a style of play. How many passes were astray ? How many crosses hit the first man.

The only small highlight was that we didn’t concede. Birmingham were solid enough but they were nothing special at all and we should have beaten them fairly comfortably.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Awful game. Total waste of 94 minutes.
We never looked like stringing three passes together.
Never looked liked scoring.
Zero pace or understanding in attack.
Lost count of the times Cannon lost possession when we needed him just to hang onto it for a minute.
Same as last season we looked scarily open at the back sometimes.
Midfield was often missing, we won very few second balls.

We are dogshit and Brum not much better either.
Gavin Ward was also shite yet again.

On the plus side we got a point.

 

[utd4ever]

Wilderball = snooze fest.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

"internally we are down to finish in the top ten" is a interesting message wilder says is coming from above

 

[wf9-Danny]

Performances like that turn into 0-3s and 0-4s away from home,and at home against better teams than Birmingham.

Maybe but I saw two players really stepping up who I didn't think could today. Actually probably three players. Tanganga, McGuinness and Seriki all looked like they were playing for the shirt and were far more up for it then you normally would see.

 

[jt64]

So did I miss anything?

 

[Blades4life10]

But but but we want wilder and giving him another contract idiots and idiot fanbase blinded by past utter dinosaur

churns out same interviews lack of quality or blaming losing players play with what you have and never his fault utter dross tactics as usual same old diff season but somehow its never him and the idiots who still stand by him deserve what we get coming to us which is failure

 

[calcalcal]

Summary
We look poor. Bottom 10 side
Defence ok
Attack shite
Ref was awful
Cannon is dogger. Get r1 playing much better

Attacker needed urgently loan or not

 

[Belvedere Blade]

 

[coolasanidiot]

At least that’s the end of Cannon. After that we finally accept NEVER AGAIN.

 

[Half Bond Jls]

Wasn't a reyt good watch. We had a chance to win it and so did they. Loads of work to do and I feel about average .

 

[Belvedere Blade]

 

[SB_90]

its a decent point v team most expect to be top 10. rothwell looked improved, tanganga was back to millwall form. Onè has huge potential as many have said on here if cannon cost £10m how much is He worth. & the Defence was decent

on the negatives Cannon is still painful & nothing has changed we are great for 1 half & we dont know which one

 

[Brookblade]

At least that’s the end of Cannon. After that we finally accept NEVER AGAIN.

Want to bet. He plays next game regardless. Wilder has tunnel vision in this regard.

 

[54yrblade]

Really, really poor today. Chris says in his programme notes that he wants 'accountability and connectivity between all associated with Sheffield United' getting his cliché in early.

Well, if he really wants connection, stop starting Cannon. That price tag is weighing heavy on the lad and he's being played to justify it somehow.

I feel for him now, it's not working and everyone can see it as can our fingerpost lookalike manager. Delightful pointing to the left and right again today.

The South stand toilets are fabulous though.

A wasted afternoon.

 

[Revolution]

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You’ve sold the bit of quality and replaced it with a huge collection of non scoring non creating midfielders, Chris.

God knows why.