BladesPod: Tottenham Review & Memorable Match: A balloon-assisted win over Man City

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Afternoon all,

Roygbiv and I were grumpier than I expected about that defeat to Spurs, with Norwood and Ramsdale particularly in the spotlight - although some brighter words for David McGoldrick, whose impressive season in front of goal is almost going under the radar with how bad we've been overall. Also discussed: the sheer inevitability of Egan's yellow card meaning it's Jagielka Time again against Manchester United, the drafting of a Blades bingo card for the rest of the season, Lee Hendrie causing us to leap for the mute button, and a bit of a rant about the Premier League hype machine.

Finally, to lift the mood and with an FA Cup 4th round tie coming up, our Memorable Match this week is our 2-1 FA Cup win over Manchester City in 2008 - balloons, Luton Shelton, and Bryan Robson's last hurrah.

Thank you, as always, for listening, and UTB.



And here on Spotify and Apple.

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Fantastic pod. A fair and honest assessment of Ramsdale and Norwood imo.
 
Thank you, although I have to ask, did you listen to it on 10x speed or something?! Or did we find one of Roygbiv's burner accounts

An hour and a half of pod listened to in three minutes.

Hmmm.

pommpey
 
An hour and a half of pod listened to in three minutes.

Hmmm.

pommpey
To be fair it was up on Apple podcasts a good 15 mins before on the forum! It's been a slow Monday OK!
 
Here's more bingo card dobbers:

1. Ball down the flank, going nowhere, back across midfield, down the other flank. Rinse/repeat. Half time whistle blows and we are 0-2 down.
2. Ramsdale sends long kick straight into a space where only two opposition players are. Again.
3. Opposition cross into Ramsdale's catching area. Ramsdale gets a fist on it and it's not a good one at all. Out in space, satellites pick up the shouted words "Fuckin' Hell, Ramsdale!" coming up from the planet below.
4. Norwood escorts opposition scorer into opportunistic scoring position and joins in with the celebratons
5. Lundstram makes off with ball, veers off toward touchline, then sidewards, down the tunnel, into the changing room and lays a pass into the physio area
6. On sixty minutes and 0-1 down, Baldock looks like he'd stab his own mother and violate her cat
7. McGoldrick skilfully takes down a high ball and has no-one to lay it off to. During the warm up.
8. Egan attempts a Norwood. Make a bet on which seat it hits in the kop/JSS
9. Billy comes on for Bash. Fanbase baffled. Wilder laughing under his mask.
10. Ball played backward to Ramsdale to clear. Tens of thousands of watching Sheffield United supporters' arseholes simultaneously tighten

pommpey
 
One for your bingo card - Blades fail to name a full bench

You might be mixing up your podcasts, but here’s the card we did. We thought about adding the lack of a full bench, but it’d be a gimme each week at the minute... There were other things that didn’t make the cut though; probably enough for another card actually.

 
I thi no you’re on to something here with the bingo card. Here’s more to add:

1. A corner is floated straight in to the keepers arms.
2. Wilder chucks on all strikers mistakenly thinking this makes us more attacking
3. We get in to a great shooting/crossing position and decide to take just one more pass
4.George Baldock gets a nosebleed anywhere near the opposing teams area.
5. When McBurnie is playing we chick all tactical training out the window and just go long
 
Thanks lads great listen on the commute home
I remember the game v Man City
I was walking the dog in Dublin’s Phoenix Park
Had my Blades hat on and bumped into a couple and their kids
You a Blade he says yes , so am I long and short of it he was living in Dublin , it was a pleasant and nice surprise to bump into a fellow Blade in such an unusual place
 
You might be mixing up your podcasts, but here’s the card we did. We thought about adding the lack of a full bench, but it’d be a gimme each week at the minute... There were other things that didn’t make the cut though; probably enough for another card actually.



Just seen the post on Twitter and realised I’m talking rubbish here.

We will have to open rival bingo halls. Mecca versus Gala. Laying on free buses for the vaccinated over 70s. Lavish prizes. Turf wars. Scorsese biopic in a few years.
 
Lee Martin wore blue boots in his debut for us at Hillsborough. Back then, that was something you noticed, and it didn't look good.

For the bingo card, Wilder refers to us as 'this football club' at least 5 times in post match interview.
 
You forgot the legendary Joe Riley as another Manchester United loanee, I thought he'd scored a hat trick for us but turns out it was Harry Chapman.
Time to look forward to the Benjamin Bloom league next season.
 

Great pod as always! Totally agree with the assessment about how some of the 'old guard' need moving on and would not necessarily be the answer, in the Championship (harder to motivate, older etc.).

Really enjoying the memorable matches, can't wait for the next one.
 
Pod was great this week and a pretty fair assessment. Maybe a touch harsh on Ramsdale who i think does need a time out. I'm no goalkeeper but it seems to me that he needs to quiet his game down. Try getting some basics right and push on from that.

Also enjoyed the rant about the 'sky' / 'media' narrative. The Prem is a circus and i to long for the days of the VAR free championship
 
I thi no you’re on to something here with the bingo card. Here’s more to add:

1. A corner is floated straight in to the keepers arms.
2. Wilder chucks on all strikers mistakenly thinking this makes us more attacking
3. We get in to a great shooting/crossing position and decide to take just one more pass
4.George Baldock gets a nosebleed anywhere near the opposing teams area.
5. When McBurnie is playing we chick all tactical training out the window and just go long
6. A long ball over the top by the opposition completely carves open our defence
 
  • Brewster thrown on after 75 minutes looking like he’d rather be at home.
  • Brewster touching the ball more than 5 times.
  • Sharp caught offside within 2 mins of coming on.
 
Another one for the card - Moose is injured (again) and doesn't make the squad.
 
Another perversely enjoyable pod, so thanks lads.

The chemistry between you too is great and you manage to cover a miserable performance, with a bit of humour and some intelligence. I thought the digs at the badge kissing twat Hendrie, fanboy Dawson and Adrian 'premium rate line' Durham, were spot on.

I loved balloon gate too. I'd been to Rustville the week before and although, beating a PL team was enjoyable, I did fear it might gain Mogadon Man more time. Fortunately KM saw sense and he was gone shortly after.

Chins up lads and keep up the good work.
 
To answer Beans query, division 1/PL teams we’ve beaten in the FA cup since 1992 (we did not beat a top flight side between 1970 and 1992):

1992 Luton
1993 Man U, Blackburn
1996 Arsenal
2003 Leeds
2005 Villa
2008 Bolton, Man City
2014 Villa, Fulham
2015 QPR
 
To answer Beans query, PL teams we’ve beaten in the FA cup since 1992 (we did not beat a top flight side between 1970 and 1992):

1992 Luton
1993 Man U, Blackburn
1996 Arsenal
2003 Leeds
2005 Villa
2008 Bolton, Man City
2014 Villa, Fulham
2015 QPR

Nice one, ta. It actually looks less than I thought when you write it down like that (for anyone who hasn't listened, I was half-wondering if - while in the Championship or League One - we beat more PL teams in the cups than other teams do, as it just feels like we have quite a few upsets in the last 20 years or so). I suppose you could throw in West Ham 2005 too (beat them on penalties).

League Cup would add the following, from a quick look:

2002/03: Leeds, Sunderland, Liverpool (home leg)
2014/15: West Ham (pens), Southampton

We've been far worse in the league cup than I remembered! Basically knocked out in the first few rounds ever year apart from those two, usually by lower league opposition. All the same, four cup semifinals in 20 years (five in 25) - all while in the 2nd or 3rd tier - isn't too bad is it.

I also have no memory of Kyle Walker scoring against us for Villa in the 2010/11 FA Cup 3rd round. He really really likes playing against us, doesn't he?
 
Nice one, ta. It actually looks less than I thought when you write it down like that (for anyone who hasn't listened, I was half-wondering if - while in the Championship or League One - we beat more PL teams in the cups than other teams do, as it just feels like we have quite a few upsets in the last 20 years or so). I suppose you could throw in West Ham 2005 too (beat them on penalties).

League Cup would add the following, from a quick look:

2002/03: Leeds, Sunderland, Liverpool (home leg)
2014/15: West Ham (pens), Southampton

We've been far worse in the league cup than I remembered! Basically knocked out in the first few rounds ever year apart from those two, usually by lower league opposition. All the same, four cup semifinals in 20 years (five in 25) - all while in the 2nd or 3rd tier - isn't too bad is it.

I also have no memory of Kyle Walker scoring against us for Villa in the 2010/11 FA Cup 3rd round. He really really likes playing against us, doesn't he?
Walker has scored 2 goals away from home in his entire career. Both against us at the Lane!

With the exception of 2003 and 2015 we have always been pathetic in the League Cup.
 
That is mental. And as we discussed on last week's episode, he also had the goal-line clearance against us in the home leg of the 2015 League Cup semifinal.

More like Kyle Wanker
It will be Kyle Parasite when he comes for a last hurrah at 38 on £50k a week, he'll be put in the Cresswell bracket by our adoring fans.
 

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