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Seems lips are well and truly out in Lancashire. I suspect the author saw as little of our game as I did.

In all its glory (ad-filled version here: https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/preston-fan-view-sheffield-united-16101028)
Sheffield Utd don’t surprise you - they’re a poor man’s Leeds.
Always have been.
Big ugly lads playing horrible physical football.
Plot a path from Dave Bassett through Neil Warnock to Chris Wilder’s team and it’s virtually a straight line.
By ‘eck, they’re gritty - the footballing equivalent of the Arctic Monkeys’ first album.
By contrast, in the lexicon of Sheffield bands, North End would be ABC.
Callum Robinson, Sean Maguire and Lukas Nmecha are capable of the odd classic, but they’re largely lightweight.
That was clearly Alex Neil’s plan on Saturday; don’t play Sheffield at their own game. Play football instead.
Different class, our Alex.
And it might just have worked if North End had taken their chances and if referee Gavin Ward had been stronger.
But we didn’t, he wasn’t and we got beat 1-0.
By the time Louis Moult and Jayden Stockley arrived to give us some much-needed ‘oomph’ up front, the experienced Blades had got the measure of Mr Ward and PNE.
They were in full ‘out-housery’ mode; time wasting, play-acting, niggling.
We’ve seen plenty of that this season (hello Darnell Fisher) but it still rankles when it’s ‘them’ doing it, instead of us.
Anyway, here’s a fun fact: singer Paul Heaton is a big United fan and as they headed back to not-so-beautiful South Yorkshire, it was clear North End still need a little time.
Ryan Ledson has the makings of a top midfield enforcer, but Josh Earl’s progress has stalled this season and a loan move to get game time would do him good.
He’d be great for a decent League 1 club (that rules out Blackpool, obviously).
I ended up walking back to the car amid a group of Sheffield fans giving it the full monty.
They weren’t stripping off or anything, just reet babbling on about how we were ‘lucky’ to only get beat 1-0.
What? With another poor ref?
With the Great Hamstring Epidemic of 2018/19?
Lucky?
Whatever people say we are, that’s what we’re not.
 

Look, you think silky tiki-taka, you think Preston. That's a given in anyone's book. And it's widely acknowledged by pundits that Wilder's a cut-rate Allardyce who'd be better off as a boxing coach given the scrappers he puts out. No arguments there. I lose my train of thought a bit, but I can only apologise to the people of Preston that we didn't entertain them as much as they hoped. It's deeply regrettable and I know, deep down, all Blades are ashamed of what went off, robbing points off a team of their ilk. Best of luck for tonight though. That much is sincere.
 
Time wasting & shit housery ... hmmm ... did you attend the match at The Lane last season ? If you did we’re you facing the pitch or carried in with an induced coma or suffering extreme memory loss ?
 
What a crock of shit.

Oh well. Cheers for the 6 points Keith.
 
That's actually an incredible read. I'd had a few beers Saturday but I honestly have no idea how the author arrived at any of those conclusions. What on earth does he think when Preston play eg Millwall, Rotherham? I also thought the ref gave them pretty much everything (checked after and they had 16 freekicks to our 7 which suggests I wasn't far off...)

Only thing I can think is that it was written to draw some clicks from United fans - in which case, thanks to Balham Blade for pasting it here ;)
 
Let’s hope Real North Endalona turn on their style tonight then. I’m looking forward to it.
 
Not so very long ago a friend asked me if I'd write match reports for a local paper for his team. They sent reports to more than one and didn't want them to be the same.

I told him I had no intention of going to their games as I had other things to do and games to watch. He said it didn't matter, they'd send me their report and I could put it in my own words.

So for the best part of a season I wrote up a match report from someone else's match report, and for good measure rang my pal as well to see if anything else had happened that I could somehow mention.

So if you ever read a report and think - that fucking idiot wasn't at the same match as I was - I can assure you, that really can be the case.
 
Preston are a poor mans Leyton Orient....enough said.
With some luck we won’t have to disappoint them for a while.
 
Big physical Sheffield United with big Billy Sharp and the hard as nails David Mcgoldrick bring supplied the 7ft John Fleck and Mark Duffy.

I bet if you showed this guy clips of what the pundits say about our football it would really confuse him as he's clearly not seen us play since the Arctic Monkeys released their debut album.
 
Balham Blade said:
Seems lips are well and truly out in Lancashire. I suspect the author saw as little of our game as I did.

In all its glory (ad-filled version here: https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/preston-fan-view-sheffield-united-16101028)
Sheffield Utd don’t surprise you - they’re a poor man’s Leeds.
Always have been.
Big ugly lads playing horrible physical football.
Plot a path from Dave Bassett through Neil Warnock to Chris Wilder’s team and it’s virtually a straight line.
By ‘eck, they’re gritty - the footballing equivalent of the Arctic Monkeys’ first album.
By contrast, in the lexicon of Sheffield bands, North End would be ABC.
Callum Robinson, Sean Maguire and Lukas Nmecha are capable of the odd classic, but they’re largely lightweight.
That was clearly Alex Neil’s plan on Saturday; don’t play Sheffield at their own game. Play football instead.
Different class, our Alex.
And it might just have worked if North End had taken their chances and if referee Gavin Ward had been stronger.
But we didn’t, he wasn’t and we got beat 1-0.
By the time Louis Moult and Jayden Stockley arrived to give us some much-needed ‘oomph’ up front, the experienced Blades had got the measure of Mr Ward and PNE.
They were in full ‘out-housery’ mode; time wasting, play-acting, niggling.
We’ve seen plenty of that this season (hello Darnell Fisher) but it still rankles when it’s ‘them’ doing it, instead of us.
Anyway, here’s a fun fact: singer Paul Heaton is a big United fan and as they headed back to not-so-beautiful South Yorkshire, it was clear North End still need a little time.
Ryan Ledson has the makings of a top midfield enforcer, but Josh Earl’s progress has stalled this season and a loan move to get game time would do him good.
He’d be great for a decent League 1 club (that rules out Blackpool, obviously).
I ended up walking back to the car amid a group of Sheffield fans giving it the full monty.
They weren’t stripping off or anything, just reet babbling on about how we were ‘lucky’ to only get beat 1-0.
What? With another poor ref?
With the Great Hamstring Epidemic of 2018/19?
Lucky?
Whatever people say we are, that’s what we’re not.
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If he’s aiming to be a professional writer he’s going to starve very quickly.
 

Roygbiv said:
Big physical Sheffield United with big Billy Sharp and the hard as nails David Mcgoldrick bring supplied the 7ft John Fleck and Mark Duffy.

I bet if you showed this guy clips of what the pundits say about our football it would really confuse him as he's clearly not seen us play since the Arctic Monkeys released their debut album.
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If fairness Roy, most of the pundits don’t seem to have seen us play either pal. :rolleyes:
 
Maybe the author has got one of these word play efforts lined up for every opponent in advance. That's how it reads, as if the actual match isn't important, just the pre written puns and clichés.
 
Most posters recognise what a dunce Preston fan Keith Harrison is.

The level of invective that Harrison employs in his critique (I can't think of another term so excuse the use of something that might appear inappropriate) of the Blades.

Would Harrison have been so bitter and twisted if PNE had beaten the Blades? I doubt it. What he has struggled to do is offer something close to a balanced view of a team that is on the brink of promotion, and I should add, a team that has received plaudits from other Championship teams. Of course, no team can play superb football each and every game, but we were far from underwhelming when we beat Preston, in fact the one thing we lacked was a little of the pzzazzz that we're more than capable of producing.

I'll go so far as to mention that Preston aren't alone in having supporters who seem intent on offering levels of nastiness and extremes that are, to be honest, embarrassing and destined to cause unnecessary friction amongst supporters. Even we Blades have supporters (not too many I'm relieved to say) that can't contain their irritation, even anger, at anything football related, so it seems to be a pandemic of screwy opinion dressed up as relevant to the poster in question. So yes, it's everywhere. Will we see an end to this type of pointlessness? I doubt it. The mantra that says everyone's entitled to an opinion is sometimes used as cover for the less stable supporter to get on their soapbox and scream at the world. Neither constructive or welcome, but there you have it, we live in a world where as long as you're a fully paid-up member of the grownup's club you're entitled to write to your heart's content.

Returning to Harrison's piece, to write so aggressively and so consistently in condemning Sheffield United betrays any claim to constructive opinion. I doubt Harrison cares about any of this, as long as he can get his tuppence worth of bullshit into print he's achieved what he set out to do. Preston fans should know better than to support this level of bias, but the game is gone so I guess it's onto the next one.....which happens to be against Leeds. Preston are still in with a chance of the play-offs, so don't expect either team to take the handbrake off once they enter the stadium and battle commences. There will be plenty of cut, and more than a little thrust when they come face to face, so we'll see if Leeds have the necessary stuff to back up their bravado. As for Preston, I'll refrain from offering criticism that mirrors Harrison's nonsensical swipe at the Blades. I just hope that Alex Neil is the manager smiling at the end of the game against Leeds.
 
Everything about that article is wrong! Even the reference to 'a poor man's Leeds'! Before Wilder turned up we weren't that good!
 
Roygbiv said:
I think on the whole the Sky pundits and the ones on Quest get it right about us. You show this article to Liam Rosenior, Ian Holloway or even Colin Murray and they'd laugh at it.
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Totally agree regarding those three Roy, I’ve singled them out myself many times, but unfortunately for every Liam Rosenior or Ollie there seems to be a Darren Eadie or Dean Ashton (IMO)
 
Ricky said:
Football turns grown men into little babies.

Sad, bitter, biased, pathetic little babies.
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To be honest after reading it again, I’m not sure that this guy isn’t simply on the wind up. It seems just too off kilter to be true. even allowing for the fact that I may be reading it with a touch of bias.
 

And there I was, actually believing that Preston would show professional pride. They were abysmal, they allowed each Leeds' player time and space.

If that cretin of a Preston fan ever puts pen to paper again he should take a deep breath before saying anything. Never was a supporter more wrong, his team were dire and a disgrace to the shirt........bow your head you weasel!
 
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