Nicolaus_Copernicus
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It's like the haunted house in Amityville Horror, everything starts off really pleasantly; the house is a fair price, the garden is well kept, the views are lovely, but whichever family lives there, someone eventually starts seeing flies in the attic, smoke in the basement, has windows slamming shut and ends up slaughtering his family.
Whoever are the incumbents of the Sheffield United boardroom enter as a relatively competent, clear thinking business men and eventually end up making the same mistakes as previous role holders, as if succumbing to some unseen malevolent force. It happened before MM, and has happen since and will happen again, and again, and again. You start the season with Deane/Fjortoft, you end it with Taylor/Marcello, you start the season with good Beattie you end it with bad Beattie, you start the season with Evans you end the season with Will 'if i was a horse, they'd have shot me' Hoskins. Until BDTBL is demolished, the ground drug up and whatever evil thing that lurks in the hallowed turf is released or at least captured, bottled up and taken to S6, we are fated to make the same mistakes.
For every SUFC foul up or mistep in my life I can remember exactly where I was, who I was with and how I was feeling (except our relegation in 2011, which I no recollection of). Admittedly, for the majority of them I was physically there to witness it. But like others on here, I clearly remember clearly where I was when we sold Deane/Fjortoft.
People talk about our football under Wilder, but for those not old enough to remember or those old enough to have forgotten, the way we dismantled Sunderland in the 1st game of the 97/98 season was a thing of beauty. They'd just been relegated from the prem and had kept basically their starting 11 and we'd undergone the heartbreak of losing to palace in the play-offs. The sun was shining, it was Vas Borbokis' debut and his impact can only be described as magical, it was if some otherworldly thing had appeared at S2. But in typical 'why are the f'ing fates always conspiring against this club' kind of way, we ended up paying them over two legs in the play-offs. We're falling out of form, they're firing on all cylinders and there's only on outcome and in typical Blades way, the following season we sold Saunders, the then leading goalscorer to Benfica without even telling the manager.
*Edit: Another thing that I seem to remember is Taylor scoring a worldy volley against Forest that season at home.
Whoever are the incumbents of the Sheffield United boardroom enter as a relatively competent, clear thinking business men and eventually end up making the same mistakes as previous role holders, as if succumbing to some unseen malevolent force. It happened before MM, and has happen since and will happen again, and again, and again. You start the season with Deane/Fjortoft, you end it with Taylor/Marcello, you start the season with good Beattie you end it with bad Beattie, you start the season with Evans you end the season with Will 'if i was a horse, they'd have shot me' Hoskins. Until BDTBL is demolished, the ground drug up and whatever evil thing that lurks in the hallowed turf is released or at least captured, bottled up and taken to S6, we are fated to make the same mistakes.
For every SUFC foul up or mistep in my life I can remember exactly where I was, who I was with and how I was feeling (except our relegation in 2011, which I no recollection of). Admittedly, for the majority of them I was physically there to witness it. But like others on here, I clearly remember clearly where I was when we sold Deane/Fjortoft.
People talk about our football under Wilder, but for those not old enough to remember or those old enough to have forgotten, the way we dismantled Sunderland in the 1st game of the 97/98 season was a thing of beauty. They'd just been relegated from the prem and had kept basically their starting 11 and we'd undergone the heartbreak of losing to palace in the play-offs. The sun was shining, it was Vas Borbokis' debut and his impact can only be described as magical, it was if some otherworldly thing had appeared at S2. But in typical 'why are the f'ing fates always conspiring against this club' kind of way, we ended up paying them over two legs in the play-offs. We're falling out of form, they're firing on all cylinders and there's only on outcome and in typical Blades way, the following season we sold Saunders, the then leading goalscorer to Benfica without even telling the manager.
*Edit: Another thing that I seem to remember is Taylor scoring a worldy volley against Forest that season at home.
