Fatboy again

[Foxy]

Surprised it took so long..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...son-Sheffield-United-blame-time.html?ITO=1490

Sheffield United are facing their third successive season in the Championship after losing to Burnley in the play-off final. Good.

After two years of parachute money and two failed promotion bids, it is where they belong and even the best lawyers in the country would struggle to argue otherwise.

This is the club who acted like the only victims when they went down because West Ham broke the rules over Carlos Tevez.
It was utter rubbish of course. The game was hard done-by, the Premier League were shamefully soft and everybody lost.
Even if West Ham had been relegated because of their misdemeanours, Sheffield United deserved to go with them because they weren’t good enough.

They have stayed down for the same reason and if they still can‘t get out of the Championship next season with the advantage they have from the Tevez money they won through the courts, they have no one to blame but themselves.

 

[BexleyBlade]

I'm just pleased we are still top of his priorities. Cannot write about West Sham because of their boringly mediocre season so turns to us.

Shows how our protests have got to him eh?

 

[shorehamview]

An open letter to Martin Samuel -


Dear Martin,

Shove it up your fucking arse.

Love, shorehamview.

 

[Foxy]

and the Express are at it.

We become "serial moaners" for having the cheek to complain about someone cheating.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/103447/Bleating-Blades-just-bad-losers

The world’s worst losers slumped away nursing their grievances yet again.


And although this time Sheffield United’s case had some substance, there can be precious little sympathy for the serial complainers.

You could have powered the National Grid from the exasperated gestures of Blades’ manager Kevin Blackwell as he spent the afternoon bemoaning real and imagined wrongs.

Crushing disappointment had overwhelmed him by the end and drowned his sense of injustice. He suggested the despair might be enough to end his time at Bramall Lane.

But when Blackwell is able to think rationally about the Wembley showdown - during July, probably – he should acknowledge that his team simply did not have enough and did not do enough.

They were completely deficient in subtlety. Their approach was lump it, chase it, fight for it. And when that failed they could find nothing else to offer.

One second-half phase of play summed them up. Twice in quick succession they had good possession in the D of the Burnley area, but both times opted to send the ball out wide for someone to sling over a centre.

With so much at stake, it was a shocking failure that the Blades were so predictable and pedestrian.

Burnley centre-backs Clarke Carlisle and Steven Caldwell played resolute roles in their team’s triumph, but were never tested by anything inventive.


So although their fans were muttering about referee Mike Dean as they quickly deserted the stadium, neutrals sighed with relief at not seeing them playing Stoke in the Premier League next season.


Instead, Burnley will grace the top division, 33 years after they left it and 22 after they almost slipped into the Conference.


It gladdens the soul and makes you feel good about the old game when one of its pioneer clubs can clamber back to the top after decades of attrition.

They were not gung-ho adventurers yesterday. There were long periods when their 4-1-4-1 formation left the lone striker (Steven Thompson at first and then Jay Rodriguez) utterly unsupported.


But when they went forward they did so with the ball on the floor and, besides, by then they were protecting a lead.

Wade Elliott’s goal after 13 minutes was a reward for his own enterprise. It was scored with aplomb and had the quality United lacked - guile.

Elliott’s body position as he shaped to shoot suggested he would curl his shot towards the right-hand post but, as goalkeeper Paddy Kenny shuffled in that direction, Elliott struck the ball inside the other post.

Of course we need to discuss Dean. When Neil Warnock was United boss, he frequently traduced referees rather than acknowledge any flaw of his own or his team.


When they were relegated two seasons ago they blamed West Ham’s illicit use of Carlos Tevez (though the London side averaged more points when he was not in the team).

So it was in keeping with the club’s wretched tradition that Blackwell got his excuses in early, complaining that Dean sent off Matthew Kilgallon seven months ago.


According to the flawed logic, that should have disqualified the Premier League’s top-ranked referee from officiating yesterday.

In the event, Dean turned down two decent shouts for United penalties and sent off Jamie Ward for two handballs - the first stupid, the second a brazen attempt to cheat.

But the reason they remain in the Football League is that they were not as good as Burnley.

 

[Vistoma]

Its only OK to complain about refs if your name is Alex "do no wrong" Fergusson

and as for worst losers, ask the ref at the Chelsea Barcelona match about that one he may have a different view.

However Man U made Old Trafford a fortress by labelling them selves the most hated club in Britain and adopting a siege mentality, lets do it

No one likes us but we don't care......

 

[S64 Blade]

I'm shocked that the Express are saying we're serial moaners - pot, kettle, black.

 

[happyhippy]

I'm shocked that the Express are saying we're serial moaners - pot, kettle, black.

I'm more shocked it didn't mention Diana.

 

[eckington_blade]

I'm more shocked it didn't mention Diana.

good one

 

[MAQ]

i am getting so bored with this guy! I may have to start a blogg about him making comments about us and the general running and playing and way that our club perform

TWAT!!

 

[Fife]

I'm rapidly running out of daily newspapers I can buy!