Bruce Wayne
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So many innovations over the past 50 years or so but I can't find one as effective and as innovative as the one we play. Most have been based around world class players trying to tweak a small percentage into an advantage.
We have Tiki-taka, counter attack, high press, percentage football, total football etc but nothing I can find simulates the way we play, we are truely unique and are pioneers.
Wilder & Knill having downed a few Peroni's after losing at Milwall did something bigger than for me anyone had done before. They created a brand new way of playing football. They realised we were a pretty average team at best and to elevate them to get them performing something had to change the sytstem. JOC was playing in a 2 at the back and was woeful, Basham in centre midfield was a liability, Freeman was a poor RB and Duffy was never in the game out wide. Something had to change and the seeds of brand new dawn were sewn. The rest of that season was a triumph, over lapping CB's creating big overloads resulting in chances galore and goals was unique, League 1 did not know how to cope with this sudden storm that had hit it and we romped home as champions.
The big question was could we carry this style of football into the Championship? The experts and pundits said no and we were favourites to rejoin L1 at the end of the season. Wilder and Knill said yes we can and they backed up the League 1 form by playing the same way with a few carefully selected recruits that would improve the squad and we apparently caught teams cold by the style we played. When we dropped of the pace towards the end of the season we had apparently been found out and our unique system had come to an end.
A few more editions like Egan, McGoldrick, Norwood & Henderson saw us go again with this supposed found out system that everyone in the Championship had now worked out. The one thing they hadn't worked out is that this unique formation was still evolving and the better the recruit the faster it was taking the division by storm. Teams know how we were going to play but simply could't stop it. A triumph for the underdog? Some really good pundits knew what we were developing fast and waxed lyrical about us, we were all of a sudden big news and deservedly so, nobody was doing what we were doing and the Championship big guns were no longer the headline as this Sheffield United surge got stronger by the game. Promotion was achieved against all odds and the unlikely lads that mainly came out of league 1 were now Premier League players because of these reasons, they adapted to a brand new system, they listened to and believed in their manager, they played their hearts out for the fans and ultimately believed in themselves.
So could we continue with this unique system in the Premier League? Everyone outside of Bramall Lane wrote us off. How can you have centre halves attacking at this level? And not just centre halves, rubbish ones like we have according to Premiership pundits. Steve Nicol bless him said he had listened to Wilder saying why we won't change. He scoffed we would be destroyed at this level putting centre halves forward like we did in the Championship and we were the biggest certs to go down ever. He wasn't the only one.
We sit here a game in hand from a Champions league place and even though every team in the best league in Europe know how we set up to play
THEY CAN'T STOP US
Chris Wilder you are a genius.
We have Tiki-taka, counter attack, high press, percentage football, total football etc but nothing I can find simulates the way we play, we are truely unique and are pioneers.
Wilder & Knill having downed a few Peroni's after losing at Milwall did something bigger than for me anyone had done before. They created a brand new way of playing football. They realised we were a pretty average team at best and to elevate them to get them performing something had to change the sytstem. JOC was playing in a 2 at the back and was woeful, Basham in centre midfield was a liability, Freeman was a poor RB and Duffy was never in the game out wide. Something had to change and the seeds of brand new dawn were sewn. The rest of that season was a triumph, over lapping CB's creating big overloads resulting in chances galore and goals was unique, League 1 did not know how to cope with this sudden storm that had hit it and we romped home as champions.
The big question was could we carry this style of football into the Championship? The experts and pundits said no and we were favourites to rejoin L1 at the end of the season. Wilder and Knill said yes we can and they backed up the League 1 form by playing the same way with a few carefully selected recruits that would improve the squad and we apparently caught teams cold by the style we played. When we dropped of the pace towards the end of the season we had apparently been found out and our unique system had come to an end.
A few more editions like Egan, McGoldrick, Norwood & Henderson saw us go again with this supposed found out system that everyone in the Championship had now worked out. The one thing they hadn't worked out is that this unique formation was still evolving and the better the recruit the faster it was taking the division by storm. Teams know how we were going to play but simply could't stop it. A triumph for the underdog? Some really good pundits knew what we were developing fast and waxed lyrical about us, we were all of a sudden big news and deservedly so, nobody was doing what we were doing and the Championship big guns were no longer the headline as this Sheffield United surge got stronger by the game. Promotion was achieved against all odds and the unlikely lads that mainly came out of league 1 were now Premier League players because of these reasons, they adapted to a brand new system, they listened to and believed in their manager, they played their hearts out for the fans and ultimately believed in themselves.
So could we continue with this unique system in the Premier League? Everyone outside of Bramall Lane wrote us off. How can you have centre halves attacking at this level? And not just centre halves, rubbish ones like we have according to Premiership pundits. Steve Nicol bless him said he had listened to Wilder saying why we won't change. He scoffed we would be destroyed at this level putting centre halves forward like we did in the Championship and we were the biggest certs to go down ever. He wasn't the only one.
We sit here a game in hand from a Champions league place and even though every team in the best league in Europe know how we set up to play
THEY CAN'T STOP US
Chris Wilder you are a genius.
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