James Shield.

[SandyMcBlade]

Although this guy has been the Blades man at the Star for Donkeys years I've never really thought of him as a Blades fan, in fact at times to me he comes across as the complete opposite,
I very rarely agree with his assessment of players and often wonder if he went to the same game, but he is really starting to get up my nose of late with this obsession he seems to have about Nigel Cloughs age, if I have to read once more about him being 48 year old or a former England international I think I'll explode..

We know James old boy, WE KNOW !!!!!

 

[Bladepicker]

He's a Chelsea fan I think?

Always talks us up when ever he is peddled out onto national radio and he will obviously have an affinity to us after all these years. He does write some shite but to be fair he does have to fill daily copy oftne about not much and file match reports almost real time for midweek games.

 

[Rodley]

It's a bit like the anti Radio Sheffield stuff. Compared to other areas, RS's coverage is outstanding.

James Shield is alright, but there's so much worse out there.

 

[grafikhaus]

James Shield is alright, but there's so much worse out there.

Stuart Hall?

 

[scholarblade]

He just regurgitates the same stuff day after day and stuff he picks up off the fans forums, but then again it keeps him in a job!

 

[SandyMcBlade]

OK I suppose it's not easy, for most of us anyway, to fill columns of print but it's his job and does it really matter that much how old NC is ?
I don't know if anyone else when covering local teams in the press makes a point about the manager age so often,but is anybody out there really that interested .......

 

[Esablade]

How many words a day does he 'have to write?'

Come on...these are supposedly educated people

 

[Darthblade]

He's been so far up the "backside" of the Blades Boards for the last umpteen years that all you can see are the soles of his feet !!!
Certainly not what you would call an investigative reporter ......
UTB & FTP

 

[Kev Gee]

Was it him who reported on Cheds case or someone looking to try & make a name for themselves?

 

[bricktop]

Journalists on the local rag, who solely covers the local football team tend to have a rough agreement where they don't upset the applecart, and in return they are usually the first to know when something is happened.

Remember reading moons ago in Dave Bassetts book that he more or less used Tony Pritchett as one of his closest allies, and everything that happened at the club, he told about, and told what to, or what not to write. Remember at the time of Deane's sale, the board taking a vote and it being printed up in the Star about who voted for and against when it came down to the vote.

 

[1889]

Stuart Hall?

I think he said 'out' there, which definitely excludes Stuart Hall for the foreseeable !

 

[Wards]

Met James Shield a few times, nice bloke.

 

[Dkc]

When you are writing stuff you aim to avoid repetition. So instead of saying "Nigel Clough" time after time you try and vary it by using phrases like"the former Derby boss said" or "the former England international faces some tough choices". The former would be best-used if there was a tenuous link to Derby or the Midlands, the latter if there was e.g. issues with an international call-up.

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

"Although this guy has been the Blades man at the Star for Donkeys years I've never really thought of him as a Blades fan, in fact at times to me he comes across as the complete opposite,
I very rarely agree with his assessment of players and often wonder if he went to the same game, "

It sounds like a description of Tony Pritchett, although while never obsessed with the manager's age he did seem to bang on a lot about Jamie Hoyland being outstanding.

I think the last (only?) Blade to report on United in the Star was Peter Howard in the 60s/early 70s. At least James Shield aint a pig fan.

 

[Ted Danson]

People still read the Star. Wow

 

[Silent Blade]

I think the last (only?) Blade to report on United in the Star was Peter Howard in the 60s/early 70s. At least James Shield aint a pig fan.

Peter Howard is from Burnley!

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

"Peter Howard is from Burnley! "

Could have sworn I read on a United forum (perhaps even this one) a few years ago that he was a proper Blade! Sounds as though that's not the case if he's from t' wrong side of the Pennines.

 

[Silent Blade]

"Peter Howard is from Burnley! "

Just found Howard's programme notes for our match against Wendy in October 1970. Sorry, he is from Stockport, not Burnley. He wrote

"The trouble with you" said the well built supporter with pint in hand, "the trouble with you is you have no feeling"
The occasion was the pavilion presentation night last Spring; the night when everyone was delighted to clap Alan Woodward as he received his Player of the Year award.
It was quite a night. It was made even better night for some supporters, who, with the entertainment in full swing, left the room to make a telephone call. They rang Crystal Palace and came back cheering when a win for the Londoners meant a step deeper into trouble for Sheffield Wednesday.
I couldnt resist saying I thought this was a "bit off"; that I could see little joy in Sheffield being a stage nearer an ALL-Second Division city.
The looks these, and similar remarks, brought from the Blades fans had to be seen to be believed. I know these lads reasonably well, I like them. and I have enjoyed the odd night in their company.
But I thought the last convivial drink would be the last when the shocked expressions were studied by yours truly- and that's where the supporter friend stepped in to tell me I had no feeling.
"You" he went on, "have no idea what United means to us, obviously" (Actually, I have. On arriving from a school in Stockport to a new place of learning at Sheffield I was confronted in the first play-time break with: "Are you a Unitedite.... or a Wednesdayite?" So my first impression was that football in Sheffield if not exactly civil war, was an intensely serious business)
When I protested that I could see little point in cheering the downfall of the Owls when they werent even playing the Blades, my football adviser said;"you obviously didnt see and hear the Wednesdayites in OUR stand cheering for Fulham that season WE went down"

 

[Tezza1889]

James shield is a chelsea fan..

He says so himself,

just a journo appointed to the blades a while ago, decent balanced views though, just my opinion..