Sheffield United vs Middlesbrough

EFL Championship Matchweek 31 - Monday 9th February 2026 - 20:01 - Bramall Lane
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[SwissBlade]

Top of the league because SOMEONE HAS TO BE.
THE WORST level of football in living memory
CAUSED by imbecile #ManagersAreMorons like the imbecile Wilder who think they know better than all of those that went before them
That they can ignore the fundamentals of winning
That reality is not based on FIRST PRINCIPLES, on fundamentals.
That they have reinvented the wheel - sadly it's kin square and stutters along as we see with United.
It is beyond 1984 in everything.
But 2 + 2 does NOT = 5
WILDER OUT NOW.
Wilder is the problem.
We win DESPITE Wilder not because of him.
We were mocked on the EFL podcast BBC for 'signing every player that had ever been at Leeds'
We take off key player Peck (only playing because Saudi49er STOPPED him bringing in the third rate Journeymen he craves and has signed throughout the season)
for the 'cool head of seasoned professional winners' (who had only ever been free transfers untill the imbecile gets shafted by 'Sausage Roll') to get sent off as he cannot and will not run.
Brilliant.
Yes I know he swapped with Phillips but we know he wanted to play his two latest journeymen and unlike the TOO VOCAL imbecile 'he is one of our own' crowd I actually know WTF is happening on a football pitch.
ps Thought Phllips looked OK passing wise and as I've said before
Arblaster is being destroyed by the imbecile Wilders braid dead anti-football madness,
No footballer wants to play within these anti-football insanites.
(Hence such as Zatterstrom and others never featuring and disappearing)

So Wilder shouldn't have taken off Peck, but Phillips that replaced Peck, was the best player on the pitch
Arblaster is being destroyed by Wilder, yet Wilder has brought him back slowly from his ACL, perhaps at the detriment of the likes of Davies, took Blaster off when he was sick on Monday and replaced with a very good Championship level player, in Rothwell....

You may have some arguments why Wilder is not right, but they're clouded by the rant...which is full of inconsistencies that I don't even know where to start with some of it....

 

[ATL Recs]

We won't ever play pass and move football with Peck and Arblaster on current form in midfield. Peck isn't dynamic enough, Arblaster isn't match fit.

Arblaster 10 games now so that’s more or less his preseason done
To get the best out of either of them is to only play one of them
I get that needs must but surely putting Soumare in there instead of Arblaster would have been no worse maybe better as he is more mobile and has more physicality to his game

 

[Balham]

Arblaster 10 games now so that’s more or less his preseason done
To get the best out of either of them is to only play one of them
I get that needs must but surely putting Soumare in there instead of Arblaster would have been no worse maybe better as he is more mobile and has more physicality to his game

Preseason isn't about playing matches. It's about the baseline fitness work without the need for matches and recovery time.

 

[ancientblade]

yes cant be both arblaster and peck one or tother

 

[The Crab]

why not stay at home for a month or two and
write out a 100, 000 times - "I HATE CHRIS WILDER"
It'll make you feel better!

His carer won’t let him have crayons

 

[Shawy24]

I’m sorry but can someone explain how we managed to lose to a team that had Luke Ayling at centre back?