Was Sheffield United saved in 1994, despite us not knowing it?

[happyhippy]

We got relegated in 1994 just as the riches of the Premiership (or Premier League, as it was) suddenly ballooned.

Now given who was in charge at the Lane nearly twenty years ago, would you have trusted them to run the place with new found wealth, which really was piss all.

Thought I'd ask

 

[raul]

Hipster,

Every night when I go to bed, just before I go to sleep I always utter this little prayer.

God bless Mummy, God bless Daddy, God bless us for relegation in 1994 so thaat we've spent 15 of the last 16 seasons wallowing in the second flight rather than the first.

...but we'd probably have gone down the following year anyway, crap leadership leads to crap performance, as true then as it is now.

 

[bartman]

Hipster,

Every night when I go to bed, just before I go to sleep I always utter this little prayer.

God bless Mummy, God bless Daddy, God bless us for relegation in 1994 so thaat we've spent 15 of the last 16 seasons wallowing in the second flight rather than the first.

...but we'd probably have gone down the following year anyway, crap leadership leads to crap performance, as true then as it is now.

My prayers usually involve Demi Moore and Megan Fox....wonder whose are most likely to be answered

 

[JohnDenver]

...but we'd probably have gone down the following year anyway, crap leadership leads to crap performance, as true then as it is now.

Bassett might well have quit if we had stayed up - the job was getting ever more impossible. He's since said he knew he should have done so after Deane was sold.

So yup, with Brealey in charge it was just a matter of time.

 

[Selly]

...but we'd probably have gone down the following year anyway, crap leadership leads to crap performance, as true then as it is now.

Especially given that 4 teams were relegated that year.

However I think we would have been in a better position, as our 1st seaons in the 1st div would have been in a year where 3 teams were promote, rather than the 2 that actually went up in 94/95.

 

[happyhippy]

Especially given that 4 teams were relegated that year.

However I think we would have been in a better position, as our 1st seaons in the 1st div would have been in a year where 3 teams were promote, rather than the 2 that actually went up in 94/95.

You see, that's my point. Would we have actually been in a better position? We'd have stayed up with a three-sided ground, a chairman who had become as spiteful as a playground bully, and was as tight as a duck's arse. So with a probable increase in wages, huge reduction in matchday revenue, and a stand to demolish and rebuild on the back of no other investment.

Obviously, I'd rather that day at Chelsea never happened. Well, the last ten minutes of the match anyway, but I'm not viewing this from the perspective I had at the time. Granted, it's all with hindsight fully in place, but I do wonder if it was the most bizarre blessing in disguise?

 

[gavtheblade]

mark stein was in my dream last nite.i woke up crying.bastard

 

[happyhippy]

Hipster,

Every night when I go to bed, just before I go to sleep I always utter this little prayer.

God bless Mummy, God bless Daddy, God bless us for relegation in 1994 so thaat we've spent 15 of the last 16 seasons wallowing in the second flight rather than the first.

...but we'd probably have gone down the following year anyway, crap leadership leads to crap performance, as true then as it is now.

You forgot "And let my heart not be Hearts"

 

[Bladesway]

You forgot "And let my heart not be Hearts"

Amen. As for clubs and saved. I am with Raul and his irony. Theres enough in there for two at least.

 

[Bladesman]

Who is to say what may of happend had we stayed up though? Investment may of come along and we may of survived another year so who knows.