What can the footy Gods do next?

[Bladesman101]

The footy gods really don’t like us, not only do they deprive us of big moments, they do it in a way that I imagine them all slapping table in laughter while it happens.

West Ham sign 2 players illegally, not any 2 players tho eh, 2 players that would go on to be close to, if not world class players, which would then help them to get their much needed last day win against already crowned champs.

Losing our 35 goal striker to a crime that he would then go on to be cleared of. Not a fringe right back, no, the 35 goal striker.

Oh, is that SUFC about to get Europe? How about a global pandemic, and when they’re back, shall we give them the first ever goal line tech failure, absolutely.

Wembley felt extremely cruel, almost suspiciously so.

Next season, then, what’s your prediction? I’d like them to go a bit sci-fi, maybe an alien invasion just as Arblaster’s 30 yard strike is about to win us the league.

 

[jalfie69]

Trump declares war on anything with red & white stripes just as we have a penalty in the last minute of a play off final

 

[Rodley]

Honestly my prediction is the new ownership start some of the big projects, put together a fantastic summer transfer window and we go into next year feeling really confident.

 

[Railway Blade]

Honestly my prediction is the new ownership start some of the big projects, put together a fantastic summer transfer window and we go into next year feeling really confident.

I thought being invaded by aliens was rather fanciful but ...

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Oh God, here we go again with the poor hard done to "poor us" trope.

 

[Rodley]

Oh God, here we go again with the poor hard done to "poor us" trope.

Bored of hearing it. Poor little old Blades, etc.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

When are people gonna stop with this crap?

 

[Blade56]

New owners accumulate a war chest of £75m from selling Cooper, Burrows, Hamer and Souza and give it to Wilder to invest in his hand picked players with and average age of 34 and at least 11 clubs on their CV. Suspiciously they are all called Dave or Graham Smith/Brown.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Honestly my prediction is the new ownership start some of the big projects, put together a fantastic summer transfer window and we go into next year feeling really confident.

He was an excellent poster and valuable member of the forum. The decline, when it came, was horrifically fast.

He’s now cared for in Shoutbox +

 

[Bladesman101]

People complaining about the thread, you do know, you don’t have to post you are allowed to ignore it

 

[DifferentClass]

We manage to sign Mbappe and Bellingham by some miracle but both get career-ending injuries in their first training session.

Thanks Shirecliffe Sniper.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Arblaster rounds the keeper and tucks it away in the 90th minute to win the league however just before the ball crosses the line a solar flare hits the planet knocking out life on earth as we know it.

 

[HuddersfieldBlade]

Sheffield Wednesday to pip us to Automatic promotion on a coin toss after finishing level points, gd, goals scored etc

 

[DifferentClass]

Sheffield Wednesday to pip us to Automatic promotion on a coin toss after finishing level points, gd, goals scored etc

Thought this were meant to be a fun thread?

Given me nightmares now.

 

[UddersBlade]

When are people gonna stop with this crap?

Yeah I know…..and I try hard also to not bring it up…..but literally no other club has as much nonsense as us in the last 20 years.

 

[Harry's Game]

I told you the other day… we will lose the Play off final next season to Leicester city with a last minute goal from Leicester substitute Harry Souttar .. meaning a miserable trip home for all 15k of our supporters who attend.

 

[Gimli]

When are people gonna stop with this crap?

We’re just about to win the league then the football gods send down a plague of locusts to eat the football as it’s flying into the top corner for the league clinching goal, as punishment for people on this forum doubting their existence…

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

The long dreaded merger finally happens when our new American owners also buy Wednesday for 1 trillion dollars and Sheffield City is formed and kicks off the new season at New Hillsborough which is basically old Hillsborough with a lick of paint. Unfortunately, due to financial irregularities (only paying the former United players) the team receives minus 300 points and is relegated to the North South East West league losing its first game against a Turkish Barbers eleven. At the press conference, new manager Nigel Adkins turns the tables on the assembled pressman and asks him "what's the biggest room in the house?'

In better news the new club takes 3001 to the away fixture. At least there would have been if the bus laid on hadn't of broken down. Each supporter is given a commemorative scarf in the way of compensation.

 

[BalticBlade]

Honestly my prediction is the new ownership start some of the big projects, put together a fantastic summer transfer window and we go into next year feeling really confident.

NURSE!

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

NURSE!

Just recline on the bed for me - you will only feel a little prick....

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

We’re just about to win the league then the football gods send down a plague of locusts to eat the football as it’s flying into the top corner for the league clinching goal, as punishment for people on this forum doubting their existence…

I'll believe it if that happens.

 

[Kevincarterversion2.0]

Probably get nuked while 1-0 up in a play off final just before the final whistle.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Oh God, here we go again with the poor hard done to "poor us" trope.

Go on have go, think of something amusing.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Go on have go, think of something amusing.

No need for that……

 

[Houston_Blade]

They need to tell us to “man up” and stop blaming them for all of our shortcomings as a club.

 

[Working Class Hero]

I'm sure there are many clubs that can point to a time where a stroke of unbelievable bad luck has cost them in some way. But there can't be any that have had so many literally unprecedented things happen to them which have changed the course of their history?

In addition to the OP, we've also got a player being sent off in a play off final for two deliberate handballs, and the ghost goal, off the top of my head.

I'm not aware of any of these things EVER happening before, let alone costing a club promotion/relegation/Europe.

 

[wak1889]

The footy gods really don’t like us, not only do they deprive us of big moments, they do it in a way that I imagine them all slapping table in laughter while it happens.

West Ham sign 2 players illegally, not any 2 players tho eh, 2 players that would go on to be close to, if not world class players, which would then help them to get their much needed last day win against already crowned champs.

Losing our 35 goal striker to a crime that he would then go on to be cleared of. Not a fringe right back, no, the 35 goal striker.

Oh, is that SUFC about to get Europe? How about a global pandemic, and when they’re back, shall we give them the first ever goal line tech failure, absolutely.

Wembley felt extremely cruel, almost suspiciously so.

Next season, then, what’s your prediction? I’d like them to go a bit sci-fi, maybe an alien invasion just as Arblaster’s 30 yard strike is about to win us the league.

Or the alternative narrative is that it was in our hands on at at least 2 of those occasions, the relegation in 2007 we had a 3 point lead and 4 goal advantage over Wigan, they had 1 game to play we had 2, we kicked off in the late game at villa knowing that pretty much anything except a 3 goal defeat made it very very difficult for Wigan to stay up, final score 3-0 villa, the run in against Wednesday when ched was sent down we were 2 points behind 2nd place with a game in hand with 2 games to play and failed to win any, play off final 1-0 up with 15 minutes normal time to play and lost 2-1, in the covid season we were 4 points ahead of arsenal with 3 games to play, they won 2 of their final 3 and we finished 2 points behind them