Why are we just a set of misserable buggers ????
We have just won 8 out of the last 10 games Drawn 1 & lost 1,
We have just won our last 5 away games
We are just emerging from a period of long injury lists, and an international break
We stand 2nd in the league & 11 points ahead of 3rd spot.
What exacactly does it take to make you lot happy ???
Outside football - in no particular order:
1. One of my Delkin carp bite alarms going off, single-tone, followed by picking up the rod and feeling the thump of a mighty cyprinoid tail challenging me right to the net
2. A decent, sizeable audience of non dickheads, pretty females and people well up for some 80s nostalgia
3. Thunderbirds, in particular the episodes 'End of the Road' and 'Pit of Peril'
4. A Roland Jupiter 8 synthesiser
5. Various vulgarity with women
Inside football:
Generally
1. The noise of a good crowd, be they Blades fans or other
2. The anticipation of a rare visit to Bramall Lane on a matchday
3. Sheffield Wednesday and/or Leeds United being beaten
4. Illiman N'Diaye on the ball facing down defenders
5. A decently taken direct free kick or shot from distance which bullets past a despairing keeper's grasp into the top corner
Sheffield United
1. Progressive midfield play utilising forward passing, one-twos and clever strategies to keep the attack flowing and pressure on the opposition. Stuff that makes the crowd sing 'we're gonna score in a minute ... '
2. Players who beat opposition players with pace
3. Shots from distance which make the goalkeeper do some work
4. Control of the game when ahead, leading to breakout attacks
5. Clinical finishing
6. Confidence in goalkeepers
7. Timely substitutions and ones that change the game for the better, be it to defend the lead or to keep the game in their half
8. Corners that don't hit the first man
9. Centrebacks who get to attacking crosses in good time and don't fifty pee it into the kop
10. Attackers who make the central pair of centrebacks earn their money
11. Well-timed, committed tackles which don't result in a free kick or yellow card
12. Players who show for the player in possession and create options
13. Non-shithousing and bellyaching to the ref
14. Robust players who can commit to training, treatment, recovery and ensure their own warm ups ensure they can do ninety minutes plus.
15. A trophy, maybe
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