WILDER

[GeorgeDonis1889]

Hi Chris.

Side splitting

 

[Sean Thornton]

They're hysterical again. He's just kicked a ball away as it's come to him and it went in crowd. You can see his face he's not smashed it in anger. Such nasty and over top comments from the usual suspects. Why not just stop paying attention until he's gone if you cant put your dislike for him aside? It's pathetic. Just glad the actual fans who go to games aren't like you.

Rumpole, Mason and Gambini say it’s assault. Who are we to question great legal minds?

 

[Wards]

Just imagine if one of the players had done that and been banned for the next game, I'm sure Chris would've just laughed it off and said it was nothing

It's just unprofessional however it's dressed up. I was hoping he'd mellowed out a bit but it doesn't look like we're any closer to that milestone.

 

[Blade45]

I agree but 3 games in to his return and he already looks like getting fined for poor discipline. If anyone needed a little reminder why some of the board took the decision to bin him look no further than that incident last night.

This is true. One of the things I thought Wilder needed to improve if he wanted to make us a better side was our disciplinary record. We were poor in that regard last season, accruing several hundred thousand pounds in fines.

This isn't a great start. What he did wasn't malicious (and certainly wasn't assault, I mean, come on now), but it was, indeed, very reckless.

 

[Cappy]

Side splitting

Assault?

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

Rumpole, Mason and Gambini say it’s assault. Who are we to question great legal minds?

The guy could have been killed. I'd say it's at least attempted murder.

 

[Broomhall Blade]

Ah, so you think Wilder deliberately kicked the ball into the crowd?

Did he deliberately aim to hit somebody in the head and knock their glasses off No, but what did he expect to happen by blasting the ball into a stand full of supporters.

 

[Carlton Blade]

Even the Wilder haters cant moan after just two games..
So they jump on this instead
If you complain about a ball hitting you at a football match...I dont know what to even tell you.

You're holding him to an exceptionally low standard as the leader of the club. It wasn't a big deal, but he's nearer 60 than 50 and he's booted a ball into the crowd because he's upset with a ref. It's petulant and he can't afford that

 

[Rodley]

The guy could have been killed. I'd say it's at least attempted murder

Any truth in the rumour CW muttered “You should have stayed in the safe standing section” in his ear?

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Tony Currie?

Tell me more. I was living away from Sheffield for 3 years of the TC era. He surely wouldn’t have miskicked it…

 

[Sean Thornton]

Tell me more. I was living away from Sheffield for 3 years of the TC era. He surely wouldn’t have miskicked it…

I have a vague memory of him shooting wide and hitting the rebound hitting a young lad.

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

This is why row Z was abolished by SAG, just too dangerous and too many legal consequences when it gets recklessly punted there.

 

[Sean Thornton]

The guy could have been killed. I'd say it's at least attempted murder.

Just when he thought he was out, he dragged himself back in…….

 

[Slugger]

Did he deliberately aim to hit somebody in the head and knock their glasses off No, but what did he expect to happen by blasting the ball into a stand full of supporters.

It's obvious to anyone that saw the incident that he didn't expect the ball to go into the stand at all.

Do you not think that maybe you are over-emphasising a very minor accident?

 

[Zero dark thirty]

Same as you hopefully. Piss off back to PT.

 

[Keen Blade]

Silly moment from CW and probably cost us the second half

Yeh , Knilly isn't much use in the technical area , just stands at the back with his arms folded.
Why can't Wilder do media duties ?
Surely the red card doesn't prevent that ?

 

[Grey Blade]

Did he deliberately aim to hit somebody in the head and knock their glasses off No, but what did he expect to happen by blasting the ball into a stand full of supporters.

- especially as it was half time and the innocent fan wouldn't be anticipating a football hitting him in the face

 

[Keen Blade]

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Have you actually watched it on the camera from behind the goal ?
Coops never touched the ball.
Just threw himself at striker's feet thereby bundling him over.
Clear pen.
I accept striker was looking for it by pushing the ball past Coops , but Coops definitely brought him down without ever being near the ball.
Coops made some strange unforced errors last night.
Quite out of character.

 

[redandwhitewizard]

Would the haters like us to waste more money sacking him again? That worked well last time

 

[Sean Thornton]

Have you actually watched it on the camera from behind the goal ?
Coops never touched the ball.
Just threw himself at striker's feet thereby bundling him over.
Clear pen.
I accept striker was looking for it by pushing the ball past Coops , but Coops definitely brought him down without ever being near the ball.
Coops made some strange unforced errors last night.
Quite out of character.

No. I voiced an opinion based on never having seen it. And l still got closer than you.

 

[reedy63]

Unfortunately, Chris Wilder deserved to get sent off for his silly act. How long is he banned from the touch line now?

 

[Greenwich Blade]

I'm having a look through my dad's book of sayings to see if I can find one to describe most of the posts in this thread. Ah yes, here it is: "Sanctimonious claptrap".

 

[Keen Blade]

No. I voiced an opinion based on never having seen it. And l still got closer than you.

Well , I'm honoured that in your opinion I sing & tinkle the ivories like Ray Charles

 

[Keen Blade]

I was on the kop and extremely close to it. Cooper pulled out of it and the player deliberately ran into him in almost slow motion. Striker played for it and the incompetent ref bought it

So why did Coops keep gesticulating to the ref that he got the ball ?

 

[themaninblack]

Classless twat, blasting the ball into a fan’s face. Indefensible. This is the exact shitty behaviour I didn’t want back at the lane.

Alternatively, there is this view from the Guardian (not exactly known for being fans of Chris Wilder):

'While the likelihood of fans at Bramall Lane getting hit by wayward shots struck by Sheffield United players is higher than usual this season, when Football Daily heard breathless reports that their recently re-installed head coach had been shown a red card for booting the ball into some hapless bystander’s face last night, we immediately presumed he’d lost the plot and deliberately committed an aggressive act of potentially career-ending violence. It was only upon seeking out footage of the incident on some social media disgrace or another that we realised he’d done nothing of the sort. Indeed, the only crime the Blades boss was even remotely guilty of was submitting to one of humankind’s most basic and primeval urges, specifically: kicking a football that was rolling towards him. As he walked off the Bramall Lane pitch at half-time, one was tossed in the direction of some nearby substitutes who were about to warm up and happened to trundle directly into Wilder’s path. Without breaking stride, the 58-year-old undertook the civic and some might say moral obligation of every sentient male who finds themselves in a similar circumstances and put his boot through it without so much as a second’s hesitation or malice aforethought.

As bad luck would have it, the insouciant swish of Wilder’s left peg was misjudged and he sent the ball fizzing into the stand behind the tunnel, where it hit a fan upside his coupon, knocking a hat from his head. Wilder immediately waved a hand by way of apology before climbing the steps to confirm that the gentleman in question was unharmed. Upon his return pitchside, he was sent off by referee Adam Herczeg and accepted the red card without much, if anything, in the way of complaint. Subsequently framed in some quarters as an act of aggression by a man under serious pressure, Wilder’s mishap actually appeared to be nothing of the sort and looked more like a slice of misfortune caused by a bloke who saw a ball rolling towards him and simply surrendered to his basic instinct to kick it. But while his “victim” was unhurt, clearly saw the funny side and now has a good story to tell his mates down the pub, it was probably right that Wilder had to go. Forced to sit out the second half of his side’s eventual defeat, he could now face up to three more games on the Naughty Step just for miskicking a football.

Having racked up almost £455,000 in fines for what the Football Association described as an “incredibly poor period of behaviour” taking in six different matches last season, Sheffield United have seen several big decisions go against them in the current campaign. The main one coming after the playoff final when they binned off Wilder and appointed Rubén Sellés as his replacement before acknowledging and correcting their error. Following last night’s defeat, Wilder’s assistant Alan Knill undertook the obligatory media duties on behalf of his boss and blamed the match officials for United’s failure to rescue a point. “That’s the frustration really, everyone in the ground sees these incidents we’re talking about but the ones that matter don’t see it and it is a disappointing night where the officials haven’t really helped,” he fumed, slightly defeating his own argument by highlighting the completely correct decision to award Southampton a penalty they would go on to miss as one of two particular bones of contention. The other, a disallowed Sydie Peck header that might have rescued a point for the Blades was far more questionable but when your luck’s out, your luck is out, as both Wilder and that bloke in the HE Barnes Lower now know all too well.'

That seems like a reasonable view to me, certainly more reasonable than those infesting this forum that cannot wait to take a defeat as an opportunity to lambast our manager.

 

[Keen Blade]

Striker bought it. He could have carried on running but he was happy to be sure he fell over the keeper.

I do think Cooper misjudged it mind you.

Well of course the striker bought it - he'd pushed the ball too far and Coops constituted a sudden and convenient road-block.
The other way round we would have been screaming blue murder

 

[spongebobblade]

So why did Coops keep gesticulating to the ref that he got the ball ?

Was he? Or was he saying he didn’t foul him?

 

[Addison]

Yeh , Knilly isn't much use in the technical area , just stands at the back with his arms folded.
Why can't Wilder do media duties ?
Surely the red card doesn't prevent that ?

It does.

 

[Keen Blade]

It does.

Ok , cheers for info

 

[djbaldken]

It obviously is a talking point though isn't it? It was the main headline for the BBC match report. You might think it doesn't matter, but shit sticks and Wilder is accumulating these stupid situations now.

An escalator stops for the president of the USA.
A football manager kicks a ball into the crowd and it hits a fan.
Where is it going to all end???
We're doomed I tell you.
Doomed.