Sheffield United Blog

AT FIRST glance, Sheffield United’s mediocre position of tenth in the Coca-Cola Championship represents a massive disappointment for Yorkshire’s highest-placed professional club. With four games of the season left United – a side that came within three points of automatic promotion last season, and reached the Championship Play-Off final – are nine points behind sixth-placed [...]

JUST eighteen months ago, the name Kyle Naughton was relatively unknown to anyone unfamiliar with Sheffield United’s youth academy. Naughton was a precarious teenager, a pacy adventurous right back – who then amazed the Bramall Lane crowd with a series of displays which belied his tender age. After a character-building loan spell at Scottish side [...]

Whilst never professing to be exponents of ‘the beautiful game’, Sheffield United at least demonstrated glimpses of their intent to combine industry and invention in their pursuit of Coca-Cola Championship promotion at Reading on Friday. Goals from Stephen Quinn, Jamie Ward and David Cotterill, an exquisite long-range strike to seal the victory, responded perfectly to [...]

If any Sheffield United supporters travelled to Stocksbridge Park Steels on Tuesday night expecting any cure for the disappoinment they are feeling following the sales of both Kyle Naughton and Kyle Walker, then it was in short supply. United, perhaps wary of both Friday night’s Coca-Cola Championship curtain raiser against Middlesbrough and the fact Kevin [...]

A combination of unavailability and injury meant that Kevin Blackwell was unable to name his strongest team to face Lincoln City at Sincil Bank – frustrating both scouts from Middlesbrough, their opening day opponents, and travelling fans hoping for an insight into the side Blackwell will name on August 7. But the two will be [...]

Sheffield United showed that there is life beyond Kyle Naughton and Kyle Walker with a comprehensive friendly victory against local rivals Chesterfield last night. On possibly their last visit to Chesterfield’s Saltergate home, goals from Leigh Bromby and ex-Spirite Jamie Ward sealed United’s third win from three warm-up outings ahead of the season’s curtain-raiser at [...]

Malta goalkeeper Justin Haber made his Sheffield United debut as Kevin Blackwell’s men kicked off their pre-season preperations with a 1-0 win over Maltese side Floriana. Haber completed a full 90 minutes and kept a clean sheet on his former home ground, the Hibernians Stadium, as he stakes his claim for the United goalkeeper’s jersey [...]

After May’s Championship Play-Off final defeat, the off-season rest enjoyed by Sheffield United’s squad would have been a welcome relief mentally as well as physically. Last season’s late finish to the season ensured that their holidays were cut short – something captain Chris Morgan insists could help not hinder their promotion bid this time around. [...]

Sheffield United manager Kevin Blackwell insists that his club’s academy graduates are capable of replacing the players he will be forced to sell before the start of the Coca-Cola Championship season next month. Blackwell, who oversaw his side’s preperations for the season’s opener at Middlesborough in Malta, has already resigned himself to losing 20-year-old Kyle [...]

Barely had the celebratory confetti been swept from the Wembley turf after Sheffield United’s Play-Off Final defeat last month, and transfer speculation was rife around Bramall Lane. After a season containing more ups and downs than the Pepsi Max Big One at Blackpool, United ultimately experienced disappointment yet again in the Coca-Cola Big One – [...]