Tag: Sheffield United
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God help the janitor with United like a toilet seat
I have little or no recollection of the 1991/’92 English soccer season, other than that it was the last in the format of the old First Division prior to the inception of the Premier League. That a Leeds United side managed by Howard Wilkinson and backboned by players such as Tony Dorigo, David Battie, Gary…
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FA Cup Fifth Round Draw
Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhinnney could possibly be foisting their Welsh football revolution on one of the supposedly biggest clubs in England, on foot of last night’s FA Cup Fifth Round draw. Now read on… Should football’s most unlikely owners see their side advance past Sheffield United in next Wednesday’s replay at Bramall…
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Parrott chimes into Kenny’s uplifting chorus
Rep. Of Ireland… 1 Lithuania… 0 Sometimes things happen in life which, with the fullness of time, emerge as a clear sign of what was to come in its wake. For example, having spent two hours on a soccer pitch in Wales practising it the week before, it was as if Sean Boylan and Meath…
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Boylan Talks Sport Brain Workout – No. 20
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Weird window leaves many questions
A few years ago, on Deadline Day of the winter transfer window, I wrote a piece headlined “Almost time to take down the tent”. Inference being that the concept and the time around it resemble a circus. At the time, that manifested itself in the insane fees clubs were paying for players and the manner…