Browning shows lack of experience and players show lack of quality as Sheffield United plunge
downward
The last few weeks have not been good for all connected with Sheffield United as the club seems to have
pressed the self destruct button, the question now must be, can they stop this alarming slump and
quickly?
Heres a look at the abysmal run that has saw the club slide down the Championship table :
Tuesday 18th October 2005: Preston v Sheff Utd : Coca-Cola championship : 2-1 loss
The mighty slide begins!
While we fancied our chances against Preston, they obviously had other ideas
Dave Nugent fired them into the lead in the 21 st minute to give them the goal their play had threatned
and if I'm being honest, deserved as well. We could have been three or four down by the time they half
time whistle was blown but good excellet goal keeping kept us in the match.
The second half was far better from our point of view as we pressed Preston hard in our search for an
equaliser and it finally came through Alan Quinn in the 76th minute. My players seemed to think they had
done enough for the day and switched off soon after this goal, this allowed Preston to grab the win with
a goal in the dying seconds of the match from Chris Sedgwick.
The moral of the story? YOU PLAY THE GAME UNTIL THE FINAL WHISTLE
Saturday 22nd October 2005 : Luton v Sheff Utd : Coca-Cola Championship : 2-2 draw
Luton started the match brightly and it only took eight minutes for them to take the lead through Dean
Morgan, this seemed to wake my lot up and four minutes later we pulled level through a Paul Ifill strike
\o/ Ade Akinbiyi gave us the lead with his 35th minute strike.
In the second half both teams had some great chances and it would have been fair to say that the match
was finely poised and could go either way but yet again as the match was drawing to a close my players
switched off allowing Dean Morgan to grab an 89th leveller for Luton. Another 2 points thrown away
Wednesday 26th October 2005 : Sheff Utd v Watford : Carling Cup Third Round : 1-0 loss
We pounded and pounded at Watford's goal and created several great chances to have this match sewn up by
half time but sadly it wasn't to be. In the second half we continued our assualt on the goalmouth but
continued to be denied by a combination of poor finishing and great goalkeeping keep us at bay and yet
again my players swtiched off at the end of the game! This gave Gavin Mahon the oppotunity to get in
behind the defence and score the goal that knocked us out of the cup in the 88th minute.
Saturday 29th October 2005 : Sheff Utd v Coventry : Coca-Cola Championship : 1-1 draw
Another woeful lacklusture peformance from my lads here
Things looked bright in the 12th minute when Krisztian Kenesei opened the scoring for us \o/
Again the team went to sleep and the only miracle was that Coventry were unable to take advantage of our
slackness until the 70th minute when Dele Adebola broke clear of the last defender, rounded the keeper
and slotted the ball home.
P!sh
Tuesday 1st November 2005: Sheff Utd v Norwich Coca-Cola Championship : 1-0 loss
Norwich manager Sandy Pettigrew took it upon himself to speak out in the press before this game telling
them he "expected an easy win", sad fact is, his Norwich side were fortunate to win this one, well lets
face it though according to the msn grapevine Pettigrew himself is a Heart of Midlothian fan (who just
in case you didn't know, lost to a poor Celtic side last night :thup
and he is obviously trying to
take a lead from his hero Mad Vlad. In reality this match was possibly the dullest match of the season
for 80minutes with both teams creating very little in the way of the chances, Sheff Utd had a few good
chances to win the game before the end (as did Norwich) before Ryan Jarivs managed to finally get the
breakthrough in the 90th minute.
Media sources reported after the match that Pettigrew had placed £50 on Jarvis as the first scorer + a
draw at half time + Norwich to win at full time at odds of 50000/1 winning himself a total of
£2.5million.
Saturday 5th November 2005 : Sheff Wed v Sheff Utd : Coca-Cola Championship : 2-1 defeat
Remember remember the 5th of November!
It's the day Sheff Utd lost yet another fecking game
With no love lost between either team this was always going to be a tense affair and it was!
Right up until the 41st minute when Chris Brunt broke free and opened the scoring, and before the Sheffield United players could compose themselves Deon Burton had given Wednesday a 2-0 lead with 43 minutes on the clock. Wednesday should have been out of sight before the hour mark but were unable to finish, Steven Kabba pulled one back for United in the 85th minute but by then it was too late to make any sort of comeback.
Saturday 19th November 2005 : Sheff Utd v Derby : Coca-Cola Championship : 0-0 draw
Crap 0-0 draw, we should have won but it would appear my strikers have gone on strike
Thats all I can really say about this.
So we haven't won a game in the last seven and are going down quicker than $2 hooker
This has to stop
now or any hope of success this season will be gone.
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