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Blades open late on Wednesday Cool, I can nip in after work and get some Christmas pressies sorted.....what's that? Oh, openING late.

The Blades never seem to win on TV, so it was nice to get three points, play reasonably well (although defence still needs some work, for Ched Evans to look like a striker and to get a dodgy ref that didn't affect the result. Ched Evans finally looked like he wanted to play football.  He got a bang on the head fairly early on and we reckon Blades should schedule a bang on the head before every game.  Cresswell looked shocking, but at least he put the pen away. Speroni saved hundreds off shots (it seemed) and I'd written it off to be one of those evening.  Boggy came on and ran everywhere on the pitch, then scored the pen, then got sent off.  Looked harsh at the time, but Speed hasn't complained and only watched it back quickly and looked like he caught the guy high. Maybe our luck is finally changing.  Mine might not be.  We were trying to get some rare peg top trousers the other day and agreed an amount to bid, then put £1k under what we agreed.  We'll have to se

I'm curious as to what constitutes an unsafe flag. I'm also wondering how they match a safety certificate to a flag on the day of the game. It's all good stuff. Sheffield United News Latest News Latest News Please, get your flags passed Why anyone would want to take 3"x2" slabs of concrete to a game is beyond me anyway.

BBC Sport - Football - Sheff Utd 1-2 Ipswich : "United clearly missed the galvanising presence of skipper Nick Montgomery at the back, failing to clear a long throw from Carlos Edwards before allowing Livermore space to head the ball to Priskin for the opener." I know there are strikes at the BBC, but mentioned a player who is in the team sheet as missing is a bit poor.

Guest blog from a colleague of mine who borrowed my season ticket (fool).... Blades 1 Ipswich Town 2 Starting line up :- -------------------------- Simonsen --------------------------- Lowton -------- Bartley ----------- Ertl ---------- Nosworthy Yeates --------- Montgomery ----- Britton ------ Quinn ------------------Cresswell --------- Ward -------------------- Stray passes, kamikaze defending and woeful finishing were the order of the day for the Blades as they limped to yet another home defeat on Saturday. On a cold, bright day the Blades started 4-4-2 and were kicking towards the Kop in the first half. It was Ipswich who applied the early pressure and were rewarded when Tamas Priskin was given the freedom of the six yard box to score. The cobbled together Blades' defence looked willing to let Ipswich score at will. Only the limited ability of the Ipswich forwards kept the score down. Whilst Ipswich were falling about laughing, the Blades took advantage of th

Hitting the post three times and the joke that is Andy Taylor playing at left back have left me happy that I've got my on call duty mixed up and will miss the game against Ipswich. We desperatley lack two good full backs (well, I think Jordan and Calve are good enough, but they don't seem to play - Lowton too).  If playing weaker fullbacks, I think we need two wingers who will also work back and help. I'm losing the will to watch football.  At least Taylor got taken off at half time.... Blades 0 - 1 Coventry