Loosely Termed Football Match
My guest blogger, Son of a Cork's Dad, returns this week as I expertly avoided a howler, it seems.
The Jinx returns
As the Duke of Cork could not make this Scunthorpe fixture Bramall Lane welcomed the return of The Jinx. And so it was to be.
The first half was really painful to watch and at one point paper bags blew across the pitch like tumbleweed in an eerie silence like a scene from a deserted town in an old cowboy western.
United had most of what play there was but a poor back pass nearly saw them go one down but the keeper made a good save. At the end of the first half, as people were going for their Bovril [Ed: other beverages are available] in first half injury time, Scunthorpe caught United on the break and although plenty defenders got back a couple of passes and a nothing shot sent the keeper diving the wrong way and the ball was in the back of the net.
If the first half was bad then the second did not improve any. Although United appeared to be pressing all the time (even Monty was doing forward runs) the 2 front guys (Henderson and Cresswell) just waited for the ball to come to them. There was no movement whatsoever in the Scunthorpe box. The whole team played exactly as I remembered several weeks ago where passing to the man was non existent and even the tackling was weak (except Monty of course). The ball went to and fro’ in the air and hardly touched the ground and it became evident the Blades were never going to score. On the rare occasions they played the ball on the ground they did move forward but never further than the opposition penalty area where there was nobody moving off the ball for a thro’ pass.
My brother said some weeks ago that he did not want to see the Blades humiliated in the Premiership and he has now got his wish. I am sure that my jinx on the Blades will have no effect on any match again this season either.
Yours
Disillusioned
Many thanks for the blog post.
Blades 0 - 1 S****horpe
The Jinx returns
As the Duke of Cork could not make this Scunthorpe fixture Bramall Lane welcomed the return of The Jinx. And so it was to be.
The first half was really painful to watch and at one point paper bags blew across the pitch like tumbleweed in an eerie silence like a scene from a deserted town in an old cowboy western.
United had most of what play there was but a poor back pass nearly saw them go one down but the keeper made a good save. At the end of the first half, as people were going for their Bovril [Ed: other beverages are available] in first half injury time, Scunthorpe caught United on the break and although plenty defenders got back a couple of passes and a nothing shot sent the keeper diving the wrong way and the ball was in the back of the net.
If the first half was bad then the second did not improve any. Although United appeared to be pressing all the time (even Monty was doing forward runs) the 2 front guys (Henderson and Cresswell) just waited for the ball to come to them. There was no movement whatsoever in the Scunthorpe box. The whole team played exactly as I remembered several weeks ago where passing to the man was non existent and even the tackling was weak (except Monty of course). The ball went to and fro’ in the air and hardly touched the ground and it became evident the Blades were never going to score. On the rare occasions they played the ball on the ground they did move forward but never further than the opposition penalty area where there was nobody moving off the ball for a thro’ pass.
My brother said some weeks ago that he did not want to see the Blades humiliated in the Premiership and he has now got his wish. I am sure that my jinx on the Blades will have no effect on any match again this season either.
Yours
Disillusioned
Many thanks for the blog post.
Blades 0 - 1 S****horpe
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