The Sheffield Herald
Squad16 Aug 2027
A one-man rearguard from Pierce Charles
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Ernie Weaver at Sheffield
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ernie Weaver is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A late step up for Yan Valery
At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Yan Valery falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match14 Aug 2027
Sheffield come up short against Bristol City
Bristol City left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch16 Aug 2027
George Brown wants to come home
“I did not go to Córdoba to sit and watch. I want to come back to Sheffield and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Joél Drakes-Thomas
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
The one thing Ivo Costantino could not do
Shots: 9, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
An afternoon Charlie McNeill will want back
Marked 5.38. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
In brief
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Marvelous Nakamba
- Market Sheffield borrow Pasquale Mazzocchi
- Market James Kay leaves for nothing