The Sheffield United Post
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Mickey Demetriou out for 145 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sheffield United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Sheffield United
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market23 Aug 2027
Grodig come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sheffield United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Micah Hamilton is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Sheffield United
Ben Chilwell was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A late step up for Andre Brooks
At 24 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Sheffield United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match21 Aug 2027
3 matches without a goal for Sheffield United
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market23 Aug 2027
Eyes on Ben Killip again
The phone has started ringing about Ben Killip again, and this time the name on the line is Mattersburg. Sheffield United are listening politely and promising nothing.
In brief
- Market Thomas Mitchell steps up from the Sheffield United academy
- Market Sheffield United promote Edward Dixon from within
- Boardroom A promise the Sheffield United board did not keep