The Sheffield Herald
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Sheffield
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Tayo Adaramola at Sheffield
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tayo Adaramola is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Sheffield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Di'Shon Bernard is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Liam Cooper in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sheffield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
Sheffield come up short against Charlton Athletic
Charlton Athletic left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Svante Ingelsson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Costly mistake from Pierce Charles
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Pierce Charles knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
Everybody has an opinion about Pierce Charles
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Iké Ugbo could not find anything
5.67. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
In brief
- Player ratings Olaf Kobacki changes it off the bench
- Market Mackenzie Maltby leaves for nothing