Jamie Shackleton

Right Back - Sheffield United
29 Sep 2026
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The Sheffield United Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Chiedozie Ogbene

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Patrick Bamford yet — 7.92

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.92 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

No end in sight to Sheffield United's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Sheffield United has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Words at Sheffield United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kalvin Phillips 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.

Squad

Danny Ings 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 United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

West Bromwich Albion take the points off Sheffield United

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief