Football Daily | Sheffield United and a volte-face so extreme it could lead to whipla

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Before the Championship season started you would not have required the prescience of Mystic Meg to correctly predict that a team from the Steel City would be bottom of the table with no points after their first five games. With their club?s very existence under very real threat, most Sheffield Wednesday fans had resigned themselves to relegation at best before a ball was kicked, as long as their owner Dejphon Chansiri refused to sell up. A month on, the presence of their bitter city rivals one place below them at the foot of the table must be a rare source of happiness for Owls fans, in what looks likely to be a long season of unrelenting misery mixed with trepidatious uncertainty. Having lost last season?s Wembley playoff final to a late, late Sunderland winner, the Sheffield United hierarchy elected to end Chris Wilder?s second spell in charge of their club and embark on a new direction. And while ?downwards into League One? might not have been the specific one they had in mind, it is certainly the new direction they appear to have taken after losing their first five games by an aggregate score of 12-1.
After the goal, Marcus said ?well done?, with the eyes of a brother, but he wasn?t laughing. He teases me about headers, and so does Dad, so I?m happy? ? Kh?phren Thuram enjoyed scoring in Juventus?s madcap 4-3 win over Inter ? especially so given that he got one over his big brother, who was also on the scoresheet. Nicky Bandini has the lowdown on a sensational Derby d?Italia here.
I pay no attention whatsoever to Scottish fitba, except when Scottish clubs go out of Bigger Cup, and it?s already September, so that?s long gone. However, I couldn?t help but notice that Rangers are nine points off Celtic and only two places off the bottom of the table after five games, which was puzzling until I remembered that Russell Martin was managing them. And also that fans of top-of-the-table Celtic are, and I quote, ?mutinous?? ? Noble Francis.
Like Chad Thomas (Friday?s Football Daily letters), I also love the verb play that Football Daily does. Sadly, I very seldom get to see my favourite verb used these days, because Alex Ferguson doesn?t make the headlines as often, and typically isn?t angry as much. Gone are the days that he ?purpled? on a weekly basis. Nostalgia always gets you? ? Todd Van Allen.
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