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Bonfire Night is an apt time to be writing about Sheffield United with the Blades needing more than a rocket to ignite their failing season.
I’m sure manager Chris Wilder would happily consign this campaign to the pyre if he could.
Unfortunately he can’t, as he picks through the charred remains of the play-off team he re-built in an increasingly testing task to simply keep his club in the Championship.
Last season wasn’t quite ‘New Year on the banks of the Thames’ – that was more Leeds and Burnley.
But it felt like Wilder had fountains, Roman Candles and Catherine Wheels at his disposal – this year he barely has a sparkler, with the Bramall Lane fireworks remaining unlit.
The scale of the…
