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If there is one positive Sheffield United fans can cling to after Sunday’s shellacking by Newcastle, it’s that no team that has ever shipped eight or more goals in a Premier League match has ever gone on to be relegated that season. Unless, of course, you want to be pedantic and count Ipswich Town, who went down after losing 9-0 at Old Trafford in March 1995. Or Nottingham Forest, who finished rock-bottom of the table after losing 8-1 at home to Lord Ferg’s treble-winners of 1999. Or the Blades’ rivals Sheffield Wednesday, who dropped through the trap-door at the end of a campaign in which they also lost 8-0 to Newcastle, a game in which Alan Shearer spanked five goals past an increasingly glum Kevin Pressman.
Far be it for me as a Leeds fan to twist the knife, but after Sheffield United’s hammering at home to Newcastle, is it too early to say that the Blades just can’t cut it in the top flight?” – Allastair McGillivray.
The Madrid derby was enthralling, the Ajax/Feyenoord drama was disturbing and extraordinary but my weekend’s football highlight was altogether different. My septuagenarian brother is a lifelong Chelsea fan and season ticket holder, but he watched my team, Ipswich, on Saturday and admitted that he prefers watching Championship games at the moment. Of course I pointed out that after the Villa defeat, next season he might have little choice” – Lindsay Williams.
It is good to see that Harry Kane’s goals at the weekend ‘put him above Gerd Müller’ and ‘set a club record for most goals by a player in his first five Bundesliga matches’. Oh well, I guess the late, great Müller will just have to console himself with being (takes a deep breath) the all-time highest scorer in Germany’s top flight, Europe’s top scorer twice, Ballon d’Or winner in 1970 and scoring 68 goals in only 62 games for the German national team, all while winning four Bundesligas, four German Cups, three European Cups, one Cup Winners’ Cup and both the European Championships and World Cup” – Noble Francis.
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