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patch · « **Reply #240 on:** August 13, 2011, 11:05:02 AM »

Sheffield Utd 2 - 0 Brentford

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_2/14429658.stm

lighty · « **Reply #241 on:** August 13, 2011, 11:13:07 AM »

Quote from: patch on August 13, 2011, 11:05:02 AM

Sheffield Utd 2 - 0 Brentford

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_2/14429658.stm

Excellent result - it sounded like they ran all over Brentford. The back is strong and working well in concert with each other, the midfield is taking its time . . . the forwards are improving.

Having a bit of trouble keeping up with the new players, though. The names aren't as familiar to me, so I get confused about who is doing what to whom, where!

UTB!

patch · « **Reply #242 on:** August 16, 2011, 03:44:15 PM »

Sheffield Utd 3 - 2 Walsall

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_2/14457413.stm

lighty · « **Reply #243 on:** August 16, 2011, 03:55:49 PM »

The fans sounded AMAZING and the match was non-stop (even Seth Bennett sounded impressed!) 9 points from three matches - that's the way it's supposed to work!

UTB!!

patch · « **Reply #244 on:** August 20, 2011, 10:58:56 AM »

Tranmere 1 - 1 Sheffield Utd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_2/14514663.stm

lighty · « **Reply #245 on:** August 20, 2011, 11:19:42 AM »

Have to agree with Keith, we dropped two points. Lost focus in the last 20 minutes. Ah, well. Early days yet!

But Monty scored from 30 yards out! Not only a rare goal for him, but apparently a beautiful, perfect ball straight into the back of the net.
Go, Nick!!

UTB!

patch · « **Reply #246 on:** August 24, 2011, 03:59:17 PM »

Everton 3 - 1 Sheffield Utd

Carling Cup second round

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14569476.stm

lighty · « **Reply #247 on:** August 24, 2011, 08:18:46 PM »

Hard to get terribly excited about this. I would have preferred a closer score, but it was pretty much a given that we'd lose - at least, as Keith said, they did us the courtesy of turning out a very strong squad rather than assuming we'd fold like wet tissue paper facing their under-21s!

The new lad Flynn sounds like he has some potential, assuming he can keep himself out of trouble on the pitch (Quinn redux, anyone?)

patch · « **Reply #248 on:** August 27, 2011, 09:06:37 AM »

Yeovil 0 - 1 Sheffield Utd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14600551.stm

lighty · « **Reply #249 on:** August 27, 2011, 09:09:50 AM »

Well deserved three points - Yeovil didn't put up much of a fight. Can't figure out what was up with the referee in the last couple of minutes of injury time . . . water on the brain?

In any case, we're on top of the table for the moment, but it's doubtful we'll stay there for long as we're only two points up from both MK Dons and Charlton. That draw is proving annoying!

UTB!

lighty · « **Reply #250 on:** September 03, 2011, 09:56:53 AM »

Up at the half over Bury.

Here's a question for all: how do you pronounce that city name? Like 'burr-y' or like 'bear-y'?

Andy Giddings is pronouncing it 'bear-y' and Keith Edwards is pronouncing it 'burr-y' and the half-time BBC announcer just said 'bear-y'. How do the people in Bury pronounce it??

lighty · « **Reply #251 on:** September 03, 2011, 10:07:08 AM »

Just answered my own question! This quote from someone on the dialect blog at the BBC . . .

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Chris Bainbridge from Bury
I spent the first few years of my life on Tyneside, so am still able to understand and speak Geordie. We moved to just north of Manchester when I was little, so I had to learn a new way of talking, because nobody could understand me at first. I thought I was putting on my best B.B.C. newsreader voice and thought I sounded like Richard baker, but in reality I sounded more like Jimmy Nail. Most of the other kids at school thought I was "Scotch" (to use their term). The local accent in Prestwich was a bit like today's Manchester twang, a bit nasal. But just three or four miles up the road they talk Lancashire, like Peter Kay (as I found when I went to secondary school). The Mancunians used to deride the Bury lot, and call them "Farmers", or "Yonners" (why? Because they come from "over yon"!). I live in Bury now, the very name of which is a one-word linguistic test. You can tell a Manc by the way they pronounce "Bury" as "Berry". My old compadres the Geordies (as well as the Scots) say "Burry". The locals, however, pronounce it somewhere in between, with a vowel sound like a shortened version of the French "beurre", or a German "o-umlaut". So now you know!

Sooo . . . Bury is 'berry' if you're Mancunian - 'burry' if you're Geordie or Scots - and something in-between if you're a local (not sure how that sounds, though!)

lighty · « **Reply #252 on:** September 03, 2011, 10:39:21 AM »

3-0 Blades - and there's still time!

Woot!

Yeah, I know - League One . . .

UTB!!

4-0 . . . nananana - hey, hey, hey - that's the Blades!!

patch · « **Reply #253 on:** September 03, 2011, 11:00:38 AM »

Full time Sheffield Utd 4 - 0 Bury

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14690786.stm

patch · « **Reply #254 on:** September 10, 2011, 11:03:43 AM »

Scunthorpe 1 - 1 Sheffield Utd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14773031.stm

lighty · « **Reply #255 on:** September 10, 2011, 11:13:59 AM »

Well - we drew rather than lost, but we should have won. It was a game of halves. First half was dire -played like last season. Second half, played much, much better.

Scored. Good, but our scorer was Ched Evans . . . which is psychologically problematic, given that he's under charges for rape. I want - really want - to stick by what I believe, ethically, which is innocent until proven guilty - but rape is such an emotionally charged subject and I realise, even as I say 'innocent until proven' that part of my brain is saying 'yeah, but . . .' (I need to work on this, obviously!)

We went top of table - but we did it barely, and the reason is because Wednesday (!!) beat MK Dons rather decisively. Wednesday!

Game of halves all around.

UTB!

patch · « **Reply #256 on:** September 13, 2011, 03:44:52 PM »

Sheffield Utd 0 - 3 Huddersfield

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14799576.stm

Sable899 · « **Reply #257 on:** September 13, 2011, 06:01:11 PM »

Ut-oh...Lighty will not be pleased. Not pleased at all.

lighty · « **Reply #258 on:** September 13, 2011, 08:13:48 PM »

Glad I missed it! Think I'll avoid the highlight reel, too . . .

lighty · « **Reply #259 on:** September 17, 2011, 10:44:48 AM »

Making up for last match - 3-0 at the moment (should be more like 6-0 but we keep hitting the woodwork)!