HATCHET MAN: Will Neil-y man Warnock - an ex-Sheffield United boss and lifetime fan - really want Pa

29 April 2009 08:40
Neil Warnock has bleated more than enough about third partyinterference in relation to the Carlos Tevez affair to make you thinkhe would know better.[LNB]But the widely-loved Crystal Palace manager never seems to learn.[LNB]Palace are facing his old club, Sheffield United, on Sunday whenpromotion will be at stake. Kevin Blackwell's team can go upautomatically to the Premier League if they win and Birmingham fail tobeat Reading, so it is no time for Warnock to be making provocativestatements.[LNB] [LNB]It means that much ...to Sheffield United fan Neil Warnock [LNB]He is a supporter of the club and was their manager for nearly eightyears until 2007 and he really shouldn't be saying: 'Kevin has the bestsquad in the Championship. They should be going up automatically. IfSheffield United bring their best game they will beat us.'[LNB]Warnock also said he would not be doing his old club any favours, and there is no suggestion here that he would.[LNB]   More from ... VIEW FULL ARCHIVE But with promotion rivals no doubt uncomfortable that so much coulddepend on this match it would have been the sensible thing to saynothing other than promise Palace will do their best.[LNB][LNB][LNB] [LNB]  

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