Source: FOOTYMAD
Sky's The Limit...
This weekend's fixture with Crystal Palace is set to become the fifth fixture (to my knowledge) since 1997 to be selected for live television. david tuttle (palace) and dean saunders (blades) tussels for the ball in our 1998 encounter at selhurst park.Though this seasons like TV encounters have been somewhat disappointing; Cardiff (1-1), Middlesbrough (0-1) and Doncaster (0-2) have all capitalised on the Blades terrible luck on the box. In fact you have to go all the way to our play-off semi-final success over Preston since United last claimed three points whilst shown on TV.Sheffield Wednesday must be our most shown opponents on live television with Palace easily as runners-up. Our demise against the Eagles can be traced back to May 1997 when a David Hopkin strike (last minute) denied United of possible Premiership football in the play-off final at Wembley.The Eagles were relegated at the first attempt in the top flight and back in Division One (at Selhurst Park); again Sky where there to witness a 1-0 win for Palace - midfielder Ian Hamilton was also sent off during the game.United have battled out draws in their previous two fixtures, both during the 2008-09 season. At the Lane it ended 2-2 - James Beattie looked to have netted a winner moments before time from the spot before deep into added time Nick Carle levelled.In our final league game of that campaign to two sides drew 0-0 at Selhurst Park. Our record with the Eagles doesn't look great but hopefully this Saturday will see a sea of change.
