HATCHET MAN: No tears for another season without Sheffield United, but who will they blame this time

Published: 26 May 2009 - 10:13:06

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HATCHET MAN: No tears for another season without Sheffield United, but who will they blame this time

Sheffield United are facing their third successive season in the Championship after losing to Burnley in the play-off final. Good. After two years of parachute money and two failed promotion bids, it is where they belong and even the best lawyers in the country would struggle to argue otherwise. This is the club who acted like the only victims when they went down because West Ham broke the rules over Carlos Tevez. It was utter rubbish of course. The game was hard done-by, the Premier League were shamefully soft and everybody lost. Even if West Ham had been relegated because of their misdemeanours, Sheffield United deserved to go with them because they weren't good enough. They have stayed down for the same reason and if they still can't get out of the Championship next season with the advantage they have from the Tevez money they won through the courts, they have no one to blame but themselves.