Steel City faces sombre summer after relegations for United and Wednesday | Louise Taylor
13-May-2021 07:00:21 | The Guardian
Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday must rebuild after seasons that started full of hope ended in relegation for both
Prince Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud likes to relax by playing Fantasy Premier League but recently admitted his online team includes “not one Sheffield United player”. Given the prince owns the club, this admission further emphasises the on-pitch travails of a side already relegated to the Championship and endeavouring to persuade Slavisa Jokanovic to take over at Bramall Lane.
Whoever is in charge of next season’s second-tier programme, United will not even have the consolation of local derbies with Sheffield Wednesday as their great rivals have also suffered a painful fall, dropping into League One. This time last year, Sheffield United were preparing for Project Restart and Blades fans dared to dream that the trademark steel-grey gilet invariably worn on match days by their manager, Chris Wilder, would shortly be paraded in European technical areas.
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