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The Pinch Year in Review: 2025
Win, lose or draw, The Pinch has seen it all in 2025. Here are our favourite pieces from another busy year of Blades and football coverage
The only Blade in Aldershot
Through top flights and lowlights, moving south as a child didn't dim Phil Ridley's passion for the Blades – and even made him a Hampshire football…
Dialling for Goals: following the Blades in the pre-digital age
Before push notifications and less-than-accurate social media updates, our writer remembers ClubCall in all its delayed and imperfect glory
The Night Shift
How better to spend the early hours caring for a newborn than reliving Sheffield United's nineties journey through the magic of VHS?
The BBC – Best Blades Celebrations
Deadbat looks through decades of United's most memorable celebrations – good and bad – to find our top ten
43 moments of quintessential Wilderballs
Andrew Senior takes a sideways look at the post-match words of our straight-talking, no-spin, says-it-as-it-is manager.
Does Roy remember this right?
Roy remembers – but did the following outlandish moments in United history even happen?...
Winner stays on: Sheffield United vs the World
Phil Rose with a public service announcement on the possible changing of the guard in World Football's Winner Stays On competition.
The night I slept with Jamie Hoyland
A mid-80s romp with our writer across the pitches of England – all in the name of research
London Away: tales from the local away day
Working backwards from Brentford to Spurs, our editor recalls non-footballing events from every London away day.
Rock bottom: a Kop toilet story
A trip down memory lane that one Kop toilet user would rather forget...
Tony Field: From Halifax to New York
Few players took to the pitch alongside Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, Carlos Alberto and Tony Currie – Tony Field did, but it's safe to say one of those…
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