Football Talk - The Yorkshire Post

WITH just a handful of games remaining, Sheffield Wednesday and Rotherham United remain the two Yorkshire clubs in the most perilous predicament in the Championship - both stuck in the bottom three, seven points from safety. But, following Tuesday night’s 7-0 thumping at the hands of leaders Norwich City, there remains concern for Huddersfield Town, who still need to pick up a couple of wins in or...

YORKSHIRE CCC get their 2021 season up and running on Thursday when they host Glamorgan in County Championship at Headingley. After the truncated campaign of last year, brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, Yorkshire are looking forward to the 2021 campaign in the hope of returning to some kind of normal. The schedule and formats of competitions will be somewhat different and, also, there wil...

This week’s show focuses on the top half of the Championship - with a little bit of Premier League Yorkshire derby chat thrown in for good measure. Host Mark Singleton is joined by YP football writers Leon Wobschall and Stuart Rayner to discuss how Barnsley have managed to put themselves in the play-off picture and whether Middlesbrough will ultimately fall short this season. They also preview Sat...

As we close in on the home straight for the 2020-21 EFL campaign, the international break offers the ideal opportunity to assess the season so far for the four Yorkshire clubs in Leagues One and Two. Hull City and Doncaster Rovers are pushing hard for promotion in the third tier while, further down, Bradford City and Harrogate Town both hope they can gatecrash the playoffs with a late surge. YP fo...

IT had probably been coming, but Chris Wilder’s departure from Sheffield United was still a sad moment when it arrived. Having supported the club as a boy, then had the privilege of playing for the Blades, Wilder’s dreams were further realised when he was appointed manager in May 2016. Two promotions and a return to the Premier League sealed his legendary status among fans, with that first season...

HAVING come out of the first Test in Chennai on such a high, England have quickly been brought crashing back down to earth in their series against India, after suffering two heavy defeats. Virat Kohli’s team were quick to exact revenge in Chennai to level the series and rubbed England’s noses into the dust of Ahmedabad when they won by ten wickets inside two days. The YP’s cricket writer, Chris Wa...

AS promised, Chris Waters and Phil Harrison have taken far less time to return to the podcast-stratosphere, leaving it barely two weeks since their last offering, instead of the previous time lapse ... of around 16 months. Buoyed by England's magnificent 227-run win in Chennai in the first Test match against India, the duo hail the contributions of, not only captain Joe Root, but the likes of Dom...

AFTER far, far too long away Chris Waters finds time in his busy schedule to grant host Phil Harrison a few minutes to chat about England's impressive 2-0 Test series win in Sri Lanka and, in particular, focus on the contribution by Yorkshire-born captain, Joe Root. It was a triumph, of course, that comes ahead of a tougher series in India, against hosts fresh from pulling off their own series win...

Leon Wobschall joins Phil Harrison to discuss the sacking of Garry Monk by Sheffield Wednesday and who is the best man to replace him with Tony Pulis and former Owls captain Nigel Pearson among the front-runners.

Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall join Phil Harrison to discuss how Yorkshire's League One and League Two sides have started the 2020-21 campaign. The trials and tribulations of Hull City, Doncaster Rovers, Harrogate Town and Bradford City all come under the spotlight

Leon Wobschall joins host Phil Harrison to discuss the start to the 2020-21 Championship season for Yorkshire's five clubs - Barnsley, Huddersfield Town, Middlesbrough, Rotherham United and Sheffield Wednesday.

As we continue watching the beautiful game from afar due to Covid-19, our first show of the 2020-21 season sees us take a look at the Premier League and the so far contrasting fortunes of our two Yorkshire clubs, Sheffield United and Leeds United.  After impressing everybody with the way they embraced the challenge of life in the top-flight last time out, it has been a struggle for Sheffield...

LEEDS UNITED are back in the Premier League. It may have been 16 years in the pipeline, but Marcelo Bielsa’s team proved themselves worthy winners of The Championship in a unique 2019-20 campaign and are now preparing to mix it with the English game’s elite. With a shorter-than-normal off-season, Leeds are having to work fast both on and off the pitch in order to be ready for their top-flight retu...

GIVEN how widely they had been written off by many people outside the club, Sheffield United’s ninth-place finish on their return to the Premier League is little short of stunning. Chris Wilder and his players and coaching team defied the odds all season to deliver the kind of campaign that will live long in the memory for Blades’ fans. But the hard work has already started on ensuring they can tr...

THEY left it late, but then Barnsley love nothing more than an act of escapism on the final day of a season. Their stunning win at promotion hopefuls Brentford on Wednesday, July 22, will live long in the memory, the only downside being that Reds fans were not there at Griffin Park to bask in the occasion along with the players and coaching staff.  There is the obvious caveat over Wigan's app...

ROTHERHAM UNITED find themselves back in the Championship after just one season away after League One clubs formally voted by an overwhelming majority to end the season on an unweighted points per game basis.  It was just reward for the Millers, who were sat in second place before the coronavirus pandemic struck, who go up along with newly-crowned champions Coventry City. Wycombe, Fleetwood,...

WITH the planned resumption of the 2019-20 football season less than two weeks away, it seems the appropriate time to assess the state of play for all of Yorkshire’s leading clubs. Sheffield United and Leeds United stand on the cusp of completing memorable seasons in a year which has seen the coronavirus pandemic bring the game to a standstill while, more importantly, change everything about the w...

AS things stand, Leeds United sit top of the Championship with nine games remaining, firmly in the driving seat for promotion back to the Premier League. As the long wait for a return to action continues due to the coronavirus pandemic continuing to dictate how we live our lives in the UK, it remains to be seen how Marcelo Bielsa’s team will ultimately achieve their aim.  Stuart Rayner joins...

AFTER ending the previous season with understandable optimism, a summer of discontent followed for Sheffield Wednesday when the unexpected departure to Newcastle United by manager Steve Bruce threw all pre-season planning into disarray. A short caretaker spell in charge followed for Lee Bullen until former Leeds and Middlesbrough manager Garry Monk took over in September. Monk oversaw a run of imp...

HAVING surrendered their Premier League status in such meek fashion, life back in the Championship was always going to be tough at the start of the 2019-20 season for Huddersfield Town.  It proved to be the case, with head coach Jan Siewert making way early on for Danny Cowley who - eventually - agreed that his future in management lay at the John Smith’s Stadium with brother and assistant ma...

THE MOST derided competition in English cricketing history has been delayed until next summer.  Former player and part of the coaching team under the outgoing Tony Pulis, Jonathan Woodgate was always likely to endure a tough start to life in management in the Championship. And it has proved to be the case with Boro going into the enforced coronavirus break sat 19th in the standings, just two...

BEFORE the coronavirus pandemic brought an abrupt halt to the 2019-20 football season, Hull City were a team in freefall, plummeting from being genuine playoff conenders to languish just one place and two points above the Championship drop zone. The first half of the campaign was one full of promise, but January proved to be the Tigers’ downfall, not just in terms of the business done during the t...

AFTER the highs brought about last spring by automatic promotion from League One, it proved to be a sobering autumn for all concerned at Barnsley. Failure to replace the quality that was allowed to leave in the summer in the shape of Adam Davies, Liam Lindsay and Ethan Pinnock, put Daniel Stendel and his team behind the eight-ball in terms of being competitive once back in the Championship. Stende...

After spending just one season back in the Championship, Rotherham United found themselves back in the third tier confident that they could - once again - secure an instant return. Going into the current break, the Millers find themselves handily placed for one of the two automatic promotion spots, sitting second in the table, five points shy of leaders Coventry City and having played a game more,...

Having agonisingly missed out on reaching the League One playoff final last year, hopes will have been high for Doncaster Rovers being in the promotion mix once again this time around. A change of coach saw Darren Moore return to his former club to succeed Grant McCann and, as the break continues due to the coronavirus pandemic, Rovers are well-placed in the standings, sitting ninth and five point...