Divine intervention at Bramall Lane?

In their last away match the Addicks faced a Super Hoops side seeking to get back on track after a 7-1 pasting at Coventry City.  Not only did they succeed, but it is rumoured that QPR fan Lord Toby Young chased Rick Everitt to the nearest tube station shouting 'Take that, you town hall tyrant.'

Now we face Sheffield United, a team that was trounced 5-0 by the Tractors.  Chris Wilder is back in the dugout as retread manager.

A concerned Nathan Jones said at yesterday's press conference: 'We can’t second-guess anything. Does it give them a lift? Absolutely. The crowd were obviously disillusioned and they had a tough result last week. There was always going to be a bounce, it was similar to the QPR one.

Chris has gone in there, he is synonymous with the football club and has got the best out of it in recent years, so of course it is going to be difficult. It was always going to be a difficult game - Sheffield United at Bramall Lane in the Championship.

“Does this make it more difficult? We don’t know. We will only find out at five o’clock on Saturday. We only try to affect the things we can affect at Sparrows Lane. If we are the best versions of ourselves - turn up and are at it like I know we can be - that is all I can ask for.

Then everything else is God’s will.'

The Almighty probably has too busy a diary to intervene in a Championship match, so we will have to rely on a solid defence and a possible goal from an unlikely player.   I am not optimistic.

The CAS Trust preview is here: https://www.castrust.org/2025/09/a-wilder-weekend-expected-in-sheffield/