Recently I was given my freedom; no longer do I have to answer to “da man” on a Saturday and it feels like I have been given a lease of life. So where would I rather spend my first Saturday of freedom, why of course Sheffield and the fabulous Bramall Lane.

Aidy Boothroyd’s Coventry City were the visitors and on a good run of form they were expected to fair well against Gary Speed’s United side. The Blades coming off the embarrassing 2-0 defeat away at Doncaster, not the score line but the manor of the performance and it was live on the BBC not the time you want to get truly outplayed. Coventry apart from the defeat against Cardiff had gone 4 games unbeaten.

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