Английская Википедия:2007–08 Sheffield United F.C. season

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox football club season Sheffield United competed in the Football League Championship during the 2007–08 football season, after being relegated from the Premier League during 2006–07.

Season summary

Manager Bryan Robson was dismissed in February with Sheffield United nowhere near a position good enough for an immediate return to the Premier League. His replacement, Kevin Blackwell, improved United's form sufficiently that they were still mathematically in with a shout of a play-off place until the last day of the season, but a shock loss to relegation-threatened Southampton ended any such hopes (though results elsewhere meant that the Blades wouldn't have made the play-offs even had they won), and United finished in a relatively disappointing 9th position.

Kit

Sheffield United maintained both their kit manufacturing agreement with French company Le Coq Sportif, who produced a new home kit for the season, and their kit sponsorship agreement with American bank Capital One. A new away strip with fluorescent green shirts and black shirts and socks with fluorescent green trim was also introduced.

Final league table

Шаблон:Main 2007–08 Football League Championship

Results

Sheffield United's score comes first

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

Football League Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
11 August 2007	Colchester United	H	2–2	26,202	Beattie, Tonge
18 August 2007	Watford	A	0–1	16,414
25 August 2007	West Bromwich Albion	H	1–0	23,491	Beattie
1 September 2007	Scunthorpe United	A	2–3	8,801	Webber (2)
15 September 2007	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	3–1	26,003	Beattie (2, 1 pen), Stead
18 September 2007	Blackpool	A	2–2	9,512	Beattie (2)
22 September 2007	Crystal Palace	A	2–3	14,131	Hudson (own goal), Beattie
29 September 2007	Southampton	H	1–2	24,561	Gillespie
2 October 2007	Cardiff City	H	3–3	26,186	Beattie, Armstrong, Morgan
6 October 2007	Bristol City	A	0–2	13,071
20 October 2007	Preston North End	H	1–1	23,661	Beattie (pen)
23 October 2007	Leicester City	A	1–0	21,146	Webber
27 October 2007	Hull City	A	1–1	20,185	Stead
3 November 2007	Burnley	H	0–0	25,306
6 November 2007	Ipswich Town	H	3–1	25,033	Beattie (2, 1 pen), Gillespie
10 November 2007	Stoke City	A	1–0	12,158	Cahill
24 November 2007	Plymouth Argyle	H	0–1	23,811
27 November 2007	Charlton Athletic	A	3–0	20,737	Beattie, Cahill, Armstrong
1 December 2007	Coventry City	A	1–0	20,355	Armstrong
4 December 2007	Stoke City	H	0–3	23,378
8 December 2007	Norwich City	A	0–1	24,493
15 December 2007	Barnsley	H	1–0	26,629	Kilgallon
22 December 2007	Cardiff City	A	0–1	12,869
26 December 2007	Blackpool	H	1–1	26,409	Beattie
29 December 2007	Crystal Palace	H	0–1	23,982
1 January 2008	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	0–0	24,791
12 January 2008	Queens Park Rangers	H	2–1	28,894	Stewart (own goal), Hendrie
19 January 2008	Sheffield Wednesday	A	0–2	30,486
29 January 2008	Watford	H	1–1	23,161	Carney
2 February 2008	Colchester United	A	2–2	5,695	Shelton, Carney
9 February 2008	Scunthorpe United	H	0–0	25,668
12 February 2008	West Bromwich Albion	A	0–0	22,643
23 February 2008	Queens Park Rangers	A	1–1	15,383	Morgan
1 March 2008	Charlton Athletic	H	0–2	23,180
4 March 2008	Ipswich Town	A	1–1	20,190	Beattie
8 March 2008	Plymouth Argyle	A	1–0	13,669	Beattie
11 March 2008	Coventry City	H	2–1	23,864	Sharp, Speed
15 March 2008	Norwich City	H	2–0	25,536	Sharp, Kilgallon
22 March 2008	Barnsley	A	1–0	15,798	Sharp
29 March 2008	Preston North End	A	1–3	14,647	Beattie (pen)
5 April 2008	Leicester City	H	3–0	24,818	Beattie (3)
8 April 2008	Sheffield Wednesday	H	2–2	31,760	Wood (own goal), Beattie
12 April 2008	Burnley	A	2–1	11,693	Beattie, Sharp
19 April 2008	Hull City	H	2–0	28,188	Quinn, Beattie (pen)
26 April 2008	Bristol City	H	2–1	29,787	Speed (2, 1 pen)
4 May 2008	Southampton	A	2–3	31,957	Quinn, Stead

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	5 January 2008	Bolton Wanderers	A	1–0	15,286	Carney
R4	27 January 2008	Manchester City	H	2–1	20,800	Shelton, Stead
R5	17 February 2008	Middlesbrough	H	0–0	22,210
R5R	27 February 2008	Middlesbrough	A	0–1	28,108

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	14 August 2007	Chesterfield	H	3–1	11,170	Stead (2), Webber
R2	28 August 2007	Milton Keynes Dons	A	3–2 (a.e.t.)	7,943	Lucketti, Law, Horsfield
R3	25 September 2007	Morecambe	H	5–0	8,854	Sharp (2), Shelton (2), Hendrie
R4	31 October 2007	Arsenal	H	0–3	16,971

Players

First-team squad

Squad at end of season

Summer Transfers

In

Date	Position	Name	Club From	Fee	Reference
4 July 2007	FW	Billy Sharp	Scunthorpe United	Undisclosed
5 July 2007	DF	Gary Naysmith	Everton	£1,000,000
19 July 2007	MF	Lee Hendrie	Aston Villa	Free
4 August 2007	FW	James Beattie	Everton	£4,000,000
4 August 2007	MF	David Carney	Sydney FC	£50,000

Out

Date	Position	Name	Club To	Fee	Reference
	DF	Craig Short	Free Agency	Released
	DF	Alan Wright	Free Agency	Released
15 June 2007	FW	Colin Kazim-Richards	Fenerbahçe SK	£1,275,000
3 July 2007	DF	Rob Kozluk	Barnsley	Free transfer
4 July 2007	FW	Jonathan Forte	Scunthorpe United	Swap Deal
4 July 2007	DF	Phil Jagielka	Everton	£4,000,000
6 July 2007	DF	Claude Davis	Derby County	£3,000,000
	DF	David Sommeil	Valenciennes
	MF	Mikele Leigertwood	QPR
	FW	Christian Nadé	Hearts
	MF	Ahmed Fathy

Winter Transfers

In

Date	Position	Name	Club From	Fee	Reference
	MF	Gary Speed	Bolton Wanderers
	MF	Lee Martin	Manchester United	Loan until May
18 January 2008	DF	Ugo Ehiogu	Rangers	Free transfer

Out

Date	Position	Name	Club To	Fee	Reference
	GK	Paul Gerrard	Blackpool	Loan until May
	MF	Li Tie
	MF	Alan Quinn	Ipswich Town
	DF	Leigh Bromby	Watford
	FW	Geoff Horsfield	Scunthorpe United	Loan until May