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GROUND



Bramall Lane is a football stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is the home of EFL Championship club Sheffield United. As the largest stadium in Sheffield during the 19th century, it hosted most of the city's most significant matches including the final of the world's first football tournament, first floodlit match and several matches between the Sheffield and London Football Associations that led to the unification of their respective rules. It was also used by Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield F.C. for major matches. It has been the home of Sheffield United since the club's establishment in 1889. It is the oldest major stadium in the world still to be hosting professional association football matches.[2][3]

The stadium was built on a Sheffield road named after the Bramall family (who were file and graver manufacturers). The Bramalls owned The Old White House on the corner of Bramall Lane and Cherry Street, and subsequently built the Sheaf House, now a public house that still stands at the top of Bramall Lane. The stadium originally opened as a cricket ground. It was used for football games in the 19th century by Sheffield F.C. and Sheffield Wednesday, but since 1889 has been the home of Sheffield United.

Bramall Lane is one of only two grounds (the other being the Oval) which has hosted England football internationals (five games prior to 1930), an England cricket test match (a single Test, in 1902, against Australia) and an FA Cup Final (the 1912 replay, in which Barnsley beat West Bromwich Albion, 1–0). It also regularly hosted FA Cup semi-finals and replays between 1889 and 1938.

The ground has also hosted rugby league games for the Sheffield Eagles,[4] and has also been selected to host England v Greece in the 2021 Rugby League World Cup.[5] The ground also hosted a Billy Graham Evangelist meeting in 1985, a pair of rock concerts by Bruce Springsteen in 1988 in front of 88,000 people, a friendly match for the 150th anniversary of the world's oldest football club Sheffield F.C., where they played Inter Milan in 2007. Also hosting a Travis Pastrana Motor cross event in 2016, an IBF Welterweight title boxing match featuring Sheffield United fan Kell Brook, in front of 27,000 people in 2017, the Women's League Cup final and a Rod Stewart concert both in 2019. The stadium has also been used several times to host England men's and women's senior and youth teams in friendly and competitive matches.

The record attendance for the ground is 68,287 set at an FA Cup 5th Round tie between Sheffield United and Leeds United on 15 February 1936. The ground was extensively renovated in the wake of the Taylor Report, and has an all-seated capacity of 32,050.[1]


MANAGER

Slavisa Jokanovic

Partizan
Jokanović was living in Madrid when, in September 2007, he joined the technical staff of Tercera División club CA Pinto. However, three months later, he became the head coach of Partizan, replacing Miroslav Đukić who left to take the reins of the national team. His family (wife and three children) remained in the Spanish capital.[11]

In May 2008, under Jokanović's management, Partizan won the double (league and cup). He was also selected as the year's "Best Coach in Serbia" by the Football Association of Serbia, but refused to receive this award due to Partizan's poor results in the group stage of the UEFA Cup.[12]

Jokanović led Partizan to another double in his first full season, winning the league by a margin of 19 points over former team Vojvodina. Thus, he became the first coach in the club's history to successfully defend the accolades; on 5 September 2009, however, he left the post by mutual consent, bidding farewell through an open letter.[13]

Thailand, Bulgaria and Spain
On 28 February 2012, Muangthong United F.C. introduced Jokanović as their new head coach, and he signed a one-year contract with an option for a further two years.[14] In his first and only season, he led the team to the third Thai Premier League title in their history, going undefeated in the process.[15]

In mid-July 2013, Jokanović replaced Nikolay Mitov as manager of Bulgarian team PFC Levski Sofia.[16] He was relieved of his duties in October, due to poor results, but club supporters claimed that he should have been given time to change things around.[17]

On 5 May 2014, Spain's Hércules CF appointed Jokanović as coach until the end of the season, replacing Quique Hernández who had been sacked with the team in last place in the Segunda División table.[18] He only managed one win in his five matches in charge, in an eventual relegation.[19]

Watford
On 7 October 2014, Jokanović was appointed on a short-term contract at the helm of English Championship club Watford, their fourth coach in five weeks.[20] Under his leadership, the Hornets were promoted to the Premier League with one match to spare, sealing it with a 2–0 win at Brighton & Hove Albion on 25 April 2015 for their 15th win in 20 matches;[21] the team was also minutes away from winning the league title in the final match, but conceded an injury-time equaliser to Sheffield Wednesday that allowed Bournemouth to overtake them.[22]

On 5 June 2015, after failing to agree to a new deal, Jokanović left and was replaced by Quique Sánchez Flores.[23]

Maccabi Tel Aviv
On 14 June 2015, Jokanović was appointed as coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv.[24] On 25 August, he led the club to the group stage of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in 11 years, after ousting FC Basel on the away goals rule.[25]

Fulham
Jokanović lasted just over six months in the role before he elected to return to the Championship, joining Fulham on 27 December 2015 as head coach.[26] After avoiding relegation by 11 points, he achieved his target of a top six position for his first full season at Craven Cottage.[27]

Jokanović led Fulham to promotion by beating Aston Villa 1–0 at Wembley Stadium on 26 May 2018 in the play-off final.[28] On 14 November, however, after seven consecutive winless results and with the team ranking last, he was dismissed and replaced by Claudio Ranieri.[29]

Al-Gharafa
On 16 June 2019, Jokanović was appointed at Qatari club Al-Gharafa SC, on a two-year deal.[30] He was nominated for Manager of the Season in his first year in the Stars League.[31]

Sheffield United
On 27 May 2021, Jokanović was appointed by newly relegated Sheffield United on a three-year deal, becoming the club's first manager from overseas.[32


LAST TIME OUT




MYSTIC MACS FORM GUIDE

BLADES 7 PNE 8

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FAMOUS SHEFFIELD FOLK ONLY BE BEING A UNI STUDENT

Jack Morris Rosenthal CBE (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English playwright who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations. A street in Manchester is named after him, appropriately next to a centre of contemporary art, theatre and film that opened in 2015, HOME.[1

Rosenthal was born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, into a Jewish family. After studying English Literature at Sheffield University, he carried out his National Service in the Royal Navy. He worked briefly in advertising before joining Granada Television. He earned his first television credit with Granada in 1961, assigned as a writer of episode 31 of Britain's longest-running soap opera, Coronation Street. He became a regular writer for the series[2] and began writing for other series as well. During the 1960s, he contributed material for various television comedy shows including the satirical That Was The Week That Was.[3] At Granada Television, he wrote a spin-off series from Coronation Street for the character Leonard Swindley, played by Arthur Lowe, called Pardon the Expression and created two comedy series The Dustbinmen and The Lovers, the latter starring Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox. In 1976 he also wrote a TV drama for ITV, called Ready When You Are, Mr McGill, which was later remade in 2003.

Rosenthal won three BAFTA awards for Bar Mitzvah Boy (about a Jewish boy's Bar Mitzvah), The Evacuees (based on his own war-time evacuation) and Spend, Spend, Spend (about the football pools winner, Viv Nicholson, directed by John Goldschmidt). He also wrote The Knowledge, a film about London taxi-drivers which has become a classic for cabbies-in-training. He wrote the 1986 television film London's Burning for London Weekend Television, which proved so successful that it was adapted into a television series of the same name, which ran from 1988 until 2002.[4] Rosenthal adapted the novel The Devil's Lieutenant for director John Goldschmidt as a mini-series for Channel 4 and ZDF, and wrote the screenplay of Captain Jack (based on a true story) for producer John Goldschmidt.

In 1983, Rosenthal co-wrote the film Yentl with Barbra Streisand.[5] He also did uncredited work on the screenplay of Chicken Run.

Rosenthal also wrote the book for the musical version of Bar Mitzvah Boy, with music by Jule Styne.[6]

He married actress Maureen Lipman in 1974;[7] they have two grown-up children, writers Amy Rosenthal and Adam Rosenthal. Jack Rosenthal was a Manchester United fan all his life.

Rosenthal was awarded the CBE in 1994.[8]


THESE TWO WELL WORTH WATCHING

Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. (1972)
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982) First ever film on Channel 4

As Jack is dead he will be missing tonight

MACS VIEW

Would have fancied our chances of winning before the hapless Posh collaspe on Saturday, different gravy tonight they are only going towards the upper reaches of this division will take a point at a ground were I have only seen us win once in 52 years

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Sheffield United 2 Gibbs-White Berge Preston North End 2 Johnson, Riis

Sheffield United line-up: Olsen, Baldock, Fleck, Sharp ©, Egan, Freeman (Berge, 61), Norwood (Hourihane, 77), Robinson, Gibbs-White, Ndiaye (Brewster, 71), Norrington-Davies. Subs not used: Foderingham, Basham, McBurnie, Bogle.

PNE line-up: Iversen, Storey, Bauer (Murphy, 88), Hughes, van den Berg, Ledson, Whiteman, Earl, Johnson © (McCann, 84), Riis, Maguire (Potts, 70). Subs not used: Rudd, Cunningham, Lindsay, Browne.

Attendance: 25,463 (571 PNE fans)

Referee: Mr G Eltringham



The glum faces of the locals walking outside the ground told the tale, you cannot beat a late goal to take a point to cheese off the opposition support and last night was just one of those occasions.
We deserved it against a side just down from the top division who had 70 million worth of signings sat the bench.
Unchanged again from Saturday against teh Blades who had hit six and we didn't get off to s great start when Bauer poor clearence went nowhere, the ball was lobbed back into the box and Morgan-White who scored for Swansea against us last season repeated the act by seeing his scuffed shot just beat the giant Dane between in the goal.
The reception from the home fans weas loud to say the least, suspect the roof would have gone off the stadium if Sharp had headed home about a minute later.
Having got through the early storm we began to look better, Earl at left wing back looking the player he was a few seasons ago although one slight criticism when in good positions does tend to pass it back.
We were level on 20 minutes Ledson's superb pass to Johnson, DJ's control wonderful, Olsen's goalkeeping slighjtly odd, out of position left DJ with the easy task of slotting the ball into an empty net.
Better side now forcing a series of corners, had to be said United do not look the back but we couldn't get the vital second towards the break United pressed and Freeman shot over from about 10 yards and Norwood was close from distance.
Attack wise we were not as good in the second half, United pressed but didn't create a lot, the first substitution of the game changed the flow more towards our goal United sent on teh giant Berge, he was a handful to say the least and woke the sleeping home support up.
Fleck was denied when through on goal by Iversen at the other end Riis should have done better when also through on goal, his chip shot hitting Olsen and landing just over the bar.
That missed nearly proved to be pivotal as the home side took the lead with 6 minutes to go, ball from the left deflected off Bauer and Berge drove the ball under Iversen
The next couple of minutes United's game management came into play before deep into stoppage time a free kick, Ledson into the boxpoor defensive header great assist by Storey and Riis buries it. Manic scenes in the away end no more than we deserved and a chorus of Riis will tear you apart again was heard echoing outside, the locals were not impressed




Sheffield United manager Slavisa Jokanovic told BBC Radio Sheffield:

"We're definitely really disappointed after everything that happened, especially the last few seconds.

"In the last seconds we weren't strong, focused or concentrated enough - we made some mistakes and paid an expensive price.

"We are conceding a lot of goals, but from another side we're conceding goals without our opposing teams creating a lot of things."

Preston head coach Frankie McAvoy told BBC Radio Lancashire:

"I thought we probably deserved it [a draw] over the piece.

"We felt the best way to try and go and compete against them, and win the game, was to go toe to toe - we did that.

"The one thing I've said is these guys give me everything and you can see that they'll keep going right until the end.

"That for me is magnificent as a coach, you can't ask for any more