When he emerged from the away dressing room on Saturday, Oliver Norwood could not have been clearer.
With a 5-0 mauling at Arsenal doing nothing to quell rumours given legs 24 hours earlier, the midfielder was asked if Sheffield United’s players wanted Paul Heckingbottom to remain as manager. “100 per cent we do,” he replied. They could do with being more unequivocal about it on the pitch. “They outfought us,” were words that ought to have stung every visiting player. When you cannot come close to opponents for ability, you cannot allow that, yet Heckingbottom saw it with his own eyes.
The change of voice and shot in the arm could give his beloved club a few extra per cent but enough to bridge the cap? So if you share the view no one else could keep this squad up without serious backing in the January transfer window which is just not going to come under the current ownership – and it seems even less likely there will be a new name over the door by then – and if you believe Heckingbottom is doing the best he can in terrible circumstances, what would sacking a manager you do...
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