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Champions!
Sheffield United's Championship Triumph 1897-98
Nick Udall
A fascinating new title providing a unique insight
into the Sheffield United Championship winning side
of 1897-98
Containing introductory notes, full details of each
player to represent the side and full match reports
and analysis of each game played during the season
taken from the Sheffield newspapers of the day and
the Official Programme.
Read all about the twists and turns of the season,
the highs and lows, in this fascinating record of
United’s greatest ever achievement, becoming
League Champions.
Following a promising season in 1896–97, the
United football committee, at the start of the new
campaign, declared its intention to ‘gain the
Championship of the League’. This seemed no
idle boast as the team started on a terrific 14-match
unbeaten run, with a series of outstanding performances.
Yet a mid-season slump saw Aston Villa and Sunderland
merge as serious rivals to United’s title ambitions.
The matches against these teams proved full of excitement,
tension and controversy, and there were to be many
twists and turns in the season before United were
declared finally as Champions at Bolton on 8 April
1898.
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