{"id":290528,"date":"2023-10-09T05:50:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T05:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=290528"},"modified":"2023-10-09T05:50:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T05:50:53","slug":"paul-heckingbottom-urges-winless-sheffield-united-to-enjoy-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/paul-heckingbottom-urges-winless-sheffield-united-to-enjoy-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Heckingbottom urges winless Sheffield United to &apos;enjoy&apos; challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Paul Heckingbottom urges winless Sheffield United to &#8216;enjoy&#8217; their Premier League survival challenge and insists playing for the club is &#8216;still the best job in the world&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sheffield United are one of two sides in English football yet to win this season\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Late goals from Fulham condemned the Blades to their seventh defeat in eight\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With every passing week, the wait goes on for a Sheffield United win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are one of only two sides in English football yet to taste victory in any competition this season. Cheltenham Town in League One are the other.<\/p>\n<p>With 15 minutes remaining at Craven Cottage, the Blades were level before Tom Cairney&#8217;s bizarre strike and Willian&#8217;s stoppage-time goal sent Paul Heckingbottom&#8217;s side to a seventh defeat in eight.<\/p>\n<p>Heckingbottom however called on his side to &#8216;enjoy&#8217; the challenge, emphasising how they had fought to reach the Premier League.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve lost so many players but we&#8217;ve got what we&#8217;ve got,&#8217; he said. &#8216;It&#8217;s up to me, the staff, the players to enjoy this battle and enjoy the problems the Premier League poses.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/08\/21\/76312207-0-image-a-41_1696797353377.jpg\" height=\"421\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Paul Heckingbottom has urged Sheffield United&#8217;s players to relish their survival challenge<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/08\/21\/76312301-0-image-a-42_1696797356698.jpg\" height=\"411\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Fulham condemned the Blades to yet another loss with Tom Cairney netting in the second half<\/p>\n<p>After a poor transfer window where both Iliman Ndiaye and Sander Berge left, United&#8217;s return to the top flight has been brutal, including an 8-0 home defeat by Newcastle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And after losing club captain John Egan last week, who will be &#8216;out for a while&#8217;, Saturday&#8217;s clash was overshadowed by a horrific leg injury to Chris Basham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I can&#8217;t be faulting the effort,&#8217; said Heckingbottom. &#8216;I&#8217;ve been in that dressing room and it&#8217;s still the best job in the world. The players won&#8217;t feel it now but it is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And I&#8217;ve probably got the second-best job.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Though Heckingbottom desperately needs some luck and some wins to stay in that job.<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12608453\/Paul-Heckingbottom-Sheffield-United-Premier-League-survival-best-job.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Heckingbottom urges winless Sheffield United to &#8216;enjoy&#8217; their Premier League survival challenge and insists playing for the club is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paul Heckingbottom urges winless Sheffield United to &amp;apos;enjoy&amp;apos; 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