Hopefully you’ve seen the clip of Didzy sticking it to Garth Crooks, but if not, here you go. Another bit of quality that we’ve become used to from McGoldrick.

Following on from our fantastic comeback against Chelsea there have been more questions posed to pundits about how much they actually know about the Blades. Crooks’ half time judgement damned us as “basic” and “lacking potency”. Ignoring for a second that we’ve scored in every game so far, several of those goals courtesy of centre backs up by the opposition’s box, Crooks is just another in a line of pundits talking nonsense about us. I’m glad Jason Mohammed called him out!

Crooks isn’t the first and I doubt he’ll be the last to be shown up this season by Sheffield United, and realistically it will be thanks to Chris Wilder. At the end of the 15/16 season the Blades were booed off the pitch by an almost empty Bramall Lane, Adkins was then sacked in disgrace afterwards. At that time, criticism was warranted and our team seemed to be fractured. It’s thanks to Wilder that the club has been pulled together, patched up and forced onwards, and Didzy giving both barrels to Crooks is a fantastic example of that. We’re here, and we belong.

Parallels have been drawn to Warnock’s tenure, and there is the aspect of us against the world that Warnock instills in his teams in Wilder’s Sheffield United, but there is so much more. Whereas Warnock would rail against the referee, claim that everyone was out to get us and ask what could be expected of him and the club, Wilder is much more bullish. Against Chelsea, we’d have rolled over under Warnock. In fact, I remember being at the Lane in the last premiership season and watching us do just that to two goals either side of half time, but Wilder is not Warnock.

Wilder bollocked the players at half time because he knew that they were better than they were showing. He knew Dean Henderson would be angry about his mistakes, and tore into him. Hendo made an excellent save to keep Abraham to 2 goals and to keep us in the game. Wilder knew Callum Robinson should have scored to equalise, which he promptly did a minute into the second half after Wilder reminded him of how to play football. Robbo then set up the equaliser. Both were marked out for praise after the game and Wilder’s attitude was made abundantly clear.

As he said, three years ago we were in League One and we’ve earned our place in the League, and earned our right to take points off the likes of Chelsea. His belief is infectious to us as fans, and it’s clear that it’s infectious to the players too, epitomised this week by Didzy’s comments. We’re not here to make up the numbers, we’re not here to be patronised. Crooks, Mills and the rest need to start thinking about what it is they’re saying, or to lay off whatever it is they’re taking as Didzy would say!