Alan Biggs
Reporter at The Star (Sheffield)
Reporter at talkSPORT
Footy reporter. talkSPORT/ Sky & Sheffield Star/Telegraph columnist. Author of Confessions of a Football Reporter (& others). TV/ vid & event host. Family bloke
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1 week ago |
thestar.co.uk | Alan Biggs
Alan Biggs on the managerial situation at Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday’s commitment to upgrade the club’s training ground and pitch at Hillsborough is as welcome as it is overdue. As other things stand, though, who can possibly argue against the likelihood that Wednesday will face a relegation fight next season? And yet there are three rescuing words in that statement. “As things stand” blare out like a siren warning. Act now and head off the incoming crash.
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1 week ago |
thestar.co.uk | Alan Biggs
Alan Biggs on the summer ahead at Sheffield United Last summer was about constructing a new team. Now it’s largely about keeping it together as a platform for a less radical round of rebuilding. And making sure next season sees the benefit of sticking to a proven template. Except that - and it’s a big one - Sheffield United are in some danger of losing their best player. Or players. There is always a price to pay for falling at the last hurdle.
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1 week ago |
thestar.co.uk | Alan Biggs
Alan Biggs on Sheffield United’s late, dramatic defeat to Sunderland at WembleyIt’s not the end of the world. Even if at Wembley yesterday it sure felt like it. A waste of time today trying to tell anyone that eventually Sheffield United will win a play-off final. Just as it proved counter-productive to confidently predict they’d win this one. And futile to claim they were the better team afterwards. Except that, with 24 hours sober reflection, I’m even more convinced they were.
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2 weeks ago |
thestar.co.uk | Alan Biggs
Alan Biggs on Saturday’s Play-Off Final between Sheffield United and SunderlandSo what’s your gut feeling? That’s what it’s about, isn’t it? About bringing that belief, submerged under nine play-off heartbreaks, to the surface. And surfing on it at Wembley on Saturday. We could talk strengths, weaknesses, tactics, metrics. But all that is treading water. Because Sheffield United v Sunderland is too close to call on any logical basis.
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3 weeks ago |
thestar.co.uk | Alan Biggs
Alan Biggs on the murky waters of a takeover and why Dejphon Chansiri needs his family beisde him Piercing the fog around Hillsborough, one shaft of complete clarity - a football club, like any piece of property, is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it. And here’s another. It’s also about what someone’s prepared to sell it for. So any pretence that the takeover of a football club is a simple business is plain silly.
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RT @gageykev: Agreed 👍 He’s won me over in last couple of months. You miss his presence when he’s not playing. Wembley will suit him, he…
Wrote this about Vini Souza when he was having a tough time at Bramall Lane 15 months ago. Don’t regret it! Now the centre of everything. #SUFC https://t.co/UIfbz1PgCh
It’s great to score loads of goals - but the pride in that clean sheet when in many ways it didn’t matter said so much about #SUFC’s mentality & professionalism with this manager & these players.
Well, you really couldn’t make a bigger statement than that! A Championship record 6-0 aggregate win. Reckon even the play-off hoodoo gods might be quaking a bit after that! Congratulations to everyone @SheffieldUnited. One to go 🤞 #SUFC
