Sheffield: A Footballing City Underperforming

Sheffield: A footballing city underperforming.

Run your finger along the list of Premier League towns and cities and there’s a glaring omission: Sheffield. The Steel City has a rich football heritage and the only Premier League city with a bigger population is London. Sheffield has a population of around 558,000 and its total metropolitan area is 1.6 million, making it the third largest English district by number of people.

That statistic frames Sheffield underachievement as a football city, with just 13 major trophies won by its two professional clubs – United and Wednesday.

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[Prederick]

There are so many amazing stories to be told in football. I'm glad Tifo is here to help us learn some of them.

[LOL-glwg]

Thank you for this. Both sets of fans will appreciate it. I wish our Council would make more of a deal of our football history.

[thomassmith]

Love how this Chanel romanticises football, that’s the way it should be.

[A-R-]

As a Sheffield man and a football lover (Sheffield Wednesday fan). This video is fantastic.

Hopefully we will have Sheffield Wednesday vs Sheffield United in the Premier League on Super Sunday soon, there is no game more passionate from both sets of fans than the Sheffield Derby and I stand by that.

Excellent Work.

[Mattverlrd]

It’s absolutely criminal how little our city shouts about its footballing heritage. If it was any other city in the country you’d never hear the end of it. I mean the national football museum being in Manchester tells you all you need to know and I know this might be minor but the intro to England games on ITV has no reference to Sheffield anywhere.

[sheslying]

I'm a Newcastle fan and id love to see more success in the North East and Yorkshire

[Charlizzie]

Looks like the Blades are now Premiership-bound this August. Congrats on their promotion.

[blueknyt]

If you're like me and from Sheffield give this a like!! Cmon Sheffield!!

[WNDRfte]

American Norwich fan, went to Carrow Road in January for the match against the Blades and meet some nice traveling blade supporters, even bought me a pint, cheers Sheffield!

[tomjameson]

Thank you very much for this. I'm a Sheffield United fan and a Tifo fan so for me this was the perfect combination

[mattfelton]

If any big city in England is underperforming, it's Birmingham, second biggest with 1.1 million population and both teams not in the Premier League.

[Atem_The_Great]

Birmingham is also underperforming this days
Manchester Liverpool London top football cities by far

[Nerdyfootballfan]

Sheffield United are back in the Premier League now

[thomaskendell]

Sheffield gave the world football ❤️ YORKSHIRE!

[antonyadshead]

"Sheffield . . . under-represented at the game's highest level" - Not any more!

[thominycricket]

I’d recommend doing a video on Sheffield United’s tactics under Chris Wilder. The offensive 3-5-2 with overlapping centre backs is innovative and unique, and part of United’s success with a limited budget is due to teams being unable to counter this style of play. Surely it is interesting enough to warrant a video.

[joeyed]

There are a number of inaccuracies in the latter part of the Video

Sheffield Wednesday lost to Hull City in 2016 play Off final and also lost to Huddersfield Town in the 2017 play Off Semi finals

Sheffield United were promoted in the 2016-17 season and are currently in their Second season back in the Championship

[Mazi]

Wow man you got me thinking about the whole history of football with your insights, top quality info and I really do hope both Sheffield clubs one day come back to the elite, same goes for Leeds united as well.

[jamiesmith]

One of these needs to be done for Birmingham. England’s second city, second largest population in Britain too. 6 clubs if you count Wasall, Wolves and West Brom, with Villa and Birmingham in the championship, and Solihull Moors looking likely to be promoted to League 2 this season. Surely, as it’s the first time ever, that Birmingham/the West Midlands arent properly represented in the premier league, with only wolves in it.

[cblakemore]

Asked for a video about Sheffield United a while back and the tactics. This was much more than I wanted- a great video to show the troubled history that the great city who gave us football have gone through. Hopefully we’ll be back in the prem next season