Charlton Athletic 1 Sheffield United 0

I think I am falling for Johnnie Jackson, I have some serious man love for the bloke. I mean, even David Beckham in his pomp would have struggled to pull that rabbit out of the hat. Again.

Two massive games and six points. What a week. What a team.

Today in front of a crackling atmosphere it sounded an excellent game but although we conceded a lot of possession in the 2nd half we just seemed to have too much for our nearest rivals and once again our back four were awesome.

Hamer did appear to have a case of the flaps once too often, which gave me and Peter Finch on the commentary a little heartburn. Ben’s young but I do wonder if we’ll need to upgrade our no.1 if we move up a level?

My mate gave me a full report afterwards and he was purring over Bradley Pritchard, who has been a real find. The Blades appeared to treat him and Olympic 2012 hopeful Chris Solly as our weak links but Powell’s team simply doesn’t have one and if they do, the players work so hard for each other to cover any fine cracks.

Danny Green should have put the game away early in the second, but despite a slew of corners Sheffield United could not breach us, although Ched Evans missed a glorious opportunity.

I haven’t seen the sending off, but in the current climate if Russell was two footed then he was always going to go and it was fortunate that James Beattie struggles for brain cells and joined him for trying to strangle Yann.

I think the sending offs helped us and it disrupted the play and in particular United’s rhythm. New boy Danny Haynes then came on and did an excellent job of helping us retain the ball.

Sheffield United had won 11 of their previous 12 matches, and then of course they meet little Charlton Athletic.

This team, this squad, the squad that Chris Powell built, has so much steel and character. There’s a real determination, and this could become an era we will be talking about for a long time.

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Powell-ometer: That was another massive win and Chris will sleep well tonight. I wonder at what point he might consider dropping BWP?
Elsewhere: Huddersfield came from 2-down to beat Brentford although one of their goals sounded like it was right out of the 50’s! Sheffield Wednesday were held at Hillsborough by a spirited Hartlepools. MK Doms drew at Notts County and Stevenage pulled a late equalizer out of the bag at Scunny. Carlisle drew with Walsall and Bournemouth beat Tranmere. Leyton Orient handed Graham Westley a defeat in his first game in charge of Preston and Chesterfield won for the first time in 4 months defeating Colchester 2-1.