The Sporting Hack

Chesterfield 5-2 Doncaster Rovers Grant McCann didn’t flinch.  His side are 3-1 behind in a local derby with less than an hour played.  The game is not drifting away from Doncaster, it’s galloping towards the sunset.  Hesitancy proved the visitors undoing with the first concession as keeper Ted Sharman-Lowe came out, retreated and slipped. Bim Pepple then doubled the advantage and the task at hand.  Rovers have not won a league game this season in which they’ve conceded the first goal.  Despite Luke Molyneux’s strike just before half time which had got them back in the game, it is the manager’s turn to throw caution to the wind, after Chesterfield’s third via the pint-sized Olakigbe. Reminiscent of the Guinness surfing advert of yesteryear ; “He waits...tick followed tock followed tick...”  There is no sense of animation, no panic, no troops being readied for action. Where are the calls for reinforcements or the change in approach? Where are the squad playe...

Sheffield United 4-1 Chesterfield Bramall Lane, npower League 1 Att: 20,159 Sheffield United swapped places with Steel City rivals Wednesday by seeing off Chesterfield thanks to a blistering second-half hat-trick from Ched Evans (right). The Welshman took his tally for the season to 30 goals and saw United climb to 2 nd in their bid to nick the other automatic spot, while leaving John Sheridan’s men rock bottom and taking the gloss off their week following Sunday’s Johnstone’s Paint Trophy final win at Wembley. The probability of these sides being two divisions apart next season increased dramatically thanks to the former Manchester City striker. However, the visitors were more than good value for parity at the break, as their buoyant mood followed on from the weekend to frustrate the hosts, and the majority of the 20000 inside Bramall Lane. It was left to Lee Williamson to break the deadlock in emphatic fashion when he volleyed a scorcher in to the roof of the net 38 minutes i...