The last time Sheffield United played at Aston Villa was in the Championship last season. Chris Wilder’s visiting team let a 3-0 lead slip in the last eight minutes and there was a fight in the dressing room.
‘We were cruising and they were never in the game,’ recalled Wilder yesterday. ‘Villa Park must have had 15,000 people in it. They had gone home.
‘Then one mistake and then another and another. Suddenly it’s 3-3. That one got sorted out in the dressing room.
‘Not words, actions.