{"id":48219,"date":"2025-04-25T02:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48219\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T02:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:33:25","slug":"leeds-star-patrick-bamford-in-awkward-phone-call-with-chris-wilder-after-leading-x-rated-chants-about-sheff-utd-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48219\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds star Patrick Bamford in awkward phone call with Chris Wilder after leading X-rated chants about Sheff Utd boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PATRICK BAMFORD made an awkward call to Chris Wilder after leading an X-rated chant about Sheffield United\u2019s boss at Leeds\u2019 promotion party.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/34572521\/burnley-pitch-invasion-sheffield-united-hamza-choudhury\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blades\u2019 2-1 defeat at Burnley<\/a> on Easter Monday ensured both the Clarets and their Yorkshire rivals Premier League football next term.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Bamford celebrates Leeds United's promotion.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Alamy\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-patrick-bamford-celebrates-leeds-988963689_fe5096.jpg\" data-caption=\"Leeds star Patrick Bamford was seen leading a chant referencing Blades boss Chris Wilder\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-patrick-bamford-celebrates-leeds-988963689_fe5096.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Leeds star Patrick Bamford was seen leading a chant referencing Blades boss Chris WilderCredit: Alamy<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Wilder, manager of Sheffield United, at a football match.\" height=\"960\" width=\"596\" data-credit=\"Alamy\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-chris-wilder-manager-sheffield-989065137.jpg\" data-caption=\"Wilder revealed he received a call from Bamford after video of the chant went viral\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-chris-wilder-manager-sheffield-989065137.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Wilder revealed he received a call from Bamford after video of the chant went viralCredit: Alamy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/chris-wilder\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wilder<\/a>\u2019s side, who travel to Stoke on Friday, are now consigned to third and the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds\u2019 players and supporters showed little mercy as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/34576390\/leeds-man-utd-championship-promotion\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they celebrated with fans.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Striker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/patrick-bamford\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bamford<\/a> was caught on camera starting a less-than-complimentary chant about Wilder that ended with supporters calling him &#8220;a w****r&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Former Blades ace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/34570713\/leeds-stoke-championship-promotion-burnley-sheffield\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jayden Bogle<\/a> was also spotted dancing as supporters chanted along to the song.<\/p>\n<p>But Bramall Lane chief Wilder revealed on Thursday: &#8220;I had a conversation with Pat yesterday and I&#8217;ve no issue at all with it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure about the words from a fellow pro, but I appreciate and respected him giving me a call and we had 20 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spoke to Daniel [Farke] as well and had a half-hour chat with him. He&#8217;s a top guy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re a top team and a top football club. I&#8217;m a big boy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/betting\/32855412\/best-online-casinos-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BEST ONLINE CASINOS &#8211; TOP SITES IN THE UK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would in a heartbeat have swapped our position for theirs but it isn&#8217;t the case. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ninety-four points for both of those teams is an incredible achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Lampard tipped for England job as former Premier League manager Chris Wilder says &#8216;it just shines through&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a tough campaign from the off for us and we&#8217;ve kept it alive to the 44th game. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But ultimately we&#8217;ve finished in the position we will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilder has been no stranger himself to celebrations after being spotted revelling in his team\u2019s Steel City derby win over Sheffield Wednesday in a boozer this term.<\/p>\n<p>And he also infuriated the Whites six years ago with his infamous &#8220;muppets from Leeds&#8221; speech after United beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/football\/team\/1225859\/leeds-united\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds<\/a> to promotion.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I&#8217;m a big boy, you give it you take it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You give it out locally, you take it locally as I&#8217;ve always done. We have our moments, other teams have their moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"article__quote\">\n<p>I&#8217;d have done the same in terms of enjoying themselves, because promotion is an incredible achievement and you have to do a lot of things right.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Wilder<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wilder also added that he believes that football would be a lot more boring without the extra spice.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;One hundred per cent. You know from my character, I don&#8217;t just sit here and roll out the boring things. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You want to dig deep into what this club&#8217;s about and my thought process, and it&#8217;s a big boys game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was playing, we used to give it and take it and it&#8217;s part and parcel of the game, even on a Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s part of the interesting bit of the game. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Local rivalries, rivalries between teams and everything that goes with it. So I have no issue. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to take it and get on with it and I&#8217;m absolutely cool with it, and I said that to Pat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had our moment in 2018\/19, possibly off the back of an incredible afternoon against Ipswich and a long night and an early start and they&#8217;ve possibly done the same. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d have done the same in terms of enjoying themselves, because promotion is an incredible achievement and you have to do a lot of things right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did a lot of things right and went close, and we&#8217;re going to have to do a lot of things right between now and the end of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PATRICK BAMFORD made an awkward call to Chris Wilder after leading an X-rated chant about Sheffield United\u2019s boss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,9030,4235,393,4884,1860,2922,189,1620,4239,16,15,7352,2302],"class_list":{"0":"post-48219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-championship","10":"tag-chris-wilder","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-leeds-united","15":"tag-section-sportfootball","16":"tag-sheffield","17":"tag-sheffield-united","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-west-yorkshire","21":"tag-yorkshire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114396267043203982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}