Sheffield United have been relegated to the FA Women\u2019s National League Northern Premier Division following this afternoon\u2019s results in the Barclays Women\u2019s Championship.<\/p>\n
The Blades knew that they had to equal or better Portsmouth\u2019s result to take their survival bid down to the final day. Sheffield United lost 3-2 to Southampton at Bramall Lane while Portsmouth recorded an emphatic 4-0 victory over Blackburn Rovers at Fratton Park.<\/p>\n
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Sheffield United ended the afternoon on seven points, five points adrift of safety and their seven-year stay in the Barclays Women\u2019s Championship will therefore come to an end following next weekend\u2019s trip to Sunderland.<\/p>\n
It has been a tough season for The Blades. The club appointed Ash Thompson as their head coach last summer and he was tasked with building a new squad from scratch. The team\u2019s only league victory came in the form of a 2-1 success at Blackburn Rovers back in October. Since recording that win, Sheffield United have gone 12 league matches without a victory.<\/p>\n
For long spells, it had looked like newly-promoted Portsmouth would be the ones to drop out of the second tier but their much-improved form in the final weeks of the season, combined with Sheffield United\u2019s winless run, has resulted in The Blades falling through the trapdoor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United have been relegated to the FA Women\u2019s National League Northern Premier Division following this afternoon\u2019s results…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[29504,29505,748,393,4884,1620,4239,2359,29506,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-55851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-blackburn-rovers","9":"tag-bramall-lane","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-sheffield-united","15":"tag-southampton","16":"tag-the-blades","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114412259303291462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55851","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=55851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}