The Steel City derby has not exactly been renowned for goals in recent times: the past five meetings of Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United have yielded just two, but goodness when they are scored they are mightily significant.
It has been quite some time since these two fiercest of rivals have been pushing simultaneously for pro-motion from the same division. But at the end here there was the distinct feeling that one side’s quest for a return to the Premier League had taken a potentially fatal hit, while the other’s continued to accelerate at pace.
