Steel City Derby Preview: Chris Wilder

Sheffield United v Sheffield Wednesday: Chris Holt, Joe Crann and Danny Hall with a preview of The Steel City Derby which is back after 5 years

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00:00Perhaps Danny can go into it with a more clear head. I understand it's another game thing,

00:05I don't agree with it, but I can sort of see what they're going in terms of just playing the game

00:10rather than playing the occasion. You strip away everything, this is a game of football,

00:14it is 11 against 11 for 90 minutes, there's two goals and one ball and a referee. A lot of it

00:20doesn't make sense from games beforehand and it's just everything else that gets built into it. If

00:25you can strip that away but not too much to let it demotivate you, it's sort of striking that

00:31balance between the two. I can understand why Chris, living in the city, being a Dynamo

00:38Chelsea fan, everyone knows what this means to him and he's got a lot more emotional involvement

00:44in the game than perhaps Danny has. Danny's learnt what this game means, Chris knows what

00:50this game means, it's been printed in him. It is good that he has learnt because Danny's not

00:56gone into this game going, oh Derby, I've been Bayern Munich and Dortmund and I've done that,

01:02but he does genuinely recognise what it is and I think that having two managers that have really

01:08bought into that, I think it's going to be great. I'm looking forward to it getting started and then

01:14I'm going to be terrified for 90 minutes. There's so many sub-buffers. Talking about the season,

01:18season aims, if you offered now survival and two defeats or relegation and winning the Derbys,

01:26what would you go for? Because a lot of fans would, I think there's a section of fans on

01:31both sides I think who hate Wednesday, support United and probably the other way around as well,

01:37they hate the other team first and then they love their team second, not all of them. I'm not sure

01:42I'd take relegation but I'd happily, I was saying last night, I would happily, I've got a few games

01:51here at the moment, I'd lose all of them if we could win on Sunday. Because there are a section,

01:55it's a different question I suppose because if you asked out of United fans, would you not get

01:58promoted and beat Wednesday twice? To be fair. Because United fans hate the Prem. You're going

02:02to say, recent Premier League games. It's a different question because like I said,

02:08there's a section where beating the other team twice would be a successful season,

02:13no matter what else happens after that. I'm not sure what I'd do but it's an interesting

02:17sort of conundrum. It shows you what their priorities are for the season in terms of the rivalry.