Wilder sacked by Sheffield United after play-off failure
Chris Wilder was sacked as Sheffield United manager after the club's failure to win promotion to the Premier League.
Wilder paid the price for United's agonising Championship play-off final loss against Sunderland last season.
United finished third in the Championship and beat Bristol City in the play-off semi-finals before blowing the lead in a 2-1 defeat by Sunderland, who scored a stoppage-time winner through Tommy Watson at Wembley.
Wilder leaves Bramall Lane for the second time after a previous succesful spell in charge of his boyhood team ended in 2021.
The 57-year-old, who led the Blades into the Premier League in 2019, returned in December 2023 after Paul Heckingbottom was sacked with the club bottom of the top flight.
'A Blade through and through, the legacy Chris and his staff have created here will never be forgotten, going right back to 2016 when he initially took the job with the club rooted in League One,' a club statement said.
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