'This season has been absolutely pathetic'

Sheffield United fan Ben Humphries from the TravellingBlade YouTube channel has been speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live about the club's struggles this season.

Speaking about Monday's 6-0 loss to Arsenal he said: "The defence may as well have not been on the pitch, I think in the case of Arsenal's second goal it would have been better if the defence weren't on the pitch because we put it in our own net.

"The players this season are absolutely shot to bits, both mentally and physically, and they simply aren't good enough for this level.

"It's reached a point where I'm no longer even particularly angry at them, my anger's more at the board in the way that they set us up to fail this season. We were so ill-prepared coming into this season, the players have probably done as well as they could do. It's just they're this short of the quality required to put in a decent performance at this level."

The Blades have lost 20 of their 27 Premier League games this season, conceding a total of 72 goals.

Humphries added: "This season has been absolutely pathetic, the way we've been set up, selling our best players about a week before the start of the season and scrambling around for inferior replacements while the season is still happening.

"Trying to change manager hasn't worked, we thought we were going to get better, we did for a little bit, but now we're back to getting hammered every week.

"You see the players just trudging back to the halfway line looking almost a bit disinterested at times, that is why everyone is really cheesed off to put it very politely."