Jordan lays into Sharp over his post-match comments

TALKSPORT pundit Simon Jordan has claimed Sheffield United striker Billy Sharp should stop getting ‘rattled’ by National League club Wrexham after their F.A Cup fourth round replay.

Sharp scored the go-ahead goal for the Blades in the 94th-minute to crush the dreams of the Welsh outfit to make the score 2-1 before teammate Sander Berge secured their place in the fifth round of the competition two minutes later.

However, Sharp’s comments about Wrexham players being ‘disrespectful’ and admitting he’s ‘glad’ they were knocked out of the Cup has seen a lot of pushback from both Wrexham’s players and staff as well as pundits like Jordan.

“Billy Sharp and Oli McBurnie, players of that nature at Sheffield United, have had a lot to say on previous occasions when they get their little skins rattled,” he said on his show alongside Jim White.

“I saw them last year at Nottingham Forest and there was altercations between them and the fans. Wrexham are a club that are getting a lot of interest because of their new ownership model, and they would’ve come into this game with a lot of the background being about Wrexham and Ryan Reynolds and whoever else, how they’re going to make an assault upon football.

“And I really don’t understand why Billy Sharp has to feel the necessity that he must worry about a team that they should have beaten anyway. Do you know what makes me laugh about some of these football people?

“Football can be the most disrespectful industry in the world yet they all seem to harp on about respect - and yet they hardly give any of it! And yet they’re very quick to tell other people what respect should look like.”

Jordan continued berating Sharp, highlighting reasons as to why Wrexham would’ve been pleased with their own performances and claimed Sharp shouldn’t stop worrying himself.

“So the Wrexham players have turned up to a football tie against a very important football club in the form of Sheffield United, they’re going to be buoyant, they’ll be full of themselves, they’ll have a lot of energy being very successful in their own league as well as taking what is soon to be a Premier League team to a replay.

“Of course they’re going to be full of themselves! Why would you be worried about that? You’re a 36-year-old professional footballer, you’ve been around the block, you’ve played in the Premier League!

“Why in God’s name would you feel the need to have that outburst on national television?”