Laura Woods was left wincing in ache after an excessively agency handshake with Chris Wilder.
The Sheffield United supervisor was interviewed stay on TNT Sport forward of his aspect’s Premier League conflict with West Ham on Sunday afternoon. Wilder, 56, greeted punditry pair Joe Cole and Rio Ferdinand, earlier than turning his consideration to Woods.
But his handshake with Woods momentarily took the presenter aback. And the 36-year-old, who’s now a millionaire, couldn’t masks the ache as she felt the results of his aggressive motion.
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“Hello Chris, it’s great to see you again. Are you well?” she stated, earlier than wincing and including: “Cor, it’s always a really hard handshake with you.”
Wilder awkwardly responded: “Oh it’s a Northern handshake isn’t it? We have to set the standards straight away, it’s how we’re going to be,” earlier than chuckling.
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The head coach was reappointed at Bramall Lane again in December after the sacking of Paul Heckingbottom. He has since received two of his seven matches in cost, although the Blades stay backside of the desk with simply 10 factors.
They went into the West Ham fixture seven factors from security. And Wilder, who led the Blades from League One to the Premier League in his first stint earlier than leaving by mutual consent in March 2021, didn’t underestimate the duty on their arms this season.
He added: “We’re preventing for our lives. What I’ll say concerning their character [the players], if you stroll right into a altering room and a brand new supervisor is available in, you are trying on the gamers – ‘Who’s with you? Who’s not with you?’ I prefer to assume all of the gamers are on the identical web page. There’s nothing I’ve needed to do when it comes to shift gamers.
“They’re all on the identical web page. They all wish to be a part of it. They’ve labored arduous to get into the Premier League and we’ll work rattling arduous to attempt to keep in it.”
Sheffield United additionally proved a tricky nut to crack for West Ham, who had been pressured to come back away from the competition with some extent after a late leveller from the penalty spot which made it 2-2.