THERE’S a moment every summer holiday when the brain snaps off and, like Tennyson’s Lotos Eaters, leaves you isolated in “a land in which it always seems afternoon... where all things always seem the same.”

Former England international Stuart Ripley will train with the Blades this week as Sheffield United boss Neil Warnock ponders a move for the Southampton winger.

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