Blades keep play-off hopes alive with Crewe victory

SHEFFIELD UNITED enhanced their Coca-Cola Championship play-off hopes last night with a 4-0 victory at home to Crewe.

Neil Warnock’s team moved up to eighth, behind West Ham and Reading on goal difference and with at least one game in hand on the teams above them, thanks to two goals each for Steven Kabba and Andy Gray.

Kabba, making his first start for the Blades since the 2003 play-off final, twisted and turned before firing a shot low across Crewe goalkeeper Ben Williams in the 14th minute.