'How do you follow that?' - Warnock reacts to Chris Wilder's Sheffield United exit

Chris Wilder, Manager of Sheffield United. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)

Sky pundit Stephen Warnock has argued that whoever replaces Chris Wilder as Sheffield United’s next permanent manager faces a “very difficult job”.

The 53-year-old left Bramall Lane over the weekend after five years with the Blades, during which he guided the club from mid-table obscurity in League One to the top half of the Premier League.

This season has been a much more challenging campaign for United, however, and they currently find themselves rooted to the foot of the table, 14 points from safety with nine games left to play.

Any faint hopes of pulling of an unlikely great escape were dealt a major blow by Sunday’s 5-0 defeat at the hands of high-flying Leicester City.

The trip to the King Power Stadium was interim manager Paul Heckingbottom’s first in charge of the Blades, and following dire display, Sky pundit Sue Smith told the Football Show that she felt it was the wrong decision to part company with Wilder.