‘He’s got to keep his spirits up. That is part and parcel of what the game is about,’ Chris Wilder said of Rhian Brewster, in the blistering cold of Bramall Lane on Saturday evening. Well, that’s easier said than done.
The striker in question is still waiting for his first goal, four months after a £20million move from Liverpool, and if ever there were an occasion to break the duck, this was it. Plymouth did next to nothing to contribute to that venerable tradition of lower league sides going toe-to-toe with top-flight teams.
The chances kept coming for Brewster.