PREMIER LEAGUE reality is beginning to bite hard for Sheffield United, who suffered a second successive defeat at Bramall Lane to Southampton.

The Saints’ £15 million summer signing Moussa Djenepo scored a wonderful solo goal to clinch the points on 66 minutes, but that wasn’t the full story. 

VAR had intervened earlier to deny Oli McBurnie an opening strike for the Blades while Billy Sharp, who replaced the Scotland international, was sent off for a challenge on Oriol Romeu.