Wrexham defender Ben Tozer has hit back at Billy Sharp’s complaints about the Welsh side’s ‘disrespectful’ conduct at their FA Cup tie with Sheffield United.
The Blades set up a fifth round date with Tottenham as they claimed a hard-fought 3-1 win over their non-league opponents in a drama-filled FA Cup tie.
Sharp scored the goal which put the Championship outfit 2-1 up but didn’t cut a terribly happy figure post match.
“It was a great cup tie over the two games. They played excellently,” Sharp told ITV Sport.
“I think they’ve been disrespectful, though. A few things before the game, thinking they were already through; I’m glad we’ve beaten them.
“They’re doing well in their league, we’re doing well in ours. I wasn’t happy with a few of their players tonight but that’s it now, we’ve got one over on them, Good luck to them for promotion but hopefully we’ll put that one to bed because I wasn’t happy with a few of their players.
“I was a bit frustrated at the end, I probably should’ve put the game to bed before I did but it’s one of those things, I want to win and I want to get through to the next round.
“I wasn’t happy with the way they’ve been as a club before the game, eyeing up Spurs,” Sharp added. “They’ve not even beaten us.
“We’re an honest set of lads and we want to go as far as we can in this competition. If we get beaten in the next round, so be it. We’ll give it a right go.
“I think they thought we were just going to roll over when we get back in it. I think the referee was helping them all night as well, I don’t think he gave me one foul all night.
“It’s one of those things, I probably lost my head a little bit but I’ve got a smile on my face because we’ve got through to the next round of the Cup and the boys deserve it.”
These claims have been furiously denied by Tozer, who accused the Sheffield United players of lacking humility.
Tozer added that Blades players told his teammates to ‘shove the documentary’, in reference to the Welcome to Wrexham series on Disney+ tracking the club after Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney completed their takeover.
“I feel like a bit of a dampener has been put on the game with the way they’ve acted in the tunnel. They showed a real lack of humility,” Tozer told journalists.
“But that’s the way they want to be and I feel like if we won that game we would’ve shown a lot more humility and respect.
“They should show more respect to us. They were telling us to ‘shove it on the documentary’.
“I feel like he’s [Sharp] fabricated stuff in his head to make that acceptable for himself if I’m honest.
“I said to him face-to-face, ‘show a bit more humility’. We’ve congratulated them on the win, we haven’t sulked, we’ve walked down the tunnel as normal and it’s just a shame that that’s the way it’s ended.”
When asked if there was anything disrespectful at the end of Wrexham, Tozer said: “Not at all, not from our part.
“Apparently they were tweeting Tottenham tickets before this game was played.
“And you had people like Oli McBurnie saying stuff in the press; I don’t think any of our lads said anything disrespectful. We certainly approached the game properly.
“If that’s the way they want to be that’s the way they want to be.”
