Short Pens New Deal

Last updated : 04 September 2006 By @blades_mad1889

Short, 38 was due to retire this summer but Neil Warnock convinced the defender to stay on for just one more season.

Warnock said of Short last month: "We need him because he is a tremendous influence on the whole squad. Last season he was as influential in the 20 games he didn't play as the ones in which he did. You can't have enough people like that around the place."

To date Short has played just 23 times for Blades having signed on a free transfer last summer. He made his United debut in a 2-1 defeat at Queens Park Rangers last season and could make his second return against former side Blackburn Rovers in just five days time on 9 September.