Switching Sides
After the Shrews were relegated from the Football League at the end of the 2002–03 season, Jagielka found himself making the surprise switch to Championship side Sheffield United, linking up with his brother in the process. However, he failed to make the breakthrough into the Blades' first team during the 2003–04 season and was released in the summer of 2004 He made the switch back across the Pennines that summer to join Football Conference side Accrington Stanley, where he enjoyed promotion to the Football League at the Crown Ground in his second season at the club in the 2005–06 season. He was released at the end of the campaign, returning to his native Manchester to join Conference North side Droylsden.
In his one and only season at the Bloods, he helped the ambitious Tameside club to promotion to the Conference National, making nearly thirty appearances for the side as they clinched the Conference North title. Again, rather than moving up a level, Jagielka opted to leave the club and joined AFC Telford United, who had just won the Northern Premier League, in the summer of 2007
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