'Memries' Sheffield United 1980-1981

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coaxingstar71 said:
He doesn't say what of, perhaps he meant "Haslam's done a good job here... of dismantling a good team and replacing it with a bunch of journeymen, has-beens and no-hopers".
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The Original Blueprint of the Bladesway

and Yes, I did know it was Kamara ... :) - its on the TeamSheet at the beginning of the Vid
 



Just before John Ryan's screamer against the Millers, you can see Ian Porterfield, Jim Dixon and Phil Henson in the away team dugout. All three were to join the Blades less than a year later!

First time I have seen goals from Charlton 2 Blades 0.

QUIZ QUESTION; For the 1980/81 season what was unusual for MOTD and weekly ITV football highlights?
 
I was a paper boy that season so couldn't make Saturday matches but went to Tuesday night games instead.

I remember we were no where near relegation until the final Saturday.

Also we were big favourites to stay as we needed to lose to relegation threatened Walsall and some other teams needed to win or draw.

I was very confident we'd stay up and was in shock when I saw the results on teletext.
 
Silent Blade said:
Just before John Ryan's screamer against the Millers, you can see Ian Porterfield, Jim Dixon and Phil Henson in the away team dugout. All three were to join the Blades less than a year later!

First time I have seen goals from Charlton 2 Blades 0.

QUIZ QUESTION; For the 1980/81 season what was unusual for MOTD and weekly ITV football highlights?
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In televised games, both teams had to play in shirts with no advertising on them? Wasn't ours Cantors that season ?
 
This video contains 33% of all the goals Trenton Wiggan scored for us.
 
That Swindon game was on my 16th birthday :o

SEB summed that season up, perfectly in an earlier post.

Playing Chessie in the cup and the replay the following night. That wouldn't happen nowadays. Every bloody time I'd been to Saltergate we got beat :(

Trenton Wiggan :) allus liked him - strong and quick but ultimately futile.

That season ended up being a real low point - but the following season?
Edwards back at the Lane. Colin Morris signed from Blackpool. The Hatton / Edwards combo. Porterfield taken care of. Now they were good memries.
 
Wigan was a poor mans Christian Nade.
I saw him score in the County Cup final at Hillsboro at the end of the 79-80 season.

Was stood on the Leppings Lane end.
We won 2-1, think Sabella scored our other goal.
 
Sheffsteel said:
Wigan was a poor mans Christian Nade.
I saw him score in the County Cup final at Hillsboro at the end of the 79-80 season.

Was stood on the Leppings Lane end.
We won 2-1, think Sabella scored our other goal.
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Yep. Was there too.
Not much of a consolation, though, was it?
 
when you watch our tragic decline then, it really puts this period of mediocrity into perspective
theres nothing can match the horror of dropping to div 4

doesnt come close
 
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But ask anyone who was there and they would all say the same wouldn't have missed that season in the 4th for the world. One of if not the best season for me after watching em for 9 yrs I actually saw us win something I didn't care it was bottom division, we had finally bottomed out and were on the way back up,and Darlington for me was up there with Leicester as the best day ever to be a blade what I remember of it

Great days
 
bulmer said:
But ask anyone who was there and they would all say the same wouldn't have missed that season in the 4th for the world. One of if not the best season for me after watching em for 9 yrs I actually saw us win something I didn't care it was bottom division, we had finally bottomed out and were on the way back up,and Darlington for me was up there with Leicester as the best day ever to be a blade what I remember of it

Great days
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My best seasons since I became a committed Blade in 1970 (in order)

1) 1970-71
2) 1971-72
3) 1974-75
4) 2005-06
5) 1989-90
6) 1990-91
7) 1991-92
8) 1988-89
9) 1992-93
10) 1983-84

1981-82 doesn't get into my top 10!
 
Silent Blade said:
Just before John Ryan's screamer against the Millers, you can see Ian Porterfield, Jim Dixon and Phil Henson in the away team dugout. All three were to join the Blades less than a year later!

First time I have seen goals from Charlton 2 Blades 0.

QUIZ QUESTION; For the 1980/81 season what was unusual for MOTD and weekly ITV football highlights?
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Derek "I Happen To Believe" Dougan on a Saturday night on ITV, Match of the Day shoved to a Sunday, I'll wager.
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
Haslam - "I was asked if we'd make a team, I said 'Well you've got Peters and Lee now you've got Peters and me so what's the difference?'"

Is that the daftest thing a Blades manager has ever said?
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Yes.

I would hate people to think that I'd just been on Wikipedia, but Lee was born in Sheffield. Peters was the one in dark glasses, having gone blind one eye at a time ten-years apart, the second one at the age of 16 from being hit by a brick - unlucky doesn't even cover it. United weren't unlucky, just plain SHITE.

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Greenwich Blade said:
Yes.

I would hate people to think that I'd just been on Wikipedia, but Lee was born in Sheffield. Peters was the one in dark glasses, having gone blind one eye at a time ten-years apart, the second one at the age of 16 from being hit by a brick - unlucky doesn't even cover it. United weren't unlucky, just plain SHITE.

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Peters was related to Charlie Watts and his daughter was murdered.
 
blade too long said:
when you watch our tragic decline then, it really puts this period of mediocrity into perspective
theres nothing can match the horror of dropping to div 4

doesnt come close
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If CW doesn't get some decent players in we could see it again.

Wasn't Haslam a non league manager who'd had success with one league club?

Was he shit before he joined us?

Wasn't he tasked with rebuilding a side?

Did he have to get rid of our promising players to fund the signing of the players for the rebuild?

Hadn't we recently spent money on the ground instead of on players?
 
BushBlade said:
If CW doesn't get some decent players in we could see it again.

Wasn't Haslam a non league manager who'd had success with one league club?

Was he shit before he joined us?

Wasn't he tasked with rebuilding a side?

Did he have to get rid of our promising players to fund the signing of the players for the rebuild?

Hadn't we recently spent money on the ground instead of on players?
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Haslam had done a good job with Luton, getting them into Division One in 1974 for peanuts. That was the main job requirement. Still is.
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
Haslam had done a good job with Luton, getting them into Division One in 1974 for peanuts. That was the main job requirement. Still is.
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Luton dicked us few Seasons before 4 - 0 , clearly someone at the Lane remembered this

The away end was a fairly large terrace, their home end now, no roof (i fink), fucking freezin ... yet again
 



BushBlade said:
Wasn't Haslam a non league manager who'd had success with one league club?

Was he shit before he joined us?

Wasn't he tasked with rebuilding a side?

Did he have to get rid of our promising players to fund the signing of the players for the rebuild?

Hadn't we recently spent money on the ground instead of on players?
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No, did well at Luton. Was non-league before Luton

See above

Yes

Yes

Yes, which is why the two above answers are yes. He splashed out on Sabella, then had to claw back losses by selling and replacing on the cheap, culminating in the arrival of one of our finest, Tony Moore.
 
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