Who was the Blade nutter in the Anfield Kop in Feb 1972?

[Sean Thornton]

Didn't some United nutters once throw acid at them? Or was that someone else?

V Pigs.

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

The beret thing made me think of him. Didn't the Eckington Blades wear them?

Yes it became a bit of a cult thing after a Chelsea game . Birmingham City used to have a hat thing .

I was from the other end of town at that time .

Still keep in touch with lads from City , Birmingham and Portsmouth .

Funny fashion . Will have a look for my light blue Slazenger jumper .

Boomerang and Jacks at Upperthorpe was a meeting place .

UTB

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

Didn't some United nutters once throw acid at them? Or was that someone else?

Yes that actually happened .

 

[Dkc]

Didn't some united fans once let loose a live pig outside Hillsborough?

 

[CarlingBlade]

By all accounts running on the pitch was probably safer than dodging the milk bottles being cobbed at you from the Citeh fans.

My old man was thrown out of Maine Rd back in the 70's for fighting, he managed to get back in, trying to find his mates he was spotted by the lads he'd been fighting with and got a bit of a pasting, plus slashed with a Stanley knife, cut his ear lobe in half but lucky no permenant damage was done.

Brutal times by the sounds of it football in the 70's.

 

[Hartley Hare]

I am Spartacus.

HH

 

[DifferentClass]

I was going to say maybe we should give the Clockwork Orange gear another airing, but post-Ched...

 

[Groucho Blade]

I remember coming out of the magnificently valiant 0-0 draw at Anfield (75?) and running the gauntlet of Scouser fans waiting for us outside. My mate (Chips) sez, I've been practicing the accent, so if any of them speaks, leave it to me, we'll be alright, they'll think we're locals.
So this young Scouser comes up and sez, What time is it, lads?
My mate, in the most ridiculous Oirish accent you ever did hear sez, It's foive a'clark
The Scousers laughs and sez It's foive a'clark??? Gerrem lads they're Sheffield fans.
Well, we were chased by a growing gang of Scousers all the way across Stanley Park. I thought our days were numbered til we got near our parked coaches. To our great delight, a load of Blades saw our plight, got off the coaches and chased the Scousers off.
So...whoever you were, thanks Blades...you saved us from a proper beating that day.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

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Memories . Had my black beret nicked in the fracas at City .[/QUOTE]

" ooooo Bettay, had me beret nicked by a nasty man with a funny voice!"

(well it was the Seventies...)

 

[metalblade]

October 1971 Blades 1 (TC) Liverpool 1 (Keegan)
February 1972 Liverpool 2 (Toshack 2) Blades 0
Sept 1972 Liverpool 5 (Boersma, Lindsay, Heighway, Cormack, Keegan pen) Blades 0
Boxing Day 1972 Blades 0 Liverpool 3 (Boersma, Lawler, Heighway)
October 1973 Liverpool 1 (Keegan) Blades 0
April 1974 Blades 1 (Nicholl) Liverpool 0
Sept 1974 Blades 1 (Woodward) Liverpool 0
March 1975 Liverpool 0 Blades 0
Sept 1975 Liverpool 1 (Kennedy) Blades 0
Jan 1976 Blades 0 Liverpool 0

I didn't realise it was boxing day 72 when I went to Liverpool, all I remember is we had the shittiest coach in the SUT fleet which took forever to get over Woodhead ............... never seen a coach empty so quick when we stopped at some traffic lights in Glossop, someone had spotted some public toilets which were not quite big enough to take two coach loads never mind one, must have been nearly 100 Unitedites pissing in the street to the horror of the locals.

 

[sitwell]

My old man was thrown out of Maine Rd back in the 70's for fighting, he managed to get back in, trying to find his mates he was spotted by the lads he'd been fighting with and got a bit of a pasting, plus slashed with a Stanley knife, cut his ear lobe in half but lucky no permenant damage was done.

Brutal times by the sounds of it football in the 70's.

Worst football violence I ever witnessed was at maine Rd ,but didn't involve Utd ,it was 5th round of the cup in 1973 ,Man city v Sunderland ,the year they won the cup. I went with a relation and it was horrific ,thousands locked out and everyone kicking shit out of each other. I have an image in my mind that I can still of a copper steaming down the road on a horse dragging a Sunderland fan by his hair. The worst with Utd was probably at Hull ,we went on the 9 oclock train on a Saturday morning and by 12 the word had gone out ,the city centre was mayhem for an hour or so. Stoke ,Huddersfield , Bristol and Bolton were always eventful too.

 

[bladestrivia]

Worst football violence I ever witnessed was at maine Rd ,but didn't involve Utd ,it was 5th round of the cup in 1973 ,Man city v Sunderland ,the year they won the cup. I went with a relation and it was horrific ,thousands locked out and everyone kicking shit out of each other. I have an image in my mind that I can still of a copper steaming down the road on a horse dragging a Sunderland fan by his hair. The worst with Utd was probably at Hull ,we went on the 9 oclock train on a Saturday morning and by 12 the word had gone out ,the city centre was mayhem for an hour or so. Stoke ,Huddersfield , Bristol and Bolton were always eventful too.

one word PORTSMOUTH supose it happened everwhere in them days

 

[Sean Thornton]

I didn't realise it was boxing day 72 when I went to Liverpool, all I remember is we had the shittiest coach in the SUT fleet which took forever to get over Woodhead ............... never seen a coach empty so quick when we stopped at some traffic lights in Glossop, someone had spotted some public toilets which were not quite big enough to take two coach loads never mind one, must have been nearly 100 Unitedites pissing in the street to the horror of the locals.

Boxing Day 1972 was a home game.

 

[bladestrivia]

one word PORTSMOUTH supose it happened everwhere in them days

Worst football violence I ever witnessed was at maine Rd ,but didn't involve Utd ,it was 5th round of the cup in 1973 ,Man city v Sunderland ,the year they won the cup. I went with a relation and it was horrific ,thousands locked out and everyone kicking shit out of each other. I have an image in my mind that I can still of a copper steaming down the road on a horse dragging a Sunderland fan by his hair. The worst with Utd was probably at Hull ,we went on the 9 oclock train on a Saturday morning and by 12 the word had gone out ,the city centre was mayhem for an hour or so. Stoke ,Huddersfield , Bristol and Bolton were always eventful too.

we once played hull in the 80s edwards was playing for us and we were all rammed in that corner 7000 went i think all kicked off after the game in the carpark i was in the middle of all the hull fans very scarey

 

[sitwell]

one word PORTSMOUTH supose it happened everwhere in them days

Wolves was always tricky too. Always get it in Liverpool ,at all 3 grounds snidey horrible wankers that they are. Almost everytime Ive been scarfers have been targeted ,buses get windows out through ,and every attempt possible to extract money from you. Shame because its a great city ,just full of twats.

 

[Newbury Blade]

I was at Anfield for that game in early 1972. We went over from Sheffield on the football special and as it pulled into the station we were jumped on by a large band of scousers, some armed with knives. One Blade got stabbed and there was blood everywhere. No sign of police or station staff, horrible start to a very unpleasant day out and the commentators, then as now, were all saying what fantastic fans Liverpool had.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

October 1971 Blades 1 (TC) Liverpool 1 (Keegan)
February 1972 Liverpool 2 (Toshack 2) Blades 0
Sept 1972 Liverpool 5 (Boersma, Lindsay, Heighway, Cormack, Keegan pen) Blades 0
Boxing Day 1972 Blades 0 Liverpool 3 (Boersma, Lawler, Heighway)
October 1973 Liverpool 1 (Keegan) Blades 0
April 1974 Blades 1 (Nicholl) Liverpool 0
Sept 1974 Blades 1 (Woodward) Liverpool 0
March 1975 Liverpool 0 Blades 0
Sept 1975 Liverpool 1 (Kennedy) Blades 0
Jan 1976 Blades 0 Liverpool 0

Will we ever get those days back???

1993/1994 Sat 02 Apr Liverpool 1 - 2 Sheff. Utd. Premiership
Sun 26 Dec Sheff. Utd. 0 - 0 Liverpool Premiership
1992/1993 Wed 11 Nov Liverpool 3 - 0 Sheff. Utd. League Cup
Wed 28 Oct Sheff. Utd. 0 - 0 Liverpool League Cup
Sat 12 Sep Sheff. Utd. 1 - 0 Liverpool Premier League
Wed 19 Aug Liverpool 2 - 1 Sheff. Utd. Premier League
1991/1992 Sat 28 Mar Sheff. Utd. 2 - 0 Liverpool First Division

 

[Bert]

I was at Anfield for that game in early 1972. We went over from Sheffield on the football special and as it pulled into the station we were jumped on by a large band of scousers, some armed with knives. One Blade got stabbed and there was blood everywhere. No sign of police or station staff, horrible start to a very unpleasant day out and the commentators, then as now, were all saying what fantastic fans Liverpool had.

Bert also went on the train that day. Attacked right outside station, police nowhere whilst one of Bert's crew had his brand new sheepskin coat nicked.

Following season went of the coach, running battles to get across Stanley Park, bus bricked.
They can gas the lot of those lovable scousers as far as Bert is concerned.

 

[coolhandluke]

Liverpool " fans " are the lowest of the low . They're even lower that the Yams Yams when it's comes to acting the cunt .

The second leg of the Worthington cup semi final speaks volumes . A large group of Blades were in touch with their Liverpool counterparts via a well known local intermediary . Did the scousers go to the area they were requested to go to ? No . They opted to smash a pub up close to the ground full of families instead . Greatest fans around ...... ar , oreight

Never had problems at Everton though .

 

[Sean Thornton]

Liverpool " fans " are the lowest of the low . They're even lower that the Yams Yams when it's comes to acting the cunt .

The second leg of the Worthington cup semi final speaks volumes . A large group of Blades were in touch with their Liverpool counterparts via a well known local intermediary . Did the scousers go to the area they were requested to go to ? No . They opted to smash a pub up close to the ground full of families instead . Greatest fans around ...... ar , oreight

Never had problems at Everton though .

There were some Everton fans out with the Blades that night. They said thats what would happen.

 

[Rodley]

Liverpool " fans " are the lowest of the low . They're even lower that the Yams Yams when it's comes to acting the cunt .

The second leg of the Worthington cup semi final speaks volumes . A large group of Blades were in touch with their Liverpool counterparts via a well known local intermediary . Did the scousers go to the area they were requested to go to ? No . They opted to smash a pub up close to the ground full of families instead . Greatest fans around ...... ar , oreight

Never had problems at Everton though .

Didn't some Blades lob a one armed bandit at one of the Micky Mousers, or was that a myth?

 

[metalblade]

Boxing Day 1972 was a home game.

I guess that's why I don't remember it as being Boxing day, Thinking about it it must have been the 5-0 in sept 72 that I witnessed, probably 3-0 at half time.

 

[Pedro Verde]

Didn't some united fans once let loose a live pig outside Hillsborough?

We once painted Bert McGhees (Pig chairman) nice white Roller in the car park at the Sty

 

[Isar]

another story about a lone fan on home teams kop , dont no if this is a myth in 1979 we played brentford the day the coaches got called back we had a fan called pea brain and he went on there kop shouting does anyone want to join the steve conroy fan club conroy was our goalkeeper for all you younguns

If that was the night game, Monday I think, I was on the Brentford end with a load of other Blades, we got escorted off at HT and walk across the pitch. Lots of trouble after the game.

 

[cahill]

My dad was banned from Maine Road for running onto the pitch with a Blades flag prior to a match some time in the seventies.

This generation will be telling their kids about the time they squirted some ketchup in the concourse at Rochdale in 2015....

I lived 1 mile from Maine Road, we played Citeh one Saturday after L'pool fans had run riot outside Maine Road on the preceding Tuesday. As a result, the Peelers, were determined that Blades fans wouldn't copy the Scousers so they forced all Blades after the match onto buses immediately outside the turnstiles. As a result me and our Gert were taken onto the platform at Picaddily station and the police tried to force us onto the train back to Sheffield. We had to catch a bus the 4 miles back to Rusholm

How we laughed. You had no rights as a football in those days, early 80s I think

 

[Sothall_Blade]

I lived 1 mile from Maine Road, we played Citeh one Saturday after L'pool fans had run riot outside Maine Road on the preceding Tuesday. As a result, the Peelers, were determined that Blades fans wouldn't copy the Scousers so they forced all Blades after the match onto buses immediately outside the turnstiles. As a result me and our Gert were taken onto the platform at Picaddily station and the police tried to force us onto the train back to Sheffield. We had to catch a bus the 4 miles back to Rusholm

How we laughed. You had no rights as a football in those days, early 80s I think

I think the 'Peelers' would be more like 1880's to be honest. Still, at least we had a great team then.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

My old man was slashed with a Stanley knife, cut his ear lobe in half but lucky no permenant damage was done.

Has his ear lobe grown back then?

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Liverpool " fans " are the lowest of the low . They're even lower that the Yams Yams when it's comes to acting the cunt .

The second leg of the Worthington cup semi final speaks volumes . A large group of Blades were in touch with their Liverpool counterparts via a well known local intermediary . Did the scousers go to the area they were requested to go to ? No . They opted to smash a pub up close to the ground full of families instead . Greatest fans around ...... ar , oreight

Never had problems at Everton though .

Myself bartman and his family were in that pub, The Arkles, as was Ray wotsiname from the Bill. We left about 5 minutes before it kicked off, fortunately.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Chris Cook and I had no problems when we hitched to Anfield and back on Good Friday 1968 .....

Cue groans from Silent Blade and Greenwich Blade

Good to see you again Ady lad

 

[CarlingBlade]

Has his ear lobe grown back then?

Just got sewn back together.