Do you remember the first time?

[N20 Blade]

My first game was 08 May 1993 (i was 9). Dad always worked Saturday's so was a little late to the party. My mum took me, I sat on the South Stand straight behind the exec seats.
Anyway, we won 4-2 vs. Chelsea. Andy Scott (7), Paul Rogers (16) and Dane Whitehouse (43 & 48).

My eldest went to MK Dons away for her first game. Won 1-0, Stefan Scougall.

Haven't dared to take the youngest yet (18 months).

That Chelsea game was the last match of the season yes?

 

[Northyorksblade]

That defeat left us 3 games to get the 3 points we needed to make the playoffs.

We managed one point, but luckily (!) Birmingham didn't beat Charlton on the last day so we snuck in the playoffs in sixth spot, much good it did us.

Weren't we away to Stockport that day and the Brum result came in very late? All our fans were still there and the players came out to celebrate with us once the result came through.

 

[Bayingblade]

My first, 4th April 1972, drew 1-1 at home to Man United.

 

[davidpinder]

Me was v Watford at lane 1989/90 won 4-0
Little princess was v Peterborough at home 2014/15 season under Clough scarred for life !!!!

 

[Sheffsteel]

First home match:
1975 Blades 3 West Ham 2
It was on Match of the Day with Currie scoring that great goal and I was on the Kop.

First away match:
1981 Bradford 0 Blades 2
Went on the train with some mates from school.
Think we took 5K and it was their biggest crowd for over 10 years.
Remember their Kop being split in two, so the away end was next to the home end with a no mans land area in between. Fans were throwing a big lump of wood over the fence at each other.

 

[mattbianco1]

That Chelsea game was the last match of the season yes?

I believe it was yes.

I checked back and over the course of our first premier league stint, we only lost to Chelsea once, we won the other 3. We all know which one we lost don't we.

 

[coaxingstar71]

Mine first was a rather dull 1-1 with Hull City in the old 3rd division (effectively same one as we are in now) on 19 Jan 1980. Porn star, Len De Goey, scored our goal and Edwards probably scored theirs. The next game was the 1-1 draw with the pigs on 5 April with McPhail scoring for us, but all I remember (as a 9 year old) is getting accidentally punched in the head by the bloke next to me whilst celebrating the goal!

My Grandad was a Wednesday fan and took me to a game at Hillsboro later that season but it wasn't the same and I was a Blade.

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Me - 4-1 win v Luton on a wet Easter Saturday in 1978
Mrs Revolution: 2-1 win v Man Utd in 1991
little Revolution 1: 2-2 draw v Colchester in August 2007, Robson's first game in charge
little Revolution 2: 2-1 defeat v Bristol City in August 2014, first game of the season

I add family members, the results get worse.

Was the Luton game the one where Stainrod stroked the ball towards the net at the Bramall Lane end, turned to run back towards The Kop to celebrate his hat trick only for the ball get stuck in the goal mouth mud before it crossed the line ??
Genuinely cannot remember my first game other than I'd just started school at the beginning of the 72/73 season so was deemed old enough to go.
I do remember for years & years though being completely in awe walking up the steps of Gangway 7 on John Street & seeing the ground (pre south stand) open up in front of me.

 

[N20 Blade]

Me was v Watford at lane 1989/90 won 4-0
Little princess was v Peterborough at home 2014/15 season under Clough scarred for life !!!!

Was that when the shot from Deano bobbled over Tony Coton?

 

[Westran]

Dec 1990 Vs Oldham Athletic in the Zenith Data Cup, i think I'd been to a friendly before that but my dad classed this as my first proper game. I was 8 at the time.

We won 7-2 which is a great start to being a Blade, although my dad and grandad had already firmly told me that I was a Blade and that was that, they were pretty obsessed and my Nan worked at the lane so it was only going one way for me.

In the summer of 1990 my dad was taken pretty ill and was lucky to get out the other side, it was his first game back for a long time and we'd got seats in the Westfield Health Enclosure. We got there a bit late and I remember my dad being a bit panicked about where to go. Then who should turn up but my dads hero Tony Curry! He asked if he could help and when my dad explained he walked us to our seats and sat with us for 10 mins or so having a chat with my Dad about the good old days, it really must have made my Dads year after such a tough one. I certainly still remember it quite clearly and I always will.

 

[Silent Blade]

Finally dad took me to a game - a 0-0 draw with Sunderland at the back end of the 1995-6 season (although we did have one ruled out for offside which at the time I thought was poor judgment from the linesman). Hooked ever since.

Neville Southall was sat near me for that match. Papers were linking him to us

 

[Silent Blade]

Me was v Watford at lane 1989/90 won 4-0

4-1. Penrice scored first

 

[Yewsman]

Me 5 April 1958 at home to Donny Rovers in old Second Division. My recollection is that we won 3-1 but checking records we actually won 3-0. The only player I remember is Hodgey in goal with a green jumper. Didn't go again until I think 1961. Remember us playing the Spurs double side at an evening match. Score 1-1. On checking the records I think this must have been 4 September 1961.

My son was born February 1981 just before we got relegated to fourth Division. I remember saying to our next door neighbour when we went down thank god he will never be able to remember us in Division 4. That prediction has not looked good on a few occasions over the last 3 seasons! Can't remember his first game but I think we lost 4-0 at home under Billy McEwan. Might haver been his last match in charge I think. He (my son) was more interested in my packet of polo mints than the football!

 

[Dellas Cowboys]

was on the Moor with my future Mrs, who was a student in Sheffield at the time. noticed all Blades fans streaming towards the Lane and we decided to go and see how much it was to get in - think we said if it was £5 or less we'd go in. neither of us supported any other teams - after all we were from the East Midlands - who would we have supported? Peterborough / Northampton Town! Anyway the price was OK, the atmosphere on the Kop was fantastic and we won - it was Deane / Agana years so we were entertained and haven't looked back.

 

[LS16Blade]

November 1979 - United 4 Gillingham 0. Butlin (2), Sabella and de Goey. Deceived into thinking it would always be so easy.

First away match was the 4-3 win at York in 1981. Hatton, Kenworthy and Trusson (2). Fantastic day. Up to York on the train, Blades everywhere and on all 4 sides of the ground when we got in there. Bought a programme outside and then went in the (only) stand and found that they put a programme on the seat if you'd paid the bit extra to go in the stand. Limited myself to collecting just 6 copies which, on reflection, was relatively restrained for an 8 year old.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

Charlton home in 1978 I think Varadi scored but as a ten year old on the kop can't quite recall.

Remember huge amount of men, barriers to duck behind and the long walk down from the top along the trench to stand at the front with the other kids. My dad and his mates kept doing the ale run to the little bar at the top of the steps and the awful bogs at the top that had that unique smell of beery piss.

A smell I've now always equated with football matches and reminded of at grounds like Swindon, Southend, Peterborough and Gillingham. Places where the average wildebeeste would turn their nose up and refuse to enter the bogs!

 

[wizadry]

Weren't we away to Stockport that day and the Brum result came in very late? All our fans were still there and the players came out to celebrate with us once the result came through.

That is how I remembered it NYB, a player chucked his boots into the crowd where we were stood celebrating, that player was a certain Mr Wilder (aka Tufty).

 

[Northyorksblade]

That is how I remembered it NYB, a player chucked his boots into the crowd where we were stood celebrating, that player was a certain Mr Wilder (aka Tufty).

I am impressed I remembered as much as I did, but I don't remember that

 

[Weasel]

Not got a clue of who and when. Late 70s though. Only bit i know is that my old man took me regularly as a pup and used to lift me over the kop turnstyles so he didnt have to pay for me. Then i would go into the ground like a little street urchin and see more of someones backside as i wasnt able to see much at all. Eventually the old man must have realised my predicament and that it wasnt much fun for a little lad getting to see fuk all and then getting smashed around the kop if Utd scored, and decided to take me on the Bramall Lane lower tier stood next to the majority of the away fans with my little woollen red n white scarf round my shoulders. Strangely enough there wasnt swathes of wannabe away hooligans wanting to smash my young head in either (or my dads for daring to take his little lad on the away end!).

I do recall that United didnt score for the first couple of games i actually 'saw'. Both games ended up nil nil. Think they finally scored at the Lane at the third attempt though and nicked a win. First away match...v Scunthorpe in 1981. The one where we lost 2-1 when 3 quarters of the old show ground was filled with United fans. Utd played crap, and the old man took me back to the car my face looking like a slapped arse, before realising that we had missed Kenworthys last minute consolation penalty as well. When its not your day....

 

[PokerBlade]

Pretty sure it was QPR at home and we drew. I was ten or eleven. More than the game, I remember what my Dad told me when he asked if I wanted to go to a football match (he hadn't been to see a game for years, having stopped going after he left Sheffield for Uni, and even after moving back just after I was born). He said "They won't always win, and no matter what you expect they'll always find a way to hurt you, but if you go you're stuck with them for life.". Given that was the '97 play-off season and we journeyed to Wembley, I learned my lesson quickly.

 

[wizadry]

I am impressed I remembered as much as I did, but I don't remember that

I'm normally useless at remembering certain matches but for some reason this sticks out in my memory like a sore thumb, don't take it as gospel mate, it could be complete bullshit after someone comes on in a minute and corrects it all.

 

[Gimli]

Neville Southall was sat near me for that match. Papers were linking him to us

Remember Tracey had a good game that day too! No need for big Nev!!

 

[Houston_Blade]

Either Arsenal or Southampton ( can't remember which) at home 1966. At 12 I was a late starter, with no familial or historical connection to Sheffield United, just a personal preference.

Interesting to know how different people get to watching the Blades, my dad lived in Sheffield briefly when young but always followed them with his brother when they left. I naturally supported the team my dad did when I was 5/6, first game in 1989/90 season Spurs at home I'm pretty sure we drew 2-2 and I stood on the kop.

I also watched Chesterfield a lot as a youngster as I played for them and got free tickets to the home games and occasionally had to ball boy but I'd never miss a Blades home game.

Then when I was 15/16 I watched the Blades everywhere with the help of a p/t job. Played on Saturdays at a semi pro level for 2/3 seasons at 18 until 21 so stopped watching again then got injured and couldn't get fit enough to play at that level so went back to boozing and watching the Blades home and away.

Kids and the fact I know live a few thousand miles away mean I don't see them much anymore and although I keep up with things I really don't miss it. I will try and catch the Boxing Day game but in a 2 week return there are tonnes of people to see so it might fall by the wayside.

We will return to the UK in a few years and I'll take my lad to the lane for years or torment and false hope. I'll drag the girl along as well if she doesn't go down the Barbies and dancing route her mum will want her to!

 

[grafikhaus]

That is how I remembered it NYB, a player chucked his boots into the crowd where we were stood celebrating, that player was a certain Mr Wilder (aka Tufty).

Might be wrong but I think you're referring to Wolves away on 9th May, 1989. Wolves were top and we 'manufactured' a 2-2 draw to secure second spot and where Martin Pike mistook the ref. blowing for a foul near the end as the final whistle. He chucked his boots into the crowd and had to play the last few minutes in his stockinged feet.

Anyway, April 23rd 1962. Away to Man. U. I remember it well but can't remember what I had for tea yesterday!

 

[wizadry]

Might be wrong but I think you're referring to Wolves away on 9th May, 1989. Wolves were top and we 'manufactured' a 2-2 draw to secure second spot and where Martin Pike mistook the ref. blowing for a foul near the end as the final whistle. He chucked his boots into the crowd and had to play the last few minutes in his stockinged feet.

Anyway, April 23rd 1962. Away to Man. U. I remember it well but can't remember what I had for tea yesterday!

That did happen what you stated but what I wrote definitely happened too, just not sure of the year, gh?

 

[Small Mendonca]

Mine was Blades 0-1 Walsall, the last game of the 01/02 season. God knows what grabbed me about it, the game was dreadful! At least a 2-1 win against Liverpool made up for it later that year (my 3rd game I think).

 

[Tyler Durden]

Mine was Blades 0-1 Walsall, the last game of the 01/02 season. God knows what grabbed me about it, the game was dreadful! At least a 2-1 win against Liverpool made up for it later that year (my 3rd game I think).

Walsall had to win that one to stay up. There was a pitch invasion at the end but both sets of fans ended up applauding each other instead.

 

[Small Mendonca]

Walsall had to win that one to stay up. There was a pitch invasion at the end but both sets of fans ended up applauding each other instead.

Maybe I fell asleep, can't remember a pitch invasion haha! Didn't the result send Barnsley down?

 

[Tyler Durden]

Maybe I fell asleep, can't remember a pitch invasion haha! Didn't the result send Barnsley down?

Well I say pitch invasion, about 30-odd ran on!

Yes, I think they lost at Birmingham that day.

 

[georgethecat]

26th may 1997. Had been following the blades from a distance (NI) for a number of years and had never been to a game until this fateful day. Managed to get myself a ticket through a few contacts I had in the game (sorry if you were a regular and missed out because of me) and flew into London on the morning of the game. Can't even begin to describe my emotions when I arrived at Wembley way and set my eyes on tens of thousands of red and white shirts - I'd never seen another person wearing a blades shirt in the flesh before! Needless to say the overall day was one of mixed emotions. However, it was the first of what has turned out to be around 100 trips to games both home and away ever since.
Incidently, as this is about first games, i brought a friend over to the recent home game with Southend. He has been involved in football and followed football for decades but this was his first blades game. Despite the horrific performance he was hugely impressed with the passion of the supporters and overall experience at bdtbl. In fact he keeps asking me when will we go back. I'm bringing 2 work colleagues over for the home game against Scunthorpe later in the year. Hopefully they enjoy their first time (a better result would help).