There's only one United - fact

[Bruce Wayne]

"So if any club has the singular right to be referred to as "United" it is the one that came into being 110 years ago when Wednesday FC moved out of Bramall Lane and the Ground Committee, facing a loss of revenue, decided to form their own club."

Oldest professional ground still in existence and the first proper United.

All Blades aren't we.

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

"when Wednesday FC moved our".
Oh dear thats a problem that thing is. Right there. Oh my.

 

[IMABLADE]

Came out of the Cricket team who were called Sheffield United Cricket Club and they were the first sporting team to call themselves United, so we are the true United and the first

 

[TJB.]

According to John Garrett, them lot wanted to have Bramall Lane as their permanent home. But a bunch of like-minded (fairly well-to-do) gentlemen congregated to form a football club to play at the Lane which forced Wendy to look elsewhere

God bless whoever did that!

 

[Bladepicker]

"when Wednesday FC moved our".
Oh dear thats a problem that thing is. Right there. Oh my.

Its also bullshit as it implies Wednesday were 'based' at the Lane - they weren't.

They used to play at different grounds and while they did use the Lane, they used the Sheaf House Ground (it was behind the sheaf pub) more as it was cheaper. They got their own ground, football started taking off and the actual residents of the lane, Sheffield United Cricket Club formed a football team.

Good on em.

 

[tyneblade]

Came out of the Cricket team who were called Sheffield United Cricket Club and they were the first sporting team to call themselves United, so we are the true United and the first

To be accurate Sheffield United Cricket Club was a management committee, but did not have a team playing in that name until 1895.

So the football club was the first.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

"when Wednesday FC moved our".
Oh dear thats a problem that thing is. Right there. Oh my.

I see it like a priest performing an exorcism.

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

I`m aware we are the first United. Just goes through me when we are linked to the pig cunts in any way shape or form.

 

[JohnDenver]

I see it like a priest performing an exorcism.

I was thinking more like my morning ablutions after a dodgy takeaway.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Form is temporary, class is permanent

 

[Tyler Durden]

The scum who now reside at S6 were formed by market traders.

And the fans have proudly acknowledged this tradition by talking utter bollocks and carrying huge delusions about the quality of their stock ever since.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

A fact the football media forgot years ago. I guess being out of the lime light for so long hasn't helped our cause. The Manc version have gone uncontested for so many years. If copyright was about in 1889 they'd still be called Newton Heath.

 

[super_pig]

Its also bullshit as it implies Wednesday were 'based' at the Lane - they weren't.

They used to play at different grounds and while they did use the Lane, they used the Sheaf House Ground (it was behind the sheaf pub) more as it was cheaper. They got their own ground, football started taking off and the actual residents of the lane, Sheffield United Cricket Club formed a football team.

Good on em.

they (pigs) refused to go along with a venue rental hike.. the cricket club were obliged to form a team when they realised how much revenue they'd lost (the football team was a secondary income stream to the cricket 'them days')

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

At the time Bramall Lane was a ground for hire, with no sitting tenant as far as football was concerned, and a number of clubs played matches there. As the popularity of football was growing rapidly at this point, the committee (cricket) wanted to capitalise on this adding welcome winter money to their summer takings for cricket (BL being the home of YCC back then not Leeds) and had been increasing the rent on a regular basis, to which some clubs objected. So, rather than tenants and having to share any of the takings from this, they decided to form their own team and keep all the gate money. Tradition has it that they decided to 'acquire' players from the various clubs that had used the ground, forming a united team of Sheffield in one place, thus the name was born.

 

[Good Pinch Of Snuff]

Yoo Ni Ted!

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

At the time Bramall Lane was a ground for hire, with no sitting tenant as far as football was concerned, and a number of clubs played matches there. As the popularity of football was growing rapidly at this point, the committee (cricket) wanted to capitalise on this adding welcome winter money to their summer takings for cricket (BL being the home of YCC back then not Leeds) and had been increasing the rent on a regular basis, to which some clubs objected. So, rather than tenants and having to share any of the takings from this, they decided to form their own team and keep all the gate money. Tradition has it that they decided to 'acquire' players from the various clubs that had used the ground, forming a united team of Sheffield in one place, thus the name was born.

'they decided to form their own team and keep all the gate money'

Nowts changed, they have always managed to uphold this tradition.

 

[IOM Blade]

Yoo Ni Ted!

Russ?

 

[blade too long]

THE Wednesday were a travellers XI , moving to Olive Grove, then to the current site which when purchased was outside the city boundary which was Parkside Road the other side of the recently gifted Hillsborough Park , was several years before it came into Sheffields boundary and to celebrate in 1928 The Wednesday finally became a Sheffield club in that year. so its only another 12 years till they can celebrate 100 years as a Sheffield Club, many believe THE before Wednesday was for Thurgoland Hoyland and Elsecar, as the travelling fair ground people Wintered in that area, including the novelty balancing pig hire wire act , that led to Wednesdays other nick name
Terry Curran was a cult hero being a true gypsy , sporting the standard knife sharpeners look

 

[RammyBlade]

"So if any club has the singular right to be referred to as "United" it is the one that came into being 110 years ago when Wednesday FC moved out of Bramall Lane and the Ground Committee, facing a loss of revenue, decided to form their own club."

Oldest professional ground still in existence and the first proper United.

All Blades aren't we.

I dont like it that the other "United" are now generally referred to as such but what I hate more is being called "Sheffield" instead of Sheffield United or Blades.
I always politely but firmly point out that there are actually 3 teams that play in Sheffield and one of them is the oldest FC in the world . I also point out that if I referred to a team called Manchester - who would it be ?

 

[BushBlade]

I dont like it that the other "United" are now generally referred to as such but what I hate more is being called "Sheffield" instead of Sheffield United or Blades.
I always politely but firmly point out that there are actually 3 teams that play in Sheffield and one of them is the oldest FC in the world . I also point out that if I referred to a team called Manchester - who would it be ?

Do they politely point out that the oldest one plays in Dronfield and that if you include them, it's four. Or have they nodded off by then?

 

[super_pig]

I dont like it that the other "United" are now generally referred to as such but what I hate more is being called "Sheffield" instead of Sheffield United or Blades.
I always politely but firmly point out that there are actually 3 teams that play in Sheffield and one of them is the oldest FC in the world . I also point out that if I referred to a team called Manchester - who would it be ?

city of course