Blades vs Fulham 23rd April 1968

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One of the strangest recollections I have of that night is on the way back home driving up Chesterfield Road in the Meersbrook area seeing a lorry had come down one of those steep streets from Meersbrook park area and crashed into a house on Chesterfield Road.

Looking back I suppose they had bigger problems than mine but after losing 3-2 to a team lower than us in the league and facing relegation I didn't believe it at the time.
 
bornablade said:
One of the strangest recollections I have of that night is on the way back home driving up Chesterfield Road in the Meersbrook area seeing a lorry had come down one of those steep streets from Meersbrook park area and crashed into a house on Chesterfield Road.

Looking back I suppose they had bigger problems than mine but after losing 3-2 to a team lower than us in the league and facing relegation I didn't believe it at the time.
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My dad would have driven home the same route as you did. He mentioned that match to me quite a few times and said there were a big group Wendy fans in the BLUT cheering for Fulham
 
Silent Blade said:
My dad would have driven home the same route as you did. He mentioned that match to me quite a few times and said there were a big group Wendy fans in the BLUT cheering for Fulham
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Can't remember the Lorry incident BaB mentions,but I remember sat eating a fry up breakfast that morning,and my Dad told me that some Wendy fans were coming to the game ..I asked why,and he said they didn't want us to go down so they could play us next season..he also said that they say that they don't eat bacon because it's Red and White..well I don't know if any one remembers..there used to be a bit of blue dye on the rind of the bacon...haha..I proceeded to cut out the piece of blue and vowed never to eat it again.
Can't remember any Wendy fans or even Fulham fans at the match...we went on the Lane terrace just to the right of the goal as you look to the pitch..the terrace was packed...we went 2 up but can't remember who got our goals..Fulham were in all blue..I did seem to think Clarke got all 3 Fulham goals,but could be wrong as I had sensed what was about to happen and told my Dad I felt sick..we were edging up the terrace as the third went in...I couldn't watch it,as far as I was concerned we were down..gutted.
 
Silent Blade said:
My dad would have driven home the same route as you did. He mentioned that match to me quite a few times and said there were a big group Wendy fans in the BLUT cheering for Fulham
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Yep remember that against Fulham on that disaster night - also a group of Porkers turned up for the last match (when we were relegated) to cheer on Chelsea, they had booked seats in the John Street stand
Can't remember any Fulham fans there at that particular match
That's what happens when you sell your best players i.e. Jones and Birchenall - good job John Harris stayed

Anyhow we had the last laugh, the swine went down in 1970 and we went up in 1971 FTP
 
Seanshoreham said:
Yep remember that against Fulham on that disaster night - also a group of Porkers turned up for the last match (when we were relegated) to cheer on Chelsea, they had booked seats in the John Street stand
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Remember the Chelsea game well. Wendy fans also turned up on the kop to support United but ended up scrapping with each other (nothing changes). They got the huff on and went round to the Lane end to support Chelsea for the rest of the match. Osgood got the winner with a spectacular diving header.
 
snootyfenooty said:
Remember the Chelsea game well. Wendy fans also turned up on the kop to support United but ended up scrapping with each other (nothing changes). They got the huff on and went round to the Lane end to support Chelsea for the rest of the match. Osgood got the winner with a spectacular diving header.
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Osgood scored the equaliser and Tommy Baldwin got the winner

See below for match report

http://www.bounder.friardale.co.uk/Match Reports/1967/19680511.jpg

My Wendy supporting uncle was at the match hoping that we would stay up
 



I posted this two years ago. You will see how Blades fans at that Fulham match never forgot Wendy fans cheering for Fulham. Peter Howard was Blades reporter for Star/Green Un at the time

Just found Howard's programme notes for our match against Wendy in October 1970. He wrote

"The trouble with you" said the well built supporter with pint in hand, "the trouble with you is you have no feeling"
The occasion was the pavilion presentation night last Spring; the night when everyone was delighted to clap Alan Woodward as he received his Player of the Year award.
It was quite a night. It was made even better night for some supporters, who, with the entertainment in full swing, left the room to make a telephone call. They rang Crystal Palace and came back cheering when a win for the Londoners meant a step deeper into trouble for Sheffield Wednesday.
I couldnt resist saying I thought this was a "bit off"; that I could see little joy in Sheffield being a stage nearer an ALL-Second Division city.
The looks these, and similar remarks, brought from the Blades fans had to be seen to be believed. I know these lads reasonably well, I like them. and I have enjoyed the odd night in their company.
But I thought the last convivial drink would be the last when the shocked expressions were studied by yours truly- and that's where the supporter friend stepped in to tell me I had no feeling.
"You" he went on, "have no idea what United means to us, obviously" (Actually, I have. On arriving from a school in Stockport to a new place of learning at Sheffield I was confronted in the first play-time break with: "Are you a Unitedite.... or a Wednesdayite?" So my first impression was that football in Sheffield if not exactly civil war, was an intensely serious business)
When I protested that I could see little point in cheering the downfall of the Owls when they werent even playing the Blades, my football adviser said;"you obviously didnt see and hear the Wednesdayites in OUR stand cheering for Fulham that season WE went down"
 
JOEYDEE said:
Cos i was there.
Why do you believe him anyway ?
I will try and dig out info..
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Good Luck.

I emailed the Sheffield Library and they gave me the same goalscorers too! I forwarded the email to WalthamstowBlade this morning

A Fulham history expert and a Librarian with access to the Morning Telegraph/Star archives are good enough for me
 
 

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Silent Blade said:
Both of you are wrong

http://www.friendsoffulham.com/forum/index.php?topic=2345.0

Tues 23rd April 1968 - Sheff United 2 v 3 Fulham - Div 2
McCLELLAND, NICHOLLS, RYAN, CALLAGHAN, MEALAND, BROWN, CONWAY, EARLE. CLARKE, GILROY, BARRETT. SUB:KERRIGAN
Scorers: Barrett, Gilroy and Conway (2-3 win)

JOEYDEE , why did you say definitely?
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Wow,Clarke didn't even get on the score sheet then...I must admit,having been at the game as an 8 year old,and on the end they went in,I always thought he was amongst the goals that night,but how wrong can you be...must have been my Dad banging on about Clarke to much that stuck in my mind,along with Stoke winning..pity we can't get hold of an old match report.
Didn't he go to Leicester the following season and get relegated again?
 
Dnblade said:
Wow,Clarke didn't even get on the score sheet then...I must admit,having been at the game as an 8 year old,and on the end they went in,I always thought he was amongst the goals that night,but how wrong can you be...must have been my Dad banging on about Clarke to much that stuck in my mind,along with Stoke winning..pity we can't get hold of an old match report.
Didn't he go to Leicester the following season and get relegated again?
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My dad talked about that match to me some years later and he said Clarke was an inspiration to Fulham that night and I assumed he had got a couple goals at the most and I remember him saying Jimmy Conway scored that night.

Yes Clarke joined Leicester in the summer and Leicester got relegation in 1969 despite reaching the FA Cup final
 
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