........because of Boxing Day

[Budgie]

December 26th 1979. Attended the massacre as a 6 year old. Sadly it's one of my first memories of watching the mighty blades. I remember leaving the sty. A feeling of dread at the thought of returning to school and facing the deluded. I also a remember a connection with my team. I was gutted they'd lost but I knew, even then, that we were the team of the city, Sheffield's team.

At that time the rootless, the lost, the misguided and the deluded all gravitated towards Wednesday. No guidance, no style, no idea - they just drifted the wrong way. Many became Wednesday fans overnight and claimed a life long allegiance. Some things never change. Each time they experience a brief sniff of success they crawl from the woodwork and dust down their 'vintage' shirts. They have no backbone, no class and a twisted view of history. This will never change.

Blades are entirely different. Even as a six year old I knew it. Blades have style, we are the true team of this city. Would I swap our league positions with them? Probably yes. Would I change anything else? Never!

As a group of fans we might not always agree - it's all about opinions. The team may regularly drive us insane - I know for one I frequently ask myself - why do I do this? But we keep coming back because the answer is obvious - it's because we are super bladesmen.....and we will fight for ever more!

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Good first post budgie.

The ending of your post mentioning the song, reminded me of a song I heard the Liverpool lot sing near the end of their derby with Everton last week which we used to sing from the kop - and one I haven't heard from us in donkeys years.............

"Show them the way to go home - they're tired and they want to go to bed......for they're only half a football team compared to the lads in red......hey"

UTB

 

[Boxer Blade]

Good first post budgie.

The ending of your post mentioning the song, reminded me of a song I heard the Liverpool lot sing near the end of their derby with Everton last week which we used to sing from the kop - and one I haven't heard from us in donkeys years.............

"Show them the way to go home - they're tired and they want to go to bed......for they're only half a football team compared to the lads in red......hey"

UTB

I remember the chant, the space between bed and for? You decide ;-)

 

[Aston max]

myself and 4 mates ended up in west bar overnight ( aah the days of the slippery steps down into the cells ) we decided to kick off in crazy daisy when it was full of pigs !! did everybody go home ashamed after that game

 

[blade too long]

should be ok because for christmas I got the wings of an angel and a crows back side
and a drone
I can fly it over hillsborough tommorrow

 

[8lade]

It was a defeat and a bad one to local neighbours however in the normal run of things would be long forgotten but only this year on Facebook up popped the 'a massacre is for life, not just boxing day,' meme. I hid it of course, it was like finding a shit in the middle of your carpet but are they going to hold onto that forever?

 

[Darthblade]

It was a defeat and a bad one to local neighbours however in the normal run of things would be long forgotten but only this year on Facebook up popped the 'a massacre is for life, not just boxing day,' meme. I hid it of course, it was like finding a shit in the middle of your carpet but are they going to hold onto that forever?

They have always been scum, lacking in class, deluded and delusional ....... that will never change

UTB & FTP

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Good first post Budgie ,
It's was my Da , ( Lord have mercy on him ) who got me following the Blades , my da used to follow the pigs , but as they where below us in the league at the time , and said he wouldn't waste money on them so took me to the lane ,
Old wooden John Street stand , that was it , hooked and have been ever since , and always will be .
Because it was a early game , him and a few mates from the boozer he used to drink in Felbrigg in Norfolk park
organised a coach to take us over and bring us back , younger brother also a pig went with us , but again sadly no longer with us .
Well after making my own way into the death trap , took up position on the left hand side as you look onto the kip ,
the rest is etched into my mind , did the walk of shame home , head down almost crying as a teenager , meet a few other Blades from my area and we made our way home , no I didn't go home on the coach .
Got home to be greeted by an overjoyed father and brother saying did ya see this , did ya see that , cause I fucking did its burned into my mind .

 

[oldblade]

It was a defeat and a bad one to local neighbours however in the normal run of things would be long forgotten but only this year on Facebook up popped the 'a massacre is for life, not just boxing day,' meme. I hid it of course, it was like finding a shit in the middle of your carpet but are they going to hold onto that forever?

Strange that they always mention that, but never mention the true massacre which occurred on 8 September 1951. Blades 7 Wednesday 3.

Wednesday have never scored more than 5 goals against us in a league match, and they've only done that once, and 1979 was the only time they ever scored 4 against us.

The facts are that in competitive matches we have beaten them more often than they have beaten us, we have scored more goals against them than they have against us and we have achieved more doubles than they have. They had to wait nearly 100 years for their last one! And they have won only once at Bramall Lane in the last 49 years .

Seems we don't have a bad record against them, especially considering how large they are..........................

 

[BerksBlade]

They never shut up about it when there are Blades around.
Quite a few of my family are pig fans. My nephew has started going to a few games (even though he's supported Arsenal most of his life). His girlfriend's dad bought him some sort of piggie history book for Xmas. When my brother-in-law saw it, the first page he turned to was - you've guessed it - f*cking Boxing Day 1979.

 

[Large Mendonca]

Maybe someone can correct me, but was it really a 4-0 type drubbing ? Didn't they score against the run of play just before half-time, then "nobble" our playmaker (Mick Speight) just after half time ? Maybe i'm clutching at straws !!

 

[Kenilworth]

Maybe someone can correct me, but was it really a 4-0 type drubbing ? Didn't they score against the run of play just before half-time, then "nobble" our playmaker (Mick Speight) just after half time ? Maybe i'm clutching at straws !!

Nah - we were shit all the way through - never really threatened. True it was a bit even steven to begin with - until Mellor scored a belter - then ...............

Mick Speight a "playmaker"

Bwahahahahahahahahaha

He was a combative midfielder who allus put in a shift but he never really dictated anything.
He broke a rib, colliding with the post.

Sabella would have had that play maker roll but as I understood it McPhail tried to get a bit leary in the the tunnel, pre game - it kicked off and a few got their faces filled in - this is why Sabella was like a rabbit in the headlights and their crew were wound up good and proper. If McPhail hadn't have been so cocky and started on them then I feel we may have fared a little better.

 

[Large Mendonca]

Nah - we were shit all the way through - never really threatened. True it was a bit even steven to begin with - until Mellor scored a belter - then ...............

Mick Speight a "playmaker"

Bwahahahahahahahahaha

He was a combative midfielder who allus put in a shift but he never really dictated anything.
He broke a rib, colliding with the post.

Sabella would have had that play maker roll but as I understood it McPhail tried to get a bit leary in the the tunnel, pre game - it kicked off and a few got their faces filled in - this is why Sabella was like a rabbit in the headlights and their crew were wound up good and proper. If McPhail hadn't have been so cocky and started on them then I feel we may have fared a little better.

 

[oldblade]

Nah - we were shit all the way through - never really threatened. True it was a bit even steven to begin with - until Mellor scored a belter - then ...............

Mick Speight a "playmaker"

Bwahahahahahahahahaha

He was a combative midfielder who allus put in a shift but he never really dictated anything.
He broke a rib, colliding with the post.

Sabella would have had that play maker roll but as I understood it McPhail tried to get a bit leary in the the tunnel, pre game - it kicked off and a few got their faces filled in - this is why Sabella was like a rabbit in the headlights and their crew were wound up good and proper. If McPhail hadn't have been so cocky and started on them then I feel we may have fared a little better.

Never really rated McPhail. But, I think my memory of him may be a bit tainted because I think he was far more to blame for our relegation to the fourth division than either Don Givens or John Matthews for that completely needless penalty that he gave away.

 

[Darthblade]

Strange that they always mention that, but never mention the true massacre which occurred on 8 September 1951. Blades 7 Wednesday 3.

Wednesday have never scored more than 5 goals against us in a league match, and they've only done that once, and 1979 was the only time they ever scored 4 against us.

The facts are that in competitive matches we have beaten them more often than they have beaten us, we have scored more goals against them than they have against us and we have achieved more doubles than they have. They had to wait nearly 100 years for their last one! And they have won only once at Bramall Lane in the last 49 years .

Seems we don't have a bad record against them, especially considering how large they are..........................

Large !!!! Come on now ......... they are the definition of "massive"

UTB & FTP

 

[boo radley]

Maybe someone can correct me, but was it really a 4-0 type drubbing ? Didn't they score against the run of play just before half-time, then "nobble" our playmaker (Mick Speight) just after half time ? Maybe i'm clutching at straws !!

I'm pretty sure it was like that. It was Speight or Mac Phail that hit the bar first?

 

[Large Mendonca]

I'm pretty sure it was like that. It was S eight or Mac Phail that hit the bar first?

I thought we hit the bar first half, but was it one of our strikers, Butlin or Bourne ? it was a long time ago......

 

[Jehovah]

The worst thing for me is the amount of times we've had the chance to put it to bed but failed to capitalise. 3 0 up at ht at the Lane and the 1 2 win at Hillsborough (that goal from Akinbyi) when it should have been about 6 spring to mind.

 

[boo radley]

December 26th 1979. Attended the massacre as a 6 year old. Sadly it's one of my first memories of watching the mighty blades. I remember leaving the sty. A feeling of dread at the thought of returning to school and facing the deluded. I also a remember a connection with my team. I was gutted they'd lost but I knew, even then, that we were the team of the city, Sheffield's team.

At that time the rootless, the lost, the misguided and the deluded all gravitated towards Wednesday. No guidance, no style, no idea - they just drifted the wrong way. Many became Wednesday fans overnight and claimed a life long allegiance. Some things never change. Each time they experience a brief sniff of success they crawl from the woodwork and dust down their 'vintage' shirts. They have no backbone, no class and a twisted view of history. This will never change.

Blades are entirely different. Even as a six year old I knew it. Blades have style, we are the true team of this city. Would I swap our league positions with them? Probably yes. Would I change anything else? Never!

As a group of fans we might not always agree - it's all about opinions. The team may regularly drive us insane - I know for one I frequently ask myself - why do I do this? But we keep coming back because the answer is obvious - it's because we are super bladesmen.....and we will fight for ever more!

Don't like the title or the ending but I can appreciate the middle bit.
You see as pointed out the biggest win was ours and why give them any sort of glory. I F***ING HATE THAT SONG AND REFUSE TO SING IT.
WHY SOME BLADES WANT TO SING ABOUT THEIR GLORY I WILL NEVER KNOW.

 

[Snowman]

I'm pretty sure it was like that. It was Speight or Mac Phail that hit the bar first?

I can tell you with the complete authority of one who was there that Butlin hit the bar. Had he scored then things may have been different, but I doubt it. As I have pointed out in other posts on other fora, we were in a false position that year. We have seen such things before and no doubt will again. We finished where we deserved to be.

Sabella basically got kicked up and down dale by Johnson I think it was and had no interest from the 10th minute. Speight was in no way a playmaker, but without Sabella he was worse than a Pinchy impression of Nick Montgomery. Meanwhile, in goal we had the one eyed purple people eater who had sailed in from Transylvania to Whitby and blagged a game via Happy Harry.

 

[boo radley]

I can tell you with the complete authority of one who was there that Butlin hit the bar. Had he scored then things may have been different, but I doubt it. As I have pointed out in other posts on other fora, we were in a false position that year. We have seen such things before and no doubt will again. We finished where we deserved to be.

Sabella basically got kicked up and down dale by Johnson I think it was and had no interest from the 10th minute. Speight was in no way a playmaker, but without Sabella he was worse than a Pinchy impression of Nick Montgomery. Meanwhile, in goal we had the one eyed purple people eater who had sailed in from Transylvania to Whitby and blagged a game via Happy Harry.

Your memory is probably a lot better than mine. I'd rather forget the trauma. Speight did look in command of a lot of things though and was he not in what they called the England B Squad at the time. Once Speight had gone so had we.

 

[Silent Blade]

Maybe someone can correct me, but was it really a 4-0 type drubbing ? Didn't they score against the run of play just before half-time, then "nobble" our playmaker (Mick Speight) just after half time ? Maybe i'm clutching at straws !!

I'm pretty sure it was like that. It was Speight or Mac Phail that hit the bar first?

I thought we hit the bar first half, but was it one of our strikers, Butlin or Bourne ? it was a long time ago......

It was Bourne whose shot hit the bar and McPhail who hit the rebound from 5 yards straight at Bolder who was lying on the ground

Yes Speight was carried off when we were a goal down

 

[Silent Blade]

I can tell you with the complete authority of one who was there that Butlin hit the bar.

That was in the fixture at the Lane in Easter 1980 but this time MacPhail netted the rebound

 

[Snowman]

That was in the fixture at the Lane in Easter 1980 but this time MacPhail netted the rebound

one out of two aint bad especially after 37 years and they both start with B!

 

[Snowman]

Your memory is probably a lot better than mine. I'd rather forget the trauma. Speight did look in command of a lot of things though and was he not in what they called the England B Squad at the time. Once Speight had gone so had we.

It transpires my memory is not as good as yours. Speight was indeed something called an English B International and he used to wear the blazer to prove it. I liked him as he was a distant relative, but I didn't have any positive memories of his contribution that day. In fact it just brings back a cold feeling of misery and hatred.

 

[boo radley]

It transpires my memory is not as good as yours. Speight was indeed something called an English B International and he used to wear the blazer to prove it. I liked him as he was a distant relative, but I didn't have any positive memories of his contribution that day. In fact it just brings back a cold feeling of misery and hatred.

To be honest, I think it best we just forget it. How can the slidy curly haired Twat take so much green phlegm and revel in it.
Just do not sing that stupid song.

 

[Silent Blade]

It transpires my memory is not as good as yours. Speight was indeed something called an English B International and he used to wear the blazer to prove it. I liked him as he was a distant relative, but I didn't have any positive memories of his contribution that day. In fact it just brings back a cold feeling of misery and hatred.

Woody was originally picked for the England B tour squad in New Zealand in 1978 but he withdrew due to personal reasons. Mick Speight was called up to replace him

 

[sothall blade]

On the last day of work, our young piggy apprentice (he was getting a bit giddy about santa coming) thought it was a good idea to wind SB with the Boxing day blah blah blah so i took the oportunity to point out a few facts to the un-educated boy, like your 17 so yer was,nt born and thi favver would have been a babe in arms so its unlikely he would have been there, then informed him of the spankings the blades have handed out down the years and how it took them 90 odd years to do the double over United all this factual information left the lad a little shell shocked, then just to finish the history lesson off i said, and the best fact of all is that the Blades have won more derbies than Wendy, unless someone knows better, i was,nt around for some of them games

 

[oldblade]

It was Bourne whose shot hit the bar and McPhail who hit the rebound from 5 yards straight at Bolder who was lying on the ground

Yes Speight was carried off when we were a goal down

McPhail. Possibly coincidence, but why does his name seem synonymous with two of the worst moments in our history?

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Khalid Aziz.