Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[GRUMPY BLADE]

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Blades L to R: Whitehurst[?], Beesley, Morris, Deano, Vinnie.

We haven't got a Deano but...............









................Chris will find one.


Sorry Billy, as much as we love you your not quite there.
Still a top bloke though and much better off the pitch.

 

[Silent Blade]

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Tom McAlister, Ian Mackenzie. Who are we playing here? Ipswich?

Ipswich 1 (Whymark) Blades 1 (Woodward pen) on 28th April 1973. My dad said it was the first time he heard me swear at a football match!

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Ipswich 1 (Whymark) Blades 1 (Woodward pen) on 28th April 1973. My dad said it was the first time he heard me swear at a football match!

And did he then make you promise that you would for evermore be a Silent Blade...?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Nothing to do with Sheffield or United, but a glimpse back to when football grounds were ramshackled affairs, cramming people in with no facilities and barely a thought to comfort or possible safety issues. That slightly wonky wooden shed and frame holding up the Golden Goal information is just priceless. This isn't some tinpot ground either, Baseball Ground, early 70s, Derby v Manchester United.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Nothing to do with Sheffield or United, but a glimpse back to when football grounds were ramshackled affairs, cramming people in with no facilities and barely a thought to comfort or possible safety issues. That slightly wonky wooden shed and frame holding up the Golden Goal information is just priceless. This isn't some tinpot ground either, Baseball Ground, early 70s, Derby v Manchester United.

Lob a flare into that lot and the effect would have been something! Must have been first match of the season - there is grass on the pitch.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Lob a flare into that lot and the effect would have been something! Must have been first match of the season - there is grass on the pitch.

I've got a feeling it might have been a Watney Cup match. Silent Blade will have no idea on this one. I can name the players though

 

[Tunstall Fred]

I've got a feeling it might have been a Watney Cup match. Silent Blade will have no idea on this one. I can name the players though

Silent Blade will be able to tell you the name of the bloke stood at the side of the shed,i got the Man Utd players,i reckon the Derby player is Durban

 

[sitwell]

Sadler ,Ure ,Charlton Kidd Stiles ,don't know. Love how the golden goal man is wearing a shirt and tie ,shame how things have changed.

Not Gowling on the end is it ?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Sadler ,Ure ,Charlton Kidd Stiles ,don't know. Love how the golden goal man is wearing a shirt and tie ,shame how things have changed.

Not Gowling on the end is it ?

Crerand, Sitters

 

[sitwell]

Crerand, Sitters

Scottish bastard ,always disliked that nob ,thinks hes it.

 

[Silent Blade]

I've got a feeling it might have been a Watney Cup match. Silent Blade will have no idea on this one. I can name the players though

Derby 4 Man U 1 Watney Cup final 1970. I was at that ground a few days earlier seeing a John McGovern goal beating the Blades in the semi final

 

[Silent Blade]

Scottish bastard ,always disliked that nob ,thinks hes it.

Crerand told me to get out of Man U's team coach 7 weeks after this photo was taken but Nobby Stiles and Ian Ure told him off and allowed me to carry on taking autographs in the coach. It was after the Blades were playing a reserves match against Man U. My dad always disliked Crerand ever since

 

[snootyfenooty]

Nothing to do with Sheffield or United, but a glimpse back to when football grounds were ramshackled affairs, cramming people in with no facilities and barely a thought to comfort or possible safety issues. That slightly wonky wooden shed and frame holding up the Golden Goal information is just priceless. This isn't some tinpot ground either, Baseball Ground, early 70s, Derby v Manchester United.

The crown on that pitch was such that you're probably missing the first three rows of that terrace in that picture.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

The crown on that pitch was such that you're probably missing the first three rows of that terrace in that picture.

You're probably right, Fenners. I went later in the 70s and was stood on terracing down one side of the pitch, right at the front. It sloped from the middle towards both goals quite a bit. Never helped with the drainage though, it was always a bog of a pitch from about mid-September!

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Mick Hill, Woody, Mick Jones, Bernard Shaw and Len Badger

 

[stringjunior]

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Mick Hill, Woody, Mick Jones, Bernard Shaw and Len Badger

You've missed one. Who's is the nose?

 

[Grappler]

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Mick Hill, Woody, Mick Jones, Bernard Shaw and Len Badger

M-I
M-I-C
M-I-C-K
Mick Jones!

 

[HighfieldBlade]

You've missed one. Who's is the nose?

I only just noticed that!
My guess is that it belongs to Frank Barlow. I bet Silent Blade 'nose' the answer.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

You've missed one. Who's is the nose?

David Munks?

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[bornablade]

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Mick Hill, Woody, Mick Jones, Bernard Shaw and Len Badger

Here's one for Silent (and I don't know the answer). Where's that photo taken?

 

[Silent Blade]

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[Silent Blade]

Here's one for Silent (and I don't know the answer). Where's that photo taken?

Not sure. Ball Inn ground?

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

You've missed one. Who's is the nose?

The nose?

Always Warnock.

 

[LSF]

Not sure. Ball Inn ground?

Definitely not Ball Inn.

 

[Silent Blade]

Definitely not Ball Inn.

Would it have been at the small training area at the back of the Kop? Don't recognize the house behind the wall

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Not sure. Ball Inn ground?

It looks like a big greenhouse behind the players,so im saying Van Dyks

 

[LSF]

Would it have been at the small training area at the back of the Kop? Don't recognize the house behind the wall

Maybe?
My thoughts were out in peak district somewhere. Occasionally in the 60's they broke away from usual routine for FA cup games and went for walks and training in Derbyshire.

 

[Silent Blade]

It looks like a big greenhouse behind the players,so im saying Van Dyks

Where's Van Dyks?

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Where's Van Dyks?

Clowne/Barlborough way,spent many a boring Sunday afternoon there with my parents taking me to a garden centre as a` treat`