Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Boxer Blade]

That has to be the best photo yet, and that takes some doing, great photo.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

I have to admit I'm a little reluctant to "like" photos of naked men bathing together...

 

[Hamburg Blade]

If the old town hall hadn't been in the picture I'd have had LYDON down as favourite.

Still, it has to be someone on here. Not that anyone will admit to it...

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Bert ....err...stumbled on them by accident.

Nothing to do with the site being called Flashbak, then...?

 

[blade.i.am]

Not the worst Austrian we've ever signed

You could be right, my memory is a bit vague. I remember all the hulabaloo at the time was quite something. Later to be eclipsed by the controversy surrounding our potential first foreign signing, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Certain board members decided to take matters into their own hands, and poor old Franz was done for. Things went a bit sideways after that IIRC.

 

[The Crab]

View attachment 39431 Not the worst Austrian we've ever signed

 

[GrayBlade]

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Deaneandagana]

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One of our better away kits - quite like that

 

[Silent Blade]

Blades 3 (Hodgson, Allchurch, Kettleborough) Spurs 1 (Greaves). September 22nd 1962

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Therealfurphy]

That match against Spurs was my first ever - 56 years ago - remember watching second half from in front of the pavilion

 

[GrayBlade]

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One excellent Blades player here and another one who didn’t quite cut the mustard IMO, despite being a legend in his own mind-time. I think we know who is who

 

[Addison]

Thanks for posting this Gray Blade. Wheel and British Oak missing to complete the set. What wonderful memories of boozing in Mosborough. The Vine, had my first pint in there at the ripe old age of 14, Westfield School headquarters such a shame it no longer exists.

Presume Alma has gone as well. Royal Oak was a regular haunt in my youth happy days.

 

[DifferentClass]

Bert ....err...stumbled on them by accident.

That's what the vicar who had to have a potato removed from his arse said...

 

[BerksBlade]

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That away kit was absolute bobbins though.

 

[Bert]

That's what the vicar who had to have a potato removed from his arse said...

Many years ago Bert had a friend in Sheffield whose girlfriend worked at the Northern General. They had a bloke come into casualty who had a Babycham bottle stuck up his arse. He said he accidentally sat on it.

 

[Paisley Blade]

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Blades player in the top photo the only one born and bred in Grenoside that I know of , clearly a cosmic mix up when it should have been me ..... grrrrrrr....

 

[Robby Blade]

https://flashbak.com/wonderful-retro-photos-of-footballers-in-the-bath-31473/ .............. United players apparently

Taken in more innocent times.

 

[Bert]

Blades player in the top photo the only one born and bred in Grenoside that I know of , clearly a cosmic mix up when it should have been me ..... grrrrrrr....

He was educated at the same establishment as Bert, brownie and Billy Sharp.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Many years ago Bert had a friend in Sheffield whose girlfriend worked at the Northern General. They had a bloke come into casualty who had a Babycham bottle stuck up his arse. He said he accidentally sat on it.

I did.

 

[Bert]

Taken in more innocent times.

Yes, you'd have to pay for that now

 

[Paisley Blade]

He was educated at the same establishment as Bert, brownie and Billy Sharp.

Same year as our big un , and just before our slightly less bigger un , and then me .

 

[Lucky Polo's]

And me, I was 2 years behind.

(I've always been a bit "slow")

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Silent Blade]

Two weeks after this photo was taken, the BLUT was open to spectators for the first time

 

[Silent Blade]

Blades v Blackpool at New Zealand in June 1965

 

[Trigger Blade]

Blades v Blackpool at New Zealand in June 1965

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Shameless holiday alert, Pt 94....

Completely by chance, I was at McLean Park in February. We were driving into Napier, I saw the floodlights and decided to make a detour just for a nosey, I find sports grounds really interesting.

The gates were open, we walked in, started talking to the caretaker and he gave us a guided tour. The ground hosted a couple of WC one dayers in 2015 and he presented me with a miniature plastic souvenir WC trophy that he still had left over. It has a 19,000 capacity, sp pretty big by English standards.

The ground is being refurbished and the cricket square is being replaced by drop in wickets and he took us to the park next door where the groundsman team were practicing the lifting and moving of the drop in wicket, which was fascinating to watch for somebody who does some work on the local cricket ground.

All in all, it was a highlight of the tour and even better now I know TRAWW were there only 50 years ago. It even eclipsed Napier itself, a wonderful town, flattened by an earthquake in about 1930 and rebuilt in the style of the time, Art Deco, even down to the road signs.

 

[Bert]