Decent Blades players you'd completely forgotten about

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derekacorah said:
2 who are more "should have been shit but were actually good" are antipodeans Shaun Murphy & Carl Veart. Murphy couldn't run properly and Veart was the slowest winger we've ever had but both were (in my mind at least) excellent for us.
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Remember Veart shutting the annoying gooners up with a last minute header in the FA cup at lane....funny thing was on way home Seamans ex (he had just left her)..phoned into to RS on P & G after the game..call went along the lines of this...

"Hi Paul, I'm David S ex wife..."
PW " Really you are david S Wife..."
"Ex wife.....I'm really chuffed the Blades have won...etc etc "
:D:D
Pissed mi sen laughing..was all we talked about in pub after game...
 



Covering two birds with one letter my memory of Tuttle was Mark Hughes kicking shit out of him in an FA Cup game and getting sent off. Gordan Cowans was a class apart and had the same impact on me at the time as Oli Norwood has had. I remember being near the back of the Kop and watching this bloke who always had ages to pick out the perfect pass. But then it never rained in Bridlington when we went there for our holidays.
 
northsomersetblade said:
Glenn Cockerill. Never gets a mention on here. Fcking best midfielder we had around that time by miles
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Cockerill scored one at BL end, hit the ball so hard it made the net bulge and throw it straight back out. Ref didn't give the goal, every body went mad. Still beat other side by a good score though.
Silent to fill in the details please.
 
pommpey said:
Oooh. So are ITK about that, then?

*sits nicely*

Do tell.







Thought not.

pommpey
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We always sell. We always sell to pay for the Desso. Quite how we’ve got such an excellent football team at the moment is a mystery to me, because we always sell.

I just wish we had a cabbage patch playing surface to stifle the excellent football being played by the players we always sell to pay for the Desso.
 
benn5712 said:
Cockerill scored one at BL end, hit the ball so hard it made the net bulge and throw it straight back out. Ref didn't give the goal, every body went mad. Still beat other side by a good score though.
Silent to fill in the details please.
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29 September 1984.

We lost 3-2 to Grimsby. It was 0-0 when they happened.

Gary Lund got a hatrick for Grimsby. We were losing 3-0 and Morris and Philliskirk scored late to reduce the deficit.
 
SheepdipBlade said:
Olivier Tebilly. We bought him for 4p - he was brilliant for us for 6 games, then we flogged him to Celtic for £1.5m, where he gave away a penalty (or scored an own goal?) on his debut. He was average for them for a few seasons, before moving to Birmingham, where again he scored an own goal or sommat on his debut. Lost track of him after that - - but he was unusual in that he was good for us and dire for everyone else - as opposed to the usual other way around.

I've just looked him up on Wiki. Apparently he's since retired to France become the first black african to own his own vinyard and produce cognac. Well done that man!
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Known as "Bomb scare" at Parkhead.
 
Pinchy said:
Absolutely. One of my favourites. I liked Kevin Arnott too. On his day he was superb. Sadly, too often it wasn’t his day.
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Too much time in the pub with Edwards and a scrubber from the Forty Foot.
 



I always forget that Simonson looked decent when we had him on loan, and I remember being happy when he signed permanently. I also remember screaming my bollocks off when he saved those penalties in the Play Off final, and being ready to forgive him for the whole season based on those saves. Then he placed the ball on the spot..
 
SouthEssexBlade said:
When we really were shit, we had a centre-half on loan who was pretty decent, but we couldn't afford to sign him so he went back. Silent Blade, can you fill in the details for Dean Glover. It was about 1987-88ish and I think he played 5 or 6 games.
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October 1986. I remember he got into a terrible understanding with John Burridge early in his debut and almost gifted Huddersfield a goal. Dont remember him much about him in his spell for us
 
Paulus said:
If you saw either of these two how could you forget about them? Hatton was a proper footballer and Cowans still had all the class of a European Cup winner even if he didn't have all the legs.
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Agree Paulus , especially regarding Cowans. Had all the quality you could hope for in a top player, and he'd fit in perfectly in Wilder's current side. There are certain players capable of showing young players exactly how the game should be played, and Cowans had it in spades.
 
Bobby Campbell

A larger than life character. I couldn't understand a word he said. Could be a real nasty bugger at times but he knew where the back of the net was. Old school loved his beer and ran a pub in Hudderfield until he died.

Controversial former Northern Ireland striker Bobby Campbell has died in England at the age of 60. He had recently undergone lung surgery. Born and raised on the Rathcoole estate, outside Belfast, he made headlines throughout his career and beyond, not always for his football exploits.
 
derekacorah said:
2 who are more "should have been shit but were actually good" are antipodeans Shaun Murphy & Carl Veart. Murphy couldn't run properly and Veart was the slowest winger we've ever had but both were (in my mind at least) excellent for us.
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Can I add Dougie Hodgson to these two.
100% every match.....what he lacked in skill he made up for in effort easily.
 
Dennis Mortimer and Ken McNaught... on loan from Villa and part of Porterfield's pensioners team in the mid 80s....
 
benn5712 said:
Cockerill scored one at BL end, hit the ball so hard it made the net bulge and throw it straight back out. Ref didn't give the goal, every body went mad. Still beat other side by a good score though.
Silent to fill in the details please.
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It hit the angle of the stansion and the net before bouncing back into play, we could see from John Street it had gone in. I reckon it was against Grimsby Town.
No doubt someone will have posted it before me.
 



Scooter_mcgavin said:
I was shopping with the Mrs and during my day dreaming, for no reason whatsoever, David Tuttle came into my head.

Decent centre half that I'd totally forgotten had ever played for us.

Any others?
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I suspect you were having a “backscuttle” when “Tuttle” entered your head.

Sometimes “Franks” enters my head for the same reason.
 
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