'Memries' Recollections of your first Blades vs Wednesday match....

[Rollerball]

Boxing Day, never forget how easy we were going to thrash "that other mob" I was 13, on the bus from town with all of he other blades, a lot of optimism kinda like now, I'm hoping for a much better result. Never felt so down about the Blades, not even dropping into div 4.
C'mon Chris wipe out that 4-0 forever.

 

[KingKeith]

Walking to Hillsborough on Boxing Day as a 6 year old with my mum & dad. What a day, sitting on their south stand lower bit, looking at the blades really rammed into leppings lane, looked amazing. The rest is history the day was shit, the family gathering was shit everything was shit.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

This, pinched from Silent.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

This, pinched from Silent.

Sorry, should have included Tudor scoring through Grummets legs!

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Boxing Day 79 ......

Thought we were going to avenge that score line when we went 3-0 up at the Lane at half time in 09, but it wasn’t to be.

If we smash the bastards 5-0 on Friday I’m not sure it would erase the memory of 79, but it would fucking help !!

UTB, FTO

 

[blademark]

I can't compete with Isawjoeshaw but around 1967, at Owlerton, as it was called then, Alan Birchenall scored 2 but Owls retaliated to equalise. I was in the South stand which was wooden then, and I'll never forget the terrifying noise the Owls made when they scored. It stayed with me all this time.

 

[Harry's Game]

The Dane and Deano game for me.

Still The only game I’ve ever attended where I think the atmosphere affected the result. If you can still find the video some of the Wednesday players look terrified when running out on the pitch and Nigel Worthington completely lost his head and could have been sent off twice in the first half.

The atmosphere completely took them and Trevor Francis by surprise, old Tricky said afterwards he thought it was as intense as an old firm game.

 

[SwindonBladeJnr]

First at the Lane was the Michael Brown volley 3-1 game. Absolutely battered them first half and Pressman was having a worldy (again). Alan Quinn scored for them just after half-time and we all thought 'here we go again'. I still have no idea how Kabba scored our equalizer, just doesn't look possible from every replay. Then Brownies volley and then the Chief (there was a good 5 secs delay in celebrating that one, as it didn't look like a goal from the Kop).

First at the Sty was the Mike Dean show.

My first as well. I would have been 12/13 and to this day it's probably my favourite game (of those I've actually attended).

Funnily enough I think there are a few parallels between that one and the one tomorrow night, and I don't just mean the fact that they are/were being played on a Friday! I just hope that translates to another comfortable win for us.

UTB

 

[CaptainMorgans]

First one i remember was the league cup in about 2000 when Ekoku was playing for Wednesday and they won 2-1.

First game i went to was the sickening 2-0 loss at Hillsborough, where we were on top but Pressman was channelling that Russian goalkeeper that was meant to be the best ever, and then Owusu scored with his first touch on his first game for them.

Next derby i went to was 3-1 at the Lane the same season, which has already been mentioned. I remember even at 2-1 up i wasn't happy even though Brown's goal was fucking ridiculous because we were only up by one goal and i knew I'd still get shit at school about Wednesday winning 'on aggregate'.

Brilliant injection of nostalgia! I remember the Wednesdayites at my school going on about that bloody away goal victory too.

The atmosphere is nothing like it was that night at the Lane anymore, think we’ve lost a lot of our “edge.” I remember that season in particular the G & H Blocks near the Away end had quite a large element of intimidation to them. Whilst I disagree with a lot of their antics (the flare fired into the away end that night springs straight to mind), I’d be lying if I said it didn’t add to the atmosphere and I do miss it.

The Lane used to be a loud, intimidating place to come to. I just find it a little flat now.

 

[Silent Blade]

I can't compete with Isawjoeshaw but around 1967, at Owlerton, as it was called then, Alan Birchenall scored 2 but Owls retaliated to equalise. I was in the South stand which was wooden then, and I'll never forget the terrifying noise the Owls made when they scored. It stayed with me all this time.

March 1966

 

[Groucho Blade]

Eddie Colquhoun heads in Woody's free kick 1-0

Billy Dearden heads in a Woody corner 2-0

Either Tommy Craig or Eddie Colquhoun own goal 2-1

Jackie Sinclair 2-2

John Tudor comes on as sub replacing Gil Reece and scored the winner with a scuffed shot that went through Peter Grummitt's legs

John celebrating his winner with lifelong Blade Len Badger

Me too...this was the first game I ever saw at BDTBL as a 14 year old kid from Donny. It was an incredible experience and an unbelievable atmosphere. And I was hooked.

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

Hahaha. A Worcester fan with over 500 loyalty points and loads of Blades whinging they can't get tickets. Enjoy it Johnny !!

Hehehe


There'll be a lynch mob waiting at the station!!





And thanks, I know i'll enjoy it....

Seems appropriate to get a rush of blood going so I can say...


Come On You Red and White Wizards!

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

Eddie Colquhoun heads in Woody's free kick 1-0

Billy Dearden heads in a Woody corner 2-0

Either Tommy Craig or Eddie Colquhoun own goal 2-1

Jackie Sinclair 2-2

John Tudor comes on as sub replacing Gil Reece and scored the winner with a scuffed shot that went through Peter Grummitt's legs

John celebrating his winner with lifelong Blade Len Badger

Class as always Silent! Great evocative stirring photos....I wish I could go back in time and be there...I bet things today dont feel a patch like what they used to there?!

 

[pesch the mini genius]

2-0 win at Bramall Lane. Just sold Agana. If you think Wednesday fans are insufferable now try being 9 or 10 when they have a good side and actually win a trophy.

Cue Warhurst and Sheridan trying to decapitate each other. 1-0, our Dane opens the scoring. 2nd half, Deano finds the acres of space between England's greatest ever goalkeeper's (lol) legs, 2-0. Late on, Jamie Hoyland plays a back pass from just inside Wednesdays half, magic. Tracey pretends to kick one off the floor, Wednesday striker shits it, Tracey let's it run out for a goal kick. I fucking loved school for weeks after that. Good times

Same match and as you say being a blade back then wasn't easy at School , always seemed more pig fans than blades back then at school and 99% never went to games and were all twats - not just saying that , they just seemed full of it , irritating kids in general that were pretty useless at everything but somehow thought they were great- makes sense they were pigs !
atmosphere was amazing esp before kick off , also Gary Sinclair take note ! not any pre match music if i remember right! ?! (maybe just Judas Priest - which Imo is ok!
That following week at school was great !

 

[John Street West Terrace]

With one sleep to go, a new dawn is nearly upon me for my first time experiencing what this 'game' will be all about...

'Game, GAME Jonny?' I hear you all cry...


So it is with much fevered anticipation since obtaining a golden ticket (eternal thank yous to prince albert for providing one! ) I will be wandering my way up from Worcester after work to the BDTBL cauldron and im sure it will be like nothing ive been to before when i've popped up for a game.

I will try and drink in and savour every living moment of it and to set me nicely on my way it would be great if anyone can regale their own stories, memories of their first Steel City derby game.

Dec 79 unfortunately...i’ll go with if Mick Speight hadn’t have had to come off & Jeff Bourne’s chip had gone in instead of hitting bar after their first it would have been s totally different outcome ... lucky blue & white twats !

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

We've had this thread dozens of times mate - but you probably weren't to know that - and it's nice to reminisce.

Mine was 1970 (I think?). Bramall lane. Blades 3 Owls 2. A good game in which United had Wednesday on the rack for most of it and went 2-0 up, but the Owls bludgeoned their way back into it to make it 2-2. Then Blades sub, John Tudor, came on and scored a late winner. I remember being well impressed with Geoff Salmons in particular, who tore 'em a new one down the left flank.

Oh, it'd be a bit weird if you hadnt had countless reminiscences of these games in times gone by..but its great that so many on here have so many different tales and I shall re-read a lot of this thread on the train up tomorrow, resonate the soul and spirit to feel more of that connection going on.

 

[Fanny magnet]

Remember being on their kop for the zenith data ( was about 16 ) with my brother and my dad and we all agreed to keep quiet no matter what

When we scored I couldn't hold it in and let out a loud get In while punching the air ,realising what i'd done I glanced around expecting to see my dad and brother getting their heads kicked in only to realise they were jumping around too and so was a large group of blades surrounding us we didn't know were there

Nothing happened to us all night

 

[OrlandoexiledBlade]

The infamous day in 1979 for me. First time i had ever sat down at a game in the Leppings Lane top tier.I remember going home and watching the King and I on tv thinking--it was more enjoyable than watching us fold 4-0 to THEM!

I agree with the comment above about the Nov 1991 game . The hatred was proper intense and it well and truly bonkers when Dane knocked that loose ball in at the kop end .remember the Big Tree that night with John Gannon and Simon Tracey dancing on the pool table. the place was mental all night long

 

[jockdodds]

It was the 3-2 defeat in the Zenith Data Cup for me. Looking back it's a pretty meaningless fixture but at the time it didn't seem it, there were over 30k there and all the talk at school was about the game. I don't think anyone at school had any recollection of a Sheffield Derby match at the time as we'd been playing 2nd fiddle to them for as long as I could remember. Sheridan scored the winner for them in extra time (we had equalised on 90 mins). In my memory he walzed past our entire team and hammered it into the top corner form 25 yards, but having recently seen a recording, we basically threw a few apologies for tackles at him and he scored from quite close in. Got a real hammering at school the next day but it was all worth it by the end of that particular season!

I remember that game because there was a piggy fan in the office where I worked. I was expecting him to give me some full on gloating the next day, but instead he seemed quite subdued. "You lot were lucky last night weren't you?" he said. I asked him waht he meant. "Equalising in the last minute" he said. "But you won in extra time" I said. "Extra time? I didn't know it went to extra time! I left after you scored!"

Daft piggy twat.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Remember being on their kop for the zenith data ( was about 16 ) with my brother and my dad and we all agreed to keep quiet no matter what

When we scored I couldn't hold it in and let out a loud get In while punching the air ,realising what i'd done I glanced around expecting to see my dad and brother getting their heads kicked in only to realise they were jumping around too and so was a large group of blades surrounding us we didn't know were there

Nothing happened to us all night

I’m a bit older that you FM ,was in their South Stand for the ZDS match with 5 of the lads , we notified them in less indiscrete manner that we weren’t blue & white shite

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

It was the 3-2 defeat in the Zenith Data Cup for me. Looking back it's a pretty meaningless fixture but at the time it didn't seem it, there were over 30k there and all the talk at school was about the game. I don't think anyone at school had any recollection of a Sheffield Derby match at the time as we'd been playing 2nd fiddle to them for as long as I could remember. Sheridan scored the winner for them in extra time (we had equalised on 90 mins). In my memory he walzed past our entire team and hammered it into the top corner form 25 yards, but having recently seen a recording, we basically threw a few apologies for tackles at him and he scored from quite close in. Got a real hammering at school the next day but it was all worth it by the end of that particular season!

It seems like yesterday. I had a pair of those red shorts. I found them in a changing room at warminster road back in the day. I remember get squashed on the way out of that game as well.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I’m a bit older that you FM ,was in their South Stand for the ZDS match with 5 of the lads , we notified them in less indiscrete manner that we weren’t blue & white shite

Were you one of the ones near the refreshment bar at half time when a young Duggie Naylor and his team of 30/40 muppets decided not to take on ten or so Blades? Despite no police presence?

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Not my first Derby as said before but a la priceless memento of putting those blue & white twats down s peg or 2

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Were you one of the ones near the refreshment bar at half time when a young Duggie Naylor and his team of 30/40 muppets decided not to take on ten or so Blades? Despite no police presence?

They bottled in properly .. yet again

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Fucking Boxing Day and the walk of shame from the death trap slum ,
To my house in S2
Return fixture and the mayhem before / during and after on our kop
Many more victories/ defeats/ and draws in between

 

[LoughboroBlade]

I still have no idea how Kabba scored our equalizer, just doesn't look possible from every replay.

It’s a great stretch on a ball he had no right to win, following an even better stretch by Macca on a ball that he looked even less likely to win. Each of our goals that night were fantastic in their own right:
– the work rate for the equaliser
– the technique for the second
– the humiliation for the third

 

[BettingBlade]

Just to make you all feel old......mine was the home game in the promotion season when Alan Quinn scored and we won 1-0.

Maybe it was my youthful optimism but those two victories that season never seemed like they were in doubt. They’d just come up from league one and we were top of the league it was almost like they were a foregone conclusion.

Every derby since then I’ve feared the worst, even when we’ve been in front and looked comfortable in them.

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

January 2, 1965: United 2 Wednesday 3. Crowd of 37190. Reg Matthewson and Alan Birchenall scored our goals. I was six. Can’t remember much about it but I recall it being a sunny day. United led twice. Wednesday’s winner came late on at the Bramall Lane end, the scorer (Johnny Fantham, I think) dribbling round Hodgy and slotting it home despite the despairing lunge of one of our defenders who slid in as it crossed the line and could only help it into the roof of the net.

First away derby was March 12, 1966, aged seven. I watched the match on my own from the South Stand. My dad took me, paid for my ticket and saw me through the turnstile then went off to visit his mother at Firth Park. Picked me up afterwards at Hillsborough Park. It was a 2-2 draw, Birchenall scoring two in front of a 34045 crowd. His record against Wednesday was fantastic.

Been to most of them since. The 3-1 (stood on their Kop and cheered when we scored) and 4-2 (sat in the South Stand and kept schtum for our goals) wins at their place stand out. Boxing Day 1979 was a shocker - terrible day. Stood on the Leppings Lane end for that.

Enjoy the game, Jonny!

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

My first was the league cup tie in 2001(???). We lost 2-1 AET. I sat on their stand with a mate and his dad. I was only about 13 at the time and wasn’t really ‘into’ following United at that point. I’d been going on and off since about 1991 though.

First one at Lane was a drab 0-0. Don’t even know the year. They had Paul Heald in goal and I think we had one disallowed.

 

[Silent Blade]

First away derby was March 12, 1966, aged seven. I watched the match on my own from the South Stand. My dad took me, paid for my ticket and saw me through the turnstile then went off to visit his mother at Firth Park. Picked me up afterwards at Hillsborough Park. It was a 2-2 draw, Birchenall scoring two in front of a 34045 crowd. His record against Wednesday was fantastic.
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Did we score first? Half time score was 1-1. Who led in the 2nd half?