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

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Isaw Joeshaw said:
September 1951 - Blades 7 Grunters 3 . Now THAT's what you call a massacre.

I don't know what the exact team was that day ( I know someone who will ) but our squad that season included such luminaries as Ted Burgin , Graham Shaw , Alf Ringstead , Sir James Hagan and the peerless St. Joseph Shaw .

The strange thing was , I came away feeling nowhere near as elated as I did many years later , such as when Bobby Davidson fucked 'em at the sty or when Brownie tore their hearts out with his wonder strike at the Lane .

In ' 51 even as a kid , I knew we were so much better than them that it came as no surprise .

Happy days , and more to come tomorrow I hope . Come on Blades , make an old Blade ' appeh .:)
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It could have been 8,i think we missed a penalty as well !!
 

I think the one where Punton scored was my first...can't remember much...Remember the 3-2 game Silent posted though....Stood high up on the Kop as a 10 year old with my Dad...2-0 up,outplaying them,then foot off the gas,2-2...then King Tudor off the bench through Grommett's legs at the Lane end,happy days.
 
79. Upper leppings lane. 11 years old. So optimistic in the run up. A kid whose life was United.

I look on that Christmas as my last as a kid really. Also when I first hated the pigs. The pigs at school never became my friends and even then they were gloating grunters. Banter is one thing, pig banter is entirely different.

So want to put em to the sword tomorrow, so want a Sharp hatrick and Sharp and Wilder to celebrate in front of the Bramall lane end, fuck the consequences. Cement their iconic status with gloating pig style celebrations. Make em understand in the only way they understand. For once, drop your class and behave as they would.

UTB and FTP
 
Silent Blade said:
Team was; Ted Burgin, Fred Furniss, Albert Cox, Harry Hitchen, Harry Latham, Joe Shaw, Alf Ringstead, Fred A Smith, Harold Brook, Jimmy Hagan and Derek Hawksworth. Scorers were Hawksworth 2, Brook 2, Ringstead 2 and Smith.
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Many thanks , Silent .

Interesting to note that the two wingers got FOUR goals between them .

My dad told an amusing story about Derek Hawksworth . He said that he was once in a barbers shop in town waiting while he was having his hair cut . At the end the barber said to him " Brylcreem sir ?" to which DH replied in a loud voice ( so that everyone would know who he was ) " No thanks , I don't want the ball to skid off my head when I'm heading it at the goal ." !!
 
Isaw Joeshaw said:
Many thanks , Silent .

Interesting to note that the two wingers got FOUR goals between them .

My dad told an amusing story about Derek Hawksworth . He said that he was once in a barbers shop in town waiting while he was having his hair cut . At the end the barber said to him " Brylcreem sir ?" to which DH replied in a loud voice ( so that everyone would know who he was ) " No thanks , I don't want the ball to skid off my head when I'm heading it at the goal ." !!
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Good one! Think he and Burgin are the only two from the line up that is still alive.
 
I started watching United in the 74-75 season. United were the trendy club in the area as Wednesday were in their worse spell in their entire history. Most the kids at my junior and senior school seemed to support United.

I grew up convinced United were the superior club as SW were always in our shadow from 72 to 79.

My 1st Derby was Boxing Day 1979. United were top of the league and SW were about 8th, so we were favourites. Turned up at the ground 1 hour early and waited outside Leppings Lane asking to buy spare tickets. Had no joy so we went to the SW ticket office. They said the only area with space was their Kop. I was a 5ft 6 boy at the time and couldnt see a thing. Also couldn’t get down the steps as they were totally rammed. So never saw anything of the match. Did see some young boys wearing red and white scarfs at the back of their Kop which proves that there was no strict segregation. You could just turn up on the day and anyone could go in the home or away end.
 
KingKeith said:
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.
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Ditto pal in South Stand lower, first derby aged 10, f***ing ruined Christmas that year.

Favourite derby the Michael Brown 3-1 game, it should have been loads more, as should a few others in that era.
 
Isaw Joeshaw said:
Many thanks , Silent .

Interesting to note that the two wingers got FOUR goals between them .

My dad told an amusing story about Derek Hawksworth . He said that he was once in a barbers shop in town waiting while he was having his hair cut . At the end the barber said to him " Brylcreem sir ?" to which DH replied in a loud voice ( so that everyone would know who he was ) " No thanks , I don't want the ball to skid off my head when I'm heading it at the goal ." !!
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Who missed the penalty in the 7-3 rout,did some one miss out on a Hat-trick ?
 
My first derby game was the 1-1 draw at the Lane in April 1980, the return fixture after Boxing Day. Don't remember much about it now as I was 9 at the time, but the Blade sat next to me smacked me in the face when McPhail scored the opening goal for us!

Of course Terry Cuntan scored the equaliser from 25 yards after our defence allowed him to turn and make an arcing run... CUNT.
 
Sheffsteel said:
I started watching United in the 74-75 season. United were the trendy club in the area as Wednesday were in their worse spell in their entire history. Most the kids at my junior and senior school seemed to support United.

I grew up convinced United were the superior club as SW were always in our shadow from 72 to 79.

My 1st Derby was Boxing Day 1979. United were top of the league and SW were about 8th, so we were favourites. Turned up at the ground 1 hour early and waited outside Leppings Lane asking to buy spare tickets. Had no joy so we went to the SW ticket office. They said the only area with space was their Kop. I was a 5ft 6 boy at the time and couldnt see a thing. Also couldn’t get down the steps as they were totally rammed. So never saw anything of the match. Did see some young boys wearing red and white scarfs at the back of their Kop which proves that there was no strict segregation. You could just turn up on the day and anyone could go in the home or away end.
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Even in the 90s there were no loyalty schemes so you could just go to the other club's ticket office and buy a ticket for the home section, which many on both sides did.
 

Silent Blade said:
Did we score first? Half time score was 1-1. Who led in the 2nd half?
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Good questions, Silent, but I can’t help, I’m afraid. I went to both of the 2-2 games at their place in 1966 but the only recollection I have of the actual football is a goal by Peter Eustace in one of them at the Leppings Lane end when he nodded in a left-wing corner at the near post. The only other thing I remember from both games is looking across and seeing a large group of Unitedites on their Kop, halfway up and to the right side if you were looking from the pitch.
 
Shalalalafenoughty said:
Good questions, Silent, but I can’t help, I’m afraid. I went to both of the 2-2 games at their place in 1966 but the only recollection I have of the actual football is a goal by Peter Eustace in one of them at the Leppings Lane end when he nodded in a left-wing corner at the near post. The only other thing I remember from both games is looking across and seeing a large group of Unitedites on their Kop, halfway up and to the right side if you were looking from the pitch.
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It was either we were leading 1-0 and then it was 2-1 to them or vice versa. LSF do you remember?
 
Silent Blade said:
Eddie Colquhoun heads in Woody's free kick 1-0

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Billy Dearden heads in a Woody corner 2-0

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Either Tommy Craig or Eddie Colquhoun own goal 2-1

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Jackie Sinclair 2-2

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

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John celebrating his winner with lifelong Blade Len Badger


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You have an amazing selection of photo's Silent Blade. I found those very evocative, emotional even. It was my first ever football match and those photo's just whisked me back in an instant. Brilliant!
 
John Street West Terrace said:
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 !
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Don't forget Jeff King booting Sabella up in the air every two minutes. Ref too scared to put a stop to it.
 
coaxingstar71 said:
My first derby game was the 1-1 draw at the Lane in April 1980, the return fixture after Boxing Day. Don't remember much about it now as I was 9 at the time, but the Blade sat next to me smacked me in the face when McPhail scored the opening goal for us!

Of course Terry Cuntan scored the equaliser from 25 yards after our defence allowed him to turn and make an arcing run... CUNT.
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Thought it was Butlin put us in front. Kenworthy marked Currant out of the match, brilliant, then the pig ran his studs down TK's ankle and he had to go off. This was in front of the ref who did sweet f a. Pig scored after that.
 
Blade for Sale said:
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!
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It was my first derby too, I was 5 years old and hardly remember anything.
 
It was 1966 at S6 when we drew 2-2 and for some reason we wore white shorts.

I remember the first derby I went to on my own. I was in the old East Stand on John Street perfectly placed to see Bill Punton score the only goal.
 
First one for me was a county cup match during the three day week power cuts due to strikes. 1973 ? Swillsborough , a draw.
 
Nade said:
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'.
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My first game was that league cup game in 2000 the first time we’d played them in a competitive match for 6/7 years, unfortunately I was sat on the Pig end in their North stand with my dad and his fancy piece at the time, I remember being told not to celebrate if united scored and stand and clap if pigs scored, horrible experience having to do that as a staunch 14 year old blade, we knew there’d been “bother” at the far end of the stand towards the leppings Lane end and apparently they were 100’s of Blades with their own little section of the stand, my dad went to look with the promise of watching the second half with all the blades fans in the stand, he came back and said it was mainly all Uniteds “boys” and they’d be loads of trouble if we sat there, I was gutted to be honest I’d have sooner got my little head kicked in than sat around these porky so n sows, anyway we lost and was it Asaba? Missed an absolute sitter late on. Depressing first derby but since then I’ve certainly had the better results on my side.

Personal favourite derby match? 3-1 Michael brown. No contest as I was at the rust bucket last season.
 
ZDS game for me as well.

Wonder what the reaction to Bob Booker celebrating by climbing the fences at the Leppings Lane end would've been if we'd had social media and permanent outrage back then?
 
Wembley 93', my dad took me, 7 years old and I remember little to nothing about the actual match. My dad woke me up early so we could get down to the Cross Keys in Wath to get the coach. Outside Wembley I'm sure there was a huge Sonic the Hedgehog hot air balloon in the car park (randomly). In the stadium I remember a huge flag coming up and over us before kick off and the early Waddle goal, I remember Cork scoring just before HT and that's it.

I remember walking back home, late at night piss wet through as I think there was a storm.

Thankfully my memory of my first Wednesday game isn't great apart from randomness other than the actual game itself.
 

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