Can you spot yourself or any Blades fans you recognise?

[raul]

Sorry but that has to be the Mafia guy from the start of the Italian Job.

Favourite film anyone??

 

[Sean Thornton]

Bloke top right proving the Chinese were watching the Blades even then.......


That or it's Nobby Stiles.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

How come there are Brummy fans in there? (Woman with scarf aloft on left-hand side)

 

[Sean Thornton]

Bottom row left. Artful Dodger, Oliver. 3rd from the left, the kid with the racist Grandad from East is East. Warwick Davis.

 

[Silent Blade]

How come there are Brummy fans in there? (Woman with scarf aloft on left-hand side)

Strict segregation started in the 1980s

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Is that Quentin Tarantino behind Trevor Francis?

Lol, that's Roger Hynd.

 

[Topplayersleave]

Peter Sutcliffe, top of the photo about 6 in from the right

 

[sitwell]

Me too Row A seat 85

Me too ,wasn't that Gil Reeces flying welshman game ? The game that made him an Icon for me and my favourite Blade ever. The reason my daughters middle name is Reece.

 

[Silent Blade]

Me too ,wasn't that Gil Reeces flying welshman game ? The game that made him an Icon for me and my favourite Blade ever. The reason my daughters middle name is Reece.

 

[Brian Blessed]

Ray Clemence, next to Russell Brand, behind Peter Beardsley.

Ha, I was going to say Ray Clemence is standing next to Charles Manson

 

[Goody]

Ha, I was going to say Ray Clemence is standing next to Charles Manson

As a 12 year old on the kop i used to stand in front of the crush barrier on the ledge. No one in front of me then.

 

[Whiston Blade]

Is that Quentin Tarantino behind Trevor Francis?

Looks like Anthony Kiedis played for Birmingham too.

 

[Paisley Blade]

Was in bramall lane stand that day

#metoo

 

[Paisley Blade]

Tarantino can only watch and admire ....

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Afraid not SEB

Ahh well. I've always got this one, with young SEB at the front of John St.

 

[benn5712]

I would be in one of the executive suites, just above out of camera.



Bloody liar.

 

[blade53]

Remember that game very well , Brum had forced their way into the promotion mix on the back of Trevor Francis's goals, and their fans welcomed them out with a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday to you , Happy Birthday Trevor Francis" , but we soon killed them off with a solid 3-0 win & their challenge was gone.

 

[Rusty]

Taken at John Street players tunnel on 17th April 1971, we beat Birmingham 3-0 that day

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My first ever Blades game!

 

[LoughboroBlade]

I don’t think I realised there was a players’ tunnel in the John Street Stand. I only watched a game once from it – our 2-0 win over Newcastle in 1994, the last game for the stand before it was demolished. Was it the same stand back in ‘71, or had there been modifications since? At a guess, seating would have been the main change.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Ditto

Also, in my naivety I was so shocked at seeing lots of bluenoses climbing over the turnstiles into the ground without paying. This was a much worse crime to me than all the hooliganism I witnessed back in them days.

 

[Blade56]

There’s a bald bloke in that picture who is a dead ringer for me but I wasn’t bald in 1971, so it can’t be can it?

Were you bald in 1969?

 

[Blade56]

Taken at John Street players tunnel on 17th April 1971, we beat Birmingham 3-0 that day

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Why is Rowen Atkinson leading them out?

 

[SteveBlade]

Back when no one had any muscle tone whatsoever.

 

[Edinblade]

If you have the same picture to the right of the tunnel I'm pretty sure I'll be on it

 

[Trigger Blade]

I don’t think I realised there was a players’ tunnel in the John Street Stand. I only watched a game once from it – our 2-0 win over Newcastle in 1994, the last game for the stand before it was demolished. Was it the same stand back in ‘71, or had there been modifications since? At a guess, seating would have been the main change.

You young'uns. Until the South Stand was built in the mid 70's, John St was the only non terrace area in the ground and the Kop and BL were built on rubble.

You'll be telling me next that you didn't know you could rent a padded cushion for your seat in the old JSS, sit on it, then throw it on the pitch when we went 1-0 down

 

[Bert]

You young'uns. Until the South Stand was built in the mid 70's, John St was the only non terrace area in the ground and the Kop and BL were built on rubble.

You'll be telling me next that you didn't know you could rent a padded cushion for your seat in the old JSS, sit on it, then throw it on the pitch when we went 1-0 down

And the dug outs only had room for about 4 people and the most, none of them being John Harris

 

[Silent Blade]

I don’t think I realised there was a players’ tunnel in the John Street Stand. I only watched a game once from it – our 2-0 win over Newcastle in 1994, the last game for the stand before it was demolished. Was it the same stand back in ‘71, or had there been modifications since? At a guess, seating would have been the main change.

First built in 1902



Damaged in December 1940. The gable was gone after the war


Players entrance in John Street during 1970s


Alex Sabella coming out of the tunnel in August 1978. Think it was last used in 1982

 

[Dnblade]

Great photos SB,I was on the Kop and Gil scored the first goal at that end which was even better than the diving header...left channel,40 yards out...moved away from a couple of Brum players,passed another before running across the last 2 defenders before cutting between them to get through on goal and blast it past the Keeper...fantastic goal...I've posted about it before,but the roar of the crowd as he got through on goal sort of went into a hush just before he struck the ball...you could here the thud of the ball when he struck it...Francis only 16 aswell for them,great days.

 

[blade53]

You young'uns. Until the South Stand was built in the mid 70's, John St was the only non terrace area in the ground and the Kop and BL were built on rubble.

You'll be telling me next that you didn't know you could rent a padded cushion for your seat in the old JSS, sit on it, then throw it on the pitch when we went 1-0 down

The red & green cushions bring back memories, they used to sell them at the cricket matches as well when Yorkshire played at the Lane.
I remember as a youngster, towards the end of the day's play & people started drifting away, we would gather them up & lay in comfort on a bed of them!

 

[TONY_TONY_AGANA]

I see Shaun Ryder gurning wonderfully