The Blades and Your Birth Year

[Yank]

How did the Blades fare in the season you were born? I was born in November '86.That 86-87 season saw us finish 9th in Division Two and had Beagrie and Foley as top goalscorers.

 

[BushBlade]

Two words

Fucking shit.

 

[YES Blade]

Two words

Fucking shit.

Doesn't really narrow it down does it!

 

[Living In a Fantasy World]

13th in the first division with Dean top scorer with 13.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

1985-86, 7th in Divison 2. Keith Edwards top scorer with 20 goals.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

October 1989

So we were promoted in the year I was born AND promoted in the season I was born.

Beat that.

 

[coaxingstar71]

February 1971 - not a bad year for the Blades by all accounts.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

April 1925:beat that you young whippersnappers

 

[bromtom]

April 90

89-90 Promoted to the first division.

Also my Dad missed "United" on TV when I was born. First episode was on while I was on my way out.

 

[BushBlade]

April 90

89-90 Promoted to the first division.

Also my Dad missed "United" on TV when I was born. First episode was on while I was on my way out.

He’s not a real Blade then. He should have told your mum to hold you in for a bit longer and your name should be Brian Dean (Surname) at the very least. If I’d been your dad you’d have been called Wilf Jock Dazone Agana Deano Stan Harry (Surname)

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

We won 2-1 at Newcastle,when i was 3 months and 1 day old it was our second away game of the season 54/55,i can remember spinning my rattle when the score came thru,the first two games we lost 5-2 to Everton (H) and Man City (A).

 

[segasonic]

April '76, a month from the end of the 75/76 season. The less said about that one the better.

 

[norfolkblade]

October 1989

So we were promoted in the year I was born AND promoted in the season I was born.

Beat that.

I can match it being born in June 1989, what a year!

 

[bromtom]

He’s not a real Blade then. He should have told your mum to hold you in for a bit longer and your name should be Brian Dean (Surname) at the very least. If I’d been your dad you’d have been called Wilf Jock Dazone Agana Deano Stan Harry (Surname)

He'd have missed the rest of the series laid up in hospital if he'd done that

 

[cahill]

Year I was born, United and Pigs finished respectively 3 and 4th bottom of division one. Liverpool were relegated and the top 11 teams included, Preston, Charlton, Bolton, Blackpool, Cardiff, West Brom, Huddersfield. Only 4 of the top 12 teams are currently top tier, Burnley, Wolves, Man Utd, Chelsea

What year was it ?

Next year I can confidently predict the top six teams, as could we all. How boring and predictable has the top division become ?

 

[Bannerman]

The year I was born 1947 was the first full season played since the 1938- 39 season, apparently something had happened to disrupt the normal flow of events in between those two periods.

At the end of the English top division season Liverpool were Champions and Manchester United were runners up. Sheffield United finished 6th. We would have finished one position higher but they have always been a family club, and when they were informed of the birth of a Blade just up from Heeley Bottom and within sound of the roar of the Kop they decided to take it easy and not cause too much noise, as a result we lost 1 nil to Blackburn Rovers the day after I was born.

Never heard a thing, and slept blissfully, unaware of the glory to come.

1946–47 in English football - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The final table is interesting, some 'proper' clubs there. Leeds United being relegated gives a warm feeling but there's something else about that years First Division club line up which I find pleasing, but I can't quite work out exactly what it is. Anyone able to help me out here?

The Second Division table that year is also a little puzzling in that for some reason I like it, but not as much as I'd have liked to, not sure why.

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

Drew away at Blackpool the day after I was born and just avoided relegation that season......

 

[Yoonited]

Finished 4th in Division 2,just behind Liverpool on goal difference.

Ill take that next season ,though the current European champions I think might well do better than third. Imagine that !!! We really would be in dreamland and I guess I already am

 

[welderblade]

January 1968, just missed the great early 1970s team but had the good fortune to witness the halcyon years tumbling down to the forth!

 

[fuerstenberger]

1961. Don't know why I have never looked this up before. Blades finished 5th, Wednesday finished 6th. Both in the then, first division. The Blades did the double. Ipswich were champions. Liverpool won the second division. Millwall won the fourth. Bournemouth were called Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic. Interesting. I feel old.
Edit: Why did Wednesday take part in the Inter City Fairs Cup and we didn't? Anyone know?

 

[blade.i.am]

We’ve definitely had worse seasons. Odd mix of clubs.

 

[Bobby Boo]

The day I was born 04 September 1971 - We beat Forest 2-3 goals from Deardon, TC & Scullion. I remember it like yesterday.

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

Season I was born we finished 5th in the old first division and reached the quarter finals of the FA Cup.

Might explain why I see United as a top end top flight club.

Hopefully next season will give us a chance to get there once again.

 

[JJ Sefton]

September 1980, so I'll duck out of this now.

 

[Not_a_Cheat]

How did the Blades fare in the season you were born? I was born in November '86.That 86-87 season saw us finish 9th in Division Two and had Beagrie and Foley as top goalscorers.

Bill deardan. 20 goals. 14th finish in top division

 

[Nick Jansky]

1960/61 for me. Promoted in 2nd place behind Ipswich.

 

[kopstander79]

Relegated with millwall and Blackburn lowlight of the season we drew with Aldershot in the Fa cup 3 days before i was born and lost 3 days after I was born in replay so Aldershot can Fuck off !!

 

[Snowman]

In the season following my birth we started in the old first division with a home and away defeat, both by a score of 5-2. In the first thirteen games we had lost 10, drawn 1 and won 2. One of those wins was fortunately over dapigs. I don't know what happened following those first thirteen games, but we then won 15, drew 6 and lost 9 beating dapigs again on the way. We finished with a nice symmetry of a 5-2 win.

We finished unlucky 13th, but not as unlucky as Dapigs who were relegated bottom with 26 points, 11 points from safety and with a minus goal difference of -37 with a huge 138 goals scored against them in the season.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954–55_Football_League

 

[tyke1889]

Born May '59, we finished 3rd in the old 2nd division that season.





Pigs were champions!

 

[LoughboroBlade]

11th in the old division 3 following us winning division 4. I was born in 82/83. Revolution posted a bit more on that season a while back. I bought one of the retro GallonofMagnet shirts from 82-84 the other year – lovely shirt.