Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[HighfieldBlade]

Watney Cup?
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Haha, just seen the advertising hoarding . May well be the Watney Cup, after all!

 

[wavy-blade]

Wonderful that, the youthful Bert right behind the goal.
What a player Alan Woodward was.

One of my biggest regrets is not going to the Match at home when Alan came over to the Lane for the last time before he died , I was away but didn't know he was going to be there , I would have driven the 200 miles there and back if I knew he was going to be presented at half time and waited to talk to the man after the match best player ever to wear the red and white ! He never like been worshiped or lorded but boy did he deserve it wish we had him now !

 

[Bert]

One of my biggest regrets is not going to the Match at home when Alan came over to the Lane for the last time before he died , I was away but didn't know he was going to be there , I would have driven the 200 miles there and back if I knew he was going to be presented at half time and waited to talk to the man after the match best player ever to wear the red and white ! He never like been worshiped or lorded but boy did he deserve it wish we had him now !

He was better than Currie. That's how good he was.

 

[bornablade]

Notts County 0 Blades 3 (Woodward, Currie 2) in 1972 Watney Cup. Photo is TC scoring the 3rd

Remember that game. July 1972. Just broke up from school. Alice Cooper 'Schools Out' was in the charts - everyone singing it on the coach down to Nottingham.

Think there was a MOTD cameraman in some type of scaffolding on the terraces behind the goal. Blades fans started to dismantle it. Cameraman was screaming at them to leave it alone.

 

[Grappler]

Bloody Hell!, t'owd Len Badger was punching above his weight!, fair play to the lad.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Bloody Hell!, t'owd Len Badger was punching above his weight!, fair play to the lad.

She was a good un.

 

[Trigger Blade]

Haha, just seen the advertising hoarding . May well be the Watney Cup, after all!

Join the Red Revolution.....the power of advertising, selling beer that tasted of....not sure really, just not very nice beer.

Watney’s Party Sevens though, little metal kegs you could gain access to with a tin opener and keep the keg with you all evening, no need to share it with your mates, just tuck it under your arm.

Kids, ask your Dads

 

[Alf Tuppers Shorts]

I was right behind the goal , had a great view of Addison’s back heel . Great days . Well not that great got chased back to the train station by the Hull fans after most of the Blades fans had dispersed. Then to cap it all getting off the train at Donny got chased off the station by Palace fans who’s train was just stood at a platform. Has I said not that greater times .

 

[BadgersBigToe]

Bloody Hell!, t'owd Len Badger was punching above his weight!, fair play to the lad.

Let’s just say my other bits were...’hmmm...in proportion to my digit’

 

[Tony]

I was right behind the goal , had a great view of Addison’s back heel . Great days . Well not that great got chased back to the train station by the Hull fans after most of the Blades fans had dispersed. Then to cap it all getting off the train at Donny got chased off the station by Palace fans who’s train was just stood at a platform. Has I said not that greater times .

A Blade being chased by Hull and Palace fans. Disgraceful.

 

[oohaah]

FA Cup Final 1899
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Watched a bit of Pointless last week, one of the questions was to ‘name anybody who has scored a penalty for England’. All the obvious guesses were taken, Shearer etc. Then a young lad had a couple of answers ready but decided to play it safe with Gerrard which surprisingly was an incorrect answer! Anyway the point of this post is that when Richard Osman was going through all the answers at the end, my ears pricked up when in the group that scored 1 point was Ernest Needham. I hadn’t realised he had ever scored a penalty for England, but even more unlikely was that someone out of the 100 people knew this. Must have been a Blade I would have thought.

 

[singaporeblade]

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That brings back memories of many regular Blades of old!
Peggy, Mitchell, Bullet, Brian............the guy at the front left of picture died a year or so ago..........

 

[Never be mastered]

What is David Ford doing near the seat I sat on between 1971 and 1977?

ay up silent i sat near there too from 73 onwards row d seat 101 surely must have seen you and know your face
UTB NBM

 

[Bert]

Join the Red Revolution.....the power of advertising, selling beer that tasted of....not sure really, just not very nice beer.

Watney’s Party Sevens though, little metal kegs you could gain access to with a tin opener and keep the keg with you all evening, no need to share it with your mates, just tuck it under your arm.

Kids, ask your Dads

And when you stabbed it open at the party you'd taken it to, half of it ended up on the kitchen ceiling.

 

[Silent Blade]

ay up silent i sat near there too from 73 onwards row d seat 101 surely must have seen you and know your face
UTB NBM

Row A seat 85

 

[Tony]

And when you stabbed it open at the party you'd taken it to, half of it ended up on the kitchen ceiling.

Awful stuff. Anybody ever drink Davenports?

 

[Bert]

Awful stuff. Anybody ever drink Davenports?

Only at home

 

[Never be mastered]

Row A seat 85

not too far away at all then
UTB NBM

 

[BushBlade]

And when you stabbed it open at the party you'd taken it to, half of it ended up on the kitchen ceiling.

Didn’t you have to make two holes. One to pour and one to let the air in.

 

[Blade1959]

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Anglo Scottish Cup 6/8/77 won 3-2 Edwards hat trick

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Didn’t you have to make two holes. One to pour and one to let the air in.

Yes at the same time or the shite inside ended up on the ceiling as Bert said.

 

[Alf Tuppers Shorts]

A Blade being chased by Hull and Palace fans. Disgraceful.

It was dog eat dog in them days . This dog could run.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

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Top carpet that. Either 70s front room or a Wetherspoons. Confess..?

 

[Alf Tuppers Shorts]

Didn’t you have to make two holes. One to pour and one to let the air in.

Yep. Only way it would pour. Then when it was finished you would go round the full perimeter with the opener. Seems like yesterday.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[Bert]

Yep. Only way it would pour. Then when it was finished you would go round the full perimeter with the opener. Seems like yesterday.

Bert will have a look in his garage, there might still be one there.

 

[Bert]

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Is that us at Tottenham?

 

[Bert]

Is that us at Tottenham?

Chivers and Peters?

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Is that us at Tottenham?

Yes, 7th October 1970.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Chivers and Peters?

Jimmy Pearce with his arms aloft. Chivers might be the other player (?).