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Bert said:
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Fuck VAR!! That took 4 minutes, good decision though. Fuck VAR!!

I was left wringing my hands, passion suppressed but now I know the outcome I can accept it. It was the uncertainty that did me, not knowing you know!
 
HodgysBrokenThumb said:
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Having posted my favourite photo (post 10949), I feel the need to balance the positivity by posting a photo that still gives me nightmares. March 1960, Cup 6th round, v Wednesday (from the league above us), crowd of almost 60,000. We outplayed them from beginning to end, the likes of Swan did foul after foul while United played neat attacking football, and we couldn't score because of Springett's brilliance and downright bad luck. The photo above is again taken from just about the angle I was at, and just as as the joy of watching Pace's goal go in was captured by the photographer, so was the horror of this one, the first of Wednesday's 3 attempts on goal. Joe Shaw was penalised for a foul he always claimed was not a foul, the free-kick was headed down by Ellis, a donkey of a centre-forward, and Derek Wilkinson, an effective right-winger, hit it first time.
If Hodgy didn't dive for a shot you knew it was a lost cause, and the ball arrowed into the net. Seeing that picture always brings back that horrible pit-of-the-stomach feeling.
One trivial point this has brought home is that the best photos of goals are taken from the side, with angled shots/headers. And whatever the problems with Kop, I always want to be in a position to live that moment when a great goal is scored by United, and you know even before the ball has gone in that it is a goal. With a seat directly behind the goal for the last 20 years or so, the photographers can't capture my favourite moments any more. The last such moment was Duffy's goal v Rotherham at home. From the moment he struck the ball, we knew it was a goal. Those are moments to treasure.
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As a lad I used to stand the exact same place on the other side of the goal right behind seated photographers and always celebrated goals by standing on the wall holding the railings swinging my United scarf above my head.

For the big games my mother and I went up Kop corner next to the John Street Stand.
 

Believe 'Doc' left then 'Big' Ron Yeats and as you say with HB's nomination on right, 1963-64, 3-0 win with Wagstaff, Pace-2 goal scorers.
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Doc left us for Notts County in late 1964 after recovering from abdominal op.
 

XM657 said:
Two photos from a 1960 Freshville Cricket Festival. View attachment 68226Apparently they played a SUFC XI. Interested to know where the ground was, anyone?View attachment 68224
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Great photo of Hodgy. I had my hair just like that in 1960, but without Hodgy’s good looks. But then the Beatles came along. And I still have the mop top (all my own hair, honest).
 
I should coco said:
For me, Warnock was there, definitely ref.

He'd have spelt Frecheville right though....
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Appreciate your correction, BUGGER, will remember in future. In mitigation it's a while since I was in Frecheville, no.
 
XM657 said:
Two photos from a 1960 Freshville Cricket Festival. View attachment 68226Apparently they played a SUFC XI. Interested to know where the ground was, anyone?View attachment 68224
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Frecheville Community Cricket and Sports ground was and still is on Silkstone Road Frecheville. Dyke Vale Road is further down the hill. I was born on Silkstone Crescent. The top picture is definitely taken at the ground as I recognise the houses in the background. Neil Warnock lived in the posher houses on the other side of the ground not the council estate. Think Hodgy is stood on the top of the hill where the car park was looking down onto the cricket and football pitches.

In my youth I played many unofficial games of football with the kids from the Council estate when the groundsman wasn't around. The Club didn't like us because we weren't from the private housing estates. Frecheville FC had a decent football team playing at County Senior level for a while but they've relocated now to Davy Sports Ground. NW whilst Manager at the Lane played a pre season friendly there once with the Blades.

2017 photo attached of football pitches.

 
I should coco said:
For me, Warnock was there, definitely ref.

He'd have spelt Frecheville right though....
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I should coco

Yesterday at 1:59 PM


Did I ever tell you, I grew up in Freichville and remember watching all t'Norwich coaches come past for t'magic o't cup....
 

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