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Elvis Legs said:
Adolf Hitler - Famous German
Charlie Chaplin - Famous Non-German

Both were born in 1889 and so always had an affinity with the club. If you look carefully at Chaplins silent movies, you can quite clearly see him mouthing 'Fuck W*******y' at the camera on a number of occasions.

Hitler on the other hand, played a big part in the signing of Bill Dearden from Chester. Adolf, following his escape from Berlin and his time in exile in Argentina, spent time in the Blades scouting network and was always a fan of Billys robust style. Not a lot of people know that 😷😷😷
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Wasn’t he Austrian, and according to the Flashing Blade, secretly a Wednesdayite?
‘Let’s bomb Coventry, Birmingham and Sheffield 2’ according to his memoirs.
 

N20 Blade said:
Wasn’t he Austrian, and according to the Flashing Blade, secretly a Wednesdayite?
‘Let’s bomb Coventry, Birmingham and Sheffield 2’ according to his memoirs.
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A Pig headed Despot who was completely unwilling to look defeat in the face, even when it was as inevitable as a DFS sale?

Got to be a Pig.............
 
TopBoy said:
Ridiculous place to put a deck chair. Get it off the Desso!
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Do they have deck chairs in prison exercise yards?
Not very elitist where I live, but Gaud!
Is that her garage, with the back end stuck in someone else's garden or someone else's garage with a door into her garden?
Fucking planners, architects and builders. That's what they need f*^"@>~.
 
Darnall Siam Blade said:
As you say , Isaw Joe shaw, Barry Hines was ,indeed, an outstanding footballer and a very good sprinter. I competed against him (I was at Woodhouse Grammar at the same time he was at Ecclesfield) in both Football and Athletics. One other outstanding player , for Ecclesfield, was a Roger Bamforth (or Bamford). Were you at Ecclesfield?
Barry went on to Loughborough at the same time as I did, therefore playing in the same teams as I did- thankfully. He was a very talented writer, as we all know. 'Kes' becoming a latter day classic.
He died in 2016 after suffering from Alzheimers for a long time.
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Very interesting and particularly that you should mention Roger Bamford or Bamforth . Like you , I wasn’t sure of the spelling but I nearly mentioned him in my response to Speedracer !

I remember him as a stylish and prolific striker who I think was on Villa’s books for a while .

I wasn’t at Ecclesfield but knew a few who were . My acquaintance with Barry started later and continued right up to the time he sadly submitted to that awful disease .
 
Isaw Joeshaw said:
Very interesting and particularly that you should mention Roger Bamford or Bamforth . Like you , I wasn’t sure of the spelling but I nearly mentioned him in my response to Speedracer !

I remember him as a stylish and prolific striker who I think was on Villa’s books for a while .

I wasn’t at Ecclesfield but knew a few who were . My acquaintance with Barry started later and continued right up to the time he sadly submitted to that awful disease .
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I sort of knew his brother, Barry I mean. He was lecturing at Hallam the last time I saw him.
 
Trigger Blade said:
I have that picture in my Joe Cocker scrapbook but given his somewhat confused state throughout much of the seventies, wondered whether it meant anything or was an unsolicited gift.

When his biography came out in the mid-90s, via the publisher, I wrote to JP Bean, the writer and Blade, to ask whether Joe was a fellow sufferer. I got a nice reply to say that indeed he was and that wherever he was in the world, Joe kept in touch with our results and when he was in Sheffield he made a trip to the club shop.
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Sadly Julian (JP Bean) passed away far too young about 4 years a go. He was a friend through his day job.
 
SouthEssexBlade said:
I sort of knew his brother, Barry I mean. He was lecturing at Hallam the last time I saw him.
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I met him a couple of times when he came to my local with Barry . I think his name was Richard .

What I do know is that , as a young boy , he took and trained a kestrel which was the inspiration for Barry’s novel , ‘A Kestrel for a Knave’ and that he was rather miffed about the fact that he received no acknowledgment for that .
 
Isaw Joeshaw said:
I met him a couple of times when he came to my local with Barry . I think his name was Richard .

What I do know is that , as a young boy , he took and trained a kestrel which was the inspiration for Barry’s novel , ‘A Kestrel for a Knave’ and that he was rather miffed about the fact that he received no acknowledgment for that .
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I think he was lecturing in film studies or similar. Never mentioned the novel when I saw him.
 
LoughboroBlade said:
Doesn’t even follow us on Twitter – I’m guessing not a fan, but someone that enjoyed temporarily coming to our games.
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Have you checked Wilders Army for Blades Not Snowflakes?
 
metty said:
Sadly Julian (JP Bean) passed away far too young about 4 years a go. He was a friend through his day job
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I knew JP quite well from his time on the folk music scene in the 60’s and 70’s . He wrote much of his own material and it was quite good and often humorous .

A line from one of his songs which has stayed with me all these years is :-

“ So they took her back to Grantham
Where she played the National Anthem
And a spot of boogie woogie Friday nights “ :)
 
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Isaw Joeshaw said:
I knew JP quite well from his time on the folk music scene in the 60’s and 70’s . He wrote much of his own material and it was quite good and often humorous .

A line from one of his songs which has stayed with me all these years is :-

“ So they took her back to Grantham
Where she played the National Anthem
And a spot of boogie woogie Friday nights “ :)
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He had a very dry sense of humour which stood him in good stead in a very stressful job. His book on the Sheffield Gang Wars is fetching over a 100 quid.
 

blade67 said:
I disagree. I'd say the number of people with season tickets, sat behind the goal with their son recently, would be measured in the dozens rather than the thousands.
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Well myself and my 36yr old son and myself have been amongst those dozens for the last 30yrs or so.

The guy that I sit next to and his daughter have been an item on the kop for over 15 yrs too, and his dad sits next to him too, so three generations there.

The guy that sat next to me on the other side was a season ticket holder there with his dad for many years until his dad unfortunately passed away.

The guy that sat behind me for many season came with his two sons until one of them started playing regularly on a Saturday and dad gave it up to watch his lad (understandably)

Based on a small sample size where I sit, I think you may be surprised just how many parent/child couples there may be on the kop.
 
The whole Palin debate is one that intrigues and amuses. My generation of Blades, those of us who started going in the 60s and early 70s are the last with a link to the pre-tribal days of watching football. We all knew those, in my case relatives, who would watch both Sheffield teams. They may have more of an affinity to one or the other but would watch both hoping they did well. My dad was originally from Devon and was taken to both grounds by relatives, and it was only that the majority of my relatives were Blades, and that the Rustadome was a ballache to get to, that he tied his allegiance to The Blades and then took me.
In short, we understand a slight preference and no hatred because we experienced it, whereas our younger posters on here are bemused and in some cases angry that Palin is very ambiguous about his football ties, because they think it isn't right or natural with their experience of following football.
Palin? He's reyt enough.
 
Maidenhead said:
Well myself and my 36yr old son and myself have been amongst those dozens for the last 30yrs or so.

The guy that I sit next to and his daughter have been an item on the kop for over 15 yrs too, and his dad sits next to him too, so three generations there.

The guy that sat next to me on the other side was a season ticket holder there with his dad for many years until his dad unfortunately passed away.

The guy that sat behind me for many season came with his two sons until one of them started playing regularly on a Saturday and dad gave it up to watch his lad (understandably)

Based on a small sample size where I sit, I think you may be surprised just how many parent/child couples there may be on the kop.
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How are you defining sat behind the goal?

I was working on the two gangways only with my dozens comment, so there would only be 2/7ths of the kop capacity to choose from - that's about 1500 fans.

So out of the 1500 how many are father/son combinations rather than groups of friends, single tickets, father /daughter etc.etc.. Therefore I'd suggest that the 1000's of others comment is probably wrong, especially as Bruce is usually wrong about everything else as well ;)
 
blade67 said:
How are you defining sat behind the goal?

I was working on the two gangways only with my dozens comment, so there would only be 2/7ths of the kop capacity to choose from - that's about 1500 fans.

So out of the 1500 how many are father/son combinations rather than groups of friends, single tickets, father /daughter etc.etc.. Therefore I'd suggest that the 1000's of others comment is probably wrong, especially as Bruce is usually wrong about everything else as well ;)
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Absolutely slap bang behind the goal at the kop end seats 110 -114 about two thirds of the way back, and I forgot to mention the father and son pair that sit slap bang in front of me too ;)
 

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SouthEssexBlade said:
The whole Palin debate is one that intrigues and amuses. My generation of Blades, those of us who started going in the 60s and early 70s are the last with a link to the pre-tribal days of watching football. We all knew those, in my case relatives, who would watch both Sheffield teams. They may have more of an affinity to one or the other but would watch both hoping they did well. My dad was originally from Devon and was taken to both grounds by relatives, and it was only that the majority of my relatives were Blades, and that the Rustadome was a ballache to get to, that he tied his allegiance to The Blades and then took me.
In short, we understand a slight preference and no hatred because we experienced it, whereas our younger posters on here are bemused and in some cases angry that Palin is very ambiguous about his football ties, because they think it isn't right or natural with their experience of following football.
Palin? He's reyt enough.
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The first season that I ever had a season ticket (1988-89), I was sat next to an elderly couple who had season tickets at both BDTBL and The Sty. I asked them which team they preferred, and they were always cagey about it. However, I remember them celebrating like mad when Deano stuck the ball through Chris Woods’ legs in 1991, so that was good enough for me.
 
Asha Evans ⚔️
 

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Violence is really taking it all too far,
I don't dislike my next door neighbour because he's a Wendy supporter.
I dislike him because he's a prat.

( PS. if your reading this Dejphon I'm only kidding, keep up the good work...... ;) )
 
SelbyBlade said:
I have been writing a quiz for some friends in Durham who are big Sunderland fans. I was trying to find a famous fan question for them, I found Peter O'Toole and Kate Aidy but thought our list of famous fans to be far more impressive. This is the list from wikipedia I wondered if anyone wanted to add to it. Their "boards" listed Sugar Ray Leonard as a fan but it turns out he likes Stoke so sometimes confusion exists as to who supports who. The one I envy is Fulham who have Margo Robbie as a fan.
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TC confirmed in his book that Chris Gascoyne (Peter Barlow in Corrie Street) is a Blade

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Pretty sure he has played in some charity games at Hallam before, so obviously some connection to the city. Being a Blade would explain it.

Looked him up and he’s from Sutton-in-Ashfield, so not a million miles away.
 
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