Unreal support

[Jehovah]

I am not going to say "I couldnt make Watford today" I never wanted to go. I have been before and its shit. However, the fans sounded immense on the radio, all I could hear was the blades fans. Amazing.

 

[Linz]

It is indeed, still shit.

My throat hurts. Had to hit the Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough when we got back.

 

[WorkingtonBlade]

I have to say, for noise level in adverse circumstances I've never heard anything quite like the support in the second half. The noise level at times was fantastic, and I think Watford fans and players wondered what the hell was going on.

As "the Blades are going up" rang around the ground, a friendly steward tapped me on the shoulder, a look of genuine bewilderment on his face, and asked:

"Where are you in the league?"

"Second from bottom"

"So.....?"

"Next season"

"Oh...."

I don't think he knew quite what to make of us to be honest.

Odd to think this this atmosphere was created by much the same group of people who were quiet as mice at Palace. Possibly it's because Palace was a tense and disappointing occasion, where as now most people have given up on avoiding relegation, and go to games determined to enjoy themselves regardless. There was lots of good traditional Blades self-deprecating humour, and a good time had by all - at least as far as could be expected in the circumstances!

We'll be playing in League One next season, but on the evidence of today, there are going to be some cracking away days.

 

[Guesty]

I didn't go today, but I went to Watford a few years ago, and I remember the stewards being very friendly!

Planning to go to at least Preston and Swansea this season, hope the support is as good then!

 

[WorkingtonBlade]

I should say, as I've criticised in the past, I've had a lot of positive experiences with stewards this season. Those at Watford were very friendly, but so were those at Palace, Millwall, Ipswich and Derby just to name the first few that come into my head. I've had very few problems anywhere.

I wonder what they're like at Shrewsbury...

 

[shorehamview]

I wonder what they're like at Shrewsbury...

Drastically inbred.....

 

[essex blade]

great support at vicarage rd , pity we aint got a team to match it!

 

[WorkingtonBlade]

Bloody hell. Should have followed Linz's advice with the Ben and Jerry's. I was fine last night, then wake up this morning with no voice at all. That's going to look great if I don't get it back by Monday...

I think it's the long drawn out "Oh when the Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaades..." that does it. The song should come with some sort of health warning.

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Blades fans have always been good in real adversity. It sounds like the final game of the 79-80 season at Grimsby when they went up as Champions and battered us 4-0 on the pitch (it could quite easily have been double figures), yet it didn't stop 5,000 Blades fans making it sound for the full 90 minutes (plus the three hour wrecking spree around Cleethorpes before hand) like it should have been the other way around.

 

[bartman]

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My throat hurts. Had to hit the Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough when we got back.

as if you needed an excuse

 

[oldblade]

I should say, as I've criticised in the past, I've had a lot of positive experiences with stewards this season. Those at Watford were very friendly, but so were those at Palace, Millwall, Ipswich and Derby just to name the first few that come into my head. I've had very few problems anywhere.

I wonder what they're like at Shrewsbury...

They were okay when we made regular visits there in the 1980s.

 

[super_pig]

a similar thing happened at grimsby in about 1980.. it was the last game of the season.. sabella's last match.. we sang you'll never walk alone from about the tenth minute right through the first half.. through half time and half way through the second half.. one of the coppers made a point of telling us (with a tear in his eye i shit you not) he'd never seen anything like it.
edit:sorry just seen handsworths post.. shows i'm not making it up.. i just remembered that on the way in, someone had parked a disabled vehicle right in front of the one away end turnstile so the whole crowd snaked single file 'over' the car into the ground.
did you miss the train on the way back handsworth.. ??

 

[oldblade]

Blades fans have always been good in real adversity. It sounds like the final game of the 79-80 season at Grimsby when they went up as Champions and battered us 4-0 on the pitch (it could quite easily have been double figures), yet it didn't stop 5,000 Blades fans making it sound for the full 90 minutes (plus the three hour wrecking spree around Cleethorpes before hand) like it should have been the other way around.

Some weren't that good in adversity the following season in the final game against Walsall. At the end, some climbed the fences and attacked the Walsall players.

 

[Kenilworth]

a similar thing happened at grimsby in about 1980.. it was the last game of the season.. sabella's last match.. we sang you'll never walk alone from about the tenth minute right through the first half.. through half time and half way through the second half.. one of the coppers made a point of telling us (with a tear in his eye i shit you not) he'd never seen anything like it.

I was there and the chant for nearly the whole second half was the non-stop repetition of "Sheffield United."
The match was incidental and even when Grimsby scored you couldn't hear their fans celebrate, we were so loud.
We were truly awful that day and it should have been double figures conceded.
It was the match that persuaded Reg Brealey to become Blades chairman - he was a guest at the game.

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

"Some weren't that good in adversity the following season in the final game against Walsall. At the end, some climbed the fences and attacked the Walsall players. "
Only to be expected, we had just been relegated to the fourth division. My only personal favourite Blades story from that era was two years earlier at Cambridge, on virtual relegation to the third division, when our fans were chucking lumps of concrete at 'Sloppy' Harry at the final whistle.

"did you miss the train on the way back handsworth.. ?? "
Only a young un back then, went in t' car with me Dad. We got there late, went in a newsagent just down from the ground, to find shop owner moaning about bl00dy Sheffield United fans causing carnage all way from Cleethorpes sea front to Blundell Park.

 

[BaldeRunner]

I am not going to say "I couldnt make Watford today" I never wanted to go. I have been before and its shit. However, the fans sounded immense on the radio, all I could hear was the blades fans. Amazing.

The Blades fans were great at Watford. It is, however, somewhat aking to clapping a pile of shite. Regardless of the passion, the commitment, the loyalty and, let's face it, the love we have for this team at the end of the day it is still clapping a pile of shite.

 

[Rattly Noise]

you can;t change the fact we're rubbish, but you can change the way you react to it. Enjoy yourself with a bit of singing and support. Far better than sitting glumly moaning. End result will be the same, but at least you'll have had a tiny bit of a good time. Okay clutching at straws, but it has come to this.

 

[BaldeRunner]

you can;t change the fact we're rubbish, but you can change the way you react to it. Enjoy yourself with a bit of singing and support. Far better than sitting glumly moaning. End result will be the same, but at least you'll have had a tiny bit of a good time. Okay clutching at straws, but it has come to this.

Sadly you are right. There is nothing left on the pitch so we may as well go out singing. I think Watford on Saturday was when we all realised this and actually forgot about the garbage and the shambolic mess this club to which this club has descended. It was more about being a football supporter, a Blade and knowing we will still be there long after this incompetent bunch of wasters currently representing us have have moved on. UTB

 

[super_pig]

yep you're right.. how embarassing.. so it was.. my brain is going.. it was a long time ago.. i just remember being stuck in that corner with more fans than were in the rest of the ground.. FWIR the football special returned home early.. i'm sure i got that bit right cos me and my mate were about the only people on it.. the cops thought it was funny at the time but not probably later when 5k disgruntled blades decided to take cleethorpes home as a souvenir
funny thing is when you consider that grimsby went up as champions (i think) and the following year we went down.. now grimsby are in the conference.. what was that goalkeeper of theirs who used to have an absolute blinder against us twice a year