Memries of your first game

[Oreyt]

Mid eighties. Grandad Albert. Shouty sweary men. Won 2-1 against a team that played in yellow (I think). Hated it. Came back eventually.

 

[Silent Blade]

My very first memory was a 2-1 win at Stoke - Colquhoun (sp?) scored in both ends, can't remember who got the winner for us. It was sometime around 1973-74 ??

Colquhoun's own goal was rather comical (although I didnt find it funny at the time). He ran back to our goal quickly (he was fast) to help out to clear a dangerous looking cross from the right. McAlister had blocked the cross but it deflected straight to Colquhoun's head and the ball went into the net (it bounced once on the ground on the way to the net). Woody's equaliser was direct from a free kick from outside the box that was struck fiercely through the Stoke's defensive wall

 

[cooperblade]

My first memory of a game is walking out of millmoor just as someone scored an absolute beauty (so my dad says ) to win the game
I didn't see it I was too small

That was my first away match - missed the goal as well...

 

[blade too long]

my favourite ever away game was at Everton in 75 ,ish the year we nearly won the title , well 4 points off finishing 5th
2-0 down and they Everton could also have gone on to win the title , but Currie inspired a tremendous recovery, was on their terrace , had to keep moving as their fans werent best pleased
Heady days ,we were robbed blind at Arsenal that year lost 1-0 in a game we ran but got some awful decisions against us, Dearden had 2 disallowed I believe,
Had a very draughty ride home as theyd took a window out of the coach at both games

Keith Eddy , much under rated , player

was an unusual season as arsenal finished 16th and spurs 19th in a then 22 club league

went to Chelsea and drew 1-1 a game that just about relegated them, midweek
londons top 3 all bottom 8

 

[Darren]

We beat Chelsea 1-0 in Sept 1971 with a Stewart Scullion piledriver from outside the box. Man U had drawn 2-2 at Liverpool so we were at the top of the 1st division leading by 3 points and looking forward to the next match at Old Trafford

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My dad said my first ever match was against Blackpool and that we won 4-1 when I was 4 (I was born in March 1962). If he got the score wrong then it was likely my first match was the same as yours (my dad took me to watch the Spain v Switzerland world Cup game at the sty and insisted that it wasnt the first game I went to). if he got the opponents wrong, then I dont know who did we win 4-1 against around that time. I went to a handful of games at the Lane in the late 1960s and remember the Norwich and Cardiff games in Sept 1969. It was the 2-0 win against Preston in January 1970 that was my first game as a committed Blade (after watching YTV highlights of our 2-1 FA Cup win against Everton). Reece had scored a late goal and then my dad told me it was time to go home and we missed the 2nd goal scored by Addison. Alan Kelly snr was in goal for Preston that day

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I remember reading the Green Un report of that match when i was doing a FB article of Woody's goals and assists. Yes we scored two late goals in that match. I think Jones equalised and it was definitely Tony Wagstaff that got the winner. The description of both goals was in the late stop press column on the right side of the Green Un front page

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I think Hodgy's first game for us was in the 1954-55 season before he had to do National Service

It was. August 54. Against Newcastle I believe.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

1967 Blades 1 Man City 0 - Mick Jones scored , I must have been 8 y.o. my older brother took me and we stood on the kop. Apparently there was a lot of violence onthe kop that day and it was all over the Sunday papers. Hence, my mother would'nt let me go again and my next match was a Friday night 1-0 victory against Carlisle some years later.

I was at that game and stood on the Kop. There was a lot of trouble but the funniest thing about it was that there were a load of Citeh fans at the bottom of the Kop and they were surrounded by Blades. One Citeh fan had a cape of some sort on and was swinging a table leg daring the Blades to come and get him.

It was a stand-off until a female Blade ran up to him and kicked him in the 'nads!



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My memory is that I was 9 and it was 1959. Doc Pace scored with a header. Beyond that I haven't a clue!

 

[bramptonblade]

September 13th 1975 v Coventry City we lost 1-0, we were relegated and I was hooked!!!!!!!!

 

[raul]

That memery was brought to you in black and white .....

 

[Grecian2000]

September 13th v Coventry City we lost 1-0, we were relegated and I was hooked!!!!!!!!

Hells Bells, relegated in September? Must have been some shite start to the season.

My first game at BDTBL was soon after we moved from Bradford (where my dad took me to see BPA as a 3yo) and was against West Brom (Nov 1962). Only thing I remember is the enormous crowd and sitting on my dads shoulders on the kop (I still have the program).

First away game was Easter that same season when we were visiting my Grand parents in Morecambe and my dad "escaped" and took me to Bloomfield Road. First time I'd seen us lose.

 

[BratislavaBlade]

Help please Dazzler. My first away game was with my father v Coventry (definately) in the mid/early 70s. A midweek game I think and possibly a draw (2-2)? The mind plays tricks so I am sure I may wrong but what does the oracle think please?

 

[Eskimo]

I was at huddersfiels Royal infrmary that day my son was born at exactly 3pm. He's got a a season ticket now and has had since he was about 6. Sins of the fathers - sorry Chuck if you are reading this.

 

[beightonblade]

I was at that game and stood on the Kop. There was a lot of trouble but the funniest thing about it was that there were a load of Citeh fans at the bottom of the Kop and they were surrounded by Blades. One Citeh fan had a cape of some sort on and was swinging a table leg daring the Blades to come and get him.

It was a stand-off until a female Blade ran up to him and kicked him in the 'nads!



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My memory is that I was 9 and it was 1959. Doc Pace scored with a header. Beyond that I haven't a clue!

I'm pretty certain that was the 'acid attatck' game !

 

[Eskimo]

The 5-3 game was actually v West Ham on 4/9/65. Birchenall, Docherty. Kettleborough and Jones 2 scored. The 3-2 Newcastle game was on 27/11/65. Jones, T. Wagstaff and Woodward scored.

Yes it was West Ham I think they played in pale blue with 2 maroon horizontal stripes that day. One of the goals went in off the arse of a W Ham defender. I remember my grandad saying you can't score with your arse because its foul. I believed him and thought it was disallowed..

 

[Darren]

Hells Bells, relegated in September? Must have been some shite start to the season.

My first game at BDTBL was soon after we moved from Bradford (where my dad took me to see BPA as a 3yo) and was against West Brom (Nov 1962). Only thing I remember is the enormous crowd and sitting on my dads shoulders on the kop (I still have the program).

First away game was Easter that same season when we were visiting my Grand parents in Morecambe and my dad "escaped" and took me to Bloomfield Road. First time I'd seen us lose.

The WBA game was 17/11/62. We won 1-0. Dennis Shiels scored. The Blackpool game was 15/4/63. We lost 1-3 and T. Wagstaff scored.

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Help please Dazzler. My first away game was with my father v Coventry (definately) in the mid/early 70s. A midweek game I think and possibly a draw (2-2)? The mind plays tricks so I am sure I may wrong but what does the oracle think please?

That would be 28/3/75. It was indeed a 2-2 draw in a Friday night game. Speight and Woodward scored - the latter being a last minute equaliser.

 

[Revolution]

Easter Saturday 1978

Luton Town at home - won 4-1.

The day Simon Stainrod's shot (for his hattrick) stuck in the mud on the line as he turned to celebrate.

All I remember is the huge kop roof looming above me, and the rain.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

I'm pretty certain that was the 'acid attatck' game !

Didn't that happen in a "friendly" against the Pigs? Or did it happen at this match as well?

I remember bottles of acid being thrown against the steel supports in the Kop roof so that the contents splattered down

No segregation in those days.......

 

[beightonblade]

Didn't that happen in a "friendly" against the Pigs? Or did it happen at this match as well?

I remember bottles of acid being thrown against the steel supports in the Kop roof so that the contents splattered down

No segregation in those days.......

The city fans were at the right hand side of the kop (looking towards the pitch) next fookin minute the'yd gone ............acid attack headlines all over the press

bad lads those shoreham boys in them days.

 

[mokoflynn]

my favourite ever away game was at Everton in 75 ,ish the year we nearly won the title , well 4 points off finishing 5th
2-0 down and they Everton could also have gone on to win the title , but Currie inspired a tremendous recovery, was on their terrace , had to keep moving as their fans werent best pleased
Heady days ,we were robbed blind at Arsenal that year lost 1-0 in a game we ran but got some awful decisions against us, Dearden had 2 disallowed I believe,
Had a very draughty ride home as theyd took a window out of the coach at both games

Keith Eddy , much under rated , player

was an unusual season as arsenal finished 16th and spurs 19th in a then 22 club league

went to Chelsea and drew 1-1 a game that just about relegated them, midweek
londons top 3 all bottom 8

Blade too long, thanks for mentioning that away game at Everton. I was living in Manchester at the time and had my younger brother over from Sheffield for a few days - he was 14 years younger than me. At half time I think we were 2-0 down, and Tony Currie inspired a terrific comeback and we won 3-2. We were on the home end, and when we went 3-2 up our youngun suddenly started up with a rendition of "Tony, Tony Currie..." We had to scarper very quick. Worse was to come. We got back to my car, set off back towards Manchester when I spotted full-on headlights in my rear view mirror. They kept flashing and I thought at first it may be the police, but I decided to run for it anyway. Our youngun was sitting in the back of the car. I detoured and headed for Widnes, and we were chased all the way through Widnes, Runcorn and Warrington before they dropped away from us. When I felt we were safe I asked the youngun what he thought that was all about. As he stopped waving his red and white scarf in the back window, he said "I've no idea".

 

[Sothall_Blade]

The city fans were at the right hand side of the kop (looking towards the pitch) next fookin minute the'yd gone ............acid attack headlines all over the press

bad lads those shoreham boys in them days.

And this was in 1967!? I thought hooliganism didn’t start until the 70’s.
The 60’s conjures up pictures of blokes with rattles, kids being passed over people’s heads to the front and old boys shouting “Play up Sheffield!” (Ok, maybe not quite the last one).

 

[mokoflynn]

And this was in 1967!? I thought hooliganism didn’t start until the 70’s.
The 60’s conjures up pictures of blokes with rattles, kids being passed over people’s heads to the front and old boys shouting “Play up Sheffield!” (Ok, maybe not quite the last one).

Eyup Sothall_Blade, that was more like the fifties! I bought a wooden rattle and spent hours painting it red and white. It wasn't an offensive weapon in those days. It'd probably be confiscated these days and you'd end up doing time for trying to take one in.

 

[LSF]

And this was in 1967!? I thought hooliganism didn’t start until the 70’s.
The 60’s conjures up pictures of blokes with rattles, kids being passed over people’s heads to the front and old boys shouting “Play up Sheffield!” (Ok, maybe not quite the last one).

The acid attack definitely happened at a friendly with Wednesday. The kid who chucked it (i'll not mention his name on here) was grassed up and nabbed by the coppers later. He was 16.

 

[dkc Blade]

Forgot my first home game but my first away game was definitely Cambridge United in 1978, the season we were relegated from the old second division to the old third. The loss at Cambridge sealed our fate, I seem to remember. The Abbey Stadium was packed with Blades, at least 50 percent of them wearing black donkey jackets with Blades badges on them.

 

[bramptonblade]

Hells Bells, relegated in September? Must have been some shite start to the season.

The way we played that season we may as well have been!!! :~)

 

[Torrix1889]

Home v Pompey 1980. Won 1-0, Mike Trusson volley in front of the Kop. Sat in the Old John Street with my old man. Remember Pompeys keeper more than anything, big bald headed fucker called Peter Mellor who raced out of his area to head clear at any given moment!

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I was at huddersfiels Royal infrmary that day my son was born at exactly 3pm. He's got a a season ticket now and has had since he was about 6. Sins of the fathers - sorry Chuck if you are reading this.

You should be sorry for calling the poor lad Chuck....

 

[Silent Blade]

The acid attack definitely happened at a friendly with Wednesday. The kid who chucked it (i'll not mention his name on here) was grassed up and nabbed by the coppers later. He was 16.

Alan Hodgkinson's testimonial match in September 1968

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Forgot my first home game but my first away game was definitely Cambridge United in 1978, the season we were relegated from the old second division to the old third. The loss at Cambridge sealed our fate, I seem to remember. The Abbey Stadium was packed with Blades, at least 50 percent of them wearing black donkey jackets with Blades badges on them.

May 1979, it was

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Easter Saturday 1978

Luton Town at home - won 4-1.

The day Simon Stainrod's shot (for his hattrick) stuck in the mud on the line as he turned to celebrate.

All I remember is the huge kop roof looming above me, and the rain.

Cliff Calvert scored a long range own goal for Luton near the end. Brian Stein was running towards the box and Calvert tried to boot the ball off Stein's feet and the ball flew over the stunned Jim Brown

 

[cahill]

Newbury Blade we're the same age and that year was my first as well. I think mine was Arsenal or Southampton at home, ended 1-1. I was hooked as well

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

August 1971 at home v Southampton. Pretty sure it was the 1st game of the season. Stood on the white railings on John Street, Kop end as an awe-struck little chab. We won 3-1 I think and because we played so well my Dad was convinced by everyone I was a lucky omen and was allowed to go to the next game on a Tuesday night, against Leeds. First sight of BDTBL under lights, I was hooked and my status as a lucky charm was cemented with a 3-0 win.

Little did I realise that my baptismal season as a Blade and the following two or three would be the pinnacle of league achievement, quality and style.

 

[Jehovah]

Blades 0-0 Liverpool think it was about 1989? might be a few years out tbh. I was about 10. I was convinced we battered them despite everyone leaving ground saying it was a fair result. The next few games after that I was the most biased man on Earth, we hammered everyone according to me. God how times have changed, I ahve just predicted a 1-3 defeat to OXFORD FFS!

 

[bladesfan]

Blades 1-1 WBA United scored Eddy Colquhoun in extra time. was the game I became a regular. First away game v MunU first time I travelled from Victoria. OK half price but still had change from 1 pound, train fare food program green un etc and a Manchester pink.

 

[grafikhaus]

I was almost 18 when I watched the Blades play Jostein Flo's former club Sogndal in 1994. My first match in England was at home vs Reading in 1997, Ebbrell's only game.

You big-time glory-hunter, Bergen!

Not my first game but an (utterly shocking) picture of Lærdal v. Vik in 1976 in the Norwegian 6th Division. Sogndal was just across t'Sognefjord and I went to see them a couple of times. Memries!

1967 Blades 1 Man City 0 - Mick Jones scored , I must have been 8 y.o. my older brother took me and we stood on the kop. Apparently there was a lot of violence onthe kop that day and it was all over the Sunday papers. Hence, my mother would'nt let me go again and my next match was a Friday night 1-0 victory against Carlisle some years later.

I was also at this game - a mere stripling. We used to stand near the front of the kop but at half-time all us young 'uns were evacuated (to the rear of the kop, not to the countryside - cheeky bugger!) as both United and City fans thought it'd be fun to lob bottles so they'd smash against the roof supports and rain down on those below. Aah! Them were t'days!