The Pinch

[pommpey]

Other prolific contributors remain on standby in case they get a shout ...

pommpey

 

[Webding]

Sounds good to me. Don't have to put it through the Tufty Club accounts.

Just working on my latest article. Most drunk I have ever been at an away game. Stoke would not be in our top 10 would it Webding ?

Most drunken away days? I don’t know exactly how tipsy you were at Stoke, but it’s immediately ruled out of the top four or five by your ability to construct three reasonably coherent sentences when you got home. The fact you then spent the next hour continually repeating those sentences does give it a sniff of the top ten though.

The problem faced by any pretender to the crown is the sheer amount of games played in Greater Manchester, and our inability to be anything other than steaming by the time we do that desolate run up Piccadilly to the station. My favourites from this genre include panic-buying Prosecco in Waitrose, killing the Queen Mother in Stockport, and telling you I’d lost my wallet in a retro arcade while holding the wallet in question.

However, top of the (Alco)pops has to be Leicester in the early 2000s. I would say “I remember that as being the most drunk I’ve been outside of Sheffield”, but then I’d be lying because I don’t really remember anything about it at all. Someone hit the crossbar in the first minute I think? Might have imagined that though.

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

Over the years I did several pieces, a few included in Blades Tales 1 & 2.
Various stuff from personal experience, some critical, some mere comment.
Even did one about Miners strike and Sufc's attitude towards fans who were striking miners (bearing in mind our chairman at the time).

I've got all the stuff I did saved and sometimes think, why the f did I write that!

I recently "reviewed" the piece I wrote for Flashing Blade. It happened to essentially be about Brian Deane. There is one cringeworthy bit where I have a (jokey) go at him for the angle he wore his baseball cap. I wouldn't go anywhere down that route now.

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

Other prolific contributors remain on standby in case they get a shout ...

pommpey

But, don't hesitate to shout them with any ideas you have. That's partly how it works.

Me, personally, I see it as an outlet for stuff I want to write which is far, far, far removed from the usual stuff I put on my Beer & Football Blog.

 

[LSF]

I recently "reviewed" the piece I wrote for Flashing Blade. It happened to essentially be about Brian Deane. There is one cringeworthy bit where I have a (jokey) go at him for the angle he wore his baseball cap. I wouldn't go anywhere down that route now.

Yes, I know the feeling
I guess it's as we get older and more 'mature', we moderate slightly.
I've cringed a time or two re - reading my early stuff. (I'm assuming here we are of a similar age and may have even attended the same school?)

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Are there any other contributors who wrote for Flashing Blade (as Matt & I did) AND The Pinch (as Matt & I will)?

Who were you in FB?
I know Walthamstow wrote for it. I know you're not he.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Over the years I did several pieces, a few included in Blades Tales 1 & 2.
Various stuff from personal experience, some critical, some mere comment.
Even did one about Miners strike and Sufc's attitude towards fans who were striking miners (bearing in mind our chairman at the time).

I've got all the stuff I did saved and sometimes think, why the f did I write that!

Cos its a valid, valuable, personal, cultural, social and sporting narrative
that I'll be sitting in my dotage reading, surrounded by tea and books, and cats.
I'll also read my own claptrap too.
Matthew brought all back issues to my house last summer, free of charge. Excellent.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Other prolific contributors remain on standby in case they get a shout ...

pommpey

Were thaa an FB man?

 

[pommpey]

Were thaa an FB man?

Nope. Unfortunately not.

pommpey

 

[LSF]

Cos its a valid, valuable, personal, cultural, social and sporting narrative
that I'll be sitting in myvdotage reading, surrounded by tea and books, and cats.
Ill also read my own claptrap too.
Matthew brought all back issues to my house last summer, free of charge. Excellent.

Typical Matt! Good guy

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Nope. Unfortunately not.

pommpey

I'd like to have seen your stuff in print.

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

Who were you in FB?
I know Walthamstow wrote for it. I know you're not he.

I only had ONE piece published in FB. (Here we go...) I was on England's tour of Australia, New Zealand & Malaysia. That was the one Brian Deane was on. I didn't go because of Deano. Before I was in the Carrier Bag Firm, I was in The Horrendous Lemons. And we went on that tour because that is how we fucking lived then. (I've been in The Horrendous Lemons much, much longer than I've been in the CBF).

Anyway, I wrote a prototype Ball Supping piece for Flashing Blade about that "experience". In Flashing Blade I was PHIL (once).

 

[United Aren't Back.]

I only had ONE piece published in FB. (Here we go...) I was on England's tour of Australia, New Zealand & Malaysia. That was the one Brian Deane was on. I didn't go because of Deano. Before I was in the Carrier Bag Firm, I was in The Horrendous Lemons. And we went on that tour because that is how we fucking lived then. (I've been in The Horrendous Lemons much, much longer than I've been in the CBF).

Anyway, I wrote a prototype Ball Supping piece for Flashing Blade about that "experience". In Flashing Blade I was PHIL (once).
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FA official said he cannot even score in training.
I can feel my temperature rising.
Moving on, I learn a Kiwi hotdog looks like a bell end.

 

[Steve Mackan]

We sent the first full article out to subscribers this morning. If anyone's using Gmail, it may have landed in your 'Promotions' inbox because of 'algorithms'. If that does happen, just add us to your contacts.

 

[highgreeninjapan]

Roy’s social media article is wonderful.

 

[Whiston Blade]

Hiya

We (DEM Blades crew) have started a new little project called The Pinch.

Subscribed.

 

[stringjunior]

I'm in.

 

[Steve Mackan]

Roy’s social media article is wonderful.

Thanks! It works lovely in the format. Can't wait for his April edition.

 

[Steve Mackan]

Our latest article by one Mr Deadbat came out today, here: https://thepinch.substack.com/p/i-miss-the-green-un-sheffield-united.

It's a good un (and a Green 'Un).

 

[Frank the tank]

Great article that Deadbat brought back a lot of memories

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

I'm up today in the Friday article for The Pinch. If you start with Clapham Rovers, you end up with MTK Budapest. They're up against Szeged-Csanád Grosics on Monday. On that journey, Sheffield United end up being the Eighth best ranked club in the world. I really enjoyed researching this one. If you'd like to read & subscribe...

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[SufcBilly]

I'm up today in the Friday article for The Pinch. If you start with Clapham Rovers, you end up with MTK Budapest. They're up against Szeged-Csanád Grosics on Monday. On that journey, Sheffield United end up being the Eighth best ranked club in the world. I really enjoyed researching this one. If you'd like to read & subscribe...

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this is exactly the type of very obscure article and knowledge I’ve been looking for. Stonking work sir

 

[stringjunior]

I'm up today in the Friday article for The Pinch. If you start with Clapham Rovers, you end up with MTK Budapest. They're up against Szeged-Csanád Grosics on Monday. On that journey, Sheffield United end up being the Eighth best ranked club in the world. I really enjoyed researching this one. If you'd like to read & subscribe...

The Pinch | Substack

A good pinch of stuff about Sheffield United Football Club. Click to read The Pinch, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

thepinch.substack.com

Wonderfully random. Good work Ball_Sup (Phil)

 

[Gin&Juice]

Enjoyed Nessman930 story of how he became one of us. Poor bastard.

 

[Geordie Blade]

I only had ONE piece published in FB. (Here we go...) I was on England's tour of Australia, New Zealand & Malaysia. That was the one Brian Deane was on. I didn't go because of Deano. Before I was in the Carrier Bag Firm, I was in The Horrendous Lemons. And we went on that tour because that is how we fucking lived then. (I've been in The Horrendous Lemons much, much longer than I've been in the CBF).

Anyway, I wrote a prototype Ball Supping piece for Flashing Blade about that "experience". In Flashing Blade I was PHIL (once).
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When you mentioned the FB article about Deano in Australia, I thought "Was that the one where he said the hotdogs looked like nobs?". Funny what sticks in the memory 30 years later! I really enjoyed the piece at the time - and re-reading it again now.

 

[Steve Mackan]

Enjoyed Nessman930 story of how he became one of us. Poor bastard.

That article by Nessman930 was brilliant, as was Ball_Sup (Phil)'s this week.

We're always looking for more stories like this or not, and are always keen to get more people involved in writing for us. Any take. Any tangent... pommpey I'm looking at you for starters.

 

[pommpey]

That article by Nessman930 was brilliant, as was Ball_Sup (Phil)'s this week.

We're always looking for more stories like this or not, and are always keen to get more people involved in writing for us. Any take. Any tangent... pommpey I'm looking at you for starters.

Happy with that Steve. Obv, swearword filter ratcheted, and scatalogic moderation in place.

Gigging at a festival this very day but will get my thinking cap on.

pommpey

 

[mancunianblade]

I only had ONE piece published in FB. (Here we go...) I was on England's tour of Australia, New Zealand & Malaysia. That was the one Brian Deane was on. I didn't go because of Deano. Before I was in the Carrier Bag Firm, I was in The Horrendous Lemons. And we went on that tour because that is how we fucking lived then. (I've been in The Horrendous Lemons much, much longer than I've been in the CBF).

Anyway, I wrote a prototype Ball Supping piece for Flashing Blade about that "experience". In Flashing Blade I was PHIL (once).
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Was the Horrendous Lemons tour of down under The one where you supported Half Man Half Biscuit?

 

[Steve Mackan]

Happy with that Steve. Obv, swearword filter ratcheted, and scatalogic moderation in place.

Gigging at a festival this very day but will get my thinking cap on.

pommpey

Please do.

 

[Scarebus]

Please do.

If there's one thing I've always thought Pommpeys 'My Take' needs, its a wider audience.