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Was one of the worst days of life.

I remember feeling strangely optimistic, as there was no where that we lose on paper one of the easier home games in the Premiership, and even if we did there was absolutely fuck all chance of West Ham beating Man Utd away.

I seem to remember everything that afternoon in horrible slow motion, and when Wigan got that first goal i knew it was not to be our day. One thing i do remember is Jon Stead knocking himself out scoring the equaliser, and getting back up to play. I remember the second's ebbing away in the second half, and knowing that we wouldn't score.

I remember walking out the ground with LS26 Blade, and walking up John Street in absolute fucking shock, before getting a handshake off a Wigan fan, who was being honest when he said that he didn't want us to go down either, and showed great dignity, and respect towards me an inconsolable fan who had just seen my team relegated. We ended up in the Moorfoot where we was met by the former Sweetness, and Mrs LS26 Blade. I didn't say much apart from starting to cry for a few minutes, and when Mrs LS26 and LS26 went, former Sweetness said you might as well go out with the lads and get it out your system.

So that night i went out and got absolutely mullered and caught the last bus home, having an emergency booze snooze and waking up at Oughtibridge and having to walk a couple of miles back to Wadsley in the freezing rain.

All in all a completely fucking wank day.
 



I got fired that day. I was working in a hotel and went to one of the empty rooms to watch it all unfold on the telly. One of the bosses - a real bitch - came in and asked me what I thought I was doing. My response of "I'm watching the fucking football, what does it look like?" didn't do me any favours. I was asked to leave and I kept up with the rest of the news on the bus on the way home.

Fucking hated that job, so it wasn't all bad.
 
Can't remember a lot seen as I was only 11 but I remember walking out of the ground in disbelief; we'd demolished Wet Sham a few games earlier but couldn't beat Wigan at home (although they had Mike Dean as their 12th man). I do remember Danny Webber hitting the post around the 80th minute and that goal would have kept us up.
 
I won 2grand that day Blades at 20-1 to get relegated, still didn't make it any easier!

Forgot to say putting money on hudder today to win final. :eek:
 
It still feels like a bad dream , the dark clouds hovering above the ground , the torrential rain . Jags getting dragged to the ground in their box and then a hefty shove in his back leading to him handballing and giving tem a pen heskey having an immense game up front and then in central defence news of tevezs goal from old Trafford web era shot hitting the post and trickling accros the goal line but not going over while webber stood and admired it me walking straight home getting in bed with my clothes on and barely speaking to anyone for days

Try not to think about it now
 
I ran the Leeds Half Marathon that day before getting the train down for the game. I ran in the sacred stripes and there was also a Wigan fan running in his colours who, when he went past me, asked me how I thought the game would go. I made some cocky comment about it being a formality for us and proceeded to go to BDTBL and have to eat my words. I loved the Jon Stead moment, especially when he got up and put his fist up to the Kop.
Sadly though, it wasn't to be. :(
 
The first thing that sticks out in my mind about that day is the awful weather. Most of us lot had also been at a house party the night before, singing Sheff Utd songs until the early hours, so were still a bit hungover. To add to the misery, we had to catch a rail replacement bus from Swinton to Sheffield, as there was some engineering works around that time on a railway bridge at Kilnhurst.

I remember going in the Rutland before the match (never seen us win when I've been in there before a game - hence why I've stopped going in) and everyone starting to get more optimistic. We then bought a load of cheap inflatables to throw around on the Kop from Poundland on the Moor on the way to the Cricketers. I can't remember a right lot about the game, other than Stead getting knocked out, Unsworth's penalty and then Webber hitting the post.

The trip home was very subdued and no one said much - other than loads of expletives towards West Ham. I think my mate kicked a bin over on Shoreham Street as well, out of anger. To top it off, realisation came in that I had a History A Level exam the day after. I was in no mood for any last minute revision!
 
Wigan was a turning point for me. Having witnessed all the one-off big game and last day of the season disasters from Walsall onwards with varying degrees of anger, misery and disbelief, I just laughed after the Wigan match.

The realisation was that this was the Blades way, this was what being a Blade was all about and it will always be thus.

I'd exhausted all my other emotions over the years, now I just laugh at our incredible ability for dramatic failure. And if as most expect we lose tomorrow or get stuffed by Huddersfield then I'll be having another chuckle at how mad this club is.
 
Even our Turry has got in the act, in the Mail on Sunday:
Terry Robinson
Now: Stoke City academy director
Then: Relegated as Sheffield Utd chairman 2006-07, final day of the season
'It felt like everyone was sticking pins in us. West Ham had broken the rules to sign Carlos Tevez and he scored the winner at Manchester United to keep them up. We needed a draw at home against Wigan to survive but lost 2-1. Wigan's winner was scored by David Unsworth, who had been our player until Christmas. At full-time, it was a feeling of total disbelief and shock.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2143574/Memories-Premier-League-relegation.html#ixzz1ulaSooCS
 
I'll never forget "that" day. I got up early to watch the game here at 7am. Had a few brews before heading down to the local pub here in Pasadena as there were no internet streaming back then. I remember then thinking the same as most of you that we could not go down this time due to the circumstances (mug). The place was well packed showing both the United and Manure games. I was the only Blade watching our game plus a couple of Slam supporters keeping one eye on our game. As soon as we started I could see/feel that this wasn't looking good, the rest has been told over and over again. It was a bright sunny day, as it is today and Mother's Day here. Needless to say we did not go out. I just had a slow bar crawl home and crashed out mid afternoon.
 
When I read the back page of a newspaper in the morning of the match, I saw the headline that Warnock was moaning about the lack of contract offer by SUFC, I knew we were going to lose the game. I fully expected Man U to field a full strength team to beat West Ham
 
Tuns said:
Wigan was a turning point for me. Having witnessed all the one-off big game and last day of the season disasters from Walsall onwards with varying degrees of anger, misery and disbelief, I just laughed after the Wigan match.

The realisation was that this was the Blades way, this was what being a Blade was all about and it will always be thus.

I'd exhausted all my other emotions over the years, now I just laugh at our incredible ability for dramatic failure. And if as most expect we lose tomorrow or get stuffed by Huddersfield then I'll be having another chuckle at how mad this club is.
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I'm like this and I've only had a season ticket since I was 16 (11 years)!!
 



I remember the Chelsea away game more vividly, as I was at the match. i was working at Shepperton film studios, so reluctantly went with my boss who's son was a ball boy (he never made the grade incidentally). We sat in the home end and were invited for pre match drinks in the box, of the boss of Shepperton Studios.

They organised a sweepstake on the final scorer. £10 a player including goalies. We all got 2 players out of the hat. I threw mine back straight away, saying I didn't want any Chelsea players.
Watched the match in our seats, in the stand. As I listened to the radio in injury time, I remember saying 'oh no' out loud. Everton had equalised (if my memory serves me right). My boss replied,'its ok, the game is as good as over'. Corner, goal. Mark Stein.
Back in the box afterwards.
'Never mind mate, you won the money'. 'I don't want it'. 'Don't be silly, its £220'. 'I don't want it'.
They stuffed it in my pocket before I ghosted out of the ground.

Looking for my ticket near Fulham broadway tube, I pulled out the roll of money, and after a slight pause I threw it in a waste bin. Don't regret that part of it at all. They can keep their stinking Mark Stein money.

Another day watching the Blades.
 
kingston RAWW said:
I remember the Chelsea away game more vividly, as I was at the match. i was working at Shepperton film studios, so reluctantly went with my boss who's son was a ball boy (he never made the grade incidentally). We sat in the home end and were invited for pre match drinks in the box, of the boss of Shepperton Studios.

They organised a sweepstake on the final scorer. £10 a player including goalies. We all got 2 players out of the hat. I threw mine back straight away, saying I didn't want any Chelsea players.
Watched the match in our seats, in the stand. As I listened to the radio in injury time, I remember saying 'oh no' out loud. Everton had equalised (if my memory serves me right). My boss replied,'its ok, the game is as good as over'. Corner, goal. Mark Stein.
Back in the box afterwards.
'Never mind mate, you won the money'. 'I don't want it'. 'Don't be silly, its £220'. 'I don't want it'.
They stuffed it in my pocket before I ghosted out of the ground.

Looking for my ticket near Fulham broadway tube, I pulled out the roll of money, and after a slight pause I threw it in a waste bin. Don't regret that part of it at all. They can keep their stinking Mark Stein money.

Another day watching the Blades.
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Me too, this one was so much worse for me than the Wigan game. By Wigan I knew what to expect from our beloved Blades. But at Chelsea, there was so many things that had to happen for us to go down and it all started so well. If I remember rightly Southampton, Everton, Ipswich and us could all go down but we were the least likely. By about 20 mins in Everton were losing 2-0, Ipswich were drawing with Blackburn, who may have even been champions that year and we were winning. Bit by bit late on in the second half it all started to disintegrate and when the final whistle went, we were left waiting to hear whether Blackburn had managed to beat Ipswich. I remember the walk to the Underground with a lot of Chelsea fans goading us and I have never felt so wretched. It took me weeks to get over it. Wigan took days.
 
The whole Tevez thing really doesn't bother me. What pissed me off was that it was in our own hands but once again it was us that well and truly shit it.
 
Latters said:
The whole Tevez thing really doesn't bother me. What pissed me off was that it was in our own hands but once again it was us that well and truly shit it.
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Same here. I don't really have a problem with Tevez at all.
 
Latters said:
The whole Tevez thing really doesn't bother me. What pissed me off was that it was in our own hands but once again it was us that well and truly shit it.
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It f**king bothers me.

Tevez I have no problem with (although he is undoubtedly a classless little scrote).

But...

  • WHU broke the rules to sign two world class players, lied to the PL about it, covered it up, maintained their innocence to delay the process as long as possible, then pled guilty when they knew they were done for..
  • The PL took far too long to investigate, allowed Tevez to play on whilst waiting for the hearing, then didn`t cancel the registration of Tevez immediately as directed by the tribunal (allowing him to play at Wigan), then did cancel it and jumped through hoops to allow him to be re-registered, took the word of WHU (self admitted liars) that they had "torn up" the contract, maintained no sort of neutrality at all, turned a blind eye to WHU letting a World Class Argentinian contracted to them for 3 years with no 3rd Party influence (yeah right) go to Man U for £2m.

So, yeah, it bothers me a little...
 
SellyOakBlade said:
It f**king bothers me.

Tevez I have no problem with (although he is undoubtedly a classless little scrote).

But...

  • WHU broke the rules to sign two world class players, lied to the PL about it, covered it up, maintained their innocence to delay the process as long as possible, then pled guilty when they knew they were done for..
  • The PL took far too long to investigate, allowed Tevez to play on whilst waiting for the hearing, then didn`t cancel the registration of Tevez immediately as directed by the tribunal (allowing him to play at Wigan), then did cancel it and jumped through hoops to allow him to be re-registered, took the word of WHU (self admitted liars) that they had "torn up" the contract, maintained no sort of neutrality at all, turned a blind eye to WHU letting a World Class Argentinian contracted to them for 3 years with no 3rd Party influence (yeah right) go to Man U for £2m.

So, yeah, it bothers me a little...
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Well summed up
 
Bit by bit late on in the second half it all started to disintegrate and when the final whistle went, we were left waiting to hear whether Blackburn had managed to beat Ipswich. I remember the walk to the Underground with a lot of Chelsea fans goading us and I have never felt so wretched. It took me weeks to get over it. Wigan took days.

Yes, walking through the pouring rain being laughed at by Chelsea fans is certainly one of the low points of my life.

It was worse than Wigan because Stein scoring was such a jolt - no time left to do anything, and so unexpected. Whereas for the Wigan game, as soon as you saw who was going to take the penalty you could think with confidence "Ah, of course, ex player who missed penalty for us earlier in the season is going to relegate us by scoring a penalty" and have an hour to get used to the idea.

The PL took far too long to investigate, allowed Tevez to play on whilst waiting for the hearing, then didn`t cancel the registration of Tevez immediately as directed by the tribunal (allowing him to play at Wigan), then did cancel it and jumped through hoops to allow him to be re-registered, took the word of WHU (self admitted liars) that they had "torn up" the contract,

Damn right, and of course this "torn up the contract" stuff held no water legally (and, indeed, no legal reasoning was given - West Ham sent a 2 paragraph letter that wouldn't have fooled a 1st year law student) but the last thing we need is (a) to rake this up again and (b) more legal analysis on this board.
 
Revolution said:
Damn right, and of course this "torn up the contract" stuff held no water legally (and, indeed, no legal reasoning was given - West Ham sent a 2 paragraph letter that wouldn't have fooled a 1st year law student) but the last thing we need is (a) to rake this up again and (b) more legal analysis on this board.
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I think Darren has pointed out in the past that you can`t force someone to do something just because you have a contract. You may get your arse sued if you don`t,. but you can`t be hekld to the terms of the contract.

Having said that, the rules aren`t that you can be legally forced to do anything, its about 3rd party influence. A contract, signed by both parties seems like some sort of influence to me, and simply saying "im not going to fulfill my part of that contract" isn`t (IMHO) a defence.

And of course WHU were quite happy to only get £2m for Tevez that summer. No-one forced their hand...
 
I think Darren has pointed out in the past that you can`t force someone to do something just because you have a contract. You may get your arse sued if you don`t,. but you can`t be hekld to the terms of the contract.

That is putting things too strongly. You can force contracting parties to perform their obligations in certain circumstances and in relation to certain contracts (there is a remedy called specific performance) though I suspect this particular contract could not have been enforced in that way.
 
Revolution said:
I think Darren has pointed out in the past that you can`t force someone to do something just because you have a contract. You may get your arse sued if you don`t,. but you can`t be hekld to the terms of the contract.

That is putting things too strongly. You can force contracting parties to perform their obligations in certain circumstances and in relation to certain contracts (there is a remedy called specific performance) though I suspect this particular contract could not have been enforced in that way.
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Specific performance, whilst in theory available, is very rarely enforced as a remedy - mainly because it is pretty impracticable (who would really want to make someone do something they really don't want to do - they are hardly going to do it very well) and it has a whiff of slavery about it. As far as the Courts are concerned, most wrongs can be remedied in monetary damages and that is what they will order in the vast majority of cases.
 
SellyOakBlade said:
I think Darren has pointed out in the past that you can`t force someone to do something just because you have a contract. You may get your arse sued if you don`t,. but you can`t be hekld to the terms of the contract.

Having said that, the rules aren`t that you can be legally forced to do anything, its about 3rd party influence. A contract, signed by both parties seems like some sort of influence to me, and simply saying "im not going to fulfill my part of that contract" isn`t (IMHO) a defence.

And of course WHU were quite happy to only get £2m for Tevez that summer. No-one forced their hand...
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The point I was making about this is that if WHU said "we repudiate the contract" (which they did) and assuming they are telling the truth ( a big assumption I know), that is, for all practical purposes, the end of the contract, even if the other party to it hasn't agreed to this repudiation. The other party's remedy would be to sue for their financial losses arising from this repudiation (there would be no question of specific performance as the essence of the contract was a financial one and the other party's losses could quite obviously re remedied via damages).
 
Specific performance, whilst in theory available, is very rarely enforced as a remedy

It is commonly used to enforce contracts for the sale of shares or property.

Anyway, enough of that. If people want my legal advice, they can pay for it.
 
Revolution said:
Specific performance, whilst in theory available, is very rarely enforced as a remedy

It is commonly used to enforce contracts for the sale of shares or property.

Anyway, enough of that. If people want my legal advice, they can pay for it.
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Fair enough. I was more thinking of situations where contracts involve people having to themselves actually do things (as in the WHU case) rather than the transfer of inanimate objects.
 



Well if WHU did it and virtually got awayn with it, we should sign some world class young brazilian kid and lie about it to........
 
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