Going to watch Wednesday

[Grey Blade]

I was at the last game of the 74/75 season with a Villa supporting student friend when Villa won 4-0 to confirm promotion to the 1st division. Wednesday were already relegated to the old 3rd division.

 

[Nightsweats]

Derby games aside I have been to the sty as follows.
Sat on my best mates Dads shoulders to watch Man United do them 3-1 in 1969.
With my best mate and his mum to watch them lose 2-1 to Man City and go down in 1970.
With school mates to watch them lose 0-2 v Santos 1972. Still have the programme.

I make no apologies for the above as I went first and foremost even as a child to want to see them lose. I did. I also witnessed iconic defeats against genius, (Man United) ; screamingly funny defeats, (Man City where the ref and Citys keeper couldn't help the woeful Wendys enough and noone told Citys sub Tony Coleman to read the script); and then to watch my boyhood hero Pele. I'd have walked to Plymouth to see that.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Would only watch them if they were playing us. Plain and simple.

 

[TimofeeVee]

A Wednesday fan mate joined me at a couple United away matches, we both enjoyed a drink and a day out......not something either of us would do now, but felt right at the time.....and if others of his Weds mates had a problem with that, that's all it was, their problem.....

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

My pig cousin came with me to the Lane for the Norwich match right before lockdown (Hendo triple save) so I owed him a pig game. Dodged it as long as I could but we ended up going to Gillingham away last season but he was too slack to get the tickets sorted. We had to get them on the day in the home stand so we spent his entire special piggy day out supporting the Gills with Medways finest

 

[Bladedog]

If they wa playing in mi back garden I,d shut curtains.

 

[Nightsweats]

If they wa playing in mi back garden I,d shut curtains.

That was good when Bill Shankly said it a lifetime ago.

 

[Bladedog]

That was good when Bill Shankly said it a lifetime ago.

I,LL get mi coat

 

[Nightsweats]

I,LL get mi coat

No mate. If you didn't know you didn't know. Shanks said it about Everton a lifetime ago. Classic .

He also said amongst many this brilliant little vignette...When I've nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.

 

[DifferentClass]

Just seen a United fan getting pelters from both sides for going to Wednesday’s match yesterday.



Personally I couldn’t think of owt worse. Quite frankly there’s many downright disgusting things I’d rather do before I willingly stepped foot inside The Sty (derby-day excluded obviously).

Please tell me no one on here has ever lost their minds and done it too?

Would be better off going to an S&M club if he wanted masochism.

 

[Tarqs]

Never been to Hillsborough and never will.

Cant think of anything worse than setting foot in that absolute fucking shit tip.

 

[Nightsweats]

Never been to Hillsborough and never will.

Cant think of anything worse than setting foot in that absolute fucking shit tip.

You've missed some fantastic Blades victories there then. Youll never get those experiences back. Glad I was there for them. Take them to my grave. You can't. Bizarre.

 

[Tarqs]

You've missed some fantastic Blades victories there then. Youll never get those experiences back. Glad I was there for them. Take them to my grave. You can't. Bizarre.

Just a personal thing. Cant bear the thought of stepping foot in there.

I see em on TV, im happy.

 

[dc_blade]

I went to this game with my friend and his dad a couple of months after my first game at BDTBL:

Sheffield Wednesday - Liverpool FC, May 7, 1988 - First Division (- 91/92) - Match sheet

This is the match sheet of the First Division (- 91/92) game between Sheffield Wednesday and Liverpool FC on May 7, 1988.

www.transfermarkt.co.uk

Not a bad one to choose if you have to go.

Think I also saw them get gumped by Man Utd, possibly the same season. Can’t be bothered to look it up.

 

[JohnDenver]

Just had a flashback to a Prem game in the 1990s (might have been Newcastle). I was sat in the south stand with my dad, and this proper rum looking lad with Owls tattoos sat next to us. He said he was there because it was Sheffield versus the incomers, and he’d jumped the gates.

Never figured out if he wanted to join in an all Sheffield scrap against the away mob or what. Was that ever a thing?

 

[dublin 10 blade]

if ya follow united then follow United
if you follow Dum Pigs then follow Dum Pigs
look forward to seeing half and half scarfs being held aloft on the kop
when we start singing youll never walk alone
FFS

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Just had a flashback to a Prem game in the 1990s (might have been Newcastle). I was sat in the south stand with my dad, and this proper rum looking lad with Owls tattoos sat next to us. He said he was there because it was Sheffield versus the incomers, and he’d jumped the gates.

Never figured out if he wanted to join in an all Sheffield scrap against the away mob or what. Was that ever a thing?

only ever saw this once
we were playing the Scum at home,when a gang of around 40 pigs , some used to go to my school , so i knew them and they were right dodgy fuckers [1 did time for murder /manslaughter] came into a boozer we were in and then they sat in the south stand for game
1 and only time I've seen it

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Not sure that even the Catholic church could cope with a confessional the weight of this thread even if they didn't have their own misdeeds to sort out!

 

[Dkc]

When we were kids we figured out that you could get into games free as St John's Ambulance. Went to a couple of meetings at the Methodist Chapel on Sharrow Lane, got the kit and badge and fucked it off. The way to do it was to walk into the ground at St Johns, then either disappear onto the terraces or hang around pitchside. Did that for an FA Cup semi at the Sty, I think it was Wolves v Spurs. There was loads of trouble with fans invading the pitch etc. Luckily I didn't attend the Liverpool v Forest game.

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

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[Lightsoot]

I’m forever grateful for my dad taking me to the Sty when I was a young lad - it made me hate Wednesday and love United.

He used to take me occasionally in the Big Ron / Trevor Francis era on the Kop. I used to dread them scoring as there was a big surge from the back and I got pushed against the railings which caused me some panic. I just hated going.

In contrast, I loved going to Bramall Lane during the start of the Bassett division 3 era. I could stand more comfortably and enjoy seeing us leather most teams. I knew all the players and used to love Alan Roberts bombing down the wing and seeing Deano and Agana.

United felt like my club alongside my kind of people. I told my Dad I never wanted to watch Wednesday again.

 

[Keef Chedwyn]

Don't get it at all. They're just a more chipper, fatter version of Blades fans. How people think both sets of fans are so different is beyond me.
Used to get tickets from the GT League and Young Owls connections and they were quite good back then but it didn't really do owt for me.
Been to Elland Road a few times with Leeds supporting friends. What a vile set of people some of them are! Quite exhilarating.
Nothing like being at a match supporting your own team though, nothing comes close.

 

[Grandmanasty]

Like a lot of his generation my Dad, a Wednesday fan, also used to go to watch United as he supported Sheffield football and enjoyed watching it.
The company he worked for had corporate season tickets for both The Lane and Hillsborough and when they weren't being used by customers he used to take us kids to both grounds. I was young and barely remember most of the games, but one fateful Tuesday evening I saw Tony curry take the piss out of Arsenal and my mind was made up, much to the dismay of my Dad.

 

[Torrix1889]

Can't even bring myself to watch them on TV let alone live......that said, each to their own. My youngest went last year, (ST holder at the Lane) but with a Bolton supporting mate and sat in the away end....I just about forgave him.

 

[Digs blade]

Went once against Millwall in the 80’s and stood on their kop with a couple of schoolmates. Not sure how they talked me into it but that was the one and only time other than when we were playing them

 

[Pegster]

Like a lot of his generation my Dad, a Wednesday fan, also used to go to watch United as he supported Sheffield football and enjoyed watching it.
The company he worked for had corporate season tickets for both The Lane and Hillsborough and when they weren't being used by customers he used to take us kids to both grounds. I was young and barely remember most of the games, but one fateful Tuesday evening I saw Tony curry take the piss out of Arsenal and my mind was made up, much to the dismay of my Dad.

Get your tin hat on !!

 

[Kev Gee]

In the 90s I used to work with a bloke in his late 50s who went to both clubs (who ever was at home that weekend.)

He said it was pretty common in the 60s.

 

[snb69]

I'm planning to do the 92 over a few years with my mate (he's a Notts County fan, so we're waiting until they get back into the EFL), so I'll have to go there at some point.

 

[JackSUFC]

He said it was pretty common in the 60s.

It does sound like it was more acceptable back in that generation.

The story earlier in the thread of their fans cheering a United goal when told about it over the tannoy is actually laughable now.

At what point did the two sides become more partisan?

 

[HillmortonBlade]

I'm planning to do the 92 over a few years with my mate (he's a Notts County fan, so we're waiting until they get back into the EFL), so I'll have to go there at some point.

I believe this is the most (only) acceptable reason to go these days.