Can anyone date this picture?

[Blackheath Blade]

Then we go and get relegated the following season!! Things never change do they?

 

[ThatJa]

Thanks for all the replies, certainly helped!

 

[beightonblade]

Here yer go..........

If my memory isn't totally fooked Alan Ogden was around at BDTBL the same time as Nigel Williams, can't say too much cause Mr Google will pick up but had sum reight neights with the pair of em!
RIP Oggy.

 

[cahill]

Last home game that season, Saturday before Birmingham, against Leicester the famous Currie-Birchenall kiss in the pitch. The book with that photo on the cover was in a closed bookshop window in a little village in the south of France for years. Haunted me that. I actually asked Len Badger about the incident 3 years ago during a corporate "do". Ahhh the memories

 

[Kenilworth]

See how good Currie was - ball still stuck to his feet!

That was the team I grew up with - although too young to go to any away games at the time.
As nippers we had to hold on to the white railings on John Street terrace - knees on the wall, clinging on to get the best view possible. It's like a different century ago.

 

[blade too long]

74-75 gotta been the best side over the last 50 year.

Anybody remember Birmingham last game of that season?

the 3-2 win at Everton , after being 2-0 down the away game before was probably the most complete in terms of quality Ive ever seen, we were sublime, it was the zenith of 50 years of watching, going to a club who would have took the title had we not won , and play them off the park

 

[CG Blade]

I remember the Birmingham game well, coach from the Wheel in Mosborough, which used to be where the Mosborough Branch of the supporters club was. The game I think was relatively poor, if I re call. Trouble outside with a group of black lads, who where going round asking everyone the time, so they could find a Sheffield accent, the lads behind me, cottoned on, and got the retaliation in first. Then called at the Tydlesly pub on the A38, and a game of football broke out in the middle of the A38. Accept for the result a great night.

 

[Grecian2000]

Accept for the result a great night.

Pretty much sums up most away days doesn't it?

The one thing that sticks out about it to me is travelling there in a Reliant Robin, driven by a mentalist from Swallownest who was a friend of my brother in law. Never been so scared in my life whilst in a "car".

 

[Darren]

So was I (long time ago remember New St station as it was before it was moved "underground" in that shopping centre") and we all went thinking a win would take us into Europe but as things turned out the one club per city rule and already been rescinded and we wouldn't have qualified anyway. One of the few times when the grail wasn't snatched away.

The inner pedant in me makes me point out that the one city one club rule was rescinded AFTER the game, so had we won we would have "qualified" and then have been unqualified when UEFA rescinded the rule later that summer. In the event that happened to Stoke.

Apparently, Everton had been the victim of the rule twice before when Liverpool finishing above them in the league had meant they had not qualified for the Fairs/UEFA Cup. It would have happened to them a 3rd time in 74-5 (they finished 4th that season and Liverpool 2nd) and it was they pointing out what an absurd anachronism the rule was that caused UEFA to change it.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

..and in the summer after that season needing a new forward, we had the choice of Francis Lee or Chris Guthrie.....O dear!!

 

[God]

It's the 1974-75 squad

Missing name is France can't remember first name

Lostin ?

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Here yer go..........

If my memory isn't totally fooked Alan Ogden was around at BDTBL the same time as Nigel Williams, can't say too much cause Mr Google will pick up but had sum reight neights with the pair of em!
RIP Oggy.

Why does the caption say Martin Conroy. It's Steve Conroy isn't it?

 

[ghandi]

What a night that was thought we could take Birminghams end big mistake we took a right kicking

I seem to remember that the terrace we stood on was on the side of the ground......and yes I also remember thinking I'd better get myself down to the front sharpish as I didn't want to miss school the next day by being in hospital

 

[Darren]

Why does the caption say Martin Conroy. It's Steve Conroy isn't it?

Yes, but we also had a reserve midfielder called Martin Conroy around that time, so I assume somone got them mixed up.

 

[Silent Blade]

Yes, but we also had a reserve midfielder called Martin Conroy around that time, so I assume somone got them mixed up.

That is correct. A few years later we had Jim Conroy (a Scot) playing for our reserves

 

[cahill]

I remember the 1972-73 away game at Brum, their first home game after promotion. Hockey was given some friendly stick, he ended up scoring the winner and conducting the crowd as they sang songs to him

 

[Silent Blade]

I remember the 1972-73 away game at Brum, their first home game after promotion. Hockey was given some friendly stick, he ended up scoring the winner and conducting the crowd as they sang songs to him

He scored the equaliser firing a shot over the stunned Paul Cooper (Brum keeper) from outside the box. Bob Latchford had put Brum in front in the opening minutes. Woody scored the winner. A newspaper headline in the next day was "Hockey shuts up the Boo Boys"

 

[cahill]

He scored the equaliser firing a shot over the stunned Paul Cooper (Brum keeper) from outside the box. Bob Latchford had put Brum in front in the opening minutes. Woody scored the winner. A newspaper headline in the next day was "Hockey shuts up the Boo Boys"

I was on their kop for that match. We footballed them to death.

 

[Blade58]

I started going to the Lane around 73'

Where's Eddie's sidekick John Flynn? Thought he would've been on that pic?

At the club from 69 -78?

 

[grafikhaus]

Dont think the Zulus were around in those days

'Fraid they were...

We took around 8000 and a Birmingham fan I met on holiday that summer says the mob of Blades approaching the ground made an awesome sight. United totally 'took' the side terrace which was where the Birmingham boys used to stand. As the game went on, it was infiltrated until I (red and white scarf & hat - thick twat) seemed to be the only Unitedite there.
About 6 Zulu Warriors (singing the old 'Tie them down...' rugby) song laid into me. I felt an incredible thump in my back just as the police arrived. Checking later, my shirt was in rags and soaked in blood. Stabbed.

Later, New Street Station was a war zone - the shiny vinyl floor covered in blood and broken glass.

Happy days...

 

[metalblade]

He scored the equaliser firing a shot over the stunned Paul Cooper (Brum keeper) from outside the box. Bob Latchford had put Brum in front in the opening minutes. Woody scored the winner. A newspaper headline in the next day was "Hockey shuts up the Boo Boys"

I remember that game and the drive back home on a coach with very few windows left intact

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I remember the game up the M1 that season. Trouble before the game, trouble in all parts of the ground during the game, and trouble after the game (our coach got it's windows bricked in!). To cap it all we got well hammered 5-1 (Bill Dearden with a consolation, if my memory hasn't totally vanished) but at least we finished above them in the table.

Incidentally, I don't think modern Blades realise how close we were to becoming league champions that season and how that Leeds game could've affected it. A dodgy old game at BDTBL against Derby saw them nick a 2-1 win which could quite easily and should have been the other way around with SUFC winning (on chances 3-1 at least).

That could've given us the title on goal average with a better display at Leeds. (ok, maybe 3rd or 4th with same points as champions Liverpool, but you get the picture!)

 

[Darren]

I remember the game up the M1 that season. Trouble before the game, trouble in all parts of the ground during the game, and trouble after the game (our coach got it's windows bricked in!). To cap it all we got well hammered 5-1 (Bill Dearden with a consolation, if my memory hasn't totally vanished) but at least we finished above them in the table.

Incidentally, I don't think modern Blades realise how close we were to becoming league champions that season and how that Leeds game could've affected it. A dodgy old game at BDTBL against Derby saw them nick a 2-1 win which could quite easily and should have been the other way around with SUFC winning (on chances 3-1 at least).

That could've given us the title on goal average with a better display at Leeds. (ok, maybe 3rd or 4th with same points as champions Liverpool, but you get the picture!)

Derby won the league. They did the double over us and if the results had been reversed we would have been champions.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Derby won the league. They did the double over us and if the results had been reversed we would have been champions.

Aye, but if you'd seen the game at the Baseball Ground that season, we were well beaten. If finished 2-0 and that flattered us a bit.

We were that close to the title though!

 

[Revolution]

Only 4 points separated the top 6 sides that year. I don't think the league has been that tight since then, although there were good title races in other seasons around that time (1972 and 1976 both went to the final match).

One oddity is that had 3 points for a win been in place Ipswich, who finished third, would have been champions. I read somewhere that this was the only season where 3 points for a win would have meant a different champion, but I don't know whether that is true.

 

[Pedro Verde]

'Fraid they were...

We took around 8000 and a Birmingham fan I met on holiday that summer says the mob of Blades approaching the ground made an awesome sight. United totally 'took' the side terrace which was where the Birmingham boys used to stand. As the game went on, it was infiltrated until I (red and white scarf & hat - thick twat) seemed to be the only Unitedite there.
About 6 Zulu Warriors (singing the old 'Tie them down...' rugby) song laid into me. I felt an incredible thump in my back just as the police arrived. Checking later, my shirt was in rags and soaked in blood. Stabbed.

Later, New Street Station was a war zone - the shiny vinyl floor covered in blood and broken glass.

Happy days...

No doubt they had a mob Ive been numerous times. On the allocated away they had a mob very early 70s but I can never remember them being called the Zulus

 

[Eskimo]

I was there 0-0 draw

I went as well It was an evening match and if we won we qualified for Europe - except due to a technicality we probably wouldn't have.

That was the high point for me in watching the Blades, I was 17. Now I'm 56 and despite all the lows (and a few highs) dont regret a minute

 

[Bert]

I was on their kop for that match. We footballed them to death.

Bert went to that game, we had all our coach windows smashed as we got stuck in traffic outside the ground. The bombardment only stopped when one lad on our bus jumped out of the emergency exit at the back and threatened them with a very large knife. Them were the days.

 

[Grecian2000]

That was the high point for me in watching the Blades, I was 17. Now I'm 56 and despite all the lows (and a few highs) dont regret a minute

Amazingly I was 16 at the time and I'm only 53 now. Good to know there's at least one person ageing even quicker than me.

 

[metalblade]

Bert went to that game, we had all our coach windows smashed as we got stuck in traffic outside the ground. The bombardment only stopped when one lad on our bus jumped out of the emergency exit at the back and threatened them with a very large knife. Them were the days.

hehe we might have been on the same coach the Brummies were trying to get on the coach at the front and through the emergency exit at the back getting size nine doc martens in the teeth for their troubles. If the memory is right two SUT coaches got stuck in traffic and were surrouded by Brummies out for blood