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dexter101 said:
Wow, just googled with inflation what £1 is now the equivalent to... £10-15. ticket prices really have gone up.
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I seem to remember when it was £2 at The Lane and roughly the same at the cinema. Although, could be wrong! Imagine paying £40 plus for a film now!
 

BadgersBigToe said:
Saw on the BBC news this morning that a season ticket in the new stand at Fulham is £3,000😲
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Yup

Saw that a couple of seasons ago as they were building that new stand that never seems to have been completed

Having said all against our owner , and he has kept prices , especially for ST , very reasonable.

If someone would have told me , at the start of the last season , how many goals I would see at BDTBL, for the cost of my ST - I would never have believed them
 
HarryHaslam said:
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The photo of TC brought to mind the fact that down the ages , there have been a select number of players who you just know for some undefinable reason from a few still images like the one above that they were almost certainly outstanding footballers .

The likes of Pele , George Best and Thierry Henry immediately spring to mind and I would include TC in that elite group .

Yesterday I was talking to a Newcastle supporter who I became friends with when he lived in Sheffield in the ‘70s and used to go to the Lane . He said that Currie was still one of the best players he had ever watched and was still mystified how he could apparently glide past players as if they weren’t there .

I reminded him that he sometimes did this with his back to the pitch whilst blowing kisses to the crowd …:)
 

PIC ONE. 'Scodger' Latham, great servant, always gave 110% despite lacking a little pace, shied nothing and strong with his head, part of my first memorable team.
PIC TWO. 1925, looks as though the group has just arrived back, Victoria Station, after beating Cardiff City 0-1 and are about to parade to BDTBL. Mr Gillespie in his Homburg, Harry Johnson Jr in flat cap and Freddie Tunstall wearing a bowler.
PIC THREE. Excellently detailed photo from some 124 years past. LtoR Bennett, Foulks, Almond and standing rear Waller, coach-trainer of long standing.
Almond won league one and cup medals with the Blades but just prior to this he inherited, after his father's death, something between six and twelve thousand pounds.
He wasn't picked for the 1901 FACF and left United some time after but continued, after a short break, to play for Millwall until 1906.
It was said he was working at Doncaster locomotive works in 1910 and nothing certain after this.
A John Almond aged 35 died in Liverpool in 1912 but two Sheffield newspapers commented on his presence at the, April 1931, Leeds V Blades game. At this time it was said he was the manager of the Griffin Hotel, Leeds, with talk he would be moving to a Bangor hotel.
Sadly apparently nothing is known after this time.
Info gleaned from the 'Who's Who' of SUFC, by Clarebrough and Kirkham.
PIC FOUR. That bloody game. Sums up SUFC in my watching tenure, ALMOST. Like the rest of you I'm still watching.
PIC FIVE. Leicester I assume, wasn't there, working, but remember it so well listening on RS. A work day I'll never forget.
PIC SIX. Kenworthy, header, maybe.1982-83 by kit, opponents don't know.
PIC SEVERN. The Good, the Great and expletive.
 
XH536 said:
PIC THREE. Excellently detailed photo from some 124 years past. LtoR Bennett, Foulks, Almond and standing rear Waller, coach-trainer of long standing.
Almond won league one and cup medals with the Blades but just prior to this he inherited, after his father's death, something between six and twelve thousand pounds.
He wasn't picked for the 1901 FACF and left United some time after but continued, after a short break, to play for Millwall until 1906.
It was said he was working at Doncaster locomotive works in 1910 and nothing certain after this.
A John Almond aged 35 died in Liverpool in 1912 but two Sheffield newspapers commented on his presence at the, April 1931, Leeds V Blades game. At this time it was said he was the manager of the Griffin Hotel, Leeds, with talk he would be moving to a Bangor hotel.
Sadly apparently nothing is known after this time.
Info gleaned from the 'Who's Who' of SUFC, by Clarebrough and Kirkham.
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Billy Beer , not Jack Almond
 
Silent Blade said:
Billy Beer , not Jack Almond
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I was dubious who it was and looking through team photos picked Almond. As it is he turned out to be an interesting character, I think.
Will have to look up Mr. William Beer, who, no doubt will be just as enthralling, or should be with a surname of Beer.
'Billy' John Beer moved from Chesterfield in 1897 making the transition from wing half to inside forward, playing 91 times and scoring 21 in his total Blades career.
Moved to Small Heath (Brum) with Charlie Field and on their first return to the Lane won 1-4. (Couldn't make it up could ye!). Finished playing in 1910 going to Australia sheep farming, returning to Blighty in 1920.
He was a gifted musician and church organist despite being a licensee in Birmingham.
In 1923 he was invited to become Birmingham City's manager, resigning in 1927, returning to the licensing trade.
He was reported as having died in March 1941 but a midlands newspaper reported his 75th birthday in 1954.
So like Jack Almond his demise seems unclear.
I can't help but think, if they are still around, blades could have done with 'em this last season and as things look now, to me, maybe next also.:)
Many thanks to Messers, Clarebrough & Kirkham.

Ref. the Peterborough, who I didn't identify, game. 'borough are wearing their 81-2 kit, so United wore the 82-23 sox for the last match 81-82.
As they would have done if the 82-83 kit change had been more extensive, by way of whetting the supporters appetites, and with £ signs in their eyes.
 
Isaw Joeshaw said:
The photo of TC brought to mind the fact that down the ages , there have been a select number of players who you just know for some undefinable reason from a few still images like the one above that they were almost certainly outstanding footballers .

The likes of Pele , George Best and Thierry Henry immediately spring to mind and I would include TC in that elite group .

Yesterday I was talking to a Newcastle supporter who I became friends with when he lived in Sheffield in the ‘70s and used to go to the Lane . He said that Currie was still one of the best players he had ever watched and was still mystified how he could apparently glide past players as if they weren’t there .

I reminded him that he sometimes did this with his back to the pitch whilst blowing kisses to the crowd …:)
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Happy times indeed, great memories of this era. Apart from TC’s amazing talent we had a bunch of players who played attractive football
 

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