1964-65 (60 years ago) match reports and photos

[Silent Blade]

Hi Silent - many thanks for rekindling old memories.

As a 12 year old my first United game was the 4-1 win over Middlesborough in April 1961 - the last game of the season. My older cousin took me to the game and from then on I was a devoted Unitedite. Living in Healey Bottom the Lane was a short walk away so I went to most home games with him until leaving for Australia in 1964. My last live games then were the 1-1 draw and 4-3 win over wolves that Easter weekend. Two days later I was on a boat to Australia and a new life. In 2008 I was in Sheffield on a visit from Aus and saw them play QPR for the first game of the new season. On the day it was my 60th birthday and a pre match tour of the ground and dressing room complete with the with the 3-nil win and a Billy Sharp hat trick were the icing on the cake. I'm still following them with all of the fervour of those days.

UTB

Peter

Match report of the Boro game from HodgysBrokenThumb

60 years ago this month...

great stuff hodgy was only 9 at this time so dont recollect a lot of that season but this thread is going to be a great read for the next 18 months keep em coming Thanks for the kind words. I will need some help next season, because my scrapbook becomes more sporadic and stops altogether...

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[Silent Blade]

19/9/1964

Blades 3 (Birchenall 2, Jones) Birmingham 1 (Thomson)

Unbeaten in 7 games, we zoom up to 2nd place in the league despite a crowd of 16,390 at this match. Birch 5 goals in his first 6 games!










Scores, scorers, line ups and league tables in below link

1964-09-19

 

[ancientblade]

19/9/1964

Blades 3 (Birchenall 2, Jones) Birmingham 1 (Thomson)

Unbeaten in 7 games, we zoom up to 2nd place in the league despite a crowd of 16,390 at this match. Birch 5 goals in his first 6 games!

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1964-09-19

the blonde bombers !!

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

19/9/1964

Blades 3 (Birchenall 2, Jones) Birmingham 1 (Thomson)

Unbeaten in 7 games, we zoom up to 2nd place in the league despite a crowd of 16,390 at this match. Birch 5 goals in his first 6 games!

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1964-09-19

My memories of the 1964-65 season are limited. No scrapbook, no programmes (disappeared into thin air), few away matches as I was playing school football regularly on Saturday mornings, and I think I was feeling that the team I had grown up with was beginning to break up. However, the weekend of the Birmingham match is one that I remember very clearly. Results had improved dramatically, and the next generation of players, especially Badger, Birchenall and Jones, offered the promise of future success. But even more importantly, the Friday evening before the Birmingham game, I met for the first time the future Mrs HBT. My mind was not entirely on football that Saturday afternoon. And although Mrs HBT has never shared my love of football or the Blades, we have managed to produce 2 generations of Blades fans, 4 of whom will be at the Lane with me tomorrow and ‘enjoying’ listening to my stories from 60 years ago Time flies…

 

[Silent Blade]

23/9/1964

League Cup 2nd round

Plymouth 2 (Lord 2) Blades 1 (Birchenall)

 

[Silent Blade]

26/9/1964

West Ham 3 (Byrne 2 (one pen), Sissons) Blades 1 (Docherty)

Ref awards a penalty for West Ham after Johnny "Budgie" Byrne is brought down by Brian Richardson.



Hodgy couldnt stop Byrne's spot kick.








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1964-09-26

 

[Silent Blade]

3/10/1964

Blades 1 (Birchenall) WBA 1 (Carter)






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1964-10-03

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Silent Blade]

7/10/1964

Liverpool 3 (Hunt 2, Graham) Blades 1 (Birchenall)

League debuts for Alan Woodward and Barry Wagstaff. Five teenagers in our line up.













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1964-10-07

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Cyprus Blade]

To my mind Peter Howard remains the best sports journalist to have worked at the Star, Went on to edit Jane's Defence weekly for over a decade.

 

[Silent Blade]

10/10/1964

Blades 1 (Hartle) Blackpool 3 (Horne, Ball, Charnley)

My dad always told my first ever 1st team match was against Blackpool "when I was about 4" so it was more likely it was the 1-0 defeat in April 1966 than this one despite that my dad thought we had won the match.








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1964-10-10

 

[Silent Blade]

17/10/1964

Blackburn 4 (McEvoy 3, England) Blades 0







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1964-10-17

 

[Silent Blade]

24/10/1964

Blades 4 (Jones 2, Birchenall 2) Arsenal 0

Alan Birchenall scored 9 times in his first 12 league matches!








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1964-10-24

 

[Silent Blade]

31/10/1964

Leeds 4 (Collins, Storrie, Belfitt, Johanneson) Blades 1 (Woodward)

Alan Woodward scored his first league goal, Len Badger sent off.








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1964-10-31

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[232 Bramall Lane]

Interesting last 2 matches.
Just under 17000 to see us beat Arsenal 4-0 and Dirty Leeds beginning to get a result " their way."
I wonder how other First Division clubs attendances compared?

 

[Silent Blade]

Interesting last 2 matches.
Just under 17000 to see us beat Arsenal 4-0 and Dirty Leeds beginning to get a result " their way."
I wonder how other First Division clubs attendances compared?

You can see the other attendances in the link below the match reports

 

[Silent Blade]

7/11/1964

Blades 0 Chelsea 2 (Murray, Bridges)









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1964-11-07

 

[232 Bramall Lane]

You can see the other attendances in the link below the match reports

It might be me but I can't see the attendances.

 

[Silent Blade]

It might be me but I can't see the attendances.

Here you are. I believe the reason for the big drop in attendances is that the Sheffield public were disgusted with the bribery scandal revealed in The People in April 1964. Attendances improved after the 1966 World Cup.

 

[Silent Blade]

14/11/1964

Leicester 0 Blades 2 (Jones, Hartle)





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1964-11-14

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Here you are. I believe the reason for the big drop in attendances is that the Sheffield public were disgusted with the bribery scandal revealed in The People in April 1964. Attendances improved after the 1966 World Cup.
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Is it generally accepted that the bribery scandal was a big factor? I assumed (no evidence) that it was a general trend, largely to do with greater number of competing leisure activities, and a decreasing willingness to stand in the open air in crumbling stadiums on cold, wet weather. Football hardly featured on this new invention, television, that suddenly appeared in most homes in the late 50s and early 60s. Plenty of material for social historians’ PhD theses, I guess.

 

[Silent Blade]

Is it generally accepted that the bribery scandal was a big factor? I assumed (no evidence) that it was a general trend, largely to do with greater number of competing leisure activities, and a decreasing willingness to stand in the open air in crumbling stadiums on cold, wet weather. Football hardly featured on this new invention, television, that suddenly appeared in most homes in the late 50s and early 60s. Plenty of material for social historians’ PhD theses, I guess.

Just my theory (and a friend of mine from school) that it was one of the factors why attendances in Sheffield matches had declined.

 

[Silent Blade]

21/11/1964

Blades 3 (Kettleborough, Hartle, T. Wagstaff) Sunderland 0







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1964-11-21

 

[Silent Blade]

23/11/1964

County Cup semi final

Blades 3 (Kettleborough, Allchurch, Hartle) Barnsley 2 (Senior, Cunningham)

 

[232 Bramall Lane]

I remember the Sunderland game, one of my earliest Blades memories.
I can picture KK's very early goal at the Bramall Lane end where I was stood on the railings.
Living close by I was finally allowed to attend games on my own.
Up to then I had been taken by a kindly neighbour and we stood in the Bramall Lane end.
It would be a while until I transferred to the Kop.

 

[Silent Blade]

28/11/1964

Wolves 1 (Woodfield) Blades 0




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1964-11-28

 

[Silent Blade]

5/12/1964

Blades 4 (Jones, Richardson, T. Wagstaff, Kettleborough) Aston Villa 2 (Pountney, Burrows)














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1964-12-05

 

[Silent Blade]

9/12/1964

Ronnie Simpson moves to Carlisle United