The first Blades game you attended?

[Silent Blade]

When and where was the 1st Blades game you went to?
Mine was Blades 1 Wolves 0 ,on 7th April 1975 at BDTBL.
A couple of weeks later we beat Stoke 2-0 at the Lane with Peter Shilton in goal for them,and if I remember he played in all white kit.

In the Wolves game we had an indirect free kick inside the penalty box at the Lane End. The FK was rolled to Woody whose fierce shot was blocked by the 11 men wall on the goal line, Colquhoun received the rebound, went past a Wolves player and fired the ball high into the net. In the 2nd half Jim Brown made a brilliant stop from a Frank Munro point blank header and then collided with a post (his nose was bloodied and had a lengthy treatment after that).

For the Stoke game the papers billed it as TC v Alan Hudson match. Dont remember what colour jersey Shilton was wearing that day but Stoke's away kit at the time was white shirt with black and red diagonal strips. I do remember Shilts wearing all white kit when playing for Leicester and he said in a paper that he decided to stop wearing it after they lost in the 1973-74 FA Cup semi replay against Liverpool because his all white kit was too visible in night matches (Kevin Keegan scored one of the goals with a lob over the keeper as he could see where Shits's positioning was from the corner of his eye).Back to the game at BDTBL, Billy Dearden broke through, Shilts came out of his goal and Dearden decided to push the ball past him and run round the keeper on the other side by Shilts cynically body checked him (he would have received a straight red card nowadays) and the ref pointed straight to the penalty spot. The Blades fans were angry with Shilts and jeered him loudly. Geoff Salmons (who left us to go to Stoke in the previous summer ) came up to Shilts to advise him to dive to his left as he thought Woody was going to take thee penalty. To Salmons surprise, Keith Eddy took the penalty, sending Shilts the wrong way placing the ball to Shilts' right. Shilts was furious (maybe cos of Salmons advice) and in a stroppy way kept repeatedly kicking the ball into the net. The Blades fans in the BLUT enjoyed Shilts mardy reaction and gleefully cheered the moment before singing out "Shit-on, Shit-on". Tony Field got our 2nd goal, and TC gave a 10 out of 10 performance and late in the game entertained the crowd by going past two or three Stoke players on the left wing (near John Street) and waving both his hands at the crowd every time

 

[Silent Blade]

I think mine was 9th October 1948 against Manchester City.

We lost 0 - 2.

So began a lifetime of grief and disappointment ... punctuated by an occasional high.

An elder Wendy fan who watched both Sheffield teams at the time recalls Jimmy Hagan being injured and lying prone on the pitch and then Man City's giant keeper, Frank Swift, lifted Jimmy up and carried him off the pitch as if he was carrying a little boy. My dad remembered this too when I told him what my elderly friend told me about this incident. it might have been that match?

 

[Silent Blade]

1967 Blades 1 Man City 0. Mick Jones scoring. My eldest brother took me and we s tood on the ledge at right hand corner of the kop. There was a lot of crowd trouble that day and my mother did,nt allow me to go again for a few years after.

My good friend (no longer with us) recalled to me that the fight in the Kop after Jones headed in a Woody corner was the worst he had ever seen. The Police and St Johns volunteer workers were very busy that afternoon

 

[Silent Blade]

The West Brom game, if we're talking about the same one, was my first league game. It was 4-3.

We wore white shorts that day (because we were forced to wear them in the previous home game against Spurs who brought their black shorts and we won that match so we decided to carry on wearing those "lucky" white shorts). Jimmy Hagan was WBA's manager

 

[Silent Blade]

My first game was:

06 Mar 1963 Sheffield United v Bolton Wanderers W 3-1 FA Cup

Bramall Lane end, white railings and all that.

For years I had assumed it was a league game but because of the dreadful winter of 1963, it was the 3rd round of the cup !

So I've done 50 years of going down the Lane. When I started we'd never finished lower than 11th in the second division, look at the fucking state of us now

I think that FA Cup fixture was postponed about 15 times before it eventually went ahead on 6th March

 

[Silent Blade]

31 8 74..united 3 ipswich 1.....Mills og, Field 2.
A Lambert or Johnson pen for them.

Mick Lambert scored for them

 

[Dnblade]

That was a vintage year for misery ! We in fact led in all three of our last home games and lost all three ! Just a single point from those games would have seen us stay up.

You might have got the games and dates mixed up because as far as I'm aware the sequence was:

23 Apr 1968 Sheffield United v Fulham L 2-3 League Division One

27 Apr 1968 Sheffield United v West Ham United L 1-2 League Division One

11 May 1968 Sheffield United v Chelsea L 1-2 League Division One

I've never felt as gutted at a Football match as that Fulham game..In my mind we had to win to stay up as my Dad had said if we lose today we're down....2-0 up and my memory might be wrong but wasn't it Allan Clarke who bagged a Hattrick,and Fulham were already down.I can remember sensing what was about to happen as the first goal for Fulham went in at the Lane End where I was stood.I started to feel ill watching the 2nd and 3rd go in for the team in all blue.
Didn't turn out to bad though,despite selling Jones and Birchenall as TC and a new golden era was just around the corner. UTB!

 

[brownie4583]

Middlesboro home 85/86 lost 1-0
First away game same season Oldham a won 5-0

Went to that Oldham game,Colin Morris destroyed them!
I think we won 5-1

 

[broomhillblade]

An elder Wendy fan who watched both Sheffield teams at the time recalls Jimmy Hagan being injured and lying prone on the pitch and then Man City's giant keeper, Frank Swift, lifted Jimmy up and carried him off the pitch as if he was carrying a little boy. My dad remembered this too when I told him what my elderly friend told me about this incident. it might have been that match?

I've heard the story but I can't remember seeing the incident. Swift and Hagan had played together for England in a number of wartime matches, so were probably good friends.

 

[Darren]

Went to that Oldham game,Colin Morris destroyed them!
I think we won 5-1

We did. Roger Palmer put Oldham 1-0 up in the first minute. Then Morris 2, Edwards 2 and Arnott got our goals. 9th November 1985.

 

[Darren]

Middlesboro home 85/86 lost 1-0
First away game same season Oldham a won 5-0

Boro won 1-0 in that game with a last minute Gary Rowell goal at the Lane end. 21st September 1985.

 

[Dnblade]

Not sure what my fist game was,but one of my early memories is Blackpool at the Lane...stood on the John street east terrace.Can't remember to much apart from Gil Reece being stretchered off with a broken leg.I'll have to look up the score though as I can't remember.

 

[Darren]

Not sure what my fist game was,but one of my early memories is Blackpool at the Lane...stood on the John street east terrace.Can't remember to much apart from Gil Reece being stretchered off with a broken leg.I'll have to look up the score though as I can't remember.

That was the day I was born - 12th November 1966. We drew 1-1., Woodward scoring with a pen.

 

[LSF]

My good friend (no longer with us) recalled to me that the fight in the Kop after Jones headed in a Woody corner was the worst he had ever seen. The Police and St Johns volunteer workers were very busy that afternoon

Agree on that one, Man City fans were nuts and the first ones I recall 'taking' the Kop. First time I'd been really shit scared at a match, a feeling that returned on a number of occasions in future.....

 

[cahill]

1966 either Arse or Southampton at home can't remember which. Think we drew 1-1. Woody scored I think. Not reyt sure am I ?

 

[Darren]

1966 either Arse or Southampton at home can't remember which. Think we drew 1-1. Woody scored I think. Not reyt sure am I ?

We drew 1-1 with Arsenal on 1oth December 1966, but Mick Jones scored.

The only games v Southampton at home in the 60's were on 25/2/67 and 30/12/67. We won both. The first one 2-0 (Woodward 2) and the second 4-1 (Addison 2, Hill, Woodward).

 

[cahill]

Cheers Darren. Remember it being cold and rainy

 

[Dnblade]

Cheers Darren. Remember it being cold and rainy

Must have been the first one then Cahill,as I can remember the 4-1 game as we went up in the Lane upper tier..it was the only time I went up there until recent years and it was a BDTBL sunshiny day and a good win..pity the season didn't end up a good one.

 

[sheffielder]

I think we have this same question every year and every year I say what it is. Darren will then come and give me the true facts.

I think it's Sheff Utd v Carlisle January 1986, 2-0

Darren please... please can you do the honours

 

[brownie4583]

I think we have this same question every year and every year I say what it is. Darren will then come and give me the true facts.

I think it's Sheff Utd v Carlisle January 1986, 2-0

Darren please... please can you do the honours

Blades 1 Carlisle 0 New Years Day 1986

 

[travellingblade]

Not sure if this counts but 10th March 1958 - Sheffield XI v International XI - Jimmy Hagan Testimonial.

My first match at Bramall Lane anyway.

 

[Darren]

Blades 1 Carlisle 0 New Years Day 1986

Yep. Edwards scored. What was notable about the game was that, though we won, the players were booed off after a poor performance.

 

[GlosBlade]

Boxing Day 1972 blades 0 Liverpool 3 but didn't start going regularly until the following season.
Don't remember much about the game apart from it being very cold!

 

[cahill]

I remember the 4-1 Southampton game and the 2-0 win weren't we relegated that season or was it the season after. Our first game in 1971-2 after promotion was against them we won 3-1, there was a bit of trouble on the kop about 2pm.

 

[metalblade]

Agree on that one, Man City fans were nuts and the first ones I recall 'taking' the Kop. First time I'd been really shit scared at a match, a feeling that returned on a number of occasions in future.....

Man City didn't "take" the kop, in those days the United mobs would be on the lower half of the kop as close to the goal as possible, away fans who came in numbers such as Forest or Leicester always stood at the top. Agree though the Citeh fans were nuts that day raining bottles down the kop for about 30 mins until the Unitedites turned and set about them with broom sticks off the banners as weapons, we too had a few nutters in our ranks this was about the time Blades had a reputation for throwing bottles of acid about. Never seen so many pulled out with head injuries pouring blood as I did that day, very scary for a young 12 year old.

 

[Silent Blade]

Boxing Day 1972 blades 0 Liverpool 3 but didn't start going regularly until the following season.
Don't remember much about the game apart from it being very cold!

The scorers were Phil Boersma. Chris Lawler and Steve Heighway (who went to High Storrs school and supported the Blades). We lost 5-0 at Liverpool 3 months earlier!I read somewhere that Liverpool only used 14 players for that season which won them the League Cup and UEFA Cup!

 

[Silent Blade]

I remember the 4-1 Southampton game and the 2-0 win weren't we relegated that season or was it the season after. Our first game in 1971-2 after promotion was against them we won 3-1, there was a bit of trouble on the kop about 2pm.

Woody put us ahead with a penalty early in the game. Geoff Salmons increased the lead with a header. In the 2nd half Brian O'Neil pulled one back for the Saints before John Flynn made it 3-1 heading in a Woody corner. I remember the thunderstorm and lightning during the 2nd half!

 

[brownie4583]

I remember going to Carlisle on the train,I looked it up,November 1979 and we lost 0-1.I think this was my 1st away match,the 2nd being Swillsborough on Boxing Day

 

[Damski]

Maybe you lot can help me out on pinning down the exact date of my first game. It was at Bramall Lane, they played Reading and drew 2-2. It would've been the early/mid-90's, I think I was about 6/7 and was born in December '86, so that's like '93/'94/'95. Any ideas?

 

[Wapping Blade]

Maybe you lot can help me out on pinning down the exact date of my first game. It was at Bramall Lane, they played Reading and drew 2-2. It would've been the early/mid-90's, I think I was about 6/7 and was born in December '86, so that's like '93/'94/'95. Any ideas?

Sorry fella, according to Soccerbase there are no 2-2 draws vs Reading at BDTBL in the 90s.

FOOTBALL LEAGUE DIV 1Sa 25Mar 1995Sheff Utd1 - 1Reading

FOOTBALL LEAGUE DIV 1Sa 25Nov 1995Sheff Utd0 - 0Reading

FOOTBALL LEAGUE DIV 1Sa 29Mar 1997Sheff Utd2 - 0Reading

FOOTBALL LEAGUE DIV 1Sa 14Mar 1998Sheff Utd4 - 0Reading



ENGLISH FA CUPFr 13Feb 1998Sheff Utd1 - 0Reading