The first Blades game you attended?

[Damski]

It must've been that 1-1 draw then. Thanks for doing the research!

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Don't know what my first match was because it is lost in the fog clad mists of time, i.e. my dad's brain.

I was far too young to have any memory of it.

 

[DeepcarBlade]

1st May 1971.
Sheffield United 3 Watford 0
Promotion to old Division 1
Mostly downhill ever since!

 

[Bognorblade]

6th May 94 @ Stamford Bridge. You know the rest...... :-(

 

[Dnblade]

1st May 1971.
Sheffield United 3 Watford 0
Promotion to old Division 1
Mostly downhill ever since!

I remember running on the pitch off the white fence on the Kop at the end.Great season that was..the 3-2 derby game(King Tudor),the Cardiff 5-1 game..Happy Days.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

1st May 1971.
Sheffield United 3 Watford 0
Promotion to old Division 1
Mostly downhill ever since!

Third game that one and can remember feeling how wrong it was for everyone to run on the pitch as I were on a young teen.

 

[LSF]

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.

Cant agree on that Metal. To my recollection, when little mobs first started gathering on the kop, chanting and causing a bit of mayhem, the Blades lot always stood at the bottom half behind the goal. However, we got outflanked a couple of times by opposition who gathered at the back and behind us, usually raining coins and the odd bottle or two. Someone in their wisdom decided we'd be better occupying the back of the Kop for strategic reasons (yes, science played a part in those days) and so it was, until City came that day and had our pitch well before the Blades lads gathered, we were forced into the old pitch and City even came down to claim some of that territory. Scrapping seem to go on for ages all over the Kop that day, fuckin scary to say the least.
As for the acid job - happened against Wednesday in the County Cup or some other unimportant fixture. Lad who threw it was a quiet mild mannered kid away from matches, everyone was shocked when it turned out it was him.

 

[Ivanhoe]

Sheffield United 1 Liverpool 0. September 28th 1974. Those cheeky comedian type scousers were on the kop end.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Third game that one and can remember feeling how wrong it was for everyone to run on the pitch as I were on a young teen.

Sound like Jimmy Saville

Should have been "were nowt but a young teen"

 

[Blackheath Blade]

February 1970 for me, a night game where we beat QPR 2-0. Colquhoun and Reece were the scorers.

My parents were both Wednesdayites and in time honoured tradition, my dad had took me to the sty for my first ever game the previous autumn, when the filth played Sunderland.

However, my best mate and his dad were both Blades and they took me to The Lane for that first time and I was hooked.

For that season and the next few years after that, I count it as a privelege to have regularly seen perhaps the best side in United's history. Great days.

 

[Silent Blade]

February 1970 for me, a night game where we beat QPR 2-0. Colquhoun and Reece were the scorers.

Both goals were headers in the 1st half from Woody corners. I remember that about half of the QPR players had tanned skins (Terry Venables, Barry Bridges, Dave Clements, Mike Leach and Mike Ferguson) and I assumed that it was due to the warmer weather in London! The floodlights seemed to make the blue in QPR shirts look glowing! We won the next game at Blackburn and also won the Friday night home game (switched to Friday because of the Man U v L**ds semi at S6) against Carlisle. I missed the Carlisle game because I was feeling as weak as Michael Doyle's leadership! That night he league table was like this
http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/tournament/points.html?date=1970-03-13;event=9;season=1969/70

We were looking good for promotion with 8 games left but we then lost the next 4 games!

 

[Blackheath Blade]

Both goals were headers in the 1st half from Woody corners. I remember that about half of the QPR players had tanned skins (Terry Venables, Barry Bridges, Dave Clements, Mike Leach and Mike Ferguson) and I assumed that it was due to the warmer weather in London! The floodlights seemed to make the blue in QPR shirts look glowing! We won the next game at Blackburn and also won the Friday night home game (switched to Friday because of the Man U v L**ds semi at S6) against Carlisle. I missed the Carlisle game because I was feeling as weak as Michael Doyle's leadership! That night he league table was like this
http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/tournament/points.html?date=1970-03-13;event=9;season=1969/70

We were looking good for promotion with 8 games left but we then lost the next 4 games!

Memories, light the corner of my mind,
Misty watercolour memories, of the way we were.

Scattered pictures etc

 

[Sirius]

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.

The first games that I was taken to were when we took over Owlerton, and played a few games there, but I was too young to remember anything about them.
Light began to dawn when my Dad took me to see Jack Pickering's last game for the Blades. He assured me that ours was the team going places!! I have to say that, as far as I am aware, that was only the second time my Dad lied to me. The first concerned Father Christmas.

 

[Sirius]

Took my then girlfriend to that match , have'nt taken a lass to any game since , and nor will I again , look at how the last 30 years have panned out , bloody bad luck I tell ya .

Talking about taking girls to games. Before we tied the knot, I once took Mrs S. to Hull, on a motorbike. We scored six, she was as bored as can be, it was a foggy night and we latched in behind Albert Bramhalls monster American car on the way back, so that we could see the road ahead. Strange, that some women sometimes don't appreciate the finer things in life. That date cost me a bottle of VERY expensive perfume, and, in old money 7s and 6p for a marriage licence.
She must have forgiven me, since 50 odd years later we are still together. I still buy the perfume but thank GOD, she disregards the football.

 

[Sirius]

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 think you are right Pete. Swifty, and other keepers, such as Sam Bartram always received an ovation, from the Blade's supporters which they always acknowledged.

 

[Swanseablade]

How do people remember this detail??? I'm lucky to remember what I had for brekkie......

I was gonna keep quiet on this at the risk of looking an old twat, however...

I think it was '74/75 against Newcastle at BDTBL, think we lost 1 nowt. They played in yellow I think. Remember Woody played 'cos I thought wow he looks even older than my grandad!

 

[brownie4583]

In 74/75 we beat Newcastle 1-0 at home,but i remember being on the lane end behind the net as a lad when we beat them 2-1 the following season,(75/76) think Chris Guthrie scored 1,Blades and Geordies were stood together at that game!

 

[broomhillblade]

Talking about taking girls to games. Before we tied the knot, I once took Mrs S. to Hull, on a motorbike. We scored six, she was as bored as can be, it was a foggy night and we latched in behind Albert Bramhalls monster American car on the way back, so that we could see the road ahead. Strange, that some women sometimes don't appreciate the finer things in life. That date cost me a bottle of VERY expensive perfume, and, in old money 7s and 6p for a marriage licence.
She must have forgiven me, since 50 odd years later we are still together. I still buy the perfume but thank GOD, she disregards the football.

I took a childhood sweetheart to see the Blades when I was 12, but I'd long since forgotten the details - - until this year when I met up with the lady again (she's been happily married to someone else for 40-odd years) and she reminded me of the occasion: v Luton Town 20th August 1951. We won 3 - o.

Funny that, unlike me, she could recall the occasion vividly, when she's not a football fan - but she did tell me that she'd been bursting for a pee but was too polite to mention it. I wouldn't know if the Bramall Lane end had a Ladies' toilet in those days in any case.

 

[Darren]

In 74/75 we beat Newcastle 1-0 at home,but i remember being on the lane end behind the net as a lad when we beat them 2-1 the following season,(75/76) think Chris Guthrie scored 1,Blades and Geordies were stood together at that game!

You have them the wrong way round:

27/8/74 W2-1 (Cammack, Field)
19/4/76 W1-0 (Guthrie)

 

[cooperblade]

My first game at the Lane was the 4th Division title celebration friendly v Everton in May 1982. A 1-1 draw.

Think my first competitive game was the 4-0 win against Gillingham in August 1983.

 

[bladesadviser]

Now is the chance to see my memory is playing tricks!!

The first match I went to was v Manchester City at home in the early seventies. The score I think was 1-1 but the incident that stuck in my mind was the ref taking the players off very briefly because there was a phantom whistler in the crowd that was distracting him (and the players???)

The ref was a small fat bloke called Rodger Kirkpatrick who according to the Shoot annual of that year was always getting funny comments from the players because his other job was selling ladies underwear (the original "he travels in ladies underwear"). This has stuck in my mind for nearly 40 years yet I can't remember the name of someone from yesterday

Does anyone else remember the whistler incident?

 

[Silent Blade]

The first games that I was taken to were when we took over Owlerton, and played a few games there, but I was too young to remember anything about them.
Light began to dawn when my Dad took me to see Jack Pickering's last game for the Blades. He assured me that ours was the team going places!! I have to say that, as far as I am aware, that was only the second time my Dad lied to me. The first concerned Father Christmas.

Jack Pickering's last game for us was on June 14th (yes, June 14th) 1947 (there were heavy snow in February and March that year which caused a lot of postponements). Stoke needed to beat us at BDTBL to win the League Championship (despite having sold their star player, Stanley Matthews, to Blackpool a month earlier). At the age of 38 (and his 21st year at the club) Jack was recalled to the side (his last league appearance was before the war). Pickering scored our 1st goal in our 2-1 win and Liverpool (having completed their matches) won the League title

 

[Silent Blade]

How do people remember this detail??? I'm lucky to remember what I had for brekkie......

I was gonna keep quiet on this at the risk of looking an old twat, however...

I think it was '74/75 against Newcastle at BDTBL, think we lost 1 nowt. They played in yellow I think. Remember Woody played 'cos I thought wow he looks even older than my grandad!

We lost 1-0 at home to Newcastle in the Anglo Scottish Cup match in August 1976. They scored early in the game and after that there was a big fight in the kop and quite a lot of arrests/ injured fans

 

[Silent Blade]

Now is the chance to see my memory is playing tricks!!

The first match I went to was v Manchester City at home in the early seventies. The score I think was 1-1 but the incident that stuck in my mind was the ref taking the players off very briefly because there was a phantom whistler in the crowd that was distracting him (and the players???)

The ref was a small fat bloke called Rodger Kirkpatrick who according to the Shoot annual of that year was always getting funny comments from the players because his other job was selling ladies underwear (the original "he travels in ladies underwear"). This has stuck in my mind for nearly 40 years yet I can't remember the name of someone from yesterday

Does anyone else remember the whistler incident?

We drew 1-1 in December 1972. Bell scored before Woody equaliser. Francis Lee got the marching orders after a scuffle with Ted Hemsley.

The only phantom whistler incident I remember was in the Texaco Cup game in August 1974 when TC was on the left side of the halfway line receiving a goal kick, caught the ball with both his hands and in a bad mood kicked the ball towards the back of the old JSS. I was wondering what was going on. The ref (dont think it was Kirkpatrick) stopped the game, had a chat with the police but decided that the game should continue and ordered the goal kick be re-taken. My dad explained to me that a fan in the old JSS was blowing a whistle. We won 4-2, TC 2, Dearden and a Woody angled piledriver were our scorers. Mike Summerbee and Denis Law (his second last game) were City's scorers

We drew 1-1 in January 1975. Dearden scoring in the early minutes before Tommy Booth equalised

Roger Kirkpatrick refereed in the 2-2 draw in November 1975. Tommy Booth and Peter Barnes put City ahead. Chris Guthrie and Keith Eddy (pen) made it 2-2. You can see in the link below of the game. Kirkpatrick's decision to award us a penalty was controversial. I love seeing TC have a little tussle with Mike Doyle before asking Dearden what the penalty was for and then hanging around hoping the ref doesnt change his mind!

 

[bladesadviser]

We drew 1-1 in December 1972. Bell scored before Woody equaliser. Francis Lee got the marching orders after a scuffle with Ted Hemsley.

The only phantom whistler incident I remember was in the Texaco Cup game in August 1974 when TC was on the left side of the halfway line receiving a goal kick, caught the ball with both his hands and in a bad mood kicked the ball towards the back of the old JSS. I was wondering what was going on. The ref (dont think it was Kirkpatrick) stopped the game, had a chat with the police but decided that the game should continue and ordered the goal kick be re-taken. My dad explained to me that a fan in the old JSS was blowing a whistle. We won 4-2, TC 2, Dearden and a Woody angled piledriver were our scorers. Mike Summerbee and Denis Law (his second last game) were City's scorers

We drew 1-1 in January 1975. Dearden scoring in the early minutes before Tommy Booth equalised

Roger Kirkpatrick refereed in the 2-2 draw in November 1975. Tommy Booth and Peter Barnes put City ahead. Chris Guthrie and Keith Eddy (pen) made it 2-2. You can see in the link below of the game. Kirkpatrick's decision to award us a penalty was controversial. I love seeing TC have a little tussle with Mike Doyle before asking Dearden what the penalty was for and then hanging around hoping the ref doesnt change his mind!

The 1975 one would be right as I would have been 10 but I don't remember it being that exciting

The memory plays funny tricks!!

 

[Blackheath Blade]

Does anyone remember when TC sat on the ball that night against The Arse, and gestured to Alan Ball to come and get it off him?

Imagine that happening now and the shit that he'd get thrown at him?

The list of charges could include: Un-sporting conduct, un-gentlemanly conduct, time wasting, cruelty towards gingers, cruelty towards gingers wearing white boots, cruelty towards scouse gingers with an annoying whine for a voice, cruelty towards one of the "Boys of 66", sitting on the ball and putting it out of shape (he should have sat on the Ball instead), cruelty to North London geezers etc etc.

Vintage Currie, sheer magic, the greatest ever Blade.

In fact, fuck it, i'm going all misty eyed and filling up here, i'm gonna start a new thread.

 

[brownie4583]

My 1st full season was the relegation season from Division 1,1975/76,drew 1-1 at home to Derby,Charlie George got their goal,then midweek 1-3 home defeat to Arsenal,then 5-1 hammering at Man Utd,all downhill from there!

 

[Small Mendonca]

Mine was the last game of the 2001-2002 season when we lost to Walsall 1-0 at home.

 

[SotonBlade]

17th March 1990 - Blades 3-0 Wolves - Getting crushed at the front of the Kop!