First ever AWAY game with your mates?

[Blade56]

SHEFF WEDS 1 SHEFF UTD 2 DEREK PACE DOUBLE in a couple of minutes for a come from behind win , went all the way on the number 2 circular from the manor top to malin bridge with 4 mates , took a wagon wheel which were 20 times as big as todays and were supplies for 3 days, bought a programme for 4d , 62 /3 ish

I used to dream of livin' int' paper bag wi 'and full of gravel for me diner and catchin't No2 Circular then walk t' match startin' at midnight Friday an press me nose against shop winda looking at rich kids buyin' giant round chocolate biscuits that I dint know name of cause I never learnt t' read . Then I stood artside and waited fort chears hopin' we were winning. Whent match were 'or I used to ask the rich blokes wi season tickets and loads of loyalty points what score were hopin' they dint hit me for askin' then set off walkin' home t' clear coal cellar for fun

The good old days eh?

 

[Silent Blade]

SHEFF WEDS 1 SHEFF UTD 2 DEREK PACE DOUBLE in a couple of minutes for a come from behind win , went all the way on the number 2 circular from the manor top to malin bridge with 4 mates , took a wagon wheel which were 20 times as big as todays and were supplies for 3 days, bought a programme for 4d , 62 /3 ish

3rd February 1962. I read that Pace's 2nd was a neat lob over Ron Springett

 

[blade too long]

yes it grows from being 25 yards out to just outside our penalty box , depending how much ale youve supped

 

[blade too long]

I used to dream of livin' int' paper bag wi 'and full of gravel for me diner and catchin't No2 Circular then walk t' match startin' at midnight Friday an press me nose against shop winda looking at rich kids buyin' giant round chocolate biscuits that I dint know name of cause I never learnt t' read . Then I stood artside and waited fort chears hopin' we were winning. Whent match were 'or I used to ask the rich blokes wi season tickets and loads of loyalty points what score were hopin' they dint hit me for askin' then set off walkin' home t' clear coal cellar for fun

The good old days eh?

and we all mingled on their kop , no segregation at all, and no hint of animosity, twere reet nice

 

[Blade56]

and we all mingled on their kop , no segregation at all, and no hint of animosity, twere reet nice

Twer like this

 

[TAMUS]

1971 at Old Trafford...thousands locked outside, separated from mi mates I ended up on The Stretford End. We were top of the league on a magnificent run, Ted Hemsley went off injured and then George Best scored THAT goal. (Don't get me started!) We eventually lost 2-0. Grrrr!

We were 14 or 15 and went by SUT.

Glory Hunter

 

[FleaPitBlade]

Leicester, 2003 I think.

16, on the train and pissed on a few cans of carling. Decked out in Stone Island and Burberry gear and giving it our best Football Factory impressions we got dragged into an escort from the station and shit our pants.

0-0 draw, if memory serves?!

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Oct 1979 , Rotherham, div 3. Aged 15, went by train, 2 1 win, Jeffrey Bourne, Barry Butlin.
Hes here, he s there, hes every fucking where,
Jeffrey Bourne, Jeffrey Bourne.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

27th April 1981 1-1 away at Bury in the 4th Division with the last minute equaliser.

You sure about date? April 81 we were in div 3.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

1.2.92 Nottingham Forest 2 - 5 Sheffield United

No idea how I got there and back, but went with my brother and his uni mates and drank an awful lot before and after.

John Gannon got a cracking goal with his right foot.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

For the football or the punch ups? I was at that game. We were packed in a corner like sardines and coppers were provoking and arresting like it was a national sport!

Can't honestly remember the year of my first away game with the lads but I know,it was Swillbrough. One of our mates had access to a shareholders badge. If you showed it at the turnstile 2 could get in for free so the first 2 would go in, go to a particular toilet on the edge of the ground, drop the badge out of the window to us outside and 2 more would go in. Went on for years so in those days it was United one week pigs next week.

I don`t get this. Shareholders of what? And how was it that it entitled entry to pigs and blades? And I don`t get how anyone would watch pigs one week, utd next.

 

[Blade56]

I don`t get this. Shareholders of what? And how was it that it entitled entry to pigs and blades? And I don`t get how anyone would watch pigs one week, utd next.

In days gone buy shareholders of both Sheffield clubs had a silver disc with a number stamped on it. Flash it at the turnstile and it got 2 people in FOC. As for why go see pigs we all lived near the ground, it was free, all my mates went so why not? At least I didn't throw my lot in with them and stayed a blade!

 

[Blackheath Blade]

For me it was the sty - promotion year 1971 - stood on the open kop, 55,000 from memory and I can still see the penalty that we never got....was it Gil Reece that was dropped in the area - the ref bottled it.

UTB

I was at that one Fulwood, wasn't it a 0-0 result on Easter Monday?
First away game with the lads was to Charlton in 1976/77ish, just after I'd started my first job.
We lost 3-1 and played in the yellow kit with the black chevrons on the shirt. Millwall's home game was postponed and some of their fans took Charlton's kop during the game. I was bricking it !!

 

[Wapping Blade]

You sure about date? April 81 we were in div 3.

Yep, sorry 1982!

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Dull away in FA Cup, Nov 1982, aged 13. Used to go with my Dad to away games but thanks to Margaret bloody Thatcher he'd been on dole over a year so away games were out at that time (did loads season before in 4th division though - including that one at Bury in 1982 Wapping). Went with me mate to this one with pop & crisp brigrade on Travel club. Drew 1-1, I'd guess Edwards would have scored and it was kicking off all over the place in the car park behind the goal after the game. Won replay and also beat them in the League Cup that season. We'd have some of that this season

 

[dublin 10 blade]

My first away game was at Cambridge a 0-1 defeat 5/5/1979.
We went down on the SUFC coach and ended up getting relegated to Division 3 that season!

Was at that game myself , and to top of a great game , fucking coach broke down on way home and had to walk home from town cause I'd missed the last bus home as a result .

 

[cahill]

Chester away September 78, travelled on one of two corporation double deckers (unofficial supporters of course), despite setting off an hour before the official coaches we still arrived in chester 20 mins after kick-off this became a familiar story in seasons to come, the on board toilet was a beer keg sat on the wide step halfway down the stairs, the hole in the top of those things takes some hitting after half a dozen long lifes on a moving bus, was 14 at the time, first defeat (I think), of many that season , we lost 2-1, as was the norm in those days, half the bus tried and managed to get into their end (not me btw)

I also arrived late at that game, also about 20 ins, went by train though. Walking around their ground and one of the ground staff let me in for free in the stand. Always remember that act of kindness.

 

[cahill]

March 1968. Leeds United FA Cup 6th round. Me and two mates all aged 12 booked seats on a Law Bros. coach and made our way up there. After beating West Ham away in the 5th round we really felt that this was our year. We lost 0-1. Then got relegated.

I think the attendance was about 48,000. Thought about this match in recent times. If my daughter told me at the age of 12 she was going to Leeds Music festival with two of her mates I would have told her in no uncertain terms that she wasn't.
I can't even remember mentioning to my parents where I was going. Different times.

I remember that match, went with a load of family and friends, all Leeds scum. Addison had the ball in their net, clearly over the line and it was disallowed. Following week we played away at Leeds in the league and lost 2-0, I was there again. That season confirmed my burning hatred of Leeds, due to all the plastic hangers on, over the last 10 years or so I've become less bothered about Leeds. Interesting out of all those Leeds fans in my friends and family I'm the only one that stayed loyal to my cub. Once a Blade.....

 

[blade too long]

I. As for why go see pigs we all lived near the ground, it was free, all my mates went so why not? At least I didn't throw my lot in with them and stayed a blade!

was the done thing then as kids , lane one week a few owls mates came along , then the week after off wed trot to hillsborough. Lashings of free tickets from school in those days, saw Wednesdays greatest moments for free , beat Burnley 7-0 beat man utd 5-4 play santos in a friendly with Pele , but being an owl was never an option, I was born into a blade family , and had no desire to ever change that .Preferred the hallf time walk from the kop past the cricket pavillion to the Lane End , had there been a pool and a bike might have trained for iron man competitions

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

I don`t get this. Shareholders of what? And how was it that it entitled entry to pigs and blades? And I don`t get how anyone would watch pigs one week, utd next.

There has been quite a lot of discussion about this previously on various threads but, basically, the older you are, the more likely you are to have done this. My dad, a Unitedite through and through and born in 1921, used to go to Bramall Lane one week and Owlerton (as he called it) the next for donkeys' years. He revered Jimmy Hagan above all others but saw and respected many of Wednesday's best players over the years and held Jackie Robinson in particularly high regard. When I was young there was a Wednesdayite who lived a few doors away and he used to come to Bramall Lane with me and I went to plenty of their matches with him. Didn't stop me loving it when we beat them and taking the mickey out of him when we did but I've never hated Wednesday or called them pigs and I never will.

 

[Tyger tyger...]

I also arrived late at that game, also about 20 ins, went by train though. Walking around their ground and one of the ground staff let me in for free in the stand. Always remember that act of kindness.

Not that I doubt you Cahill , but why were you at a Chester vs Hull game?
I thought you were a blade?

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

There has been quite a lot of discussion about this previously on various threads but, basically, the older you are, the more likely you are to have done this. My dad, a Unitedite through and through and born in 1921, used to go to Bramall Lane one week and Owlerton (as he called it) the next for donkeys' years. He revered Jimmy Hagan above all others but saw and respected many of Wednesday's best players over the years and held Jackie Robinson in particularly high regard. When I was young there was a Wednesdayite who lived a few doors away and he used to come to Bramall Lane with me and I went to plenty of their matches with him. Didn't stop me loving it when we beat them and taking the mickey out of him when we did but I've never hated Wednesday or called them pigs and I never will.

Probably down to who your mates were at school and kids/teenagers didn't seem to feel hate either, a sad part of growing older.

Used to go to Hillsborough with my mates and they would come to The Lane with me.

Was sat in the cantilever in 79 with them and didn't get the piss ripped; I just kept saying "where did those four come from" whilst they said "no idea".

Was sat with an owl mate in BL upper (sure it was mainly away fans as well) when we lost to Walsall.

Even went to one of the Arsenal cup ties at Leicester with the same mate, can't imagine doing a pig away game these days.

Went to see Leeds v Everton with a couple of pigs once, bought tickets outside and finished up in the middle of the Everton fans.

 

[blade too long]

There was a mutual kind of respect for each other up to the late sixties, only when hooliganism and scarf on wrist flare wearing thugs did the real animosity start between the clubs, up to the seventies neither sheffield club had fallen beyond the old division 2 , when Wednesday became the first to drop to division 3 , it exacerbated the divide and the hate begun .

 

[Escafeld]

Hull away in the early 80s I think it might've been when we lost 4-1. Would've been 15 & went by train and have two abiding memories of the day. The first was on the train as it pulled into the Boothferry station that was alongside the side terrace where all the Blades were. There was only about 10 mins to kick off everyone was hanging out the windows cheering going mental as the Blades already in the ground greeted us. The second was off the train and outside the turnstiles - it was complete mayhem and had a fleeting glimpse of two Utd fans with blood all over their faces and laughing maniacally. The actual match is a blur but remember reading after the match that the crowd had produced then record receipts for a Hull City game.

 

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[GRUMPY BLADE]

Hull away in the early 80s I think it might've been when we lost 4-1. Would've been 15 & went by train and have two abiding memories of the day. The first was on the train as it pulled into the Boothferry station that was alongside the side terrace where all the Blades were. There was only about 10 mins to kick off everyone was hanging out the windows cheering going mental as the Blades already in the ground greeted us. The second was off the train and outside the turnstiles - it was complete mayhem and had a fleeting glimpse of two Utd fans with blood all over their faces and laughing maniacally. The actual match is a blur but remember reading after the match that the crowd had produced then record receipts for a Hull City game.

Remember an away game at Hull (early 80's?) and being chased over dual carriage way streets that were in the centre of council estates.
I bet a lot of the time it was Blades chasing Blades as we never got caught anyone, nor got caught.

I also seem to remember that there were quite a few of these dual carriage ways in the centre of estates.

 

[blade too long]

remember playing with my mates on a piece of grass opposite the Byards Leap pub in gleadless from getting home around 4 till around 9 , the fact it was triangular mattered little and the last hour was always under floodlight ( 3 street lights)
Scores varied from 46 -27 to 8-6, depending who turned up, remember scoring 5 in a 2 minute spell once , Messi ? I ve shit on him

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

remember playing with my mates on a piece of grass opposite the Byards Leap pub in gleadless from getting home around 4 till around 9 , the fact it was triangular mattered little and the last hour was always under floodlight ( 3 street lights)
Scores varied from 46 -27 to 8-6, depending who turned up, remember scoring 5 in a 2 minute spell once , Messi ? I ve shit on him

Bet you had the small kids jumpers as posts to make the goal wider!

 

[brownie4583]

Was at that game myself , and to top of a great game , fucking coach broke down on way home and had to walk home from town cause I'd missed the last bus home as a result .

Do you remember the Blades fan who climbed up the floodlight?

 

[Tyger tyger...]

Doh!!!