Mick jones

[georgebernardshaw]

What would he be worth in today’s market

I can tell you what Jones and Birchenall cost United….nothing.

Both came through the juniors.

 

[BlairBlade]

Michael Jones, Michael Jones is it true what they all say you won’t come back, oh no, oh no …….. ( to the tune of ‘Excerpt from a Teenage Opera’ if I remember correctly).

 

[Silent Blade]

Mick Jones scored the winning goal in my first ever Blades match against Man City in 1967. They must have sold him to Leeds soon after as I never saw him play for us again. Great player.

Blood poured from the Kop just after Jones headed in a Woody corner just before half time. My mate (RIP) said it was the worst kind of violence he had seen at a football match.

Post in thread '1966-67 match reports and photos'

Apr 1, 2022

1/4/1967

Blades 1 (Jones) Man City 0

I love hearing recollection of matches from older Blades. A good mate of mine, Frank Wood (1951-2000) told me in the 1990s that he remembers the above match very well. He said "I was stood in the John Street terraces, just before half time against Man City at the Lane, Mick Jones headed in a Woody corner to put us into the lead.....




..... after the cheering had died down, I looked towards the Kop and I could see in different areas there were punches being thrown, some fans ran for their safety and then there was more fighting, it was...

• Silent Blade

• 

 

[atlanticblade]

A bloke just in front of me got hit on the head by a glass whisky bottle thrown on the kop from the City fans. It was a dangerous time.
His head was bleeding badly.

 

[Silent Blade]

Mick Jones scored the winning goal in my first ever Blades match against Man City in 1967. They must have sold him to Leeds soon after as I never saw him play for us again. Great player.

Do you remember the dog which appeared on the pitch during the first half?

 

[Deadbat]

I know his brother lived there (St James Ave, just past the shops) in the 70s, but I never knew that Mick did.

Colin Morris definitely did in the 80s, as I collected his milk money and usually saw the friendly Mrs M, and a young lad (Lee).

Of no particular relevance to your point, both Eddie Colquhoun and Alan Hodgkinson, lived in Todwick.

Mick lived/lives on Broom Grove.

I lived on St James Ave

Lee Morris and Mark his brother were good friends of mine growing up (see story below!) & I got to Colin and Mrs M well.

Colin Morris burnt my toast

DeadBat relives his memory of meeting a footballing hero...and his mate's dad.

www.thepinch.uk

Glenn Cockerill lived next door to them. West Bank Drive.

Ian Bryson lived in North Anston, as did Briam Deane for a while, on Penny Piece Lane.

 

[finlaytheblade]

He injured his shoulder in the 1972 cup final where he also set up the only goal.
For us he was a superb centre forward. He didn't really look like a footballer having a bit of a stoop and seemed a bit knocked kneed but appearances are deceptive. He was strong and fearless with good ball control and powerful and magnificent in the air where he seemed to be able to hang until the ball arrived.
I was gutted when we sold him and deliberately missed the next home match in disgust.
He won a couple of full England caps with us and one more after he left us I think. It should have been more.
Interestingly after he went to Leeds he looked fitter stronger and more ruthless.

He was more ruthless with Revie up his arse that's for sure.

 

[Lens instep catch]

Thanks Silent brought back memories, nice pitch!!

 

[Stretch]

He had a sports shop in Maltby after he retired. Late 80s/early 90s. I remember him dislocating his shoulder (I think) in a Leeds game and continue playing with his arm in a sling - they were hard in those days
EdIt: Remembered it was a cup final and he went up to collect a medal with his arm in a sling not sure he played with it in a sling!

Used to go in with my Mum as a kid in the mid 80s to get my school kit.

I seem to remember him being pleasant enough.

 

[Boxer Blade]

Used to live up the road from me in South Anston and a regular in the Trooper pub most nights. My Dad was still in awe, as one of his heroes used to be mowing his garden as we walked past.

Do you still ho in the trooper?

 

[Monks' double]

‘Send Dick Wragg to Vietnam, hallelujah ….’ to the tune of Michael Row The Boat Ashore. Sung by Unitedites on the kop following the sale of Mick Jones to Leeds. I was 14, and couldn’t believe it. Even the ‘flat caps’ on the John Street Terrace were turning on the directors box and shouting. When Birchenall was sold as well, I think I realised that being a Blade meant a world of pain. Not sure who replaced them. Was it Mick Hill?

 

[232 Bramall Lane]

I seem to recall that we bought Willie Carlin shortly after Jones was sold.
Obviously not a like for like replacement but a decent player nevertheless who was later to play for Brian Clough.

 

[LSF]

‘Send Dick Wragg to Vietnam, hallelujah ….’ to the tune of Michael Row The Boat Ashore. Sung by Unitedites on the kop following the sale of Mick Jones to Leeds. I was 14, and couldn’t believe it. Even the ‘flat caps’ on the John Street Terrace were turning on the directors box and shouting. When Birchenall was sold as well, I think I realised that being a Blade meant a world of pain. Not sure who replaced them. Was it Mick Hill?

A mob of us went down to The Lane to protest at the sale of Mick Jones in the childlike opinion it might make a difference
I remember us chanting "Dick Wragg, Jam Wragg" on John Street and me silently wondering what it meant

I couldn't understand why any self respecting footballer would want to leave Sheffield United!

 

[Lane Ender]

Starting with the sale of Mick Jones we’ve always been a selling club that’s why we’ll never mix it with the elite

 

[Kenilworth]

Do you still ho in the trooper?

Harsh

 

[Silent Blade]

I seem to recall that we bought Willie Carlin shortly after Jones was sold.
Obviously not a like for like replacement but a decent player nevertheless who was later to play for Brian Clough.

No, we had signed Willie Carlin during the week, a few days before Jones went to Leeds. You can see in the photo below that they trained together at the Ball Inn.

 

[RamsgateBlade]

Although I've read posts on this site for years (it's a recognised psychiatric condition), I haven't posted before. Thought I would now, as I stroll down memory lane, because my dad introduced Mick to his future wife. She lived on the next street to us in Dinnington. Dad went to the wedding and I stood outside, wearing my red & white scarf, no doubt looking like a pathetic juvenile version of Michael Palin in Ripping Yarns. We also got tickets from him for an England/Scotland match, which I think was 1976. I don't think players were allowed to sell on tickets, so one of his wife's relatives brought them to us on the quiet. Will I now be arrested for revealing this? They'll never take me alive!

 

[Lane Ender]

Sold MJ in September 67 relegated that season from the old first division after finishing 10th the previous season

 

[alcoblade]

I know his brother lived there (St James Ave, just past the shops) in the 70s, but I never knew that Mick did.

Colin Morris definitely did in the 80s, as I collected his milk money and usually saw the friendly Mrs M, and a young lad (Lee).

Of no particular relevance to your point, both Eddie Colquhoun and Alan Hodgkinson, lived in Todwick.

He still lives in South Anston.

 

[RAP51]

Starting with the sale of Mick Jones we’ve always been a selling club that’s why we’ll never mix it with the elite

Actually the selling club began many years before. When I first started supporting the Blades in 1960 my uncle also a Blade said I would be disappointed as every good player we produced would be sold as soon as a big offer came in. In the1920s and 30s we had 2 great goalscorers in Jimmy Dunne and Jock Dodds who were both sold.
In the 50s we tried to sell Jimmy Hagan to Wednesday but he refused to go.
Mick Jones was my first experience of this followed a few weeks later by Alan Birchenall. The following season Willie Carlin who signed the week Jones went was sold to Derby for a profit.
I didn't heed my uncle's advice and here I am 66 years later still being disappointed and not regretting a minute of it.

 

[Brynner]

MI. ,,,, MIC ,,,, MICK , MICK JONES

Remember it well. Also
Aye, aye, aye, aye,
Hodgy is better than Yashin,
Mick Jones is better than Eusebio,
and Wednesday (or others) are in for a thrashin'.
We used to have so many different chants back in the 60's/70's. Different world back then . Mind you all standing on the kop etc helped to a degree.

 

[Silent Blade]

The following season Willie Carlin who signed the week Jones went was sold to Derby for a profit.

Arthur Rowley wanted to get rid of Carlin

 

[Lane Ender]

Actually the selling club began many years before. When I first started supporting the Blades in 1960 my uncle also a Blade said I would be disappointed as every good player we produced would be sold as soon as a big offer came in. In the1920s and 30s we had 2 great goalscorers in Jimmy Dunne and Jock Dodds who were both sold.
In the 50s we tried to sell Jimmy Hagan to Wednesday but he refused to go.
Mick Jones was my first experience of this followed a few weeks later by Alan Birchenall. The following season Willie Carlin who signed the week Jones went was sold to Derby for a profit.
I didn't heed my uncle's advice and here I am 66 years later still being disappointed and not regretting a minute of it.

MJ was the earliest I can recall I was 10 at the time gutted even at that age

 

[Boxer Blade]

Harsh

Why?

 

[Lens instep catch]

Remember it well. Also
Aye, aye, aye, aye,
Hodgy is better than Yashin,
Mick Jones is better than Eusebio,
and Wednesday (or others) are in for a thrashin'.
We used to have so many different chants back in the 60's/70's. Different world back then . Mind you all standing on the kop etc helped to a degree.

Not sure if I am right but I thought the chant for Mick Jones went something like this
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow through the streets broad and narrow singing
MI
MIC
MICK
MICK JONES

 

[Blade56]

Mate of mine just told me leeds are giving our mick a lifetime achievement award,at half time on saturday anyone stilll remember him?
Never here of us doing things like that

He visited me in hospital with other team members and gave me a get well soon card they’d all signed. Lent it to a pig mate for his school project and never saw it again

 

[JOE SHAW 1956]

Reflections......... I was at this match !. It's weird to think that I am one of those dots behind Hodgy's net . how I wish I could distinguish my young self . To say it was one way traffic would be an understatement lol.....How the ball stayed out I will never know and Hodgy was absolutely magnificent ...as always . Then all of a sudden Mick Jones slots in a beauty but, they managed an equalizer . You have to say they deserved it to be fair ,however I think ?? we won the replay. Looking at this match now shows how much has changed . Some of the greatest players of the era were on that pitch- Johny Haynes - Bobby Robson - George Cohen- Alan Clarke . Hodgy, Jones , Woody and a mention to BILL PUNTON lol , The scorer of a winner against the Pigs at the lane when they had spent a record transfer on John Ritchie !. Nobody mentioned or moaned about the pitch. Both teams constantly attempted to get forward and score , no tippy tappy sideways backwards rubbish. Quality no....action Yes. . Nobody fell about pretending to be injured . Nobody assaulted the ref. despite decisions not going their way . There wasn't 50 fouls every time a corner was taken. ALL the best players available were playing , and above all ....everybody including the players appeared to enjoy a game of foot . I'm an old gitt, but most of this old video blows the stale disinfected cup game we now have to endure ?. Thoughts.

 

[Brynner]

Not sure if I am right but I thought the chant for Mick Jones went something like this
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow through the streets broad and narrow singing
MI
MIC
MICK
MICK JONES

More than one and different versions back then IIRC. Full version as per Molly Malone or just the MI, MIC, MICK, MICK JONES stand alone. The Hodgy/Lev Yashin different chant altogether.

 

[Deadbat]

Do you still ho in the trooper?

Not been in for 20 years. I left South Anston at 18 to go to Uni and only went in when I was back in the holidays.

My parents (both since passed away) moved away to Worksop not long after I left, so I've no real links with the village other than few mates parents.

 

[Boxer Blade]

Not been in for 20 years. I left South Anston at 18 to go to Uni and only went in when I was back in the holidays.

My parents (both since passed away) moved away to Worksop not long after I left, so I've no real links with the village other than few mates parents.

I'm a regular that's all, along with the Leeds Arms. Great place to live.