What kind of Historian/Statto are you?

[SUFC Handsworth]

Hopefully this has worked, see front cover below. I've got a feeling there might be a 2nd 1939 promotion handbook, whether it's the same with a different cover, I'm not quite sure, perhaps someone could confirm?

 

[Darren]

Do you find it harder to remember the results from the recent seasons? I find it difficult and in my mind feel that the last few seasons are amalgamated into one or two seasons! Are you aiming to recite the matches into the 1950s?

No. The more recent seasons are easier.

I got back to 1955 at one point, but then was ill for a bit and stopped running and it went

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I remember being most scared at Norwich in thr FA cup we lost a thriller 3-2 but they had packed 1000 of us in a caged pen they sit 200 in now , nearly lost consciousness when Deano scored

I remember being worried that we were packed in like sardines on the Leppings Lane end at Hillsbro when we played Wendies in some tin pot trophy called the ZDS Cup (year? who knows? 1990?). I think we got a late equaliser but lost in E/T, mind you I could be wrong!

 

[Darren]

I remember being worried that we were packed in like sardines on the Leppings Lane end at Hillsbro when we played Wendies in some tin pot trophy called the ZDS Cup (year? who knows? 1990?). I think we got a late equaliser but lost in E/T, mind you I could be wrong!

21/11/89. We lost 3-2 AET, Deane and Booker were our scorers and Booker did indeed get the equaliser in the last minute of normal time.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

21/11/89. We lost 3-2 AET, Deane and Booker were our scorers and Booker did indeed get the equaliser in the last minute of normal time.

Cheers for the confirmation. Thought I was imagining it.

 

[bladesadviser]

I am more a general football statto, sad I am called by my family but always useful in the pub quiz when the question is what is Walsall's nickname, where do Plymouth play etc. Most of my info came form my favourite ever football book which I first borrowed from Dronfield library in the seventies called Purnell's Encyclopedia of Association Football which had everything about football up to 1974. I fund a copy in later life and still enjoy reading it. I wish I could remember stuff for exams even now as much as I can remember the information in this book.

One example of how the contents stuck in my mind was I with a Partick Thistle fan on a course and when he told me that he was a fan I couldn't stop myself saying "well of course your biggest moment was the 1971 league cup final when you beat Celtic 4-1 which at the time was considered a huge giant killing".

The other game I like to play (which I am sure a lot of others do) is asking Chelsea fans to name members of their 1970 cup winning team or Man City members of their 1970 cup winners cup team to flush out the johnny come latelys

 

[Darren]

I am more a general football statto, sad I am called by my family but always useful in the pub quiz when the question is what is Walsall's nickname, where do Plymouth play etc. Most of my info came form my favourite ever football book which I first borrowed from Dronfield library in the seventies called Purnell's Encyclopedia of Association Football which had everything about football up to 1974. I fund a copy in later life and still enjoy reading it. I wish I could remember stuff for exams even now as much as I can remember the information in this book.

One example of how the contents stuck in my mind was I with a Partick Thistle fan on a course and when he told me that he was a fan I couldn't stop myself saying "well of course your biggest moment was the 1971 league cup final when you beat Celtic 4-1 which at the time was considered a huge giant killing".

The other game I like to play (which I am sure a lot of others do) is asking Chelsea fans to name members of their 1970 cup winning team or Man City members of their 1970 cup winners cup team to flush out the johnny come latelys

To be fair, I bet very few United fans today could name our 1971 promotion winning team*. That's a function of age rather than anything else I think.

* Hope, Badger, Hemsley, Flynn, Colquhoun, Hockey, Woodward, Salmons, Dearden, Currie, Reece Sub: Ford, since you ask.....

 

[Blade56]

Last game only is the important history at the moment

 

[Jehovah]

I wish our lass was a blade. She would remember every minute deal from the moment the relationship began.

 

[Silent Blade]

To be fair, I bet very few United fans today could name our 1971 promotion winning team*. That's a function of age rather than anything else I think.

Flynn.....

Not again! Grrrr!!!!!!!

 

[Darren]

Not again! Grrrr!!!!!!!

He was the guy who was in the team that won promotion on 1st May 1971.

 

[Silent Blade]

He was the guy who was in the team that won promotion on 1st May 1971.

Yes but it annoys me when Blades fans name Flynn rather than Powell when naming the team for that 1970/71 season. Flynn played only 9 times that season. Flynn wasnt a poor player but had Powell not been injured at QPR in March 1971 then he will have carried on playing for us until he got too old. In Dennis Clareborough's book of best 100 Blades player he had Flynn in not Powell and this isnt right too

 

[Darren]

Yes but it annoys me when Blades fans name Flynn rather than Powell when naming the team for that 1970/71 season. Flynn played only 9 times that season. Flynn wasnt a poor player but had Powell not been injured at QPR in March 1971 then he will have carried on playing for us until he got too old. In Dennis Clareborough's book of best 100 Blades player he had Flynn in not Powell and this isnt right too

Doesn't alter the fact that Flynn was in the promotion winning team and Powell wasn't.

For a bit of fun, can you name the 8 other players who played in the promotion season apart from Powell and the 12 I named

 

[Silent Blade]

Doesn't alter the fact that Flynn was in the promotion winning team and Powell wasn't.

For a bit of fun, can you name the 8 other players who played in the promotion season apart from Powell and the 12 I named

Barnwell, Addison, Hodgkinson, Buckley, Crawford, Tudor, Barlow and Heaton

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Bit random. Sal Bibbo...did he ever play for the first team???

 

[Darren]

Bit random. Sal Bibbo...did he ever play for the first team???

Played in the Anglo-Italian Cup in 94-5, but that was when Bassett was fielding reserve teams. He never played in a "proper" competition.

 

[Jon Bon]

Bit random. Sal Bibbo...did he ever play for the first team???

Which first team? The Lord of the Rings XI...?

 

[DI36O]

I don't have a great memory with individual home games and goalscorers. I think the first few years stick with you, depending on your age, and then they tend to blur into one. Certain occasions obviously won't be forgotten.

I can always remember players, although I'm bad with faces if someone walks past me. Not just United as well, for reasons unknown I'm able to reel off dozens of full squads from both domestic and international football of days gone by, whereas I forget relatives birthdays and other info useful for survival.

Love a bit of history though. I could happily sit and read Darren and silent's conversations all day.

 

[silverfox]

I can't remember the last time dingledog got a round in!

 

[super_pig]

I started writing an epic history of the club, got to 1934 then ground to a halt.

too busy arguing with Darren to finish it?

 

[JJ Sefton]

too busy arguing with Darren to finish it?

It's too depressing to write anymore.