Oldham v Blades Trivia

[William Henry Foulkes]

A couple of bits of trivia - one of which is a botch and the other might not be true. Anyway here goes:

Boundary Park is the highest ground in the Football League. (A cheat this one as the Hawthorns is higher.)

(Port Vale is the second/third highest so maybe that was all about altitude sickness.)

We've had two players sent off against them three(?) times. (Recalling this from forum discussions last season.)

UTMB

 

[Pollingtonblade]

A couple of bits of trivia - one of which is a botch and the other might not be true. Anyway here goes:

Boundary Park is the highest ground in the Football League. (A cheat this one as the Hawthorns is higher.)

(Port Vale is the second/third highest so maybe that was all about altitude sickness.)

We've had two players sent off against them three(?) times. (Recalling this from forum discussions last season.)

UTMB

George Tyson sent off 2 of our players in the eighties, can't remember who. In the early 90s 91-92 i think we had 2 men sent off, think Gayle was one.

 

[ken shabby]

It were Beesley and Hartfield getting the early baths in 1991, and they WERE early too, both first half. i think both got reds for needlessly applying their studs on a grassy furrow.

And yet with 9 men we won second half with a goal from a poorly Deano. Fun days watching in the tightly packed sheep pens of Oldshittingham`s ground

 

[Revolution]

George Tyson sent off 2 of our players in the eighties, can't remember who. In the early 90s 91-92 i think we had 2 men sent off, think Gayle was one.

Cockerill and Bolton I think in 1984-5

 

[South London Blade]

Weren't we the first team to beat them on their plastic pitch? They had an unbeaten records going back a couple of seasons IIRC

 

[Blade for Sale]

Weren't we the first team to beat them on their plastic pitch? They had an unbeaten records going back a couple of seasons IIRC

Yes 2-0 I think. Webster played up front and had a good game. Wasn't it v Oldham where a WW2 bomb caused the match to be postponed in the 80s as well?

 

[Silent Blade]

John Flynn and Bobby Campbell were sent off in the 3-0 defeat in December 1977. Ronnie Blair of Oldham was sent off too for fighting with Campbell

 

[Silent Blade]

Weren't we the first team to beat them on their plastic pitch? They had an unbeaten records going back a couple of seasons IIRC

They were unbeaten at home for 38 games. We were the 39th step!