TC, sitting on the ball, 5-0

[Fulwood Blade]

Whether Bally was a twat or not is open to debate but he was hugely instrumental in our one and only world cup win, and his performance that day will always stick in my mind.

yep, agree about Ball - I was 10 and it was the 2nd game I ever saw on TV - a great 4-2 win.

The first btw way was another GREAT win ...... 3-2..............Trebilcock come to mind? haha........

UTB & FTP

 

[Aston max]

McAlistar
Badger
Hemsley
Flynn
Coluqhoun
Eddy
Woodward
Salmons
Dearden
Currie
Bone

God for that team now

 

[Aston max]

Weren't that the game Billy Dearden twatted Charlie George when he run past him ??

 

[Gavlar]

Sold for £250,000. To Leeds. Couldn't be much worse.

“A lot of people criticised me for going at the time. They thought I’d walked out on the club,” he said. “But what they didn’t know was, not long before, I’d been happy to sign my career away for Sheffield United.

“Manchester United had been on the phone to me all the time. They’d been ringing me up saying ‘Come and play for us. We want you to replace Bobby Charlton’.

“Those who did know thought I was mad but I turned them down and signed a new deal because I didn’t want to leave. I loved Sheffield United, still do in fact, and I didn’t want to turn my back on the fans who showed me so much respect and love."

interview in the Star 2013

So what changed?

 

[Moorside Blade]

Two superb midfielders, Currie and Ball. Ball a World Cup winner with energy and never say die approach. TC the skilful showman who could change games. Different players. Both superb.

 

[Silent Blade]

I was there and anyone else who was there would ever understand how the board could have sold Currie, although it is is good to see that the successive boards have learnt from history. Oh hang on a minute

What has that got to do with McCabe?

 

[Silent Blade]

Two superb midfielders, Currie and Ball. Ball a World Cup winner with energy and never say die approach. TC the skilful showman who could change games. Different players. Both superb.

Ball was a busy one touch player

 

[Silent Blade]

I always tell the story that when Alan ball sat on the ball it was around the half way line, towards

the tunnel

Nip Hague from Dronfield was so incensed with Ball that he tried to run on the pitch from the John Street terrace to hit Alan Ball but Jimmy Beresford from Unstone grabbed hold of Nip and calmed him down. That is what my dad was told

 

[sitwell]

Its a shame there aren't characters like Ball ,Currie and Hockey anymore

 

[ghandi]

What has that got to do with McCabe?

Because he has carried on the tradition of selling our best players such as the flu ridden James Beattie, Kyle Walker, Phil Jagielka, Kyle Naughton, Nick Blackman, Harry Maguire, James Murphy etc etc ad nauseum.

 

[Finnieston]

One of the great matches - we've not had too many, but that certainly was it for me.

It was my first match at the lane.
Smittened and been going ever since.
Never seen a match like it since. Love it at the Lane.
Think it was a night match.
Please correct me if ime wrong.

 

[Silent Blade]

[QUOTE="Finnieston, post: 862469, member: 16000"
Think it was a night match.
Please correct me if ime wrong.[/QUOTE]

Tuesday night

 

[Silent Blade]

I know there's a few stattos and nerds on here, maybe they can help me.

I am trying to find the line up from when we beat Arsenal 5-0 at the Lane in 73/74, which I believe is the game where TC sat on the ball.

Anyone know anything?

Woody's goal. Our second of the night.Alan Ball is on the right, Bob Wilson is the keeper.

GOAL - v Arsenal (h) 4.9.73. In the ninth minute Currie insolently beat Storey but was brought down on the edge of the penalty area. Looking up, United's superstar slipped his free kick back for Woodward to whip his right foot shot along the ground, through the packed defence and into the corner of the net.

 

[crucialkneeligaman]

yep, agree about Ball - I was 10 and it was the 2nd game I ever saw on TV - a great 4-2 win.

The first btw way was another GREAT win ...... 3-2..............Trebilcock come to mind? haha........

UTB & FTP

Oh yes Fulwood it was a very good year

 

[wardonia_blade]

Well said.

There wasn't a Unitedite there who didn't think they were looking at far and away the best player in the country, head and shoulders above his so-called rivals.

What nobody has pointed out is the start we made to the game. Denis Clarebrough's book says simply: "United scored four goals in the opening seventeen minutes with the first in thirty five seconds. Currie in devastating form, sat on the ball near the end, completing United's revenge for the January 1972 defeat."

One of Currie's two goals I recollect as being absolutely smashed home from outside the box at the Bramall Lane end. To be fair to Bob Wilson, he made a lovely diving shape through the air as the ball whistled past.

Brilliant night.

The following week I went to the return (night) match at Highbury. We never looked like losing but did lose, 1-0 to a late goal. Alan Ball then put his foot on the ball and tied his boots.

 

[metalblade]

The 5-0 drubbing of Arsenal is match #14 in the book Thirty memorable games of the seventies by Nick Udall.