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[cahill]

Oh dear "Hockey"........,stick"

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Been once to the sty when the pigs were playing (but not against us). It was against Everton in the League Cup about 1977, dad had got free tickets, appropriately enough in their freebie North Stand. United had lost to Everton in the previous round 0-3 at the Lane so was a bit gutted that the pigs had gone one better and only lost 1-3, though cheered each and everyone of Everton's goals. Dad wasn't impressed with that as we were getting a few funny looks from snorters close by. Thankfully dad never took me to the sty again unless we were playing them there (not as thankfully one of those games was boxing day 79).

 

[Silent Blade]

The following season 1971 our first game was Brum away and the late Trevor Hockey scored our winner. I was stationed at RAF Hereford and my best mate was a Birmingham City fan so I used to go to their home games. Hockey, a former Brum player was given stick all through the match but they ended up applauding him

August 1972, Hockey scored the equaliser and Woody got the winner. The below photo is of Hockey taunting the Birmingham fans. I was there too

 

[bricktop]

My former spouse was a gruntlet, literally. I even went to Swillsborough on one occasion when they played Man City in the Cup, and that gormless gruntlet Nicky Weaver was City's custodian, and was gormlessly playing up to their banal, inane chants of if you don't bounce then you are a blade.

Unfortunately for him I remembered this well, and 18 months later when he had moved to Charlton he was unfortunate enough to have a heavily inberaeted Brownie stood behind his goal within earshot, giving him a dog abuse, which was compounded by him spilling a regulation Greg Halford cross at the feet of James Beattie. Mind you I wasn't alone in a spot of pig baiting.

I despise them, I think in general, we are better, more intelligent, more entertaining, better physical specimens and a few rungs higher on the evolutionary scale than any pig could ever aspire to be.

 

[Bert]

August 1972, Hockey scored the equaliser and Woody got the winner. The below photo is of Hockey taunting the Birmingham fans. I was there too

So was Bert

 

[bricktop]

So was Bert

Never mind that. Brownies wishes to enquire How was the Havana Club, Cigars and Berts FBI fugitive friend in Utopia?

 

[Bert]

Bert is just back from 3 months in Cuba. He spent his time drinking cocktails and 7 year old Havana Club plus other pastimes that appeal to retired Captains of Industry.
Bert's good friend Ali was on very good form as ever. If he ever wrote a book it would be almost unbelievable.... Stealing cars as a teenager, made to go to Vietnam, selling drugs in New York to Hendrix and co, joining Black Panthers, murdering eight people in the Virgin Islands, life in USA jail, hijacking a plane to Havana, ten years in Cuban jail and now sitting in the sun drinking rum out of reach of the FBI.
Bert has some photos of him but it's certainly not a good idea to post them on here.

 

[judge]

I will share with you a story that happened just yesterday involving your typical gruntlet

Some months ago a lifelong friend of mine was married , he lives down south and his stag do was set up in bournemouth

As the participants are split between north and south a whatsapp page was set up to help everyone keep in touch with payments and events and during the weekend itself to let everyone know what was going on

The stag do was a great weekend with only me and my brother venturing up from sheffield

However one truffle hunter has decided to use this as a medium to convey shit jokes about the blades ( 8 yr old level)

The stag do was in august and no one has visited the page for months and yet this fuckwit who didnt even come on the stag do decides to make an arse of himself and sheffield football in general by doing this

He got owned anyway

 

[cahill]

Bert is just back from 3 months in Cuba. He spent his time drinking cocktails and 7 year old Havana Club plus other pastimes that appeal to retired Captains of Industry.
Bert's good friend Ali was on very good form as ever. If he ever wrote a book it would be almost unbelievable.... Stealing cars as a teenager, made to go to Vietnam, selling drugs in New York to Hendrix and co, joining Black Panthers, murdering eight people in the Virgin Islands, life in USA jail, hijacking a plane to Havana, ten years in Cuban jail and now sitting in the sun drinking rum out of reach of the FBI.
Bert has some photos of him but it's certainly not a good idea to post them on here.

Sounds like a good story to me. Any revolutionary worthy of the name would hijack a plane in those days , these days they hack into computers. The new improved Cuban relations with the Arch Capitalist USA must be worrying him a bit.

 

[Stretch]

My grandad was a Blade and the main reason I chose United (Dad was Rotherham but never took me to games really). My grandad also used to go and watch Wednesday, Donny and Rotherham at various times when United were away and even liked to see Leeds do well
He was that kind of a guy, Yorkshire pride came before tribalism. Personally, I only started watching United in the late 80s, by which point watching both teams wasn't really an option.

With regard to the Pigs monicker, he always told me that it originated around the 60s (I think?) when Wednesday started using Hogg's Coaches for away trips and it wasn't United but actually other clubs supporters who first used the term against them. It then got tied into the whole mythology about Hillsborough being built near a slaughterhouse / Swine Cottages etc...The name stuck and they spat dummies when Blades used it against them, flinging it back at us because of the Red/White stripe thing.
No idea if this is true, but I will say that my grandad hated the term being used by either set of supporters, thinking it was genuinely offensive. Sad to say I do occasionally use it myself, he would not approve god rest his soul.

Other than that, got loads of Owls as mates and a few family. All good eggs who don't fall into the P word category, which I reserve for the scummier and more arrogant elements of their fan base.

 

[Bert]

Sounds like a good story to me. Any revolutionary worthy of the name would hijack a plane in those days , these days they hack into computers. The new improved Cuban relations with the Arch Capitalist USA must be worrying him a bit.

He's nearly 70 now but still a very imposing figure and doesn't seem too bothered about potential repatriation. He's very communist and puts his faith in Raul not to send him back.
There are many Cubans in the USA who Cuba would like back to put on trial but it's unlikely that the Americans will ever do a swap.

 

[Cheets]

My granddad used to take my older brother to Hillsborough one week and Bramall Lane the next. My dad said they knew my brother was a wendy when we were playing Man U and Wendy were playing someone rubbish at home the same day and my brother wanted to go to Hillsborough. My granddad died when I was 6 so I never got taken to matches, but I rebelled against my brother and followed the Blades, excited by the signing of Sabella. Plus I liked the United kit better.

 

[wizadry]

I don't hate them, I just don't like the bastards. It's nothing personal.

 

[60Williams]

Im a Blade first but a football fanatic second, and as such will go to any game that I can. I go to most of the local teams at least 9 or 10 games a season, Donny, Rotherham, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Alfreton sheffield FC, Matlock, and I've even been known to go to Macclesfield once a season but never ever have I been to the rust bucket other than to watch them against the Blades!

 

[Silent Blade]

My granddad used to take my older brother to Hillsborough one week and Bramall Lane the next. My dad said they knew my brother was a wendy when we were playing Man U and Wendy were playing someone rubbish at home the same day and my brother wanted to go to Hillsborough. My granddad died when I was 6 so I never got taken to matches, but I rebelled against my brother and followed the Blades, excited by the signing of Sabella. Plus I liked the United kit better.

I remember your brother and his Wendy mates were jealous of us signing Sabella. At Cemetery Road Park in July 1978 I was telling them that we would get promotion easily!

How wrong I was!

 

[Cheets]

I remember your brother and his Wendy mates were jealous of us signing Sabella. At Cemetery Road Park in July 1978 I was telling them that we would get promotion easily!

How wrong I was!

:-(

 

[Tyler Durden]

It's a special kind of hate, the type that you can put aside for your friends/family members from the other side.

But for me it's a hatred nonetheless. I grew up and went to school in the early 90's when the Pigs were finishing high up in the top-flight, doing well in the cups and briefly had a stint in Europe whilst United were stagnating. Everybody seemed to be a Pig in primary school, and the taunting and arrogant shite that the red and white minority of us had to endure was relentless.
Then they finally dropped like a sack of shit at the turn of the millennium and I was ecstatic. We went on to enjoy over a decade of unbroken superiority over them, and they were left with fuck all to argue about other than past glories and delusions of grandeur. And what's more I got to see us stuff them on a number of occasions, I nearly broke my leg falling down the John Street steps whilst celebrating Michael Browns goal and it was the best pain I ever felt.
I hate them, I hate their big time Charlie attitude, I hate their shameful history, I hate their fucking godawful rustbucket of a ground, I hate that stupid fuckwit parrot they have as their crest, I hate going near their ground on matchdays and seeing their fat bastard fans turning up wearing full replica kit. They are a shitstain on my beloved city and I've felt this way rightly or wrongly for a good 25 years out of my 30 on this earth, and it'll never change.

 

[Bladesman]

I will share with you a story that happened just yesterday involving your typical gruntlet

Some months ago a lifelong friend of mine was married , he lives down south and his stag do was set up in bournemouth

As the participants are split between north and south a whatsapp page was set up to help everyone keep in touch with payments and events and during the weekend itself to let everyone know what was going on

The stag do was a great weekend with only me and my brother venturing up from sheffield

However one truffle hunter has decided to use this as a medium to convey shit jokes about the blades ( 8 yr old level)

The stag do was in august and no one has visited the page for months and yet this fuckwit who didnt even come on the stag do decides to make an arse of himself and sheffield football in general by doing this

He got owned anyway

On a par with the Wendy fan who I mentioned a few months back who started mouthing off at me at a wake about how much he hates us.

Some of them really have no class at all or respect for that matter.

 

[Paqamaq]

In answer to the OP questions, 1 probably doesn't happen much these days purely due to the cost. At just a few bob to get in, loads went to both and other local teams too. I went to Rotherham a lot as I lived over that way and a few mates went there. I did that until I was old enough (rich enough) to go to our away matches... but actually, when I'm home, in addition to Blades matches, I still go to whichever games I fancy, and love nothing more than taking in a game with mates and supporting their team with them.

2 - I wouldn't really know, and don't really get. I've got friends of various allegiances, with the friendly rivalry/banter that goes with that when they play each other. Anything else is just the bullshit of 5-year-olds. Life is way too short for that kind of nonsense.

3 - Of course... my dad likes Wednesday (his dad did too), my mum's a miller. It was a real mixture at school and everywhere since... Seriously? Why is this even a question?