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LoughboroBlade said:
– did the apprentice given a contract on the basis he'd grow end up growing the required amount?

– did Mrs Bryson ever get allowed out of the house?
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I wonder if our current apprentice's graft as hard as those lads did. Also, I wonder if Mrs Bryson finished cleaning the table and windows, it felt like she was cleaning through the full episode.
 

Kenilworth said:
1990 was a fucking superb year
For following The Blades and for meeting Mrs Ken :D

WalthamstowBlade - cheers for the linky to that site, pal - looking to get some merch from the geez, nice one ;)
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The site isn't the easiest to use, so here's a little guide...

United matches

http://www.freewebs.com/footballontap/shtoss.htm

Recently added matches

http://www.freewebs.com/footballontap/recentlyaddedgames.htm

Documentaries

http://www.freewebs.com/footballontap/documentariesetc.htm

Season reviews

http://www.freewebs.com/footballontap/seasonreviews.htm
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
The site isn't the easiest to use, so here's a little guide...

United matches

http://www.freewebs.com/footballontap/shtoss.htm

Recently added matches

http://www.freewebs.com/footballontap/recentlyaddedgames.htm

Documentaries

http://www.freewebs.com/footballontap/documentariesetc.htm

Season reviews

http://www.freewebs.com/footballontap/seasonreviews.htm
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Cheers, Walthy but I'm not that fucking stupid :D

Got the United one, the Golden Goals and the 120 Years winging their way to me in the post - I've got em all on VHS and still have a VHS player but, fuck it - thought I'd tret misen :)

Geez was quick to sort out a Paypal invoice - probably need to check my account now to see if it actually was a Walthy site just set up for the purposes of fleecing the innocent, insecure and the insane.
1 out of 5 stars if it is pal ;)
 
Kenilworth said:
Cheers, Walthy but I'm not that fucking stupid :D

Got the United one, the Golden Goals and the 120 Years winging their way to me in the post - I've got em all on VHS and still have a VHS player but, fuck it - thought I'd tret misen :)

Geez was quick to sort out a Paypal invoice - probably need to check my account now to see if it actually was a Walthy site just set up for the purposes of fleecing the innocent, insecure and the insane.
1 out of 5 stars if it is pal ;)
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I can promise it isn't me, it's some bloke in Huddersfield, but some of the DVDs he sells are copies of tapes I've sent him. I've got a pile of old cassettes I'm getting through before I emigrate.
 
Kenilworth said:
1990 was a fucking superb year
For following The Blades and for meeting Mrs Ken :D

WalthamstowBlade - cheers for the linky to that site, pal - looking to get some merch from the geez, nice one ;)
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She's put up with you for > 25 years? The woman's a saint in the making surely.

Those three seasons 88/89 through 90/91 are my favourite back to back seasons in 50+ years to choose from. Two promotions and a top flight survival, truly wonderful.
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
I can promise it isn't me, it's some bloke in Huddersfield, but some of the DVDs he sells are copies of tapes I've sent him. I've got a pile of old cassettes I'm getting through before I emigrate.
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Rather they be yours than Darren 's ;)

Emigrate?
Thought you already lived in London?

The Blades driving you further away?
 
Grecian2000 said:
She's put up with you for > 25 years? The woman's a saint in the making surely.

Those three seasons 88/89 through 90/91 are my favourite back to back seasons in 50+ years to choose from. Two promotions and a top flight survival, truly wonderful.
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That is the truth Greccers - no doubt that she is :)
She even had a season ticket with me for a couple of years before I coerced her to make more Blades ;)
Ken Jnr has the same disease as me on the Blades front, poor sod, but his sister has been immune to the football malaise.

Still - agree - those years watching Deane and Agana and the crew were some of the best times I have witnessed - even though I saw Currie and Woodward etc - that was at the end of their time with us and I was too young to go all over the place.
 
There's one thing I found a bit odd on the rewatch.

It's our triumphant return to the top division. We're Sheffield United. Why then are we blasting out the scouse dirge that is You'll Never Walk Alone? Come to think of it, the Greasy Chip Butty Song is conspicuous by its absence throughout the series.
 
Kenilworth said:
1990 was a fucking superb year
For following The Blades and for meeting Mrs Ken :D

WalthamstowBlade - cheers for the linky to that site, pal - looking to get some merch from the geez, nice one ;)
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1990 was the best year of my life (hope the Missus doesn't read this, didn't meet her til 96 :))
Blades promotion.
Pigs relegation.
England World Cup.
Fantastic music.
Couldn't do no wrong on the fanny front. . . . . . I mean, was great for socialising.
Had a well paid job still living at the parents.
I think I was pissed all year.
Brilliant.

I ordered the season review 89/90 off that site and its pretty cool. Picture dips a bit at times but thats cos of the tapes it was copied from. Came with a pretty cool Blades badge sticker on the disc too:)
 
I just watched "The fans" and I reckon that Keith Broughton must be Pinchy.
A double promotion, 170+ goals in 2 seasons and he's moaning about the players Bassett bought and the entertainment value!

What on earth must he think of the current lot?
 
HeCanDoMagic said:
What I'd give to have a team like that again. Id even take the shitty board and being badly run, if only we had a team with that mentality, the pride, that heart. Something all the fans felt part of, the players and fans against the world attitude.

Does modern football even allow for that kind of ethos any more?
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Gud int it
 
HeCanDoMagic said:
What I'd give to have a team like that again. Id even take the shitty board and being badly run, if only we had a team with that mentality, the pride, that heart. Something all the fans felt part of, the players and fans against the world attitude.

Does modern football even allow for that kind of ethos any more?
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You’ve got everything you wanted, including the shitty board.
 

BiggerBladeThanThou said:
Yeh, so how much worse could it have been? When it mattered.
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I’ll tell you when it’s finished.

It was a lighthearted comment based on the post I replied to. By making into an argument you’re not going to get me to say I think our owners are great, you’re more likely to get a load of responses that are negative, repetitive and shit that we’ve all heard before.
 
BushBlade said:
I’ll tell you when it’s finished.

It was a lighthearted comment based on the post I replied to. By making into an argument you’re not going to get me to say I think our owners are great, you’re more likely to get a load of responses that are negative, repetitive and shit that we’ve all heard before.
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No arguments here. Just felt what you said was abit harsh.
 
This current team under CWAK has got a similar mentality to United of late 80's early 90's under Bassett, the main difference being this team, play football yes DB's team entertained and it's hard to describe but CW's team have a certain je ne sais quois. Going back to 89 in close season me and me bro were at American Adventure, we'd just come off log flume soaked, stood at bottom was Mr Bassett, we got talking and I asked where we'll finish he was non committal I said we'd go up, nice to get summat right.
 
Only ever seen the 'Fans' episode of this. I think I'll watch them all tomorrow night, ahead of Sunday.
 
LoughboroBlade said:
There's one thing I found a bit odd on the rewatch.

It's our triumphant return to the top division. We're Sheffield United. Why then are we blasting out the scouse dirge that is You'll Never Walk Alone? Come to think of it, the Greasy Chip Butty Song is conspicuous by its absence throughout the series.
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It hadn’t been thought up yet.
 
SW12 to S12 to S18 said:
I might be wrong but I thought it started up sometime in the mid nineties.
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No, I remember the lyrics appearing in Flashing Blade around the time I first started going, so 1988/1989ish. I don't think it was as big a part of the match ritual then, though. It was just another song like that one about Jack Charlton's iron lung.
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
No, I remember the lyrics appearing in Flashing Blade around the time I first started going, so 1988/1989ish. I don't think it was as big a part of the match ritual then, though. It was just another song like that one about Jack Charlton's iron lung.
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Tut tut, Walthy. :)

That song (to the tune of Keith West's 'Excerpt from a Teenage Opera') was about Wednesday manager Alan Brown (1964-1968).

'Alan Brown, Alan Brown,
Is it true what Ritchie* says,
Your iron lung
has broken down?'

* John Ritchie - Wendy's leading scorer at the time. Iron lung is the equivalent of taking the piss out of somebody in a wheelchair nowadays.

Different times - remember WW2 finished barely 20 years previously, Wednesday had just been gifted a stadium refurb. for the '66 WC and Bramall Lane was a 3-sided dump.
 

I can’t sleep and I’ve been up most of the night, my first seasons following were 1989/1990..so these were the days as we say.. well, up to now because these are the new good old days, get my drift..

Just nipping for a can of bud and my earphones cause the missus is snoring..

Gonna watch a couple of episodes and I believe the phrase that upset the club was “donkey” in reference to the mark morris signing..

Hopefully the young supporters of the club won’t see it end as soon this time around in the big league..
 
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