What Do You Miss The Most At BDTBL?

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Watching the puddles fill up on the cleared John Street, which was occasionally more exciting than the football on display :D
 

Brian Deane
Dane Whitehouse
Alan Kelly
Tony Agana
Dave Bassett


Having a team that was more than the sum of it's parts. Beating Man United and Liverpool. Being in the top 2 divisions. Having an electric atmosphere on the kop.
 
I used to love the whole 'feel' of Bramall Lane in the old days. Reall 'football match' stuff, swelling noise, shit, muddy pitch, floodlights, ref in collar and cuffs, leathery thud of the the old Mitre ball, absolutely batshit bonkers when we scored (and singing for fifteen minutes solid afterwards) the rain, the old goals shape with the white, close-mesh netting and inverted 'L' shaped stanchions (as opposed to the pigs 'top-of-the-posts 'U' shaped' shit) The old shed-type stands, the closeness of the kop, looking across and seeing many orange lights spark up someones cig at random areas in the darkness. It is misty eyed and magical stuff, but it was all real.

I suppose memories of that keep me being a Unitedite from a distance. I watch for what Pompey do (and Gosport Borough ... who I keep promising I will go and watch but never do), but my footballing life is Sheffield United.

pommpey
 
The nice old lady who ran the sports kiosk outside the ground. Then promoted to the newly built sports shop.
Big Norman old club steward........and Mary of course.
The special atmosphere and exitement of watching Currie and Woodward for the first time at the 5 0 win over Arsenal. What an atmosphere.
Just love night matches at the Lane.
 
H-Block bouncing at full force
NW giving it lemon to all and sundry
SUFC shell suits
Those plastic bowler hats
Standing in a huge snaking queue as a youngster outside the ground and smelling the beer and cigarette smoke
Derby matches with Wendy
 
Yea great boozer we ran a Sunday side from there late 70s all Blades
 
has to be atmosphere
i still remember the first time i walked out onto the kop. that is the addiction. not the football.
shame we don't have one now it is like going in the university library apart from the odd 'Shoreham boys' crap that never seems to finish properly
 
There was also this:

When we were in a game where the margin was tight, or we were on the attack to equalise or go ahead, you could see it in the players faces. When the defence splitting pass went through and one of ours connected with it and ran on, down the flank or even on goal, or when we got a corner and our player carried the ball out to the quadrant, placed it down and took some steps back whilst looking over at the target area, you could feel the crowd bleed hope and optimism into the players bodies. You could see they were focussed ... but charged with the energy.

When we scored against Walsall, there was barely a twitch on the needle. Me and my mates jumped about a bit, but it was barely a buzz by the time Walsall had put the ball on the spot to kick off and the crowd were silent within three minutes.

pommpey
 
The terraces for me,for the atmosphere,humour,characters..the old Kop especially,from clinging onto thet beautiful white fence,to graduating to the back middle sections chanting and surging...the lone gravel like voice who used to shout COYRAWW! from one of the openings at the back when there was a hush in the crowd...could go on and on really.
 

Anyone remember David ,the welsh copper whos beat was from the Nursery tavern to the Crossguns ,just the Lane end on Bramall lane to the bottom of the Moor and up Eccy rd as far as the Nursery. I worked in a place that eventually became Champs and he used to call in on his beat and have a coffee. he was a real Jekyl and Hyde character ,nice as anything on the beat but crowds were small in the early 80s and he sometimes did the Lane end on his own. He openly admitted to us booting the ankles of away fans as he walked past them to try and get a reaction ,so he could pile in and have a scrap. He was a Cardiff fan and hard as nails. He told us once he took 2 Middlesboro fans who gobbed off round the back and reduced them to tears ,I was quite pleased because I think we got hammered. I then used to watch him in action from John St and he was a complete twat. then you would meet him on the beat on London Rd and he would be a really nice interesting guy.
 
The smell of beer and cigarettes from The old social club on Cherry street with Norman and Mary.
The discos upstairs and me having to sneak a babycham when Norman wasn't watching as he knew I wasn't 18
The old ticket office . The offices behind the cricket stand.
Even now when I pass someone with a cigarette I'm transported to a football match.
Away matches where the only time I stood up was when we scored and there were no drunken supporters.
The old John street and the thrill of players running down the old tunnel.
Waiting for the little man put up the Wednesday score on the old score board and going to the reserve matches.
the thrill as a small child of going into the old club shop on John Street.What memories..........
 
One thing I used to love, before the advent of smartphones rendered it pointless was the in-play updates of latest scores. My dad, and presumably several other people would always be listening to a radio through ear buds to Radio Sheffield or 5 Live or whatever. He would triumphantly turn to me and say "Wednesday are 1-0 down!"

Sure enough the murmur would travel through the crowd and then a minute or so later the scoreboard would flash up "Today's Latest Details" and then the score would appear, all soundtracked by the Kop going "oooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh... WAAAAAAAAYYYYY! SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY'S FUCKED IT UP AGAIN!"

Sometimes, if we were getting tanked that was the best bit of the game.

I was at Spurs/Leicester this season, and they have score updates snaking across the bottom of their scoreboard, they do the same with Arsenal, of course. Took me back to those days in the 90's.

Also, as others have said, the cigarette smoke, even for a non-smoker was welcome. Bramall Lane had a certain smell to it that it doesn't any more.
 
William Henry Foulkes said:
Without Googling I'd say this was Middlesborough 8-0?

Come to think of it: Did he run out of numbers and have to put up a 6+2? We all thought they were getting back in it from 6-0 down and he gesticulated that no it's 6 and 2. Took a while to work out what was going on.
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It wasn't the same old man who was in charge of the scoreboard in the pavilion in the early 1970s. He was replaced by a younger man probably during the 1973-74 season as the scoreboard moved to in front of the South Stand which was under construction. We had drawn 1-1 at home to QPR but many fans in the BLUT waited to find out if Wendy had conceded any more than 6. It was raining at the time and the man in charge of the scoreboard was wearing a kagoul with hood over his head. He was holding 6 and 2 together towards the BLUT and then doing a sign moving his forefinger into an 8 direction. We all laughed!

http://www.mfc.co.uk/news/article/200474-boro-8-sheffield-wednesday-0-1744338.aspx
 
I miss the 2003 season.
Atmosphere / Celebrations Play off 2nd leg v Forrest
Brown and Tonge in Mid
Browns volley v them
Sportsman day trip to Plymouth away (not the result)
Sportsman away days in general.
and the overall pride and passion our team gave us and seemed to play with
"They're a great set of lads who never know when to give up"
 
LYDON said:
As an addition to the "Earliest Memories" thread.

What, when you look back on supporting SUFC, what do you miss the most about our beautiful home?

The "proper" floodlights, in the corners and if I recall, the centre one which was above the old John Street side.
Watching them flicker into life, under the dark rainy skies....

The smell of pipe tobacco as I walked up to the BLUT .. Row G...

Two simplistic memories that will live with me forever.
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Winning football! More seriously I'd say players running straight out of the tunnel to the fans, with the more passionate players then pumping fists to the Kop! Of course that applies to all grounds and the whole procedure is just a farce and totally PC. The players don't even shake hands but just slap hands for the sake of doing it. In terms of the Lane I miss the standing on the Kop and I hope one day for safe standing to be introduced.

I do remember the old score board that had a man scoring a goal and then the scoreboard flashing GOAL GOAL GOAL! I know some might have found it cheesy but I just loved it to be honest! We should bring that back! Does anyone else remember that, I'm sure many will. It was from the early 90's from memory, certainly the Bassett days.
 
What do I miss most at BDTBL?

John Harris, Tony Curry, Alan Woodward, Keith Eddy, Billy Dearden, Eddie Colquhoun, Len Badger, Ted Hensley......................etc, and the feeling of total optimism that we would beat anyone who came to play us.
 
Excellent thread, have enjoyed reading everyone's memories - I guess a great deal of ones earliest impressions & memories were formed by the sights, smells and youthful adventure of live football games.

My memories were formed in the period 73-75, of Currie & Woodward, standing on the old John St Terrace behind the dug outs.

One final one, there was a bar as you entered through the turnstiles which sold 1/2 pint bottled beer and I always remember the guy serving pouring 2 bottles out into pint plastic glasses - strange how little things like that stick.
 

LYDON said:
As an addition to the "Earliest Memories" thread.

What, when you look back on supporting SUFC, what do you miss the most about our beautiful home?

The "proper" floodlights, in the corners and if I recall, the centre one which was above the old John Street side.
Watching them flicker into life, under the dark rainy skies....

The smell of pipe tobacco as I walked up to the BLUT .. Row G...

Two simplistic memories that will live with me forever.
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The Fortress Bramall lane is what I miss most ....... when teams were wary of coming here regardless of what division they or we were in !!

Now ....... our home record is, without doubt; appalling, embarrassing, shocking and totally unacceptable at ANY level !!! :mad:

sorry ..... rant over ......

UTB & FTP
 
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