1966-67 match reports and photos

[Silent Blade]

27/12/1966

Man U 2 (Crerand, Herd) Blades 0

 

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31/12/1966

Nottingham Forest 3 (Wignall, Baker, Hodgkinson og) Blades 1 (Jones)

After the match Lampiao was autograph hunting outside the players entrance, Bill Punton approached him to sign the book, Lampiao thinking he was the ref said to him "I collect autographs only from players". Bill was unamused and walked away. Lampiao realised his mistake soon after but it was too late!

Dronfield based Blades including Bob Socks who travelled back from Nottingham to Dronfield by train would be the last passengers to alight a train in Dronfield station before the station was closed until it was re-opened in 1981

 

[Silent Blade]

2/1/1967

1965-66 County Cup final

Rotherham 1 (Massey) Blades 0

 

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7/1/1967

Blades 4 (Jones 2, Birchenall 2) Fulham 0

 

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14/1/1967

Everton 4 (Ball 2, Husband, Gabriel) Blades 1 (T. Wagstaff)

 

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21/1/1967

Blades 2 (Woodward, Birchenall) Stoke 1 (Dobing)

 

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28/1/1967

FA Cup 3rd round.

Charlton 0 Blades 1 (Jones)

 

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4/2/1967

Blades 1 (Punton) Wendy 0

 

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11/2/1967

West Brom 1 (Cram) Blades 2 (Smith, Woodward)

Steve Cram's uncle scores for WBA!

 

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18/2/1967

FA Cup 4th round

Fulham 1 (Clarke) Blades 1 (Jones)

 

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25/2/1967

Blades 2 (Woodward 2) Southampton 0










Scores, scorers, line ups and tables are in below link

1967-02-25

 

[Silent Blade]

27/2/1967

FA Cup replay is postponed for the second time

 

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1/3/1967

FA Cup 4th round replay

Blades 3 (Jones, Punton 2) Fulham 1 (Callaghan)

We wear the all white kit despite being the home team and Fulham wearing all red (I think)

 

[Silent Blade]

11/3/1967

FA Cup 5th round

Chelsea 2 (Tambling, Hateley) Blades 0

My dad said the players were upset with the cup preparations because players had to travel to the match by train rather than travel by a private coach. Soon after the club decided that the 1st team would travel to away matches in a private coach.









Tony Hateley after the 2nd goal

 

[Silent Blade]

18/3/1967

Blades 3 (Jones, Birchenall, Woodward) Aston Villa 3 (Anderson, Stobart 2)

Now I can say "55 years ago today!"

Definitely a match that neither my dad or me went to as we were at my uncle Jim's wedding all day.

We wore red socks in some of the home games for the rest of the season













Scores, scorers, line ups and league tables are in the below link

1967-03-18

 

[Silent Blade]

26/10/1966

League Cup 4th round

Blades 2 (Woodward 2) Walsall 1 (Taylor)

Geoff Salmons' 1st team debut. Gerry Summers returns to the Lane as Walsall's player-manager

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The gashed eyebrow Cec received from the Walsall cup game

 

[United Aren't Back.]

6/8/1966

Pre season Friendly

Stockport 0 Blades 2 (Reece, Birchenall)
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Albert Quixall playing for County that day.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

‘Billy playing for Oldham that evening’? For a moment I thought Sharp was much older than I assumed

United played in red shorts in this game I gather. Report below comments that when he's seen the team in red shorts, they are poor.

 

[Silent Blade]

25/3/1967

Arsenal 2 (Sammels, McLintock) Blades 0











Scores, scorers, line ups and tables are in below link

1967-03-25

 

[Alan Birchenall's hair]

Didn't go to Arsenal (bit too young), but went with my Dad to watch Forest beat Wednesday at Hillsboro. Forest had a good team and were going for the title. Remember the red banners everywhere as they had fans all over the ground. Also watched them lose to Spurs in the FA Cup semi at Hillsboro. Queued with my uncle on a Sunday morning for 3 hours to get tickets for that from Hillsboro.....

 

[Bert]

Didn't go to Arsenal (bit too young), but went with my Dad to watch Forest beat Wednesday at Hillsboro. Forest had a good team and were going for the title. Remember the red banners everywhere as they had fans all over the ground. Also watched them lose to Spurs in the FA Cup semi at Hillsboro. Queued with my uncle on a Sunday morning for 3 hours to get tickets for that from Hillsboro.....

Bert was also in the Sunday morning queue.

Worth it to see Jimmy Greaves score.

 

[Silent Blade]

27/3/1967

Blades 1 (Birchenall) Leeds 4 (Bremner, Matthewson og, Giles (pen), Peacock)

 

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27/3/1967

Blades 1 (Birchenall) Leeds 4 (Bremner, Matthewson og, Giles (pen), Peacock)

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Scores, scorers, line ups and league tables are in below link

1967-03-27

 

[Silent Blade]

28/3/1967

Leeds 2 (Charlton, Peacock) Blades 0






Scores, scorers, line ups and league tables are in below link

1967-03-28

 

[Silent Blade]

1/4/1967

Blades 1 (Jones) Man City 0

I love hearing recollection of matches from older Blades. A good mate of mine, Frank Wood (1951-2000) told me in the 1990s that he remembers the above match very well. He said "I was stood in the John Street terraces, just before half time against Man City at the Lane, Mick Jones headed in a Woody corner to put us into the lead.....




..... after the cheering had died down, I looked towards the Kop and I could see in different areas there were punches being thrown, some fans ran for their safety and then there was more fighting, it was the worst I have ever seen and it took a long time before the fighting had stopped! Policemen quickly got into the Kop to try and restore order. St John Ambulance volunteers were very busy trying to get the injured fans out of the way to treat them on the perimeter, there were a lot of bloodied faces"








Man City's keeper Alan Ogley looking like an olympic standard gymnast!










Scores, scorers, line ups and tables are in below link

1967-04-01

 

[Silent Blade]

4/4/1967

West Ham 0 Blades 2 (Jones,Munks)






League table in below link

1967-04-04

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

It is a bit harsh of the reporter to refer to a 21-year-old as the ‘former England centre-forward’

 

[Silent Blade]

8/4/1967

Blackpool 0 Blades 1 (Cliff)








Scores, scorers, line-ups and league tables are in below link

1967-04-08

 

[Bladesince61]

I was at this game and remember it for 2 reasons. Ken Mallender was at number 8 and playing midfield which I can't remember seeing before and the away kit was also new to me, white with thin red and white bands on the neck and cuffs. I can't remember the goal or score at all just that we won. I think it was around Easter and there was a bit of an end of season feel to the game. It was probably one of the first away games I'd been to and quite possibly my first away win.