1967-68 (55 years ago) match reports and photos

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

11/5/1968

Blades 1 (Hill) Chelsea 2 (Osgood, Baldwin)

First time we wore black shorts for a home game that season.

Some years later my dad was telling me that he was at this fateful match. He remembers Hodgy being in tears after the match. In the late 1980s Ernie Hunt told a Sunday paper that Southampton players took a bribe so that they dont beat Coventry in the final match.

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Celebrating Mick Hill's opener to give us the lead at the break
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Tommy Baldwin's winner

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

1968-05-11

From the programme
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I remember towards the end Willie Carlin trying to gee the team up.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

30/3/1968

FA Cup 6th round

Leeds 1 (Madeley) Blades 0

Years later I remember my dad telling me that he was at the match and we were unlucky to get knocked out of the FA Cup. He recalled that a Dronfield Blade (Nip Hague) got furious with Gary Sprake and he was attempting to run on the pitch to hit Sprake but one or two Blades in the crowd got hold of Nip before he calmed down.

The goal that knocked us out of the cup. To most of you , Paul Madeley is best remembered as an utility player but mostly played in defence. During the 1967-68 season he played centre forward in quite a few matches.

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I seem to remember we sold 13,000 tickets on the big open end at Elland Road that day. Great atmosphere and we were singing along to some of the popular dogs they played on those two big Tannoy speakers they had at that end.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

12/4/1968 (Good Friday)

Liverpool 1 (Hunt) Blades 2 (Currie, Reece)

This is how the first division table looked before the match. Liverpool had a good chance of winning the league and they were to play 2nd from bottom Blades twice in their remaining 9 matches.

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Roger Hunt shoots
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And scores to put Liverpool ahead

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Equaliser by TC
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Reece's winner heading in a cross by Woodward
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Scores, scorers, line ups and league tables in below link

1968-04-12

Me and Cookie (from Donny these days) hitched a lift back on the team coach after the match. Strange season.

 

[ancientblade]

I seem to remember we sold 13,000 tickets on the big open end at Elland Road that day. Great atmosphere and we were singing along to some of the popular dogs they played on those two big Tannoy speakers they had at that end.

yes was absolutely packed that day we deserved to win that game

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

yes was absolutely packed that day we deserved to win that game

Didn't Colin Addison hit a shot that seemed to ping all around the woodwork without going in?

 

[United Aren't Back.]

23/4/1968

Blades 2 (Fenoughty, Woodward) Fulham 3 (Conway, Barrett, Gilroy)

I remember my dad recalling the anguish on the evening when we threw a two goal lead away to bottom placed Fulham who scored 3 times in the last 20 minutes. My dad said there were Wednesday fans in the BLUT cheering the Fulham goals.

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Scores, scorers, line ups and league tables from below link

1968-04-23

From the programme

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Tom Fenoughty was a chemist, he returned to his job as a chemist, a few years after this goal. Four goals for United.

 

[Silent Blade]

Tom Fenoughty was a chemist, he returned to his job as a chemist, a few years after this goal. Four goals for United.

Sat next to me and my dad during Blades 3-0 win against Leeds in August 1971

 

[Summers & Pace]

27/4/1968

Blades 1 (Reece) West Ham 2 (Hurst 2)

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Harry Redknapp got the year wrong in his own autobiography!
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Scores, scorers, line-ups and league tables in below link

1968-04-27

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Willie Carlin, hates cockneys,
First Lampard then Harry, sounds like a man on a mission. I liked Carlin, I remember him running towards the Leppings Lane end when we equalised and celebrated with a Blades fan. He made the goal with a great run and I think Mick Hill scored.

 

[Summers & Pace]

11/5/1968

Blades 1 (Hill) Chelsea 2 (Osgood, Baldwin)

First time we wore black shorts for a home game that season.

Some years later my dad was telling me that he was at this fateful match. He remembers Hodgy being in tears after the match. In the late 1980s Ernie Hunt told a Sunday paper that Southampton players took a bribe so that they dont beat Coventry in the final match.

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Celebrating Mick Hill's opener to give us the lead at the break
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Tommy Baldwin's winner

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

1968-05-11

From the programme
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What a depressing day. We had to leave early to catch a train we were going on holiday. I can remember being sat on the train preying for a miracle. I must have been clutching at straws, because I think Stoke were playing in the evening and if the result went our way there was a potential reprieve.

 

[Silent Blade]

What a depressing day. We had to leave early to catch a train we were going on holiday. I can remember being sat on the train preying for a miracle. I must have been clutching at straws, because I think Stoke were playing in the evening and if the result went our way there was a potential reprieve.

Yes, they played in the evening at Leicester and drew 0-0

 

[ancientblade]

Didn't Colin Addison hit a shot that seemed to ping all around the woodwork without going in?

thats correct think he hit crossbar then down on to the post we hit the post again later on and had one cleared off the line we murdered em that day

 

[ancientblade]

Willie Carlin, hates cockneys,
First Lampard then Harry, sounds like a man on a mission. I liked Carlin, I remember him running towards the Leppings Lane end when we equalised and celebrated with a Blades fan. He made the goal with a great run and I think Mick Hill scored.

yes he did thousand of blades on their kop that day 4 times as many as they had on the shoreham the september before huddled in top corner they got battered that day

 

[Silent Blade]

17/5/1968

County Cup semi final replay

Doncaster Rovers 3 (Webber, Flowers, Jeffrey) Blades 1 (Barlow) After extra time.