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Agree, he went about his job quietly, as you say, but gave us our best times watching the blades imo
1969-70 (55 years ago) match reports and photos
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Also 60 odd years supporting the club. I’ve just been reflecting back to those days, looking at our players and the type of football we played. Agree, for me they were the best times, John Harris was a good manager going about his business quietly and, in from what I remember, a cheerful manner.
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9/8/1969
Blades 3 (Reece, Woodward 2) Middlesbrough 0
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It is interesting that when the fixtures came out, the last game of the season for most clubs was scheduled to be played in a midweek evening.
Blades 3 (Reece, Woodward 2) Middlesbrough 0
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It is interesting that when the fixtures came out, the last game of the season for most clubs was scheduled to be played in a midweek evening.
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I have vivid memories of this period which marked the start of my regular attendance.
We were putting together an excellent and entertaining team but only 14707 was the crowd to see the first match of the season!
We were putting together an excellent and entertaining team but only 14707 was the crowd to see the first match of the season!
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12/8/1969
Blades 2 (Woodward, Currie) Charlton 0
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Blades 2 (Woodward, Currie) Charlton 0
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16/8/1969
Portsmouth 1 (Trebilcock pen) Blades 5 (Currie 2, Tudor, Woodward, Youlden og)
Highlights of the game was shown in the evenings MOTD but I think only viewers in the south regions saw it. In the first few months of the 1969-70 season, instead of just one game, MoTD would feature one ‘main’ match plus highlights of a second on each show, on a regional basis. Viewers in the north-west would get their ‘extra’ game from the north-west, for example, and Londoners a match from the capital, and so on. The 1969-70 experiment of regional second matches did not work. The second match wasn’t always good quality; resources were thinner than now, cameras less common.
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Portsmouth 1 (Trebilcock pen) Blades 5 (Currie 2, Tudor, Woodward, Youlden og)
Highlights of the game was shown in the evenings MOTD but I think only viewers in the south regions saw it. In the first few months of the 1969-70 season, instead of just one game, MoTD would feature one ‘main’ match plus highlights of a second on each show, on a regional basis. Viewers in the north-west would get their ‘extra’ game from the north-west, for example, and Londoners a match from the capital, and so on. The 1969-70 experiment of regional second matches did not work. The second match wasn’t always good quality; resources were thinner than now, cameras less common.
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19/8/1969
Charlton 3 (Crawford 2, Peacock) Blades 2 (Tudor, Reece)
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Charlton 3 (Crawford 2, Peacock) Blades 2 (Tudor, Reece)
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great memories packed in behind the goal at the shoreham end swaying then ending up 10 yards further down the terracing when we scored before battling back up to where you started lol
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23/8/1969
Blades 0 Huddersfield 0
I have one memory of the day. I was at my grandmother's house in Hartley Brook Road. I think the family had just returned from a week's holiday in Morecambe (it rained for most of the week!), my dad was probably watching the match at the Lane. I was watching the BBC Grandstand result service with my twin uncles. Naturally all three of us wanted to know how both Sheffield teams had gone on. When the 2nd division scores appeared on tv, we looked straight to "Sheffield United 0" but Huddersfield's score wasnt rolled in properly so my twin uncles waited for the results announcer to confirm the score. After the confirmation, both my twin uncles looked at me and said "nought, nought".
Both below top two photos taken from different angles virtually at the same time!
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I wasnt a Shoot! reader until a year or two later but it became my favourite magazine for most of the 1970s. The below ad was in the Football League Review attached to the programme.
In the middle of the Green Un that evening
Blades 0 Huddersfield 0
I have one memory of the day. I was at my grandmother's house in Hartley Brook Road. I think the family had just returned from a week's holiday in Morecambe (it rained for most of the week!), my dad was probably watching the match at the Lane. I was watching the BBC Grandstand result service with my twin uncles. Naturally all three of us wanted to know how both Sheffield teams had gone on. When the 2nd division scores appeared on tv, we looked straight to "Sheffield United 0" but Huddersfield's score wasnt rolled in properly so my twin uncles waited for the results announcer to confirm the score. After the confirmation, both my twin uncles looked at me and said "nought, nought".
Both below top two photos taken from different angles virtually at the same time!
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From the programme
I wasnt a Shoot! reader until a year or two later but it became my favourite magazine for most of the 1970s. The below ad was in the Football League Review attached to the programme.
In the middle of the Green Un that evening
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was at this game very entertaining for a 0 - 0 but both teams would be going for promotion in 69/70 and we should have gone up with udders that season but for a disastrous last 6 games of the season
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So many talking points on there Silent.
I have the Huddersfield programme and have never realised that there were words of apprecation to those who turned up to get the ground ready for the opening game. I have posted about this before but I was one of the volunteers. Having been to the last day of play Yorkshire v Lancs we were asked if we could come back the next day to help out. I didn't realsie there were 2000-3000 of those cast iron seats but at the end of the day I felt I'd moved them all myself.
It was that day that we found out Arthur Rowley had left.
I was a reader of SHOOT from the start. I still have all my old copies. Not sure if they are worth anything.
Interesting letter from S. Hempshall of Topham Way. I went to school with one of the Hempshalls. In the letter he/she talks about the modern game now being all about money. This was 1969 and we are saying the same things today.
As far as the season goes. Just like the previous one, good start poor finish. Sums the Blades up. Even matches themselves can be like that. When we went 2-0 up after 15 minutes last week against QPR I thought 'unfortunately I've seen this before'.
I have the Huddersfield programme and have never realised that there were words of apprecation to those who turned up to get the ground ready for the opening game. I have posted about this before but I was one of the volunteers. Having been to the last day of play Yorkshire v Lancs we were asked if we could come back the next day to help out. I didn't realsie there were 2000-3000 of those cast iron seats but at the end of the day I felt I'd moved them all myself.
It was that day that we found out Arthur Rowley had left.
I was a reader of SHOOT from the start. I still have all my old copies. Not sure if they are worth anything.
Interesting letter from S. Hempshall of Topham Way. I went to school with one of the Hempshalls. In the letter he/she talks about the modern game now being all about money. This was 1969 and we are saying the same things today.
As far as the season goes. Just like the previous one, good start poor finish. Sums the Blades up. Even matches themselves can be like that. When we went 2-0 up after 15 minutes last week against QPR I thought 'unfortunately I've seen this before'.
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26/8/1969
Blades 2 (Connor og, Tudor) Bristol City 1 (Tainton)
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Blades 2 (Connor og, Tudor) Bristol City 1 (Tainton)
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From the programme
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28/8/1969
Board rejects Len Badger's transfer request
Board rejects Len Badger's transfer request
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30/8/1969
Watford 1 (Eddy pen) Blades 2 (Barlow, Currie)
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From the day's Green Un
Watford 1 (Eddy pen) Blades 2 (Barlow, Currie)
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From the day's Green Un
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And not a tattoo in sight
Clifford Bygate wrote loads of letters to the Star and Green Un
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2/9/1969
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Blades 2 (Woodward, Tudor) Newcastle 0
Woody scores in the first minute direct from a corner. It must have been a big swerve as in the below photo the ball was well inside as Frank Clark attempted to clear the ball out, Iam McFaul, the keeper stranded near the front post, our defender David Powell raises his arm in delight.
John Tudor does a jig after scoring the 2nd goal
Alan Hodgkinson is helped off the pitch by Fred White and Harry Latham after getting injured. Woody takes over in the net.
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League Cup 2nd round
Blades 2 (Woodward, Tudor) Newcastle 0
Woody scores in the first minute direct from a corner. It must have been a big swerve as in the below photo the ball was well inside as Frank Clark attempted to clear the ball out, Iam McFaul, the keeper stranded near the front post, our defender David Powell raises his arm in delight.
John Tudor does a jig after scoring the 2nd goal
Alan Hodgkinson is helped off the pitch by Fred White and Harry Latham after getting injured. Woody takes over in the net.
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6/9/1969
Blades 1 (Tudor) Norwich 0
I am quite sure I was at this match with my dad and my cousin David. I think I went to two matches (v Norwich and v Cardiff) in September 1969. What made my dad take me and David to the match, I am not sure. Was it because I asked him to take me or that I talked more about football than I did? He did take me to a few football matches before that but I probably had no idea who the opposition were or the names of our players. I remember asking for an Oxo drink (it was my favourite hot drink at the time and I have not drunk it since I was a child) but my dad said "no" as he rarely bought refreshments at football grounds (I am the same!). I remember cheering our goal, not sure if it was this or the Cardiff match or both! I wouldnt be surprised if I missed seeing the goal as my concentration level wasnt good so I probably just "joined in" the cheering.
Two days later I was back to school (Maud Maxfield) and my class teacher for the schoolyear was Miss O'Shea (who Greenwich Blade fancied at Greystones school a few years later!), my classroom was now in the Intermediate corridor and on the first day I thought I would be playing football with the older pupils at the playground during school breaks but got told that you had to be 8 or over to play football. I remember looking enviously at my classmate, Colin, who had just turned 8 joining in the football. I had to wait for 7 more months before I was old enough to play.
Painful moment for debutant Graeme Crawford
Ken Mallender back at the Lane!
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From the Green Un that evening
Blades 1 (Tudor) Norwich 0
I am quite sure I was at this match with my dad and my cousin David. I think I went to two matches (v Norwich and v Cardiff) in September 1969. What made my dad take me and David to the match, I am not sure. Was it because I asked him to take me or that I talked more about football than I did? He did take me to a few football matches before that but I probably had no idea who the opposition were or the names of our players. I remember asking for an Oxo drink (it was my favourite hot drink at the time and I have not drunk it since I was a child) but my dad said "no" as he rarely bought refreshments at football grounds (I am the same!). I remember cheering our goal, not sure if it was this or the Cardiff match or both! I wouldnt be surprised if I missed seeing the goal as my concentration level wasnt good so I probably just "joined in" the cheering.
Two days later I was back to school (Maud Maxfield) and my class teacher for the schoolyear was Miss O'Shea (who Greenwich Blade fancied at Greystones school a few years later!), my classroom was now in the Intermediate corridor and on the first day I thought I would be playing football with the older pupils at the playground during school breaks but got told that you had to be 8 or over to play football. I remember looking enviously at my classmate, Colin, who had just turned 8 joining in the football. I had to wait for 7 more months before I was old enough to play.
Painful moment for debutant Graeme Crawford
Ken Mallender back at the Lane!
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From the Green Un that evening
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She was the youngest and most (only) attractive female teacher at Greystones Middle School. She also had a nice Renault car that was square shaped, a car in which she carted me off to the Children's Hospital after I nearly knocked myself out playing football in the hall at our after-school football club.
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She is in the middle at the reunion I organised in October 2022. The other three ladies were in the same class as me for the 1969-70 school year.
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13/9/1969
Birmingham 2 (Vincent, Murray) Blades 1 (Tudor)
Tudor puts us ahead
The equaliser by Vincent
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Birmingham 2 (Vincent, Murray) Blades 1 (Tudor)
Tudor puts us ahead
The equaliser by Vincent
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20/9/1969
Blades 1 (Reece) Cardiff 0
As I said two weeks ago, I think I went to both the Norwich and Cardiff matches in September 1969 with my dad and my cousin David, but not to any more matches for the rest of the year. I am quite sure I didnt know the names of our players at either of the two matches. I can remember celebrating the goal but not sure which of the two matches.
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Blades 1 (Reece) Cardiff 0
As I said two weeks ago, I think I went to both the Norwich and Cardiff matches in September 1969 with my dad and my cousin David, but not to any more matches for the rest of the year. I am quite sure I didnt know the names of our players at either of the two matches. I can remember celebrating the goal but not sure which of the two matches.
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From the programme
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23/9/1969
League Cup 3rd round
Blades 3 (Woodward 2, Tudor) Luton 0
Luton fans arriving at Sheffield Midland station before the match
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League Cup 3rd round
Blades 3 (Woodward 2, Tudor) Luton 0
Luton fans arriving at Sheffield Midland station before the match
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27/9/1969
Preston 2 (Wilson, Hawkins pen) Blades 1 (Woodward)
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Preston 2 (Wilson, Hawkins pen) Blades 1 (Woodward)
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Our next home meeting v Cardiff was much much more eventful and probably the most exciting football night of my life
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It was for me too
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I remember how smartly dressed John Flynn was at that reunion, a credit to himself and the club. Top bloke.
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