ancientblade
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it certainly was 43k packed inside the lane what a night that was
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never felt the same again - honestly - a 10 year old boy - allowed to stay out late ! what a night - I'm tingling thinking about it tbh
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Sadly I have mixed memories from that game. My mum and dad didn't have much money so the weekend before, my dad asked me if I wanted to go to the Cardiff or the Watford game. I chose Watford...
When my dad got in from work the evening of the Cardiff game he asked me why I wasn't dressed for the game. We had nowt but he'd somehow scraped enough together so we could jump on the bus to the Lane and watch our heroes in a once in a lifetime night. I lost my dear old dad 5 years back and miss him every day, but remembering stuff like this keeps his memory very much alive to me.
Anyhow, without getting too morose, the mixed emotion kicked in because I really needed a crap before we set off but didn't want to make us late. Big mistake! My stomach started cramping just before kick off and every time the crowd swayed I thought I was about to mess myself. It was so tightly packed I didn't want to fight my way to the toilet but let's just say, I wish we'd won one nil instead of bagging five because every time we scored, rather than jump up and down I was bent double in agony, feeling like I'd been stabbed in the guts.
Luckily I made it home with no lasting damage, or soiled underwear thank goodness, and we got to the Watford game on the Saturday as well. Cleared my bowels before we left for the game, my dad let me run on the pitch at the end. Deep Joy!!!
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4/10/1969
Blades 3 (Currie, Woodward, Tudor) Hull 0.
I dont remember being aware that we won 3-0 that weekend but the only memory of that weekend was watching QPR v Boro on YTV on the Sunday at my Auntie Ellen and Uncle Dennis' house in Launce Road. That had stuck in my mind for years so a few years ago I tried to find out the date QPR played Boro that season, it was on 4th October and I looked into the useful website link shown below. It states that YTV showed ATV's match so probably they showed QPR v Boro as the 2nd or 3rd match (it was the main match on the Big Match that Sunday)
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Blades 3 (Currie, Woodward, Tudor) Hull 0.
I dont remember being aware that we won 3-0 that weekend but the only memory of that weekend was watching QPR v Boro on YTV on the Sunday at my Auntie Ellen and Uncle Dennis' house in Launce Road. That had stuck in my mind for years so a few years ago I tried to find out the date QPR played Boro that season, it was on 4th October and I looked into the useful website link shown below. It states that YTV showed ATV's match so probably they showed QPR v Boro as the 2nd or 3rd match (it was the main match on the Big Match that Sunday)
Scores, scorers and league tables in below link
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Cardiff match
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7/10/1969
Blades 5 (Reece 3, Woodward, Tudor) Portsmouth 0
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Blades 5 (Reece 3, Woodward, Tudor) Portsmouth 0
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11/10/1969
Swindon 2 (Noble, Rogers) Blades 1 (Woodward)
Scores, scorers and league tables in below link. It was our 4th defeat of the season but we still top the table!
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Swindon 2 (Noble, Rogers) Blades 1 (Woodward)
Scores, scorers and league tables in below link. It was our 4th defeat of the season but we still top the table!
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15/10/1969
League Cup 4th round
Leicester 2 (Brown, Lochhead) Blades 0
League Cup 4th round
Leicester 2 (Brown, Lochhead) Blades 0
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17/10/1969
Mick Hill moves to Ipswich for a fee of £33,000
When I became a committed Blade in January 1970, the first football picture on my bedroom wall was the below photo, it helped me to learn our players' names and put faces to them. I was wondering who Mick Hill was until my dad explained to me that he had moved to Ipswich. I saw him score for Ipswich against Wendy on 31st January 1970.
Mick Hill moves to Ipswich for a fee of £33,000
When I became a committed Blade in January 1970, the first football picture on my bedroom wall was the below photo, it helped me to learn our players' names and put faces to them. I was wondering who Mick Hill was until my dad explained to me that he had moved to Ipswich. I saw him score for Ipswich against Wendy on 31st January 1970.
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18/10/1969
Blades 2 (Woodward, Currie) Blackpool 3 (Burns, Pickering 2)
Our only home defeat in the year 1969.
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Blades 2 (Woodward, Currie) Blackpool 3 (Burns, Pickering 2)
Our only home defeat in the year 1969.
Highlights of the match can be viewed from 42 mins 35 secs in below link
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Hilarious reaction from the Blackpool keeper to the late goal by Currie. No mention in the newspaper reports of him being booked. Wouldn’t get away with it nowadays!
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Blackpool must have gone up that year ? We went up the next with Leicester , Blackpool went down in our first season back in Div one
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I enjoy reading these threads by Silent Blade.
Looking at that last newspaper report, were United interested in signing Pat Crerand at the time? It was only a year after he’d played at Wembley in the European Cup Final.
Looking at that last newspaper report, were United interested in signing Pat Crerand at the time? It was only a year after he’d played at Wembley in the European Cup Final.
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Dont think it was more than a suggestion by the reporter. I didnt like him after what happened between him and me in John Street after our reserves home game against Man U in September 1970.
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Well
…. Go on you tease
26/9/1970
Watford 0 Blades 0
Hodgkinson, Badger, Hemsley, Powell, Colquhoun, Barlow, Woodward, Tudor, Dearden, Currie, Salmons.
In the papers it revealed that Alex Stepney, Paddy Crerand, Ian Ure and Nobby Stiles were dropped from the 1st team after Man U lost 4-0 at Ipswich in the previous week and they were to play in the reserves at Bramall Lane. My dad suggested that going to watch Blades v Man U reserves would be more interesting than going to Saltergate or S6 so I agreed to this. The match ended in a 0-0 draw (see line up below)
I was...
Watford 0 Blades 0
Hodgkinson, Badger, Hemsley, Powell, Colquhoun, Barlow, Woodward, Tudor, Dearden, Currie, Salmons.
In the papers it revealed that Alex Stepney, Paddy Crerand, Ian Ure and Nobby Stiles were dropped from the 1st team after Man U lost 4-0 at Ipswich in the previous week and they were to play in the reserves at Bramall Lane. My dad suggested that going to watch Blades v Man U reserves would be more interesting than going to Saltergate or S6 so I agreed to this. The match ended in a 0-0 draw (see line up below)
I was...
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What a bargain JF was ....wow
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and so underated fantastic partnership with eddie and both scored plenty of goals from corners and set pieces
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1/11/1969
Blades 4 (Currie, Addison, Woodward, Badger) Blackburn 0
Mick Heaton is dropped from the team for the first time in the season. Midfielder Ted Hemsley plays in left back for the first time and regularly played in this position for the next 5/6 years!
The YTV cameras were unable to capture our first two goals because they had technical problems and when they started the filming, they were able to get Hodgy's penalty save. See the penalty save and our 3rd and 4th goals from 2 mins 46 seconds
Goal number one from TC
Addison scoring the 2nd goal
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Blades 4 (Currie, Addison, Woodward, Badger) Blackburn 0
Mick Heaton is dropped from the team for the first time in the season. Midfielder Ted Hemsley plays in left back for the first time and regularly played in this position for the next 5/6 years!
The YTV cameras were unable to capture our first two goals because they had technical problems and when they started the filming, they were able to get Hodgy's penalty save. See the penalty save and our 3rd and 4th goals from 2 mins 46 seconds
Goal number one from TC
Addison scoring the 2nd goal
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8/11/1969
QPR 2 (Bridges, Clarke) Blades 1 (Woodward)
For some reason I have a feeling I was at my paternal grandmother's in Stonelow Road, Dronfield that evening. Because of Bonfire night or maybe it was three days before?
Match of the Day highlights lasting over 35 minutes can be viewed in the below link starting from 4 minutes 15 seconds. We seemed to be the physical team targeting Rodney Marsh and sub Clive Clark (there seemed to be no love lost between Clark and Eddie Colquhoun who were teammates at WBA). QPR could have had a penalty early in the 2nd half after Badger tackled Marsh in the box, both got injured and needed treatment by the trainers but both shook hands after the trainers returned to their dugouts. Why was John Flynn's "goal" disallowed? Nice teamwork for our equaliser! Hodgy should have punched better just before Frank Clarke scored the winner. We had chances to get the 2nd equaliser. Right at the end TC giving the rods to QPR after winning his little battle against Marsh!
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QPR 2 (Bridges, Clarke) Blades 1 (Woodward)
For some reason I have a feeling I was at my paternal grandmother's in Stonelow Road, Dronfield that evening. Because of Bonfire night or maybe it was three days before?
Match of the Day highlights lasting over 35 minutes can be viewed in the below link starting from 4 minutes 15 seconds. We seemed to be the physical team targeting Rodney Marsh and sub Clive Clark (there seemed to be no love lost between Clark and Eddie Colquhoun who were teammates at WBA). QPR could have had a penalty early in the 2nd half after Badger tackled Marsh in the box, both got injured and needed treatment by the trainers but both shook hands after the trainers returned to their dugouts. Why was John Flynn's "goal" disallowed? Nice teamwork for our equaliser! Hodgy should have punched better just before Frank Clarke scored the winner. We had chances to get the 2nd equaliser. Right at the end TC giving the rods to QPR after winning his little battle against Marsh!
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15/11/1969
Bolton 0 Blades 0
Green Un middle pages that evening
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Bolton 0 Blades 0
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22/11/1969
Blades 5 (Colquhoun 2, Reece, Powell pen, Currie) Aston Villa 0
Around this time, week by week, I slowly picked up the names of Football League clubs by looking at billboard posters advertising our next home games in front of the quarry face (Where the Woodside Retail Park, Chesterfield Road in Woodseats is now) also at BDTBL when I am in the car on the way from Dronfield to my maternal grandmothers at Hartley Brook Road. I do remember looking at the poster that our next opponents at BDTBL would be against Aston Villa and thinking it was a posh name for a football club. I wasnt at the match but my dad might have attended the match. Thanks to LS16Blade for the photos.
Eddie Colquhoun scoring the first goal
Eddie scores again just after half time
And celebrates
3-0 Reece
Powell makes it 4 with a penalty
TC gets the 5th
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Blades 5 (Colquhoun 2, Reece, Powell pen, Currie) Aston Villa 0
Around this time, week by week, I slowly picked up the names of Football League clubs by looking at billboard posters advertising our next home games in front of the quarry face (Where the Woodside Retail Park, Chesterfield Road in Woodseats is now) also at BDTBL when I am in the car on the way from Dronfield to my maternal grandmothers at Hartley Brook Road. I do remember looking at the poster that our next opponents at BDTBL would be against Aston Villa and thinking it was a posh name for a football club. I wasnt at the match but my dad might have attended the match. Thanks to LS16Blade for the photos.
Eddie Colquhoun scoring the first goal
Eddie scores again just after half time
And celebrates
3-0 Reece
Powell makes it 4 with a penalty
TC gets the 5th
Scores, scorers and league tables in below link
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Looks like the game where Gary Sprake threw the ball in his own net
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The game when Gary Sprake threw the ball into the net at Anfield was in December 1967. Love the way an annoyed Jack Charlton gave Sprake the dirty look
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TaThe game when Gary Sprake threw the ball into the net at Anfield was in December 1967. Love the way an annoyed Jack Charlton gave Sprake the dirty look
Bloody hell time goes so quickly
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the kop sang des o'oconnors careless hands to him after that blunderThe game when Gary Sprake threw the ball into the net at Anfield was in December 1967. Love the way an annoyed Jack Charlton gave Sprake the dirty look
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