1970s fans

[Silent Blade]

Ignore the colours, did any of you get suited up like this?

 

[bramptonblade]

First!
Oh Yes!, scarf on the wrist was compulsory as well as a denim jacket covered in Blades patches!

 

[Snowflake]

No ! Not then not now not ever !

 

[Worksop II]

Yep, all in Denim, Silk Scarf through belt loops on Levis

 

[Boxer Blade]

Still do

 

[blade too long]

could be on penistone road any home game now in S6
isnt it their ultras

 

[Grappler]

First!
Oh Yes!, scarf on the wrist was compulsory as well as a denim jacket covered in Blades patches!

The Scarf on the wrist was the first thing I spotted. Silk scarf usually.

And those silly, baggy, half-mast jeans, called "Skinners", to show off your Doc Marten's boots, Harrington Jacket.

 

[bertieblade]

I used to wear a battle dress top with Utd patches on each breast pocket, jeans, denim shirt, cowboy boots ( still got the boots lol) and had a silk scarf, emblazoned with shoreham republican army
( wherever we go, we fear no fo, for we are the SRA)

Ken Furphy wanted everyone to wear red for his first match and started Uni Teds as a young supporters group who had their own standing area in a white fenced off area of the kop.
His influence on the team soon evaporated as the players would meet in the wagon and horses at millhouses every Friday afternoon after training to confirm what “their” tactics would be employed for the Saturday match

 

[bramptonblade]

And a pair of these....

 

[boggy1959]

A silk Furphys Aces scarf on my wrist

 

[Mad Mick]

Taken by me in early 1970. You can just see 2 lads with their scarves.

 

[Snake]

Early/mid 70s red and white wool scarf tied neatly round my neck in a big knot and at least 1 scarf on wrist. Late 70s the silk scarf with a simple small knot around your neck was a must for teenage blades. Walking down Shoreham Street past the station towards Pond Street after the game was always exciting and scary in equal measures. The young hoolies of today would crap theirsens if they saw what was common place back in the 70s. There was no such thing as 'crews' really back then. If you had your colours on - which virtually everybody did, then you were fair game for a scutch lol ..... often from the police too.

 

[silver blade]

First!
Oh Yes!, scarf on the wrist was compulsory as well as a denim jacket covered in Blades patches!

More like this Shoreham St Boot Boys

 

[Maidenhead]

Yep.

As others have said, silk scarf, two tone Levi stay pressed or brown bags depending on mood, Harrington jacket and the essential docs.

 

[Rooks]

Got my silk scarf nicked by Tottenham Hotspur fans whist I was waiting for the number 71 bus outside the Silver Blades on TC's debut.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

I had a brush cut the forerunner of the awful mullet.

 

[bertieblade]

Got my silk scarf nicked by Tottenham Hotspur fans whist I was waiting for the number 71 bus outside the Silver Blades on TC's debut.

That was my first match, sat with my father in the east stand of John street.

Always think of it being a wonderful way to start life as a blade!

 

[Bert]

Got my silk scarf nicked by Tottenham Hotspur fans whist I was waiting for the number 71 bus outside the Silver Blades on TC's debut.

Bert got his wool one nicked at Huddersfield, Boxing Day 1969.

He's wished plague and pestilence on them ever since.

 

[BushBlade]

Bert got his wool one nicked at Huddersfield, Boxing Day 1969.

He's wished plague and pestilence on them ever since.

Plague and pestilence in Huddersfield? Would anyone notice?

 

[Grappler]

Taken by me in early 1970. You can just see 2 lads with their scarves.
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"...John Collier, John Collier, the window to watch!..."

(for all you older lads and lasses)

 

[bramptonblade]

More like this Shoreham St Boot BoysView attachment 96460

The lad in the pale jeans will never sneak that truncheon in !!!!!!

 

[Charlieblade]

I think I had a Parka, without the fur trimmed hood. Oh the shame .....lol

 

[Kop sufferer]

Taken by me in early 1970. You can just see 2 lads with their scarves.
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Jeeeeeez Louise, can't let this picture pass without reference to the bottom right hair do.

 

[Kelso]

Mine was in the 60’s. Old army jacket, with Sheffield United painted on the back, red and white scarf tied to one wrist, and trophy scarf, nicked from an opposing supporter on the other, Regulation pair of steel toe caps. What a prat I must have looked.

 

[Seanshoreham]

Who remembers the red and white (with Blades written across the bottom) hankie's that we wore in the front pockets of our crombie's?
As for trophy scarfs I knicked one off a Palace fan in Pond Street 1970 - used to wear it working down the pit - before I get condemned I had mine knicked boxing day Newcastle 1971 - tough lot those Geordies
It's how it was back then

 

[pommpey]

Jumper, jeans, Parka

pommpey

 

[Willie Carlin]

Ignore the colours, did any of you get suited up like this?

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Where’s the Doc Martins?

 

[Cheesebored]

Jumper, jeans, Parka

pommpey

Jumper 4/10 - extra mark up to 5 if knitted by grandma.

Jeans 5/10 - points dropped for no mention of make or style. Should have subbed for stay press later in the game.

Parka 9/10 - warmth over style in the winter months. Good call.

Cheesey

 

[The Bear]

More like this Shoreham St Boot BoysView attachment 96460

Is that a young Eric Cantona to the left?

 

[PaulHalfway]

What about the light green bomber jackets bought from the Army and Navy store on the Moor, at one stage thousands were wearing them