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This should bring back memories for you old 'uns :D

Back in the good old days when men were men...

Erm...

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Grecian2000 said:
As Darren is on board.

I think this was a last game of the season match and we won 4-0 and TC scored. Does that sound right?
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Not quite. Last home game of the season - 26/4/75. We did win 4-0. Bradford, Currie, Flynn and Eddy (pen) scored and the goals are on the YTV video.

That game left us all thinking that we needed to win at Birmingham in our last game to get in the UEFA Cup. As it happened, we drew 0-0 and wouldn't have got in anyway because the rules got changed in the summer!
 
Little article from t'Guardian on it...

It was April 1975 when I discovered how beautiful the beautiful game could really be. Having come of age in the era of Ron "Chopper" Harris, Peter "Pimp" Storey, Norman "Bite Yer Legs" Hunter and the whole Leeds United team, I was under the impression that football was a man's game. A thug's game, to be fair.

On that wondrous April day Sheffield United played Leicester City, it was televised by Match of the Day (back then we only got two or three highlights) and I was introduced to Tony Currie and Alan Birchenall and the kiss. And what a kiss it was. More shocking than Beth and Margaret in Brookside, more romantic than Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity, more life-affirming than Obama and Obama, more rapturous than Rodin's sculpted lovers, this kiss sealed my love affair with football.

It occurred after the two friends flattened each other on the pitch. Currie and Birchenall sat on the pitch side by side, badge to badge, stared into each other's eyes, puckered up and snogged like first love. Their hair flowed straight, long and lank – they were the two prettiest players on the pitch and they knew it. It could only end one way. This was the 1970s, key parties were all the rage, Hugh Heffner was in his prime, Deep Throat was entertaining the middle classes and football was every bit as lustful as the film-houses.

Currie and Birchenall were elevated into gay icons, particularly in Germany where fans superimposed perms and moustaches on to pictures of their heroes, a good quarter of a century before David Beckham wore a thong and men talked about being in touch with their feminine side.

For one glorious day we realised spats didn't have to be resolved with spit, fists or flung shirts. A simple kiss said it all so much more eloquently. Currie applied the same insouciant grace he displayed in his kiss to his work for Leeds and England, while Birchenall continued to take the piss out of football protocol for the rest of his career – throwing snowballs at fans, playing with an umbrella when it rained and tripping up referees for the fun of it. Today both players are back with Sheffield United and Leicester City. Currie, possibly the most-loved Blade of all time, is United's football in the community officer, while Birchenall works for City's commercial department and is their matchday announcer. This February Leicester City Council announced that it would be awarding the freedom of the city to Birchenall alongside Englebert Humperdinck.

When the football magazine Four Four Two asked him what his worst moment in football was, he said: "Kissing Tony Currie … Every year we have to reenact the kiss and he gets uglier by the year."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/may/22/seven-deadly-sins-football-lust-football-first-kiss
 
Was it really 35 years ago, bloody hell! I was there with the wife, pass me the philosan.:eek:
 
Those pictures are in one of my scrap books.......also got a full page "comic strip" article about Woodys inswinging corners that he scored!

:)
 
Darren said:
Bradford, Currie, Flynn and Eddy (pen) scored and the goals are on the YTV video.
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In wrong order! Flynn scored the 2nd and TC scored the 3rd.

I was at my boarding school that day and was watching Grandstand. A prefect came in the TV room to tell me that we were winning 3-0 (I was waiting for the half time scores to be announced). I was delighted and felt confident that we would get into the UEFA Cup for the following season
 
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