Shalalalafenoughty
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Actually we did wear white shorts for some games of the 1966-67 season. It started with our midweek home game against Spurs on Sept 6th cos Spurs brought their black shorts so the ref ordered the Blades to wear different shorts. We wore white and won 2-1. We had lost the previous two home games so we decided to wear white shorts after that. Not sure if we did in the next home game against Everton but I have seen photos of us wearing white shorts in the home games against Sunderland in LC ( won 1-0) WBA (won 4-3), Sunderland (won 2-0), Walsall in LC (won 2-1), West Ham (won 3-1), Blackpool (drew 1-1), Leicester (lost 1-0), Birmingham in LC (lost 3-2) before reverting to black shorts for the rest of the season. I think the decision to wear white shorts in 1967-68 was due to the good luck we had in that few months of the previous season. We were poor at home in 1967-68 and the only time we wore black shorts in a home game was the last one of the season against Chelsea (we lost 2-1 despite leading in the 1st half)
The defeat against Chelsea (on a Saturday afternoon) didn't quite relegate us. For some reason, Southampton were playing that evening and if they had lost we'd have stayed up. I was only ten so I wasn't allowed to stay up for MOTD so I woke up early on the Sunday and went into my mum and dad's room. Went round to my dad's side and woke him up. He cleared his throat: "I've got some bad news for you son..."