Coily
Active Member
As most of you will probably already have twigged, the dates for this season are in sync with our 1990 season, with the last game scheduled for 5th May. So I had in mind doing an 'on the day' style update which despite my chronic lazyness I'm going to try and update until the end of the season. Most of this will be from memory so Darren should have a field day with errors!
Hopefully you’ve all got your own memories to add in from this ultimately glorious season.
I'm going to start off with...
Stoke (A) - 31st March
We'd been going through a bit of a dodgy spell, but we'd been fantastic on plastic the previous Tuesday at Oldham so 4,000 Blades were in good mood on a sunny and warm day in Stoke. I remember thinking that it must have been a fancy dress day in Staffordshire as the locals were all dressed as tramps.
The game itself wasn’t up to much, Stoke were crap but we weren’t much better until Tony Agana made a subs appearance on his comeback from injury and scored a cracking diving header for the winner. Not that Alan Ball, the Stoke manager thought so as he squeaked in the press that it was a fluke. Now it’s not generally the done thing to speak ill of the dead, but that fella was a twat.
After the game was a bit hairy with the usual friendly Stoke send off, and we found our car in the streets around the Victoria Ground but not before being accosted by a number of their ‘boys’. Luckily we’d just got some fish and chips so they soon worked out we weren’t the BBC and went on their way without panelling us.
Oh, and the Pigs got stuffed at home. Lovely!
Sunderland (H) – 3rd April
The Mackems were in the play off area – and finished off going up with us despite losing their play off final – but when Deano scored less than a minute in it all looked rosy. But I remember this game mainly for Paul Bracewell running the show, and although we gifted at least one goal they were good value for the 3-1 win.
We’d had a bit of a wobble a few games back, getting hammered at West Ham and then losing at home to Barnsley in the last minute, but after Oldham and Stoke we looked to be back on track. But this was another setback, followed closely by…
Portsmouth (A) – 7th April
I wasn’t allowed to go to this once as I was 15 at the time, but I remember listening to Radio Sheffield for the updates which got worse and worse as we went 3-0 down. Back then, I think the deal was you could only get an update report every 15 minutes with Bob Jackson updating you if there was a goal.
We did manage to get 2 goals back, and as Bob played his military march I remember willing him to interrupt with the good news of an equaliser. Sadly it never came and the wobble had turned into fully fledged stumble as Newcastle had caught us up.
In other news that day, Mrs Stancliffe transformed a pensioner from sweet old lady to streetwalker in but a few shakes of a makeup brush.
To be continued…
Hopefully you’ve all got your own memories to add in from this ultimately glorious season.
I'm going to start off with...
Stoke (A) - 31st March
We'd been going through a bit of a dodgy spell, but we'd been fantastic on plastic the previous Tuesday at Oldham so 4,000 Blades were in good mood on a sunny and warm day in Stoke. I remember thinking that it must have been a fancy dress day in Staffordshire as the locals were all dressed as tramps.
The game itself wasn’t up to much, Stoke were crap but we weren’t much better until Tony Agana made a subs appearance on his comeback from injury and scored a cracking diving header for the winner. Not that Alan Ball, the Stoke manager thought so as he squeaked in the press that it was a fluke. Now it’s not generally the done thing to speak ill of the dead, but that fella was a twat.
After the game was a bit hairy with the usual friendly Stoke send off, and we found our car in the streets around the Victoria Ground but not before being accosted by a number of their ‘boys’. Luckily we’d just got some fish and chips so they soon worked out we weren’t the BBC and went on their way without panelling us.
Oh, and the Pigs got stuffed at home. Lovely!
Sunderland (H) – 3rd April
The Mackems were in the play off area – and finished off going up with us despite losing their play off final – but when Deano scored less than a minute in it all looked rosy. But I remember this game mainly for Paul Bracewell running the show, and although we gifted at least one goal they were good value for the 3-1 win.
We’d had a bit of a wobble a few games back, getting hammered at West Ham and then losing at home to Barnsley in the last minute, but after Oldham and Stoke we looked to be back on track. But this was another setback, followed closely by…
Portsmouth (A) – 7th April
I wasn’t allowed to go to this once as I was 15 at the time, but I remember listening to Radio Sheffield for the updates which got worse and worse as we went 3-0 down. Back then, I think the deal was you could only get an update report every 15 minutes with Bob Jackson updating you if there was a goal.
We did manage to get 2 goals back, and as Bob played his military march I remember willing him to interrupt with the good news of an equaliser. Sadly it never came and the wobble had turned into fully fledged stumble as Newcastle had caught us up.
In other news that day, Mrs Stancliffe transformed a pensioner from sweet old lady to streetwalker in but a few shakes of a makeup brush.
To be continued…
