47 years ago today

[Silent Blade]

My best day in football

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

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[derfblade.3]

https://www.11v11.com/matches/sheffield-united-v-watford-01-may-1971-115210/

 

[derfblade.3]

I remember Stuart Scullion hitting the bar for Watford at 0-0 but the Blades surged to a 3-0 win. Great memories only topped for me by the Leicester game.

 

[cahill]

“We’ve got Hope and Currie, Gil Reece on the wing”

Deardon in the middle and Hockey is our king


“ Harris who made us miiigghtttyyyy, will make us mightier yet”




Sung to tune of Land of Hope and Glory

 

[cahill]

I remember Stuart Scullion hitting the bar for Watford at 0-0 but the Blades surged to a 3-0 win. Great memories only topped for me by the Leicester game.

Then Scullion signed for us, Keith Eddy later, didn’t Garbett sign also ?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

It was my 6th birthday

My Blades watching journey began in the coming August.

 

[LS16Blade]

Coverage in The Morning Telegraph a couple of days later...

 

[snootyfenooty]

My best day in football

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Strange how that season and the following one replicated last season and this. In both we got off to a stormer after being promoted then ran out of gas and were exposed by lack of squad depth and finished mid-table. Deja vu, we never learn.

 

[Snowman]

My best day in football

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It were brill!

 

[originaltrueblade]

All in one day on the same street on match day met Woody on West Street and bought fish and chips from Billy Deardens they both scored

 

[Silent Blade]

All in one day on the same street on match day met Woody on West Street and bought fish and chips from Billy Deardens they both scored

Reece scored 2, Dearden didnt score. Two days later Dearden had a cartilage op

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

My best day in football

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Mad day seeing grown ups being totally daft.

 

[finlaytheblade]

Reece scored 2, Dearden didnt score. Two days later Dearden had a cartilage op

Dearden had played a potion. of the season with a torn cart ledge unknown to us fans ,.often during games Cec Coldwell would come on and push it back as it must have been very painful for Billy.
He had a knee replacement sometime after he retired,he was as brave as a Lion and defenders used to hate playing against him.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Dearden had played a potion. of the season with a torn cart ledge unknown to us fans ,.often during games Cec Coldwell would come on and push it back as it must have been very painful for Billy.
He had a knee replacement sometime after he retired,he was as brave as a Lion and defenders used to hate playing against him.

Billy Three Lungs. In my all-time Blades XI any day of the week.

 

[Karaoke Blade]

My best day in football

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Me too SB. Happy days!

 

[metalblade]

Loads of fans diving into the fountain outside the train station after the game. happy days

 

[Sandygate Blade]

Great memories of that day. I was only 11 but that season was the one that got me wanting to go to every game.

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Me as a nipper - stood on the white metal railings directly behind the kop goal in the warm sunshine watching my beloved Blades get promotion to Division 1 - superb !!

UTB.

 

[coolhandluke]

Strange how that season and the following one replicated last season and this. In both we got off to a stormer after being promoted then ran out of gas and were exposed by lack of squad depth and finished mid-table. Deja vu, we never learn.

McCabes been the chairman that fucking long Fuck a fuckin duck

 

[Eyeball]

My best day in football

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But the Tuesday before.....what a night!!!!!

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[grafikhaus]

Strange how that season and the following one replicated last season and this. In both we got off to a stormer after being promoted then ran out of gas and were exposed by lack of squad depth and finished mid-table. Deja vu, we never learn.

Not exactly. In the 1970-71 season, our promotion challenge was faltering so we went out and bought Hockey, Hope and Ford in the end of Jan/first week in Feb 1971. We knew our squad needed a 'push' after the outrageous sale of John Tudor in January, so we acted and secured promotion. This season we didn't...

 

[bornablade]

Strange how that season and the following one replicated last season and this. In both we got off to a stormer after being promoted then ran out of gas and were exposed by lack of squad depth and finished mid-table. Deja vu, we never learn.

Another coincidence - 4 of our last 5 matches that season were against Birmingham, Middlesborough, Millwall and Cardiff. 4 of our last 7 matches this season were against the same clubs.

Over the past few weeks I've been clinging to the hope that we were going to get a similar outcome.

 

[Silent Blade]

Not exactly. In the 1970-71 season, our promotion challenge was faltering so we went out and bought Hockey, Hope and Ford in the end of Jan/first week in Feb 1971. We knew our squad needed a 'push' after the outrageous sale of John Tudor in January, so we acted and secured promotion. This season we didn't...

It was on Wednesday 27th January when my mum told me that she heard from Calendar news that we had signed Trevor Hockey from Birmingham. I was excited with the news despite that I had little knowledge about him and told my dad when he got home from work. In the next morning my dad woke me up to show me a photo (see below) and report in the Morning Telegraph of our deal with Newcastle. I was shocked and upset that we had sold John Tudor who I used to speak to (and his wife) after home games outside the players entrance at John Street. It wasnt planned that we would be going to Oxford for our next match two days later but my dad decided that we would go to "cheer me up". It was a surprise seeing that our new signing Trevor Hockey sporting a beard as at the time I had never known or seen a footballer with a beard!

I am still in touch with John Tudor and his wife on Facebook

 

[finlaytheblade]

Not exactly. In the 1970-71 season, our promotion challenge was faltering so we went out and bought Hockey, Hope and Ford in the end of Jan/first week in Feb 1971. We knew our squad needed a 'push' after the outrageous sale of John Tudor in January, so we acted and secured promotion. This season we didn't...

We were slipping a bit with Hodgy past his best we needed a goalie and john Hope & David Ford were stopped for Tudor.
It worked well ,although Ford didn't make an impact John Hope Settled in straight away he gave the defence a lot of confidence which had been eroded due to Hodgy losing his confidence.
Hope had a real impact t and the following season was on the verge of international call ups.He lost his way somehow and never recovered his form, Had MS in his later years and died a couple of years ago.
I would say Hope & Hockey were great signings by John Harris without them I think weevils not have gone up.

 

[finlaytheblade]

We were slipping a bit with Hodgy past his best we needed a goalie and john Hope & David Ford were stopped for Tudor.
It worked well ,although Ford didn't make an impact John Hope Settled in straight away he gave the defence a lot of confidence which had been eroded due to Hodgy losing his confidence.
Hope had a real impact t and the following season was on the verge of international call ups.He lost his way somehow and never recovered his form, Had MS in his later years and died a couple of years ago.
I would say Hope & Hockey were great signings by John Harris without them I think weevils not have gone up.

After watch my spell checker again it's playing tricks

 

[cahill]

But the Tuesday before.....what a night!!!!!

Not long before we’d lost 1-2 to Hull in front of a 40,000 plus crowd at the Lane, which seemed to put Hull in pole position to go up with Lestuh, I can remember Hull fans giving us some stick ( verbally) at the station after the match. I don’t think Hull won another game all season after that. Hull imploded as a club and it’s taken them the best part of 40 years to recover.

 

[cahill]

I’ve actually just checked Hulls’ results that season, they won four lost four and drew two after beating us, I feel a right twat now


Ps have I put the apostrophe in the right place in the sentence above “ Hulls’” ?

 

[grafikhaus]

It was on Wednesday 27th January when my mum told me that she heard from Calendar news that we had signed Trevor Hockey from Birmingham. I was excited with the news despite that I had little knowledge about him and told my dad when he got home from work. In the next morning my dad woke me up to show me a photo (see below) and report in the Morning Telegraph of our deal with Newcastle. I was shocked and upset that we had sold John Tudor who I used to speak to (and his wife) after home games outside the players entrance at John Street. It wasnt planned that we would be going to Oxford for our next match two days later but my dad decided that we would go to "cheer me up". It was a surprise seeing that our new signing Trevor Hockey sporting a beard as at the time I had never known or seen a footballer with a beard!

I am still in touch with John Tudor and his wife on Facebook

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The clipping from your post:
'The campaign saw United's average home attendance go up by about 7,000 while Wednesdays slumped by more than 15,000 - a clear indication of which way soccer success swung in the city.'

I remember Trevor Hockey with his Triumph Vitesse covered in purple velvet and him being interviewed on Calenday with his piano:

John Tudor was one of my heroes (especially after he put the ball through Peter Grummitt's legs to score against the pigs), he scored 33 goals in 78 appearances for The Blades before we sold him to The Mags. Here's JT with 'Supermac' with Paul Reaney and David Harvey of Leeds.