Silent Blade
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12/9/1970
Millwall 0 Blades 0 (Abandoned after 24 minutes)
My dad wasnt keen on going to a match that day so my twin uncles took me to watch Wendy v QPR (highlights of the match were shown on MOTD that evening). It was a lovely sunny day in S6 and looking from the North Stand I kept looking for updates of our score on the scoreboard at the bottom of the South Stand (Score updates of Blades match were every 15 minutes throughout the match). At 3.15 pm the scoreboard man had put up 0-0 for our match, no change at 3.30pm. During half time the scoreboard man then were putting up the half time scores for 1st and 2nd division matches but took off the 0-0 score for the Millwall v Blades match which puzzled me. I asked my uncles why the scores for our match were taken off from the scoreboard, my uncles shrugged their shoulders.
In the 2nd half Harold Wilcockson scored the only goal of the match (video below) and not long after this, my uncles decided that we leave the ground to take me back to my grandmother's. I didnt mind leaving the match before the end of the game but when it came to Blades matches, I always wanted to stay to the end. On leaving my seat, I had another look at the scoreboard and our score wasnt showing so for the last time I asked my uncles if they heard what had happened at Millwall and their response was like Shrek's answer to the donkey's question "Are we there yet?".
When we got back to my grandmother's my uncles (cant remember how they found out) then realised that Blades match at Millwall got abandoned after 24 minutes because of torrential rain. At first I didnt really understand what it had meant that a match got abandoned despite that I knew for months what it had meant that a match is postponed.
Looking at our lowly position (2nd bottom) in the 2nd division table in the next morning's papers didnt make happy reading. Don Revie, Leeds players and fans who were at the Lane 5 days earlier would be thinking "how were Leeds outclassed by a team currently in 2nd bottom position of the 2nd division table?"
Millwall 0 Blades 0 (Abandoned after 24 minutes)
My dad wasnt keen on going to a match that day so my twin uncles took me to watch Wendy v QPR (highlights of the match were shown on MOTD that evening). It was a lovely sunny day in S6 and looking from the North Stand I kept looking for updates of our score on the scoreboard at the bottom of the South Stand (Score updates of Blades match were every 15 minutes throughout the match). At 3.15 pm the scoreboard man had put up 0-0 for our match, no change at 3.30pm. During half time the scoreboard man then were putting up the half time scores for 1st and 2nd division matches but took off the 0-0 score for the Millwall v Blades match which puzzled me. I asked my uncles why the scores for our match were taken off from the scoreboard, my uncles shrugged their shoulders.
In the 2nd half Harold Wilcockson scored the only goal of the match (video below) and not long after this, my uncles decided that we leave the ground to take me back to my grandmother's. I didnt mind leaving the match before the end of the game but when it came to Blades matches, I always wanted to stay to the end. On leaving my seat, I had another look at the scoreboard and our score wasnt showing so for the last time I asked my uncles if they heard what had happened at Millwall and their response was like Shrek's answer to the donkey's question "Are we there yet?".
When we got back to my grandmother's my uncles (cant remember how they found out) then realised that Blades match at Millwall got abandoned after 24 minutes because of torrential rain. At first I didnt really understand what it had meant that a match got abandoned despite that I knew for months what it had meant that a match is postponed.
Looking at our lowly position (2nd bottom) in the 2nd division table in the next morning's papers didnt make happy reading. Don Revie, Leeds players and fans who were at the Lane 5 days earlier would be thinking "how were Leeds outclassed by a team currently in 2nd bottom position of the 2nd division table?"
