50 years ago ...

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

Personally I think the blades should look after its senior supporters better. Waitress service for your pie and bovril. First chance to leave the ground after the match with the rest of being kept behind till 7pm when the last Zimmer frame pusher has departed. I was going to add the offer of a free Samaritan by there side but after 50 years plus of watching the blades they are far too thick skinned to need one

Sponge you cheeky fucker no doubt in good fun . For information I already get all that with sitting in the directors box .

UTB

 

[spongebobblade]

Sponge you cheeky fucker no doubt in good fun . For information I already get all that with sitting in the directors box .

UTB

All in good fun. I'm heading in that direction myself..... Age wise mind, not the bloody directors box!! ......... Bet there's nowt like watching shite in comfort eh?

 

[Bladesway]

We played them again at the Lane in November 1966 and this time managed a 1-1 draw. Looking at it, our record against the Seasiders is not at all impressive and includes a 1-5 home defeat in 1977 that I have, thankfully, managed to excise from my memory completely.

That home drubbing was my second ever game. Thanks for bringing it back

 

[Treeton Blade]

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of my first United game: Blades 0 Blackpool 1, Easter Monday, April 11 1966. I got the bus from Attercliffe Common with my cousin Patrick (who later became a Wednesdayite, unforgivably; he died a couple of years ago). We were both 12.
For some reason despite being an Easter Monday fixture it was an evening kickoff and I remember the thrill of climbing the back of the Kop and seeing the floodlit pitch. A thrill that has never really gone away actually. We stood about halfway down which is more or less where I continued to stand in subsequent seasons until they put the seats in.
It was the old Division One (top tier) and the crowd was 15,196, pretty unexciting for a bank holiday unless everyone in Sheffield had buggered off to Cleethorpes for the day.
Blackpool had two England players, Jimmy Armfield and Alan Ball, who were chosen for England's World Cup-winning squad a few weeks later (Ball would be sold to Everton in August). They had beaten us on Good Friday, 2-1 at Bloomfield Road – so we managed to let them do the double over us in three days.
I can't remember anything at all about the match except we lost and I was hooked for life.
Sorry to ramble but I just wonder if anyone else on the forum can recall going to this game?

Brilliant memories, here is the Blackpool winner, taken from the Star the neet after

 

[Snowman]

Blackpool away at night. (Or maybe it was a dark afternoon). Long trip in failing Ford Escort. Cold wet and windy. Best steak and kidney pudding with chips and gravy ever. Lost.

 

[Dnblade]

We played them again at the Lane in November 1966 and this time managed a 1-1 draw. Looking at it, our record against the Seasiders is not at all impressive and includes a 1-5 home defeat in 1977 that I have, thankfully, managed to excise from my memory completely.

Can't remember the earlier game,but remember being on the JSWT for the November game,and seeing Gill go down on the far side and stretchered off..We seemed to play them a lot around those years..remember my Uncle and Cousin came over from Blackpool for one game..probably around 69/70 with United winning..on the way home the door of my Dad's Austin A55 Cambridge rot box swung open turning right and my cousin nearly ended up on London Road...Around that time we went with them to see us at Bloomfield Road..can't remember the score,but we sat in the main stand..ahhh,hard to remember..could have been 1-0 to them that day,not sure.

 

[Silent Blade]

remember my Uncle and Cousin came over from Blackpool for one game..probably around 69/70 with United winning..on the way home the door of my Dad's Austin A55 Cambridge rot box swung open turning right and my cousin nearly ended up on London Road.

At BDTBL we beat Blackpool by 2-1 in Sept 1968 but lost to them by 3-2 in Oct 1969

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

This must have been a typical United period of inconsistency. As you say, Blackpool beat us twice in 3 days but the results surrounding this were:
Blackburn HW 2-0, Everton AW 3-1, ManU HW 3-1, Newcastle AW 2-0, Arsenal HW 3-0

Typical, indeed.

I've always thought that our results in the run-in in 1968, ending with us relegated, typified the United of that era.

Our last six home games:
Sunderland 1-2
Everton 0-1
Liverpool 1-1
Fulham 2-3
West Ham 1-2
Chelsea 1-2

Our last six away games:
Fulham 1-0
Wolves 3-1
Leeds 0-3
Liverpool 2-1
Man Utd 0-1
Burnley 2-0

 

[Seanshoreham]

In the 68 relegation season I seem to remember that we were actually winning against all of the 3 London clubs mentioned at some stage of the games - yep we're Blades and we always F**k it up!

We were up against Coventry who were escape specialists, but 3 years later we were back with a brilliant team

 

[Seanshoreham]

Old HH??
With the number of cracking reminiscing stories on here it's only a matter of time before the kop has stannah stair lifts fitted

Cheeky young buggars, think you know it all - we were battling Porkers when yer were in nappies - ski lift up the kop for me please LOL

 

[spongebobblade]

Cheeky young buggars, think you know it all - we were battling Porkers when yer were in nappies - ski lift up the kop for me please LOL

Some of these stories make me feel young Sean (49 this year) but when it comes to the blades I envy you. I never saw the team of the early 70s and the great TC. Boy did I miss out

 

[Dnblade]

Typical, indeed.

I've always thought that our results in the run-in in 1968, ending with us relegated, typified the United of that era.

Our last six home games:
Sunderland 1-2
Everton 0-1
Liverpool 1-1
Fulham 2-3
West Ham 1-2
Chelsea 1-2

Our last six away games:
Fulham 1-0
Wolves 3-1
Leeds 0-3
Liverpool 2-1
Man Utd 0-1
Burnley 2-0

2-0 up v Fulham aswell,who were bottom...then that git Allan Clarke..I was a gutted 8 year old on a packed Lane End,but thinking back you could sense what was going to happen as soon as we conceded.

 

[Seanshoreham]

Some of these stories make me feel young Sean (49 this year) but when it comes to the blades I envy you. I never saw the team of the early 70s and the great TC. Boy did I miss out

Too right Sponge mate - old farts like me were the lucky ones IMO I put it down to the late great John Harris

 

[Dnblade]

Too right Sponge mate - old farts like me were the lucky ones IMO I put it down to the late great John Harris

Yeah,great time to be a Blade wasn't it....I dug out an old programme today from the Chelsea game in September '71...I nearly choked on my coffee reading a tribute from JH to the fans that could have been written by Adkins himself...the last paragraph reads...The phrase "We are United" is not an empty slogan.But we can be United only with the support of those behind us."You really do count".

 

[BushBlade]

Yeah,great time to be a Blade wasn't it....I dug out an old programme today from the Chelsea game in September '71...I nearly choked on my coffee reading a tribute from JH to the fans that could have been written by Adkins himself...the last paragraph reads...The phrase "We are United" is not an empty slogan.But we can be United only with the support of those behind us."You really do count".

So he was criticising the support?

 

[Dnblade]

So he was criticising the support?

More the opposite BB...just reminded me of NA's slightly cringeworthy United Together,not that JH was remotely cringeworthy.

 

[BushBlade]

More the opposite BB...just reminded me of NA's slightly cringeworthy United Together,not that JH was remotely cringeworthy.

Only joking mate.

 

[grafikhaus]

I've dug out this version of the Blades v Blackpool programme. Click on the corners of the page to 'flick through' it.

 

[finlaytheblade]

Yeah,great time to be a Blade wasn't it....I dug out an old programme today from the Chelsea game in September '71...I nearly choked on my coffee reading a tribute from JH to the fans that could have been written by Adkins himself...the last paragraph reads...The phrase "We are United" is not an empty slogan.But we can be United only with the support of those behind us."You really do count".

Going back to 67-68 we had a very young team that found it difficult to Play at home and losing 5 of last six home games cost us dear.We even beat Liverpool away at easter but still went down as the pressure playing at home was too much for our young team. Things don't change that mich do they we still suffer from that today.

 

[Silent Blade]

I've dug out this version of the Blades v Blackpool programme. Click on the corners of the page to 'flick through' it.

Looks like Stanley Matthews didn't play in that match

Interesting article about Sid Gibson. He was our "star player" when we won 5-1 at Old Trafford in the last game of the 1929-30 season and it saved us from getting relegated. Injury ended Gibson's career early

 

[Eskimo]

2-0 up v Fulham aswell,who were bottom...then that git Allan Clarke..I was a gutted 8 year old on a packed Lane End,but thinking back you could sense what was going to happen as soon as we conceded.

Remember this match as clear as day. I think it was the only time I have seen a match from the John St stand near the away end.and it stands in my mind as one of the worst capitulations.