57,000 at the lane, I was one of them

[silver blade]

Forgive me if this has been put on before but I've only just started exploring youtube, looking for clips of matches I remember as a kid.
I'm old enough to remember the cricket pitch & this match but couldn't remember the score so it had an unhappy ending for me.

 

[Pierre's PC]

Nice video, damn deflected goal

I did think when I saw the title you were talking about seeing Kozzy's attempted cross against Port Vale

 

[Dkc]

I was at this one. Watch how Curran celebrates right in front of the Blades fans

Also interesting to see the police chief interviewed, saying that they knew how to control big crowds.

 

[Silent Blade]

I was at this one. Watch how Curran celebrates right in front of the Blades fans

Also interesting to see the police chief interviewed, saying that they knew how to control big crowds.

And the return fixture at BDTBL in Easter Saturday 1980. See Curran's nasty stamp on Kenworthy's injured toe. I missed the game cos I was playing in a football tournament at Kortrijk that weekend

 

[Dkc]

Interesting to hear "Hark now hear" belting out, that must have our newest chant

 

[Bert]

I was at this one. Watch how Curran celebrates right in front of the Blades fans

Also interesting to see the police chief interviewed, saying that they knew how to control big crowds.

Delete this video please. Bert watched this game from the Wednesday Kop due to circumstances beyond his control. Bert defies anyone to have a more traumatic footballing experience than that.

 

[LSF]

Delete this video please. Bert watched this game from the Wednesday Kop due to circumstances beyond his control. Bert defies anyone to have a more traumatic footballing experience than that.

Indeed Bert, I had exactly the same experience, quite the worst day in my life as a Blades fan :-(

 

[Fulwood Blade]

ruined my f*cking christmas.

Was on the pigs kop when we drew 0-0 in 71 but was on leppings lane right behind the goal on boxing day.

Had to walk up Herries Road after the game - not quite as traumatic as been on the pigs kop that day, but bad enough.

It was days like that which formulated my dislike of the S6 lot...........arrogant tw@ts then, arrogant tw@ts to this day.

UTB

 

[maidmarion]

I was there too.....couldn't believe the state of their stand even then.

 

[Longtimesupporter]

The only positive from me breaking my leg in a football match was that I was unable to attend that Boxing Day match.

 

[Fazak]

I was at the Burnley quarter final in 1962 and remember feeling absolutely sick when Ray Pointer's header went in at the Bramall Lane end.

However, what I remember most is the railings collapsing. I was in the crowd overlooking the cricket pitch at the Kop end, roughly level with where the end of the South Stand now meets the Kop, when a section of the railings at the front of the Kop collapsed. People standing behind the railings, up to a fair old distance back up the Kop, unavoidably lurched forward as the support of the railings was lost and the feeling of that sudden loss of control combined with the tremendous force of the crowd behind me as it fell on to me was absolutely frightening.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Delete this video please. Bert watched this game from the Wednesday Kop due to circumstances beyond his control. Bert defies anyone to have a more traumatic footballing experience than that.

Agreed. SEB was in the World Cup stand. Terrible day, I feel Berts pain.

 

[DifferentClass]

However, what I remember most is the railings collapsing. I was in the crowd overlooking the cricket pitch at the Kop end, roughly level with where the end of the South Stand now meets the Kop, when a section of the railings at the front of the Kop collapsed. People standing behind the railings, up to a fair old distance back up the Kop, unavoidably lurched forward as the support of the railings was lost and the feeling of that sudden loss of control combined with the tremendous force of the crowd behind me as it fell on to me was absolutely frightening.

I'm assuming it had the same configuration when fixed as it did before? In this health and safety era they'd close it off until August after millions of checks and reinforcement, and from a young un's POV it's pretty hard to believe they probably just make did and mended. I'm very surprised nobody was killed or even seriously injured with 20,000 fans piling on top of them.

 

[JJ Sefton]

From Walth Snr...

"The next match was at home to Burnley in the Sixth Round of the FA Cup. Almost straight from the kick off we lost Gerry Summers to a bad injury. He stayed on the pitch afterwards, but could hardly move. He was only an onlooker. This was before substitutes. Sometimes you can only appreciate a good player when you see what things are like when he’s not there. This was a big loss to us, and showed how much Gerry meant to us. We eventually lost 1-0 to a fluke goal. A Burnley player hit the ball very hard, but it was going wide of our goal by a mile. It hit the Burnley centre-forward, Ray Pointer, on the head and deflected in to our goal. He didn’t know what had hit him, but it put us out of the Cup for that year.

Another aspect of this game was the crowd, which was so large it has only been estimated at a massive 57,000. I was on the Bramall Lane end in the old “Jubilee Suits Me” shed. We could see people climbing on to the roof of the Kop and some of the fencing at the front of the Kop collapsed, with many people injured. I remember seeing the St John’s staff rushing to the incident. Two blokes went to hospital. One of them got a visit from United players and a signed team shirt. The other guy only got a ten bob postal order from some Liverpool supporters."
...
"The next game was one to remember. We beat Burnley 2-0 at the Lane, which was some consolation for the Cup knock-out. It wasn’t just the win but the manner of it. The pitch was a mud bath. United’s Scottish inside-forward, Billy Hodgson, was a real warrior. He got stuck into Burnley and turned them inside-out. He got one goal and Ron Simpson got the other through a penalty. At the end of the game Billy was entirely covered in mud. He looked like a slime monster, but we loved him. Another aspect of the game I remember was how our left back Graham Shaw totally wrapped up Burnley’s international winger John Connelly. Connelly was rated quite high, but Graham made him look a fool. By the end of the match, Graham was pushing forward and Connelly was having to drop back to stop him, reversing the roles. Connelly couldn’t even do that, and eventually resorted to a rugby tackle to stop Graham!"

 

[Bert]

ruined my f*cking christmas.

Was on the pigs kop when we drew 0-0 in 71 but was on leppings lane right behind the goal on boxing day.

Had to walk up Herries Road after the game - not quite as traumatic as been on the pigs kop that day, but bad enough.

It was days like that which formulated my dislike of the S6 lot...........arrogant tw@ts then, arrogant tw@ts to this day.

UTB

Bert was also on their Kop in '71 but so were 3,000 other Unitedites.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Delete this video please. Bert watched this game from the Wednesday Kop due to circumstances beyond his control. Bert defies anyone to have a more traumatic footballing experience than that.

I was also on the Kop that day with a couple of Wendy supporting school pals. I feel your pain Bert.

 

[Hodgyman]

From Walth Snr...

"The next match was at home to Burnley in the Sixth Round of the FA Cup. Almost straight from the kick off we lost Gerry Summers to a bad injury. He stayed on the pitch afterwards, but could hardly move. He was only an onlooker. This was before substitutes. Sometimes you can only appreciate a good player when you see what things are like when he’s not there. This was a big loss to us, and showed how much Gerry meant to us. We eventually lost 1-0 to a fluke goal. A Burnley player hit the ball very hard, but it was going wide of our goal by a mile. It hit the Burnley centre-forward, Ray Pointer, on the head and deflected in to our goal. He didn’t know what had hit him, but it put us out of the Cup for that year.

Another aspect of this game was the crowd, which was so large it has only been estimated at a massive 57,000. I was on the Bramall Lane end in the old “Jubilee Suits Me” shed. We could see people climbing on to the roof of the Kop and some of the fencing at the front of the Kop collapsed, with many people injured. I remember seeing the St John’s staff rushing to the incident. Two blokes went to hospital. One of them got a visit from United players and a signed team shirt. The other guy only got a ten bob postal order from some Liverpool supporters."
...
"The next game was one to remember. We beat Burnley 2-0 at the Lane, which was some consolation for the Cup knock-out. It wasn’t just the win but the manner of it. The pitch was a mud bath. United’s Scottish inside-forward, Billy Hodgson, was a real warrior. He got stuck into Burnley and turned them inside-out. He got one goal and Ron Simpson got the other through a penalty. At the end of the game Billy was entirely covered in mud. He looked like a slime monster, but we loved him. Another aspect of the game I remember was how our left back Graham Shaw totally wrapped up Burnley’s international winger John Connelly. Connelly was rated quite high, but Graham made him look a fool. By the end of the match, Graham was pushing forward and Connelly was having to drop back to stop him, reversing the roles. Connelly couldn’t even do that, and eventually resorted to a rugby tackle to stop Graham!"

That is a pretty good recollection of events as I saw them too. I was lucky enough to have been stood in the old John Street Terrace for that match and was not hurt in the kop crush, although a few of my mates were. I think that was the highest United home attendance I was part of and remember experiencing the fabled adults passing kids overhead down to the front technique. I also remember feeling gutted at losing to the, then mighty, Burnley. It was a flukey goal, deflected from the head of Ray Pointer, who was an England centre forward, who had hardly had a touch of the ball in the match

At the time , I was convinced that that was the season I was going to Wembley to see United win the FA Cup. I'm still waiting :-(

 

[Linz]

Just a reminder chaps, you can add videos from Youtube to our media gallery too: http://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?media/

 

[Paisley Blade]

Quote - United’s Scottish inside-forward, Billy Hodgson, was a real warrior. H[/QUOTE]

In the mid nineties I worked at a hospital in Clydebank, and had a Terry Gorman painting of BDTBL on my office wall.

A bloke from the maintenance department came in to the office to fix something or other, saw the painting and told me his Dad used to play for The Blades. This guy's name was Davie Hodgson, his Dad being Billy the Blades warrior.

I told my Dad this on a visit home and he remembered Billy just as fondly as Mr Walthy. A real gerrin to em type who was a crowd favourite.

A much less happy Scottish based Blades related tale happened just the other week whilst I was checking out at Sainsburys in Glasgow. Sensing a malevolent presence behind me , I turned round to be met by the ugly, goofy and now rather portly figure of David Hopkin , unloading his Tunnocks tea cakes and Irn Bru on to the belt.

The years have not been kind to him, a point from which I derived mild satisfaction.

 

[Fiery Blade]

That is a pretty good recollection of events as I saw them too. I was lucky enough to have been stood in the old John Street Terrace for that match and was not hurt in the kop crush, although a few of my mates were. I think that was the highest United home attendance I was part of and remember experiencing the fabled adults passing kids overhead down to the front technique. I also remember feeling gutted at losing to the, then mighty, Burnley. It was a flukey goal, deflected from the head of Ray Pointer, who was an England centre forward, who had hardly had a touch of the ball in the match

At the time , I was convinced that that was the season I was going to Wembley to see United win the FA Cup. I'm still waiting :-(

I too was at that match and stood on the John Street Terrace - the year before we had a great cup run losing to Leicester City in the semi final after two replays !
My main memories of the Burnley game was the wall collapsing on the kop ( I think a lad broke his leg) and the fact that the crowd went all around the ground and even onto the balcony of the cricket pavilion - it was a murky day - god knows how they saw anything from that distance !

 

[Revolution]

Revolution snr told me that he was on the Kop for the Burnley cup game, and it was jammed. He vividly remembers the crush. He actually played good samaritan by helping a woman who fainted in the crush out of the ground - and then had trouble getting back in again!

Without checking, I'd guess that was the second biggest Post War home attendance, after the quarter final against the Pigs 2 years before when they had a temporary stand on the cricket pitch side and the crowd was a few dozen shy of 60,000.

And I'm sure there's a reason someone has posted footage of a game we played on 26 December 1979, but I am at a loss as to what that reason could be. Never seen it, never will.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

Forgive me if this has been put on before but I've only just started exploring youtube, looking for clips of matches I remember as a kid.
I'm old enough to remember the cricket pitch & this match but couldn't remember the score so it had an unhappy ending for me.

Bit random but anyone any idea what that big thing being pushed down the side of the pitch at 47 seconds could be (just as he says "United attack down the right")?

 

[JJ Sefton]

Forgive me if this has been put on before but I've only just started exploring youtube, looking for clips of matches I remember as a kid.
I'm old enough to remember the cricket pitch & this match but couldn't remember the score so it had an unhappy ending for me.

Here's another...

 

[metalblade]

United v Birmingham 1m 16s hagan scores for us

 

[JJ Sefton]

Forgive me if this has been put on before but I've only just started exploring youtube, looking for clips of matches I remember as a kid.

I collected everything I could find on YouTube here...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfKhto4IOc7e_wEvWN6y-9WuMfEBa5INR

(in chronological order)

 

[JJ Sefton]

Without checking, I'd guess that was the second biggest Post War home attendance, after the quarter final against the Pigs 2 years before when they had a temporary stand on the cricket pitch side and the crowd was a few dozen shy of 60,000.

Walth Snr...

"This set the scene for the 6th Round FA Cup tie. This was at home against Sheffield Wednesday, and the city was in great excitement about it. Tickets were in great demand and hard to come by. Bramall Lane still had the cricket pitch then and a temporary extension was erected from the pavilion seating. I managed to get a ticket for this area and got to see the game. Wednesday at that time were in their first season back in Division 1 after getting promoted in 1958-9. To be fair, they had some good players. Ron Springett was an athletic goalkeeper, the full backs Johnson and Megson were steady and dependable. Right Half was Tom McInearney who was a class player. The other two half backs were Swan and Kay. Both were crude, Swan as a stopper, Kay in midfield. The forward line was very handy. Alan Finney and Bobby Craig were both very skilful players, while Wilkinson, Ellis, and Fantham were effective strikers.

On the day United were the best team by a long way. They had Wednesday pinned back in their own area for much of the game but Springett had one of his best ever games. Wednesday were obviously scared stiff of Doc Pace and Swan played a game not so much as sweeper but rather more like an ale-house bouncer. He played dirty and got away with it. Wednesday had two break-away attacks and Wilkinson scored from both of them. He took his chances well and we got stuffed. Bugger!"

 

[blade too long]

Delete this video please. Bert watched this game from the Wednesday Kop due to circumstances beyond his control. Bert defies anyone to have a more traumatic footballing experience than that.

probably conceding 7 goal in 43 second half minutes LAST SEASON
or 8 at newcastle
or 8 at middlesboro
or 8 at QPR

OR HAVE A TEAM SIGN A LATE LOAN PLAYER WHO SCORES 2 TO COMPLETE A DOUBLE

 

[Bert]

Bert did not click on that clip of Boxing Day either.
It wouldn't matter if Bert had seen us lose 10-0 to a non league team in the cup, it could never be worse than that day.

Kids today don't know that their born etc

 

[Woodwardfan]

Walth Snr...

"This set the scene for the 6th Round FA Cup tie. This was at home against Sheffield Wednesday, and the city was in great excitement about it. Tickets were in great demand and hard to come by. Bramall Lane still had the cricket pitch then and a temporary extension was erected from the pavilion seating. I managed to get a ticket for this area and got to see the game. Wednesday at that time were in their first season back in Division 1 after getting promoted in 1958-9. To be fair, they had some good players. Ron Springett was an athletic goalkeeper, the full backs Johnson and Megson were steady and dependable. Right Half was Tom McInearney who was a class player. The other two half backs were Swan and Kay. Both were crude, Swan as a stopper, Kay in midfield. The forward line was very handy. Alan Finney and Bobby Craig were both very skilful players, while Wilkinson, Ellis, and Fantham were effective strikers.

On the day United were the best team by a long way. They had Wednesday pinned back in their own area for much of the game but Springett had one of his best ever games. Wednesday were obviously scared stiff of Doc Pace and Swan played a game not so much as sweeper but rather more like an ale-house bouncer. He played dirty and got away with it. Wednesday had two break-away attacks and Wilkinson scored from both of them. He took his chances well and we got stuffed. Bugger!"

I remember big chunks of the game but the everlasting memory is of Peter Swan doing a momentous celebration all over the pitch at the final whistle. He knew full well it was daylight robbery but he was Pratt No.1 on anybody's scale. He milked it to the full and by the time he reached the half way line he was jumping and bounding, arms aloft and waving like helicopters. He ran right across the half way line and on;y just got his arms down by the time he reached the players exit which was a netted tunnel at that time; he could have lost an arm actually. It was one of those electric moments one remembers as a very young kid - maybe even the first feeling of hatred in my young life!!!

That was the action of a mean-hearted man although it has to be acknowledged that the tribal rituals were very strong in those days.

How sweet it was to pick up the News of the World one Sunday morning not long after to read of the SWFC Bribing Scandal and who was at the forefront - Peter Swan: good eternal riddance.

Being a Blade is not too rewarding. That particular tie set the scene for so many, many disappointments and so many "hard to take" results ever since in my life time.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Bert was also on their Kop in '71 but so were 3,000 other Unitedites.

glad to hear it.

Was stood most of the game in the aisle as it was so full - still think it was a penalty when Reece (i think) was dropped in the area in the kop goal mouth.

Ref bottled it.

UTB