Anyone remember anything about: Sheffield United 7-3 Northampton 1982
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Pissed it down all night, I remember that much.
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Remember it very well, United gave loads of free tickets away to school kids in the city. Our school, Brook, got a batch of 'um for BL upper that went like the proverbial hot cakes. I'd got my first ever season ticket that season... in BL upper. One of the few games that season when it was full up there. I believe it was the first time United had scored 7 in a game since the demolition of Ipswich in 1971 (Woody 4).
I know that I was there and, if it's the game that I think it was, Hatton and Edwards both got hat tricks. We used to score a lot of goals back then - the quality of football was probably lower but at least it was exciting!
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Edwards 3. MacPhail. Hatton 2. Neville.. 3-0 HT
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My Dad offered to take me, I decined it was a Tuesday and youth club night, I was16 at the time and up for chasing the local skirt, as usual I failed miserably and my night of misery continued with my old man returning from the lane to inform me of the result with that smarmy sort of grin that says I offered.
I should coco
A little harsh on a well meaning body of men
We used to drink in the Leeds Arms, Anston at that time and made it back after the game for a beer. The entire away end (a minibus full of shell shocked Northampton fans turned up and really wished they hadn't as our spirits were unusually high. They didn't hang around for a discussion on the finer tactical merits of the game...
I remember it well.
As has been said, a very rainy night and we were 6-0 up after about 65 minutes with goals from Edwards (2), MacPhail, Hatton (2) and Neville (though there was some dispute as to whether MacPhail's goal had actually crossed the line). In the Star report the next day, Tony Pritchett said that double figures looked a serious possibility at that point. However, United than sat back and Northampton pulled a couple back. However, right on 90 mins, Edwards completed his hat trick (the first for a United played since 1973), and there was still time for Keith Waugh to up end a Town player in the area and for them to score a pen to make it 7-3. I remember feeling vaguely disappointed at the end that we had not won by 8 or 9.
It was the only game Tony Kenworthy missed all season (he was suspended) and if memory serves the team was:
Waugh
Casey
MacPhail
Houston
Garner
Matthews
Trusson
King
Morris
Edwards
Hatton
Sub: Neville.
As has been said, a very rainy night and we were 6-0 up after about 65 minutes with goals from Edwards (2), MacPhail, Hatton (2) and Neville (though there was some dispute as to whether MacPhail's goal had actually crossed the line). In the Star report the next day, Tony Pritchett said that double figures looked a serious possibility at that point. However, United than sat back and Northampton pulled a couple back. However, right on 90 mins, Edwards completed his hat trick (the first for a United played since 1973), and there was still time for Keith Waugh to up end a Town player in the area and for them to score a pen to make it 7-3. I remember feeling vaguely disappointed at the end that we had not won by 8 or 9.
It was the only game Tony Kenworthy missed all season (he was suspended) and if memory serves the team was:
Waugh
Casey
MacPhail
Houston
Garner
Matthews
Trusson
King
Morris
Edwards
Hatton
Sub: Neville.
I was there that night. Our school (City) also got a batch of free tickets. Me and a mate secured a couple but failed to tell our parents we had free tickets so we pocketed the ticket money and lavished it on cigarettes and (bizarrely) for a couple of 12year olds, cigars !!! I remember the game being in doubt right up to kick off - thankfully it went ahead otherwise me and my mate would have had a helluva time explaining to our parents what we had done with the ticket money !!!! Sat in the South Stand if memory serves....................
I love the idea that it's bizarre for a 12 year old to smoke cigars, but that said 12 year olds buying common or garden fags passes without comment. I was obviously a very boring child....
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There was a general sense of disappointment around me on John Street that night at the result... Northampton were terrible, really terrible. They were getting thumped regularly so there was anticipation of a big score before kick-off.
There really were people around me calling for Porterfield to quit when Northampton got their third... I just thought it was great entertainment and quite a comical game - I remember Jeff King getting the ball deep into their half and running back through the middle with it into our half because there was no-one for him to give it to... (and because King was not the most "intellectual" of players)... it looked like something from a Jerry Lewis movie where a knock on the head had him thinking he was on the other team - real headless chicken moment....
Similar scorelines... I'm remembering the 6-3 victory over Orient... weren't we 3-2 down at half time and 3-3 till about 15 minutes to go.... or something?????
The Orient one (6/3/84) went like this....
Edwards scored 2 almost identical goals in quick succession around the 30 mins mark (both put through for one on ones with the goalie). Orient got one back just before HT and then United collapsed just after HT to be losing 3-2 at around the 60 min. Cue the team waking up and a siege on the Orient goal. We get a corner, Stan powers a bullet header and the Orient defender catches the ball on the line (there was a pic of him a subsequent programme laying on the ground clutching the ball with a rueful smile on his face). Only a booking in those days but Morris scores the pen.
The siege continues and Edwards puts us 4-3 up on around the 75 min mark. With about 5 mins to go, Tom Heffernan* picks up the goal in the right back position and ambles down the right wing unchallenged before whopping the ball home. In injury time, Edwards is chopped down in the area and Morris scores another pen.
* There is controversy between me and Revolution as to whether Heffernan scored the 5th or 6th goal. I am right and he is wrong
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The Orient one (6/3/84) went like this....
Edwards scored 2 almost identical goals in quick succession around the 30 mins mark (both put through for one on ones with the goalie). Orient got one back just before HT and then United collapsed just after HT to be losing 3-2 at around the 60 min. Cue the team waking up and a siege on the Orient goal. We get a corner, Stan powers a bullet header and the Orient defender catches the ball on the line (there was a pic of him a subsequent programme laying on the ground clutching the ball with a rueful smile on his face). Only a booking in those days but Morris scores the pen.
The siege continues and Edwards puts us 4-3 up on around the 75 min mark. With about 5 mins to go, Tom Heffernan* picks up the goal in the right back position and ambles down the right wing unchallenged before whopping the ball home. In injury time, Edwards is chopped down in the area and Morris scores another pen.
* There is controversy between me and Revolution as to whether Heffernan scored the 5th or 6th goal. I am right and he is wrong
Heffernan scored the 5th goal. The dispute is whether Edwards' hattrick goal was the 4th, as you say, or the 6th, as I say. I am right.
The defender who caught the ball on the line was John Sitton, who is best known for his foul mouth tirades as Leyton Orient manager in the documentary about them from 1994-5.
And Chris Guthrie wishes to point out he somehow scored a hattrick in 1975 in the league cup.
Yes, that's the dispute. As I have said before, I am 100% certain I am right
I can still see Edwards being chopped down on the left of the pen area right down by the goal line at the Kop end and thinking it wouldn't matter if Morris missed the pen as we would win anyway (of course, as it happens, it mattered a lot as had he not scored we would not have been promoted).
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Was that Heffernan goal a screamer from about a million yards out, at the kop end... he was somewhere towards the South Stand (or even the car park)... Heffernan didn't score many but I've got memories of one goal he scored where i swear I never saw the ball fly so fast, maybe this one is it?
Roughly like that, but he wasn't that far out, maybe 20 yards ish, but he was quite far out on the right. I remember no-one challenging him as he ran about 60 yards from his own half.
I remember my Dad telling me about the Northampton match when I was a kid, he too was saying how disappointing it was that United seemed to take their foot off the pedal as double figures seemed very likely.
I've never seen anything like that myself unfortunately. Indeed I missed us score six (against West Brom) which was the only time I was likely to see us score that many, I think. In fact I've only see us score five in the league a couple of times (5-0 Vs Rotherham, 5-3 Vs Cardiff with all the goals in the second half).
I've never seen anything like that myself unfortunately. Indeed I missed us score six (against West Brom) which was the only time I was likely to see us score that many, I think. In fact I've only see us score five in the league a couple of times (5-0 Vs Rotherham, 5-3 Vs Cardiff with all the goals in the second half).
Heffernan's other goals at the Lane were v his old club Bournemouth on 15/10/83, v Cardiff on 1/9/84 (a tap in following a scramble at a corner) and v Birmingham on 1/1/85 (a header if memory serves). He also got one away - at Palace on 30/3/85.
Sitton's other claim to fame is to have scored 2 own goals for United - v Millwall on 25/10/80 and v Gillingham on 14/1/84. As far as I know the only other person to have done that is Paul Bodin (Swindon 27/12/94 and reading 29/3/97).
At the risk of sounding like an obsessive...
Accoridng to this, Sitton did not join Orient until 1985
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sitton
Maybe your memory of that game Is a bit wonky ....
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At the risk of sounding like an obsessive...
Accoridng to this, Sitton did not join Orient until 1985
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sitton
Maybe your memory of that game Is a bit wonky ....
Ah, maybe I'm thinking of Barry Silkman.
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I'm surprised it's not George Berry of Wolves..
he seemed to score an own goal every other week. I'm sure he was the Wolves player that put the ball in the net most times in one season (just not mostly for his own team).
Though knowing SUFC, we're probably the only club he never scored for....
We didn't play Wolves between 1977 and 1984. Berry was at Wolves between 1976 and 1982 and never played against United whilst playing for them, but I think he subsequently played a few games against United for Stoke.
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No doubt his own-goal exploits had ceased by then!!
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Wasnt it John McAlle? He came to us in 1981
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Eddie Colquhoun scored two own goals for Wolves (although some papers credited the 2nd goal to John Richards) in the 2-2 home draw in December 1971.
In the 2-2 draw between Villa and Leicester in 1976, Chris Nicholl scored all the goals!
And also scored our goal in our 2-1 defeat at Wolves on 9/2/77.
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