Blades v. Hull in the early 1970's...Ref stopped it after three rounds when a fight broke out...
All players called into centre circle for a right royal dressing down...Can't recall the score.. Kicked off again and a game of football broke out.
I was at the match (kop end) both teams going for promotion. We took an early lead and we'll worth the lead.
The game turned on the back of some real brutal shocking tackles by Hull. ,United were really being kicked from pillar to post.The ref called a meeting to cool the atmosphere down.We totally lost our way due to the brutal challenge ,s by Hull.
Knighton ex pig was the chief culprit he got away with it,forgot the name of the other culprit but between them they butchered United!we lost 2-1 in the end , disgusting how the ref didn't clamp down on the tackling by these two players.
The following game was QPR away.
I was at the game and United played like a team who had lost there way losing 2-0 Beaten ( body language.) It seemed.
What happened next is something I remember clearly! A few minutes left a beaten side and suddenly Woody scored out of the blue a fluke really,We then won a pen ! Billy Dearden fowled in the box ! Ted Hemsley put the pen away we drew 2-2.
The team found some inspiration from this draw ( the team really were on there knees after the butchering by Hull )we won 6 and drew 5 of our remaining 11 games culminating in them two home matches against Cardiff and Watford.
A real 6 pointer against Cardiff we won 5-1 and put us in the position to beat Watford and win promotion.
Tremendous atmosphere at both games.
That is over 50 years ago !
Joe, Silent and a few others will remember it too.