Away Days From the Halcyon Days

[Chingo]

Being in the Norwich end for that match
Walking to the ground with two gorillas at Darlington
The ground disintegrating at Halifax (5-1?)
Winning the cup replay at Orient 4-1 ( one down at half time). Walkers debut?
Jeff kings own goal at orient - he volleyed it in trying to put it over the bar for a corner. All the blades cheered and sang his name
Driving through the fog on a cold Tuesday night to reading and finding the match postponed (due to fog).
Chanting “cheat” for 90 minutes at gillingham when we lost 2-0 to some dubious decisions
Sitting in the Liverpool stand for the semi (Mooney up front) and tongue kicked into row z after 3 mins by Carragher (never touched the ball again)
Going to the Peterborough beer festival and then onto the game when Sammie looked a world beater “feed the fish” and having McCabe tap my son for being cheeky at the station afterwards
All wins at the sty
Bradford and Barnsley away 2-0 when we looked imperious
Got to stop must have got something in my eye

I thought the King own goal was at Reading ?
Pissing it down with rain on an open end no roof and King smashed it passed Waugh and Waugh just laughed at him , lost 4-0 I think.

 

[Paisley Blade]

Villa away in 2014 was a special day , we were in 'the bleachers' down at the front on the side of the ground , the atmosphere was mental.

A work colleague of mine is a Villa season ticket of long standing , says our support that day was the best he'd witnessed in over 30 years equalled only by Man United.

 

[WORKSOPBLADE]

I thought the King own goal was at Reading ?
Pissing it down with rain on an open end no roof and King smashed it passed Waugh and Waugh just laughed at him , lost 4-0 I think.

Agreed was Reading night game. Remember sneaking into side stand for cover !!

 

[bladesince64]

Villa away (FA Cup) 2014 was an incredible away following and we deserved to beat them as we played well.
Huddersfield away under Wilson (night game) was also good. Ched was playing and him and piggy Rhodes (who was getting pelters) were scoring a few that year. We beat them 1-0 I think with Collins scoring.
Just checked we were 2nd and they were 4th. They the ‘beat’ us in P.O. Final.
Blades were singing the Wilson classic ‘He used to shite but now he’s alright’
‘Walking in a Wilson Wonderland’

 

[AnglesWithDirtyFaces]

Don’t expect any on here to remember this as it was early 90’s, but about 10 of us went to loftus rd, walked past their main stand to get to the away end and saw it was a fiver cheaper. So all went in and sat down in the corner at the side of the away end. We score, we all jumped and and went mad.... Q a bunch of coppers loitering around us whilst the 2000 blades all pointed and sang ‘naa naa naa naa they are blades an they are blades’! We took the plaudits till 1/2 time when the Met’s finest moved us in with our lot. Can’t remember the score, but that was our famous for 5minutes..... 5minutes.
Then we all put our Naff Naff coats on over our sweater shop sweaters and headed back up the M1 in my Austin Maestro. Heady days.

Na then Steve, that was a good day out, around 1993 I think. To have all the blades sing na na na n.a. he's a blade and he's a blade was something special.

No need to brag about your Austin Maestro, just because my car at the time was a Talbot Salora Minx! :-0 with no working heater. Happy times UTB

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Villa away in 2014 was a special day , we were in 'the bleachers' down at the front on the side of the ground , the atmosphere was mental.

A work colleague of mine is a Villa season ticket of long standing , says our support that day was the best he'd witnessed in over 30 years equalled only by Man United.

remember the atmosphere very well that day - we were behind the goal near the top and it relighted my belief in our fans and what had been missing for a few years - great day out and for me we have to give some credit to Nigel Clough in kicking us off again.

UTB

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Odd fact about that game is that the Blades kit was apparently tangerine shirts and white shorts.

Good piece of random knowledge! I have just had a look at my old scrapbook, and one of the newspapers said it made Newcastle think they were playing against a team of Stanley Matthews. Which was remarkable because we played almost the whole of that season without a proper right-winger. We sold Kevin Lewis to Liverpool in the summer, failed to buy a proper replacement (does that sound a familiar story?), and in rounds 3, 4 and 5 had reserve left-back Cliff Mason playing right-wing. This was in the days when the full-backs never crossed the half-way line. Imagine the melt-down on here in such circumstances, though to be fair, he did score 3 goals in 10 games. Eventually we bought the excellent Len Allchurch, but he was cup-tied, and the inside-left, Hodgson, played on the right-wing at Newcastle. But nobody was complaining at 3-0 up after 18 minutes, and the side went on to win promotion.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

We borrowed Barnsley's kit for the FA Cup home game against Lincoln in the 4th round that season. FA Cup rules for clash of colours in the 1960s and 1970s were odd

The other rounds we were in red-and-white. I think the rules were that if the kits clashed, both teams had to change, which was a problem, as clubs did not have a third kit. The rules were odd in a way, but not as odd as nowadays with a new kit every season, a different kit for all away matches, and this season for those of us on the Kop, having to support a team in red-and-white when we're kicking towards the Kop, and a team in white for the half we're kicking towards the Lane End. That is seriously odd.

 

[Silent Blade]

The other rounds we were in red-and-white. I think the rules were that if the kits clashed, both teams had to change, which was a problem, as clubs did not have a third kit. The rules were odd in a way, but not as odd as nowadays with a new kit every season, a different kit for all away matches, and this season for those of us on the Kop, having to support a team in red-and-white when we're kicking towards the Kop, and a team in white for the half we're kicking towards the Lane End. That is seriously odd.

In both the FA Cup 4th round match and replay in 1967, Fulham wore all red and we wore all white (yes we wore all white for the replay at Bramall Lane too)

Fulham's George Cohen and Blades' Bill Punton in below photo

 

[steve26272]

Na then Steve, that was a good day out, around 1993 I think. To have all the blades sing na na na n.a. he's a blade and he's a blade was something special.

No need to brag about your Austin Maestro, just because my car at the time was a Talbot Salora Minx! :-0 with no working heater. Happy times UTB

That car took us many places including half way up winnetts pass bank!

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

In both the FA Cup 4th round match and replay in 1967, Fulham wore all red and we wore all white (yes we wore all white for the replay at Bramall Lane too)

Fulham's George Cohen and Blades' Bill Punton in below photo

Hence the chant 'It's just like watching Real Madrid'...

 

[grafikhaus]

Villa away in 2014 was a special day , we were in 'the bleachers' down at the front on the side of the ground , the atmosphere was mental.

A work colleague of mine is a Villa season ticket of long standing , says our support that day was the best he'd witnessed in over 30 years equalled only by Man United.

http://sheffield-central.com/a5.htm

 

[coaxingstar71]

Good piece of random knowledge! I have just had a look at my old scrapbook, and one of the newspapers said it made Newcastle think they were playing against a team of Stanley Matthews. Which was remarkable because we played almost the whole of that season without a proper right-winger. We sold Kevin Lewis to Liverpool in the summer, failed to buy a proper replacement (does that sound a familiar story?), and in rounds 3, 4 and 5 had reserve left-back Cliff Mason playing right-wing. This was in the days when the full-backs never crossed the half-way line. Imagine the melt-down on here in such circumstances, though to be fair, he did score 3 goals in 10 games. Eventually we bought the excellent Len Allchurch, but he was cup-tied, and the inside-left, Hodgson, played on the right-wing at Newcastle. But nobody was complaining at 3-0 up after 18 minutes, and the side went on to win promotion.

I remembered reading it in the excellent 'Sheffield United - The First 100 Years' book and checked it before replying to your post! Unfortunately I wasn't around to witness it first hand like yourself.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I remembered reading it in the excellent 'Sheffield United - The First 100 Years' book and checked it before replying to your post! Unfortunately I wasn't around to witness it first hand like yourself.

There are advantages to being younger.., but it was a heck of an experience, silencing 36000 Geordies. Only worry was the train broke down on the journey there, and for a while it looked like we weren't going to get to the ground on time.

 

[AnglesWithDirtyFaces]

That car took us many places including half way up winnetts pass bank!

Yeah, half way via a dry stone wall

 

[snootyfenooty]

I remembered reading it in the excellent 'Sheffield United - The First 100 Years' book and checked it before replying to your post! Unfortunately I wasn't around to witness it first hand like yourself.

I was one of the 500 who chipped in £25 to underwrite that book. The club was that skint they couldn't afford it. Got my name in the acknowledgements at the back of the book alongside a few others I recognise, some who are sadly no longer with us.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I was one of the 500 who chipped in £25 to underwrite that book. The club was that skint they couldn't afford it. Got my name in the acknowledgements at the back of the book alongside a few others I recognise, some who are sadly no longer with us.

Many thanks - I've had good value out of your £25...

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

In both the FA Cup 4th round match and replay in 1967, Fulham wore all red and we wore all white (yes we wore all white for the replay at Bramall Lane too)

Fulham's George Cohen and Blades' Bill Punton in below photo

And as Kenneth Wolstenholme almost said once, 'For those of you viewing this picture in black-and-white, Fulham are the team in red.'

 

[Ferenc Blade]

At the Emirates watching Raul offering out every arsenal fan..every single one...great days

 

[coaxingstar71]

I was one of the 500 who chipped in £25 to underwrite that book. The club was that skint they couldn't afford it. Got my name in the acknowledgements at the back of the book alongside a few others I recognise, some who are sadly no longer with us.

Yeah, a friend of mine, sadly no longer with us, is listed as one of the subscribers.

 

[blade53]

Odd fact about that game is that the Blades kit was apparently tangerine shirts and white shorts.

Yes , I believe the only other time that Tangerine strip was worn was the cup 3rd round at Lincoln in 1964 (my first ever away game) we won 4-0 , & on the same day there was a sensation when Wednesday were beaten 3-2 at fourth Division Newport County!

 

[Silent Blade]

Yes , I believe the only other time that Tangerine strip was worn was the cup 3rd round at Lincoln in 1964 (my first ever away game) we won 4-0 , & on the same day there was a sensation when Wednesday were beaten 3-2 at fourth Division Newport County!

Also in a league match at Newcastle in February 1968

 

[blade53]

Also in a league match at Newcastle in February 1968

I'm struggling to recognise who the United player is in this picture, is it Bernard Shaw? Also just a minor point , I think the shirt we wore in the Cup match had 2 white stripes on the neck like the socks.

 

[Paisley Blade]

I'm struggling to recognise who the United player is in this picture, is it Bernard Shaw? Also just a minor point , I think the shirt we wore in the Cup match had 2 white stripes on the neck like the socks.

Woody

 

[Bannerman]

Woody

Don't think that's Woody but the other bloke is definitely a young Tommy Cooper.

 

[Bert]

Don't think that's Woody but the other bloke is definitely a young Tommy Cooper.

It looks like Woody to Bert

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Woody & Frank Clark ?

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Don't think that's Woody but the other bloke is definitely a young Tommy Cooper.

Tommy Cooper is Woody.

 

[Rusty view]

The state of my continued hangover today I'm adding Bristol City this weekend to the pot.

 

[grafikhaus]

Woody & Frank Clark ?

Take your pick (tho' it looks like a young Howard Kenall to me )

3rd Feb. 1968. Newcastle 1 Blades 0: