Away Days From the Halcyon Days

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penthouseblade said:
Stockport County in about 2000. Their keeper was ex Massive (can't remember his name) and we gave him so much grief in the second half he really lost it; shouting things back made us worse, he started throwing bits of turf at us eventually losing it and gave away a penalty through a very rash challenge. He didn't half get a rousing send off!! We scored the penalty and won the game...

Port Vale Boxing Day 2014, enough said!

Aston Villa January 2014, couldn't believe my eyes!!
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I think it was Andy Dibble. Got massive grief for being a bit on the heavy side. Propper lost the plot and got himself sent off. Greenwich Blade had a chapter about it in his best seller Feaver Hitch.
 
In with the home fans at away match nightmares -

That 3-2 Cup defeat at Norwich
5-2 at Leicester 1990
2-0 defeat at Old Trafford 1990
2-0 defeat at Anfield a week or two later.
0-0 last game of the season at Coventry in 1991 when it turned out Blades outnumbered Cov
1-1 Middlesbrough at Ayresome Park Easter 1995
3-1 defeat at Swillsborough when Blades were chanting, "We want Woods!"
1-1 Coventry again, Cup 6th Round 1998
1-1 at Brentford last season.

Probably others that I can't remember just now, but the only ones where I've kept a lid on it have been Old Trafford and the Coventry Cup match. Oh, and Ayresome Park - I was surrounded by twats. The Liverpool fans were great, one even giving me a lift back to the station afterwards.
 
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Robby Blade said:
I think it was Andy Dibble. Got massive grief for being a bit on the heavy side. Propper lost the plot and got himself sent off. Greenwich Blade had a chapter about it in his best seller Feaver Hitch.
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Called Top Cat and Dibble due to my then-recent acquisition of the nickname The Cat after my antics in goal for the Internet Blades.
 
Robby Blade said:
I think it was Andy Dibble. Got massive grief for being a bit on the heavy side. Propper lost the plot and got himself sent off. Greenwich Blade had a chapter about it in his best seller Feaver Hitch.
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Stockport County away. FA Cup I think. But must have been 1980’s? I think we lost? They had a dirty player called Tommy Sword who did some bad foul leading to their goal I think?

I dunno. Been drinking “Lees Moonraker” at the time!
 
Cerberus Blade said:
Stockport County away. FA Cup I think. But must have been 1980’s? I think we lost? They had a dirty player called Tommy Sword who did some bad foul leading to their goal I think?

I dunno. Been drinking “Lees Moonraker” at the time!
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The Andy Dibble one was a League Game in 2000/2001. I have never seen a player get so riled by the away fans. "You fat bastard!" repeated over and over. And then the moment when we - and he - realised he was going to have to take his shirt off to give to the outfield player taking over between the sticks. That was when he asked us to FUCK OFF!
 
Greenwich Blade said:
The Andy Dibble one was a League Game in 2000/2001. I have never seen a player get so riled by the away fans. "You fat bastard!" repeated over and over. And then the moment when we - and he - realised he was going to have to take his shirt off to give to the outfield player taking over between the sticks. That was when he asked us to FUCK OFF!
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It had to be the funniest moment in over six decades watching the Blades.
 
Robby Blade said:
It had to be the funniest moment in over six decades watching the Blades.
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I do remember it actually. Yes it was very funny! :D

Other funny moments...

Man U fans singing “Hockey is a werewolf” whilst he conducted them! Stretford End. That infamous match in 1970/71? When Man U knocked us off the top of the old 1st division with that oft-showed wonder goal from George Best.

Simon Stainrod celebrating a goal at the kop end, not realising it hadn’t gone over the line and was stuck on the mud!

Dean Saunders throwing the ball at the keepers back from a throw in then slotting it past him into an empty net.

And one of the funniest of all time...

Richard Creswell sneaking up from behind on the goalkeeper as he was about to take a goal kick, robbing him and shooting it in the net! That was truly hilarious and I’ve never seen anything that comes close to that!

We were all watching knowing what was going on but 20,000 Blades somehow had to keep quiet while he surprised him. Fantastic!
 
Cerberus Blade said:
I do remember it actually. Yes it was very funny! :D

Other funny moments...

Man U fans singing “Hockey is a werewolf” whilst he conducted them! Stretford End. That infamous match in 1970/71? When Man U knocked us off the top of the old 1st division with that oft-showed wonder goal from George Best.

Simon Stainrod celebrating a goal at the kop end, not realising it hadn’t gone over the line and was stuck on the mud!

Dean Saunders throwing the ball at the keepers back from a throw in then slotting it past him into an empty net.

And one of the funniest of all time...

Richard Creswell sneaking up from behind on the goalkeeper as he was about to take a goal kick, robbing him and shooting it in the net! That was truly hilarious and I’ve never seen anything that comes close to that!

We were all watching knowing what was going on but had to keep quiet while he surprised him. Fantastic!
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This is a start in my hunt for footage of Andy Dibble - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/1049652.stm
 
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.
 
Greenwich Blade said:
The Andy Dibble one was a League Game in 2000/2001. I have never seen a player get so riled by the away fans. "You fat bastard!" repeated over and over. And then the moment when we - and he - realised he was going to have to take his shirt off to give to the outfield player taking over between the sticks. That was when he asked us to FUCK OFF!
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"YOU'VE NEVER SEEN A SALAD, YOU'VE NEVER SEEN A SALAD"

Never forget it.....
 



I remember that! I was there. Gerry Francis played for them that day didn’t he?

I don’t remember your Austin Maestro though pal! I probably burnt you off in my Cortina!;)
 
steve26272 said:
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.
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Bob Booker double and 2-1 win and clinching safety I think??
 
Cerberus Blade said:
I do remember it actually. Yes it was very funny! :D

Other funny moments...

Man U fans singing “Hockey is a werewolf” whilst he conducted them! Stretford End. That infamous match in 1971/72? When Man U knocked us off the top of the old 1st division with that oft-showed wonder goal from George Best.

Simon Stainrod celebrating a goal at the kop end, not realising it hadn’t gone over the line and was stuck on the mud!

Dean Saunders throwing the ball at the keepers back from a throw in then slotting it past him into an empty net.

And one of the funniest of all time...

Richard Creswell sneaking up from behind on the goalkeeper as he was about to take a goal kick, robbing him and shooting it in the net! That was truly hilarious and I’ve never seen anything that comes close to that!

We were all watching knowing what was going on but 20,000 Blades somehow had to keep quiet while he surprised him. Fantastic!
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Corrected for you
 
Geordie Blade said:
I threw up with nerves whilst listening to that on the radio!
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I was only little at the time so I'd gone to bed, but my Dad knew I was still awake and invited me back downstairs to listen to the last 10 minutes. In hindsight I think he just couldn't face it alone!

On the Andy Dibble chat, who was there at Bury when we spent the entire second half ripping the piss out of a local who had one of those stupid bucket hats all the mancs wear? That was fun.

'He's got a lampshade on his head...'
 
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
 
TomHeffernan said:
Rotherham away in 1984. United needing the points near the end of the season for our promotion push. Bob Atkins pops up with a last minute winner. Mental scenes on the away end and on the 69 bus home (I was only 14). Fucking brill
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This games has good memories for me. My dad had been having a poor few years health wise and wasn't getting to games much, over dinner I said to him come on lets go to Rotherham bundled him into his car and drove him over must have been 15,000 blades on 3 sides of Millmoor, looked odds on a 0-0 after Arnott had a good goal disallowed. We were right behind the goal where Atkins controlled it on the chest swivelled and hit it all in one movement, yes the scenes were mental on three sides of the ground. Despite losing Rotherham went on to avoid relegation and we went on to gain promotion, happy days.
 
HodgysBrokenThumb said:
Pulling rank on all you youngsters, 3-1 win at Newcastle (Russell hat-trick in first 20 minutes), got us into the semi-final of the Cup for the first time in my life. We were a league below Newcastle, and this was at a time that the Cup was regarded as more important than the League. About 18000 Blades there (away team got a third of the tickets), and Ilkla Moor Bahtat rang out from all sides of the ground for the whole 90 minutes. Did any other oldies on here go to that game?
It being United, the 3 semi-finals (2 replays) were a huge anti-climax, and we didn't score a single goal in the 3 games.:(
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Odd fact about that game is that the Blades kit was apparently tangerine shirts and white shorts.
 



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