Battle of Bramall Lane - Pat Suffo

[NTT20Pod]

Some of you may know us as an EFL podcast that covers all three leagues, appearing on EFL Matters on Sky every few weeks.

We've done a documentary style podcast ahead of the game on Friday night, looking back at that game in 2002, and how it was just a perfect storm of things... Also speaking with a very honest Patrick Suffo about the match and his red card and Alan Biggs, who helped to clear Warnock's name in the aftermath with all the accusations flying around).

Some of you may want to forget this day but for others, we hope it'll be a decent recap of a wild day, with both guests having some great things to say - .

There's also Sheff Utd kit from that season up for grabs in a competition if anyone fancies winning that:

 

[Beans]

This is great. Never thought I'd want to relive that day!

 

[SwissBlade]

NTT20Pod Very good, amusing and described very well!

Edit: Although Alan Biggs "Mr Sheffield Sport" is a little bit much when the guy never seems to be on the ball at all when it comes to Sheffield sport.

 

[Rusty view]

Santos, Santos, Santos, Santos!

 

[Jesus_was_a_Blade]

Brilliant listen
Cheers guys!

 

[Bannerman]

Was at the match and when Santos came on as a sub I said to one of the mates " This is going to be interesting ". He didn't know what I was on about until I pointed out the Andy Johnson situation.

I then said we should keep an eye out for the subtle professional foul of retaliation as pros were sneaky experienced lads and we might miss it when it came.

We didn't miss it

 

[The Crab]

Was at the match and when Santos came on as a sub I said to one of the mates " This is going to be interesting ". He didn't know what I was on about until I pointed out the Andy Johnson situation.

I then said we should keep an eye out for the subtle professional foul of retaliation as pros were sneaky experienced lads and we might miss it when it came.

We didn't miss it

What it lacked in subtlety it made up for with enthusiasm

 

[Tezza1889]

Smegs lost the plot, but went on to use it to bring them closer as a unit..

He shouldn’t moan so much but I suppose he can’t help squealing..

 

[Swannyblade]

NTT20Pod Absolutely love NTT20 pod and your coverage of the Blades/Championship (only narrowly beaten by BladesPod).

This was a right Brucey Bonus in my podcast updates today and was a great listen in the car earlier. Thank you - brought back some “interesting” memories of standing on the kop that day and looking out onto the battlefield as a youth - bodies laid out on the wing, scraps and melees in the middle, and tackles flying in everywhere, all witnessed by a crowd brought to their feet in disbelief. Seems a million miles from where we are as a team now and probably for the better .

I’m sure you’ve heard it, but Browny talks about it well and explains his role on the Under the Cosh podcast with Parkin and Brown - also a great listen for Blades

 

[RammyBlade]

Smegson always was a complete and utter deluded twat with as much diplomacy as Adolf Hitler

 

[Bannerman]

Smegson always was a complete and utter deluded twat with as much diplomacy as Adolf Hitler

Think you're being a bit harsh on old Adolph there, at least he was initially nice to Neville Chamberlain and allowed him to return with a promise of 'peace in our time ' .

Megson would have invited him to Hillsborough and ' taken him up the back of the kop '.

 

[Tony]

Thought the best bit was when a Blade ran out of the South Stand towards their fans on the Lane end and nicked one of their flags.

 

[Snowman]

Some of you may know us as an EFL podcast that covers all three leagues, appearing on EFL Matters on Sky every few weeks.

We've done a documentary style podcast ahead of the game on Friday night, looking back at that game in 2002, and how it was just a perfect storm of things... Also speaking with a very honest Patrick Suffo about the match and his red card and Alan Biggs, who helped to clear Warnock's name in the aftermath with all the accusations flying around).

Some of you may want to forget this day but for others, we hope it'll be a decent recap of a wild day, with both guests having some great things to say - .

There's also Sheff Utd kit from that season up for grabs in a competition if anyone fancies winning that:

Used to have a baseball cap with SUFC and Midas on it. Blew off my bonce on an open top bus in Palma. Cried!

 

[Hillsboro Blade]

Thought the best bit was when a Blade ran out of the South Stand towards their fans on the Lane end and nicked one of their flags.

I can still see it in my minds eye sat at the front of the South Stand. The look of sheer delight on his face as he held the flag aloft, the Baggies going fucking apeshit on the away end. Megson going redder than a baboons arse in the touchline, Santos going all jujitsu on that knob Andy Johnson, then a full blown pagga in the centre circle. Ahhhhhhhhh, happy days..........

 

[LoughboroBlade]

This is an excellent piece NTT20Pod. I’ve been banging on about this for years about it being an unfortunate set of circumstances that in a perfect storm combined to the events that day, most recently on the thread where Brown went into the events.

Megson – talking shit
Warnock – made the substitution with an aim to shake things up not to get players sent off, exonerated
Brown & historically injury prone Ullathorne – genuinely injured

One thing missed by the podcast given the privileged position of interviewing Suffo was his tendency to attract controversy. We signed him in 2000 and then discovered we couldn’t reduce a ban he’d received for an incident involving a ref in a reserve game at Nantes. He was therefore suspended for a while prior to being able to play – perhaps a factor as to why he seemed fairly blasé about head butting a player within inches of the ref.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

Sounds a bit strange but this is one game I've always regretted missing. I was living/woking down south at the time and only used to make it up for a couple of games a year (obviously this wasn't of them). I remember the day well, and as the result unfolded I was gutted I wasn't there.

Not glorifying what happened or anything. At the time it seemed like one of those monumental games, and it has kind of gone down in history (for better or worse... okay, just worse). Regardless, you want to be there on those occasions, and this was one I missed.

 

[Geordie Blade]

It was Mrs Geordie Blade’s first ever football match. I remember explaining on the way out that it wasn’t the sort of thing that normally happens.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Still got that kit now, I wear it this season instead of the white back monstrosity we currently have.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

Some of you may know us as an EFL podcast that covers all three leagues, appearing on EFL Matters on Sky every few weeks.

We've done a documentary style podcast ahead of the game on Friday night, looking back at that game in 2002, and how it was just a perfect storm of things... Also speaking with a very honest Patrick Suffo about the match and his red card and Alan Biggs, who helped to clear Warnock's name in the aftermath with all the accusations flying around).

Some of you may want to forget this day but for others, we hope it'll be a decent recap of a wild day, with both guests having some great things to say - .

There's also Sheff Utd kit from that season up for grabs in a competition if anyone fancies winning that:

Still got that kit now, I wear it this season instead of the white back monstrosity we currently have.

I have Patrick Suffo’s match worn shirt from that game.

So there.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

I have Patrick Suffo’s match worn shirt from that game.

So there.

Bravo, great collector's item that. How'd you get it?

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

Bravo, great collector's item that. How'd you get it?

Passed to me by a fellow Blade.

It’s an extremely large size compared to my frame anyhow. I’ve noticed that shirts from the 90s and early 00’s tend to be very large. Not the nice sleek fitting shirts of today. A medium from 1998, for example, would quite easily pass for an XL today.

 

[Booker4]

Anyone would think we'd never played West Brom since that game! Andy Johnson v Santos. Well there's only one winner there isn't there! One a man who hides behind Darren Moore and decided to hit Santos with "a big metal stick" or Santos who, is as hard as nails and proved that time and time again on the pitch. He could play a bit too could Georges and I still think it was a mistake letting him go at the end of that season, he went onto very well for Grimsby, Ipswich and QPR after, all in the Championship.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sp...ews/battle-bramall-lane-brom-sheffield-219094

 

[diplomat]

I disagree with the podcast saying that the tackle was worse than Keane on Haaland. That was assault.

Great podcast!

I remember walking out laughing out loud in sheer disbelief at what I was trying to compute had just happened as I walked down the kop steps.

 

[Hillsboro Blade]

First and most probably the last time I’ll see the formation 3-2-2.

 

[Geordie Blade]

First and most probably the last time I’ll see the formation 3-2-2.

It went to 3-2-1 after Michael Brown went off!

de Vogt
Page - Curle - Ullathorne
Jagielka - Peschisolido
D'Jaffo

 

[guancheblade]

I have Patrick Suffo’s match worn shirt from that game.

So there.

You could sell it on eBay as "hardly been used" condition.

 

[Aganarama]

I disagree with the podcast saying that the tackle was worse than Keane on Haaland. That was assault.

Great podcast!

I remember walking out laughing out loud in sheer disbelief at what I was trying to compute had just happened as I walked down the kop steps.

Michael Brown would too...initially anyway. He thought there wasn't problem with it!

 

[Rodley]

Did we have Curle, Brown, DJaffo and Santos in a first XI at one point? That’s a pretty hand team right there

 

[NTT20Pod]

Thanks for all the kind messages guys, glad that many of you enjoyed the episode. As for tonight's game... impossible to call but very much looking forward to it.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

I had a mate who was running a Burnley fanzine at the time and he asked me for a quote, so I said, "It's the best 81 minutes I've ever seen at Bramall Lane." I glowed with pride seeing that in print, I can tell you.