Best single United moment since 1980

[ChuntyMalone]

YEah a few rebounds beforehand - 6 off memory?

It seemed to go on for ages

 

[Alan Birchenall's hair]

Duffy goal for me as best moment on the list. But better than that was the Whitehouse goal at Hillsborough in 1992 after about 5 mins. We'd beat them at The Lane 2-0 earlier in the season, but somehow that was a weird anomaly they reckoned, and by the Hillsborough match they were 3rd in the top tier, and we were told we were in for a right spanking. We'd all had about 10 pints in The Queen's ground before the game and were 5 mins late getting in. Just in time to see Deano cross from the goal line for Whitehouse to ease crappy Roland Nielson (world's best full back they reckoned at S6 - ha!) out of the way to slot it in at The Leppings Lane end. Then followed by bombscare Woods fuckin up and Bobby Davison glancing header for the third. Much semen flowed down the top tier of the stand that night........

 

[TomHeffernan]

You get a big fat like for “jizzing buckets”

 

[spongebobblade]

Pretty self explanatory. Not the best game. Not the best goal. Just your favourite single moment following United since 1980. Apologies for the great away game moments that are a little more niche, I've tried to keep it to the really big ones that the most people attended or at least watched

Apologies also if I've missed any really obvious ones

Darlington……sorry I can’t nail it down to one particular moment. End of thread for those who were there. On another point the euphoria that followed Jags goal v Weeds turned to utter bonky madness when Ndlovu netted 2 minutes later!

 

[Blade.com]

Went for Duffy. The day of all days.
Sunny day.
Early goal.
Brooks nutmeg.
Duffy Goal.
Swillsborough empty at 85 minutes.
Happy Birthday Chris Wilder.
SWEET REVENGE.
Those 7 reasons for me.

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

Without a doubt - Duffy vs. Pigs.

It's fair to say the Truffle Hunters were favourites going into the game as we were still trying to settle after promotion and they boasted a squad full of experience and quality in the Championship. We were without Sharp and depended on an aging Leon Clarke & a green David Brooks to provide firepower and after all the pre-match mockery about our strike partnership on social media, Brooksy and Clarke didn't do bad, did they?

The game was a trajectory changer for both clubs. Carvahal crumbled, reduced to a stressed out maniac punching a £20 note in a press conference. In the meantime we got exponentially better and achieved what they couldn't in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost.

 

[SirNibletsO'Korne]

I'm shocked there's nothing from Leicester either. Or Hodges making Savo Milosovich look like a first class twat (twice)which is a lovely little gem of a moment. Or Alan Quinn's cracking little goal against the pigs, which was made even sweeter by the fact he celebrated scoring it. Or how about beating the pigs on April Fools Day? That's got to be up there.
I've gone for Kabba's goal in the playoff semi, just because as good as Pesc's goal was, this one meant that after we were two down, we were back on level terms again. I also think I celebrated that harder than the third or fourth.
To be fair, that whole match ranks as a memorable moment for me. A little snapshot in time that will live long in the memory when on that warm, balmy night the football gods were smiling on us.

 

[Camden Blade]

How can you miss Leicester away out! Also the fan throwing snowball at ref v Halifax in 82!

I was at that game. Referee was poleaxed. It was more like an ice ball. I forget the score but think it was a draw and didn't Gary West play centre back. I remember being unimpressed. There are also plenty 'worst moments'. I remember Brian Smith's career ending injury.

 

[Sheff de party]

Scougall against Hull in the semi had me believing for around 20 minutes (inc half time) we might be in Europe.

 

[Webding]

The Hillsborough one you’ve picked isn’t even my favourite United moment at that particular rust bucket, let alone overall.

I know I’m massively in the minority, and maybe it’s partly because I wasn’t there (still blame Deadbat), but I’ve never understood the ongoing obsession with the Duffy goal. An amazing moment at the time, no doubt… but it’s become a bit YouTube generation for me; most of its mysticism seems to come from the fact “it stopped dem bastards bouncing”

Don’t get me wrong, any derby win is great, but we were the better of the two teams at the time and ultimately did bog all that season, so it doesn’t even have any extra significance in terms of achievements or overcoming underdog status.

So it’s got to be something like any of the 2003 highlights or one of the Bryson/Whitehouse/Davison/Quinn goals for me. Unbelievable singular moments of joy, but also huge and sudden achievements against the odds. Plus I was there.

 

[Stanthemanfan]

Too hard to pick just one but for me it's jags v leeds, losin to them twats by an own goal, thinking its all over then BOOOOOM!
What a goal!
If you listen to the goal roar it's more like a scream!
Plus only time iv fell over seats

 

[WigglyBlade]

As a few people have said, how can you not have Bobby Davison's double from 92 on there?? If you were in the away end that night you know how special it was! As that's not on there, mine would be a toss up between Pesch against Forest and Duffy at the sty.

Pesch's was so special as we were 2-0 down and seemingly out of the playoffs only to produce one of the most memorable come backs ever (following United). Plus the atmosphere in the Kop was absolutely electric that night.

But I think I'd just choose Duffy's goal over that from a personal perspective. I'd paid £42 to sit in the rust-bucket (I just couldn't miss the first derby under Wilder though) and was one of the unlucky few hundred who got stopped by the police on the tram and missed the Fleck and Clarke goals. So I'd missed both our goals and only seen us throw away a 2-0 lead and was feeling pretty bloody low when Duffy picked up the ball and made history, sending the away end ballistic while simultaneously silencing 28,000 pigs! As single moments go, it doesn't get much better than that!!

 

[Camden Blade]

Keith Edwards should feature somewhere. I remember a sublime goal in a 4.1 win against Bristol Rovers and didn't he bag the winner in the final minute home against Wigan 1.0 which more or less confirmed we were going up. Kop went ballistic and it was terracing then.

 

[Rochdaleblade]

Blades glory. Owls down.

Finally shut them up {for about 5 minutes)

 

[1973Blade]

Needed one moment from Leicester and I'm not sure what it would be?

The pitch invasion after the 5th goal when the police arrested a pitch invader in a Bertie Bassett fancy dress costume!

 

[BladesOnToast]

Needed one moment from Leicester and I'm not sure what it would be?

The fifth goal for me - partly cos it's the only one i really remember (i was there, but only 8 years old), but also the absolute delirium when it went in was like nothing i'd ever experienced before or since.

The other two moments from the past 35 years as a Blade that truly stand out are both from 2018-19 season: Basham Arriving, and Duffy at Hillsborough. The Basham goal because in that moment promotion went from being an impossible fantasy to very likely.

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

These two moments should be on the list. Both are in my top 3.

 

[Mouth of the South]

Deane's goal at Leicester for me - the ball finally going in after all those attempts. Unable to sit on my hands despite being in Leicester's main stand - plenty of others popped-up in the stand as well!

 

[Houston_Blade]

Recency bias for me as I loved the Brown volley and the Pesch goal as well. Went for Duffy at pigs.

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Needed one moment from Leicester and I'm not sure what it would be?

That would be the moment we heard the Scum had been relegated over the radio ............. carnage !

 

[Geordie Blade]

Not the most popular but I’ve gone for Deano’s lob against Grobbelaar.

It was such a privilege to watch him playing for the Blades during his pomp, at the time he was one of the best strikers in the country.

Legend.

I went for that one too. As soon as I saw the thread title, that was the moment that came to mind.

 

[dn5 shaun]

Brian Gayle goal that won the title, kop end 2003............oh wait a minute.

 

[DronnieBlade]

Leicester away.

Nothing comes close.

UTB

 

[bladesmanluke]

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Inseperable second and third for me behind Duffy.

 

[gavtheblade]

Joc against Ipswich.
Unbelievable feeling catapulting us to the top flight after years in the wilderness,a shock to us all that we had the cheek to finish 2nd that season.
What a momentum and squad we had that season.
Unforgettable.

 

[Gretsch Blade]

1st, Leicester away, incredible come back to score 5 and win promotion... and then top it off with pigs relegated.

2nd, bounce killer!

3rd Bobby Davison double at pigs

 

[ReeceofBDTBL]

Duffys has to be the one. That goal felt like a rip in time, had some brilliant moments but that one made being a blades fan feel magical. Gotta be the goal I’ve watched and rewatched more than any other.

That aside, Browns volley was a goal from heaven, to have seen that the same season as Jags v Leeds just some up what a special season that was.

 

[Bath Blade]

Luton's winner at Derby, May 5th 1990. It was like you've just shagged Linda Evangelista for 90 minutes and Cindy Crawford walks in to join in the fun.

Or the Derby equaliser in the last minute to save Wednesday from relegation, which was then disallowed.

 

[Blade56]

Tonight, hanging on for a point against a rampant 10 men lead by a welsh giant, stuff true United players are made of (these days).