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Yet again for another championship side we edge victories for the all time record
Sheffield United wins - 62
Draws - 36
Blackburn wins - 56
That’s 154 competitive meetings, this fixture has got to be one of our most played. We played them nearly every single year, obviously twice in most cases excluding war years from 1894 - 1971 where we had a few years off but it’s still been a regular fixture after that. The longest period we’ve gone without playing Blackburn is between 2007 and 2018.
The highest scoring fixture was a 5-7 loss at the lane in march 1930, remarkably one of our goalscorers George Green played the entire second half with a dislocated shoulder !
We’d get revenge at Ewood park, albeit 21 years later and after a 6 year long world war For the first game of the Division 2, 1951/52 season with a 5-1 home win.
February 1970 and it’s the first time Sheffield United’s red and white stripes are shown on TV in colour, Woodward and Currie linking for a 2-1 victory after going 0-1 early on.
March 1971 again at the Lane and we batter them 5-0. Alan Woodward scoring after just 20 seconds, the other goals coming from Gil Reece, David Ford, Eddie Colquhoun and Billy Dearden with Ted Hemsley missing a penalty and Len Badger hitting the bar.
1986 in the old division 2 and we’re taught a lesson, it’s a 6-1 loss at Ewood park. Uniteds only goal just happened to be Kieth Edward’s scored his 200th league goal
The game that made me fall in love with the Bramall Lane faithful, I’d been to games before this as a kid but this one was something else. I could taste it, smell it, feel it, hear it. Of course I’m talking about the quarter final replay of the FA Cup in 1993.
I’ve come across this video which doesn’t have many views so maybe not many people have seen it, it’s an extended highlights version. What stands out to me is the noise, we used to harmonise better back then. Renditions of “we love United” “we’ll never be mastered” “one Alan Kelly” just sound more together and slower than today’s quickened version of everything… or maybe it’s just me with rose tinted specs on.
Fast forward from that game nearly 30 years to the day on the 19th of march 2023, again in the FA cup quarter final and we find ourselves playing Blackburn again. At 2-2 with seconds on the clock… Mr Tommy Doyle strikes.
Sheffield United wins - 62
Draws - 36
Blackburn wins - 56
That’s 154 competitive meetings, this fixture has got to be one of our most played. We played them nearly every single year, obviously twice in most cases excluding war years from 1894 - 1971 where we had a few years off but it’s still been a regular fixture after that. The longest period we’ve gone without playing Blackburn is between 2007 and 2018.
The highest scoring fixture was a 5-7 loss at the lane in march 1930, remarkably one of our goalscorers George Green played the entire second half with a dislocated shoulder !
We’d get revenge at Ewood park, albeit 21 years later and after a 6 year long world war For the first game of the Division 2, 1951/52 season with a 5-1 home win.
February 1970 and it’s the first time Sheffield United’s red and white stripes are shown on TV in colour, Woodward and Currie linking for a 2-1 victory after going 0-1 early on.
March 1971 again at the Lane and we batter them 5-0. Alan Woodward scoring after just 20 seconds, the other goals coming from Gil Reece, David Ford, Eddie Colquhoun and Billy Dearden with Ted Hemsley missing a penalty and Len Badger hitting the bar.
1986 in the old division 2 and we’re taught a lesson, it’s a 6-1 loss at Ewood park. Uniteds only goal just happened to be Kieth Edward’s scored his 200th league goal
The game that made me fall in love with the Bramall Lane faithful, I’d been to games before this as a kid but this one was something else. I could taste it, smell it, feel it, hear it. Of course I’m talking about the quarter final replay of the FA Cup in 1993.
I’ve come across this video which doesn’t have many views so maybe not many people have seen it, it’s an extended highlights version. What stands out to me is the noise, we used to harmonise better back then. Renditions of “we love United” “we’ll never be mastered” “one Alan Kelly” just sound more together and slower than today’s quickened version of everything… or maybe it’s just me with rose tinted specs on.
Fast forward from that game nearly 30 years to the day on the 19th of march 2023, again in the FA cup quarter final and we find ourselves playing Blackburn again. At 2-2 with seconds on the clock… Mr Tommy Doyle strikes.
