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As reported before due to past indiscretions I don't drink much. Unfortunately that means I have to endure the full match experience without any artificial sedation. :(
 
Semi Final against Newcastle... Was at a wedding the day before with a free bar (at London Zoo, bizarrely enough) so started the day pist.. Went for a hair of the dog... Went downhill very quickly..

I remember trying to have a conversation with Steve Thompson and having a heated debate with a steward. Can't remember much else...

Walked off my hangover around and up and down Mam Tor the next day though.
 
I was really really hammered for the last game of the season v Watford in div 2, we had beaten Cardiff 5-1 on the Tuesday night to assure promotion so started celebrating very early had a Watneys party 7 before getting to the pub , the plan was to go into town and have a full all nighter but was spark out around 9pm in the pub under the hotel on Leopold Street which name Ive forgotten.
I know we beat Watford 3-0 but spent most of the game holding a can
 
I was once spent 5 minutes trying to persuade Stuart Houston I was an Arsenal fan to get some dirt on why he'd been sacked as Arsenal manager before realising I was wearing a Sheff United shirt (I remember looking at people around me wondering why they were laughing!).

Edit: he want even the manager!
 
Flawed said:
I was once spent 5 minutes trying to persuade Stuart Houston I was an Arsenal fan to get some dirt on why he'd been sacked as Arsenal manager before realising I was wearing a Sheff United shirt (I remember looking at people around me wondering why they were laughing!).

Edit: he want even the manager!
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Houston, we have a problem!
 
Leicester Away 2005/06 season. Dunno why but I thought it would be a great idea to buy and drink 12 cans of lager on the hour long trip to Leicester. I rang up football heaven after the match and got cut off after 20 seconds of incoherent rambling and slurring and then my then girlfriend was then treated to me serenading her at half 2 in the morning with a rendition of I can't take my eyes off of you
 
HighfieldBlade said:
Houston, we have a problem!
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I have quite a nice story to tell about Kendall from that day. I nearly posted it the day he died (but had second thoughts as I though it was more about me than him).

Me and a mate had press box tickets, and got wankered on the free alcohol. We didn't know better, so had turned up in united shirts (obviously as press you are supposed to be non-partisan). We were supposed to get fan reaction on tape before and after for a local radio station (who I won't name, as I'm sure they don't want to be associated with our dunked, boorish behaviour!). Wasn't the first game we attended with press box tickets, but it was the first we'd gone to wearing colours (I also think it may have been the first after Wards had fitted out the new press bar? Before that, it was just a dingy room with a load of tinnies and bottles on the table!).

Free booze? If you must! Chin, chin!

After Houston came up for an interview Kendall walked in for his chat with the press. Standing at the back, still the worse for wear, a few people had asked questions, so I piped up with something or another (no idea what! 20-odd years!).

Never seen a room turn so fast; all the old wrinklies, almost in unison, giving us a load of shit for turning up wearing replicas (not a mention of being practically unable to stand; hand that feeds you, etc!). Kendall asked us if we had press box tickets (answered in the affirmative), went on a crusade about "fans" being the most important part of football, big speech; of course we could ask him a question, he was more answerable to us than he was to anyone in the room, etc, etc, (I actually had all this on tape, wish I still had it, as I'm not doing his rant justice!).

Had a really good working relationship with Kendall throughout his tenure (but thought better of wearing shirts again!), always had massive respect for him. Always good to us, would always talk to us. Some months later, when he was first linked with the Everton job, it was a given that the Star reporter was the one who'd question him first post-match (to the point where other reporters were asking him what he was going to ask!). He came in the room and asked me if I had a question (I used to have a copy of the Star, where I was mentioned for asking the question).

We were nobody important, just people who asked for fan opinion pre/post match, most of which never got aired (if you got interviewed by two pissed up, slightly annoying, not-got-a-clue, young idiots after games in the 90s, carrying a Marantz tape recorder and mic, that was me and a mate!).

Kendall was gold, a proper football man. A rare breed, someone more interested in the respect of fans than the media. I was devastated when he left!
 
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blade too long said:
I was really really hammered for the last game of the season v Watford in div 2, we had beaten Cardiff 5-1 on the Tuesday night to assure promotion so started celebrating very early had a Watneys party 7 before getting to the pub , the plan was to go into town and have a full all nighter but was spark out around 9pm in the pub under the hotel on Leopold Street which name Ive forgotten.
I know we beat Watford 3-0 but spent most of the game holding a can
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Wapentake
 
I was so hammered at a game earlier this season, I stumbled out and said "Coutts played well"
 



I used to meet everyone at the pub at 1pm on match days, we now tend to meet about 10am as it makes the match more bearable
 
grafikhaus said:
Certainly was - I got nicked!
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Some Blade in the away end terrace at Ewood park asked me where the bogs were. I didn't know, so he proceeded to piss up against the wall behind me. Was that why you were nicked by any chance? ;)

Chucked it down that day and we got thumped 4-1 [?]. I think Steve Archibald got a couple.
 
HighfieldBlade said:
Some Blade in the away end terrace at Ewood park asked me where the bogs were. I didn't know, so he proceeded to piss up against the wall behind me. Was that why you were nicked by any chance? ;)

Chucked it down that day and we got thumped 4-1 [?]. I think Steve Archibald got a couple.
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How very dare you? As if I'd engage in such yobbish behaviour! No, I took exception to a copper beating up a young Blade and told him to fuck off. He did. Unfortunately he came back with 2 of his mates. Back then, Ewood Park had a little brick cop shop in the corner of the ground. I was carted off to that, got a couple of whacks from a 'Sergeant', charged at Blackburn Central nick and, in a well-practiced trick, they released me and 3 other Blades at about 10.30 at night - straight into the arms of a mob of Blackburn fans. This was their Saturday night 'entertainment.' Back to Blackburn Court a couple of weeks later, £40 fine and that's the only time I've been nicked at football. Amazingly. :D
 
I was thrown in the nick at Ipswich straight off the coach with an entire coach and another coach load too after stopping on the services on the A1 , and some had been through self sevice and helped themselves, literally. They held us till 5 to 3 and we got in a bit late, and lost a cup match 3-2.
No one was charged, luckily all the evidence had been eaten or drunk ,hic
 
Blades games, not very often.

Sunderland V Reading many years back then oh yes. Hopefully the fixture explains itself for the pre game drinks.
 
blade too long said:
I was thrown in the nick at Ipswich straight off the coach with an entire coach and another coach load too after stopping on the services on the A1 , and some had been through self sevice and helped themselves, literally. They held us till 5 to 3 and we got in a bit late, and lost a cup match 3-2.
No one was charged, luckily all the evidence had been eaten or drunk ,hic
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1974?
 
At home to Liverpool in the Worthington Cup 2002. Got very, very pissed in the Moorfoot Tavern and smoked some naughty cigarettes as well. Fell down the Kop stairs celebrating Tonges goal and fell into the urinal went I went for a piss.

Still got up for work the next day though. Oh to be 17 again :(
 
I had my salad days between the ages of 17 and 35 following Sheffield United up and down the land, drinking too much, spending a small fortune, and forging lifelong friendships with a lot of people I met along the way.

I could write a book with some of stories and escapades that happened, sometimes we sailed a bit close to wind, and we had some lucky escapes from assorted scrapes of different kinds.

For a couple of different reasons I find it harder to find the time to go on many proper away days nowadays, last couple of proper ones I did was QPR and Tottenham last season, and the season before a trip to Villa Park.

Like I say lots happened, I shudder to think how much alcohol I consumed, and how much money I spent, but would I change it for the world, not a chance. It was what it was. Just a lad with a few bob in his pocket doing what he loved every Saturday, with a good set of mates who enjoyed it just as much as he did.
 
I don't drink when I go to watch us but I probably should.

I did drink a bit at the cup semi final against Hull which was a great day out regardless of the result.
 
blade too long said:
I was really really hammered for the last game of the season v Watford in div 2, we had beaten Cardiff 5-1 on the Tuesday night to assure promotion so started celebrating very early had a Watneys party 7 before getting to the pub , the plan was to go into town and have a full all nighter but was spark out around 9pm in the pub under the hotel on Leopold Street which name Ive forgotten.
I know we beat Watford 3-0 but spent most of the game holding a can
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I was at the same game. I was unusually for me only half pissed. I pulled this girl at the students union the night before, or should I say she pulled me. I stayed the night at her digs and next day took her to the match. By the time the beer goggles had come off I realised she wasn't too clever and dumped her after the game. :)
 
Mad Mick said:
I was at the same game. I was unusually for me only half pissed. I pulled this girl at the students union the night before, or should I say she pulled me. I stayed the night at her digs and next day took her to the match. By the time the beer goggles had come off I realised she wasn't too clever and dumped her after the game. :)
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been there , done that , Wards was good beer but could distort Susan Boyle into Katie Perry , if copious ammounts are embibed
 



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