Blades-related urban myths

[tyneblade]

I always thought it an urban myth that part of the pitch has a different bounce to the rest following a WW2 bomb.
I know the stands took a couple of hits so may have some credence.

During the December 1940 air raids on Sheffield, multiple German high-explosive bombs hit Bramall Lane, no only damaging stands but also leaving craters on the pitch surface. Once the craters were filled back in, the turf remained noticeably soft and muddy compared to the rest of the pitch.

Colin Collindridge would make runs in a way that encouraged defenders to move towards him over a particularly boggy patch. Once it was clear that the fullback was committed and going to slow down in the soft mud, Jimmy Hagan would slip a pass past them for Colin to run onto.

 

[Maurice Maurice]

On Saturday 22nd February, 1973, Alan Woodward played the entire first half of our home game against Norwich, driving a Bond Bug. Tony Currie completed 9 passes to Woody and the Green Un that night reported how well Geoff Salmons adapted to seeing his teammate hurtle down the wing at speeds up to 65mph. Steve Goulding on the other hand had a stinker as he never got to grips with the pace and movement of his vehicular teammate.

Woodward was made to park the Bug on a side street at half time as the referee wasn't too sure that it was allowed and the Norwich manager Ron Saunders threatening to call the leagues headquarters and have the match abandoned.

The Blades went on to win one nil with Kevin Keelan, the Norwich goalkeeper saying in the post match interview with Keith Macklin 'Fuck me, I saw some strange shit as a kid in Calcutta where I was born but I never thought I'd see Woody in a Bond Bug, I thought he had a Triumph 2000'.



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[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

I was there.

At the orgy?

 

[Chimpan-A]

On Saturday 22nd February, 1973, Alan Woodward played the entire first half of our home game against Norwich, driving a Bond Bug. Tony Currie completed 9 passes to Woody and the Green Un that night reported how well Geoff Salmons adapted to seeing his teammate hurtle down the wing at speeds up to 65mph. Steve Goulding on the other hand had a stinker as he never got to grips with the pace and movement of his vehicular teammate.

Woodward was made to park the Bug on a side street at half time as the referee wasn't too sure that it was allowed and the Norwich manager Ron Saunders threatening to call the leagues headquarters and have the match abandoned.

The Blades went on to win one nil with Kevin Keelan, the Norwich goalkeeper saying in the post match interview with Keith Macklin 'Fuck me, I saw some strange shit as a kid in Calcutta where I was born but I never thought I'd see Woody in a Bond Bug, I thought he had a Triumph 2000'.

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Wow, takes me back to- there was one of these in that colour on my street in Heeley when I was a kid in the 70s!

 

[Lupa The Noa]

I don’t think even Colin has claimed his wife and children were abused. SB laid into him, blaming him for relegation, not his family.

He drove across the players car park at around 40mph and nearly took out a young family. Massive idiot

 

[Lupa The Noa]

I don't know if this is true but at one of the derby matches in the 80's some Blades fans released a real piglet outside Hillsborough wearing one of their shirts.

Correct. It was one of Martin ][Marty Dread] Kartawick's lot

 

[bibbity bobbity boo]

He drove across the players car park at around 40mph and nearly took out a young family. Massive idiot

Urban myth or FACT?

 

[The Vicar]

This forum is getting better with age!!

 

[Sean Thornton]

Urban myth or FACT?

Left the Directors Box, walked to his car, drove it somewhere else in the car park and went back in? While pissed?

 

[tincan]

The recent win for the cursed Mayo all Ireland Gaelic football team reminds me that United have a similar curse placed on us by a Welsh witch. After we beat Cardiff in 1925, who were going to be the 1st club to take the Fa Cup away from England - Yoonited said no. With their defeat the Witch is alleged to say we would never win a final at Wembley again. Since then its 11-0 in FA Cup and play off finals losses. Maybe with the Mayo example 26/27 is the season of change...

 

[Maurice Maurice]

Following on from the Alan Woodward Bond Bug incident, on the 20th December 1974, in our 1 - 0 home victory over Coventry the referee was allowed to officiate the whole 90 minutes astride a 1970 Triumph Bonneville 750. He was struck down with bunyons two days before the game but the Football League agreed to the special dispensation in order to avoid a postponement. The crowd of 14'694 were mostly happy to be part of such a unique occasion and I remember in the car park after the game there was quite a queue of young boys, eager to give the refs helmet a rub for good luck. Oh for a return to those innocent, happy times.



As an aside, three of the Coventry players from the starting line up that day, Willie Carr (bottom left), Dennis Mortimer (top centre) and Larry Lloyd (bottom right) retired at the end of the season to form a motorcycle display team with Gordon Milne (not pictured), the Coventry manager also resigning to run the biker team instead.