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Anyone know the origin of the Club or what the link is ? I was born and bred 30 minutes away but growing up ( 1960s ) I was unaware of it as I followed my local team, the mighty Ards FC. Became aware of it when I moved to Sheffield in my mid 30s and became a ST holder. I know it is in a staunch loyalist area and "men only" but nothing about when/why it started.
 

Started by some Sheffield steel workers around 100 years ago and the name and traditions of that has stuck throughout time, but there has never been any official link or supporters club as far as I know.

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Anyone know if the East Belfast Supporters Club is still going and/or its address?
 
Thanks, missed previous thread, not a particularly active forum user ! So, probably H&W shipyard workers. Belfast is awash with Rangers/ Celtic/ Man Utd/ Liverpool etc. shirts so it was a somewhat bizarre sight a few years ago when I was home - a bloke wearing the old diamond SUFC top was walking into the Markets area of the City. For those who know the demography of Belfast it's pretty obvious he wouldn't have been frequenting the Blades Social Club.
 
HarryHaslam said:
Started by some Sheffield steel workers around 100 years ago and the name and traditions of that has stuck throughout time, but there has never been any official link or supporters club as far as I know.

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I wonder how you know that "origin story". Is there a source? Was it oral history?

I'm not disputing that origin story. It's just that I was told something rather different when I was having a drink in the Club.
 
Ball_Sup (Phil) said:
I wonder how you know that "origin story". Is there a source? Was it oral history?

I'm not disputing that origin story. It's just that I was told something rather different when I was having a drink in the Club.
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It was from the punters in there and the bar staff. Was all to do with a drinking club organised by Sheffielders close to 100 years ago who went over working. Not a blade in sight last time I was in or anyone with any remote interest in Utd but that was a long time ago.

How did the club come about with what you was told?
 
HarryHaslam said:
It was from the punters in there and the bar staff. Was all to do with a drinking club organised by Sheffielders close to 100 years ago who went over working. Not a blade in sight last time I was in or anyone with any remote interest in Utd but that was a long time ago.

How did the club come about with what you was told?
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I was told that when the Social Club was formed, there was a view that everyone in Northern Ireland seemed to be supporting Manchester United or Liverpool, etc.
And that the people associated with the Social Club decided to adopt a football club "from the next tier down". And we had a little bit of time in the Sun, with the Woodward and Currie team etc. And we were chosen "to be different".
I was never sure whether I really believed that.

Surely the current building isn't 100 years old is it?
 
Ball_Sup (Phil) said:
I was told that when the Club was formed, there was a view that everyone in Northern Ireland seemed to be supporting Manchester United or Liverpool, etc.
And that the people associated with the Club decided to adopt a club "from the next tier down". And we had a little bit of time in the Sun, with the Woodward and Currie team etc. And we were chosen "to be different".
I was never sure whether I really believed that.

Surely the current building isn't 100 years old is it?
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No the club was founded a long time before that. Was founded back in the 1930s. Not sure of the age of the building but I believe the club has had at least one other location in its history.
 
My dad was born and raised in Belfast but he never mentioned it. Of course, he wasn't yet a Blade when he was over there. He came over here after the war and started working at Davy United on Prince of Wales Road, fell in with a good crowd of Blades, who started taking him to games and the rest, as they say, is history.
 
I can't add much if anything to the thread, other than to say by sheer coincidence I was in Belfast for the first time last week and went to watch East Belfast FC in the 4th tier of the Northern Irish league, to keep up my (slow) progress of ticking off the UEFA 55.

A modest crowd of 100ish, decked out in Liverpool or Rangers. No Celtic or Man United in sight.

Had no idea of the supporters club 'connection' - the ground I went to was opposite George Best airport so a way further out than this Blades club/bar.
 
Didn't Utd have some connection with Dungoyne Boys FC, also located in East Belfast/ Dundonald ? Never hear anything about this now.
 
Panini said:
I can't add much if anything to the thread, other than to say by sheer coincidence I was in Belfast for the first time last week and went to watch East Belfast FC in the 4th tier of the Northern Irish league, to keep up my (slow) progress of ticking off the UEFA 55.

A modest crowd of 100ish, decked out in Liverpool or Rangers. No Celtic or Man United in sight.

Had no idea of the supporters club 'connection' - the ground I went to was opposite George Best airport so a way further out than this Blades club/bar.
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Must have been the odd Glentoran shirt in that 100, next door to their ground - The Oval.
 
whippetman said:
Must have been the odd Glentoran shirt in that 100, next door to their ground - The Oval.
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A few yeah, I was just referring to the non-local representation. Sadly came home on the Friday so just missed Glentoran at home on the Saturday. The Oval remains on the bucket list.

I perhaps naively expected it to be more Man United than Liverpool, with the obvious George Best link.
 

I work in NI and gave met a few of these boys . I couldn’t remember but they think they came from either Ballymena or Carrickfergus area
 
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