Blades spotting on your jollies

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Not on holiday but I was out for my daily walk this morning when I saw a lad wearing last seasons home shirt on New Village Way in Churwell LS27.

I gave him a shout of "now then, Up the Blades" which drew a smile but no further interaction.

Miserable git 😉
 
I was in Devon 3 weeks ago and wearing my blades shirt on woolacombe beach. I spotted a lad wearing the same shirt as me and we gave a customary 'up the blades' to each other. He then said, 'that's the 3rd one I've seen today'. Which was encouraging.
 
Filey, on Saturday. Saw 2 blades down by cobble landing, father and son it looked like. Both looked a bit miserable. I said "up the Blades". No response and the Dad cleared his throat and spat on the floor. Dirty bastard.
 
Gavlar I didn't have the shirt on but I was one of us on the beach and spoke to a Blade with a young one. It was the day of the Everton match, seeing if there was anywhere to watch the match.
 
I was out at lunch today. Eat out to help out, as you do and a bus driver walked in, put on his 'We are Premier league' Leeds united mask and told the staff he'd bought a dozen. Much ffs mutterings from Mrs Norks and me with a shake of the head. It's going to be a long Leedslovein in North Yorks. :(
Not exactly Blades related, but I'm sure you can all sympathise.
 
The kids wear their footy shirts on holiday sometimes, for casual wear during the day, not for going out in the evening though. I've never worn a footy shirt for anything other than playing footy. I can't think of anything worse than people shouting at me in the street, or wanting to get into a conversation about football, when I'm on my holidays. I go on holiday to see places, soak up the local culture, enjoy the food and drink, and relax. Not to chat "Blades" with folks from Sheffield - I can do that any night of the week.

We did a Ceefax job some years ago. Something like £180 for 10 days in Turkey, including flights and hotel. It was one of these where you get assigned your resort and hotel on arrival, we'd no idea where we were going exactly. Turns out we went to Olu Deniz - which is actually quite a nice place - beautiful lagoon, but we didn't think much to the hotel. It was a single storey building, half way up a bloody mountain! Nothing nearby. We checked in to the room, two small, hard single beds. Not great! Then we got changed and went around the pool and it was full of Brits with their various football shirts on, playing loud music on their portable radios, smoking and playing cards and making a hell of a racket.

We stayed just the one night. The next day we hired a car and went touring and we didn't come back. We visited some really interesting places and found some great hotels, where we had peace and quiet and luxury. Of course, it was an additional cost to do that, but having paid next to nothing for the holiday (the flights alone would have normally been £180) we just thought, sod it! Let's enjoy our holiday and take the hit, because we wouldn't have enjoyed it staying in that place with all the raucous footy fans.

I am one of course. But I've no desire to let the whole world know about that when I go on holiday. It's not a positive image imo.
 
Spotted a blades shirt at babbacombe model village and another one on the cliff lift on the day of the Southampton match.
 
Cerberus Blade said:
The kids wear their footy shirts on holiday sometimes, for casual wear during the day, not for going out in the evening though. I've never worn a footy shirt for anything other than playing footy. I can't think of anything worse than people shouting at me in the street, or wanting to get into a conversation about football, when I'm on my holidays. I go on holiday to see places, soak up the local culture, enjoy the food and drink, and relax. Not to chat "Blades" with folks from Sheffield - I can do that any night of the week.

We did a Ceefax job some years ago. Something like £180 for 10 days in Turkey, including flights and hotel. It was one of these where you get assigned your resort and hotel on arrival, we'd no idea where we were going exactly. Turns out we went to Olu Deniz - which is actually quite a nice place - beautiful lagoon, but we didn't think much to the hotel. It was a single storey building, half way up a bloody mountain! Nothing nearby. We checked in to the room, two small, hard single beds. Not great! Then we got changed and went around the pool and it was full of Brits with their various football shirts on, playing loud music on their portable radios, smoking and playing cards and making a hell of a racket.

We stayed just the one night. The next day we hired a car and went touring and we didn't come back. We visited some really interesting places and found some great hotels, where we had peace and quiet and luxury. Of course, it was an additional cost to do that, but having paid next to nothing for the holiday (the flights alone would have normally been £180) we just thought, sod it! Let's enjoy our holiday and take the hit, because we wouldn't have enjoyed it staying in that place with all the raucous footy fans.

I am one of course. But I've no desire to let the whole world know about that when I go on holiday. It's not a positive image imo.
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Yeah, anyway, back to the subject ‘Blades spotting on your Jollies’.................................I suppose we can put your total down as none then, eh ? 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

1889 said:
Yeah, anyway, back to the subject ‘Blades spotting on your Jollies’.................................I suppose we can put your total down as none then, eh ? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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I may have seen one or two - on my travels around Europe. Mostly at the airports drinking pints of lager at 6am in the morning. On our last family holiday, last year, I didn't see any. Then again, I didn't expect to see any here...

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I will report back though if I should bump into a Blade on holiday in the future because I know how important it is to some supporters. It's a kind of kinship, an extension of the tribe to foreign lands and gives a feeling of being a modern day footballing conquistador.

That's if, we are ever allowed to have holidays again in the future?
 
stringjunior said:
Padley Gorge on Monday. 2 Blades and no pigs
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Ooh! That's my territory that Stringjunior! I'm a regular in that area. Running up and down there 2/3 times a week, some weeks. There are no obvious signs that I'm a Blades supporter though. I don't wear the shirt, or the shorts, or the socks, or the track suit, or the tee-shirts, or anything. I don't mean I run naked though - heaven forbid! I mean I don't wear Blades attire.

So next time you're in that area and you hear really heavy breathing coming up behind you - that's probably me out for a run. Try me - try shouting "Na Na Na" whatever the chant is, as I go by. If it's me, I'll give you a thumbs up. Be prepared for someone being offended by it though if it's not me! :D

(BTW - I'm assuming you must know about the splendid food on offer down at Grindleford Station Cafe - if you're in that area? A fine place for a breakfast sandwich if ever there was one. Or for something a bit more exclusive, the David Mellor Cafe in Hathersage. Different ends of the spectrum, but both really good!).
 
I kept a score at Skeg on Sunday but forgot now ,as close as I remember it was Pigs 1 ,Chelsea 1 ,Man Utd 1 Celtic 2 , Liverpool 2 ,Forest 2 ,Rangers 3 Leeds 4 ,Blades 7 I think.
And an England with Beckham on the back.
 
In a row of 8 caravans on a holiday pk in Cornwall 3 families are Blades..

I do have a kit but only wear when exercising, sometimes when I do a HIIT class I will go full kit wanker because the owners are Leeds fans.. I did contemplate having ‘Bashams arriving’ printed on the back of the top
 
Perhaps it's because I don't live in Sheffield, but I get an enormous amount of pleasure seeing any fellow Blade unexpectedly and always greet them with a Blades related comment.
Unexpectedly being the thing. I don't rush up to every Blade at Bramall Lane and at away games. That would be silly wouldn't it?
 
I had just arrived at our rental cottage in Torquay. About two hundred yards away was a guy carrying shopping, with red and white stripes under a fleece. It could have been many teams, but I thought I would wait and see. Turned out to be a Londoner, converted by his family from Sheffield, living in Torquay. Had a nice chat about how good the team was. We had just beaten Chelsea 3-0 that day, what a proud time to be a blade.
 

KeyffSmyff said:
Gavlar I didn't have the shirt on but I was one of us on the beach and spoke to a Blade with a young one. It was the day of the Everton match, seeing if there was anywhere to watch the match.
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I was there on that day too mate! I was listening to it in the car as couldn't find anywhere showing it.
 
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