Blades v Latvia

[1973Blade]

Does anyone remember the Blades playing a friendly against Latvia at Bramall Lane during the middle of the season? If I remember correctly we lost the game, but I can't remember why we ended up playing the Latvian national side. Also, did any Premier League players play for Latvia, I think Marian Pahars was playing for Latvia around that time.

 

[Classof85]

I can remember the game as it was the same day I broke my hand and had 3 fillings done at the dentist.

think we lost 2-1 if I remember right or was it a 1 nil loss?

 

[1973Blade]

I can remember the game as it was the same day I broke my hand and had 3 fillings done at the dentist.

think we lost 2-1 if I remember right or was it a 1 nil loss?

Sounds like a bad day! Is it true that going to Bramall Lane is more painful than having fillings done?

 

[Classof85]

without a broken hand blades is worse but the pain of a broken hand and the fillings took the biscuit

My own fault on the hand for fighting at school, the git moved and I hit a wall, just like us trying to get out of L1

 

[Tyler Durden]

It was 0-1 Latvia in front of a crowd of 3,000 in March 2000.
I've got the programme from it as part of my infuriatingly near-complete collection from the millenium season.

Still haven't got a clue why we played them though.

 

[Pierre's PC]

It was 0-1 Latvia in front of a crowd of 3,000 in March 2000.
I've got the programme from it as part of my infuriatingly near-complete collection from the millenium season.

Still haven't got a clue why we played them though.

Wasn't the manager of Latvia at the time a big mate of warnocks?

 

[1973Blade]

It was 0-1 Latvia in front of a crowd of 3,000 in March 2000.
I've got the programme from it as part of my infuriatingly near-complete collection from the millenium season.

Still haven't got a clue why we played them though.

It is the only time I've ever seen the Blades play a national team, I'm not sure if there have been any others. So which programmes from that season elude you?

 

[Classof85]

Did we only open the john st stand if I remember?

 

[Tyler Durden]

Wasn't the manager of Latvia at the time a big mate of warnocks?

Could be. I've just checked Wikipedia and it was Gary Johnson apparently. Never knew that!

 

[1973Blade]

Did we only open the john st stand if I remember?

I thought I was sat in the South Stand, but that might be false memory syndrome!

 

[Classof85]

may have opened both I cant remember much lol drank far too much since then

 

[Tyler Durden]

It is the only time I've ever seen the Blades play a national team, I'm not sure if there have been any others. So which programmes from that season elude you?

Charlton and the one from the infamous Port Vale match. I think I left in a huff and forgot it!

 

[Pierre's PC]

Charlton and the one from the infamous Port Vale match. I think I left in a huff and forgot it!

Port Vale, the only time we ever beat the massive on attendance. I believe there were just over 500k there to see kozluks cross in to the stand

 

[1973Blade]

Charlton and the one from the infamous Port Vale match. I think I left in a huff and forgot it!

Did you storm out after Kozluc's famous sliced cross into the Kop?!

 

[bartman]

QUOTE="1973Blade, post: 927688, member: 13524"]Did you storm out after Kozluc's famous sliced cross into the Kop?![/QUOTE]
Loud boos when that happened but it was standard practice for Kozluk to do that so it was a little harsh I think .

 

[Tyler Durden]

Did you storm out after Kozluc's famous sliced cross into the Kop?!

Might have been before that, I snuck off to meet a girl. She was a bit of a goblin in hindsight but still far prettier than that display!

 

[Tyler Durden]

Port Vale, the only time we ever beat the massive on attendance. I believe there were just over 500k there to see kozluks cross in to the stand

It's the Blades equivalent of being at Woodstock haha!

 

[Pierre's PC]

It's the Blades equivalent of being at Woodstock haha!

If I remember there was in reality only around 8k there. I was selling 50/50 draw tickets at the time so as punishment, I got free entry

 

[Tyler Durden]

If I remember there was in reality only around 8k there. I was selling 50/50 draw tickets at the time so as punishment, I got free entry

Bloody sadists!

Shows how far we've fallen. If we lose 1-3 at home to Port Vale this season it'll just be a regular match day

 

[Silent Blade]

Latvia match was Phil Jagielka's debut

 

[1973Blade]

Latvia match was Phil Jagielka's debut

I didn't know that, glad I went to the game now.

 

[coaxingstar71]

It is the only time I've ever seen the Blades play a national team, I'm not sure if there have been any others. So which programmes from that season elude you?

I think we played China in pre-season 1983 (and won 2-1 if I remember correctly) in their national stadium.

 

[1973Blade]

I think we played China in pre-season 1983 (and won 2-1 if I remember correctly) in their national stadium.

We might be the only football club in England who has beaten a side that had selection options of over a billion people!

 

[Darren]

I think we played China in pre-season 1983 (and won 2-1 if I remember correctly) in their national stadium.

It was actually a Beijing XI

In 1966-67 we played national teams from Chile, Mexico and Argentina in Latin American tours. We also played New Zealand at the Lane in 1992 and Zambia on a tour there in 1972.

Edit: Also Israel in 1972

 

[Silent Blade]

We played the Mexico World Cup squad at Mexico in 1966. There is a photo of our team in a mutual FB friend of mine's on FB. Will look for it this evening. I think we played against Chile too

 

[Silent Blade]

It was actually a Beijing XI

In 1966-67 we played national teams from Chile, Mexico and Argentina in Latin American tours. We also played New Zealand at the Lane in 1992 and Zambia on a tour there in 1972.

Edit: Also Israel in 1972

Didnt know we played against Argentina

 

[Darren]

Didnt know we played against Argentina

It was their B team. 1967 I think.

 

[Cyprus Blade]

I can remember the game as it was the same day I broke my hand and had 3 fillings done at the dentist.

I had a filling done the same day as we played Cardiff in 1972 - big crowd that game ( around the 45k markI think - people in the cricket pavillion side as well ) and in the crush going in the ruddy filling came out (he was a shit dentist). Still the best match I ever went to though.

 

[Sharrowblade]

Does anyone remember the Blades playing a friendly against Latvia at Bramall Lane during the middle of the season? If I remember correctly we lost the game, but I can't remember why we ended up playing the Latvian national side. Also, did any Premier League players play for Latvia, I think Marian Pahars was playing for Latvia around that time.

Didn't Stepanovs end up at Arsenal? Ray parlour tells a good story about Wenger signing him

 

[1973Blade]

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Didn't Stepanovs end up at Arsenal? Ray parlour tells a good story about Wenger signing him

Thanks for the info. I can't remember Stuart Wilson! I thought Pahars played for Latvia. You can't leave us on tenterhooks about the Wenger story!