Blades v Leicester April 1975

[Silent Blade]

 

[Digger]

Remember this well. Got p!ss ripped out of me at school for weeks.
I was always TC when playing football at school and I got a lot of grief from my mates.

He is my all time favourite Blade and I really don't mind if he is ambidextrous.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Leicester also hark back to it too - this has pride of place in their Executive Suite

 

[derfblade]

I remember when "Sherman" came back to the lane for the first time following his £100,000 transfer to the Foxes. The kop were singing, "Thank you very much for the hundred thousand" as was sung by The Scaffold (Thank you very much). Alan took it with good humor , and applauded the kop with a smile.
Where are the characters in todays football? Stan Bowles, Rodney Marsh and Frank Worthington to name just a few all had great banter with the crowd but i can't think of one in todays football. Sad really.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

In the days of pre diversity training in the workplace how did this go down?

 

[Silent Blade]

I remember when "Sherman" came back to the lane for the first time following his £100,000 transfer to the Foxes. The kop were singing, "Thank you very much for the hundred thousand" as was sung by The Scaffold (Thank you very much). Alan took it with good humor , and applauded the kop with a smile.
Where are the characters in todays football? Stan Bowles, Rodney Marsh and Frank Worthington to name just a few all had great banter with the crowd but i can't think of one in todays football. Sad really.

He left us for Chelsea in late November 1967 and played against us for Chelsea in the last game of the 1967-68 season. LSF wrote an article in Flashing Blade about him getting stick from our fans but we lost the match and got relegated.

He left Chelsea for Palace in 1970 and then moved to Leicester in 1971-72 season so his first game at Bramall Lane in a Leicester shirt was the 1-1 draw in New Years Day 1972

 

[Silent Blade]

Remember this well. Got p!ss ripped out of me at school for weeks.
I was always TC when playing football at school and I got a lot of grief from my mates.

He is my all time favourite Blade and I really don't mind if he is ambidextrous.

I wasn't at the match as it was after the Easter school holidays and I was back at my boarding school. I had no knowledge about the "kiss" until it was all over in the papers on the Monday morning and I got a lot of stick from my school (I was the only Blade there!) as they were saying "Your hero is a homo!"

 

[LSF]

He left us for Chelsea in late November 1967 and played against us for Chelsea in the last game of the 1967-68 season. LSF wrote an article in Flashing Blade about him getting stick from our fans but we lost the match and got relegated.

He left Chelsea for Palace in 1970 and then moved to Leicester in 1971-72 season so his first game at Bramall Lane in a Leicester shirt was the 1-1 draw in New Years Day 1972

Remember the Chelsea game well and as I wrote in FB, Sherman trotted toward the kop expecting plaudits and applause only to be greeted with "Birchenalls a puff, Birchenalls a puff, ee aye addio etc etc (apologies to the gay community here).
His face was a picture and he swiftly shot us the rods and huffed off back to the lane end.
Back to the game in question in the o/p - That day i played in the S&H Junior Cup Final at Frechville Community ground ( Windsor v Mosborough Trinity), a red hot day with around 2,000 spectators there. Local football in those days was booming with multitudes of leagues giving opportunity to all sorts of abilities to play.
How the local game has died off these days, very sad....

 

[Dnblade]

They had Frank Worthington playing for them..used to like watching him warm doing a few tricks with the ball.
I can't remember much about the goals apart from ending up 15 rows down the Kop...pity there's no tv footage.

 

[Silent Blade]

They had Frank Worthington playing for them..used to like watching him warm doing a few tricks with the ball.
I can't remember much about the goals apart from ending up 15 rows down the Kop...pity there's no tv footage.

The goals are in WalthamstowBlade 's 1974-75 video

 

[Dnblade]

The goals are in WalthamstowBlade 's 1974-75 video

I watched that aswell...I'll give it another look then SB,cheers for that.

 

[Silent Blade]

I watched that aswell...I'll give it another look then SB,cheers for that.

Start from 24:54

http://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/sheffield-united-1974-1975.47320/

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

Although my favourite Currie year was 1971, there's no doubt he was in a brilliant vein of form towards the end of the 1974-75 season with great performances against West Ham, Stoke and Everton among others in addition to this one against Leicester. The pass to Speight in the build-up to the first goal, the corner onto Eddy's head for the second and the effortless stroke past the keeper for the third all typical of him. It makes his famous missed sitter at Birmingham all the more unfathomable.

Birchenall was a good player (and great character) but being sold for the same price as Mick Jones flattered him. He was nowhere near Mick's class.

One of my main memories of "Sherman" is from a game at Leicester in February, 1973, my first away game out of town at the age of 14. He hit a great shot from the edge of the box and produced an absolutely brilliant save from Tom McAlister. At that time, before his career-changing injury, Tomo looked like a top goalkeeper in the making.

That game at Leicester was Jim Bone's debut and ended 0-0. The United fans behind Shilton's goal hugely enjoyed themselves baiting the England keeper by singing "the monkey wants a banana" to the tune of "for he's a jolly good fellow" which he didn't like one bit. When you're 14, you're easily pleased.

 

[DifferentClass]

Didn't Birchenall say that he and TC have to recreate the kiss every year and he doesn't want to because TC gets uglier every time?

 

[Silent Blade]

Didn't Birchenall say that he and TC have to recreate the kiss every year and he doesn't want to because TC gets uglier every time?

 

[DifferentClass]

What a bromance.