Boxing day bollocks

[Carlton Blade]

"Nah, we've still got it over them"
"Why, they confirmed your relegation. You havent beaten them in 14 years"
"Bullshit, we smashed them 4-0 at our place"
"Wait, was that in the cup, I thought they beat you comfortably at Hillsborough?"
"Not this season"
"OH, so pretty recently though?"
"Yeah, yeah mate. Pretty recently"
"Was it on Sky? I can't believe I haven't seen this before"
"Erm, probably not. It was in the 3rd division"
"OH, so when you were both down there in 2012, with all that Ched Evans stuff?"
"Erm, no, not that time. The time before"
"When exactly was this?"
"1979"
"What did you say, 99?"
"Sigh, 1979"
" Fuck me, they said you were all mental. I get it now"

 

[Keen Blade]

Tom Cannon scored against them, we should sing a song about that.

Nah mate ,
Leave that to Smokey Robinson and the Miracle of Miracles

 

[sitwell]

He shut them up. 2-4 isn't 4-0

Are you sure youre a Blade ?
4-2 away in div 2 is a lot more impressive than 4-0 at home in Div 3.
Both games were pivotal in the history of Sheffield football on both sides of the City.

 

[VictoryBlade]

Are you sure youre a Blade ?
4-2 away in div 2 is a lot more impressive than 4-0 at home in Div 3.
Both games were pivotal in the history of Sheffield football on both sides of the City.

Thank you Sitwell and indeed that Duffy goal will live with me (and many others) forever!

 

[WestYorksBlade]

Had to have a little chuckle when I read this. One thing thrown at us from your supporters are your wins in the 1st division and the FA cup wins. They are all over 100 years ago now.

What a sad life you have.

 

[I should coco]

Think everyone is missing the point here. The fact that the game was held on Boxing Day (which will never take place again, no Derbies will-the fixture computer wont allow it) gave the song it's 'credence' and 'wording'. what would a middle of the season 4-0 win by United over Wednesday on say the 27 November ever be called? the 'didnt have a name day' massacre? so,sorry to disappoint but this sad ancient pathetic little song will never be 'avenged'

It wasn't that actual event that gave us the song.

Spurs lost to Arsenal the same day and they started the song, so we just nicked it.

A year or so later, the deluded Massive picked it up, so of course, it's their song now. They think that they invented it and if pushed, will probably deny ever having heard of Spurs.
They'd also very muh like not to have heard of Arsenal too.
Altogether now....

"Andy, Andy, Andy, Linigan...."

 

[The Crab]

Don't waste your time trying to understand the mentality of the average pig fan 99% of them are deranged and must live in a parallel universe, I mean at least one of them thinks they are a global presence

The only presence they have is that of a fart in a spacesuit

 

[EddieColquhoun]

It wasn't that actual event that gave us the song.

Spurs lost to Arsenal the same day and they started the song, so we just nicked it.

A year or so later, the deluded Massive picked it up, so of course, it's their song now. They think that they invented it and if pushed, will probably deny ever having heard of Spurs.
They'd also very muh like not to have heard of Arsenal too.
Altogether now....

"Andy, Andy, Andy, Linigan...."

I can remember the song being sung on the kop the last home game (Southend) before Boxing Day.
Every time I hear it now my pal and I comment on how much we hate it.

 

[EddieColquhoun]

But with Eddie Colquhoun promotion is soon in the bin too then.

Blasphemous.

 

[Frank the tank]

Had to have a little chuckle when I read this. One thing thrown at us from your supporters are your wins in the 1st division and the FA cup wins. They are all over 100 years ago now.

Are these 'supporters ' in the room with us now ?

 

[ZLB]

He shut them up. 2-4 isn't 4-0

You’re not a Blade.

 

[Everblade]

Surely, after yesterday they are now officially irrelevant.

 

[Dnblade]

It was billed by both sides as the BDM in the weeks leading upto the game..anyone remember us singing BDM chant in games leading up,to banana splits tune.
We were confident and top they were about 10th,we hadn't played each other since the 71 promotion year.
It was definitely a sliding doors moment in Sheffield football,we'd been the top team in the city right through the 70's and they were often playing in front of 7/8 thousand...it,s all a long time ago now,and not that relevant anymore.

 

[metalblade]

It was billed by both sides as the BDM in the weeks leading upto the game..anyone remember us singing BDM chant in games leading up,to banana splits tune.
We were confident and top they were about 10th,we hadn't played each other since the 71 promotion year.
It was definitely a sliding doors moment in Sheffield football,we'd been the top team in the city right through the 70's and they were often playing in front of 7/8 thousand...it,s all a long time ago now,and not that relevant anymore.

Although no pig will ever admit to them playing in front of 7-8000

 

[NAP]

It wasn't that actual event that gave us the song.

Spurs lost to Arsenal the same day and they started the song, so we just nicked it.

A year or so later, the deluded Massive picked it up, so of course, it's their song now. They think that they invented it and if pushed, will probably deny ever having heard of Spurs.
They'd also very muh like not to have heard of Arsenal too.
Altogether now....

"Andy, Andy, Andy, Linigan...."

Arsenal won 1-0 so no massacre occurred presume 4-0 constitutes a massacre then and that no arsenal fan these days EVER refers to it?

 

[Dkc]

It was billed by both sides as the BDM in the weeks leading upto the game..anyone remember us singing BDM chant in games leading up,to banana splits tune.
We were confident and top they were about 10th,we hadn't played each other since the 71 promotion year.
It was definitely a sliding doors moment in Sheffield football,we'd been the top team in the city right through the 70's and they were often playing in front of 7/8 thousand...it,s all a long time ago now,and not that relevant anymore.

In the 80s we had a few sub-10k gates, as most big clubs did. Football was about as popular as the Gary Glitter fan club is today.

But ours never went as low as theirs. They drew under 7k for a league game v Colchester in the 80's. Don't think ours fell below 8k but could be wrong. Not sure if we ever dropped below 10k in the 70's.

 

[Russtheblade]

It doesn’t help that we sing about the BDM. Personally I’ve never understood why we as a fanbase sing about a defeat by them and it does endorse their view that it matters to us. We should just not bother. It was decades ago and to many United fans either a distant memory or something that they don’t even know about because they weren’t born.

It is a Blades song,instigated by us to sing that in spite of losing ....we will fight for ever more because of boxing day, why do they sing it when they won the f.....g game? Thick as mince, I was there btw aged 18, walked home to Mosborough, no way I was sharing a car with any of them after that

 

[LudlamBlade]

Although no pig will ever admit to them playing in front of 7-8000

Unless you're counting the 8000 they took to QPR

 

[Weasel]

It is a Blades song,instigated by us to sing that in spite of losing ....we will fight for ever more because of boxing day, why do they sing it when they won the f.....g game? Thick as mince, I was there btw aged 18, walked home to Mosborough, no way I was sharing a car with any of them after that

The game at Easter at Bramall Lane (finished 1-1) about 4 months after the Boxing Day game was on MotD. On it you can clearly hear the United fans singing the Hark now hear song (on a couple of occasions). Conversely, there is no Wendies singing it. Come to your own conclusions about which set of fans made up the song and who copied. Not that it really matters now. It was a third division match that we lost 4-0 nearly 50 years ago. I was probably playing Turbo Tops or with my Action Man at my Grandparents (God bless them) on the day. We lost 4-0 at Grimsby that May, and 5-2 at Colchester 2 years later in 81. Neither of those results matter now either.

 

[Champagneblade]

He shut them up. 2-4 isn't 4-0

By the same token 4-0 isn’t 7-3.

Both teams had a big margin win at home over 2 generations ago.

It’s quite embarrassing that any club has to go back that far for some remote form of oneupmanship.

I think most United fans are more than happy with the current 4-0; 4 consecutive derby wins without reply.

But enough about them now. We have bigger fish to fry. This mid week will be very difficult. A very hard game and the likes of Wrexham with far easier games on paper.

 

[54yrblade]

You’re not a Blade.

I am and there tomorrow.
Fill yer boots with your ridiculous assumption.

 

[I should coco]

Arsenal won 1-0 so no massacre occurred presume 4-0 constitutes a massacre then and that no arsenal fan these days EVER refers to it?

'Hark now hear' doesn't mention the word massacre, so I really don't get your point.

It's Spurs song, sung immediately after and we picked it up in the New Year.

Prior to Boxing Day, I remember plenty of 'Bring on the Wednesday', but I don't recall any mention of a massacre.

 

[Snake]

You know what..... the more I think about it, the more I realise the significance of Boxing Day is just a matter of perception depending on your age.

I'm in my mid 60s and was stood on the Leppings Lane end full of beer from the night before, pissed off as fuck. So yes, I must admit it is still an issue with me - I do want revenge.

When we got back to the pub on that fateful day (and in the weeks after the game) whenever the pigs tried to stuff our face in it, the older generation just reminded them of the 7-3. To me the 7-3 was insignificant as it was well before my time. I suffered the 4-0.

As my daughter constantly reminds me, she's 30 and the 4-0 is completely insignificant to her - it was years before she was born. What's significant to her are the games she's experienced in her lifetime. She's delighted with the sequence of results - and the significance...... 4 wins on the trot, relegating them, the 2-4 Bouncing Day, the 0-3 this season.

So, now that it may be quite a while before we meet the grunters again, I think I'll adopt here attitude and live in the present

 

[NAP]

'Hark now hear' doesn't mention the word massacre, so I really don't get your point.

It's Spurs song, sung immediately after and we picked it up in the New Year.

Prior to Boxing Day, I remember plenty of 'Bring on the Wednesday', but I don't recall any mention of a massacre.

all true the chant is about a match taking place on Boxing Day between us and pigs The point I am making is that the occasion became known as the Boxing Day massacre by Wednesdayites due to the scoreline on the actual day even Blades call it that we use BDM to refer to it and is still talked about in those terms. All I am saying is that Arsenal/Spurs did not continue to sing it afterwards, and is never looked back on as a BDM by either club as it was a 'boring' 1-0 win it only keeps going in Sheffield because of the scoreline that came out of the actual game

 

[I should coco]

all true the chant is about a match taking place on Boxing Day between us and pigs The point I am making is that the occasion became known as the Boxing Day massacre by Wednesdayites due to the scoreline on the actual day even Blades call it that we use BDM to refer to it and is still talked about in those terms. All I am saying is that Arsenal/Spurs did not continue to sing it afterwards, and is never looked back on as a BDM by either club as it was a 'boring' 1-0 win it only keeps going in Sheffield because of the scoreline that came out of the actual game

You said that earlier. I keep saying that I never mentioned the 'M' word, but I do know what it represents.

it doesn't alter the fact that Spurs started the song, after they lost their derby.