Danny Kelly wants the Blades promoted

[TomHeffernan]

When asked who he wants promoted, Danny Kelly says

"Sheffield United. Look, we all know, English football, as far as I can see is by and large very very honest, there's very little corruption in it. Yet, when one or two times things have been a bit odd, the team that's been affected has been Sheffield United. Indeed their relegations, as their fans will tell you, should never have been aloud to stand. So if Chris Wilder can get them up then that would be fantastic"

Always liked him!

 

[Champagneblade]

That’s well remembered actually.

The Segers affair, the Tevez affair.

Just about the only controversial events directly saving one club and punishing another.

How Everton might have felt it is anyone’s guess. They didn’t have much money back then.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

Always liked Danny Kelly too (and I generally find people talking about football pretty boring).

I remember the 90s show Under the Moon on Channel 4. The Friday night football show he did on BT Sport with Danny Baker was pretty much the only decent thing on that channel.

and this is the greatest conversation in human history...

 

[Sean Thornton]

When asked who he wants promoted, Danny Kelly says

"Sheffield United. Look, we all know, English football, as far as I can see is by and large very very honest, there's very little corruption in it. Yet, when one or two times things have been a bit odd, the team that's been affected has been Sheffield United. Indeed their relegations, as their fans will tell you, should never have been aloud to stand. So if Chris Wilder can get them up then that would be fantastic"

Always liked him!

Anyone at Plough Lane watching Fashanu playing basketball against us while the referee just watched it and did nothing wasn't surprised at the revalations that cane out later.

Segers car ringing defence was never taken up by the police and there was no way the football authorities would countenance their money tree being besmirched by a fixing scandal.

We saw similar decisions later, where the PL sided with the wrongdoers until the very end.

Let's see about FFP breaches and non trading companies sponsoring a club.

 

[Champagneblade]

Anyone at Plough Lane watching Fashanu playing basketball against us while the referee just watched it and did nothing wasn't surprised at the revalations that cane out later.

Segers car ringing defence was never taken up by the police and there was no way the football authorities would countenance their money tree being besmirched by a fixing scandal.

We saw similar decisions later, where the PL sided with the wrongdoers until the very end.

Let's see about FFP breaches and non trading companies sponsoring a club.

Into the conspiracy you can also throw the most bullshit penalty award for a non-foul on Anders Limpar too.

VAR has its detractors but no way would that have been given on further review.

 

[bornablade]

I remember driving down to the Chelsea match and hearing on the radio that the Wimbledon team coach had been set on fire the night before.

Harry's lads were up against stronger forces that weekend than just a Chelsea team.

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

I remember driving down to the Chelsea match and hearing on the radio that the Wimbledon team coach had been set on fire the night before.

Harry's lads were up against stronger forces that weekend than just a Chelsea team.

Fuckwittery & penny pinching was why we went down that season. Bedfellows that have been an ever present at BDTBL for the last 50 years, and who still stalk its corridors. We sold our talisman and didn’t adequately replace him. That decision then left us at the mercy of fate, and whatever else went on. Due to that decision, we only scored 42 goals in a 42 game season (I think Wednesday, in mid table scored nearly twice that amount). Nearly a quarter of a century later, we still feel it’s effects.

Weren’t we 2-1 up with 15 mins to go & simply had to avoid losing? Just as we had to simply avoid losing against Wigan? We seem to save our clowning about as a club just before the Sky money gets renegotiated and comes gushing into the game.

I appreciate Danny Kelly’s comments, which give an insight into his decency, but we as a club have always been the architects of our own downfall. That’s why deep down, when you strip away the bravado, me & thee both know that the current CW adventure will eventually end in tears & wasted opportunity. We are a club run by c*nts, always have been, always will be. It’s the blades way.

 

[Kev Gee]

Always remember him on unknown C4 prog under the moon in the 90s.

Always gave decent opinions on there.

What is he upto these days?

 

[bornablade]

I remember driving down to the Chelsea match and hearing on the radio that the Wimbledon team coach had been set on fire the night before.

Harry's lads were up against stronger forces that weekend than just a Chelsea team.

Fuckwittery & penny pinching was why we went down that season. Bedfellows that have been an ever present at BDTBL for the last 50 years, and who still stalk its corridors. We sold our talisman and didn’t adequately replace him. That decision then left us at the mercy of fate, and whatever else went on. Due to that decision, we only scored 42 goals in a 42 game season (I think Wednesday, in mid table scored nearly twice that amount). Nearly a quarter of a century later, we still feel it’s effects.

Weren’t we 2-1 up with 15 mins to go & simply had to avoid losing? Just as we had to simply avoid losing against Wigan? We seem to save our clowning about as a club just before the Sky money gets renegotiated and comes gushing into the game.

I appreciate Danny Kelly’s comments, which give an insight into his decency, but we as a club have always been the architects of our own downfall. That’s why deep down, when you strip away the bravado, me & thee both know that the current CW adventure will eventually end in tears & wasted opportunity. We are a club run by c*nts, always have been, always will be. It’s the blades way.

Excuse my ignorance, but who was the talisman that we sold?

Only one other team in the bottom half of the table lost fewer matches than us that season. Even Liverpool in 9th position lost the same as us.

Wednesday scored 76 goals.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Excuse my ignorance, but who was the talisman that we sold?

Only one other team in the bottom half of the table lost fewer matches than us that season. Even Liverpool in 9th position lost the same as us.

Wednesday scored 76 goals.

Brian Deane.

 

[Gin&Juice]

Always remember him on unknown C4 prog under the moon in the 90s.

Always gave decent opinions on there.

What is he upto these days?

TalkSport

 

[grafikhaus]

Weren’t we 2-1 up with 15 mins to go & simply had to avoid losing? Just as we had to simply avoid losing against Wigan?

If only it was that simple. 'Dark forces' were at work in the 1993-4 season with - as Sean Thornton says - the incredible ignoring of Fashanu trying everything to 'hand' us a penalty at Plough Lane. The events of the final day of that season have been well chronicled.

By the time we lost to Wigan in 2007, the die had been firmly cast. The 'drip, drip' of decisions against us that season began on the very first day ('penalty' to media darling Stevie G), continued with the inexplicable disallowing of a goal at West Ham (Geary?), the awarding of a more-than-soft free kick that led to Blackburn's last-minute winner. These things happen in the hurly-burly of a football match. What doesn't happen is the fielding of players with third-party ownership or teams deliberately playing weakened teams against our relegation rivals.

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

You could arguably thrown in Leicester getting promoted ahead of us in 2003 despite being in administration for most of the season. As a result, the points deduction brought in.

 

[Carlton Blade]

Fuckwittery & penny pinching was why we went down that season. Bedfellows that have been an ever present at BDTBL for the last 50 years, and who still stalk its corridors. We sold our talisman and didn’t adequately replace him. That decision then left us at the mercy of fate, and whatever else went on. Due to that decision, we only scored 42 goals in a 42 game season (I think Wednesday, in mid table scored nearly twice that amount). Nearly a quarter of a century later, we still feel it’s effects.

Weren’t we 2-1 up with 15 mins to go & simply had to avoid losing? Just as we had to simply avoid losing against Wigan? We seem to save our clowning about as a club just before the Sky money gets renegotiated and comes gushing into the game.

I appreciate Danny Kelly’s comments, which give an insight into his decency, but we as a club have always been the architects of our own downfall. That’s why deep down, when you strip away the bravado, me & thee both know that the current CW adventure will eventually end in tears & wasted opportunity. We are a club run by c*nts, always have been, always will be. It’s the blades way.

A positive message to get us all through the day

All fair comments unfortunately. We are currently riding on a very fast, very rickety rollercoaster. It'll either crash in flames or be sold somewhere else where theyll give it the money needed to keep it going

 

[Punk Blade]

Excuse my ignorance, but who was the talisman that we sold?

 

[mattbianco1]

When asked who he wants promoted, Danny Kelly says

"Sheffield United. Look, we all know, English football, as far as I can see is by and large very very honest, there's very little corruption in it. Yet, when one or two times things have been a bit odd, the team that's been affected has been Sheffield United. Indeed their relegations, as their fans will tell you, should never have been aloud to stand. So if Chris Wilder can get them up then that would be fantastic"

Always liked him!

Is there a link to this?

 

[8lade]

Well if we're being fair minded about it all i'd like to see
Middlesborough up in second for the time they were deducted points leading to a relegation for being unable to fulfil a fixture when they didn't have enough players.
Leeds nowhere near the top 6 for multiple admins. (Yeah I know they were punished but not enough IMO).
And the rest can fight for a place in the top 6.

 

[Champagneblade]

Fuckwittery & penny pinching was why we went down that season. Bedfellows that have been an ever present at BDTBL for the last 50 years, and who still stalk its corridors. We sold our talisman and didn’t adequately replace him. That decision then left us at the mercy of fate, and whatever else went on. Due to that decision, we only scored 42 goals in a 42 game season (I think Wednesday, in mid table scored nearly twice that amount). Nearly a quarter of a century later, we still feel it’s effects.

Weren’t we 2-1 up with 15 mins to go & simply had to avoid losing? Just as we had to simply avoid losing against Wigan? We seem to save our clowning about as a club just before the Sky money gets renegotiated and comes gushing into the game.

I appreciate Danny Kelly’s comments, which give an insight into his decency, but we as a club have always been the architects of our own downfall. That’s why deep down, when you strip away the bravado, me & thee both know that the current CW adventure will eventually end in tears & wasted opportunity. We are a club run by c*nts, always have been, always will be. It’s the blades way.

I’m quite surprised that job at Samaritains never got past first interview...

“Hello? Hello? You still there?”

 

[Nade]

Showing my age here.

Other than the Tevez affair, what has happened to us?

 

[FleaPitBlade]

Showing my age here.

Other than the Tevez affair, what has happened to us?

Hans Segers threw the ball into his own net as part of a set of results that sent us down and later got dragged into the same match fixing scandal involving Grobelar and Fashanu.

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

I’m quite surprised that job at Samaritains never got past first interview...

“Hello? Hello? You still there?”

Sometimes I just wake up in a really foul mood & I need to vent some spleen. I don't know why.

 

[Geordie Blade]

Anyone at Plough Lane watching Fashanu playing basketball against us while the referee just watched it and did nothing wasn't surprised at the revalations that cane out later.

Which is the conspiracy - Fashanu's handball or ref's ignoring of it?

If it's the handball, then why on Earth would the ref have missed it? If it's the referee decision, why did he give the first one? If they were colluding (i.e. "I'll handle it, but you don't give the penalty), wouldn't it have been easier to just not handball it in the first place? Or were they both being dodgy, just in different directions?

 

[Revolution]

Fuckwittery & penny pinching was why we went down that season. Bedfellows that have been an ever present at BDTBL for the last 50 years, and who still stalk its corridors. We sold our talisman and didn’t adequately replace him. That decision then left us at the mercy of fate, and whatever else went on. Due to that decision, we only scored 42 goals in a 42 game season (I think Wednesday, in mid table scored nearly twice that amount). Nearly a quarter of a century later, we still feel it’s effects.

Weren’t we 2-1 up with 15 mins to go & simply had to avoid losing? Just as we had to simply avoid losing against Wigan? We seem to save our clowning about as a club just before the Sky money gets renegotiated and comes gushing into the game.

I appreciate Danny Kelly’s comments, which give an insight into his decency, but we as a club have always been the architects of our own downfall. That’s why deep down, when you strip away the bravado, me & thee both know that the current CW adventure will eventually end in tears & wasted opportunity. We are a club run by c*nts, always have been, always will be. It’s the blades way.

A few days after Deano was sold Revolution Sr and I sat down to watch the 1993 season review. By the end of it we were convinced we were going to be relegated. Deane was involved in most of the goals, either scoring or in the build up. We relied so much on him.

We had 9 0-0 draws that season, from memory. If we'd kept Deano we'd have been fine.

We were indeed 2-1 up when a draw would have done. Easily the worst day of my Blades supporting life.

 

[Revolution]

Well if we're being fair minded about it all i'd like to see
Middlesborough up in second for the time they were deducted points leading to a relegation for being unable to fulfil a fixture when they didn't have enough players.
Leeds nowhere near the top 6 for multiple admins. (Yeah I know they were punished but not enough IMO).
And the rest can fight for a place in the top 6.

Plus Arsenal restored to the Championship, having bribed their way into the top flight in 1919 and never being relegated since.

 

[Roygbiv]

Which is the conspiracy - Fashanu's handball or ref's ignoring of it?

If it's the handball, then why on Earth would the ref have missed it? If it's the referee decision, why did he give the first one? If they were colluding (i.e. "I'll handle it, but you don't give the penalty), wouldn't it have been easier to just not handball it in the first place? Or were they both being dodgy, just in different directions?

I think the ref simply couldn't believe he had done it again so soon after the first. The most interesting thing about that footage is when Fashanu immediately starts having a go at the linesman after the second hand ball, so convinced that he's given a penalty.

I imagine Fashanu lost a bit of money that day thanks to the ref rather than the ref being involved.

 

[Roygbiv]

Fuckwittery & penny pinching was why we went down that season. Bedfellows that have been an ever present at BDTBL for the last 50 years, and who still stalk its corridors. We sold our talisman and didn’t adequately replace him. That decision then left us at the mercy of fate, and whatever else went on. Due to that decision, we only scored 42 goals in a 42 game season (I think Wednesday, in mid table scored nearly twice that amount). Nearly a quarter of a century later, we still feel it’s effects.

Weren’t we 2-1 up with 15 mins to go & simply had to avoid losing? Just as we had to simply avoid losing against Wigan? We seem to save our clowning about as a club just before the Sky money gets renegotiated and comes gushing into the game.

I appreciate Danny Kelly’s comments, which give an insight into his decency, but we as a club have always been the architects of our own downfall. That’s why deep down, when you strip away the bravado, me & thee both know that the current CW adventure will eventually end in tears & wasted opportunity. We are a club run by c*nts, always have been, always will be. It’s the blades way.

There is a lot of truth in this. I have no doubt shady things went on at Goodison Park and obviously West Ham should have been punished with a points deduction but on both occasions it shouldn't have been us who were the fall guys.

The relegation under Basset was always coming and as he said at the time "we played Russian Roulette one too many times". We simply couldn't survive with age old United trait of not building when in a position of strength and eventually selling your best player without adequately replacing him.

 

[TTMeysh]

Anyone at Plough Lane watching Fashanu playing basketball against us while the referee just watched it and did nothing wasn't surprised at the revalations that cane out later.

Segers car ringing defence was never taken up by the police and there was no way the football authorities would countenance their money tree being besmirched by a fixing scandal.

We saw similar decisions later, where the PL sided with the wrongdoers until the very end.

Let's see about FFP breaches and non trading companies sponsoring a club.

I was also at Plough Lane for that one, my take is that the ref saw the second handball, inferred immediately what Fashanu was up to, and took an instant decision not to award it. He subsequently had quite an animated conversation with the player.

It left a very nasty taste in the mouth, to put it mildly. Having missed the Pigs' shame in the 60s, it was actually the first time it occurred to me that there might be some match-fixing going on in England - it wasn't a problem confined to Italians etc.

 

[INTAKE BLADE]

I would rather be on the Blades rickety roller coaster than HMS piss the league any day of the week. Everything that has happened to us (all the posts above) has been so blatant it's embarrassing.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

There is a lot of truth in this. I have no doubt shady things went on at Goodison Park and obviously West Ham should have been punished with a points deduction but on both occasions it shouldn't have been us who were the fall guys.

The relegation under Basset was always coming and as he said at the time "we played Russian Roulette one too many times". We simply couldn't survive with age old United trait of not building when in a position of strength and eventually selling your best player without adequately replacing him.

My feelings too. We have been on the receiving end of some rubbish/possibly corrupt decisions, but if you are mid-table, they don't feel like a conspiracy to destroy the club. Refereeing decisions can be examined to death, usually without adding up to a cospiracy. Wasn't it the 2006-07 season that Kozluk prevented a goal v Chelsea at the Kop end with a handball that would have been penalised for travelling if it had been basketball? Perhaps a conspiracy against Chelsea?

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

A few days after Deano was sold Revolution Sr and I sat down to watch the 1993 season review. By the end of it we were convinced we were going to be relegated. Deane was involved in most of the goals, either scoring or in the build up. We relied so much on him.

We had 9 0-0 draws that season, from memory. If we'd kept Deano we'd have been fine.

We were indeed 2-1 up when a draw would have done. Easily the worst day of my Blades supporting life.

I think the sad thing about that season, is that we weren’t actually that bad a side. Certainly not the 3rd worst in the division. In retrospect we’d probably peaked the season before in 14th, the old guard were losing their effectiveness and alarms bells should’ve rung in the boardroom. If you look at our best 11, the names conjure up good memories. Competent, decent at the back, but unfortunately with little goal threat. Selling Deane was unforgivable, not investing all the transfer monies and more so, to reinforce the squad, doubly so. But then again, we had a circus upstairs at that time didn’t we?

We sold Deane, who as you say the previous season, was basically winning a header, chasing down his own flick ons, crossing the ball into the box to a team mate and then picking up the rebound. We’d become reliant on his goals (14) and set up play & so had Littlejohn (8). It was a decent partnership to be honest. Big man/small man. We sold Deane and bought Flo, and went with him (10), AL (3), Cork (3) & Davison (0). In the NY, too little too late, we signed Blake (5). £3m in for Deane, £400k out for Flo & £300k out for Blake. I appreciate other players came in & out, but I think we had a £2m transfer profit. In retrospect another season of Deane and AL, plus the addition of Flo & Blake and the phasing out of Cork, Scott & Davison, would’ve kept us up with ease. Basically a £700k outlay. The same price that Wednesday paid for Guy ‘fucking’ Whittingham or 50% of what they paid for Mark Bright. But no, we chance it, get relegated and missed out on the big sky money. Penny wise, pound foolish, eh?