Did United play the day you were born?

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Yep. Beat Coventry at home 2-0 (Addison & Woodward) & the only time I've known them (not that I can obviously remember) play on my birthday, though I'll stand corrected.
Potential match next season as my birthday falls on a Saturday this year but it doesn't guarantee a match.
 



Yep. Beat Coventry at home 2-0 (Addison & Woodward) & the only time I've known them (not that I can obviously remember) play on my birthday, though I'll stand corrected.
Potential match next season as my birthday falls on a Saturday this year but it doesn't guarantee a match.
23rd Dec 1967
 
nope 3 days after i was born we drew 2-2 with burnley at the lane 15/11/74, dearden and field the scorers
 
Yep. Beat Coventry at home 2-0 (Addison & Woodward) & the only time I've known them (not that I can obviously remember) play on my birthday, though I'll stand corrected.
Potential match next season as my birthday falls on a Saturday this year but it doesn't guarantee a match.
December 23rd is a good shout - I did find a game v Arsenal, Dec 23, 1933, but they are rare. I was surprised by how many times they played on Dec 24.
 
The nearest game before my B'day we lost 5-2 away at Arsenal with Agana and Mendonca scoring for us.

2 days after my B'day we drew 0-0 at home to Wimbledon:

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The week after that we lost 4-3 away at Leeds with Hoyland, Agana and Bradshaw getting our goals.

In the 1991–92 season, the Blades had a poor start to the season and were bottom of the table at the beginning of November with just 2 wins in their first 15 league games and were destined for relegation but from mid-January, Bassett's team went on an impressive run, losing only 2 of their next 15 league games, picking up 34 points from the possible 45 during that run which saw them rise from being relegation candidates to an impressive 9th-place finish.

We did the double over the Pigs that season and in the home game our attendance was 31,832, higher than the 5-2 defeat at Highbury which was 30,244. Anyone else find that strange or is it just me, Arsenal have always been one of the bigger clubs haven't they and Highbury must have had a bigger capacity than BDTBL?
 
Woodward and Dearden scored. TC missed a penalty (did the same in the previous week at home to Luton). Don't know the attendance! That day I was watching Blades v Wolves reserves match. Hodgy was in goal. Don't think he played in another reserves match after this one

The crowd was 12,540, at Charlton that is.
 
Nope, I was sandwiched between a loss to Sunderland at home and Villa away in the league, and a day before I was born we lost to Spurs at home in the cup. Reyt good luck charm me. :(
 
Another thread to while away the long summer months. In answering a different thread, I realised for the first time that United played on the day I was born - at home to Preston at the end of the 46-47 season, at a time when cricket should have been the sport going on. We lost 3-2. If only I had been told this earlier, I could perhaps have been spared years of misery and stress. Would be interested to know the Blades-related events that happened on the day others on here were born.

Looks like the nearest game to my birth date we lost 7-2 at home to Rotherham. An omen for years of not winning anything?
 



Looks like the nearest game to my birth date we lost 7-2 at home to Rotherham. An omen for years of not winning anything?
Now that was a seriously bad day. United did the pre-match warm-up at the Lane end, changed ends for the kick-off, and as Ted Burgin (goalkeeper) was running towards the Kop, everyone started shouting that the ball was coming. He turned round in time to stop the ball. That was about the only thing that went right that day.
 
Now that was a seriously bad day. United did the pre-match warm-up at the Lane end, changed ends for the kick-off, and as Ted Burgin (goalkeeper) was running towards the Kop, everyone started shouting that the ball was coming. He turned round in time to stop the ball. That was about the only thing that went right that day.

Luckily, that was the SW12 part of my life so the family were well away from the boasting.
 
On the day I was born we drew 1-1 at home to Bradford.

My wife went into labour with my eldest the day we beat Plymouth 2-1 away. He was born the next day.

We beat Forest 2-1 exactly three years later on the day my youngest son was born.
 
born wednesday 3rd feb 1954

full circle , Chelsea won the league that year

good season , united finish mid table top league as wednesday get relegated as bottom club with 26 points, well adrift


1 Chelsea 42 20 12 10 81 57 1.421 52
2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 42 19 10 13 89 70 1.271 48
3 Portsmouth 42 18 12 12 74 62 1.194 48
4 Sunderland 42 15 18 9 64 54 1.185 48
5 Manchester United 42 20 7 15 84 74 1.135 47
6 Aston Villa 42 20 7 15 72 73 0.986 47
7 Manchester City 42 18 10 14 76 69 1.101 46
8 Newcastle United 42 17 9 16 89 77 1.156 43
9 Arsenal 42 17 9 16 69 63 1.095 43
10 Burnley 42 17 9 16 51 48 1.063 43
11 Everton 42 16 10 16 62 68 0.912 42
12 Huddersfield Town 42 14 13 15 63 68 0.926 41
13 Sheffield United 42 17 7 18 70 86 0.814 41
14 Preston North End 42 16 8 18 83 64 1.297 40
15 Charlton Athletic 42 15 10 17 76 75 1.013 40
16 Tottenham Hotspur 42 16 8 18 72 73 0.986 40
17 West Bromwich Albion 42 16 8 18 76 96 0.792 40
18 Bolton Wanderers 42 13 13 16 62 69 0.899 39
19 Blackpool 42 14 10 18 60 64 0.938 38
20 Cardiff City 42 13 11 18 62 76 0.816 37
21 Leicester City 42 12 11 19 74 86 0.86 35 Relegated to the Second Division
22 Sheffield Wednesday 42 8 10 24 63 100 0.63 26
 
Youngest son born Boxing Day 1989 drew at home v Dirties
 
Another thread to while away the long summer months. In answering a different thread, I realised for the first time that United played on the day I was born - at home to Preston at the end of the 46-47 season, at a time when cricket should have been the sport going on. We lost 3-2. If only I had been told this earlier, I could perhaps have been spared years of misery and stress. Would be interested to know the Blades-related events that happened on the day others on here were born.
Just for you HBT

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born wednesday 3rd feb 1954

full circle , Chelsea won the league that year

good season , united finish mid table top league as wednesday get relegated as bottom club with 26 points, well adrift


1 Chelsea 42 20 12 10 81 57 1.421 52
2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 42 19 10 13 89 70 1.271 48
3 Portsmouth 42 18 12 12 74 62 1.194 48
4 Sunderland 42 15 18 9 64 54 1.185 48
5 Manchester United 42 20 7 15 84 74 1.135 47
6 Aston Villa 42 20 7 15 72 73 0.986 47
7 Manchester City 42 18 10 14 76 69 1.101 46
8 Newcastle United 42 17 9 16 89 77 1.156 43
9 Arsenal 42 17 9 16 69 63 1.095 43
10 Burnley 42 17 9 16 51 48 1.063 43
11 Everton 42 16 10 16 62 68 0.912 42
12 Huddersfield Town 42 14 13 15 63 68 0.926 41
13 Sheffield United 42 17 7 18 70 86 0.814 41
14 Preston North End 42 16 8 18 83 64 1.297 40
15 Charlton Athletic 42 15 10 17 76 75 1.013 40
16 Tottenham Hotspur 42 16 8 18 72 73 0.986 40
17 West Bromwich Albion 42 16 8 18 76 96 0.792 40
18 Bolton Wanderers 42 13 13 16 62 69 0.899 39
19 Blackpool 42 14 10 18 60 64 0.938 38
20 Cardiff City 42 13 11 18 62 76 0.816 37
21 Leicester City 42 12 11 19 74 86 0.86 35 Relegated to the Second Division
22 Sheffield Wednesday 42 8 10 24 63 100 0.63 26
Gave you a like, but I'm not sure about the day you were born.;)
 

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