Don Givens penalty miss poser

[Rufus Smalls]

I was stood on the kop that afternoon - for anyone wanting to know how shit the penalty was, then the best way I can describe it would be a fuckin back-pass.

Terrible day.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Was the kop end, was on the south stand as a nipper and remember the old man dragging me out after they had scored only to pick me up and run back in when the roar went up for the pen. We watched from the wall that separates the south stand from the kop and watched Givens saunter up and pass it back to the keeper, dragged off again LOL.

On the way home my old man says he was done with the Blades and wasn't going to take me to watch 4th division football the following season. He did, home and away and he still talks about that season as one of the best ever! Once a Blade always a Blade.

 

[TBW57]

Loving that afro. There needs to be more big hair in football these days.

Kenny Mower was the man with the afro. He was the only challenger to George Berry for the biggest hair in the League.

 

[blade67]

kop end - definately

 

[Dkc]

I remember seeing grown men on the kop bawling

Remember, up until a few years previously we'd been an established top flight club, never before been in the 3rd tier let alone the 4th. We're probably still the biggest club to have played in the 4th tier - only Wolves might argue with that.

 

[Valleyblade]

This was my first ever match. It was the kop.

 

[Sean Thornton]

definitely the kop

I remember the crush barrier I was banging my head on shortly after it

Aaaah !

 

[super_pig]

Sorry to open this old wound. I need a debate settling please !

Did he miss at the Bramall Lane end (my recollection) or the Kop ?

Thanks

kop
i turned my back.. to this day i've never seen it

 

[Silent Blade]

Was the Kop. Had already asked my Dad to take me home after the Buckley goal went in and completely lost it after the miss.

Don Penn scored Walsall's goal, not Alan Buckley

 

[oldblade]

Don Penn scored Walsall's goal, not Alan Buckley

And that was most definitely at the Bramall Lane end, which means.............

 

[Silent Blade]

And that was most definitely at the Bramall Lane end, which means.............

That day I was playing in a 6 a side football tournament at Manchester thinking that the Blades would be OK! Looking at the photos in the papers in the following week I remember one of Walsall's keeper, Ron Green, saving the penalty and it looked that it was at the Kop End

 

[Snowman]

It was the Kop end. I ended up having an intimate relationship with a stanchion as we surged forward.

 

[oldblade]

That day I was playing in a 6 a side football tournament at Manchester thinking that the Blades would be OK! Looking at the photos in the papers in the following week I remember one of Walsall's keeper, Ron Green, saving the penalty and it looked that it was at the Kop End

It was. I was standing about half way up the Kop on the left side of the goal (if facing the pitch), and unless I was on LSD the alleged handball and subsequent penalty took place pretty much in front of me.

Worst I have ever felt at a football match. The day the football died. Six years previously we had almost qualified for European football. Now we were a basket case and the outlook seemed bleak. The side had ability, but we had no stomach for a fight, no pace, no vision, no belief, no clue.

But after a pretty uncertain start, the following season was one of the most enjoyable that we've had.