FA Cup

[GVBlade]

It was. Sickening sound.

I was at that game at Mansfield, I remember that. Also, I think Tony Kenworthy was playing for Mansfield, and I remember thinking that it was weird seeing him play against us.

 

[Kenilworth]

Looked to the head to head record - it must have been the 1-1 draw in November 1988. I might have forgotten the score but I really do remember the cold.️

The 1-0 at Field Mill will have been a league game. Packed stands meant I was dry from the shoulders down but snow capped above that.
I think Bob Booker won a pen after a typical rangey run, with Peter Duffield notching from the spot.
No doubt Silent Blade can verify.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

They might be too worried about falling off the edge of the world if they went past J30 of the M1.
All trying to to get to Sheffield reading their parchment maps that has "Here Be Monsters" written on them.

I dunno, I know loads of people from that part of the world, they definitely know where Meadowhall is….

 

[Hanauer]

People go on about the lack of interest in the FA Cup, but what they actually mean is that there's not much interest for our club like ours in rounds 3 and 4. That's always been the case in my 30 years of attending games.

Things get exciting in the 5th round. More exciting than a standard league game in my opinion. That's backed up by the fact that our last two 5th round games at Bramall Lane had attendances in the high 20ks, and the atmosphere was far superior to anything I've heard at a home league game for a good 15-20 years (except maybe the promotion clinchers).

The quarter finals are a step up from that (and have served up some of the best memories in my life as a Blade). Beyond that is where dreams start to come true (for other teams at least).

I'd love a cup run.

"and the atmosphere was far superior to anything I've heard at a home league game for a good 15-20 years (except maybe the promotion clinchers)."
FFS what are you on? Talking absolute garbage?

 

[Hanauer]

I remember a cold rainy night there not sure on the year but mid eighties. We were on the side next to their Kop. They were full of beans all the way through the match and I distinctly recall them singing ‘you’ll get a boot wrapped round your head, you’ll get a boot wrapped round your head’ to that tune that all the birds sit on the floor and stupidly tap each side. Our lot found this highly amusing replying ‘you’ll get a trainer wrapped round your head, you’ll get a trainer wrapped round your head’. The casual scene was well under way for us - they were still fully in trenched in the Skinhead era. It pissed it down all night and we all got soaked. On the way out they tried to keep us all in so everyone was surging and singing ‘ee i, ee, i, o, ee i ee i o ‘ to the coppers and of course being a 14 year old I thought this was loads of fun until I got punched straight in the nose by a copper - fuckin twat! I had to tell my mum I had slipped over in the rain.

Remember that game.

 

[Cheeky Blade]

There’s nowt quite like a good cup run with a nice semi to finish…even if a little of the magic has gone from the competition.

 

[FriethBlade]

There’s nowt quite like a good cup run with a nice semi to finish…even if a little of the magic has gone from the competition.

Problem with the semis now is it costs a fortune for the day out at Wembley only to be battered by a top PL team.

I much preferred the 'experience' at the two at Old Trafford

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Coming from Chezzy, they used to call the game against Mansfield…The coal-field Classico

 

[Working Class Hero]

"and the atmosphere was far superior to anything I've heard at a home league game for a good 15-20 years (except maybe the promotion clinchers)."
FFS what are you on? Talking absolute garbage?

Eh, why? Those games were brilliant atmospheres. Bramall Lane in the league has been like a library for a long time.

 

[Hanauer]

Eh, why? Those games were brilliant atmospheres. Bramall Lane in the league has been like a library for a long time.

15 20 years? You can't have been to many games, or are you mistaking it for The Sty. Even going back to the play off semi and games before that the atmosphere was electric and for dozens more. You obviously missed the promotion game against Ipswich too. Listen to the atmosphere on the Stoke blog from the Lane End.

 

[Silent Blade]

That wasn't Tracey's debut - he played in whatever the lower division cup was called then, and he made his league debut in the weird Huddersfield game where we won 5-1 despite being largely outplayed, but yes, that's when he took the shirt for keeps.

My memory of that game is sketchy but I think without checking that Agana gave us the lead and they came from behind to win. We had a little blip as we had been indifferent in drawing v Brentford the previous Saturday (the first game in Sheffield after the Hillsborough disaster), and drew at Fulham in a close game the following Saturday, but then we squeaked past Aldershot on May Day and hammered Swansea the Saturday after, setting up the draw at Wolves as the promotion clinching point.

Benstead returned to the team after his suspension and kept his place until after the 2-2 home draw against Brentford. I was told that Bassett dropped Benstead because he had a big argument with Paul Stancliffe in the changing room after the Brentford match.

 

[Working Class Hero]

15 20 years? You can't have been to many games, or are you mistaking it for The Sty. Even going back to the play off semi and games before that the atmosphere was electric and for dozens more. You obviously missed the promotion game against Ipswich too. Listen to the atmosphere on the Stoke blog from the Lane End.

I've probably missed one game per season in that time, if that.

Play offs aren't league games, and I literally said except the promotion games. To be fair there's probably a handful more, such as the derbies.

I don't know which games you're referring to before the play off semi final, but I think you'll have a hard time convincing people the atmosphere was better than those Forest and Spurs games at any point last season.

 

[Geordie Blade]

I was at that game at Mansfield, I remember that. Also, I think Tony Kenworthy was playing for Mansfield, and I remember thinking that it was weird seeing him play against us.

Kenworthy scored a belting own goal in the replay at BDTBL.

 

[Hanauer]

I've probably missed one game per season in that time, if that.

Play offs aren't league games, and I literally said except the promotion games. To be fair there's probably a handful more, such as the derbies.

I don't know which games you're referring to before the play off semi final, but I think you'll have a hard time convincing people the atmosphere was better than those Forest and Spurs games at any point last season.

Forest first win in Prem under Harry Bassett, unbelievable noise , Spurs hammering. Just a couple of the teams you mentioned. Still your pig buddies will be picking and loving your posts. Pitsmoor Pillock probably has it copied for for his next Bolloxblog.

 

[Working Class Hero]

Forest first win in Prem under Harry Bassett, unbelievable noise , Spurs hammering. Just a couple of the teams you mentioned. Still your pig buddies will be picking and loving your posts. Pitsmoor Pillock probably has it copied for for his next Bolloxblog.

You've completely lost me now mate. I don't even know what you're getting angry about. My entire point was about how the FA Cup has produced some brilliant atmospheres at Bramall Lane.

 

[radio]

While we wait for the TV companies to decide which games and what day / time they will be played , I think it relatively safe to assume Blades v Stags will not make it , although our neighbours v Brentford may be an option,, if not selected and therefore both Sheffield clubs at home the decision to be made is will they both be allowed to play Saturday afternoon , I suppose the decision will be made on the expected size of the away following, difficult to guess how many Keith Alexander & Jack Lester will bring with them up the M1 but I expect Mansfield will fill top & bottom tier of BL ,, If it does come down to one of the ties being altered it might be worth noting the our ladies team are scheduled to play Crystal Palace on the Sunday at BDTBL

 

[Hanauer]

Nothing personal, it's just ridiculous comments like "and the atmosphere was far superior to anything I've heard at a home league game for a good 15-20 years" that piss me off. Could have come from The Pitsmoor Pillock. Home fans everywhere don't get behind their teams like the old days. Going to the away games it's only the Blades fans that generate an atmosphere.

 

[JOEYDEE]

can remember mansfield turning us over 2 - 1 late 60s i think in 3rd round silent will correct me if im wrong big shock that day thousands if blades fans there that day

Remarkable crowd of 17,000 that day !
What's Mansfields capacity now ?
About 8000 or so at a guess.

 

[Silent Blade]

Remarkable crowd of 17,000 that day !
What's Mansfields capacity now ?
About 8000 or so at a guess.

Post in thread '1968-69 (55 years ago) match reports and photos'

Jan 4, 2024

4/1/1969

FA Cup 3rd round

Mansfield 2 (Roberts 2) Blades 1 (Tudor)

A few years later my dad was telling me about when 3rd division Mansfield knocked us out of the FA Cup, it was the only match I remember my dad telling me out of the matches during the 1968-69 season. I am not sure if he was at the match but I dont think he went to many games that season.

• Silent Blade

 

[pudseyblade]

Neither us (obviously) or the pigs (reasonable chance) selected for TV so looks like we'll be back to the coin toss for Sat or Sun

 

[Mercedes]

Kenworthy scored a belting own goal in the replay at BDTBL.

My recollection of the Kenworthy own goal was that he attempted to block a cross the ball cannoned off his body And few in at least he put his body on the line as he always did not like today’s primadonnas give me Kenworthy any day of the week today’s players could maybe learn the art of defending from someone like him who put his body on the line every game

 

[Super Furry Blades]

Post in thread '1968-69 (55 years ago) match reports and photos'

Jan 4, 2024

4/1/1969

FA Cup 3rd round

Mansfield 2 (Roberts 2) Blades 1 (Tudor)

A few years later my dad was telling me about when 3rd division Mansfield knocked us out of the FA Cup, it was the only match I remember my dad telling me out of the matches during the 1968-69 season. I am not sure if he was at the match but I dont think he went to many games that season.

• Silent Blade

Im 54
Been going since 81 ...
Ive never been to a game with my Dad ...
Sad really I used to beg him to take me to football but he never did
He died in 2016 ....
Older mate took me when I was 10 ....
..

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[LBA_Blade]

Beat me too it lol

 

[LBA_Blade]

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Discovery+ We have hit the prime time now !

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Wonder if that means red button on tnt.

 

[bornablade]

Discover how a big city club fails to win the FA Cup in over 100 years.

 

[Valleyblade]

No we won 2-1 at home in league cup in 2014 when Clough was our manager. Marc Mcnulty and Andy Butler scored their first goals for the club. Butler was never to make a league appearance for us as he was bombed out a month later on loan to Walsall. Clough never did like centre backs as we discovered to our cost in the second leg semi final play off defeat to Swindon away at the end of the season.

When this tie was revealed, I immediately thought about what kind of reception cloughy jnr should get at the lane.

On the one hand, he gave us a really fun cup run, and probably our best ever fist of it in the concrete theatre of nightmares.

On the other, leaving us without a single senior centre back for an entire season was utter dereliction of duty. Sacked for that alone.

Fucking McEveley.

 

[Harry's Game]

When this tie was revealed, I immediately thought about what kind of reception cloughy jnr should get at the lane.

On the one hand, he gave us a really fun cup run, and probably our best ever fist of it in the concrete theatre of nightmares.

On the other, leaving us without a single senior centre back for an entire season was utter dereliction of duty. Sacked for that alone.

Fucking McEveley.

The League is the bread and butter and what in the modern age you are judged on, the cup runs were fun but the League..

..shambles of a summer transfer window (only rivalled by the 2025 one)
..negative tactics in League games.. “don’t lose the point you start with”
..weird obsession with Chasing certain names, O’Grady, Brayford, leaving us with no options when the deals couldn’t be done.
..Signing Higdon and making him captain
..bursting the budget and leaving us in a soft embargo
..suggesting we get rid of the Academy to save money..

Quite honestly I was delighted when he was sacked.. yes we still had the season of doofus Adkins to endure but another season or two of Clough would have finished us off.

 

[Valleyblade]

The League is the bread and butter and what in the modern age you are judged on, the cup runs were fun but the League..

..shambles of a summer transfer window (only rivalled by the 2025 one)
..negative tactics in League games.. “don’t lose the point you start with”
..weird obsession with Chasing certain names, O’Grady, Brayford, leaving us with no options when the deals couldn’t be done.
..Signing Higdon and making him captain
..bursting the budget and leaving us in a soft embargo
..suggesting we get rid of the Academy to save money..

Quite honestly I was delighted when he was sacked.. yes we still had the season of doofus Adkins to endure but another season or two of Clough would have finished us off.

Better than David Weir, is the kindest way to put it, I suppose.

I'd like a cup run this year though, please, United. The cup can really be fun, and it's not really looking realistic that the bread and butter will be too tasty.