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LSF said:
Used to go 'Down Broadway' in late 60's, a Stringfellow creation. Once saw Jethro Tull there too when they had a progressive night, cost ten Bob! :) Soul nights were better though, full of minge :)
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But the music wasn't as good, eh LSF?;)
 
LSF said:
Aye, had some good nights in t'Daisy too. Shit lager though, always made me badly :)
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Id drink owt in them days ah even lager!

First drink in town Harp Lager Marples 1972
 
Dr Richard Newland, top trainer (based in Worcestershire) of horses over the jumps (including this year's Grand National winner, Pineau De Re), is a big Unitedite.

He was featured in a recent Racing Post article: "Among the first pictures you see on the walls of his comfortable but unostentatious house is a watercolour of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and a montage of Sheffield United heroes past. 'I was brought up in Sheffield from the age of three to 12,' he says. 'Dad was professor of engineering at Sheffield University and then he moved to Cambridge."

He was at Wembley in April, the weekend following his National triumph.

His strike rate - the percentage of winners to runners - is phenomenal.
 
Newbury Blade said:
Hugo Young (late distinguished political columnist of the Guardian).
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Distinguished and brilliant.

"Allegiance, with victory as its quest, was the habit that school instilled in me: gangs, cliques, houses, teams, Sheffield United Football Club, the Yorkshire County Cricket Club and all who played in it. There had to be something to support, and on the international plane Britain, or England, had to win."
 
Saw Harry Gration and his son at the Oval a couple of years back, asked him if he was Blade - he's not, he's York. He didn't mention either way who his lad supported. Doubt if he was overly impressed, or maybe he was (???), when he had a dozen Sheffield lads bellowing "one Harry Gration" at the top of their lungs as he went on his way!
 



Flatulent_Bob said:
Is he? That's good to know, I always thought he was a bit of a cunt.

In regards to Palin, I can't knock him for his stance as I always look for the results of both Sheffield teams on matchday.
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Yep - I look for their results even if we are not playing.


........ Just so I can take some joy out of yet another defeat for our porky antagonists :D
 
SUFC Handsworth said:
Saw Harry Gration and his son at the Oval a couple of years back, asked him if he was Blade - he's not, he's York. He didn't mention either way who his lad supported. Doubt if he was overly impressed, or maybe he was (???), when he had a dozen Sheffield lads bellowing "one Harry Gration" at the top of their lungs as he went on his way!
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He mentioned at the 125 evening that the Blades are very much his second team.

Anyone remember that he chose to go to the Wembley Semi in 1993 on a Blades supporters coach?
 
Kenilworth said:
Yep - I look for their results even if we are not playing.


........ Just so I can take some joy out of yet another defeat for our porky antagonists :D
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Exactly, although I did draw the line at entering them as a "favourite team" in the Sky sports centre app. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I have to look it up manually.
 
Flatulent_Bob said:
Cheers Toby, what about some policies this year rather than telling us what the last lot didn't do? ;)
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Wide of the mark, but nice try. I think you should read back over a few of my old posts - fair to say I'm a very lapsed socialist! :)

UTB
 
Darren said:
He famously says as a footnote in one of his diaries to an entry where he went to the Chelsea v United game with Bill Oddie on 1/9/73 that he supports both Sheffield teams - which in Sheffield is viewed as a crime punished by disembowellment - but that his primary loyalty is to United.
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You'd like to think that Palin had a good time at that match:



"Our main weapon, Bill, is Currie. Currie and Woodward..."

"Our two main weapons are Currie, Woodward and an almost fanatical devotion..."

"Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as Currie, Woodward..."
 



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