First Blade player you saw being sent off

[SouthEssexBlade]

If I may just add a sub-section to Mr Silent Blade OP...

Who was the first United player to be sent off?
Who was the first United player to be shown a Red Card?

Thank You Mr Silent Blade for allowing me this coitus interruptus.

Come again?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Wally Downes trying to disembowel a Huddersfield player with two feet in front of the South Stand.

From memory he didn't even have to be told to go, he was already heading towards the tunnel.

I'd been going regularly since 83 but can't remember any other incidents when I was there.

Didn't we have a right old tear up with Barnsley and Roger Wylde? Or was it just players getting carried off?

 

[finlaytheblade]

I seem to remember doc Pace and I think it was Cockerell of Grimsby Town both got sent off for fighting
about 1957-58.Over to you silent.

 

[Silent Blade]

Wally Downes trying to disembowel a Huddersfield player with two feet in front of the South Stand.

He got sent off in the 5-0 at L**ds in March 1988 and got sent off at home to Bradford in his first game after suspension. It wasnt against Huddersfield

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I think it was Mick Speight!

 

[Silent Blade]

I seem to remember doc Pace and I think it was Cockerell of Grimsby Town both got sent off for fighting
about 1957-58.Over to you silent.

Didnt realise Pace got sent off! According to the "bible" he was sent off along with Grimsby's Donovan on 27th December 1958. We won 2-1

 

[Silent Blade]

I think it was Mick Speight!

The 0-0 draw against Stoke in Feb 1974 as stated in my OP? He was also sent off at Brentford in Oct 1979

 

[Blade for Sale]

As I started attending in the mid-late eighties I'm going to say Paul Williamson, and I've got a fair to middling chance of being right

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

The 0-0 draw against Stoke in Feb 1974 as stated in my OP? He was also sent off at Brentford in Oct 1979

1974 it was then.

 

[finlaytheblade]

Didnt realise Pace got sent off! According to the "bible" he was sent off along with Grimsby's Donovan on 27th December 1958. We won 2-1

Got the other player wrong thought it was Cockerell, I was only ten so got it slightly wrong,think that was the last season teams played home and away to same team at xmas

 

[Silent Blade]

As I started attending in the mid-late eighties I'm going to say Paul Williamson, and I've got a fair to middling chance of being right

Paul Williams for elbowing Ian Cranson of Ipswich when Wally Downes was about to take a free kick. When Williams left the pitch, Downes then scored direct from the free kick! We won 4-1

 

[Silent Blade]

think that was the last season teams played home and away to same team at xmas

We played against Southampton twice in the Xmas week in the 1967-68 season

 

[JohnDenver]

It can't be the first I saw, but the earliest one I remember is Hartfield in the FA Cup against Man U. It stuck in the mind because he got a standing ovation for being sent off, whilst I wanted to kick him in the nuts for ruining our chances. We played really well that night and he forked it for everyone. One of those times when you wonder if you're the only person in a crowd of thousands who's not completely daft....

 

[super_pig]

Bloody hell, SB. And McCreadie and Bremner both played for Scotland so they were probably supposed to be mates!

so were Lee and Hunter apparently!

 

[Silent Blade]

so were Lee and Hunter apparently!

room mates when they were on international duty!

 

[finlaytheblade]

We played against Southampton twice in the Xmas week in the 1967-68 season

Think we played Grimsby Xmas day and boxing day that was what I meant feuds were quite common in those days playing against same opposition (player) grudges were still fresh and Players giving back what they had received previous day

 

[northsomersetblade]

It's amazing how difficult it used to be to get sent off. It was so rare that it was something to be treasured, whereas now you get players despatched for being too happy when they've scored, like Wimbledon suffered last weekend.

I recall going to a match between Notts County and Brighton where Michael Robinson had a fight with one of the County players. The Notts' manager Howard Wilkinson ran on to the field to sort it out so Robinson smacked him as well, and he still only got a telling off from the ref!

Boyish high spirits, best place to let them off is the sports field

 

[Silent Blade]

Think we played Grimsby Xmas day and boxing day that was what I meant feuds were quite common in those days playing against same opposition (player) grudges were still fresh and Players giving back what they had received previous day

Just checked. Yes, Xmas Day at Grimsby. Won 2-1 too

 

[VLYDONIMIR]

sent off at home to Bradford in his first game after suspension.

Didn't he later admit that he tried to maim Mick Kennedy and was sent off for mistaken identity of an opponent?

 

[VLYDONIMIR]

Do we have any substitute players sent off within the first five/ten/fifteen minutes of them entering the match?

 

[Silent Blade]

Didn't he later admit that he tried to maim Mick Kennedy and was sent off for mistaken identity of an opponent?

Yes he thought Karl Goddard was Mick Kennedy who was a Pompey player in those infamous Wimbledon v Portsmouth matches

 

[northsomersetblade]

I remember watching "goals" in the YTV Calendar in the early 1990s and there was a clipping of Steve Thompson (playing for Lincoln) clattering an opponent and then headbutting him when he got up. Dont think the ref booked him!

There were no bookings in the brutal L**ds v Chelsea FA Cup replay in 1970. Many would have been sent off nowadays and how did the ref fail to spot Eddie McCreadie's kung-fu on Bremner's head in the penalty area as seen in the below video?

Ouch. Should have had about 5 reds for that, even back then. Seriously, there was real intent to cause injury there

 

[Silent Blade]

Do we have any substitute players sent off within the first five/ten/fifteen minutes of them entering the match?

Took Keith Gillespie a minute or two before getting sent off at Reading in 2006/07 season. Remember the Warnock and Downes clash just afterwards?

 

[VLYDONIMIR]

Took Keith Gillespie a minute or two before getting sent off at Reading in 2006/07 season. Remember the Warnock and Downes clash just afterwards?

Remember the Warnock/Downes 'handbags' ... totally forgot about Gillespie.

 

[Silent Blade]

Took Keith Gillespie a minute or two before getting sent off at Reading in 2006/07 season. Remember the Warnock and Downes clash just afterwards?

Watch from 3 mins 15 secs

 

[Jonboy60]

Can't remember the first I saw, but started watching late 60s, and by the early 70s Trevor hockey must have been my first.

 

[UnitedBlade]

Can't remember the first I saw, but started watching late 60s, and by the early 70s Trevor hockey must have been my first.

Apparently Trevor was the first Welsh International to be sent off.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

He got sent off in the 5-0 at L**ds in March 1988 and got sent off at home to Bradford in his first game after suspension. It wasnt against Huddersfield

Duly corrected. The Bradford game must have been similarly depressing

 

[LoughboroBlade]

For me, pretty certain it was Adrian Littlejohn in the action-packed 2-2 draw vs Burnley in the FA Cup 3rd round at the Lane. Adrian Heath also sent off for Burnley.

 

[Revolution]

Paul Williams for elbowing Ian Cranson of Ipswich when Wally Downes was about to take a free kick. When Williams left the pitch, Downes then scored direct from the free kick! We won 4-1

Williams broke Tony Humes' nose, not Cransons.

My first was Peter Beagrie in the Portsmouth game where 4 went in 1986-7. It was for fighting and the Pompey player was also dismissed - I think Billy Gilbert.

I had been going since 1978 and had been a regular since 1982 and Beagrie was the first United player sent off in a home game in that time. The previous one was, I think, Eddie Colquhoun in 1974. Different times.