forums from days gone by.

[ZoneManWilf]

I missed the Fulham Monty but still have the ticket to this day (where's Musical?).

There quite a long video of it knocking around youtube. A lot of fresh faced youngsters compared to how we all look now

So many good days back then. The Fulham Monty was the epitome of following United (story recounted in Greenwich's book I think), a brilliant day out, gallons of ale, tons of laughs with a great bunch of mates, loads of chanting, the met meeting us off the boat on horseback as if we were a bunch of troublemakers, meeting Bob Booker and getting my shirt signed, someone offering him to buy him a pie.
It hammered it down, we got soaked on the open terrace and United lost 4-0.

 

[sitwell]

The London Blades were a great set of lads ,I managed to get a few tickets for the play off final at Cardiff for them ,soz ,and in return we had a day out at Crystal Palace to see the Sex Pistols which was a great experience.

 

[BarcaBlade]

Ay up Barca. Still in Prague then?

Yep - not going anywhere fast at this stage.

In the tone of academy awards ceremonies or book acknowledgements, there should probably be a "all those I haven't mentioned" as there was also the meet up at Clapham (?) before Palace/Wimbledon Selhurst double-header, an evening in the bar by Notre Dame with Paris Blade and on and on...

 

[Rodley]

I used to 'lurk' on BladesUnited until April 1st 2001 when I decided to register and as I was that ecstatic with the 1-2 Hillsborough triumph that I thought I would honour the hero of hillsborough with the username 'Deadly D'Jaffo'. I was 15 at the time and listened to a lot of So Solid Crew which might explain 'Deadly'.

I really enjoyed BU and have had the pleasure of meeting some good people from the forums over the years. To summarise;

-Got annoyed with Puppet & subscribed him to loads of porn
-Threatened Webbo
-Sold a telly to BrownieBlade
-Raul tried grooming me
-Rented an apartment from (the very lovely) SaneBlade & HuddersfieldBlade
-Made friends with AlienBlade
-Been a long time friend of Robbie_Loving
-Got the GCB ringtone for my Nokia 3210

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Intake Blade’s Team of the Week is probably the earliest recurrent thread from the early messageboards that I used to look out for (is INTAKE BLADE the same poster?).

My favourite early recurrent argument was puppet ’s (I think) at the fact Aidan Davison wasn’t our first choice keeper, which seemed at the time a very thinly-veiled excuse to attack a certain new manager at the time

 

[INTAKE BLADE]

Intake Blade’s Team of the Week is probably the earliest recurrent thread from the early messageboards that I used to look out for (is INTAKE BLADE the same poster?).

My favourite early recurrent argument was puppet ’s (I think) at the fact Aidan Davison wasn’t our first choice keeper, which seemed at the time a very thinly-veiled excuse to attack a certain new manager at the time

Sorry lb it’s not this Intake Blade. Felt important for a second there

 

[Trigger Blade]

LoughboroBlade, do you remember the Predictor, which felt like cutting edge technology at the time, but which was probably just a spreadsheet I e-mailed you a copy, it was probably a distraction from your GCSEs....

....which is the really frightening aspect of this nostalgic thread, it’s virtually a generation ago since I got involved with SUISA on dial up.

Quick edit, I think it was Crouchy ’s invention?

 

[Maidenhead]

To add to this I was always Maidenhead from SUISA, vp, bu etc and I have gone all misty eyed reading the London Blade memories on here.

The late 90's early 2000's saw some great London Blades away days and I have a whole bunch of people that I met down there that I still call mates even though we're now spread far and wide.

I moved from Maidenhead in 2004 but I still love it when I bump into any of them anywhere.

They're all a big part of my extended Blades family and played a huge part in the raising of my son.

We had some great times.

For me it's what football is all about and that is why you rarely see me get mardy, depressed or angry when things aren't going well for United either on or off the pitch

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Me and Mrs Hamburg were in London on business and I got in touch with the London Blades, presumably through VP, and we met up for a drink at the Harp (?) just off Trafalgar Square and then a group of them took us on a night around the pubs and to a club. Great night and fabulous hospitality. However I can't remember the names of everyone I met, just (blurred) memories of faces - I remember Soho, who sort of took charge, where is he these days? Musical, maybe, and was that a young WalthamstowBlade ?
Oh, and where is Lords?

 

[South London Blade]

Me and Mrs Hamburg were in London on business and I got in touch with the London Blades, presumably through VP, and we met up for a drink at the Harp (?) just off Trafalgar Square and then a group of them took us on a night around the pubs and to a club. Great night and fabulous hospitality. However I can't remember the names of everyone I met, just (blurred) memories of faces - I remember Soho, who sort of took charge, where is he these days? Musical, maybe, and was that a young WalthamstowBlade ?
Oh, and where is Lords?

All the people you mentioned have emigrated to greener pastures:

Musical: NZ
Lords: Thailand
Walthy: Murica
Soho: Donny

 

[Hamburg Blade]

All the people you mentioned have emigrated to greener pastures:

Musical: NZ
Lords: Thailand
Walthy: Murica
Soho: Donny

Yeah, Lords was already in Thailand the last time I saw him, waxing lyrical over a lardy pie swimming in gravy in The Pump.
So that was a different Walthy then. I hope I was not the common factor in everyone leaving the country

 

[Maidenhead]

All the people you mentioned have emigrated to greener pastures:

Musical: NZ
Lords: Thailand
Walthy: Murica
Soho: Donny

I still meet up with Soho before home games and we do a good number of away trips together.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

I still meet up with Soho before home games and we do a good number of away trips together.

Say hi from me

 

[JJ Sefton]

Me and Mrs Hamburg were in London on business and I got in touch with the London Blades, presumably through VP, and we met up for a drink at the Harp (?) just off Trafalgar Square and then a group of them took us on a night around the pubs and to a club. Great night and fabulous hospitality. However I can't remember the names of everyone I met, just (blurred) memories of faces - I remember Soho, who sort of took charge, where is he these days? Musical, maybe, and was that a young WalthamstowBlade ?
Oh, and where is Lords?

Do you remember when it was?

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Do you remember when it was?

Now you're asking. Early 2000s. Possibly 2003.

 

[South Bucks]

I remember around 1995 ish before the wheel and the web there was an email only forum whereby any blade could send an email message to this mystery computer to join it and then anytime after if anyone sent it a message it would forward it on to every one else on its list.

Worked quite well for a while and introduced me to a fair few blades around the world but eventually it just generated too many messages.

Before that some of the exiles like me had adverts in the programme and flashing blade and we just phoned or emailed each other.

 

[HuddersfieldBlade]

Who went on the viewpoints match sponsorship?

 

[Hamburg Blade]

I remember around 1995 ish before the wheel and the web there was an email only forum whereby any blade could send an email message to this mystery computer to join it and then anytime after if anyone sent it a message it would forward it on to every one else on its list.

Worked quite well for a while and introduced me to a fair few blades around the world but eventually it just generated too many messages.

Before that some of the exiles like me had adverts in the programme and flashing blade and we just phoned or emailed each other.

The email list was great and in fact still exists - I'm still registered to it - although it is sadly pretty much dead as a dodo. Lampiao ran it.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Wasn't a forum in the strictest sense, but I was on the BBC 606 thing for quite a bit. I seem to remember Roberto was on there, first time I heard bonky madness, and I'm sure a few from here were posters.

 

[Selly]

The email list was great and in fact still exists - I'm still registered to it - although it is sadly pretty much dead as a dodo. Lampiao ran it.

Wasn't the joining instructions that you had to send a message containing

SUBSCRIBE BLADES FIRSTNAME LASTNAME

to [email protected]

If I've remembered that correctly, and yet continually forget what my wife tells me that's a somewhat damning inditement.

Met a few off there. Charl, Steve the Canadian Blade and others whose names escape me.

Lietrally my first foray into the internet when I moved to Uni. Remember reading about Bassett leaving us via one of those e-mailed - leaving me in a genuine "well what now?" bewilderment as he'd been our manager for well over a 3rd of my life at the time!!!

 

[LoughboroBlade]

LoughboroBlade, do you remember the Predictor, which felt like cutting edge technology at the time, but which was probably just a spreadsheet I e-mailed you a copy, it was probably a distraction from your GCSEs....

....which is the really frightening aspect of this nostalgic thread, it’s virtually a generation ago since I got involved with SUISA on dial up.

Quick edit, I think it was Crouchy ’s invention?

Blimey, that’s testing the limits of my memory but yes I can just about remember that (and you’d be right on the timing). We were on basic tech back then...

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Wasn't the joining instructions that you had to send a message containing

SUBSCRIBE BLADES FIRSTNAME LASTNAME

to [email protected]

If I've remembered that correctly, and yet continually forget what my wife tells me that's a somewhat damning inditement.

Met a few off there. Charl, Steve the Canadian Blade and others whose names escape me.

Lietrally my first foray into the internet when I moved to Uni. Remember reading about Bassett leaving us via one of those e-mailed - leaving me in a genuine "well what now?" bewilderment as he'd been our manager for well over a 3rd of my life at the time!!!

Yes, we had some great Christmas parties. Kylie always came.

 

[ChrisBlade]

Just got to this thread many, many years late. The fun to be had in reminiscing about old boards, drunken memories, faces to names and changing aliases has already been suitably extolled.

What is conspicuous by its absence is an ode to a certain type of poster that briefly appears, completely takes over the board with their pervasive personality and multiple posts about every detail of their life, only to then disappear and never be seen again for many years (if ever).

One notable such example would have been DKeown, but I suppose marrying Big Mart would explain the subsequent crash and burn to her sudden meteoric appearance on these boards...

Two further blasts from the past would be Gloucester's finest, Shiny Blade, who was a name you couldn't miss for many a month before suddenly falling off the face of the earth. And potentially the biggest crack-pot of them all, Hitchin Blade who had a theory for just about everything but was never seen to get anything undeniably correct.

I also raise a glass to these forgotten stars, the one hit wonders and over-detailers of cyberspace...

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Hitchin, I remember him, mentioned me in his opening post on VP, amongst several others, and then trolled relentlessly. Had really wierd views on things, I seem to remember he linked all coincidences into some fatalistic higher meaning, or something. I think he was mentally ill.
Good job everyone on this board's sane as a sane person on anti-insanity medication.

 

[Bert]

Hitchin, I remember him, mentioned me in his opening post on VP, amongst several others, and then trolled relentlessly. Had really wierd views on things, I seem to remember he linked all coincidences into some fatalistic higher meaning, or something. I think he was mentally ill.
Good job everyone on this board's sane as a sane person on anti-insanity medication.

Didn't he then become Swiss Army Knife Blade, or as Bert preferred to refer to him, Swiss Barmy Knife?

 

[Bert]

Then there was Horbury Common Bladesman who claimed to be a teacher but couldn't spell.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Didn't he then become Swiss Army Knife Blade, or as Bert preferred to refer to him, Swiss Barmy Knife?

I don't know about that. (Said in a Forrest Gump voice). I seem to remember he was a Warnock groupie, when Warnock left, so did he. I could've invented that, though.

Does anyone know what happened to Justoutsidestoke Blade? Lovely bloke, met him and Mrs JOSB in Hamburg.

 

[Bert]

I don't know about that. (Said in a Forrest Gump voice). I seem to remember he was a Warnock groupie, when Warnock left, so did he. I could've invented that, though.

Does anyone know what happened to Justoutsidestoke Blade? Lovely bloke, met him and Mrs JOSB in Hamburg.

Bert knows but ask Trigger Blade

 

[Silent Blade]

Warnock's Box Blade!

Memries of his spelling! But he did spell Leicester right!

 

[bricktop]

Didn't he then become Swiss Army Knife Blade, or as Bert preferred to refer to him, Swiss Barmy Knife?

Then there was Horbury Common Bladesman who claimed to be a teacher but couldn't spell.

Swiss Barmy Knife certainly wasn’t playing with a full deck. After he finally lost the plot on Unitedite he crossed the line and moved to Owlstalk. He had a huge chip on his shoulder about me as in his book I wasn’t a proper railwayman because I never worked for British Rail, and he used to constantly come out with rambling and boring stuff about his theories, Switzerland, the stock market and non league football in Sussex. I also met him once and I don’t think personal hygiene was a priority of his.......

Horbury Common Bladesman is another proud memener of the alumni of Ecclesfield School. Known him 30 years, he is a science teacher in Doncaster nowadays, I don’t see him very often nowadays, and he is married with kids now. I’m fact it was LS26BLADE and his wife who set him up with his wife a few years ago now.