Happy 80th birthday Dave Bassett

[WorkingtonBlade]

Forgot who we were playing at home, think the old kop roof had been taken off.
Utd were defending when the ball broke to deano.
Suddenly a well endowed very good looking young lady escaped from the kop topless.
She ran down the touchline as deano broke away with the ball.
Deano had his eyes on her as he dribbled down the line. The young lady in question jumped on Sir Harry's lap and stuffed his head into two I shall say large melons.....

Happy birthday Sir Harry.
Always a blade in our hearts.

There was a picture in the Green ‘Un, as I remember it, of Deane running with the ball at his feet and the streaker running alongside. It was quite surreal. The picture doesn’t appear to be online - although there’s one of a similar incident when he was at Leeds.

Whatever happened to streakers? They seem to have died out. Or, put another way, what was the attraction of the concept in the first place?

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

What a legend Bassett is. My first full season going to watch the Blades every week was the promotion season out of the third division, all the goals, Deane and Agana, such great childhood memories.

 

[JohnDenver]

Ahh man, life goes too quickly. Seems like yesterday when Bassett took over. I was a youth and until then, in my lifetime, we were usually shite. Then he came along and took us on a right old ride. Great days, that season in div 3 when it was us, wolves and Vale fighting to the title was amazing.

Bassett made us think anything was possible year on year on year. We beat just about everyone under his leadership.

And whilst Wilder put lightning in a bottle, he also showed that it’s much harder to swim against the tide of money at the top these days. The sport isn’t better for it.

 

[Stevo71]

Happy birthday Harry, dragged us back from division 3 paupers to one of the Premier league founders

 

[Stevo71]

Harry Bassett lifted the club out of that mid eighties gloom, and went on to give us some wonderful memories.

Exactly mate all on a very tight budget too

 

[Valley Blade]

There's not many managers that transcend football rivalries, but I think Dave Bassett is one of them. He is loved by genuine football fans, more for the fact that he is simply a great bloke, than anything else. A true United legend.

 

[diode_blade]

That weds night at the sty, was at college jumped in the car to hear the 3rd goal go in. Whitehouse got the first

 

[Davalon]

 

[DifferentClass]

One of THE reasons (along with Alan Kelly) I became a Blade as a little un.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

There was a picture in the Green ‘Un, as I remember it, of Deane running with the ball at his feet and the streaker running alongside. It was quite surreal. The picture doesn’t appear to be online - although there’s one of a similar incident when he was at Leeds.

Whatever happened to streakers? They seem to have died out. Or, put another way, what was the attraction of the concept in the first place?

Pretty sure it was this match, and the headline in the Green 'Un was "Winning Streak!"