How long have you been watching United

[bricktop]

Just interested in how long different people on here have been following United, or taken an active interest in them, to see how differently people see them depending on how long they have been following the Blades and to see if there is any link between time spent watching United and what sort of viewpoint people have.

I first started at the tender age of 5 back in 1982, so i've racked up 28 years of boom and mainly bust, but we are two division higher now than we was when i went to my first game, so that can very loosely be classed as progress

 

[Sensiblade]

I started going with friends or on my own in 88.
I was 12 at the time and loved it from the first minute I stepped in the ground.

 

[Guesty]

Saw my first match aged 5 at the end of the 1993 season, and became a season ticket holder the following season.

 

[Linz]

First match in 1995, first season ticket in 1999 planting me firmly within the mediocrity period!

 

[DP8789]

mediocrity - first game was friendly v benfica

 

[diplomat]

First game was 4th division season. Caught a few in the wilderness years. Started going "properly" during Bassetts 3rd division promotion season. The Newcastle cup game, my first on the Kop, got me hooked. At this stage I was old enough to go on my own or with friends (age 12 or 13).

 

[BuryStEdmundsBlade]

First match 1996, first season ticket 2000!

 

[Longtimesupporter]

First game (grandad trying to outdo Wed supp father) was 1947.

 

[beechblade]

My first match was sometime around 89-90 but I was only a young lad around the 5 or 6 mark.

 

[travellingblade]

Jimmy Hagan's testimonial was my first match, circa 1958???

 

[FURPHY]

First game at the Lane in 1948 at the age of 6. My dad took my pal and I to the Lane for home games and being naive I agreed to go along to the sty with my pal and his father for their home games and did so for several years. When I was old enough to be selective I kicked the pigs into touch.
In those early days youngsters were passed over the heads of older supporters to the front.

 

[scrap]

1952 my grandfather took me,that was the start.

 

[Linz]

1952 my grandfather took me,that was the start.

The beginning of the end

I think this thread goes to prove that we haven't half seen some shite between us over the years!

 

[Silent Blade]

My dad said my first match was against Blackpool in the mid 1960s. I did go to a few games in the late 1960s. became a Lane regular since the Preston game in January 1970 but was a part-timer for the most of 1980s

 

[Wards]

My first game was Blades v Villa in the 90/91 season, which we won 2-1.

Grew up and lived in Chesterfield, my old man used to be a Town regular in his youth (but a Utd fan when he could afford it), but vowed never to take me to watch them as they were bloody awful at the time. Glad with the choice he made

 

[broomhillblade]

1948. My dad took me to a reserve match on 25 September to see how I would react. The reserves used to get crowds of several thousand in those days. I must have passed with flying colours because two weeks later I was taken to see the first team v Manchester City (9th October 1948). I was a few weeks short of my 9th birthday. We lost.

 

[Ollessendro]

First game was Norwich at home at 1993. Got stuffed and Jeremy Goss struck a cracker to win it.

Those where the days. Pies were decent, John Street stand had terraces, no hotels or foreign clubs and just 2 people in that shitty ticket office.

 

[Ballinpigpubs13]

First saw the blades in 1979 and sat on John street. As a kid you could sneek in where the ambulances used to be and sit on the old scoreboard unchallenged. When I say the old scoreboard, the one some geezer used to change by hand with a,b,c,d,e etc etc on.

 

[raul]

First visit 1978. First visit as a Blade 1995.

Interestingly, 19 posts in and not one vote for Prem/present day, so how do we arrive at the conclusion the decline in ST sales is all down to "the glory supporters who want it now"?

 

[JohnDenver]

Interestingly, 19 posts in and not one vote for Prem/present day, so how do we arrive at the conclusion the decline in ST sales is all down to "the glory supporters who want it now"?

They don't log in anymore.

 

[happyhippy]

First match January 1978. Can't remember a thing, aside from my feet getting warmer at half-time ....

 

[Russ]

First saw the blades in 1979 and sat on John street. As a kid you could sneek in where the ambulances used to be and sit on the old scoreboard unchallenged. When I say the old scoreboard, the one some geezer used to change by hand with a,b,c,d,e etc etc on.

Bring back the old scoreboard! A; 1-0 !!!!

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1st game - SUFC 3 CHARLTON 2 (1980)
2nd game - WALSALL

kept going...!

 

[Tizertrance]

First game was a 1-1 draw at home to Notts County in 88 or 89, can't remember a thing about it but thenagain I can't really remember much before my early 20's so what chance do I have of when I was 4/5

 

[beightonblade]

I've never been......whats it like ?

Just kiddin ....i've put swinging sixties but i went before that but only a couple of times.

I saw the best years in the early 70's....and guess what ? ............... Blades were still fookin moaning then !
If only we could have that team back now........................Tony Tony Currie
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[Zlatan]

Mediocrity.

 

[mickle-blade]

1961 ( I think) may be a bit earlier. Hodgkinson Coldwell Graham Shaw Richardson Joe Shaw Summers (Still probably the best defence I have seen.) Ronnie Simpson and The Doc !!
I remember one night against Burnley when the railing at the bottom of the Kop collapsed. We lost 1-0. Ray Pointer scored. Anybody remember the year ?
We used to go as little kids and get behind the famous 'white wall' on the Kop next to John Street.
Remember skipping school to watch us training indoors inside the old Pavillion. Cup Quarter final v Norwich 60,000 crowd.
Lots of good memories and a lot of not so good ones as well.
Not much changes really when you are a Blade

 

[shreds1975]

First match I have a programme for that I went to was v Grimsby (Anglo Scottish Cup - 1979), I was 4. But talking to my dad I went to matches before then.

My dad worked Saturdays so my grandparents took me to Saturday games and I was at the Walsall game that saw us relegated. My Grandad was really upset afterwards, getting into arguments with younger Blades fans in the Working Mens Club that night. He thought they didn't seem to care that we had gone down, whilst he was gutted as he never thought he would see the day we would be in the bottom division. Within a week he had a massive heart attack and passed away.

With my Dad working Saturdays and my Nan not up to taking me on her own, I went to a few midweek games through the early 80's and one or two Saturday games with mates (and their older brothers) until getting a season ticket in the 3rd Division Promotion season when my Dad switched to half day Saturday. It was a good time to switch (!) and I have had a season ticket ever since.

 

[Fiery Blade]

1961 ( I think) may be a bit earlier. Hodgkinson Coldwell Graham Shaw Richardson Joe Shaw Summers (Still probably the best defence I have seen.) Ronnie Simpson and The Doc !!
I remember one night against Burnley when the railing at the bottom of the Kop collapsed. We lost 1-0. Ray Pointer scored. Anybody remember the year ?
We used to go as little kids and get behind the famous 'white wall' on the Kop next to John Street.
Remember skipping school to watch us training indoors inside the old Pavillion. Cup Quarter final v Norwich 60,000 crowd.
Lots of good memories and a lot of not so good ones as well.
Not much changes really when you are a Blade

Burnley home 6th Round FA CUp was 1962 There was 60,000 plus that day too!

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My first game apparantly was 1955 although I can't remember anything about it!
I do remember 1958 beating Middlesborough at home 4-1 Brian Clough as well!

 

[broomhillblade]

First visit 1978. First visit as a Blade 1995.

Interestingly, 19 posts in and not one vote for Prem/present day, so how do we arrive at the conclusion the decline in ST sales is all down to "the glory supporters who want it now"?

Most fans are taken to their first match when they are just a nipper.

The vast majority of them probably don't come on sites like this until their late teens or early twenties.

Hence those who have become Blades supporters in the last ten years probably don't use this site.

Simple!

(Moral: Don't trust statistics)

 

[CG Blade]

I have put 1961 onwards, but it was proably 1958/59, I cannot honestly remember, unfortunately my Dad was a Wednesday fan, but used to take us one week to Hillsborough and next week to Bramall Lane, my first football memory was the unclean playing Wolves in 1958, and Billy Wright was palying, my next was at Manchester United v the unclean, in the cup when it was a 0-0 draw, and that was late fifties, started goinmg by myself to Bramall Lane, mid sixties, as I always enjoyed it more.......