How we used to live

[pommpey]

No one replaced Hockey until Monty came along.

Colquhoun was finally replaced by Holdsworth or Murphy.

This lot we've got now aren't even replacing old corner flags.

Monty had everything Hockey had, except the ability to control the ball and send a pass to a United shirt.

pommpey

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Never knew that the first Christmas match to be broadcast on the radio in full was Brentford versus Sheffield United on December 26, 1946. Brentford won 2-1.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Long enough to know that we've always sold our best players? Jimmy Hagan (widely thought of as the best United player ever, and even before my time...) was lined up to be transferred. Only Hagan put the block on it. The intended buying team? Wednesday.

We've all heard of the sales of Currie, Birchenall, Deane etc. etc. On the pitch in that photo was one the great unheralded players of that time. Geoff Salmons. Sold, naturally.

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Jimmy Dunne in the 1930s.

 

[Bert]

Don't remember Woodward getting sold.

 

[blade too long]

Long ago ,,,, . and oh so far away

hard to believe Gary Glitter was number one with rock and roll then
whatever happened to him

 

[boo radley]

Have we got an archive section for these?

 

[Silent Blade]

There were 51,000 inside (including Bert) but there were 10,000 Unitedites locked outside. They shut the gates just after 2 o'clock.

Part of the Stretford End was closed for some games in 1971-72 season, Man U's first two games were played at Anfield and at Victoria Ground, Stoke. It was a punishment for the club after a knife was thrown from the Stretford End towards Newcastle's keeper Iam McFaul in February 1971

 

[Bladesince59]

Red , white and BLACK !

"Oh we are the Sheffield United !"
"We play in the red white and BLACK"
something something something
"Division One , we're coming BACK !"

QUITE

 

[Bladesince59]

There were 51,000 inside (including Bert) but there were 10,000 Unitedites locked outside. They shut the gates just after 2 o'clock.

And including me. I have relived that game 47357 effing times

 

[zablade]

I'm now nostalgic for this.

 

[Kev Gee]

I remember pretending to be Colquhoun when I was a kid in the parks. He had probably already retired by then (mid 80s) but I still heard about him even though I probably never saw him play.........


Legend.

 

[Cyprus Blade]

"Sheffield United players in the 1970s were lucky enough to get Renault 5 GTLs from G.T. Cars of Suffolk Road, Sheffield; with optional extra French bonnet mascot."

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Any clues anyone? Don't think its the 1901 Cup final. No info on web page unless you can read braille. Foulkes in goal.


This is the 1901 Cup Final

 

[Silent Blade]

Top photo is the replay at Burnden Park in Bolton. Note the rail line that has always been near the ground

 

[blade too long]

top photo is Burnden Park , the replay , my grandad and his mates went on the back of a lorry to it , took 6 hours , only to lose
nothing ever changes eh

 

[grafikhaus]

I'd have loved a ride in his blue suede Triumph Herald*.

*Is that honestly a true story?!

Certainly is. It was a common sight around Sheffield, and he and the car (it was nearer purple, was a 'sprayed on' finish and I think it was a Vitesse) featured on Look North.

Now one picture I would like to see is Eddie Colquhoun in the John Sreet 'Director's Box' after we'd beaten Watford 3-0 on May 1, 1971 to secure promotion to the top flight. Eddie has a bottle of champagne in one hand and a fag in the other!

The following season - up to this game at Old Trafford - we took the First Division by storm, undefeated in the first ten games including wins against Leeds, Arsenal, Everton and Chelsea. We could have been the 'Leicester' of the day...

...then we remembered that we were United and, besides losing in this Man. U game, also lost the next three - finishing the season in tenth place.

 

[Deaneandagana]

Alan Hansen (you'll never win anything with kids) when he does his after dinner speaking, plays a bit of an audience interaction game by asking if anyone can name his most feared opponent, which inevitably no one can, so he then offers the initials WW of said player........

William Whitehurst.

 

[BushBlade]

Monty had everything Hockey had, except the ability to control the ball and send a pass to a United shirt.

pommpey

Or a beard.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Morris Dancers at a pageant to celebrate the coronation of Edward VII in 1901

 

[JJ Sefton]

A 1902 Ashes Test at the Lane

 

[JJ Sefton]

A pageant to celebrate Empire Day in 1906

 

[JJ Sefton]

United draw 1-1 with Wednesday, November 4th 1911

 

[JJ Sefton]

Representative sides from Sheffield and Glasgow draw 1-1 at the Lane, October 21st 1912

 

[JJ Sefton]

Recruitment drive for World War One at the Lane, September 8th 1914

 

[JJ Sefton]

The Sheffield Pals drilling at the Lane in 1914

 

[Silent Blade]

United draw 1-1 with Wednesday, November 4th 1911

Wendy's keeper in the photo is Teddy Davison who managed us from 1932 to 1952

 

[JJ Sefton]

Listen to this music while you read this thread...

 

[JJ Sefton]

Bramall Lane area, not sure when

 

[JJ Sefton]

The Lane, again, not sure when

 

[JJ Sefton]

The United team that won 2-1 at the Sty in February 1955