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WalthamstowBlade said:
The extra floodlight and the old Bramall Lane stand. It had 'Jubilee suits me' painted on it, an advert for Jubilee stout.

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The older smaller floodlights were removed in 1961
 



I was at THAT ManUre game when Best scored THAT goal. I've never seen a crowd like it. Somehow I got separated from my mates. We were only 14 or 15. After queuing for ages in a huge crush, I got into the ground...and then...gulp...I realised I was on the Stretford End. Picture the scene...Thousands of ManUre fans. And me. I kept a low profile.
I thought we gave a decent account of ourselves to be honest; not playing as well as we had, but not doing too bad. Then I remember Ted Hemsley took a right clattering from Paddy Crerand - and others. He had to go off injured. Gil Reece was the sub (only one allowed in those days). I can't remember which one of them filled in at left back, but it undoubtedly weakened us and altered our shape.
If you watch that goal again you'll see how easy Best goes round 'em. In my humble opinion Hemsley wouldn't have let him do that. I still maintain that if Stumps had not had to go off, Best would not have scored that blummin goal.
If, if, if...it was ever thus being a Blade.
 
AgaMonkey said:
I was at THAT ManUre game when Best scored THAT goal. I've never seen a crowd like it. Somehow I got separated from my mates. We were only 14 or 15. After queuing for ages in a huge crush, I got into the ground...and then...gulp...I realised I was on the Stretford End. Picture the scene...Thousands of ManUre fans. And me. I kept a low profile.
I thought we gave a decent account of ourselves to be honest; not playing as well as we had, but not doing too bad. Then I remember Ted Hemsley took a right clattering from Paddy Crerand - and others. He had to go off injured. Gil Reece was the sub (only one allowed in those days). I can't remember which one of them filled in at left back, but it undoubtedly weakened us and altered our shape.
If you watch that goal again you'll see how easy Best goes round 'em. In my humble opinion Hemsley wouldn't have let him do that. I still maintain that if Stumps had not had to go off, Best would not have scored that blummin goal.
If, if, if...it was ever thus being a Blade.
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Crerand didnt play, he had retired from playing by then. Their line up was Stepney, O'Neill, Dunne, Sadler, James, Gowling, Morgan, Charlton, Kidd, Best and Aston, Burns was the sub
 
Silent Blade said:
Crerand didnt play, he had retired from playing by then. Their line up was Stepney, O'Neill, Dunne, Sadler, James, Gowling, Morgan, Charlton, Kidd, Best and Aston, Burns was the sub
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Memory playing tricks again!:( I'm standing by the general argument though. :)
 
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Cyprus Blade said:
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1904
Back row; Jack Houseley (Trainer) Harry Johnson, Harry Thickett, Willie Foulke, Peter Boyle (Ireland), John Nicholson (secretary), Ernest Needham, George Waller (Trainer). Seated; Walter Bennett, Alf Common, Arthur Brown,Fred Priest, Bert Lipsham. On floor; Tommy Morren and Bernard Wilkinson
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
Sadly, these are both of us conceding...

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The lower of the two pictures shows Rodney Marsh scoring against us in a 3-2 defeat at Maine Road in December, 1974. This was quite late in the game, as I recall. We were flattered by the score line. The game sticks in the memory because Currie scored a rare headed goal and also because I went with three mates from the lower sixth at school, all of us either 16 or 17, and we found a backstreet pub near the ground where they were more than happy to serve us.
 
Shalalalafenoughty said:
The lower of the two pictures shows Rodney Marsh scoring against us in a 3-2 defeat at Maine Road in December, 1974. This was quite late in the game, as I recall. We were flattered by the score line. The game sticks in the memory because Currie scored a rare headed goal and also because I went with three mates from the lower sixth at school, all of us either 16 or 17, and we found a backstreet pub near the ground where they were more than happy to serve us.
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TC headed goals
v Spurs (h) his debut in Feb 1968
Started being a Lane regular in Jan 1970 so I dont know if he scored any more headers between his debut and January 1970
v Cardiff (h) April 1971
v Man City (h) Feb 1972
v WBA (h) Texaco Cup Sept 1972
the Man City game you mentioned (I wouldnt have known as I wasnt at the match so there maybe more between 1970 and 1975 (his only goal in 1976 was a mis hit shot that fooled Norwich's keeper Keelan according to my Norwich mate) that I missed)
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
45 years ago today...

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For the home games in the 1970/71 season I usually sat in the BLUT but the tickets for the BLUT were sold out for the Luton game when my dad was was going to buy them so he bought tickets for the John Street stand instead.

Luton were one of the favourites for promotion at this stage as Malcolm MacDonald was banging in goals. He said in a newspaper interview that he found the second division defenders easy to play against. Eddie Colquhoun had a great game keeping MacDonald quiet and then sarcastically clapped him off the pitch! I remember watching the football highlights on YTV in the next day and the cameras failed to capture Woody's first goal (for some reason the camera was out of focus just before Woody tapped in). The goal in the above video is our second goal. I was sat behind the corner Woody took and I watched him run all the way to fire in his second. Soon after that we were awarded a penalty after Woody was tripped. TC hit the penalty against the crossbar (he missed a penalty at Charlton the following week). Late in the game Jim Ryan pulled a goal for Luton but it was too late to save the game
 



Typical Look North show Leeds goal but don't show ours. Harry Gration must be commentating.
 
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