I feel sorry for all you Blades..........

[beightonblade]

That never experienced BDTBL in the early 70's...especially a neight match !
The Blades feared no one then on or off the field.

The best Blades team i've ever seen........... alas i fear it always will be.

 

[Eskimo]

We were good but we knew we weren't good enough to really challenge the top clubs. I blame cheap as chips Harris and John the Builder Hassall for raking off the money

 

[ghandi]

We were good but we knew we weren't good enough to really challenge the top clubs. I blame cheap as chips Harris and John the Builder Hassall for raking off the money

You maybe right about John Hassall but John Harris didn't rake off any money. He was by all accounts a gentleman, teetotaller and a practising methodist who lived and died very modestly.

 

[FURPHY]

We were probably two players off being a team who could win something and there were rumours that we were interested in buying Frank Worthington and a centre half from Huddersfield who's name escapes me ( to replace Eddie Colquoun who was beginning to look vulnerable and around the area of the Kop that I stood was nicknamed "Shudders") but the Board would not spend the money.

 

[Guesty]

I don't think Eskimo meant that Harris did any raking.

He did go and help Wednesday soar above us though, didn't he? Bastard.

 

[super_pig]

eskimo.. are you 'the' eskimo? (i've asked this before but you didn't reply)

 

[parisblade]

That never experienced BDTBL in the early 70's...especially a neight match !

March 2nd 1993 wasn't that bad an experience

 

[JJ Sefton]

eskimo.. are you 'the' eskimo? (i've asked this before but you didn't reply)

Walthamstow Snr also remembers an Eskimo from the Kop in the 1970's.

 

[Revolution]

That never experienced BDTBL in the early 70's...especially a neight match !

Two of the best atmospheres I've experienced at the Lane were for our two FA Cup quarter final replays in 1993 and 1998.

The early 70's team never got past the 4th round...

 

[ghandi]

That never experienced BDTBL in the early 70's...especially a neight match !

Two of the best atmospheres I've experienced at the Lane were for our two FA Cup quarter final replays in 1993 and 1998.

The early 70's team never got past the 4th round...

No other atmosphere for me comes close to the atmosphere on that Tuesday night when we thrashed Cardiff 5-1 on our way to promotion.

 

[beightonblade]

That never experienced BDTBL in the early 70's...especially a neight match !

Two of the best atmospheres I've experienced at the Lane were for our two FA Cup quarter final replays in 1993 and 1998.

The early 70's team never got past the 4th round...

there the exceptions..............not the norm! ....................... and even then they don't come close.

 

[Eskimo]

No, sorry I'm not the original. When i was first taken to the Lane as an 8 year old in 1964 I was hooked straight away by the whole experience, singing, shouting, tribal loyalty, banners, half time oxo, night matches, the euphoria of winining and silence in the car (plenty of smoke though) on the way home when we lost (particularly bad when Fulham beat us 2 - 3 at home) and my older cousins tales of the Pond St gang scrappingand.......... Eskimo.. I'd make up stories for school next day about how brilliant it was being a Blade - I was in a minority of one at Warren, near Chap. I'm still hooked, and from time to time get accused of being a clapper. But I never met Eskimo and dont even know who he is/was?

 

[beightonblade]

Eskimo was one of the bad lads .................. my mum told me to keep away.

 

[TheSwollengland]

Have to agree with Beighton

The Kop ,packed to the rafters on a Teusday night ,there was an atmosphere that was electric ,even more so if the away fans had got on there .
If we scored you were swept of your feet down the kop then back up again ,could be 10 yards or more .
The loss of standing areas in grounds was ,for me, the time when a lot of the atmosphere dissapeared ,Groups of lads (sorry ladies but in those days it generally was lads ) who didnt know each other from Adam outside of football forged lifelong friendships just because they all stood in the same general area of the kop week in week out.I still have mates from 30 years ago who fall into that catergory .
Seats made that less likely as it meant everyone had to get a season ticket to gaurantee being in the same location each week.

I have had good nights and days since but these times in the late 60`s and through the early 70`s were a bit special .the 80`s brought about a greater organisation within grounds and outside :>) that although they were were fun times they lacked something of the earlier ones .
To be honest the game today is a sanitised version of what it used to be and quite frankly its worse for it IMHO

 

[super_pig]

eskimo was a kop legend in the early 70's.. a bit of a hardman by all accounts (pfft talk about understatement)..

>To be honest the game today is a sanitised version of what it used to be and quite frankly its worse for it IMHO
i'd be inclined to agree on everything you've said mate

 

[Zinedine]

Pretty patronising post, i'll feel sorry for you when we win a top 10 PL finish and you're all dead.

See, not nice is it.

 

[Jon Bon]

Eskimo was one of the bad lads .................. my mum told me to keep away.

Does he hold the record for 'Loftiest Toilet at a Football Ground' at Leeds Road, Huddersfield or am I mistaking him for someone else?

 

[frechyblade]

Pretty patronising post, i'll feel sorry for you when we win a top 10 PL finish and you're all dead.

See, not nice is it.

Sam, some of us have seen a top 10 finish in the top division already. I really hope you get to see us get back there but really don't think that it is possible with how football is financed now.

You unfortunately have missed out on the atmosphere generated by 1000's standing on the kop for a night match. There will never be an opportunity to recreate that again, unfortunately. We are entitle to reminisce on those times without being accused of being patronising because we won't see those times again. As for the comment about being dead, that could come to any one of us at any age, as I know, so no it's not nice!

UTB

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

It was also strongly rumoured at the time, that we had £100,000 to spend on a replacement for Bll Dearden and had a choice of two. We opted for Chris Guthrie instead of Francis Lee :shakehead:

Back on topic. For once I agree with BB The atmosphere for some of those night matches (I remember one against Liverpool for some reason) was just spine-tingling. For a young lad it was that whole atmosphere that got me hooked. As time went on I realised the football was pretty decent as well. If only I'd known that it was to be the pinnacle football-wise, I'd have made sure I savoured every minute!

 

[beightonblade]

Does he hold the record for 'Loftiest Toilet at a Football Ground' at Leeds Road, Huddersfield or am I mistaking him for someone else?

I think that was Percy........up the floodlight

 

[TheSwollengland]

Pretty patronising post, i'll feel sorry for you when we win a top 10 PL finish and you're all dead.

See, not nice is it.

If by partonising you mean that whilst appearing kind we are also seeming superior because we`ve done something you`ll never do then yes ,it was patronising .
Doesnt mean you`ll ever get the chance to do it though does it ?also as has been pointed out many of us have seen a top 10 finishes in the big league already so THHHWAAARPPP !

As for death ,despite what the pigs say ,like the taxman that comes to us all .

 

[super_pig]

>Does he hold the record for 'Loftiest Toilet at a Football Ground' at Leeds Road, Huddersfield or am I mistaking him for someone else?
i always thought it was cooperman

 

[TheSwollengland]

I can remember whats his name ,the deaf mute kid climbing the pylons at Leeds Road and a top copper balling at him to come down (he was oblivious) but that was in the eighties


Eskimo was phenomonon of the late 60s and 70s who kids like me heard about but never saw !

I will check out Sharpys book and see if it makes reference

 

[Zinedine]

Sam, some of us have seen a top 10 finish in the top division already. I really hope you get to see us get back there but really don't think that it is possible with how football is financed now.

You unfortunately have missed out on the atmosphere generated by 1000's standing on the kop for a night match. There will never be an opportunity to recreate that again, unfortunately. We are entitle to reminisce on those times without being accused of being patronising because we won't see those times again. As for the comment about being dead, that could come to any one of us at any age, as I know, so no it's not nice!

UTB

The original post is riddled with irony. A few smilies wouldn't have gone a miss on it

 

[beightonblade]

Eskimo was phenomonon of the late 60s and 70s who kids like me heard about but never saw !

yer must have seen him swollen ............ black leather jacket stood/sat on top of the bank behind the kop before the kick off..big lad

 

[beightonblade]

The original post is riddled with irony. A few smilies wouldn't have gone a miss on it

no fooking humour on here.........................its not allowed ........patronising gay,religious,couloured PC lot brigade will lock yer away ......yer can't even say neight for neight !

 

[ghandi]

I can remember whats his name ,the deaf mute kid climbing the pylons at Leeds Road and a top copper balling at him to come down (he was oblivious) but that was in the eighties


Eskimo was phenomonon of the late 60s and 70s who kids like me heard about but never saw !

I will check out Sharpys book and see if it makes reference

The person you are referring to is Michael Parry aka Dummy (not very inventive nickname was it?)

 

[Bayingblade]

It was also strongly rumoured at the time, that we had £100,000 to spend on a replacement for Bll Dearden and had a choice of two. We opted for Chris Guthrie instead of Francis Lee :shakehead:

We had done the deal for Francis Lee SEB at 65k. The board refused the deal and later in the summer were desperate to get someone in. Ken Furphy and a board member met a Southend director at Watford Gap (I believe) with Furphy happy to pay about 40k for Guthrie. The Southend director asked for 100k (ish) and the United director agreed. Furphy wasn't happy, especially after the Lee deal was refused by the same director!!

 

[Eskimo]

I think its hard to judge. We oldies reminise about the good things bit for every Tony 'quality goal from a quality player' Currie, Birchenall and Jones there was the misery of them being sold off, buying players like Bill Punton, perservering with the Wagstaffes and Munks etc etc when we though we could be more ambitious. And I can recall many quiet unelectric atmospheres at the lane punctuated with things like 'Bernard Shaw tha rubbish, wunt pay thi in weshers' and my Grandfather announcing. I've bloody finished with this lot, I'm not coming back(he always changed his mind)

And at away matches with no segregation you often had to keep quiet surrounded by hostile home fans. We were thumped going into Leicester in 1971 and by the same lot when we came out and then chased through a park all the way back to the car. Could have done with the real Eskimo then!

I never thought in 1975 when everything was going downhill that I'd see United at Wembley three times, (OK we lost) and appear in FA Cup and League Cup semi-finals..

They'll always let us down - can't wait for Sunday

 

[super_pig]

>They'll always let us down
and therein lies the fascination