Memories of oldham

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I'd just had my 80's mullet culled that morning and the away end was uncovered.[/QUOTE]

That's got to be a euphemism......
 

TomHeffernan said:
I remember that game. I'd just had my 80's mullet culled that morning and the away end was uncovered. Man Utd got their 10th win on the trot that day to put them top of the league. Strange the things you remember. Kevin Arnott had a reet game!
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Best opener to a post on here ever...
 
I can't remember the date but I'm sure it was a 3-3.
Me and my Dad had been invited by one of their Directors and were sat in the Directors box, with the Blades fans to our right and when we scored we jumped up to celebrate for which we were roundly berated, only for my Dad to tell the moaners to "stop being miserable b*******!" :)
But my main memory of that game was the seemingly constant chant of "oh when the Blades go marching in....." :D
 
N20 Blade said:
Two stick out for me; losing 2-1 with 9 men (hartfield and bees off?). Deano scored second half despite having glandular fever and his next game was the derby! There was a big punch up in the car park after. Next the night game we drew 1-1 before the stein Chelsea match. Did Tracey make a major mistake that night that let them back into it? Those 2 dropped points were clearly massive. We could have stayed up that night and after beating the geordies on the Saturday too. All in all not great omens!
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Brian Gayle shit back header. Tracy off, an injured Kelly on.
 
Surprised nobody has mentioned the five nil hammering at home, with Billy Mcewan getting tin tacked after the game. The reason this stands out for me was I was still a nipper and couldn't believe the greatest team in the world were capable of such hammerings!.
 
Fulwood Blade said:
December 27th, 1976 Oldham 1 United 2

Before Oldham had developed the end where we are this Saturday.

Blades knocked through a rickety old railing/gate and 100's just walked in without paying - me included !

Think it was the same year the piggies got done by the FA for lobbing bricks and stones at the same ground?

About the time when the "jingle bells.........oh what fun it is to see United win away" song was very prevalent.

UTB
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That was my first visit to Oldham too.
 
borg elite said:
Surprised there are so few mentions so far of this game from our promotion season. It was absolutely mental in the away end as you can see from this footage :) I think Oldham had gone unbeaten at home for 40 odd games. What a night.

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Of all the United games i've seen in the last 50 odd years,this is one that would be included in my top 10.It was a wonderful victory in a great season and probably the most significant result of the campaign.I remember the second goal,when Deane chipped over the keeper it seemed to take an eternity for it go in,i was 40 years old and ran up and down the terrace like a kid,the fans reaction to that goal was unbelievable.
 
Silent Blade said:
My first visit to Boundary Park was August 1973, we won 3-0 in a pre-season friendly. Colquhoun and Lochhead had a good battle throughout the game but at the final whistle they shook hands and chatted all the way to the tunnel. My next visit to the same ground was the Texaco Cup match a year later but we lost 4-0!
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I went on the special train around that time Silent .... I thought we had lost something like 3-2 in the Texaco Cup and it was around 77/78 ish.

Christ my memory is crap !!
 
TomHeffernan said:
I remember that game. I'd just had my 80's mullet culled that morning and the away end was uncovered. Man Utd got their 10th win on the trot that day to put them top of the league. Strange the things you remember. Kevin Arnott had a reet game!
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9th Nov 1985..Morris 2, Edwards 2, Arnott 1..Utd scored 5 goals in a 24 min spell..I've just looked it up , I'm no Silent.
I remember it for (presumably sometime during the 24 min spell) each player who touched the ball getting their name chanted..Stan Stan Stan Stan, Keith Keith Keith Keith, Colin Colin Colin Colin...etc
Well...it amused me at the time, sorry :(
Now back to the real reason for my post Tom..
Kevin Arnott always had a reet game (even when he didnt)...2nd only to Big John McPhail as my girl-thing fave Blades..So get the exclamation mark removed and we'll say no more :D:D UTB
 
Rufus Smalls said:
I went on the special train around that time Silent .... I thought we had lost something like 3-2 in the Texaco Cup and it was around 77/78 ish.

Christ my memory is crap !!
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Anglo Scottish Cup and yes, it was 3-2 to us and in August 1977. We won at Hull but lost 5-4 at home to Notts County
 
'Doc' Pace my hero said:
Of all the United games i've seen in the last 50 odd years,this is one that would be included in my top 10.It was a wonderful victory in a great season and probably the most significant result of the campaign.I remember the second goal,when Deane chipped over the keeper it seemed to take an eternity for it go in,i was 40 years old and ran up and down the terrace like a kid,the fans reaction to that goal was unbelievable.
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That's exactly my memory of the second goal Doc. It did seem like ages before it hit the net.
 

bornablade said:
Season 1992/93 played them near the end of the season. Pay on the day. Thousands of Blades turned up and it was mayhem outside. Sure there were many who didn't get in. I managed to get in the home end. Can't remember the score.
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I went to that. It was a draw 1-1. Got my shirt signed by Alan Kelly.
 
HighfieldBlade said:
I went to that. It was a draw 1-1. Got my shirt signed by Alan Kelly.
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He dropped an easy catch for Oldham's equaliser. A Blade near me slated him off but my dad defended him saying that he has saved us a lot in the season and got into an heated argument with the Kelly critic! speedymcgeady might remember this!
 
Last time we went to Oldham, the season before last I think, we didn't pass a programme seller on the way in and they'd sold out from the little kiosk on the concourse. We asked a steward where to get one. He took my three quid, walked out of the ground to find a seller, and reappeared ten minutes later with a programme.

It made my day. Not sure I can think of many stewards at many grounds who would do anything similar for away supporters. Certainly not in the Champ or Prem. It's a favourite League 1 "memrie".
 
Been once, remember it was a dump, can't remember when it was , who I was with, or score - must have had a few.
 
Silent Blade said:
He dropped an easy catch for Oldham's equaliser. A Blade near me slated him off but my dad defended him saying that he has saved us a lot in the season and got into an heated argument with the Kelly critic! speedymcgeady might remember this!
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Oldham's equaliser? I thought they scored first. I could be wrong about that.
 
Silent Blade said:
He dropped an easy catch for Oldham's equaliser. A Blade near me slated him off but my dad defended him saying that he has saved us a lot in the season and got into an heated argument with the Kelly critic! speedymcgeady might remember this!
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Remember it well,your Dad said Kelly had saved us on many occasions ,and to think on...in his own words,of course..
Didn't your Dad also nearly run Donachie over in the car park at this game?
 

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