Memories of oldham

[Blackheath Blade]

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

I went to this one too Fulwood. I was only 16 and had just started my first job in the steel industry. It seemed like a good idea at the time to go on their kop before the game until their bully's turned up. We ended up being escorted round the perimeter track to the away end.
It was that cold that some lads set fire to an old wooden turnstile to keep warm.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Yes, you are right. 1:31:18 in below video

Good find, that video. Brought back some memories. You were spot on about Kelly dropping that easy catch.

 

[spongebobblade]

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 UTB

Remember it well. Roger Palmer put them in front then we just totally blitzed them. It was a bitterly cold day and Blades fans were in the shack on the side where the new stand has since been built

 

[N20 Blade]

Yes, you are right. 1:31:18 in below video

So much for an early night! Love the commentary at the end about Andy Scott; 'it might only be two inches but it means an awful lot to him...'

 

[fishpie]

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....."

Forgot that one..If its the same game we're on about...Recall watching Oldham in the FA cup on tv , not long after and their fans sang the same slowed down version (Blades became Blues obvs)...So I mentioned it on here in a thread about fans copying fans etc. I did get the odd eye-rolling response saying we were copying Southampton..Then a far more helpful Blade who clearly took pity, just said I was wrong, it was "dem Blades"..And indeed it was!

 

[Revolution]

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!

That was the day Man Utd lost their unbeaten record, not won their 10th. They lost 1-0 to the Pigs at the Sty.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

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 UTB

My first away game

 

[Cheets]

For the 5-1 in 1985 we were 4-1 up at half-time. The second half was a bit boring and we were singing "All we are saying is give us a goal". At the end my mate caught Peter Withe's sweatbands.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

I went to this one too Fulwood. I was only 16 and had just started my first job in the steel industry. It seemed like a good idea at the time to go on their kop before the game until their bully's turned up. We ended up being escorted round the perimeter track to the away end.
It was that cold that some lads set fire to an old wooden turnstile to keep warm.

yes it was cold - remember that too - on a stand that had no roof either.

Sure there was snow about.

UTB

 

[Tezza1889]

Loads of memories of Oldham, one of the nearer aways over holmfirth in 45 mins, most of the games from the 90s onwards I've been to, but last seasons debacle does need a mention, I've never seen blades fans away turn on the team at the end when they've come over to us, but that was nasty stuff...

I'm mentioning this just to prod a few at how far we've come, because if we don't get a result this weekend, unthinkable I know, they'll be clapped off for trying, of that Im certain..

Hope for a memorable day this weekend for the right reasons..

 

[grafikhaus]

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!.

Best result in recent years. The hapless McEwan was sacked and a few days later Sir Harry Bassett arrived.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Loads of memories of Oldham, one of the nearer aways over holmfirth in 45 mins, most of the games from the 90s onwards I've been to, but last seasons debacle does need a mention, I've never seen blades fans away turn on the team at the end when they've come over to us, but that was nasty stuff...

I'm mentioning this just to prod a few at how far we've come, because if we don't get a result this weekend, unthinkable I know, they'll be clapped off for trying, of that Im certain..

Hope for a memorable day this weekend for the right reasons..

We drew at Oldham last season.,Arn't youu thinking of the Bury game?

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

Bobby Campbell and John Flynn (also Oldham's Ronnie Blair) in Dec 1977.

I went to that one. A thoroughly miserable experience.

Was Vic Halom playing for Oldham that day, Silent? I don't remember a lot of detail about the game but I've got him in my mind as the cause of much of the aggro that led to the sendings-off.

 

[cahill]

Been several times to Oldham, first one we lost 3-0, can't remember the year, second was when we had two sent off, someone mentioned earlier that we drew 2-2. I though we lost. Plastic pitch days during our promotion season must have been 1991 ?

Lived in Manchester 1983-86 and watched Oldham quite a bit actually,

 

[I should coco]

December 27th, 1976 Oldham 1 United 2

My first 'proper' away game (apart from the Sty in the County Cup). My uncle had a Jag and we saw the game in style. I thought it would always be like that......

You're going down with the Swindon Town' still haunts and I refuse to sing the 'Blades are going up' until it's mathematically certain.

It haunts me too. Of course I joined in the singinging, knowing full well that a point at Oldham was enough. Even if we were to lose at Chelsea only an unlikely combination of other results would send us down, so we were obviously safe......

At the end my mate caught Peter Withe's sweatbands.

I bet they didn't need washing.

Also a notable game in 2013, when we left Sheffied about 12.15. Roadworks and an accident in Glossop meant we didn't get into Oldham until about 3.15 so we headed for the ground hoping to make it in for the second half. When we got there, the stewards who look after their corporate parking had gone so we parked about 10 yards from the away turnstiles. We won 2-0 with a team that included Kitson, Robson, Poleon and McMahon!

 

[Large Mendonca]

Been twice for two 1-1 draws in the early 90s. Remember the 1994 one the most with the flare after Cork had put us 1-0 up early on, and we were hanging on at the end. "Going down, with the Swindon Town" - how prophetic

Remember seeing Joe Elliott in the bogs too, trying very much not to look like Joe Elliott

 

[Silent Blade]

I went to that one. A thoroughly miserable experience.

Was Vic Halom playing for Oldham that day, Silent? I don't remember a lot of detail about the game but I've got him in my mind as the cause of much of the aggro that led to the sendings-off.

I wasnt at the match. Vic was a Oldham player then so he probably played in that match

 

[Bert]

Late 70's Bert travelled in the back of a Reliant Kitten across the Pennines, got dropped off at Oldham while his mates went to see Forest win 4-0 at Old Trafford. Bert's memory doesn't recall the result but we either lost or drew. It does however recall a lot of fighting, which was hardly surprising as we were all stood on their end.
What was the score Silent Blade?

 

[dublin 10 blade]

It was always cold .
Wide open away end ( back then ).
Constant aggro .
2 players sent off .
And its a fucking hole .

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Only visit there was in the late 80's. Lost three or four one on the plastic pitch and got piss wet through on the open terrace.
Abiding memory of the day was a group of Unitedites singing "We hate your batteries, we do" etc.
As an aside, did that advert hold the record for the most consecutive seasons attached to the Bramall Lane stand ?

 

[Silent Blade]

Late 70's Bert travelled in the back of a Reliant Kitten across the Pennines, got dropped off at Oldham while his mates went to see Forest win 4-0 at Old Trafford. Bert's memory doesn't recall the result but we either lost or drew. It does however recall a lot of fighting, which was hardly surprising as we were all stood on their end.
What was the score Silent Blade?

December 1977. We lost 3-0, John Flynn sent off then Bobby Campbell and Ronnie Blair were sent off for fighting

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I can't remember the date but I'm sure it was a 3-3.

25th Feb 1995, apparently.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

3 words spring to mind when I think of Oldham...Ian Marshall Mullet.

 

[Grecian2000]

Kevin McNally once sent 2 off at Oldham think it was Woodward and Flynn
Nearly ended up in a Riot

It wasn't McNally. That was the game we ran across the pitch from away to home end about 15 minutes before kick off.
Seen us down to 9 on three separate occasions there (and once at BDTBL against them).
Got in free once when some bright spark kicked the gates in as we were all queued outside.
Got free tickets in their "posh" seats another time when we scored 5 and they were going mental appealing for off-side when they had a big Ginner at CB playing everyone on time after time.

As for the 7-2. Big Joe mentioned after the game that we never had the ball on the ground all night. I wrote him a letter suggesting it was below 8ft on at least seven occasions. Mardy twat never replied.

 

[Dnblade]

1979 drew 1-1 i think it was..Blades everywhere and remember stopping off in a pub in Glossop on way back.
Last time was a 2-0 win when Kitson scored...4 hours to get over woodhead because of the accident ISC mentioned at Mottram.

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

25th Feb 1995, apparently.

That recent!? Seems much longer ago.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

3 words spring to mind when I think of Oldham...Ian Marshall Mullet.

One letter , one word .
N-trance , best thing out a Oldham . Everybody's Free .

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Only visit there was in the late 80's. Lost three or four one on the plastic pitch and got piss wet through on the open terrace.
Abiding memory of the day was a group of Unitedites singing "We hate your batteries, we do" etc.
As an aside, did that advert hold the record for the most consecutive seasons attached to the Bramall Lane stand ?

I don't know about the sign .
But I told em .

 

[BushBlade]

One letter , one word .
N-trance , best thing out a Oldham . Everybody's Free .

Set You Free.

Everybody's Free was Rosalla.

I'm Free was John Inman.

 

[Guesty]

The only time I've been was our first game back at this level. It was a very comfortable 2-0 win, I remember Maguire scored, I guess Evans probably got the other.

I thought League One might actually turn out to be easy at the time.