Memries of 29th Feb

[Darren]

Only two previous games on this date in my lifetime:

1972: Home to West Ham - Bill Dearden got a hat trick and we won 3-0. Despite this being a Tuesday game, it was played early afternoon. This was due to the miners' strike and the government's ban on floodlighting in order to save fuel.

1992: Home to QPR - a boring 0-0 draw which left us mired in serious relegation trouble having lost at Luton the previous week. Me and my dad went and agreed it would go down to the wire. However, championship form in our next 10 games (23 points from 30) meant we finished a comfortable 9th place.

Funy how these games come around every 20 years...

 

[super_pig]

heh.. weird shit.. we owe scunny one.. we batter them every time and always lose 3-2.. they're the new grimsby

 

[Kenilworth]

heh.. weird shit.. we owe scunny one.. we batter them every time and always lose 3-2.. they're the new grimsby

Sounds fishy to me.

We certainly need to get rid of the bogies from Scunny this time around.
Gets right up yer nose the way they keep getting results at our expense.
They were a bogey team for both Sheffield clubs for a while but I seem to recall that the Pigs beat them 2-1 at their place earlier in the season.

Scunny are on a poor run of form but let's not forget they have Jordan Robertson - bet he would love to score mid week.

 

[2ndtenorblade]

I clearly remember the West Ham game, I wagged day release at Richmond College to be there. Took my then girlfriend (became wife september '72, bless her) in those days the scoreboard was on pavilion and consisted of metal numbers on hooks, at 2-0 the scorers was of course showing as 99, gf asked if he gets another do we phone the police? Funny at the time.

 

[JJ Sefton]

I was at the QPR game you mention. Some bird took advantage of the old custom to ask her fella if he'd marry her at half time. He said yes, but then he didnt have much choice.

Youre right that the game was crap. The only other memory I have is my dad calling Ray Wilkins a "bald headed shithouse".

 

[ZoneManWilf]

1992: Home to QPR - a boring 0-0 draw which left us mired in serious relegation trouble having lost at Luton the previous week. Me and my dad went and agreed it would go down to the wire. However, championship form in our next 10 games (23 points from 30) meant we finished a comfortable 9th place.

I believe the next match after this was the 3-1 win at the sty?

 

[Darren]

I believe the next match after this was the 3-1 win at the sty?

It was indeed. Our next 10 games were:

11/3 Sheff Wed A W3-1
14/3 Man Utd H L1-2
21/3 Chelsea A W2-1
28/3 Liverpool H W2-0
31/3 Villa A D1-1
4/4 Oldham H W2-0
11/4 Everton A W2-0
14/4 Spurs H W2-0
18/4 Arsenal H D1-1
20/4 Notts Co A W3-1

Them were the days....

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I was at the QPR game you mention. Some bird took advantage of the old custom to ask her fella if he'd marry her at half time. He said yes, but then he didnt have much choice.

Youre right that the game was crap. The only other memory I have is my dad calling Ray Wilkins a "bald headed shithouse".

He agreed to marry her at half time? Did she have a vicar on hand? The ceremony must have been a bit rushed....

 

[JJ Sefton]

He agreed to marry her at half time? Did she have a vicar on hand? The ceremony must have been a bit rushed....

As I recall she came out on the pitch and he got called out of the South Stand. She asked him and he said yes somewhat less than wholeheartedly.

 

[dkc Blade]

Does anybody ever say no in such situations?

 

[Darren]

Does anybody ever say no in such situations?

I would. Which is probably why no-one has ever asked me.

On a serious note, do people still do this out of the blue proposal thing? I have had two long term cohabiting relationships lasting a total of 20 years and insofar as marriage came up, it was just a "what about marriage then? "nah" type of thing?

 

[Oreyt]

On a serious note, do people still do this out of the blue proposal thing? I have had two long term cohabiting relationships lasting a total of 20 years and insofar as marriage came up, it was just a "what about marriage then? "nah" type of thing?

Yes! NYE, 2008, in a back garden in Rotherham, next to a bin.

Never let it be said she doesn't get treated like a princess!

 

[raul]

That's beautiful baby, just beautiful.

 

[Balham]

It was indeed. Our next 10 games were:

11/3 Sheff Wed A W3-1
14/3 Man Utd H L1-2
21/3 Chelsea A W2-1
28/3 Liverpool H W2-0
31/3 Villa A D1-1
4/4 Oldham H W2-0
11/4 Everton A W2-0
14/4 Spurs H W2-0
18/4 Arsenal H D1-1
20/4 Notts Co A W3-1

Them were the days....

30% of those fixtures will be competed again this season: that probably doesn't help with the nostalgia

 

[Darren]

30% of those fixtures will be competed again this season: that probably doesn't help with the nostalgia

And the other 7 are the only 7 teams that have been in the PL throughout so we can confidnetly call them the elite of English football. We took 14 points from those 7 games!

That March-April 92, was the best period we have had in the past 35 years. Bliss it was that dawn to be alive etc etc

 

[2ndtenorblade]

Does anybody ever say no in such situations?

I'm secretly (well it was secret) dreading it happening to me this year.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

It was indeed. Our next 10 games were:

11/3 Sheff Wed A W3-1
14/3 Man Utd H L1-2
21/3 Chelsea A W2-1
28/3 Liverpool H W2-0
31/3 Villa A D1-1
4/4 Oldham H W2-0
11/4 Everton A W2-0
14/4 Spurs H W2-0
18/4 Arsenal H D1-1
20/4 Notts Co A W3-1

Them were the days....

I remember staring at this League table on Ceefax for ages in wonder and disbelief.
Sheffield United up to 7th in the Premier League. Never seen it before, never seen it since:-

1 Leeds United 40 20 16 4 70 35 12 8 0 37 13 8 8 4 33 22 +35 76
2 Manchester United 39 20 15 4 60 29 11 7 2 31 12 9 8 2 29 17 +31 75
3 Sheffield Wednesday 40 21 10 9 61 48 13 4 3 39 24 8 6 6 22 24 +13 73
4 Arsenal 40 18 14 8 75 44 11 7 2 46 21 7 7 6 29 23 +31 68
5 Manchester City 40 18 10 12 54 46 12 4 4 30 14 6 6 8 24 32 +8 64
6 Liverpool 39 15 14 10 44 39 12 5 3 32 17 3 9 7 12 22 +5 59
7 Sheffield United 40 16 9 15 63 57 9 6 5 27 20 7 3 10 36 37 +6 57

 

[Silent Blade]

I remember the West Ham game well. My headmaster allowed me to have the afternoon off school (he did the same when Pele played at the sty 6 days earlier). My dad couldnt take me to the match (he was working) so he asked one of his friends to take me.

 

[Darren]

I'm secretly (well it was secret) dreading it happening to me this year.

In the words of Zammo....

Just say no

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2nq8DzYToE

 

[sitwell]

This talk of marraige ,mine was one of divorce ,my dad took me out of school to the West ham game and my mum went apeshit ,I remember the row cowering in my bedroom ,6 months later my dad was in a bedsit on Sandford grove rd and 6 months later they were divorced ,not convinced the match was the entire reason though.

 

[bricktop]

This talk of marraige ,mine was one of divorce ,my dad took me out of school to the West ham game and my mum went apeshit ,I remember the row cowering in my bedroom ,6 months later my dad was in a bedsit on Sandford grove rd and 6 months later they were divorced ,not convinced the match was the entire reason though.

I wonder how many marriage break ups Sheffield United have played a part in?

 

[Muttley]

It actually played a huge part in getting together with my ex bitch.
I was in a stupid AOL chatroom, my username was summat to do with the Blades, she PM'd me asking about it, the rest is painfull history!!

 

[2ndtenorblade]

I wonder how many marriage break ups Sheffield United have played a part in?

It helped cement mine, we had only just met and I said I was busy Saturday afternoon. She came too but could only go again if we scored 6, we only went and stuffed wba 6-1 (or may have been brum) she was hooked or maybe I was. They even played a part in her death, when she collapsed at the Portsmouth game 5 years ago, she never recovered.

 

[JohnDenver]

Yes! NYE, 2008, in a back garden in Rotherham, next to a bin.

Never let it be said she doesn't get treated like a princess!

Could be a whole lot worse:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/28/five-worst-public-marriage-proposals

**cringe**

 

[bricktop]

It helped cement mine, we had only just met and I said I was busy Saturday afternoon. She came too but could only go again if we scored 6, we only went and stuffed wba 6-1 (or may have been brum) she was hooked or maybe I was. They even played a part in her death, when she collapsed at the Portsmouth game 5 years ago, she never recovered.

I remember that happening. I was on the kop and wondered why the second half hadn't kicked off, and then the rumour was that someone had collapsed and passed away, and suddenly the second half seemed a very sombre affair.

 

[2ndtenorblade]

I remember that happening. I was on the kop and wondered why the second half hadn't kicked off, and then the rumour was that someone had collapsed and passed away, and suddenly the second half seemed a very sombre affair.

We still have the same seats, only three instead of four. The club were very sympathetic sending a lovely bouquet to the funeral. She died doing in her words "what Saturdays are made for". What a way to go? at BDTBL with the Blades 1-0 up. Cheers and Up The Blades.

 

[Selly]

I remember staring at this League table on Ceefax for ages in wonder and disbelief.
Sheffield United up to 7th in the Premier League. Never seen it before, never seen it since:-

1 Leeds United 40 20 16 4 70 35 12 8 0 37 13 8 8 4 33 22 +35 76
2 Manchester United 39 20 15 4 60 29 11 7 2 31 12 9 8 2 29 17 +31 75
3 Sheffield Wednesday 40 21 10 9 61 48 13 4 3 39 24 8 6 6 22 24 +13 73
4 Arsenal 40 18 14 8 75 44 11 7 2 46 21 7 7 6 29 23 +31 68
5 Manchester City 40 18 10 12 54 46 12 4 4 30 14 6 6 8 24 32 +8 64
6 Liverpool 39 15 14 10 44 39 12 5 3 32 17 3 9 7 12 22 +5 59
7 Sheffield United 40 16 9 15 63 57 9 6 5 27 20 7 3 10 36 37 +6 57

*cough* Division 1 *cough*