Memries of your first game

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

That memery was brought to you in black and white .....

Not if you're wearing rose tinted specs..

 

[Pedders]

First game for me was Stockport county in 1998 drew, 1-1 i think not sure though cant really remember!

 

[Darren]

First game for me was Stockport county in 1998 drew, 1-1 i think not sure though cant really remember!

20/10/98 - Marcelo scored.

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Blades 0-0 Liverpool think it was about 1989? might be a few years out tbh. I was about 10. I was convinced we battered them despite everyone leaving ground saying it was a fair result. The next few games after that I was the most biased man on Earth, we hammered everyone according to me. God how times have changed, I ahve just predicted a 1-3 defeat to OXFORD FFS!

That must have been Boxing Day 1993

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Blades 1-1 WBA United scored Eddy Colquhoun in extra time. was the game I became a regular. First away game v MunU first time I travelled from Victoria. OK half price but still had change from 1 pound, train fare food program green un etc and a Manchester pink.

I reckon those two games were on 10/2/68 (D1-1 - Addison for us) and 20/4/68 (L0-1)

 

[cahill]

Silent Blade: Eddie Baboon was a master at scoring own goals, scored a beautifull 25 yarder at the kop end to equalise for the Unclean in 1970 before Tudor rescued us with a winner. I also attended the Cup match v Everton that you mention. Great days

 

[bladesfan]

Darren I think your right about Colin Addison. But I cannot remember the ManU result.

 

[Silent Blade]

Silent Blade: Eddie Baboon was a master at scoring own goals, scored a beautifull 25 yarder at the kop end to equalise for the Unclean in 1970 before Tudor rescued us with a winner. I also attended the Cup match v Everton that you mention. Great days

Colquhoun's own goal was wendy's 1st goal. Jackie Sinclair scored the equaliser as he ran to the right side of the box and slid the ball past Hodgy who came out of his goal

 

[Lt. J Dangle]

My first game was August 28th 1978 v Liverpool in the league cup. I still have vivid memories of the first walk up the stairway at the back of the kop and seeing the pitch for the first time when we reached the top. I remember all the Liverpool wall being booked for not retreating 10 yards, Gary Hamson's winner. I also remember a ball-boy (I believe it was Jeff Eckhardt) stopping a goal bound effort from going in after the ref had blown for offside. He got a chant from the Kop "The ball boy! The ball boy!"

This wasn't a reserve side Liverpool sent out that night, it was the European champions. They outplayed us but we nicked it 1-0. Magical.

 

[BladeFisher]

August 1971 at home v Southampton. Pretty sure it was the 1st game of the season. Stood on the white railings on John Street, Kop end as an awe-struck little chab. We won 3-1 I think and because we played so well my Dad was convinced by everyone I was a lucky omen and was allowed to go to the next game on a Tuesday night, against Leeds. First sight of BDTBL under lights, I was hooked and my status as a lucky charm was cemented with a 3-0 win.

Little did I realise that my baptismal season as a Blade and the following two or three would be the pinnacle of league achievement, quality and style.

That was the first game I ever went on my own.

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My first Blades game was August 1970 v Swindon Town. Blades won 2-1, Hodgy in goal. Can't remember if that was the game John Barwell got injured or whether it was the 0-0 against Norwich.

I was up from the Isle of Wight visiting my grandparents after my dad was killed and I reckon I was the only Blade on the island in those days. My grandad took me. He was an old Wednesday fan (ish) and I remember getting ready up Crimicar Lane and he had disappeared outside to the garage. I came down stairs with my red and white scarf (recently acquired from the supporters shop on John Street - remember that?) and asked where he was. He duly appeared with a toilet roll in one hand (all the rage to throw them in those days after a goal was scored) and a hatchet in the other! Absolutely burst out laughing. A good man with a great dry sense of humour. He died 9 years later.

The following month one of the best games I went to was Pompey away, (local for me then). It was the time we always scored 5 against them (loathe Pompey with a passion). I wore a rosette which had Blades in the centre and at half time had the piss taken out of me by Pompey yobs that Blades were some 4th division team. It was 0-0. Second half we scored 5 and Munks ex Blades scored theirs. Who was laughing at the end?

 

[Jehovah]

Blades 0-0 Liverpool think it was about 1989? might be a few years out tbh. I was about 10. I was convinced we battered them despite everyone leaving ground saying it was a fair result. The next few games after that I was the most biased man on Earth, we hammered everyone according to me. God how times have changed, I ahve just predicted a 1-3 defeat to OXFORD FFS!
That must have been Boxing Day 1993

Cheers Darren, suspected I would be a few years out. Although tbh, the fact it was boxing day still doesnt make me rememebr it any clearer! ah well

 

[Longtime Blade]

As an oldster I will indulge myself with four "first matches". I grew up in Bentley, now part of Doncaster. My favourite teams were

Rovers as my local team and Sheff. United aw my "big city team".

 

[Longtime Blade]

Sorry about the above goof; I'll try to do better now.

First match: October 1946, Doncaster Rovers 4 Hull C. 1 - Division 3 North.

First match at the Lane: June 1949, Cricket, Yorks v. Leicestershire.

First sight of the Blades: Belle Vue 1950, Rovers 0 United 0 - Division 2.

First football match at the Lane: August 1965, United 1 Villa 0 - Division 1.

 

[blade too long]

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the stewarding looks a bit lax, the crowd could easily encroach onto the pitch

 

[Maidenhead]

August 1971 at home v Southampton. Pretty sure it was the 1st game of the season. Stood on the white railings on John Street, Kop end as an awe-struck little chab. We won 3-1 I think and because we played so well my Dad was convinced by everyone I was a lucky omen and was allowed to go to the next game on a Tuesday night, against Leeds. First sight of BDTBL under lights, I was hooked and my status as a lucky charm was cemented with a 3-0 win.

Little did I realise that my baptismal season as a Blade and the following two or three would be the pinnacle of league achievement, quality and style.

Your second game was my first.

I was, and still am, a big Leeds R.L fan. On the afternoon of the Leeds game at BDTBL a builder who lived down our street announced that he was going to the football and all were welcome so about a dozen of us piled into the back of his van, 11 Leeds United fans and one rugby league fan with no real interest in football'

What do I remember?

The result for starters, loved that, having decided I "supported" Sheff United a year or two earlier thanks to Keith Macklin? and ITVs Soccer Sunday.

I had bragging rights all the way home and for a long time afterwards. No idea why I picked the Blades in the first instance but all the RL fans in my school adopted a football team as a symbol of their hatred of Leeds United and boy did my choice pay early dividends.

I remember that the ground looked huge, the cricket pavillion on one side, and the atmosphere generated by the massive crowd underr the lights.

I remember stopping off for fish and chips on the way home and getting a load of abuse of homegoing Blades. ( not the only time I've had abuse from my own fans over the years!)

The overall effect of the night was to cement my relationship with my chosen team to the point that I used to save my paper round money to get to as many games as I could by train, and when I left school and started work I finally got my first season ticket.

I have never once regretted my choice of team or the amazing and lifelong influence that first visit to BDTBL has had on me.

 

[Bergen Blade]

You big-time glory-hunter, Bergen!

Not my first game but an (utterly shocking) picture of Lærdal v. Vik in 1976 in the Norwegian 6th Division. Sogndal was just across t'Sognefjord and I went to see them a couple of times. Memries!

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Cool! What were you doing in Norway? Have you said this before?

 

[captain pugwash]

my first game must have been around 1964. No idea which team. Can only remember that some bald guy (kettleborough) was playing for us and being amazed that bald guys could play football (I was 7). My other ealiest memory is a game at a similar time against Sunderland. Some Sunderland fans were stood nearby and couldnt understand a word they were saying - dont have a clue what the game was like. Most of the games i went to I could see precisely nowt.

 

[blade too long]

as a young fan in the 60 s you went to games but werent always enthralled by the action on the pitch ,when I was 7 / 8 it seemed more entertaining walking from the kop past the cricket pavillion and round to the bramall lane shed, as it was before the 2 tier stand opened in 66 and just taking in the atmosphere

I know I went to games from 62 onwards but was 10 before I really watched games

 

[Large Mendonca]

Colquhoun's own goal was rather comical (although I didnt find it funny at the time). He ran back to our goal quickly (he was fast) to help out to clear a dangerous looking cross from the right. McAlister had blocked the cross but it deflected straight to Colquhoun's head and the ball went into the net (it bounced once on the ground on the way to the net). Woody's equaliser was direct from a free kick from outside the box that was struck fiercely through the Stoke's defensive wall

I remember my dad saying Colquhoun had scored both ends at the time - he probably needed to go to specsavers as i trust the record books more I just remember throwing up the chips I had at lunch time on the way over the Leek to Stoke moors on the way

 

[super_pig]

vs man city 1974 (3?) .. 3 - 3 draw.. it's on youtube.. stood on the white fence behind the goal on the kop and being constantly told to get down .. i can still remember the buzz of the atmosphere when we first came into the ground proper.. been addicted ever since

>I also remember a ball-boy (I believe it was Jeff Eckhardt)
yes it was.. i went to school with his sister.. he ended up at Fulham

 

[captain pugwash]

my first away game will have been the 2 - 2 draw with wendy in 66? Will have been taken by my Dad and elder brother (both lifelong Owls fans). Start of close to 50 years of family strife over football. My close and extended family are all third generation owls fans. My first out of town away game was FA Cup against Watford, 1967? Winning goal scored by the one and only MI,MIC,MICK MIICK HILL.

 

[Silent Blade]

my first away game will have been the 2 - 2 draw with wendy in 66? Will have been taken by my Dad and elder brother (both lifelong Owls fans). Start of close to 50 years of family strife over football. My close and extended family are all third generation owls fans. My first out of town away game was FA Cup against Watford, 1967? Winning goal scored by the one and only MI,MIC,MICK MIICK HILL.

We drew 2-2 at the sty twice in 1966. Birchenall scored both in the March fixture. Woodward and Jones gave us a 2 goal lead in the september fixture (the match that Blades fans threw eggs from the back in the Kop). The FA Cup win at Watford was in Jan 1968