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Days like this make me wish we still had the Green Un in Sheffield. Walking up to the newsagent happy after a victory, laughing at the Wednesday fans whilst waiting for a copy (although most will avoid going until the following day). Enjoying the headline 'LAFF FOR THE BLADES, WOE FOR WEDNESDAY' then setting off back home to read the match report (though never as good as Deadbat's).
 

Not living in the Steel City any longer I had no idea that the Green 'un was no longer published... sign of the times for print media unfortunately
 
I am pretty sure I remember a Green 'Un with the classic headline OWLS SLUMP, BLADES CRASH

I definitely remember OWLS SICKENER, BLADES SHOCKER
 
1973Blade said:
Days like this make me wish we still had the Green Un in Sheffield. Walking up to the newsagent happy after a victory, laughing at the Wednesday fans whilst waiting for a copy (although most will avoid going until the following day). Enjoying the headline 'LAFF FOR THE BLADES, WOE FOR WEDNESDAY' then setting off back home to read the match report (though never as good as Deadbat's).
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I had this thought other day. Used to hear my dad come home from work on a saturday, first thing I'd say is "have you got a green 'un?"
 
Can't say I miss the green 'in

Deadbat writes a better match report than any I ever read in the bad old days.
This place offers a better range of opinions than the letters page and the internet is far better than the 2 pages of recycled blades news they used to post.

If you want to gloat at Wednsday, head over to www.porktalk.co.uk , it's a reight laugh

I miss Matthew Bell's fans voice piece from the later years, but I stopped buying it when it went up to £1 and arrived on Sunday morning.

Loved this front cover though
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The only really good thing about the green 'in that I miss was that as a totally shite Sunday league forward, I'd see my own name every now and then in the paper 'cause I'd scored a hatrick on some shit covered park pitch the Sunday before. My 15 seconds of fame.
 
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Muttley said:
There is a Green 'Un phone app. Not the same but worth putting on your phone.
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I agree Muttley, the Green Un app is definitely worth having on your phone, especially for exiles like myself. I also love the fact that when you scroll left to right from Latest News to each team, which team news appears first, The Mighty Blades of course! :)
 
Mark1889 said:
GT News at Hackenthorpe Shops - right next door to Trevor's Hairdressers, who I used to see at away games (seemingly) every time
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Chainsaw Trev( Dont know if it was just a few of us who knew of that name), decent bloke. Yeah used to see him at quite a few away games. Last game I saw him at was Burton I think. Cant even remember if was in the league or the friendly???
 
cjx blade said:
Chainsaw Trev( Dont know if it was just a few of us who knew of that name), decent bloke. Yeah used to see him at quite a few away games. Last game I saw him at was Burton I think. Cant even remember if was in the league or the friendly???
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Yeah I heard that nickname a few times! Haha
Glad to hear he's been spotted, no idea if the shop is still there; moved away about 8 years ago - hair looks good now! Hahaha
 
blade67 said:
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I miss Matthew Bell's fans voice piece from the later years, but I stopped buying it when it went up to £1 and arrived on Sunday morning.
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Matthew's musings still run every Thursday, on the paper and on the website :)
 
Used to buy it back in the day, but there is absolutely no need for it in the internet (web) era. You can get far more detail on any match you care about as games progress, let alone waiting for it to be written, pressed and distributed.

It's nice nostalgia, but things have improved with technology and made it redundant (although I do wish Tony Pritchett was still around to write about us!).
 

I used to love the Green un but like the horse drawn mail coach, the industrial canal network the telegraph wire, silent movies it's been replace by something better, social media... which will I have no doubt be replaced by something else in 10 years time.
 
cjx blade said:
Chainsaw Trev( Dont know if it was just a few of us who knew of that name), decent bloke. Yeah used to see him at quite a few away games. Last game I saw him at was Burton I think. Cant even remember if was in the league or the friendly???
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Chainsaws been shut for while.
Good bloke Trev,could talk a lamppost to sleep.
 
HighfieldBlade said:
That shop was demolished a long time ago Silent. It stood on the corner of Bramall Lane and Alderson Place.
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I see. Photo seems to be from the 1970s. My dad used to park his car in the old side streets off Bramall Lane. Still dont remember this newsagent
 
I used to look at the reports in the Green Un and replay the matches on the carpet with my Subbuteo teams. I loved the way that when someone scored his name was in capitals, as in "Currie played a long ball into the path of WOODWARD who beat Sidebottom with a fine shot inside the far post."

When I was a nipper, as well as all the local teams' games and the Midland/Yorkshire Leagues, there would also be reports on Mansfield, Lincoln and Grimsby. That's how I got to know that Mansfield were the Stags and Lincoln the Imps.

Don't tell anyone, but when I was at junior school and a Chesterfield fan I wrote a letter and had it printed on Tell It To Tony saying that if I were the Wednesday manager I'd buy Woody. Tony wrote underneath "Can't see United agreeing to that. Can you?" He probably didn't realise I was only 10.
 
Jonboy60 said:
Delivered papers for them in the 60s when miles cooper ran it.
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Slightly before me! I was born in the mid-80's and probably wasn't allowed to walk to the shops on my own until mid-90's... vaguely remember a group of Mohawks who hung near the old library on the corner.

I vaguely remember them closing the library down... that was a sad day tbf... again another sign of the times
 
Mark1889 said:
Slightly before me! I was born in the mid-80's and probably wasn't allowed to walk to the shops on my own until mid-90's... vaguely remember a group of Mohawks who hung near the old library on the corner.

I vaguely remember them closing the library down... that was a sad day tbf... again another sign of the times
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Hackie club opposite gone now as well.
 

That was my job on Saturday as a little lad, run round the newsagents near the John O' Gaunt and wait for the Green Un to be delivered
 
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