Most enjoyable Blades moments

[KenMcnaughtsNuts]

just off the top of my head...

singing in the rain on bobby davison day
the final whistle at leicester
newcastle in the league cup, 3-0 i think, their fans started singing "were so shit its unbelievable"
the last minute winner against brighton to win 5-4, john francis header i think

ive left out some of the obvious ones on purpose

see...it ain't been ALL bad.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

What a night.

 

[alcoblade]

just off the top of my head...

singing in the rain on bobby davison day
the final whistle at leicester
newcastle in the league cup, 3-0 i think, their fans started singing "were so shit its unbelievable"
the last minute winner against brighton to win 5-4, john francis header i think

They'd all be in my top 10, I think. Plus;

Leeds at home - Jags / Nuddy
Liverpool - 1978 League cup (Gary Hamson)

UTB

 

[blade too long]

away days
bob bookahs winner at QPR that ensured we stayed in the prem
the 2-0 win at forest glynn hodges goal , at Brian Cloughs last home game
the 5-2 win there with gannons cannon
the 4-0 win at Leeds , has to be in
a 2-0 win at Oldham promotion year that did turn our season round
an injury time equaliser by Deano at derby in our first away game back in the top league , when wed outplayed them but fallen behind

 

[bartman]

The single moment for me was Unsworth's last minute winner against Hull. Ages staying in the same division,two nil up in a must win game,back to 2-2,Paddy lucky to stay on the pitch and a scrappy winner from a corner .

I think we all knew we were up that day

 

[Darren]

The single moment for me was Unsworth's last minute winner against Hull. Ages staying in the same division,two nil up in a must win game,back to 2-2,Paddy lucky to stay on the pitch and a scrappy winner from a corner .

I think we all knew we were up that day

There's a great pic of that goal in the commerative book we brought out. The ball has hit the back of the net, but the photographer has captured the crowd behind the goal in the split second before the fact that it is a goal has registered on their brains. They all look anxious rather than anything else.

 

[raul]

Was just about to post that myself Barty. I was still ranting weapons grade invective at Kabba as the ball hit the back of the net and have never gone as loopy either before or since.

Not a moment as such, but the entire day out at Luton will never be bettered either.

 

[Stockholm syndrom]

Has to be the 1-3 win against the piglets, oh how great it was to go to school after that win. Wendies were giving it large saying they were going to murder us at the sty (after our 2-0 win at home). I went to school extra early just so I could go round all the classrooms and write 2-0. 3-1 on all the blackboards happy days

 

[Guesty]

Kabba's volley against Forest and the subsequent 'Oh My God' goal, Brown against Wednesday that same season, the whistle going and we'd beaten Arsenal with Jags in net and Dellas' goal against Pompey.

 

[Revolution]

The moment Whitehouse scored at the Lane against the Pigs. Happiest I've ever been inside a football ground.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Tony Currie sitting on the ball against Arsenal.

 

[JohnDenver]

The final whistle for Blades 1-0 Arsenal. FA Cup in '95 I think.

Not only the fact we beat a great team*, but it was the first time I'd ever seen United play pure passing football (I grew up under Bassett).

We mullered them left right and centre.



* David Seaman
Tony Adams
Martin Keown
Gavin McGowan
Lee Dixon
John Jensen
Paul Merson
David Platt
Dennis Bergkamp
Ian Wright
Glenn Helder

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

That 5-0 thrashing of Arsenal, TC sitting on the ball and generally giving them a right old football lesson. There was also a 3-1 beating of Leeds on a Tuesday night when TC ran the game, much to the annoyance of J.Giles.

In fact some pretty awesome stuff around that time, including that 3-2 win at Everton mentioned elsewhere on here. With 10 minutes left of that game they were champions elect, instead we then missed being League Champions by 3 points!!!

 

[ZoneManWilf]

Andy Walker's goal at Ipswich in the playoff semi in 97. The most mental goal celebration I've ever been involved in.

Running it close:
- Whitehouse in front of the Kop against the pigs in 1991.
- Peschisolido
- Brown's volley against the pigs
- Ndlovu's agaisnt Leeds in the league cup rather than Jags', because the build up to the goal was one of those that gets you ready to go for it

 

[Kenilworth]

.......and then the thread is exhausted ..........

 

[Grecian2000]

All of the above +

Bob Atkins at Millmoor
Kachuro at Molineaux
1-0 vs Leeds in LC 1970
2-1 vs Everton FAC 196?
Cardiff 5-1 1971
Cork scoring at Wembley
Deane equalising at the sty a few weeks later
Peterborough away 1982

I feel all warm inside now.

 

[Eskimo]

Tudor' goal against Wednesday to make it 3-2 wasn't bad and neither was Gil Reece's flying header against Cardiff in the 5-1 win which promoted us in 1971?

 

[georgebernardshaw]

All of the above +

Bob Atkins at Millmoor
Kachuro at Molineaux
1-0 vs Leeds in LC 1970
2-1 vs Everton FAC 196?
Cardiff 5-1 1971
Cork scoring at Wembley
Deane equalising at the sty a few weeks later
Peterborough away 1982

I feel all warm inside now.

Losing 0-1, then Addison and Reece?

 

[Darren]

The final whistle for Blades 1-0 Arsenal. FA Cup in '95 I think.

Not only the fact we beat a great team*, but it was the first time I'd ever seen United play pure passing football (I grew up under Bassett).

We mullered them left right and centre.



* David Seaman
Tony Adams
Martin Keown
Gavin McGowan
Lee Dixon
John Jensen
Paul Merson
David Platt
Dennis Bergkamp
Ian Wright
Glenn Helder

Strangely one of my best Blades moments was after the bitter-sweet Cup semi-final defeat at Old Trafford against Arsenal in 2003. We had matched in every the way the current double holders and only Dave Seamen and his bloody big hand plus the ref had stopped us beating them. I remember telling my then 7 year old son as we walked away from the ground that United could be very proud of themselves.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Liverpool 1 Blades 2 Good Friday 1968

Hitched there and got a lift back all the way to Sheffield on the team coach

 

[IOM Blade]

The single moment for me was Unsworth's last minute winner against Hull. Ages staying in the same division,two nil up in a must win game,back to 2-2,Paddy lucky to stay on the pitch and a scrappy winner from a corner .

I think we all knew we were up that day

My future wife took me to see Real Madrid for my birthday that weekend. I sneaked out to the Irish pub across from the Bernabeu at 3pm to watch Sir Jeff while she was having a kip. At 2-o they inexplicably put the Grand National on and when Soccer Saturday finally came back it was 2-2 and i was convinced we'd blown it. The Full times scores were flooding in when Champagne Charlie Nicholas, who was watching our game in the studio, screamed. I went fooking mental in that pub when 3-2 popped up and scared the shit out of the locals.

I was in tears on the way back to the hotel only to be greeted by a very grumpy girlfriend, who did not take kindly to beeing ditched for two hours!

 

[GAZBLADE]

I once beat a Wendy fan in an arm wrestle on holiday in Crete!!!

 

[OneBladeStanding]

The Sheffield United Vs Nottingham Forest cup match with United coming from behind to win 4 - 3. I was sat just in front of a group of suited and booted forest fans who were in an executive box and giving us a hard time having gone 2 -0 up. Their smiles, laughter and chanting and our misery and annoyance turned beautifully around. great stuff

 

[Ollessendro]

The one's that stand out for me:
- Andy Walker's goal away at Ipswich in the play off final in 97
- Katchouro's winner at Molinoux: twisting this way and that, leaving Dean Richards in his wake and banging it in off the post
- Henderson's late winner at Brizzle a few years ago
- Whitehouse scoring a cracker in 1994 at home to West Ham. We were 2 nowt down just before h/t and he smacked one in from the edge of the box. We won 3-2.
- 5k of us singing 'will you come to Bramall Lane' to the home fans at Highfield Road. Then subsequently Holdsworth's late scissor kick and Kelly outfoxing Dublin. That was a decent Coventry side and an excellent scalp back in 1998.
- Going mental on the kop when Tonge scored the winner vs Liverpool in the league cup semi first leg.
- Veart's goal that beat a very good Arsenal team at Bramall Lane in the early to mid 90's. I was sat in the family stand (in the South Stand at the time) and remember a 3 sided Bramall Lane going mental.

 

[TAMUS]

I once beat a Wendy fan in an arm wrestle on holiday in Crete!!!

Liar pigs dont have arms .

 

[raul]

One that's not on the bingo card -and I'm sure we'll all have one of these which no-one else particularly remembers - is the 3-2 win over Millwall the Tuesday night after BOBL.

I was convinced we were going to be docked points, what with being an ultra realist, and genuinely feared relegation on the back of it. Nuddy's last minute winner, following a late equaliser two mins earlier, sent me home relaxed and confident that even if the points docking took place, the team we're completely unaffected by all the furore. This was confirmed the following Saturday when we hammered Burnley, but then knocked off for the season in comfortable mid table obscurity.

 

[upton blade]

olle beat me to it= holdsworths leveller v coventry and then winning on pens what a night! that game just stands out for me i ended up on the pitch and got a little excited lol ended up getting a piggy back from a pumped up tri dellas

 

[ZoneManWilf]

- 5k of us singing 'will you come to Bramall Lane' to the home fans at Highfield Road.

That included one of the best ever player goal celebrations when Marcelo scored, ran over to the Blades took his shirt off and chucked it into the crowd, but had a spare one underneath

 

[dublin 10 blade]

not our game hull v burnley when burnley only lost 2-0 to send us up,
beating the vile 3-1 { alright only saw first goal as in there end} and turfed out when we all went mad down the front of there kop.
watchin gary H. smashing the ball into the kop end to beat liverpool 1-0 in league cup.
listing on radio as we stuffed leicester to win promo.
beating manu in first prem leauge win thats history vile watches
beating forest and then staying up that season
watchin us beat manu in fa cup and them missing a peno.
When you think of it it's not all bad.
coming from 2-0 down to draw with spurs 2-2 at home.
watching sabella set up our goal v sunderland did'nt it win goal of the month on match of day ?? {dazzler}

 

[blade too long]

an alan woodward corner straight to currie on the 18 yard box who hit it on the half volley in a training ground moment executed to perfection
and 2 woodward goals one at west ham that ripped the net , literally and the most fearful thunderbolt 35 yard free kick at coventry , without a run up never seen a ball move faster , there was a boom around highfield road as it broke the sound barrier
and having spoken to God his individual goal at Bristol City which is his favourite