Most unusual thing you ever took to the match?

[SwissBlade]

A Frog........Ok, she was my girlfriend at the time, but she did look like a frog.

A Pole

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

A Lithuanian

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

In 1986 bought the copy of Penthouse with naked Madonna pictures in from a newsagents in town while on my way to the game. Stuffed it down the sleeve of my coat. Might have had a sneaky look at half time.

I remember that eagerly anticipated edition as being a bit of a let down. Weren't the pics a bit fuzzy or out of focus ? (yes, a bit like my eyes are now before anyone else says it )

 

[Piffle and Tosh]

Dave Snowden

 

[TTMeysh]

Snare drum. Bought in Carlsboro, completely misjudged how long it would take to choose one, ended up lugging it to the game. Didn't play it at the game on account of not being a fucking wanker.

 

[Mad Mick]

A lump hammer.

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

I bombed it back on my bike for a midweek game (Worcester this is) from my work in Bewdley and took my bike in with me after having an argument with them at the gate saying im not leaving a new 2500 quid bike outside the ground..I was also in full cycling kit wanker mode so I got plenty of funny looks at the clacketty clack noise my cycling shoes made on the terrace and 'oi mate, the Tour de France went that way' type jibes.

 

[Eskimo]

Hatchets and hammers, carving knives and spanners. They made a song up about it there and then.

 

[Eskimo]

A very sore leg.
I was late meeting someone for a big night match and running. I ran down Bramall Lane past the police through a knot of lads at the corner of John St. Leeds fans.
Their view of things was I suppose, that this one man kamikaze Blade was having a go.
I managed to get through but I thought they'd broken my leg as I was punched and kicked from all sides. I lost myself in the crowd as South Yorkshire's finest came after me presumably to arrest me.
Jesus, standing on the kop hurt that night.

 

[DifferentClass]

Don't recall owt unusual in particular but does anyone remember the inflatable craze of the 80s? Bit before me time but I remember reading about how we used to hand out inflatable blades at matches.

 

[JJBlade]

Many years ago I was an apprentice baker (don't ask why because I haven't got a clue)

I had to buy one of those roll up fabric wallets that were full of various types of bakers knives for my college course

We had a night game at Mansfield one day when I was at college and the lads had got a minibus
The minibus picked me up at Granville College on the way

Of course I got into the minibus with half a dozen razor sharp bakers knives rolled up in a wallet

It was never my intention to take them into the stadium but I didn't get the chance because we had a police spot check as soon as we got to Mansfield

Their faces when they saw what I was carrying. It took some explaining I can tell you

They still confiscated them and I had to go back to Mansfield a few days later to pick them up, and that wasn't easy either.

I seem to get no end of bother whenever I go to Mansfield

 

[Hodgyman]

I once took a hammer that I had just bought into the match. I didn't twigg to the stupidity of that as it was during the bad period of violence on the terraces. I was lucky enough to realise as I approached the ground, went to a Police Sergeant and confessed to my own stupidity. He took my name and address and let me in trusting that I wasn't a hooligan as I had approached him. I did get a warning though that if I was to use it in violence in the ground that I would be prosecuted and possibly banned from BDTBL for life.

I was lucky but a ban might have saved me thousands of pounds and a lot of heart-ache.

 

[Billyblade]

I once took a piggy mate of mine. He went on the premise that I would go to Pigborough in return. I never went

 

[Chief_Froley]

I used to go to CPD Porthmadog games quite regularly with a big group of people (about 60 of us) and seeing as we were about 2 thirds of the stadium capacity the chairman loved us and pretty much let us do whatever we wanted. I remember once taking a full drum kit with me to play through the game whilst dressed as a penguin.

Before that we also once made a bunch of banners to show embarrassing tweets that opposition players had made when they were kids and I also remember my brother accidentally ruining a mins silence thanks to him bringing a 10 foot tall inflatable crocodile to a game.

 

[I should coco]

Bit before me time but I remember reading about how we used to hand out inflatable blades at matches.

No, haddock.

We handed out thousands of inflatable haddock and when stocks ran out, some inflatable mackerel and sole.

This was to reflect the glorious maritime heritage of BDTBL.

 

[elgoog44]

Someone Else's Mrs

 

[DifferentClass]

Someone Else's Mrs

No wonder she's splitting with Jamie!

 

[Sithblade]

I remember that eagerly anticipated edition as being a bit of a let down. Weren't the pics a bit fuzzy or out of focus ? (yes, a bit like my eyes are now before anyone else says it )

Yeah, some arty shots before she was famous, and there were blurry.

 

[Groucho Blade]

78 or 79 away at Leyton Orient. My mate was cycling back to Australia and took a bike frame in with him. I told him he was bonkers to try and it would just be taken off him. But no one even challenged him about it. He just waltzed in with it over his shoulder. Bizarre.

 

[BushBlade]

Yeah, some arty shots before she was famous, and there were blurry.

You can find them on the Internet with a simple google search. They're not that blurry and she was quite a hairy girl.

 

[Cruyff Turn]

A West Brom fan...to the Battle of Bramall Lane!!!

And he's STILL moaning about it

 

[JJBlade]

I once took a hammer that I had just bought into the match. I didn't twigg to the stupidity of that as it was during the bad period of violence on the terraces. I was lucky enough to realise as I approached the ground, went to a Police Sergeant and confessed to my own stupidity. He took my name and address and let me in trusting that I wasn't a hooligan as I had approached him. I did get a warning though that if I was to use it in violence in the ground that I would be prosecuted and possibly banned from BDTBL for life.

I was lucky but a ban might have saved me thousands of pounds and a lot of heart-ache.

It would have been unlucky for you if a hammer came flying through the air wouldn't it

 

[sitwell]

TV remote control ,Id been watching the dinner time game on Sky and hid the remote in my pocket so no one could change the channel ,only realised it was there when I tried to have a row in the shoutbox at half time. No 4g on that fucker ,my phone was down the cushion when I got home.

 

[Grecian2000]

I remember having fish fingers after meeting a young lady at Roxy's.

Bloody lucky Sitters hadn't been there first otherwise you'd have had the full brown sauce experience as well.

Actually got my £5 afro comb confiscated at Filbert Street first away game of 78/79. Bloody copper could obviously see I had a perm (probably thought I looked a twat, as indeed I did looking back) and £5 was more than the match admission back then. Bastard.
Won 1-0, John Matthews, thought we were going up that night.

 

[dynamoblade]

It wasn't at Bramall Lane, but I live in Berlin these days and support BFC Dynamo (or Dynamo Berlin as most old farts know them). Anyway I'd forgotten there was a match on, they play in the semi-pro regional north east league so it's usually quite forgettable, and decided to go mooching round a flea market of a Saturday with the family. Just so happened the market is next to the stadium, heard the tannoy go, persuaded the missus that we should all go and ended up having to explain to the bemused looking security why I wanted to take in a stack of East German vinyls and a teapot!

 

[1973Blade]

A table tennis bat, which I had in my coat pocket. The police searched me but still let me in with it!

 

[ballyblade]

A set of darts at Huddersfield....I'd played in a darts match on the wendy night and left them in my coat pocket by mistake! Had to walk all the way back to the car in case we were searched