My Earliest memorys of SUFC.....

[dublin 10 blade]

My first game was against Sunderland think we won 1966
One of my favourites was Reece but one my all time favourites even though he went to the dirty ones was Mick Jones.
We used to chant in the school yard (Bluestone Norfolk Park)
M I MIC MICK Mick Jones

Went to bluestone myself ,Lane Ender , small world , did you ever play in the John Tudor shield .? Ashleigh or Norfolk ? I ended up in Norfolk

 

[Bartleby]

Feeling the joy of hammering Ipswich (7-0 I think)

It was 7-0, I was at that game. Len Badger scored! Them were t'days

 

[Tyler Durden]

It was 7-0, I was at that game. Len Badger scored! Them were t'days

I went to Hinde House school with his grandson.

 

[Bartleby]

Catholic mum, catholic dad though that had no real bearing on anything for me. Early 70's in the old first division under John Harris are my first memories, with a team graced by the likes of Currie and Woodward, we topped the league for about two months. And here as we are now 40 odd years later in the 3rd division and all that seems like it was summat I just dreamt.

 

[Old Skool]

Started going as a young un in the late 70's with my 2 brothers. Started off in the Kiddies Pen down in the John St corner of the Kop. Remember getting excited about the arrival of Sabella and used to spend Friday and Saturday morning making bags full of ticker tape to throw as the players came out. Used to look forward to getting the bus (Old No 27 from Dyke Vale down to BDTBL)....wasnt always a pleasant journey back home but that's life as a Blade - I remember the windows getting put through in the midst of absolute mayhem outside the train station following the League Cup tie against Leeds !!! For all the lows of being a Blade I still wouldnt swap the memories and friends I have made for anything.

 

[Silent Blade]

Maybe,but I seem to remember it was white but it was 40 years ago

The reason why Shilton ditched the white goalkeeping jersey after the 1974 FA Cup semi final replay was because he reckoned that he was too visible to see being too far out of goal so Kevin Keegan chipped the ball over him. If he was going to wear the white jersey against us in 1975 the ref wouldnt have allowed it because we had white stripes on our jersey

There's a pic of him in the programme in the next home game v Leicester showing him bringing down Dearden for the pen Keith Eddy scored. He is indeed wearing all white.

DEFFO NOT ALL WHITE!!!

 

[Darren]

DEFFO NOT ALL WHITE!!!

So much for my memory....

 

[United Aren't Back.]

My first actual match was at home to West Brom on 25th April 1997. My dad wouldn't take me until I was 12 because he got the arse on when we sold Woodward and never fully forgave the club for it.

Anyway after years of being an annoying little prick about it he finally relented and took me. We lost 2-4, Marcelo and I think Lee Sandford scored.
One of their goals was the result of Alan Kelly trying to dribble past three of their attackers and falling flat on his arse for an easy open net. Anyway, I was a fanatic from then on.

It was 1998.

 

[Revolution]

My earliest memory of United is standing at the front of a big gloomy stand watching the rain tip down during my first ever game.

It was Easter Saturday 1978. We beat Luton 4-1. I was five. The only thing I remember is the rain...

 

[Silent Blade]

My earliest memory of United is standing at the front of a big gloomy stand watching the rain tip down during my first ever game.

It was Easter Saturday 1978. We beat Luton 4-1. I was five. The only thing I remember is the rain...

Stainrod scored two in the 1st half, he thought he got a hat-trick when he rounded the keeper and rolled the ball towards the net only for the ball to get stuck in the mud and it was cleared away. Woody scored with a header from a corner!

 

[Damski]

I'm not too sure when my first game was, but I would have been 6 or 7, and it was a home game against Reading. '93/'94, something like that. My dad took me and got us in about an hour early (to soak up the atmosphere, presumably) and it was really cold so I was wearing several layers. I remember the score as being 2-2, but that might be wrong.

I used to enjoy going, but mainly for the day out. My mum and dad split up when I was young, so it was my time with my dad every Saturday (I'm from Chesterfield so we'd go to their home games when United were away) and he always spoiled me with big Yorkie bars and gallons of coke. It was always fun to go out and be amongst men shouting passionately and giggling when they swore, I'd never seen adults behave that way (a middle class upbringing shelters children from all that, it seems) and it felt like I was being treated like one of them, which I never got anywhere else. I think that's what draws you in as a kid, the Kop on a matchday is another world, the rules are different and you get to escape being talked down to or condescended by adults. You're one of the lads. Going back to school on Monday was always grey and disappointing, especially as most of the boys "supported" Man UTD. I knew they didn't have the same fan experience as me. I'm sure most of them never even set foot in Old Trafford.

I didn't really get the football aspect until Euro '96. The combo of me being an impressionable 9 year old at the time, living in the host country, it being a long, hot summer and England actually being a good team really got me into it. I am still obsessed with international football today.

So my favourite era was '96-'03, I vividly remember all the cup runs and play-off games. I still feel the buzz from thinking "surely we'll win this one?" and actually count all those failed big games as happy memories. I was only young then, and the sunny days out were very happy ones for me, regardless of the result.

 

[Lane Ender]

There's a lot of chabbies on here need some Doc Pace and Hagan fans to make me feel young again

My first game was a second division game against Blackburn they had a keeper called Adam Blacklaw and this old guy behind the goal slagged him off all the game calling out to him Na den yer Blackleg Bastard!

Funny how you remember that and nothing about the game.

 

[Silent Blade]

There's a lot of chabbies on here need some Doc Pace and Hagan fans to make me feel young again

My first game was a second division game against Blackburn they had a keeper called Adam Blacklaw and this old guy behind the goal slagged him off all the game calling out to him Na den yer Blackleg Bastard!

Funny how you remember that and nothing about the game.

Blacklaw joined Blackburn in 1967. It would have been the 3-0 win in April 1969 or the 4-0 win in November 1969

 

[Ecco1889]

I'm not too sure when my first game was, but I would have been 6 or 7, and it was a home game against Reading. '93/'94, something like that. My dad took me and got us in about an hour early (to soak up the atmosphere, presumably) and it was really cold so I was wearing several layers. I remember the score as being 2-2, but that might be wrong.

I used to enjoy going, but mainly for the day out. My mum and dad split up when I was young, so it was my time with my dad every Saturday (I'm from Chesterfield so we'd go to their home games when United were away) and he always spoiled me with big Yorkie bars and gallons of coke. It was always fun to go out and be amongst men shouting passionately and giggling when they swore, I'd never seen adults behave that way (a middle class upbringing shelters children from all that, it seems) and it felt like I was being treated like one of them, which I never got anywhere else. I think that's what draws you in as a kid, the Kop on a matchday is another world, the rules are different and you get to escape being talked down to or condescended by adults. You're one of the lads. Going back to school on Monday was always grey and disappointing, especially as most of the boys "supported" Man UTD. I knew they didn't have the same fan experience as me. I'm sure most of them never even set foot in Old Trafford.

I didn't really get the football aspect until Euro '96. The combo of me being an impressionable 9 year old at the time, living in the host country, it being a long, hot summer and England actually being a good team really got me into it. I am still obsessed with international football today.

So my favourite era was '96-'03, I vividly remember all the cup runs and play-off games. I still feel the buzz from thinking "surely we'll win this one?" and actually count all those failed big games as happy memories. I was only young then, and the sunny days out were very happy ones for me, regardless of the result.

Probably 94-95
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March 25th 1995
Nathan Blake scored for us
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[Lane Ender]

Blacklaw joined Blackburn in 1967. It would have been the 3-0 win in April 1969 or the 4-0 win in November 1969

I new you'd be on it fella Keith Newton played as well played in the World Cup 1970

 

[Silent Blade]

I new you'd be on it fella Keith Newton played as well played in the World Cup 1970

Played in both 1969 matches at the Lane. April 1969 was end of the season match played on a very rainy day. Nov 1969 was played on a dry day. you can see at 7 mins 30 secs in below video that Blacklaw was unable to stop Woody score the 3rd goal

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Stainrod scored two in the 1st half, he thought he got a hat-trick when he rounded the keeper and rolled the ball towards the net only for the ball to get stuck in the mud and it was cleared away. Woody scored with a header from a corner!

My recollection was that there was another game just before or after that, where Millwall got pasted 5 2.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Bobby Campbell was a star for me the season of the Luton match.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

My earliest memorys of sufc are when was a young irish kid who landed in England in Stepney Buildings Sheffield in 1982.


My Mum was English COE and my dad an Irish Catholic of COE and Catholic mix. Apparently back in the days this wasnt a problem...........

anyway we had been forced to move back to England because of the conditions NI...and they were bad trust me!!!

my earliest memory is being hanging around outside teh KOP end & getting let in over the various brick walls around the time.... i dont even know who we were playing and my brothers turned into pigs cos they a better team....

anyway...what are your earliest mems.....

The gate between the Lane end and John St and the challenge to sneak through/under although going under may well be a misjudged poor memory.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Correct. It was in amongst the last days of Bassett. I think we all knew what was coming. The weekend after was a lot happier for me personally as I won the top prize on an Aces High, National Lottery Scratchcard. It was £5,000. I went to the post office the morning we played Reading, got given a cheque which got given to my Dad for safekeeping and he subbed me £100. I went out and got royally wankered, and the £5k lasted about 3 months........

Oh, to be 18 again.

3 months? light weight.

 

[Seanshoreham]

Its my first away game that stands out - a 2-0 win at Swine Cottage with new boy Alan Birchenall scoring a brace in1965

Happy smiley Blades on the Wendy kop that day

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

My first visits to BDTBL were actually to reserve games when they were played on the Saturday afternoon when the 1st team were playing away. I was very young and don't remember much about them, only the old wooden stand that was John Street then, and the maze of corridors and entrances underneath. Also the old scoreboard would be updated with how the first team were doing. First game watching the 1st team was the start of the 1971-2 season at home to Southampton, amazing experience followed quickly by a home game with Leeds on the Tuesday night and my first encounter with Bramall Lane under floodlights, a magical experience that hooked me for a lifetime.

 

[Dnblade]

Sharrow,

Could you look in the Blades v Fulham FA Cup 4th round replay programme (February 1967) or the programme for the next home game to see if there is a mention of Blades wearing the all white kit for the replay. If so, what colour shirts were Fulham wearing that night?

Thanks

Possibly an all blue kit SB,as that's what they turned out in for the League game in '68 just over a year later,and teams didn't seem to change kits as often in those days.

 

[Silent Blade]

My recollection was that there was another game just before or after that, where Millwall got pasted 5 2.

That was the week before

 

[Silent Blade]

Its my first away game that stands out - a 2-0 win at Swine Cottage with new boy Alan Birchenall scoring a brace in1965

Happy smiley Blades on the Wendy kop that day

September 1964

 

[UnitedBlade]

Its my first away game that stands out - a 2-0 win at Swine Cottage with new boy Alan Birchenall scoring a brace in1965

Happy smiley Blades on the Wendy kop that day

My first away game too ! As Silent points out it was 5 September 1964.

I was 9 but what a day. Played in all white if I remember correctly.