My Worst 10 Night Matches at the Lane

[Revolution]

No it were John Hendrie and Ian Ormandroyd

Stuart McCall also had a goal disallowed in weird circumstances for Bradford - he shot right on half time and the ball went in but the half time whistle blew before it had crossed the line. This is the only time I've ever seen this happen.

 

[Silent Blade]

Stuart McCall also had a goal disallowed in weird circumstances for Bradford - he shot right on half time and the ball went in but the half time whistle blew before it had crossed the line. This is the only time I've ever seen this happen.

Bradford were attacking the Lane End in the 1st half. Do you remember Colin Addison's disallowed goal in the 1-1 draw at home to QPR in Nov 1970? He connected a corner towards the goal and the ref blew for time just before the ball crossed the line. There were police escorting the ref outside the players entrance after the match to prevent angry Blades fans from confronting the ref

 

[Revolution]

Bradford were attacking the Lane End in the 1st half. Do you remember Colin Addison's disallowed goal in the 1-1 draw at home to QPR in Nov 1970? He connected a corner towards the goal and the ref blew for time just before the ball crossed the line. There were police escorting the ref outside the players entrance after the match to prevent angry Blades fans from confronting the ref

They were indeed.

I do not remember the Addison goal, before my time.

On a happier note, a similar incident cost Wednesday a place in the 1930 cup final...

 

[Silent Blade]

On a happier note, a similar incident cost Wednesday a place in the 1930 cup final...

What happened then?

 

[Revolution]

What happened then?

Wednesday lost the semi final 2-1 to Huddersfield. A shot from Jack Allen, Wednesday's top scorer, was on its way into the goal when the full time whistle went.

This is just as well, as they also won the league that year. A Wednesday double would have been an upsetting thing indeed.

Allen was most famous for a goal he scored in the 1932 Cup Final for Newcastle against Arsenal - there was great controversy about whether the ball went out of play before it was crossed to him. The goal stood, he scored another, and Newcastle won 2-1.

 

[bornablade]

Season 1970/71 our third season in the second tier. A night match in March against Hull City (often described as the real Battle of Bramall Lane) and we lose 3-2. A real feeling that our promotion push had come off the rails.

Move forward 35 years. Season 2005/06 once again in the second tier. A night match in February 2006 against Watford & we lose 4-1. Feeling again our promotion push was bound too fail. I actually felt sick after that game.

Fortunately on both occasions it all worked out well.

The night match against Leeds in the league cup in 1978. I was working some ridiculous hours down in South Wales but managed to get some time off to get home for this match. Like most on here of my age TC was my hero. In an ideal world I wanted a Blades win, TC to play a blinder and the Kop to give him a fantastic reception. Unfortunately it all turned out differently. The use of the term 'the day the music died' is brilliant. This game was the moment that I realised my brilliant 1970's were over and our love affair with TC was finished. It was a miserable trip back to Wales.

 

[bladesfan]

So for your worst night match at the Lane

1. We lost
2. You don;t know who the opponents were
3. It was when the cricket pitch was there or maybe just the pavilion
4. It might not have been a night match, but it was definitely dark.

That one really stuck in your mind

Proves I have only good memorys of the Blades Darren, the bad things I forget

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

Season 1970/71 our third season in the second tier. A night match in March against Hull City (often described as the real Battle of Bramall Lane) and we lose 3-2. A real feeling that our promotion push had come off the rails.

It was 2-1, not 3-2, but I know the feeling you describe.

It was a bad 24 hours. At about 3 o'clock that morning, I'd been listening under the covers to the first Ali-Frazier fight at Madison Square Garden. There had been a huge build-up and, like most people I knew, I desperately wanted Ali to win. As I recall, I couldn't find any live commentary and I ended up on the US Forces Network with two pundits taking it in turns to read out a sort of tickertape blow-by-blow account of the fight. I was gutted when Ali lost. After the fight finished I got up to go for a pee, met my dad on the landing and gave him the news. He saw it as a bad omen for the Hull game and he was right.

 

[bornablade]

It was 2-1, not 3-2, but I know the feeling you describe.

It was a bad 24 hours. At about 3 o'clock that morning, I'd been listening under the covers to the first Ali-Frazier fight at Madison Square Garden. There had been a huge build-up and, like most people I knew, I desperately wanted Ali to win. As I recall, I couldn't find any live commentary and I ended up on the US Forces Network with two pundits taking it in turns to read out a sort of tickertape blow-by-blow account of the fight. I was gutted when Ali lost. After the fight finished I got up to go for a pee, met my dad on the landing and gave him the news. He saw it as a bad omen for the Hull game and he was right.

Thanks for that Shalala..... I was mixing up the Hull game in 2006 when we won with the late David Unsworth goal. Unsworth was on my mind due to fact I think he was sent off in that Watford game. I'm sure it was Eagles that was giving him the runaround

 

[blade.i.am]

Does anyone remember a goalless draw on a Friday nigh against Crewe a few years ago? Very boring and as I remember effing freezing.
Just spotted post concerning QPR game in 1970. Remember it well, it was my 1st visit to BDTBL. So I didn't imagine the last minute disallowed winner.