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I watched that team on a regular basis ..... they were a BLOODY GOOD team.... !!.... ps. Hodkinson the better keeper by some way .
Saw Hodgy from his first game to his last and he was imho the best keeper for us I have ever seen , also saw him in the old central league as a young kid trying to get in the first team and there was no doubt he would go on to have a great career. I understand you saying it's hard to compare them now with the game being faster, lighter balls ect but as Brian the Blade would say believe you me Hodgy was the best.
Remember all of those players but can't remember ever seeing Russell when I started going Allchurch was on the wing and Hodgson inside right. one of my first memories was Hodgson scoring in a 1-0 win over Leicester god knows when.
We signed Allchurch on deadline day, about two weeks after the Newcastle match
I would have to say hodgy in his hay day but hendo still young and he could go even better
Me too. One of my life`s best away days. Then robbed at Elland Road.
Was that the game he came off the pitch covered in mud from head to toe
And the ref a few years later admitted he should have allowed the goal.we would have given Spurs a better game
The Cardiff City game is still the best one I have been to.
You did ask! I hope the pics of the programme and from my old scrapbook convey something of my favourite away trip of all-time. 18,000 Blades in all corners of the ground, singing Ilkey Moor the whole game. We were behind the goal where Russell got his hat-trick, but I don't know the lads who ran on the pitch. Our 'football special' train broke down somewhere around Darlington, and for a while we looked like missing the match. My dad would have sympathised with you - he worked Saturday mornings, and nearly fell off his chair when Grandstand(?) reported rumours that United were 3-0 up after 20 minutes - the presenter did not know whether to believe it! More pics on the next post.
Newcastle United v Sheffield United, 04 March 1961
11v11 football match report for Newcastle United v Sheffield United, FA Cup 1961 Quarter-final, 04 March 1961www.11v11.com
As a young paperboy i couldn't afford to go to this match, really pissed off as some of my mates could, the Blades scorers & players are not listed can anyone fill in the gaps?
Your dad is bang on regarding J. Hagan on both counts.
I can remember my dad shaking his head saying "we always sell our best players son & mentioning summat about Jone & Birchienall" which meant nowt to me at the time but became a very prophetic comment.
That promotion season our annual leave from Ghana coincided with Cardiff & Watford game. Dad bought us tickets on the back row of Bramall Lane Stand for both games. I was only 8 but remember both games being magical.
Always happy to look out these things, particularly just now. The semi-final made less of an impression than the Newcastle match. The atmosphere was great (see last frame of the cartoon), but the match was not great. The main incident was Pace's disallowed goal, but as it was at the other end, I have no idea whether it was handball. He always maintained he didn't handle it, and he was an honest type. A couple of weeks later, Allchurch made his debut and scored the winner v Leeds at Elland Road, and began the push for promotion (think Basham, March last year).
), and haven't got the programme, but here are some pics, and the report.
For the younger ones reading the report on the right mentioning our bright and gay new strip the word "gay" had a totally different meaning back then to what it does today. Imagine a reporter writing that today he'd be sacked and probably arrested for hate crimes
My dad was at that FA Cup final. He went to 1949 and 1955 FA Cup finals too. My Uncle Ronnie has the tickets. The 1949 is on the right of the below photo
The 1961 Final was huge, because the Double had not been done for so long that it seemed impossible (can't remember when the previous double was). That Spurs team was terrific to watch - if Utd were playing a long way from Sheffield, and I was playing school football Saturday mornings, I got a train to watch them in Nottingham, Manchester (and even S6). They were awesome, and would no doubt have beaten us in the final. If it is not too personal a question, how did your dad get tickets for these matches?
that's the one. My European geography is amazing as a result.
Ta. No wonder it was regarded as something almost impossible.
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