Obscure Blades facts you didn't know until lockdown

[Revolution]

Pretty sure that Andy Gray still holds a record as the only player to score on both the opening day of the PL and the Championship.

In 2005 we played Leicester at home and won 4-1. We then sold him to Sunderland who played their opening PL game (Charlton?!) the following weekend and scored in that game also.

Not only did Gray do that, but he actually scored the first goal in each competition that season.

 

[Rufus Smalls]

I've posted before about Ron Cockerill who was indeed from Chapeltown and something of a local hero among kids of my age in the early '50's .

He was a fine all round sportsman with an outstanding physique and over 6 ft . tall . He played cricket for Mortomley CC whose ground was in High Green park and I once saw him smash a six out of the ground and onto the roof of the school on the other side of Greengate Lane , a huge hit by any standards .

It was said by many at the time that , if had not chosen football as his career , he could well have gone on to play for Yorkshire .

I believe that whe he turned professional Wolves were keen to sign him and they were one of the top clubs at the time , but he chose to go to Huddersfield as it was closer to home .

As for Glenn , I've always thought that if he had played in a Blades team with better players around him he could have gone on to be one of our all time greats .

I’m always one to praise Glenn Cockerill for his brief couple of seasons with us. He was a rare breed of footballer who used to rip us to bits when he played against us for Lincoln City, and then be excellent for us once he pulled the red and white stripes on. Agreed he played in a very poor Blades side at the time but his class showed once he moved on to Southampton where he always seemed to be highly regarded.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

I’m always one to praise Glenn Cockerill for his brief couple of seasons with us. He was a rare breed of footballer who used to rip us to bits when he played against us for Lincoln City, and then be excellent for us once he pulled the red and white stripes on. Agreed he played in a very poor Blades side at the time but his class showed once he moved on to Southampton where he always seemed to be highly regarded.

A fine , fine player . I’d go so far as to say if he had been in our midfield last season in place of any of them , we would not have gone down .

I’ve seen more than one article saying that Saints fans class him as a club legend .

 

[mattbianco1]

We're incapable of competing in empty stadiums