Odd but interesting!?

[Weatewed]

I was working at a customers house the other month and he showed me this card that his father had amongst his possessions when he'd passed away. It's a pretty strange and bleak message but it might be of interest to some? Can anyone explain what it's all about?

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

We were relegated in 1956

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sheffield_United_F.C._seasons

 

[Lower Drop Blade]

A sad lament...there has been a few

 

[Weatewed]

We were relegated in 1956

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sheffield_United_F.C._seasons

That'll be it then, but it is so bleak I thought there might be something else going on? I couldn't imagine anyone printing these sort of cards out after relegation today. Then keeping for decades as well. By the way, he would sell it if there's anyone out there bonkers enough to buy it,

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

That'll be it then, but it is so bleak I thought there might be something else going on? I couldn't imagine anyone printing these sort of cards out after relegation today. Then keeping for decades as well. By the way, he would sell it if there's anyone out there bonkers enough to buy it,

If you were around at the time you would have seen it as dark self-effacing typical blades humour.

I was 5 or 6 then but I remember seeing a card such as this a few years later

 

[vorpal blade]

it seems to have died out a bit now, but there has long been a tradition for over-reacting to adverse sporting occurences as if they were deaths and therefore holding mock funeral rites. Here are 2 versions related to our West Yorks chums' favourite team .....



the 1973 version was actually made by Sun'land fans to celebrate beating the Peacocks in the FA Cup,

But by far the best-known result of a sporting mock funeral are the Ashes, which were the result of a ritual cremation of English Cricket



reputedly the real ashes are burnt stumps from the match, their urn therefore a secular reliquary .......

this funeral notice from the Times, being the exact analogue to your little death notice Mr. Weetabix

merry Xmas ......

 

[Weatewed]

it seems to have died out a bit now, but there has long been a tradition for over-reacting to adverse sporting occurences as if they were deaths and therefore holding mock funeral rites. Here are 2 versions related to our West Yorks chums' favourite team .....

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the 1973 version was actually made by Sun'land fans to celebrate beating the Peacocks in the FA Cup,

But by far the best-known result of a sporting mock funeral are the Ashes, which were the result of a ritual cremation of English Cricket

View attachment 34695

reputedly the real ashes are burnt stumps from the match, their urn therefore a secular reliquary .......

this funeral notice from the Times, being the exact analogue to your little death notice Mr. Weetabix

merry Xmas ......

 

[UnitedBlade]

Just looked it up, United took 1 point from the last 5 games and the Pigs were promoted the same season. No wonder we were miserable.

 

[diode_blade]

Just looked it up, United took 1 point from the last 5 games and the Pigs were promoted the same season. No wonder we were miserable.

Tha never knows, might be t'other way round come end of May 2018....

 

[Silent Blade]

Our manager, Reg Freeman, passed away before the start of the season. Joe Mercer became our new manager. Alan Hodgkinson and Graham Shaw had to miss most of the season due to National Service.Jimmy Hagan played only 22 games due to injuries and we were lacking firepower. Ernest Jackson quit as a trainer just after the start of the season cos he found it difficult to work with Mercer

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Funny, I was 8 at the time, and had no sense of the disasters that generally happen to United. I just assumed that those players, who I hero-worshipped, would turn it round the next season. Took a long time for the pessimism to set in.

 

[2ndtenorblade]

I vaguely remember something about the pigs getting relegated, late 60s early 70s. The last 2 lines went something like .it seemed such a pity the chief executioner should be Manchester city.

 

[LenTednTony]

I remember seeing a similar card in recognition of the pigs when they got relegated. My stepdad had it on his mantle for years it read something like

Here lies the body of the old blue and white
Who’s timely demise was on a wet, windy night
Before 45,000 it seemed such a pity
That the chief executioner was Manchester City!

If memory serves, it also said that the Manager was.....Joe Mercer. Poetic justice, I feel.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

it seems to have died out a bit now, but there has long been a tradition for over-reacting to adverse sporting occurences as if they were deaths and therefore holding mock funeral rites. Here are 2 versions related to our West Yorks chums' favourite team .....

View attachment 34693 View attachment 34694

the 1973 version was actually made by Sun'land fans to celebrate beating the Peacocks in the FA Cup,

But by far the best-known result of a sporting mock funeral are the Ashes, which were the result of a ritual cremation of English Cricket

View attachment 34695

reputedly the real ashes are burnt stumps from the match, their urn therefore a secular reliquary .......

this funeral notice from the Times, being the exact analogue to your little death notice Mr. Weetabix

merry Xmas ......

I lived in Sunderland when they won the cup. I lived right on the sea front about 200 yards from the ground.
The cup was paraded through the town and along the sea front before going up to Roker Park so I decided to go to the ground as I thought, "I'll never see this thing at Bramall Lane so I might as well go to see it now."

I had gone to the home matches but did not go to Wembley so I joined the 30 odd thousand in the ground that night to have a sight of the cup. I can remember distinctly the coffin being brought onto the pitch and placed in the centre circle in a mock funeral parade to the great pleasure of the crowd.

The team paraded the cup round the ground and, true to form, this was the first and last time I have ever seen it in real life.

 

[DifferentClass]

I will always respect funny little Nigel’s dad for the job he did at L**ds.

 

[BladeFisher]

I was working at a customers house the other month and he showed me this card that his father had amongst his possessions when he'd passed away. It's a pretty strange and bleak message but it might be of interest to some? Can anyone explain what it's all about?

It was a tradition in Sheffield for a while that 'funeral cards' were produced in memory of the defeated team, usually after a heavy derby day defeat.

Read it one of the many SUFC books. I seem to recall it was a late 19th century/ early 20th century thing.

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

[QUOTE="vorpal blade,

reputedly the real ashes are burnt stumps from the match, their urn therefore a secular reliquary .......

this funeral notice from the Times, being the exact analogue to your little death notice Mr. Weetabix

merry Xmas ......[/QUOTE]

PEDANT ALERT:-
Bails not stumps
[apologies]

 

[vorpal blade]

ah , yes of course over the (40+) years since reading about the Ashes in 'the Story of Cricket'?? Ladybird book, my memory has certainly strayed, to the point where I couldn't understand how the hell they had got all the ashes from the stumps into such a tiny urn!

silly me -