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[Silent Blade]

My first away match, won 1 - 0 with a goal from Woody and I remember getting the Green Un that night and we were top of the First Division, Pigs were bottom of the Second. What a day!

The three blokes I went with fancied a pint outside the ground and so left me (a snotty nosed kid) in a cafe close by with some pop and crisps. I was shitting myself when a load of Everton lads came in hanging round the pinball machine and was really relieved when my fellow Blades came and got me. We were sat in the middle of the Everton lot on the side stand but when Woody smacked the ball home we all jumped up. Had to run the gauntlet getting back to the car but the joy I felt watching that marvelous bunch of players bring 2 points back from Goodison Park will live with me forever.

Any ideas why we played with the orange ball Silent?

https://www.worldfootball.net/match-report/ma578456/lineup/

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There were a few matches around that time an orange ball was used but I never found out the reason for that if there was no snow on the pitch.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

The pigs used a yellow ball in the early seventies from memory.