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[Bell4]

As Blade1959 has correctly got it. Blades 3 Bristol City 3 in Sept 1970

Really ! That was my very first game - so i am in the stadium for the very first time

 

[Bell4]

Really ! That was my very first game - so i am in the stadium for the very first time

and i can tell you that its the second half as we scored our 3 at the BL end.

Scullion wasn't playing by the way

 

[Silent Blade]

and i can tell you that its the second half as we scored our 3 at the BL end.

Scullion wasn't playing by the way

It would be Reece on the left

 

[Lane Ender]

I know it's about 'what ifs', but we also bought Currie that season. If we hadn't sold Jones and Birch, we could have had numbers 7 to 11 of Woody, Birch, Jones, Currie and Reece. Fuckin ' ell. We'd have won the League the year after!

We’ve always been a selling club always will be just got to live with it

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

We’ve always been a selling club always will be just got to live with it

I well remember going to an AGM shortly after Neil Warnock’s appointment . At one point , a member stood up and questioned the club’s policy on selling players , pointing out that it had cost us dearly in the past and asking if we could expect a change in policy .

The question was referred to the club’s Accountant ( who I think was Andrew Laver ) whose reply , without any hint of irony was :-

“ We are a selling club , and will continue to be so until we get back to the Premier League .”

Surprisingly , given the constraints of such a philosophy , Warnock managed to achieve that goal and created a side capable of producing some of the most memorable performances in my time watching the Blades .

In spite of his subsequent failures and sometimes highly dubious behaviour , that is something I will always be grateful for .

 

[Lane Ender]

I well remember going to an AGM shortly after Neil Warnock’s appointment . At one point , a member stood up and questioned the club’s policy on selling players , pointing out that it had cost us dearly in the past and asking if we could expect a change in policy .

The question was referred to the club’s Accountant ( who I think was Andrew Laver ) whose reply , without any hint of irony was :-

“ We are a selling club , and will continue to be so until we get back to the Premier League .”

Surprisingly , given the constraints of such a philosophy , Warnock managed to achieve that goal and created a side capable of producing some of the most memorable performances in my time watching the Blades .

In spite of his subsequent failures and sometimes highly dubious behaviour , that is something I will always be grateful for .

Warnock did a good job if we showed the same football away as at home we wouldn’t have gone down though

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

I remember watching this ont telly in black n white.

 

[Knackered Blade]

I remember watching this ont telly in black n white.

That game brings back so many memories. Allan Clarke kept scoring in front of us and each time the goal was disallowed. In my memory I thought Mick Jones was further out, but I may be mixing it up with the goal he scored in the FA Cup Third Round away match at Charlton. What I do remember clearly is in the replay against Fulham at Bramall Lane, Bill Punton had a superb match. In the first minute he headed the ball past Fulham’s right back and raced after it. I’m sure Punton had never headed the ball previous to this. Everyone gasped in amazement, the full back included. Punton was immense that night and scored two goals. Some would say it was his best ever game for United, but not his most important goals. He had scored a rather scrappy goal in front of the Kop a month earlier against a certain team from S6.
The FA Cup run that year was unusual. United were drawn away in London each time. The Fifth Round visit to Stamford Bridge ended the run. Chelsea won 2-0. I think Hateley scored with a header in front of me. Maybe wrong.

 

[reedy63]

Fantastic photo of the Kop
Absolutely full. before my time who are The Blades playing. score and attendance?

 

[Blad]

 

[Silent Blade]

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Photo already posted last weekend

 

[DifferentClass]

Unfortunately timed football photos part 30439014 starring Rob Fleck, Andy Goram(?) and a lucky Boavista player:

 

[davey1889]

Fantastic photo of the Kop
Absolutely full. before my time who are The Blades playing. score and attendance?

My guess would be sometime in late 1940's. Is that still bomb damage top left of the Kop? No idea on opponents. Is that Hagan in the centre?

 

[Blad]

Photo already posted last weekend

Ah sorry about that, hard to keep up with what’s been posted unless on here all the time or go through all the pages.

 

[Aganarama]

Unfortunately timed football photos part 30439014 starring Rob Fleck, Andy Goram(?) and a lucky Boavista player:

It's the Boavista keeper. Our old friend the Wicker Arches was in goal for Rangers... Goram would have still been at Oldham then.
And I never knew Ian Rush played for Boavista

 

[Silent Blade]

Ah sorry about that, hard to keep up with what’s been posted unless on here all the time or go through all the pages.

Blade1959 identified it as Blades 3 Bristol City 3 on 5/9/1970

 

[ForgeBlade]

Bit of a request...does anyone know of or have any photos from the game on 10/9/1994 when we beat Bolton 3-1? It was my first ever match and google is sadly lacking.

 

[Chingo]

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Amazing that when the ground was packed like that in the 70’s and 80’s (I know this pic is before then) they used to call a crowd of 14,000 out

 

[Chingo]

Unfortunately timed football photos part 30439014 starring Rob Fleck, Andy Goram(?) and a lucky Boavista player:

All I could remember of Robert Fleck was the blonde hair and not how much he looks like John !

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I don’t remember seeing this photo before, from the Everton v United programme, Dec 18, 1954. United won 3-2.

 

[Hagansbootlaces]

I don’t remember seeing this photo before, from the Everton v United programme, Dec 18, 1954. United won 3-2.
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Fred helped out with the youth team I played for in the late 70s, even refereed a game when the guy didn't turn up, went to the boot of his car, got his gear, and trotted out onto the pitch in what looked like a 1950s refs kit, lovely bloke, found out years later he was still going to the Lane, on matchday, attending tge social club before the game, always planned to go in and thank him, but never got round to it

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Fred helped out with the youth team I played for in the late 70s, even refereed a game when the guy didn't turn up, went to the boot of his car, got his gear, and trotted out onto the pitch in what looked like a 1950s refs kit, lovely bloke, found out years later he was still going to the Lane, on matchday, attending tge social club before the game, always planned to go in and thank him, but never got round to it

Fred Furniss was very well liked. He carried on playing local football for quite a while, and I did once play against him. Was it Ecclesfueld Red Rose he played for?

 

[Hagansbootlaces]

Fred Furniss was very well liked. He carried on playing local football for quite a while, and I did once play against him. Was it Ecclesfueld Red Rose he played for?

No idea, he helped out with Record Ridgeways youth team at Handsworth

 

[Bert]

 

[Silent Blade]

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Bob Socks ran on the pitch after our late equaliser!

 

[Bert]

 

[Silent Blade]

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[I should coco]

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That typeface/font is so nostalgic.
Pre Internet, teletext, if you missed the teleprinter or James Alexander Gordon on Sports Report your only option was a Green Un or the Sunday papers.

 

[Aganarama]

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