Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Blade1959]

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Top Alan Hodgkinson, Ken Furphy, Cec Coldwell & Dave Turner 1975/76 preseason

 

[St Albans Blade]

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Best tracksuit ever. Errea, please bring back a modernised vintage version!

 

[St Albans Blade]

Baldock cinched it!

 

[HarryHaslam]

 

[Silent Blade]

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Everton 3 Blades 0 in August 1975

 

[St Albans Blade]

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Latchford apparently beating calamity Brown at Goodison?!?
With Eddy & Colquhoun, relegation came soon !?!

 

[St Albans Blade]

Everton 3 Blades 0 in August 1975

Reminds me of a similar scoreline.
Blades 0 Everton 3, League Cup, mid-70s at the Lane.
They clinically played us off the park.
One of those defeats where you could see the gulf in class and only admire the opposition.
I remember being so impressed by their "One-Handed Winger", Ronnie Goodlass taking a quick throw-in, a footballing equivalent of today's paralympians!

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Latchford apparently beating calamity Brown at Goodison?!?
With Eddy & Colquhoun, relegation came soon !?!

You wouldn’t sing that where Eddie could hear it….

 

[HighfieldBlade]

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Was this squad photo of the England U23s before the game against GDR (East Germany)? I went to that game.

 

[Silent Blade]

Was this squad photo of the England U23s before the game against GDR (East Germany)? I went to that game.

U21s v Scotland.

East Germany match was in 1980. Justin Fashanu scored in 2-1 loss. I went to that one

 

[HighfieldBlade]

U21s v Scotland.

East Germany match was in 1980. Justin Fashanu scored in 2-1 loss. I went to that one

Thanks for this.
If memory serves, the East Germany game was an evening kickoff anyway and that photo looks like afternoon.

 

[Silent Blade]

Thanks for this.
If memory serves, the East Germany game was an evening kickoff anyway and that photo looks like afternoon.

The Scotland match was played in an evening in late April 1977

 

[DifferentClass]

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Still one of my favourite football stories is Jim Brown making his Chesterfield debut against Blackburn and playing a blinder despite his registration arriving at league HQ two days after the match had been played (Christmas post). The league ordered the match be replayed as he wasn't eligible- he played a blinder again, which stopped Blackburn going up from Division 3 that season!

Ken Furphy was managing Blackburn at the time and was sufficiently impressed to make him one of his first Blades signings. Although Blades of a certain age might not see what he saw in him!

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Still one of my favourite football stories is Jim Brown making his Chesterfield debut against Blackburn and playing a blinder despite his registration arriving at league HQ two days after the match had been played (Christmas post). The league ordered the match be replayed as he wasn't eligible- he played a blinder again, which stopped Blackburn going up from Division 3 that season!

Ken Furphy was managing Blackburn at the time and was sufficiently impressed to make him one of his first Blades signings. Although Blades of a certain age might not see what he saw in him!

He will always be my favourite Blades goalie for his heroics in the 1974/ 75 season, especially that penalty save from John Hollins against Chelsea.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Reminds me of a similar scoreline.
Blades 0 Everton 3, League Cup, mid-70s at the Lane.
They clinically played us off the park.
One of those defeats where you could see the gulf in class and only admire the opposition.
I remember being so impressed by their "One-Handed Winger", Ronnie Goodlass taking a quick throw-in, a footballing equivalent of today's paralympians!

77/78 league cup I think

 

[torridon]

You needed to be there early to pick one up, as it turned out.

The print run for the programme was scaled on the naive expectations of a gate of up to 10,000 - that being around our average league gate in those dark mid-80’s days when crowds across the country were low. The Kop and South Stand was supposed to be adequate to accommodate the expected gate - John Street being closed as that was where the stage was erected - but in the event the Police had to make the club open the Bramall Lane end as well because there were thousands queuing outside to get in. The gate was well over 20,000.

Fortunately for me, I was on the Kop early…

The one and only time I've stood on Bramall Lane lower tier.

 

[Revolution]

Yup

I was sat in the cherry st stand near the Leeds fans as they were ripping out seats from the BL upper tier abs lobbing onto pitch

And more than one onto their own fans in the tier below. Morons.

 

[TimofeeVee]

Forest Oct 92, poor 0-0 game, but enjoyed the mascot experience!

 

[St Albans Blade]

He will always be my favourite Blades goalie for his heroics in the 1974/ 75 season, especially that penalty save from John Hollins against Chelsea.

Favourite Blades Goalies and why should be a thread of its own, photos, kits and all!

 

[St Albans Blade]

Forest Oct 92, poor 0-0 game, but enjoyed the mascot experience!

Stuart Pearce was even intimidating before things undoubtedly kicked-off!

 

[St Albans Blade]

Anything Baldock can do I can do better!

 

[VLYDONIMIR]

 

[VLYDONIMIR]

Favourite Blades Goalies and why should be a thread of its own, photos, kits and all!

Yes!
Including keepers from other clubs who've played against SUFC.

 

[ghandi]

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The picture of the great man himself the one and only David Spencer wonder who's that in the photo with him,

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Post 937 on the 60 Years Ago This Month thread has the full text of the booklet produced by the club for the tour of N. America that year.

 

[ancientblade]

Anything Baldock can do I can do better!

thats a classic photo of the time with colqhoun and lampard very similar to the one from the 60s with mackay and bremner

 

[TTMeysh]

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Can anyone having a go at naming this England U21 line-up? There's some maddeningly familiar faces that I just can't put names to.

 

[St Albans Blade]

thats a classic photo of the time with colqhoun and lampard very similar to the one from the 60s with mackay and bremner

I think it’s Bonds not Lampard?

And by special request here’s some famous yesteryear rumbles…

Mackay-Bremner


Lee-Hunter


Keegan-Bremner


Ure-Law

 

[St Albans Blade]

Prices in 1980

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True, £51 to see us relegated to League 2 was indeed crazy!

UTB

 

[Silent Blade]

I think it’s Bonds not Lampard?

Deffo Lampard