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FA Cup winners in 1899
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1901 Cup Final?
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Bert Lipsham not in photo, so no.
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Of all the centre backs I’ve seen in the flesh my lifetime , three stand out in respect of their reading of the game , positional sense ,timing of their tackles and carrying and distribution of the ball .
Two of them were Franz Beckenbauer and Bobby Moore .
Joe Shaw demonstrated such abilities long before they were able to match them , and I still feel privileged to have watched the great man turn the role of a central defender into a kind of art form which was a joy to watch .
Two of them were Franz Beckenbauer and Bobby Moore .
Joe Shaw demonstrated such abilities long before they were able to match them , and I still feel privileged to have watched the great man turn the role of a central defender into a kind of art form which was a joy to watch .
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Well said Isaw, such an artist, I just loved watching him play. Just bad luck that Billy Wright was around at the same time,robbing him of an England shirt.
Joe was truly a great footballer. Such happy memories.
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Amazing photo. And 'The Cat' in action!!!
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Though they may well seem clunky to many these days; there's just something totally football about the original floodlights!
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When I first started going to the Lane Joe Shaw was a big player, I remember, as a young kid thinking how old he was, until now of course,looking at that photo, where's the time gone.
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Niffty bit o' brush work there SB.
Mentioned this, on here, at some time before.
It was Utd. V Blackburn Rovers at the lane. Playing at no. 9 for Blackburn was a young Derek Dougan. Joe tied him up, put him in his pocket and went home for a cup of tea.
Dougan realised there was no way he was going to get the better of Joe that day and after Joe's, shimmy, step over and going the other with the other foot, Dougan, just stood there and clapped Joe, realising it wern't to be his day. All took place Lane end penalty area, Terrace side.
I cannot remember the season or what the score was but never forgot Joe Shaw's display of pure football in how to defend a younger, taller and extremely proficient centre forward.
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didnt see much of joe shaw a bit too early for me but in the half dozen or so games i saw him play the noticeable thing was the number of defensive headers he won against big centre forwards for a relatively small man he couldnt half time his leaps to win the headers great player
His favourite, at opposition goal kicks, opposition defensive clearances was to position, from behind, the centre forward so as the trajectory of the ball went over the CF's head. Joe would take a step backwards, collect the ball and Blades had possession.
All in all a great servant & player for the club over many years and truly deserves the car park statue.
God just realised I was watching him from around 1950, odd games, then on a reasonably regular basis, 52/53 onwards.
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Yes , he would often feign an attempt to challenge for headers then at the last second pull out , step backwards or sideways and almost inevitably be in the right place to collect and clear it .
A piece of simple but brilliant play which I don’t remember any other defender ever emulating .
I suppose that’s because you would need to have the instincts and footballing brain of Joe in order to pull it off and that’s a very big ask indeed .
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Just realised that Clareborough has the same photo too in the Complete Records book (1999). Hope you can see the ball better!
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Thanks for that SB appreciated, much clearer, I see a ball.
Question is, is the ball nestling in the net or has the goalie diverted it past the post for a corner?
I have looked again at the photo I posted and in truth either photo could be the moment of Blades ecstasy.
Eleven years later, this is said to be the Arsenal goal, but is it.
1936, the cameras are much better, photo shows that, but it could just be an incident in the game.Any how, you've intrigued me with the book, "The Complete Record"(1999). I have a The Complete Record 1889-2011.
Oh! Just come to mind. A large book, published 1999. Excellent.
Memory of buying that book. Was working then and cycling too and from work. Mentioned to someone I was to get the book and before I left I had two more orders and with mine and sons Gleadless Rd. didn't seem so easy and got mi snap squashed going to work following day.
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I think it is the goal scored by Drake as Jack Smith dived to his right as seen in the below photosThanks for that SB appreciated, much clearer, I see a ball.
Question is, is the ball nestling in the net or has the goalie diverted it past the post for a corner?
I have looked again at the photo I posted and in truth either photo could be the moment of Blades ecstasy.
Eleven years later, this is said to be the Arsenal goal, but is it.View attachment 1709921936, the cameras are much better, photo shows that, but it could just be an incident in the game.
Any how, you've intrigued me with the book, "The Complete Record"(1999). I have a The Complete Record 1889-2011.
Oh! Just come to mind. A large book, published 1999. Excellent.
Memory of buying that book. Was working then and cycling too and from work. Mentioned to someone I was to get the book and before I left I had two more orders and with mine and sons Gleadless Rd. didn't seem so easy and got mi snap squashed going to work following day.
That must be Drake on the floor.
Four V three, unlike Gunners defending,
Four V one, ye've got to look carefully to find the Blade.Excellent photos SB, I'm learning bit by bit, day by day.
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Love this thread.
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Got to be Jock!
Yes, I believe they were more than 'warey of him.
My avatar, when in junior school, his class had a visit from 'Jock' as the teacher was a mate of 'Jock' and had agreed to talk to the lads about football.
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My Uncle Pete told me that he would be Jock Dodds when he was a boy playing football with his friends despite that he was a Wednesday fan!
One off was Pete, loved his football.
Did he play, locally, when younger I cannot remember him saying so, but then again it could be my brain,
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Not after he left school, joined the army and was in India for the partition. Watched Wednesday and United home games after he left the army. My twin uncles (the youngest of the 6 brothers) played local football for many years, my uncle Bob played local football too for a few years.
Wow! Didn't know he was in India. so he would have been born 1929 -30. The old rascal, kept that under his hat.
It's not as if I have forgotten, as I spent some time in the Middle East as a young man and one tends to remember folk who have had the same type of experience.
It's not as if I have forgotten, as I spent some time in the Middle East as a young man and one tends to remember folk who have had the same type of experience.
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