Places you have seen other Blades fans

[SelbyBlade]

The furthest flung place I have seen another Blade was on a ship taking workers to the Falkland Islands in '84 to rebuild the airstrip following the war.
I was a deck hand 17 years old and had my 18th birthday the day before we docked into Port Stanley. The guy who was a Blade was from Huddersfield and as committed a Blade as I've come across. He went to every away game but told me his wife said "if he went to the one at the weekend she wouldn't be there when he came back". He said she wasn't.
We got talking loads about the Blades and he came into the crews accommodation for my 18th. Good bloke but I did lose touch.

 

[Blade_In_Sydney]

Met a couple kitted out in Blades gear in a pub in Balmain (a Sydney suburb). Such a small world.
Once a Blade ........

 

[Hilly]

Not strange but random.
On a stag do in Barcelona over a decade ago, went in a cafe 2nd morning in, in search of anything wholesome to put in my body.
Sat at one table by himself was a similarly dishevelled looking bloke picking at his food, his T-Shirt logo was 'I Fucking Hate Sheffield United'.
It says much for how I was feeling at the time that I didnt approach him, or that myself and the Leeds and Wendy fans I were with didnt find it particulary odd....
On refelction over the years, I have always just presumed the poor twat was on some similarlary rubbish jaunt abroad and there were another half dozen idiots from Woodhouse all wearing the same T-Shirt somwhere......
Is this idiot on here?

 

[djbaldken]

Walking round Amber Cove Dominican Republic in February this year just before this crisis broke, met fellow Blade in same Blades top as me! Turned out he was also on same cruise ship I was.

 

[Revolution]

I've seen some at Bramall Lane.

 

[Bugboyblade]

A Spanish guy who worked on the boats between lloret de mar and tossa de mar was a blade. He used to drive lorries to Tinsley wire and got to about 10 home games a year.

 

[shorehamview]

Disneyworld, Florida about 10 years ago. A little lad with his parents, lad was in the full kit. I said "All right Blade" on my way past, he looked properly chuffed. Got an "Oreyt" off the dad.

 

[Northyorksblade]

I did the Nah, nah, nah, nah he's a Blade and he's a Blade to a guy walking towards me in Melbourne a few years back in a Blades top. Not a flicker. Always found it rather strange.

 

[sitwell]

Dubai ,heard nah then Blade as I went to the pool bar ,he saw my tat and we have been mates for the last 5 years. We had loads of mutual friends as it turned out , i think hes a member on here too.

 

[KeyffSmyff]

Took my lad to football in Banbury when he was about 5 and there was another kid in his Blade top, blade had a food stall on Swanage beach a few years back, good grub as well.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Walking round Amber Cove Dominican Republic in February this year just before this crisis broke, met fellow Blade in same Blades top as me! Turned out he was also on same cruise ship I was.

I too have met fellow Blades in the Caribbean, and also on cruise ships. I'm due on a cruise of the Caribbean in November (if it happens) and I already know that a Blade with his kids is on the same cruise.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

When my lad played junior football his underage team Palmerston United and the one below where playing away
I had my Blades hat on
When one of the parents off Palmerstons other team said you a Blade
Heal of the hunt he’d been working in Sheffield for a few years , had bought a house on Park grange road , and still followed us when he got over
Also met Blades in Florida and while walking the dog in the Phoenix park in Dublin

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Here in Leicester, when I cycle to work (before the lockdown), I filter between stationary traffic and occasionally see cars with Blades stickers in the back window. I always feel utterly compelled to tap on the window to get the driver's attention, then give a thumbs-up and shout "UP THE BLADES!". I get a thumbs-up back, a smile and a laugh every time.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

A few years ago, I was in a restaurant in Melbourne with Therealfurphy waiting for our Christmas dinners to be served and up walks Ball_Sup (Phil), “now then lads, what are you doing here?” Or words to that effect.

 

[DSJ Blade]

Majorca v Malaga about 20 years ago, got off the coach to be met by about 20 Blades with a huge (not massive) flag. Next time I saw them was just before kick off when they we’re belting out the GCB song

 

[BLADE OF GRASS]

Disneyworld, Florida about 10 years ago. A little lad with his parents, lad was in the full kit. I said "All right Blade" on my way past, he looked properly chuffed. Got an "Oreyt" off the dad.

Bumped in to a few blades in old town Kissimmee the year we where in the premier under warnock, also bumped in to a kid in the umbro laces shirt at Glastonbury last year , had a quick drunken up the blades man hug and went our separate ways in to the night .

 

[blade53]

I was in New York visiting "Ground Zero" a year after 9/11, & I spotted a blade in a baseball cap with the SUFC crest. I walked up to him & said "up the Blades" , And he looked at me astonished and asked me how I knew he was from Sheffield, ...…... I had spotted the Blades badge fom about 50 yards!

 

[Paisley Blade]

Not that far flung but ... having lunch in Piazza Navonna , Rome , on my 40th birthday ( the day after we dicked Leeds 4-0 at Elland Road ) and my youngest said - Dad , the bloke sat directly behind you is wearing a Blades T shirt . My youngest is/ was always a wind up merchant, and because I couldn't see my troop were all laughing at my ' shall I shan't I ' believe them and turn around ?

They weren't laughing 2 hours later when I was still sat getting pissed with him and the Trevi Fountain had to get patched.

 

[davey1889]

Timbuktu in 2004....

Was in an internet cafe 'watching' a game on BBC text against somebody like Preston and a guy on one of the other PC's was also doing the same. Saw him a few years later in the bogs in the South Stand at some other game....

 

[Robbat]

Walking on Bondi beach and met a blade as we approached each other we started laughing and had a really good talk. I was also sat in the Pigs Head on the Algarve watching the Blades playing Liverpool first game of season think 2006. Who walked in but Carlton Palmer spoilt my night he was so bias towards Liverpool.

 

[Northyorksblade]

Timbuktu in 2004....

Was in an internet cafe 'watching' a game on BBC text against somebody like Preston and a guy on one of the other PC's was also doing the same. Saw him a few years later in the bogs in the South Stand at some other game....

That reminded me. We were in a bar in Playa Flamenca a few years ago in the ifollow radio years. At the same moment as me another guy jumped up and shouted yes as we scored. We spent the next two hours talking all things Blades.

 

[pommpey]

Ha.





Pic 1 - December 1993: Ajax Bay, Falkland Islands. Some Blade had been there before me. I'd just received the training top from my missus as a birthday present.

Pic 2 - March 1994: Trinidad, West Indies. What. A. Run. Ashore. I've never been so pissed.

Pic 3 - May 2001: Scarborough, Tobago, West indies. Warnock said to me, "If yer hadn't have had a beer, I'd have played you." I therefore had my only chance to go in that SUFC book and blew it because I was slightly pissed. Blackwell went on instead.

pommpey

 

[e17blade]

In 2006 I quit my job and spent six months travelling round New Zealand with my family - camping with a three and one year old! At the end of the trip we had a few days in Auckland to sell all our stuff (car, tent, etc) before the return journey.

On the first day in Auckland there was a knock on our apartment door and when I answered it was a local council building inspector. When I said it wasn’t my house he said “are you from Sheffield? I’d recognise that accent anywhere” and when I said yes he immediately asked if I was a Blade. It turns out we were both Blades from Sheffield and both also called Dave.

A drink and a chat about the RAWW later, the other Dave the Blade got a Mitsubishi Legnum for a bargain price and I didn’t have to bother with a car auction.

Small world.

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

A few years ago, I was in a restaurant in Melbourne with Therealfurphy waiting for our Christmas dinners to be served and up walks Ball_Sup (Phil), “now then lads, what are you doing here?” Or words to that effect.

Good day that SW12 to S12 to S18
I remember saying to Therealfurphy "I'll bump into you..." Didn't expect it was going to be the first day we were there. In that Big Casino as I recall. You must let me talk you through all 510 different Australian Beers I've ticked when this fandango is all over.

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

A few years ago, I was in a restaurant in Melbourne with Therealfurphy waiting for our Christmas dinners to be served and up walks Ball_Sup (Phil), “now then lads, what are you doing here?” Or words to that effect.

What about that time we worked out I'd been at Seattle Mariners v Chicago White Sox the day before you lot had been at the game in the same series. Mad....

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

What about that time we worked out I'd been at Seattle Mariners v Chicago White Sox the day before you lot had been at the game in the same series. Mad....

Yes, it’s amazing how things like this happen, meeting someone or just missing them, moments which can literally change your life, very Sliding Doors.

 

[bongleblade]

nottingham - heard someone pissed as a fart belt out the start of the greasy chip butty song, so i decided to finish the song off, cue the bladesy pissed up duet together

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Ha.

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Pic 1 - December 1993: Ajax Bay, Falkland Islands. Some Blade had been there before me. I'd just received the training top from my missus as a birthday present.

Pic 2 - March 1994: Trinidad, West Indies. What. A. Run. Ashore. I've never been so pissed.

Pic 3 - May 2001: Scarborough, Tobago, West indies. Warnock said to me, "If yer hadn't have had a beer, I'd have played you." I therefore had my only chance to go in that SUFC book and blew it because I was slightly pissed. Blackwell went on instead.

pommpey

Got fond memories of Trinidad Pommps.
Lived in San Fernando for 18 months.
Left in March 1979 and never been back unfortunately.

 

[Caveblade]

Walking up the several hundred steps from the Glacier in Chamonix in February with my Blades hat on. Family walking the other way Dad says "We're all Blades aren't we" and his lad high fived me".

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Walking round Amber Cove Dominican Republic in February this year just before this crisis broke, met fellow Blade in same Blades top as me! Turned out he was also on same cruise ship I was.

Turns out it was a mirror?