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Bumped into Kell Brook on a beach in Fuerteventura in Jan 2013. Think he was in a training camp over there, had some Utd shorts on. I said hello and up the blades to him!
 

Used to work on cruise ships and it was always nice when Blades came on board, was like a little bit of home for a week or two, which was nice considering the contracts meant spending months away.

Had a group of 4 couples come on from Sheff - two united and two piggies - was such a great week, loads of pisstaking back and forth!
 
BobblesBlade said:
Has anyone left their blades shirt with their favourite holiday bar to have hung on the wall or from the ceiling?
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Yep 1991 Puerto de la cruz Tenerife, Mrs Tops bought me a Blades T shirt for hols, T shirt was yellow with Big blades badge on front, 100% Blade on Back, went in a bar on 2nd night and seen all the shirts scarfs etc, got talking to bar man and told him I had a shirt if he wanted to put it up, Next day went back in afternoon with said shirt, I'd never worn it, bloke was well pleased when he seen it, took down another shirt, think it was a Boro shirt and stuck mine smack bang in middle of wall. you couldn't miss it when you walked in the bar stood out a mile.
 
Cuba. I was on the coach transfer to the resort of Varadero when I clocked a bloke in a vest with a bangers and mash on his face and the Blades crest tattooed on his arm. I got chatting to him and he was from Worsop and was in the same hotel as me. Everywhere we goooooooo!!!
 
I think the biggest accolade was to Ian Toothill a Wendy fan who sadly had cancer. He raised thousands of pounds for cancer research with his trip up Everest. One of his mates said I will give you 1k if you plant an SUFC flag on the top of Everest which he duly did. I bet its still there today. Good from a good man like Ian. At times the City never seems so close! UTB
 
Many years ago i was stood at a Bar in Puerto Rico,Canaries,had a blades Polo shirt on and a guy nudged me and said in a Scottish accent,"i a Blade then",turned around and it was Tom Cowans who we had just signed from Rangers.
Great bloke,bought me a Beer and stayed a while for a chat,asking about the Blades whom he had yet to make his debut for.
I believe he still lives in Sheffield and works at our local Fire Station.
Always thought he was a great fullback and was disappointed when he left.
Side note: I lived opposite Paul Garner for 5 years 1980 to 85 and next door to Tony Kenworthy's sister. Small World.
 
Strange thing happened to me once. Just after I moved down south I came up to watch us at home v Charlton. The bloke sat next to me on the kop was the same fella who had sat next to me on a plane from Florida a few years earlier. I asked him and he looked shocked as fck by the weirdness of it all. 🤣
 
BobblesBlade said:
Has anyone left their blades shirt with their favourite holiday bar to have hung on the wall or from the ceiling?
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one on ceiling in iguana bar kalamaki zante brother in law left it a few years ago cracking bar run by harris great greek guy
 
BobblesBlade said:
Has anyone left their blades shirt with their favourite holiday bar to have hung on the wall or from the ceiling?
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I left a shirt with the owner of one of these bars in Tokyo some years ago.
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I was very drunk and can't remember which one it was! 🤔
 
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The bit I do remember was the owner was an ex-pro footballer in Japan and although his English wasn't very good and my Japanese is almost non-existant we did appear to have a mutual love of the game.
At least that's how I remember it.
He probably tells a completely different story of some pissed up Iijin forcing this bloody shirt onto him and he put it behind the bar just to get rid of him! 🤔
 
pommpey said:
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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.

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Bring back those tee shirts in pic 2 , never had mine off me back when I had one :cool:
 

Camp Souter Kabul, watched the play off game with Huddersfield with another blade, team photo on the wall, next to a Chelsea flag and above a Newcastle team poster, pissed my Geordie mate off no end, every time we swapped locations he tried to rearrange the photo/poster, never succeeded, bit like Newcastle, promised a lot but never managed it
 
I frightened 2 young blades at the chippy in Woolacombe yesterday saying hello and up the blades.
 
The Mrs and me were in Pefkos, Rhodes, a couple of years ago. We’d gone for a walk down to a beach bar one day, so I thought I’d put the 94/95 Laver home shirt on. We sit down, have some snap and are a few Mythos’ in when a family of Blades walk in, three of the four in a selection of home shirts. We had a quick chat, gave it the old “up the Blades” and got back on the Mythos.

One of the most depressing experiences I’ve had was in 2003 when we played Wolves in the play-off final. We’d booked to go to Florida on a family holiday, well over a year in advance, and we hadn’t expected us to have a season quite like we did. Back then it cost an absolute bomb to connect to the internet via mobile phone (and my mother would’ve had my old man’s balls in a vice if he’d gone over his phone bill) and there were no bars showing the match. We’d been at one of the theme parks that day in our Blades shirts and ended up bumping into a family of yes, you guessed it, Wolves fans, all kitted-up - you honestly couldn’t write it. “Heard the score, lads?” and as soon as Daddy Wolf said that, with the most irritating smile etched across his face, we knew. What a fucking shite day that was.
 
John Street West Terrace said:
Hong Kong saw the lad the Blades shirt walking towards me from amongst the masses so treated him to a loud rendition of an na na na na he’s a Blade & he’s a Blade , Several hundred locals & my missus thought WTF going on but the 2 ppl that mattered knew the score ⚔️
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The first time my significant other heard me greet a complete stranger in a Blades shirt through the medium of song really freaked her out - she still looks gobsmacked today when it happens! It's what we do.
 
Looking for someone to take a photograph of me and wife in front of the Arc d'Triumph in Paris, not one Parisien would stop for us. Had my Blades shirt on and some guy just walked up to me and said "I'll tek the photo". Looked up and he was pointing to his watch with the Blades logo on it.

Another time (slightly closer to home). Was in Brewdog in Liverpool city centre for a beer tasting night. Getting proper pissed. Only 6 of us in the group so we got talking. Questions about where from etc. Turns out one of the blokes was born on Shoreham Street and was a massive Blade!
 
Was in North Carolina meeting an old colleague of mine and bumped into a bloke called Yank.

Was very humbling hearing of his stories hitch hiking across the Atlantic to get to games.
 
I was in a snowstorm on central park north and saw a family - the dad had a blades jacket on. Was too cold to stop and chat.
 
Jord_Blade said:
The Mrs and me were in Pefkos, Rhodes, a couple of years ago. We’d gone for a walk down to a beach bar one day, so I thought I’d put the 94/95 Laver home shirt on. We sit down, have some snap and are a few Mythos’ in when a family of Blades walk in, three of the four in a selection of home shirts. We had a quick chat, gave it the old “up the Blades” and got back on the Mythos.

One of the most depressing experiences I’ve had was in 2003 when we played Wolves in the play-off final. We’d booked to go to Florida on a family holiday, well over a year in advance, and we hadn’t expected us to have a season quite like we did. Back then it cost an absolute bomb to connect to the internet via mobile phone (and my mother would’ve had my old man’s balls in a vice if he’d gone over his phone bill) and there were no bars showing the match. We’d been at one of the theme parks that day in our Blades shirts and ended up bumping into a family of yes, you guessed it, Wolves fans, all kitted-up - you honestly couldn’t write it. “Heard the score, lads?” and as soon as Daddy Wolf said that, with the most irritating smile etched across his face, we knew. What a fucking shite day that was.
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watched the bouncing day win in pefkos with about a dozen other blades pool bar just above matina
 
KeyffSmyff said:
I frightened 2 young blades at the chippy in Woolacombe yesterday saying hello and up the blades.
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Worked in Woolacombe in 1976 when i left school. The Long Bar which was part of the Narracott Hotel had a decent sized mirror across the back of the bar. As i was employed as cleaner (supposed to have been a waiter 😄) i made sure a Blades sticker remained in the middle of the mirror throughout the summer along with another in the Lady's Loo ;)
 

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