Programme Corner

[Palace Blade]

He once offered me 1925 fa cup final programme for £250! But couldn't afford it at the time! He sadly passed away in may 1994.

Bought loads of 40s, 50's and pre war from him. along with 1936 cup final for £70!

There used to be a bloke who had a shop at Scarborough, he sold programmes, memorabilia etc.
He was a Unitedite but the shop closed due to his illness.

Bert once bought a signed picture of Jimmy Hagan from him.

That will be Roy.

 

[Sharrowblade]

Back to this season's programmes now: up next The Tiger.

Traditionally not known for producing great programmes, so is this a programme with bite?



A 64 pager for £3, of which 20 are adverts.

There's a real flimsy feel about, a soft cover, its easily going to get finger marked if you aren't careful.

Standard programme notes from Grant McCann followed by United's 4 page profile, consisting of a few figures and concentrating on 3 players and the manager,
Sharp, Gibbs-White and Baldock are afforded the spotlight.
Notable clashes are the 2009 FA Cup 5th Rd Replay and Hull's 2018 1-0 in the League, so notable I'd totally forgotten about it
There's a page for they played for both and Harry Maguire is the featured player. There was a lot of people who criticized Harry at the time for just going to warm the bench at Hull. I wondered whatever happened to him?
Snapshot has another one of our past players scoring at Wembley. Quinny scoring Hull's 4th in the Semi final.
Players in focus are Blades Academy product Tyler Smith and Manchester United loanee Di'Shon Bernard. and also Hull's youngster Will Jarvis.
Loan watch is a bit different as it features news on 9 players out on loan which is slightly different than your norm. From Linfield to Gateshead, there's an update on all of them.
Double page match action spreads from goalless draws against Bournemouth and Swansea and defeat at Blackburn
Academy Player focus falls on Sincere Hall (Great name). Released by West Ham at 16, into the football wilderness, a year later he signed for Hull also in the football wilderness
The programme then runs out of steam entirely.
So there you have it, The Tiger's a lightweight offering not so much a loud roar but more of a growl.

 

[Sharrowblade]

And onto the Boro, or UTB, (Stop nicking our programme name).



£3 for 52 pages (18 are adverts)
It does have a solid spine, and a couple of articles on recent Match shirts and a small article of caricatures in football, and a reminder that their record league win was 10-3 against us before the war.
It briefly mentions that they played their centre half up front against us in 1976 because they had an injury crisis, Still no matter, he scored a hat-trick
Blink and you'll miss the Blades profile (2 pages) and that's about it, there's literally nothing in it.

As you may be aware I love footy programmes but seriously, this a truly dreadful effort with little thought put into it.
If it was an animal, I'd be reaching for the gun.

Bottom of the table.

 

[Sharrowblade]

And the final current season programme for today. Bournemouth.

£3.50 available at the ground or direct from the club website.
A larger size programme than others so far with 80 pages with 18 of adverts



Immediately noticeable is the larger typeset than most programmes, even on coloured background its easy to read.

After Scotty Parker's brief notes we're into a 4 page spread featuring the Club's doctor and the awareness of mental health.
A comprehensive full 8 page spread on the Blades. Bravo . Features every united player in the squad.
and three who played for both, Rammers, Cahill and Sam Vokes. (I thought Brooksy and Simon Francis might have been in there).
It also mentions that Unitedare he only League side to field a starting XI made up of England Internationals, a record set in 1904.
Perhaps more surprising is the revelation that United have 135 shots so far this season (And there's me complaining we never shoot) compared to the Cherries 95.
Of course they've scored more goals

8 page player profile on goalkeeper Mark Travers, and a double page on cult heroes (Jermain Defoe).
There's four pages on past encounters (we've only met them 17 times before). No bias with 1 win each and 2 draws mentioned.
There's 4 pages on the U21s and another Loan watch section.

It does fade in content towards the end but overall its a solid effort and easy on the eye.

 

[Sharrowblade]

A question of Storage

How do you eat yours? was the tag-line many years ago for the Crème-egg commercials
well when it comes to programmes its very much a case of ‘How do Your Store yours’.

A large collection has two major downsides weight and more importantly space.

If anyone has a definitive answer I'd love to hear it.

 

[dn5 shaun]

A question of Storage

How do you eat yours? was the tag-line many years ago for the Crème-egg commercials
well when it comes to programmes its very much a case of ‘How do Your Store yours’.

A large collection has two major downsides weight and more importantly space.

If anyone has a definitive answer I'd love to hear it.

Mine are stored on shelves in a walk in wardrobe in date order, I'm running out of space fast

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

A question of Storage

How do you eat yours? was the tag-line many years ago for the Crème-egg commercials
well when it comes to programmes its very much a case of ‘How do Your Store yours’.

A large collection has two major downsides weight and more importantly space.

If anyone has a definitive answer I'd love to hear it.

? scan as PDFs, store on the cloud, recycle the paper ?

 

[spongebobblade]

That would be Alan Scholey, and yes he had quite a collection.

The Royal Vic was its traditional venue until the pandemic and sadly the organizer (Gordon) succumbed to illness earlier this year.

I'm not sure how much the Queen Vic would have been to hire but I don't suspect it was cheap.

So hence the new venue and the new organizer (me)

That would be Alan Scholey, and yes he had quite a collection.

The Royal Vic was its traditional venue until the pandemic and sadly the organizer (Gordon) succumbed to illness earlier this year.

I'm not sure how much the Queen Vic would have been to hire but I don't suspect it was cheap.

So hence the new venue and the new organizer (me)

Apart from the request for United pre war can I also request (long shot I know) Some United wartime?
I’d also like to request I stumble on an original 46/7 Wolves in the cup that I find first
Didn’t realise you were organising it mate so if I don’t see you until the day good luck with it

 

[spongebobblade]

A question of Storage

How do you eat yours? was the tag-line many years ago for the Crème-egg commercials
well when it comes to programmes its very much a case of ‘How do Your Store yours’.

A large collection has two major downsides weight and more importantly space.

If anyone has a definitive answer I'd love to hear it.

The wardrobe is full of shirts, badges and pennants. The shelves with the black files contain the “better” stuff. Behind those files are thousands of Blades programmes neatly filed in order…. and yes I’ve had to beef up the shelving! As for the wall….. we’ll I was bored during lockdown

 

[Sharrowblade]

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The wardrobe is full of shirts, badges and pennants. The shelves with the black files contain the “better” stuff. Behind those files are thousands of Blades programmes neatly filed in order…. and yes I’ve had to beef up the shelving! As for the wall….. we’ll I was bored during lockdown

Excellent effort Stu. I need some wallpaper like that

 

[Sharrowblade]

Apart from the request for United pre war can I also request (long shot I know) Some United wartime?
I’d also like to request I stumble on an original 46/7 Wolves in the cup that I find first
Didn’t realise you were organising it mate so if I don’t see you until the day good luck with it

Cheers mate, form an orderly queue please for Wolves in the Cup.

Hopefully it will go off without complications but Covid's on the rise again, so we will see.

No doubt I will see you on our travels before then.

 

[spongebobblade]

Excellent effort Stu. I need some wallpaper like that

It’s not easy finding a tester pot of yellow paint during full lockdown for around the edges of Laver I can tell you!

 

[pommpey]

It’s not easy finding a tester pot of yellow paint during full lockdown for around the edges of Laver I can tell you!

I am hugely impressed

I'd die for those Lane Line Ups

pommpey

 

[corner_flag]

? scan as PDFs, store on the cloud, recycle the paper ?

I think you are completely missing the point!

 

[corner_flag]

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The wardrobe is full of shirts, badges and pennants. The shelves with the black files contain the “better” stuff. Behind those files are thousands of Blades programmes neatly filed in order…. and yes I’ve had to beef up the shelving! As for the wall….. we’ll I was bored during lockdown

that's an awesome effort. If you live near the Lane you could open it to the public on match days.
"Programme museum, three quid"

 

[ATL Recs]

? scan as PDFs, store on the cloud, recycle the paper ?

And I bet you stream your music and have recycled your vinyl and cds ….

 

[spongebobblade]

that's an awesome effort. If you live near the Lane you could open it to the public on match days.
"Programme museum, three quid"

Cheers! There are a few people out there with bigger collections then mine though

 

[Sharrowblade]

Barnsley



64 page effort costing £3
Feels lightweight because it is lightweight .....on any notable content.
11 pages advertising doesn't sound too bad, but there's literally nothing of interest in it.

Kicks off with who's who at Barnsley followed by a Contents double page. They could have saved themselves the trouble and left it blank.
A word from the Chief executive followed by a whole nine pages dedicated to skipper Cauley Woodrow. Fair enough.

A recap of United's season so far, and spotlight on Slav and United's Top 10 managers which we've all seen before. Nothing about the players.

Unsung Heroes features Ian Banks which is readable although half the page actually concentrates on other unsung heroes such as code breaker Alan Turing
With four pages dedicated to Toby's Junior Reds we're up to halfway and unfortunately it only gets worse, albeit an interview with reds, Academy player Hayden Pickard.
It says a lot when the only article of Interest is a three pager on some Pub somewhere near Darley Dale.
So there you go, there's simply not enough content in there. Even with the adverts a 40 page effort would have easily sufficed.

 

[Nesh Blade]

Barnsley

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64 page effort costing £3
Feels lightweight because it is lightweight .....on any notable content.
11 pages advertising doesn't sound too bad, but there's literally nothing of interest in it.

Kicks off with who's who at Barnsley followed by a Contents double page. They could have saved themselves the trouble and left it blank.
A word from the Chief executive followed by a whole nine pages dedicated to skipper Cauley Woodrow. Fair enough.

A recap of United's season so far, and spotlight on Slav and United's Top 10 managers which we've all seen before. Nothing about the players.

Unsung Heroes features Ian Banks which is readable although half the page actually concentrates on other unsung heroes such as code breaker Alan Turing
With four pages dedicated to Toby's Junior Reds we're up to halfway and unfortunately it only gets worse, albeit an interview with reds, Academy player Hayden Pickard.
It says a lot when the only article of Interest is a three pager on some Pub somewhere near Darley Dale.
So there you go, there's simply not enough content in there. Even with the adverts a 40 page effort would have easily sufficed.

I noticed that the bloke selling them was the same fella we get in the South stand and BL upper corner

 

[Sharrowblade]

I noticed that the bloke selling them was the same fella we get in the South stand and BL upper corner

Yeah that's right and he told me it's much better shouting programmes 'Three Quid'

 

[Sharrowblade]

Loving what Sponge has done with his collection.

On a side note, the Programme Binders currently in the club shop have no Crest or writing embossed on the Spine. Big Mistake.

 

[Sharrowblade]

Just a reminder to those travelling to Ewood tomorrow. Blackburn are NOT issuing Programmes this season.

They reverted to a monthly magazine at a cost of £6. Very big time. I know where they can shove it.

 

[Sharrowblade]

Nottingham Forest




68 pages £3.

Solid spine like ours which is a good start

Manager Steve Cooper forego's the obligatory 'it will be a tough game' against United for a more conservative approach and doesn't make one mention of us in his programme notes.

Detailed match reports on their previous 2 games, inbetween 4 pages of large photographs.
The double page Marples Musings concentrates on the condiments to be found at various burger bars. Slightly odd but doesn't really cut the mustard.

A hark-back to 80s Youth Policy and then The History Files concentrates on Forest's first ever season 1892-3 which are both welcome reads.
Then 4 pages of social media and fan pictures which arguably aren't.

The Kit man concentrates on 6 games between United Home and away and the kits that both teams were wearing.

They've made a decent fist of the United Profile, a couple of pages on our rather indifferent season so far, followed by our last five encounters and a feature on our much vaunted spine of the team that strikes fear into the opposition. Olsen, Davies, Fleck and Sharp. I'm not going to say anything more.

Shared memories recalls players who played for both. Collingdridge, Iley. Addison, Barnwell, Hockey, Withe, Saunders and the prolific Paul Richardson.

The standard Academy, Women's and community pages follow....... before like so many it tails of badly towards the end with adverts aplenty.

If you didn't want to be down in the concourse of the City Ground, running the gauntlet of singing cringeworthy songs steeped in irony about some bloke scoring goals in the red and white, beer chucking, and blindly walking through the flare smoke etc etc, then it had some decent articles to muse through at half time. Ultimately what lets it down is the hefty 22 pages of adverts.

 

[Sharrowblade]

There'll be no programmes at Reading tonight.

 

[Sharrowblade]

I mentioned before the Blackburn game, that Rovers weren't doing a hard copy printed version of this seasons matches and this remains the case.

However, a limited number of programmes were printed from the clubs PDF by a lad from Blackburn.



They are to a high professional standard, but has no content at all. (There is only 3 pages of writing in it, The welcome page and two about the Blades which welcomes back former Academy player Jack O'Connor??? Were Blackburn that bad he had to change his name?

Anyway despite its very limited content which is bolstered by the Outer cover, 21 pages of adverts and a few double page photographs of poppy collectors and corner flags at least it was a welcome attempt and a space filler in the collection, especially given the game was their 146th Centenary.

If clubs consider the digital way is the way to go then this isn't it and just goes to prove that the current unwillingness to do hard copy printed versions is more to do with being lazy then any argument associated with not being viable with regards to costs.

 

[Sharrowblade]

With regards to Reading, any supporters and I know there are a few who like to have some kind of memento (the CBF weren't happy) then I was reliably told on Tuesday night in the main reception that there wasn't even a team-sheet printed as literally everything was digital.

However, you can print the official colour team-sheet from the club website.

 

[Sharrowblade]

And finally another weekly reminder:

 

[stringer]

With regards to Reading, any supporters and I know there are a few who like to have some kind of memento (the CBF weren't happy) then I was reliably told on Tuesday night in the main reception that there wasn't even a team-sheet printed as literally everything was digital.

However, you can print the official colour team-sheet from the club website.

 

[1973Blade]

A unique programme today, no manager's notes in it.

 

[Knackered Blade]

Programme from 1897!