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[Revolution]

Home to Portsmouth in the 84-85 season.

Can’t remember the match but that’s irrelevant.
I always remember that programme because I’m in the crowd on the cover of match day programme. It’s showing the away game at Oldham from earlier in the 84-85 season.

Instead of going on the away end behind the goal. About 10 of us Blades were stood in the side terracing. We did it quite regularly back then, you just had to make sure you weren’t wearing colours and they’d let you in on the turnstile.

I’m quite tall, 6 foot and stood right at the back near the left hand side of the picture with a light grey jacket on.

The Pompey game was odd. United had the better of it but it was 0-0 with about 25 mins to go. Then Alan Knight miscued a clearance straight to Glen Cockerill, who lobbed Knight to open the scoring, and the floodgates. 15 mins later we were 4-0 up. They scored a late consolation and it finished 4-1.

3 days later we were 2-0 up on Birmingham at home, went 2-4 down, and it finished 3-4. 12 goals in 72 hours.

I was at the Pompey game but I was never allowed to go on New Years Day because my parents had an open house thing for family and friends on that day every year, so I was confined to my bedroom listening to the shambles unfold at the Lane via score updates on Radio Hallam.