Question re season 81/82

[blade67]

our central heating broke that winter and my daft dad was too tight to mend it properly.

kept paying his daft mate who worked for British gas to come around.
Spent most of the winter sat inside in my coat, aged 14

 

[tyneblade]

I remember the match at Poole, by the end it had rained so hard that their pitch was completely waterlogged and the football became a farce as a result. I'm sure that it would have been called off if we had not been so desperate for a game. They had Ted McDougall on their side.

 

[goatherder]

The Shay was the worst ground I'd ever been on, and then I went to Wigans old ground Springfield Park.
I followed some floodlights walking ( me not the floodlights) from the station and ended up at a rugby ground before realising my error. Felt a right t**t actually.

You weren't the only one...we did the same. Missed the first 20minutes of the match & finally got there to stand amongst rubble & police horses on the away end.The rugby ground looked pretty nice though

 

[grafikhaus]

I got even colder than that at times Koz.

I was working on a site in Kidderminster. Back at our digs we were watching the evening weather forecast and - bang over Kidderminster - there was one of those blue circles which showed minus temperatures. -27.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

That period from early December 81- Late February 82 was Baltic.
I'm a bricklayer we got laid off just before Xmas went to the job centre and got a job on the bins!

How on earth did you do that I thought everyone was unemployed and the Government of the time was decimating South Yorkshire.

 

[Lane Ender]

How on earth did you do that I thought everyone was unemployed and the Government of the time was decimating South Yorkshire.

One of the reasons that job was vacant is that the people used to fill their bins with coke from the coal fires on that round and the council couldn't get anyone to do it(you had to carry the bins in those days)
24yrs old piece of piss mind I didn't need much motivation morgage and two young uns!

 

[sitwell]

The Shay was the worst ground I'd ever been on, and then I went to Wigans old ground Springfield Park.
I followed some floodlights walking ( me not the floodlights) from the station and ended up at a rugby ground before realising my error. Felt a right t**t actually.

The Shay is decent now ,went pre season last year. Springfield park was quite big from what I remember ,loads of agro that day though ,dodging stones being launched most of the game. I remember loads of us in someones front garden after the game watching final score through someones window

 

[John Street West Terrace]

The Shay is decent now ,went pre season last year. Springfield park was quite big from what I remember ,loads of agro that day though ,dodging stones being launched most of the game. I remember loads of us in someones front garden after the game watching final score through someones window

Remember it well Sitwell I think it was first away game I went with my older brother & his mates ,they were supposed to meet some more of the lads.from up our way but they went to rugby ground and ended up getting in 20 mins late there was a lot of bollocks before as I recall , same at. Rochdale , Man Utd game was off so a lot were at spotlands , that was another shit hole ground standing on railway sleepers . Ahh fond memories

 

[cahill]

My father always said Rochdale was the worst ground he'd been on. Mind you he cocked his toes up in 1993 at 84, so his visit could have been pre WW2

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Hartlepool wasn't much better , remember going to Boston Utd in FA cup following year and there place was better that half the 4th div grounds .

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Does that make us two of the biggest bladey blades ever then? I've got a brick anall.

Yes, I've got a brick but only because I won it on Blades Revival/ Super Draw. Been in it from day one and won about three tenners two £10 shop vouchers and a brick. Has anyone won less?

 

[snootyfenooty]

Yes, I've got a brick but only because I won it on Blades Revival/ Super Draw. Been in it from day one and won about three tenners two £10 shop vouchers and a brick. Has anyone won less?

That's nothing, I used to be an agent for the Sheffield United Development Fund in the 70's when Dooley used to run it out of that shed on the corner of Shoreham St & John St. Won fuck all and didn't even get paid commission.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

That's nothing, I used to be an agent for the Sheffield United Development Fund in the 70's when Dooley used to run it out of that shed on the corner of Shoreham St & John St. Won fuck all and didn't even get paid commission.

Ditto, although my dad did win the top prize of £100 so I got £10 commission.

 

[pommpey]

How on earth did you do that I thought everyone was unemployed and the Government of the time was decimating South Yorkshire.

They were. Thatcher's Stormtroopers were rounding up anyone vaguely working class and gassing them like badgers. I lived up the top end of Gleadless Valley back then and we had to change our house to Constable Mansions and our school became Norton Free High School. I had to lift my little finger drinking tea and call me dad 'pater' just to avoid death. Good job I was in the forces.

pommpey

 

[snootyfenooty]

Ditto, although my dad did win the top prize of £100 so I got £10 commission.

OK I surrender.

 

[TTMeysh]

Elm Park (Reading) was a right hole as well

Horrible ground, I remember going one season and getting sunburn on one half of my face on their open away end, left me looking like Harvey Dent from Batman. We never seemed to get a result there either - I remember Shaka Hislop for them playing out of his skin and making worldy save after worldy save until a forlorn little chant of 'Shaka's getting on our tits' went up.

Seem to remember the pubs near the ground being a bit lively as well, not so much with opposing fans as the local prostitutes and drug dealers.

 

[Revolution]

Horrible ground, I remember going one season and getting sunburn on one half of my face on their open away end, left me looking like Harvey Dent from Batman. We never seemed to get a result there either - I remember Shaka Hislop for them playing out of his skin and making worldy save after worldy save until a forlorn little chant of 'Shaka's getting on our tits' went up.

Seem to remember the pubs near the ground being a bit lively as well, not so much with opposing fans as the local prostitutes and drug dealers.

Simon Inglis used to say in his football ground books that Elm Park was the least interesting ground in the League.

When we lost 1-0 there on the first day of 1996-7 it was boiling: that may have been Hislop's good game.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

I preferred Elm Park to the Madjesky ..plastic ground with plastic supporters who jumped on the bandwagon when when a multi millionaire got involved , at least there's were pubs near Elm Park unlike the new one surrounded by Frsnkie & Benny's , Ikea & Starbucks et al . that is unless you like having chicken burrito , befote carrying flat pack furniture & washing it down with double mocha decaf latte especialle over easy before entering the ground ?
What's wrong with 8 pints & bacteria burger you nonces ...

 

[TTMeysh]

The Madejski has one tiny saving grace for me, its a half hour drive and has convenient parking. Otherwise, pffft.

 

[TTMeysh]

When we lost 1-0 there on the first day of 1996-7 it was boiling: that may have been Hislop's good game.

Thought it was Bassett's last season, but in fairness I may be mixing up two different matches. I seem to remember Mark Beard running round to little effect.

 

[Revolution]

Thought it was Bassett's last season, but in fairness I may be mixing up two different matches. I seem to remember Mark Beard running round to little effect.

I checked and you are right - Hislop was in goal for them in 1994-5 (which I missed). I vaguely recall we lost that game 1-0, though Beard was still at Millwall then. We won 3-0 there the following year after Kendall had taken over - the day Carl Muggleton played as an outfield sub.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Horrible ground, I remember going one season and getting sunburn on one half of my face on their open away end, left me looking like Harvey Dent from Batman. We never seemed to get a result there either - I remember Shaka Hislop for them playing out of his skin and making worldy save after worldy save until a forlorn little chant of 'Shaka's getting on our tits' went up.

Seem to remember the pubs near the ground being a bit lively as well, not so much with opposing fans as the local prostitutes and drug dealers.

I always liked going to Elm Park, certainly better than that edge of town dump they play in now.
I remember going on the coach from The Sportsman one season and we should have stopped in a lay by outside Reading to have a police escort to the ground. Anyway, we were so early there were no coppers there to meet us so we went straight to the ground. As we pulled up and started to get off, the local plod marched up to the front of the coach and started bollocking the driver and the coach steward for not complying with police instructions about waiting for an escort etc. "You can't get off here at this time, got to wait" and so on. So as the discussion went on we all turned round and got off on the blind side of the coach to the copper, through the emergency exit and went straight into the Spread Eagle across the road. When the steward turned round the coach was completely empty.
Aparenty, we were a right set of bastards for leaving him to argue with the police while we were all having a pint.
P.s. In those days The Spread Eagle was a Moorlands pub whose beer I always liked.