Sabella's debut 19th Aug 1978

[Silent Blade]

v Orient. We had high hopes for the season. 3rd minute of the game we get a corner. Sabella runs up to take his 1st touch of the game. He gets a warm welcome from the Kop. Simon Stainrod heads in Sabella's corner and we all are thinking of promotion! Goals by Orient's Joe Mayo and Peter Kitchen (who supported the Blades when he was a schoolboy) bring us back down to earth and we lose 2-1

 

[metalblade]

And a few years earlier we were a few points off winning the League.

 

[cahill]

Remember it well. I was stood at the back of the kop

 

[sitwell]

Have you read the book ,'match of my life ' ? Best Blades book I have read ,Gary Hamsons chapter spreads some light on Sabella and isn't too positive.

 

[Grecian2000]

v Orient. We had high hopes for the season. 3rd minute of the game we get a corner. Sabella runs up to take his 1st touch of the game. He gets a warm welcome from the Kop. Simon Stainrod heads in Sabella's corner and we all are thinking of promotion! Goals by Orient's Joe Mayo and Peter Kitchen (who supported the Blades when he was a schoolboy) bring us back down to earth and we lose 2-1

But then we went and won at Filbert Street in the week and promotion was back-on! How did we manage to actually be relegated instead?

Have you read the book ,'match of my life ' ? Best Blades book I have read ,Gary Hamsons chapter spreads some light on Sabella and isn't too positive.

Oh dear. When my dad died a few years ago, he spent the last week, bed ridden and almost comotose. The book was just out and I bought it for him and would sit by his bed reading it to him every night, almost in tears if it was one of the games we'd gone to together (I think TC went for THE Cardiff game which is our all time favourite).
At the end of the week (he died on the Friday night) it went with him in his coffin and I've never been able to even look at it again in Waterstones. Wished I'd read him sommat about Blackwell or Robson instead!

 

[sitwell]

It is a fantastic book ,cant believe I haven't seen it before .Currie went for the West Ham quality goal game ,Badger was Cardiff. Kenworthys was my favourite chapter but what a great idea the book is ,there should be a follow up ,there are plenty of players after all and the book was written just after we got promoted to the prem I think .

 

[blade too long]

I was on the terrace , under the camera on the day we won at Everton , hard to believe looking at it now how crammed in we were , remember losing 4-0 at derby when Hector and Ohare scored 2 apiece and 46000 in the baseball , a ground where 23000 limit was set soon after , the worst crush I remember though was a pen in Carrow Road for a 3-2 cup defeat , nearly fainted several times such was the crush, theyd put around 2000 of us in an area theres now around 150 seats

 

[DronnieBlade]

v Orient. We had high hopes for the season. 3rd minute of the game we get a corner. Sabella runs up to take his 1st touch of the game. He gets a warm welcome from the Kop. Simon Stainrod heads in Sabella's corner and we all are thinking of promotion! Goals by Orient's Joe Mayo and Peter Kitchen (who supported the Blades when he was a schoolboy) bring us back down to earth and we lose 2-1

My first ever match. Bramall Lane Upper Tier.

Funny how I have always thought the final score was 2-2 with Stainrod scoring both !!!

Think I am getting old

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Remember it well. I was stood at the back of the kop

Could have been stood beside ya fella , also touched the great man's hand when he walked down the old john street stand after being introduced by mr Haslam after we'd just signed im. Did'nt he set up Anderson v Sunderland when we came back , thought that goal got goal of the month. goin google that un now.

 

[GRENO]

The following Saturday after the Orient game was at Preston which finished 2-2.
For the life of me could not remember the midweek game at Filbert Street.

Yet another nail in my coffin.

 

[Jehovah]

I was'nt alive. Its my favourite memory as a blade.

 

[Silent Blade]

Have you read the book ,'match of my life ' ? Best Blades book I have read ,Gary Hamsons chapter spreads some light on Sabella and isn't too positive.

Hamson was told to play on the left rather than in his favoured CM. Sabella hardly ever put in a tackle which is important for a CM and that is probably why Hamson was critical of Sabella

 

[Silent Blade]

The following Saturday after the Orient game was at Preston which finished 2-2.
For the life of me could not remember the midweek game at Filbert Street.

Yet another nail in my coffin.

John Matthews scored our goal in his debut at Leicester. On the way back home in my dad's car, I saw three elderly ladies who were Leicester fans giving V signs at Blades fans in coaches!

 

[Large Mendonca]

Could have been stood beside ya fella , also touched the great man's hand when he walked down the old john street stand after being introduced by mr Haslam after we'd just signed im. Did'nt he set up Anderson v Sunderland when we came back , thought that goal got goal of the month. goin google that un now.

I think it come 2nd in Goal of the Season from memory, only to be bettered by Walsh's goal for Blackpool ?? although my memory may be playing tricks

Remember the Sunderland game well - think i was 11 or 12 and was sat in the rammed John Street stand that day.

 

[Silent Blade]

I think it come 2nd in Goal of the Season from memory, only to be bettered by Walsh's goal for Blackpool ?? although my memory may be playing tricks

Remember the Sunderland game well - think i was 11 or 12 and was sat in the rammed John Street stand that day.

Yes, Anderson's goal was voted 2nd for goal of the season. Trying to remember whose goal won the BBC goal of the season that season as Mickey Walsh's goal for Blackpool v Sunderland was in the 1974-75 season

 

[Silent Blade]

It was Ray Kennedy who won it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal_of_the_Season

 

[Large Mendonca]

Yes, Anderson's goal was voted 2nd for goal of the season. Trying to remember whose goal won the BBC goal of the season that season as Mickey Walsh's goal for Blackpool v Sunderland was in the 1974-75 season

I thought I was on too much of a roll !! we should be able to find out with the power of the internet........as you have just done as above

 

[Cheets]

I didn't go to the Orient game but it was my first game that I consciously took notice of as a Sheffield United fan, and I remember watching the highlights on Football Special on Sunday afternoon with Fred Dineage. Hmm, a promising start followed by a let-down. What an appropriate start to my life as a Blade.

 

[TAMUS]

John Matthews scored our goal in his debut at Leicester. On the way back home in my dad's car, I saw three elderly ladies who were Leicester fans giving V signs at Blades fans in coaches!

I think they also burned their Bras around that time too