'Memries' Sheffield United 1974-1975

[DifferentClass]

Yorath talking too much... nowt changes!

 

[BladeFisher]

We used to stand next to the players tunnel on the Bramall Lane side. You can probably see the top of my head in a few of these clips.
The Ipswich game was about as good as it got for Field - don't remember him doing a lot else.

In Walthy's clips Field scores a lot of goals. On reflection a bit under appreciated I'd say.

Things I miss from those clips.

The white railings at BDTBL
A decent kit, (can we play in one like that soon Addidas?)
and the real badge ........ Sheffield coat of arms

We are Sheffield's team, ....... the other lot play in a village outside.

 

[Silent Blade]

In Walthy's clips Field scores a lot of goals. On reflection a bit under appreciated I'd say.

See what TC and Badger had said about Field and I agree with them

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...AF#v=onepage&q=tony currie tony field&f=false

 

[bornablade]

But my Blades story begins in 1980!

Have you tried the Samaratins?

 

[Dnblade]

Great video again Walthy..I was at most of the games on the video,although I missed quite a few games after January when my Dad stopped going,and we'd moved away..I still managed to get half a dozen more including that West Ham game and Leicester..How close we came.

 

[DiggerBlade]

Never tire of watching those clips and footage of the 70's Blades. Win or lose just watching brings back memories of of an era never to be forgotten. Gives me goose bumps seeing TC & Woody and Columbo lookalike Tony Field in that fantastic kit that looked so right.

For me as a Blade, it started with a certain noise echoing through the streets of Heeley on dark evenings back in the mid 60's. Listening to the neighbours in our back yard saying " United's just scored then " and wondering what it must be like this Bramall Lane place. My dad would walk in after the game and talk about Mick Jones and Alan Birchenall or Hodgy whose names conjured up images of some higher god like super stars.

Getting to my first match and absorbing the atmosphere of the Shoreham Street Kop in full voice had me hooked. I'd found my calling in life and it was to become a Blade no matter what the low's brought. Even relegation to the fourth division didn't diminish my love of the Blades. How could it? It's in the blood and always will be.

As for these clips and images walthamstowblade, keep them coming please. Old duffers like me feed off great memories like this win or lose. Seeing things like the old white railings or the old concrete dug outs and floodlights is a real tonic.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Never tire of watching those clips and footage of the 70's Blades. Win or lose just watching brings back memories of of an era never to be forgotten. Gives me goose bumps seeing TC & Woody and Columbo lookalike Tony Field in that fantastic kit that looked so right.

For me as a Blade, it started with a certain noise echoing through the streets of Heeley on dark evenings back in the mid 60's. Listening to the neighbours in our back yard saying " United's just scored then " and wondering what it must be like this Bramall Lane place. My dad would walk in after the game and talk about Mick Jones and Alan Birchenall or Hodgy whose names conjured up images of some higher god like super stars.

Getting to my first match and absorbing the atmosphere of the Shoreham Street Kop in full voice had me hooked. I'd found my calling in life and it was to become a Blade no matter what the low's brought. Even relegation to the fourth division didn't diminish my love of the Blades. How could it? It's in the blood and always will be.

As for these clips and images walthamstowblade, keep them coming please. Old duffers like me feed off great memories like this win or lose. Seeing things like the old white railings or the old concrete dug outs and floodlights is a real tonic.

Oh, go on then...

I've put together a playlist here...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7bYqrxfk609_VUeVCrs54Hv08InETGqU

 

[DiggerBlade]

Oh, go on then...

I've put together a playlist here...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7bYqrxfk609_VUeVCrs54Hv08InETGqU

You are indeed a superstar WalthamstowBlade.

Thank you.

 

[brownie4583]

The 1st game I can remember going to as a kid was the 1-0 win at home to Wolves when Eddie Colquhoun scored the winner from a direct free kick inside their area if my memory serves me right.

 

[Silent Blade]

The 1st game I can remember going to as a kid was the 1-0 win at home to Wolves when Eddie Colquhoun scored the winner from a direct free kick inside their area if my memory serves me right.

We were awarded an indirect free kick at the Lane End. All the Wolves players stood on the goal line. The free kick was rolled to Woody who blasted his shot against the wall, Colquhoun picked up the rebound, went past a Wolves player (who ran towards him) and blasted the ball high into the net

 

[BladeFisher]

Oh, go on then...

I've put together a playlist here...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7bYqrxfk609_VUeVCrs54Hv08InETGqU

Interesting to see the earlier footage. The bits of interest to me aren't the players but the ground.

Of note was that in the 1950's the tv footage at Bramall Lane was from the John St stand, but in the 1960's was from a gantry erected on the Cherry St side. I wondered why that changed?

Old shots of Molyneux. I remember the hipped roof stand there. Sadly the modern ubiquitous stadium has destroyed a lot of the character of some of these famous grounds although Molyneux is still a little distinctive with its bow roof lines to its stands.

The other thing that has changed in the playing was the basketball antics of the goalies. I still lament the change in the back pass rule but even in the 70's I didn't see many 'keepers using the basketball bouncing out and running before a lump upfield technique. My late stepfather (Hagan era) was a goalie and played for the RAF and Carlisle and in his day they did that but I never really saw it after '66. We tended to roll it out, then bounce the ball once or twice before the kick.

Shame we can't get this old stuff digitally remastered and slowed down a bit as some of the quality is poor but its good to see it though.

Walthy the new Dickie Attenborough.

 

[Silent Blade]

Interesting to see the earlier footage. The bits of interest to me aren't the players but the ground.


The other thing that has changed in the playing was the basketball antics of the goalies. I still lament the change in the back pass rule but even in the 70's I didn't see many 'keepers using the basketball bouncing out and running before a lump upfield technique. My late stepfather (Hagan era) was a goalie and played for the RAF and Carlisle and in his day they did that but I never really saw it after '66. We tended to roll it out, then bounce the ball once or twice before the kick.

The story starts in the early 1960s, at which time the goalkeeper was still allowed to keep the ball in his hands for virtually as long as he liked, taking as many steps as he wished in the process, as long as he bounced the ball on the ground or threw it in the air and caught again as he moved. In other words, he was free to use up as much time and penalty-area space as he wished, and it was up to the opposition to try to get the ball away from him fairly and safely a virtually impossible thing to do.

It was around this time, as gamesmanship crept in and the privilege first became systematically abused, that the rule-makers felt it necessary to fire the first salvo in the battle, by introducing the four-step rule. The goalkeeper was given up to four steps to travel while holding, bouncing or throwing the ball in the air and catching it again, without having to release it into play.

The goalkeepers and coaches were quick to react. The goalies exploited the wording of the new law by using the four steps rule as they liked : they would hold the ball, put it on the ground after one or two steps, dribble it a few metres and still have two or three steps "in the bank" when they picked it up again thus using up valuable space and time.

 

[BladeFisher]

The story starts in the early 1960s, at which time the goalkeeper was still allowed to keep the ball in his hands for virtually as long as he liked, taking as many steps as he wished in the process, as long as he bounced the ball on the ground or threw it in the air and caught again as he moved. In other words, he was free to use up as much time and penalty-area space as he wished, and it was up to the opposition to try to get the ball away from him fairly and safely a virtually impossible thing to do.

It was around this time, as gamesmanship crept in and the privilege first became systematically abused, that the rule-makers felt it necessary to fire the first salvo in the battle, by introducing the four-step rule. The goalkeeper was given up to four steps to travel while holding, bouncing or throwing the ball in the air and catching it again, without having to release it into play.

The goalkeepers and coaches were quick to react. The goalies exploited the wording of the new law by using the four steps rule as they liked : they would hold the ball, put it on the ground after one or two steps, dribble it a few metres and still have two or three steps "in the bank" when they picked it up again thus using up valuable space and time.

Interesting..but Hodgy and others tended to get rid of the ball pretty quick mind....

 

[Silent Blade]

Interesting..but Hodgy and others tended to get rid of the ball pretty quick mind....

Am quite sure the four step rule was already introduced before I started following football in 1970. If you see footage of the 1966 World Cup matches, the keepers were often bouncing the ball and running around their area. The four step rule started in either 1967, 1968 or 1969?

 

[JJ Sefton]

Interesting to see the earlier footage. The bits of interest to me aren't the players but the ground.

Of note was that in the 1950's the tv footage at Bramall Lane was from the John St stand, but in the 1960's was from a gantry erected on the Cherry St side. I wondered why that changed?

Might have had to do with the rebuilding of the John Street stand.

 

[BladeFisher]

Might have had to do with the rebuilding of the John Street stand.

Was that rebuilt after the late 50's then?

 

[JJ Sefton]

Was that rebuilt after the late 50's then?

Yes, it got badly damaged in the war and I think we had to wait ages to get it rebuilt owing to shortages of cash and building materials. This is the bombed John Street stand and you can see a gantry at the top in the middle that wasn't there when I was a kid (bottom). I think that is where the cameras would have been.

 

[JJ Sefton]

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