'Memries' Sheffield United 1984-1985

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coaxingstar71 said:
Now yer talking!
There were some pretty poor performances that season but great times for me. Enjoyed the music too, not heard New England by Kirsty McColl (RIP) for a while.
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I remember being absolutely gutted when she died. My dad had always liked her stuff so it was something I grew up with. As a teenager, when I pictured my ideal woman it was her.

Anyway, the football...
 
Glenn Cockerill and Mel Eves saved us that season, together with the bottom 3 being so terrible.

How far offside was King Keith for that goal against Everton? I met an Evertonian 4 years later who was still annoyed about that. It was an exciting game, and there was no disgrace losing to that team.

By the way, I think we finished 18th, not 17th, Walthy!
 
I will also make a confession about this season, which took place when I was 11: saddo that I was (and am), I kept a running daily diary of what happened to United that season in a scrapbook, noting what happened at matches, stories that were in the news, etc. I'd love to lay my hands on that scrapbook, but I have no idea where it is. Sadly, it may be lost to history.
 
Revolution said:
I will also make a confession about this season, which took place when I was 11: saddo that I was (and am), I kept a running daily diary of what happened to United that season in a scrapbook, noting what happened at matches, stories that were in the news, etc. I'd love to lay my hands on that scrapbook, but I have no idea where it is. Sadly, it may be lost to history.
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I did similar. This season and maybe the couple after that; certainly it were the seasons Porterfield was manager.

I cut and glued in a big scrapbook stories from Green Un, Star, Sheffield Telegraph, Blades News (remember that) etc

Like you Revolution no idea where they went - may be somewhere in a loft at my Mothers house in a bix with other memorobilia.

Incidentally I was sorting out all my old programmes the other day - many from Dad/Uncles from 50-70's are a good read and have nearly every programme from the 81/82 championship season and certainly every away one. I have duplicates somehow of about 7 or 8 aways from that season including Darlington, if anyone is interested.

Loving these videos/pictures to music from the era. Brilliant stuff. Keep em coming! Some superb music picked too. Is is you doing them Walthamstow? Some footage I have not seen - where you getting it from?! Brilliant if you could do all seasons from 80s and move into 90's. As i say the music makes them.
 
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Blade56 said:
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No, that was 10 years later.

We signed Burridge, McNaught, Thompson, Mortimer (on loan) and Withe over the space of 2 seasons.

McNaught did well but was injury prone. Mortimer was very good in his short spell.

Withe did alright in 1985-6 but poorly in the last 2 years (and there was the Birmingham loan business). Thompson was poor and it's said the other players hated him.

I thought that despite some poor games Burridge did okay overall, particularly in his first year, but Grecian2000 violently disagrees with me...
 
Revolution said:
No, that was 10 years later.

We signed Burridge, McNaught, Thompson, Mortimer (on loan) and Withe over the space of 2 seasons.

McNaught did well but was injury prone. Mortimer was very good in his short spell.

Withe did alright in 1985-6 but poorly in the last 2 years (and there was the Birmingham loan business). Thompson was poor and it's said the other players hated him.

I thought that despite some poor games Burridge did okay overall, particularly in his first year, but Grecian2000 violently disagrees with me...
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I thought Budgie was ok actually.
 



DaveBassettsgoneonholiday said:
Interesting watching the Everton footage at the start......... what was the last game someone launched a bog roll on to the pitch at The Lane ?
I have no clue by the way.
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I did it once, a Tuesday night game against Cardiff, huge crowd. Nicked bog roll from bogs at work. It was the izal type and could have done serious damage if it hit someone. That's why soft bog roll was invented so softie footballers were safe!
 
Revolution said:
I will also make a confession about this season, which took place when I was 11: saddo that I was (and am), I kept a running daily diary of what happened to United that season in a scrapbook, noting what happened at matches, stories that were in the news, etc. I'd love to lay my hands on that scrapbook, but I have no idea where it is. Sadly, it may be lost to history.
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When I first got into football I used to get hold of the papers after my parents had read them, cut out all the football pictures in the back, and glue them into scrapbooks. My next door neighbours used to give me their read copies of the Daily Mirror. I also used to record matches on audio cassette off the radio and listen back to them. Weird, perhaps..
 
Deadbat said:
Loving these videos/pictures to music from the era. Brilliant stuff. Keep em coming! Some superb music picked too. Is is you doing them Walthamstow? Some footage I have not seen - where you getting it from?! Brilliant if you could do all seasons from 80s and move into 90's. As i say the music makes them.
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Thanks. One of my hobbies in recent years has been trying to track down old footage of United. This video, actually, probably has the highest proportion of stuff which isn't available anywhere else. I think Edward's goal against Everton is the only one to have been released on VHS/DVD (on 100 Years, 100 Goals). The rest I ferreted out online from people selling odds and sods on VHS/DVD, more than likely taped off the TV.

The clips from the 5-1 defeat against Palace in 71/72 came from a double DVD which was four hours long and consisted of random clips of football from about 1971-1973 and 1982-1984. It was in no order at all, cut from one match to another and back again...it was trippy. It opened with Freddie Starr molesting a reporter in front of a snowman and included and England Under 21s match from the Lane against Spain in the early 1980s. I might post the whole thing on YouTube. If you want to have a football tinged Fear and Loathing experience, its as close as you'll get.

The music has been fun as well. The only one I've had to download was You Could Do Magic for the 1973-1974 one.

The plan is to go up to 1987-1988, so not long left. After that the club started doing its own annual reviews.

Sod's Law though, as soon as I start posting these videos I find new footage.

These sites have been invaluable...

http://carousel.royalwebhosting.net/itv/ITVfootball68-83.html

https://sites.google.com/site/motdlistings/
 
That's got the brain ticking. I will have a ferret about in the cellar at Mums next time I go. Vaguely remember filling several scrap books with anything Blades related I could find in the paper round about this time. Dad used to get a bit miffed when he came home from work & there were large pieces of the Morning Telegraph missing.
 
DaveBassettsgoneonholiday said:
That's got the brain ticking. I will have a ferret about in the cellar at Mums next time I go. Vaguely remember filling several scrap books with anything Blades related I could find in the paper round about this time. Dad used to get a bit miffed when he came home from work & there were large pieces of the Morning Telegraph missing.
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This is all useful historical stuff!
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
Thanks. One of my hobbies in recent years has been trying to track down old footage of United. This video, actually, probably has the highest proportion of stuff which isn't available anywhere else. I think Edward's goal against Everton is the only one to have been released on VHS/DVD (on 100 Years, 100 Goals). The rest I ferreted out online from people selling odds and sods on VHS/DVD, more than likely taped off the TV.

The clips from the 5-1 defeat against Palace in 71/72 came from a double DVD which was four hours long and consisted of random clips of football from about 1971-1973 and 1982-1984. It was in no order at all, cut from one match to another and back again...it was trippy. It opened with Freddie Starr molesting a reporter in front of a snowman and included and England Under 21s match from the Lane against Spain in the early 1980s. I might post the whole thing on YouTube. If you want to have a football tinged Fear and Loathing experience, its as close as you'll get.

The music has been fun as well. The only one I've had to download was You Could Do Magic for the 1973-1974 one.

The plan is to go up to 1987-1988, so not long left. After that the club started doing its own annual reviews.

Sod's Law though, as soon as I start posting these videos I find new footage.

These sites have been invaluable...

http://carousel.royalwebhosting.net/itv/ITVfootball68-83.html

https://sites.google.com/site/motdlistings/
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Still think you should carry on after 87-88
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
Thanks. One of my hobbies in recent years has been trying to track down old footage of United. This video, actually, probably has the highest proportion of stuff which isn't available anywhere else. I think Edward's goal against Everton is the only one to have been released on VHS/DVD (on 100 Years, 100 Goals). The rest I ferreted out online from people selling odds and sods on VHS/DVD, more than likely taped off the TV.

The clips from the 5-1 defeat against Palace in 71/72 came from a double DVD which was four hours long and consisted of random clips of football from about 1971-1973 and 1982-1984. It was in no order at all, cut from one match to another and back again...it was trippy. It opened with Freddie Starr molesting a reporter in front of a snowman and included and England Under 21s match from the Lane against Spain in the early 1980s. I might post the whole thing on YouTube. If you want to have a football tinged Fear and Loathing experience, its as close as you'll get.

The music has been fun as well. The only one I've had to download was You Could Do Magic for the 1973-1974 one.

The plan is to go up to 1987-1988, so not long left. After that the club started doing its own annual reviews.

Sod's Law though, as soon as I start posting these videos I find new footage.

These sites have been invaluable...

http://carousel.royalwebhosting.net/itv/ITVfootball68-83.html

https://sites.google.com/site/motdlistings/
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I saw the Palace game footage many years ago on Football Focus when it was part of Grandstand. People used to write in and ask for archive footage to be shown. Some Palace fan wrote in and asked for that game, on the basis it was one of the few highlights of Palace's brief 1st spell in Division 1. I may be wrong but that may have been the day in November 1985 when we played Palace and would have gone top if we'd won. We drew 0-0 on a very foggy day - you couldn't see the Bramall Lane goal from the Kop end.
 
Revolution said:
I saw the Palace game footage many years ago on Football Focus when it was part of Grandstand. People used to write in and ask for archive footage to be shown. Some Palace fan wrote in and asked for that game, on the basis it was one of the few highlights of Palace's brief 1st spell in Division 1. I may be wrong but that may have been the day in November 1985 when we played Palace and would have gone top if we'd won. We drew 0-0 on a very foggy day - you couldn't see the Bramall Lane goal from the Kop end.
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Yes, I think there is a brief caption on the footage I have saying 'Memory Match' in old BBC font.
 
Revolution said:
I saw the Palace game footage many years ago on Football Focus when it was part of Grandstand. People used to write in and ask for archive footage to be shown. Some Palace fan wrote in and asked for that game, on the basis it was one of the few highlights of Palace's brief 1st spell in Division 1. I may be wrong but that may have been the day in November 1985 when we played Palace and would have gone top if we'd won. We drew 0-0 on a very foggy day - you couldn't see the Bramall Lane goal from the Kop end.
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Yep it was on Grandstand that very day
 
Was in the final year at Brook school in 84/85, so was 15/16 years old, and went to all games (except Portsmouth away on Tuesday night). Great time going to away games with mates, thinking we were the bees-knees. Remember Wolves away first game of the season, when (in mind at least) we were backed by about 5,000 Blades fans, Tommy Docherty's first match as manager for them and a teenage Tim Flowers made his league debut. We were 2-0 down but King Keith turned it round, scoring two goals with the game ending 2-2.

Another game that springs to mind was Leeds away, the day (or day after) Leonard Rositer (Rigsby) died (funny what you remember around specific football matches), got the special and was walked for miles from the station to the ground by plod. Also, the Brighton away game, final Saturday game of the season, when it all kicked off on the pitch after the final whistle. Played Huddersfield away the Tuesday after in a re-arranged game and ended up being thrown out of the ground by plod - if my dad would have been there he'd have given me a reet rollicking.
 
SUFC Handsworth said:
Was in the final year at Brook school in 84/85, so was 15/16 years old, and went to all games (except Portsmouth away on Tuesday night). Great time going to away games with mates, thinking we were the bees-knees. Remember Wolves away first game of the season, when (in mind at least) we were backed by about 5,000 Blades fans, Tommy Docherty's first match as manager for them and a teenage Tim Flowers made his league debut. We were 2-0 down but King Keith turned it round, scoring two goals with the game ending 2-2.
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SUFC Handsworth said:
Was in the final year at Brook school in 84/85, so was 15/16 years old, and went to all games (except Portsmouth away on Tuesday night). Great time going to away games with mates, thinking we were the bees-knees. Remember Wolves away first game of the season, when (in mind at least) we were backed by about 5,000 Blades fans, Tommy Docherty's first match as manager for them and a teenage Tim Flowers made his league debut. We were 2-0 down but King Keith turned it round, scoring two goals with the game ending 2-2.

Another game that springs to mind was Leeds away, the day (or day after) Leonard Rositer (Rigsby) died (funny what you remember around specific football matches), got the special and was walked for miles from the station to the ground by plod. Also, the Brighton away game, final Saturday game of the season, when it all kicked off on the pitch after the final whistle. Played Huddersfield away the Tuesday after in a re-arranged game and ended up being thrown out of the ground by plod - if my dad would have been there he'd have given me a reet rollicking.
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At the time drawing at just relegated Wolves looked like a great result!

Turned out they were garbage.

Flowers did something in the return game (also 2-2) that I can't remember any other keeper doing. Keith Edwards was one on one with him and tried to go round him but Flowers took the ball off him.
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
Thanks. One of my hobbies in recent years has been trying to track down old footage of United. This video, actually, probably has the highest proportion of stuff which isn't available anywhere else. I think Edward's goal against Everton is the only one to have been released on VHS/DVD (on 100 Years, 100 Goals). The rest I ferreted out online from people selling odds and sods on VHS/DVD, more than likely taped off the TV.

The clips from the 5-1 defeat against Palace in 71/72 came from a double DVD which was four hours long and consisted of random clips of football from about 1971-1973 and 1982-1984. It was in no order at all, cut from one match to another and back again...it was trippy. It opened with Freddie Starr molesting a reporter in front of a snowman and included and England Under 21s match from the Lane against Spain in the early 1980s. I might post the whole thing on YouTube. If you want to have a football tinged Fear and Loathing experience, its as close as you'll get.

The music has been fun as well. The only one I've had to download was You Could Do Magic for the 1973-1974 one.

The plan is to go up to 1987-1988, so not long left. After that the club started doing its own annual reviews.

Sod's Law though, as soon as I start posting these videos I find new footage.

These sites have been invaluable...

http://carousel.royalwebhosting.net/itv/ITVfootball68-83.html

https://sites.google.com/site/motdlistings/
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Excellent

I know SUFC started doing season reviews but be grand if you still did them ...even just for the music bits etc?

I have every season review they have made on DVD and lots of other DVD's Blades related, including seasons they did not make them; goals etc (converted from VHS to DVD) from 88-89 to around 2008. After we went down from Prem I lost heart!

I have not seen some of these 1980's goals one so loving them

Its funny how I started going 83-84 and from then till maybe 88; under Porterfield and then McEwan I have such good memories when in reality save for the odd season (promotion from the 3rd) it was garbage! Being a young lad though it seemed so magical even though crowds were quite poor down to as low as under 7,000 (Palace at home) and mostly we were around 9-12,000 crowds in this era.

It was my first SUFC memories though and that shiny red and white shirt; the Blades review programme with the same picture on all season in most cases and the bubble perms of Cockerill and Morris allied to the goals of Edwards made it seem like nothing could be better. I had a dream once that Edwards was sold (before he was sold a few years later) and was crying my eyes out (was only around 7 or 8).

Then Harry Bassett took over and it all started to go wrong!

:p
 



i to had a scrapbook started it when we got relegated to the 4th still got it under my bed ,went to all them away games everton thought WOW best ground in country grimsby saw my self on tv and what a goal from edwards also was at cardiff when thompson made is debut
 
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