Sheffield United = Pointless!

[JohnDenver]

What sort of bomb landed on it? As it would seem the houses behind survived rather well.

Pass. I don't know if it was a stray or whether t'old Adolf was aiming for the factories around the Lane. I'd guess the former.

 

[thevoot]

Just caught the ending of the quiz 'Pointless' on BBC and the couple in the final round had to name 3 FA Cup semi-finalists of the 1990's. They said Arsenal, West Brom and SUFC. Needless to say that not many people had remembered our defeat by the pigs in 92 so they got their 'pointless' answer and won 4 grand - all thanks to The Blades.

Has a TV show ever been more appropriately named?

 

[2ndtenorblade]

I'm struck by how neat and tidy these areal photos look.

 

[Bladesway]

Shall we have a game of I Spy

Grammar and spelling a must.

Spy? Now there is a name from the past.

 

[Selly]

What sort of bomb landed on it?

A big explodey one???

At least we've put a smile on some bodies face" a bit like a sadistic murderer, with a sense of humour?

sort of.

actually my 'contribution' is fairly pointless so here is a nice photo of Bramall Lane

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Seeing that photo makesyou realise the the pitch at BDTBL really is oriented the "wrong" way for the site.

It wil never change now, but it would make much more sense to rotate the pitch by 90 degrees...

 

[mattbianco1]

Just caught the ending of the quiz 'Pointless' on BBC and the couple in the final round had to name 3 FA Cup semi-finalists of the 1990's. They said Arsenal, West Brom and SUFC. Needless to say that not many people had remembered our defeat by the pigs in 92 so they got their 'pointless' answer and won 4 grand - all thanks to The Blades.

Or Newcastle in 1998

 

[Large Mendonca]

Anyone know what the flat area is on John Street, with what looks like a small stand ? it almost looks like a practice pitch.

 

[vorpal blade]

Anyone know what the flat area is on John Street, with what looks like a small stand ? it almost looks like a practice pitch.

On the website where I found the photos, I think the captions talk about a (plant) nursery. There is no shortage of land on the stadium site itself for practice pitches and I think there was a bowling green at the corner of Cherry & Shoreham Streets. (there still is one at Lords isn't there?)

I agree with Selly Oak's point about the sense rotating the pitch and it was always considered an option, till they erected the South Stand. Even then there was room left around the pitch for a matching stand opposite against John Street but the masterplan drawn up in the 1970s wasn't adhered to, the architects of the bits and pieces built since either haven't realised or have been complaisant in the face of club owners who 'didn't get it', sycophancy being endemic within our profession.

The only ground I can think of which where they radically moved the pitch position is Molineaux (spelling?) where they had the foresight to put up a new stand behind the existing one, thereby making more room for a matching stand opposite with the intention that they never went a season without an intact 4 sided ground,

HOWEVER, bankrupted by the cost of that stand, Wolves ground was an absurdity for years, the new stand far away from the pitch and another 2 condemned long before they clawed back enough money to rebuild the stadium. So that would almost certainly have happened at the Lane because building the South Stand all but bankrupted us too.

What I most like about the old Bramall Lane is the way the terracing was intact all the way round the boundary with each corner curving round, that's something we've lost. More broadly, the grid iron of streets meant that one could travel from anywhere in the city to anywhere else in a logical way. That has now been wrecked by the system of ring roads which for me has really damaged Sheffield. Nuff Sed.

 

[Jon Bon]

Nah, if you look closely you can see great grandpa Swiss hopping out of his pink Model T.

A-hem... Model T 'Sport'.

 

[super_pig]

Nah, if you look closely you can see great grandpa Swiss hopping out of his pink Model T.

didn't know that you could get it in 4x4

 

[Darren]

Pass. I don't know if it was a stray or whether t'old Adolf was aiming for the factories around the Lane. I'd guess the former.

More likely they were aiming for the steelworks down the east end and missed by a mile. Bombing wasn't all that accurate. The factories round the Lane tended to be light industry (cutlery etc) so were unlikely to be a major German bombing target. Unless:

Goering" "Mein Fuhrer! I have thought of the perfect way to bring those English dogs to their knees.

Hitler: "go on Hermann"

Goering" well, you know that those Britishers love their stainless steel cutlery with "made in Sheffield" on them?

Hitler: "yes"?

Goering: "well, if we destroy all their factories that make them, they will have to rely in cheap imports from the USA, their meals will taste funny, morale will plummet and then will come kissing the Fuhrer's arse if only they can get back their knives and forks"

Hitler: "greay idea, Hermy babe. So where are these knife factories?"

Goering: "near some football ground called Bramhill Lee or something"..

Hitler: "go to it - oh and drop one on the football ground as well. I hate football..."

 

[Revolution]

More likely they were aiming for the steelworks down the east end and missed by a mile. Bombing wasn't all that accurate. The factories round the Lane tended to be light industry (cutlery etc) so were unlikely to be a major German bombing target.

The story I was told was that they were after the East End/Don Valley and the steelworks there, but there was a blackout down there, and they bombed the town centre (most notably the Moor) because they saw lights and thought they were over the River Don which was lit by factories on each side. John Street took a stray bomb.

Mind you, there were bombs in other places too on those nights - at least one fell in Firth Park, for example.

 

[super_pig]

i believe they were after Laycocks on Archer Road as well which is why Norton Woodseats got hit

 

[blade too long]

This chap...did this

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actually was these 2 that did it , apparently one of them could contact the dead

 

[JohnDenver]

apparently one of them could contact the dead

That's handy - would give him a chance to apologise for dropping a bomb on their heads.

 

[blade too long]

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/well-played-the-blades

blades hammer forest 3-0

 

[blade too long]

A shot from 30 yards by Al;an Woodard caused the abandonment of the game v West Brom

 

[Grecian2000]

If they'd fixed the net they'd still have played.

Pitch looks exactly the same as when Derby came and thrashed us in '73 (or '74 or whenever it actually was).

 

[Bladesman]

A big explodey one???



Seeing that photo makesyou realise the the pitch at BDTBL really is oriented the "wrong" way for the site.

It wil never change now, but it would make much more sense to rotate the pitch by 90 degrees...

Yeah I was highlighting it as there seems to be little or no damage to the houses behind.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Can't let this thread pass without the genius of Steve Coogan.

 

[WorkingtonBlade]

The only ground I can think of which where they radically moved the pitch position is Molineaux (spelling?)

Bournemouth turned their pitch ninety degrees.

 

[KenMcnaughtsNuts]

I would have said Chesterford.

Why would you say Arsenal??? As if that would be pointless. May as well just guess a daft team if you can't think of anybody. Plymouth. Burnley. Feck knows.

 

[metalblade]

More likely they were aiming for the steelworks down the east end and missed by a mile. Bombing wasn't all that accurate. The factories round the Lane tended to be light industry (cutlery etc) so were unlikely to be a major German bombing target. Unless:

Goering" "Mein Fuhrer! I have thought of the perfect way to bring those English dogs to their knees.

Hitler: "go on Hermann"

Goering" well, you know that those Britishers love their stainless steel cutlery with "made in Sheffield" on them?

Hitler: "yes"?

Goering: "well, if we destroy all their factories that make them, they will have to rely in cheap imports from the USA, their meals will taste funny, morale will plummet and then will come kissing the Fuhrer's arse if only they can get back their knives and forks"

Hitler: "greay idea, Hermy babe. So where are these knife factories?"

Goering: "near some football ground called Bramhill Lee or something"..

Hitler: "go to it - oh and drop one on the football ground as well. I hate football..."

By that time of the war the Germans Kg100 bomber group were using the X Gerat system which was very accurate for the time, first used on Coventry which was devastated radio beams were broadcast from France and Holland and the beams crossed at the intended target letting the aircraft know exactly where and when to drop their bombs. We soon had counter measures to jam or distort the signals throwing the bombers aim off by a few miles maybe that is why the city centre was badly damaged rather than the east end factories.
The other theory is of course that Goering being a fat pig (maybe a relation of Tango) obviously wanted to drop a few bombs on BDTBL.