'Memries' Sheffield United vs West Ham United: matches 1961 - 1994

[HammerInPeace]

Been meaning to do this for a while. Will try to do one every few days. Obviously, the short write-up is from a WH point of view. I'll try to sort out some of the formatting!

LEAGUE DIVISION 1
Date 23/9/61 Bramall Lane Att 21,034 Pos 17 3 F-A 1-4 H-T 0-2 Scorers: Dick 13, 88, Musgrove 41, Sealey 87, Pace 90. Referee A Jobling

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw L Summers Allchurch Russell Pace Kettleborough Simpson
Rhodes Kirkup Bond Hurst Brown Moore Scott Woosnam Sealey Dick Musgrove

The Bramall Lane crowd were entertained beforehand by the Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards, then tormented by West Ham once play began, then infuriated when the ref disallowed Kettleborough's effort which would have made it 1-2. Three goals in the last three minutes.


Date 10/2/62 Upton Park Att 21,829 Pos 5 6 F-A 1-2 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Woosnam 88, Pace 41, 74. Referee R Mann

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Leslie Kirkup Bond Bovington Brown Moore Scott Woosnam Sealey Dick Musgrove
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Russell Simpson

All West Ham's early season gloss has disappeared. The Blades have gone 13 games without defeat and in Derek Pace have one of the stars of the moment. Walter Winterbottom must have admired his volley which opened the scoring. At the death, Woosnam scored, then hit the bar.

End of Season:
Home Away
P W D L F A W D L F A Pts
5th SU 42 13 5 3 37 23 6 4 11 24 46 47
8th WH 42 11 6 4 49 37 6 4 11 27 45 44

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

I don't know if it's me, but I don't recall seeing any posts from you in ages HammerInPeace so good to have you back. Maybe I've just not been as active .

Maybe you've been too busy trimming the hairs on your Frank McAvennie wig?!

 

[Silent Blade]

Been meaning to do this for a while. Will try to do one every few days. Obviously, the short write-up is from a WH point of view. I'll try to sort out some of the formatting!

LEAGUE DIVISION 1
Date 23/9/61 Bramall Lane Att 21,034 Pos 17 3 F-A 1-4 H-T 0-2 Scorers: Dick 13, 88, Musgrove 41, Sealey 87, Pace 90. Referee A Jobling

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw L Summers Allchurch Russell Pace Kettleborough Simpson
Rhodes Kirkup Bond Hurst Brown Moore Scott Woosnam Sealey Dick Musgrove

The Bramall Lane crowd were entertained beforehand by the Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards, then tormented by West Ham once play began, then infuriated when the ref disallowed Kettleborough's effort which would have made it 1-2. Three goals in the last three minutes.


Date 10/2/62 Upton Park Att 21,829 Pos 5 6 F-A 1-2 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Woosnam 88, Pace 41, 74. Referee R Mann

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Leslie Kirkup Bond Bovington Brown Moore Scott Woosnam Sealey Dick Musgrove
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Russell Simpson

All West Ham's early season gloss has disappeared. The Blades have gone 13 games without defeat and in Derek Pace have one of the stars of the moment. Walter Winterbottom must have admired his volley which opened the scoring. At the death, Woosnam scored, then hit the bar.

End of Season:
Home Away
P W D L F A W D L F A Pts
5th SU 42 13 5 3 37 23 6 4 11 24 46 47
8th WH 42 11 6 4 49 37 6 4 11 27 45 44

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Sep 23, 2021

Sept 23, 1961
United 1-4 West Ham
Attendance: 21034

This will have no doubt been one of those games which fixed the expression ‘After the Lord Mayor’s Show’ firmly in my young brain. After the 89th minute Pace winner v Wednesday, celebrated on the Kop in the company of my school pal Wednesdayite, one week later it was confirmation yet again that inconsistency was the problem we needed to overcome.
I assume the trauma of this ‘hammering’ was immense, because the match did not exist in my mind until I looked a few weeks ago at the results for that season. It does not appear in the...

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Feb 10, 2022

March 10, 1962
West Ham 1-2 United
Attendance: 21829

I have to apologise again for the decline in standards in my posts on this thread; with my scrapbook having ended, I again had the problem that I can’t find the programme for this game. I will have been playing school football, but I am pretty sure my brother will have travelled to the game. But for some reason, it seems to have disappeared. Fortunately, Silent Blade has again rescued me, by providing the following report:

It is clear that this was a classy performance by United, with the settled lineup...

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[bornablade]

It's never crossed my mind before but I wonder how close Doc Pace was to being recognised by England.

His goalscoring record was impressive and consistent. 253 appearances for us with 140 goals.

 

[Brynner]

It's never crossed my mind before but I wonder how close Doc Pace was to being recognised by England.

His goalscoring record was impressive and consistent. 253 appearances for us with 140 goals.

My first hero in football when I was 6 and first started going to the Lane with my Dad. Had his name and 'Up The Blades' painted on my rattle. They were all the rage back then .
Can't recall him ever being on the verge of the England team, but I was only a sprog back then.
Certainly knew where the net was though. Not especially tall, but a great header of the ball and could certainly put himself about.
Great memories of those times. Hodgy in goal, Joe Shaw at centre half, Doc Pace centre forward and all of them around the 5' 9" mark.
Mind you a different game back then.

 

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Been meaning to do this for a while. Will try to do one every few days. Obviously, the short write-up is from a WH point of view. I'll try to sort out some of the formatting!

LEAGUE DIVISION 1
Date 23/9/61 Bramall Lane Att 21,034 Pos 17 3 F-A 1-4 H-T 0-2 Scorers: Dick 13, 88, Musgrove 41, Sealey 87, Pace 90. Referee A Jobling

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw L Summers Allchurch Russell Pace Kettleborough Simpson
Rhodes Kirkup Bond Hurst Brown Moore Scott Woosnam Sealey Dick Musgrove

The Bramall Lane crowd were entertained beforehand by the Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards, then tormented by West Ham once play began, then infuriated when the ref disallowed Kettleborough's effort which would have made it 1-2. Three goals in the last three minutes.


Date 10/2/62 Upton Park Att 21,829 Pos 5 6 F-A 1-2 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Woosnam 88, Pace 41, 74. Referee R Mann

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Leslie Kirkup Bond Bovington Brown Moore Scott Woosnam Sealey Dick Musgrove
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Russell Simpson

All West Ham's early season gloss has disappeared. The Blades have gone 13 games without defeat and in Derek Pace have one of the stars of the moment. Walter Winterbottom must have admired his volley which opened the scoring. At the death, Woosnam scored, then hit the bar.

End of Season:
Home Away
P W D L F A W D L F A Pts
5th SU 42 13 5 3 37 23 6 4 11 24 46 47
8th WH 42 11 6 4 49 37 6 4 11 27 45 44

As I commented 5 years ago (see post by Silent Blade ), that 4-1 ‘hammering’ has been totally erased from my memory. Despite your best efforts, that is still the case Thanks for posting this; I look forward to more

 

[HammerInPeace]

LEAGUE DIVISION 1
Date 29/9/62 Upton Park Att 22,707 Pos 13 8 F-A 1-1 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Scott 64, Shaw G 22(pen). Referee R Spittle

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Leslie Bond Burkett Peters Brown Moore Scott Woosnam Byrne Hurst Musgrove
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Hodgson Hartle

Blades' manager John Harris was aggrieved about Scott's equaliser, from Bond's booming cross, which might have been offside. West Ham had gone behind when Moore toppled Allchurch and Graham Shaw fired the penalty in off the bar. Thereafter Alan Hodgkinson stood defiant.


Date 16/2/63 Bramall Lane Att 18,176 Pos 12 10 F-A 0-2 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Boyce 34, Sealey 77. Referee C Duxbury

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Hodgson Simpson
Standen Kirkup Burkett Bovington Brown Moore Brabrook Boyce Sealey Byrne Scott

Six weeks have been frozen off. The icy pitch causes Standen and others to come out after half-time wearing canvas boots with rubber soles. The change helped earn West Ham's fifth away win, bettered only by Everton and Wolves. Boyce scored off a post, Sealey headed the second.

End of Season:
Home Away
P W D L F A W D L F A Pts
10th SU 42 11 7 3 33 20 5 5 11 25 40 44
12h WH 42 8 6 7 39 34 6 6 9 34 35 40

 

[North Shields Blade]

LEAGUE DIVISION 1
Date 29/9/62 Upton Park Att 22,707 Pos 13 8 F-A 1-1 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Scott 64, Shaw G 22(pen). Referee R Spittle

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Leslie Bond Burkett Peters Brown Moore Scott Woosnam Byrne Hurst Musgrove
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Hodgson Hartle

Blades' manager John Harris was aggrieved about Scott's equaliser, from Bond's booming cross, which might have been offside. West Ham had gone behind when Moore toppled Allchurch and Graham Shaw fired the penalty in off the bar. Thereafter Alan Hodgkinson stood defiant.


Date 16/2/63 Bramall Lane Att 18,176 Pos 12 10 F-A 0-2 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Boyce 34, Sealey 77. Referee C Duxbury

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Hodgson Simpson
Standen Kirkup Burkett Bovington Brown Moore Brabrook Boyce Sealey Byrne Scott

Six weeks have been frozen off. The icy pitch causes Standen and others to come out after half-time wearing canvas boots with rubber soles. The change helped earn West Ham's fifth away win, bettered only by Everton and Wolves. Boyce scored off a post, Sealey headed the second.

End of Season:
Home Away
P W D L F A W D L F A Pts
10th SU 42 11 7 3 33 20 5 5 11 25 40 44
12h WH 42 8 6 7 39 34 6 6 9 34 35 40

Enjoyed the referee’s name for the Upton Park 1962 game. Plenty of scope for a bit of terrace humour.

 

[HammerInPeace]

LEAGUE DIVISION 1
Date 7/9/63 Upton Park Att 23,837 Pos 5 13 F-A 2-3 H-T 2-2 Scorers: Byrne 34, Boyce 42, Wagstaff 4, Allchurch 8, 63. Referee S Yates

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Standen Kirkup Burkett Peters Brown Moore Brabook Boyce Byrne Hurst Scott
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw B Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Wagstaff Simpson

Hammers are toppled off their perch by Blades' first win of the season. When Allchurch let fly from 20 yards to make it 0-2 few would have bet on Hammers' revival. Byrne's header and Boyce's speed of foot made it 2-2. Jim Standen flapped at a cross to gift Allchurch the winner.


Date 11/1/64 Bramall Lane Att 18,733 Pos 10 17 F-A 1-2 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Sissons 82, Pace 25, Wagstaff 54. Referee Dagnall

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw B Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Jones Pace Wagstaff Hartle
Standen Bond Burkett Bovington Brown Moore Brabrook Boyce Byrne Hurst Sissons

The only reason lowly Hammers are not terrified of relegation is because Bolton and Ipswich are so far adrift. The Blades complete the double over the Hammers; indeed, they let them off lightly. In addition to the goals, Jones struck Standen's crossbar. Pace might have had a hat-trick.



End of Season:
Home Away
P W D L F A W D L F A Pts
12th SU 42 10 6 5 35 22 6 5 10 26 42 43
14th WH 42 8 7 6 45 38 6 5 10 24 36 40

 

[Silent Blade]

LEAGUE DIVISION 1
Date 29/9/62 Upton Park Att 22,707 Pos 13 8 F-A 1-1 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Scott 64, Shaw G 22(pen). Referee R Spittle

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Leslie Bond Burkett Peters Brown Moore Scott Woosnam Byrne Hurst Musgrove
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Hodgson Hartle

Blades' manager John Harris was aggrieved about Scott's equaliser, from Bond's booming cross, which might have been offside. West Ham had gone behind when Moore toppled Allchurch and Graham Shaw fired the penalty in off the bar. Thereafter Alan Hodgkinson stood defiant.


Date 16/2/63 Bramall Lane Att 18,176 Pos 12 10 F-A 0-2 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Boyce 34, Sealey 77. Referee C Duxbury

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Hodgson Simpson
Standen Kirkup Burkett Bovington Brown Moore Brabrook Boyce Sealey Byrne Scott

Six weeks have been frozen off. The icy pitch causes Standen and others to come out after half-time wearing canvas boots with rubber soles. The change helped earn West Ham's fifth away win, bettered only by Everton and Wolves. Boyce scored off a post, Sealey headed the second.

End of Season:
Home Away
P W D L F A W D L F A Pts
10th SU 42 11 7 3 33 20 5 5 11 25 40 44
12h WH 42 8 6 7 39 34 6 6 9 34 35 40

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Sep 29, 2022

Saturday, September 29, 1962
West Ham 1-1 United (G Shaw, pen)
Attendance: 22707

I did not get to this game (school football, presumably), and the fact that I don’t have a copy of the match programme suggests that either my disorganised collection is hiding a secret, or that my brother missed this game as well - a rare event. I have managed to get a picture of the front cover:

Reading the match report now makes me think that this was a game I will have regretted missing - it was one of those games where Hodgy made a series of brilliant saves, and his performance was...

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Feb 16, 2023

Saturday February 16, 1963
United 0-2 West Ham
Attendance: 18176

Writing this the day after a disappointing defeat (v Middlesbrough, for the benefit of readers in years to come), it is easy to slip into the negativity of fans (or ‘supporters’ as we were called then; ‘fans’ was reserved for rock singers and Hollywood actors) who are always convinced that whenever we are looking forward to a match, we will inevitably be let down. It was just over 2 months since the last home game, and it was exciting to be getting back to some sort of normality with a home game again; but, on a pitch that...

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[Silent Blade]

LEAGUE DIVISION 1
Date 7/9/63 Upton Park Att 23,837 Pos 5 13 F-A 2-3 H-T 2-2 Scorers: Byrne 34, Boyce 42, Wagstaff 4, Allchurch 8, 63. Referee S Yates

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Standen Kirkup Burkett Peters Brown Moore Brabook Boyce Byrne Hurst Scott
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw B Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Wagstaff Simpson

Hammers are toppled off their perch by Blades' first win of the season. When Allchurch let fly from 20 yards to make it 0-2 few would have bet on Hammers' revival. Byrne's header and Boyce's speed of foot made it 2-2. Jim Standen flapped at a cross to gift Allchurch the winner.


Date 11/1/64 Bramall Lane Att 18,733 Pos 10 17 F-A 1-2 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Sissons 82, Pace 25, Wagstaff 54. Referee Dagnall

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw B Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Jones Pace Wagstaff Hartle
Standen Bond Burkett Bovington Brown Moore Brabrook Boyce Byrne Hurst Sissons

The only reason lowly Hammers are not terrified of relegation is because Bolton and Ipswich are so far adrift. The Blades complete the double over the Hammers; indeed, they let them off lightly. In addition to the goals, Jones struck Standen's crossbar. Pace might have had a hat-trick.



End of Season:
Home Away
P W D L F A W D L F A Pts
12th SU 42 10 6 5 35 22 6 5 10 26 42 43
14th WH 42 8 7 6 45 38 6 5 10 24 36 40

Post in thread '1963-64 (60 years ago) match reports and photos'

Sep 7, 2023

7/9/1963

West Ham 2 (Byrne, Boyce) Blades 3 (Wagstaff, Allchurch 2)

Hammers number 4, Martin Peters, on the attack, Geoff Hurst is number 10, Tony Scott number 11. Blades players from the left are Gerry Summers, Cec Coldwell, Joe Shaw, Bernard Shaw and Ronnie Simpson. Hodgy often wore white collar round his neck from 1962 to 1965








Scores, scorers, line ups and league tables in below link

1963-09-07

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Jan 11, 2024

11/1/1964

Blades 2 (Pace, Wagstaff) West Ham 1 (Sissons)

7 surnames that began with the letter "B" in West Ham's line up!









Scores, scorers, line ups and league tables in below link

1964-01-11

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[Hackey Blade]

I was given this years ago as a birthday present, its the day I was born. Wet Spam won 3-1 shows how much of a lucky mascot i was.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

I was given this years ago as a birthday present, its the day I was born. Wet Spam won 3-1 shows how much of a lucky mascot i was.

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[Revolution]

Been meaning to do this for a while. Will try to do one every few days. Obviously, the short write-up is from a WH point of view. I'll try to sort out some of the formatting!

LEAGUE DIVISION 1
Date 23/9/61 Bramall Lane Att 21,034 Pos 17 3 F-A 1-4 H-T 0-2 Scorers: Dick 13, 88, Musgrove 41, Sealey 87, Pace 90. Referee A Jobling

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw L Summers Allchurch Russell Pace Kettleborough Simpson
Rhodes Kirkup Bond Hurst Brown Moore Scott Woosnam Sealey Dick Musgrove

The Bramall Lane crowd were entertained beforehand by the Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards, then tormented by West Ham once play began, then infuriated when the ref disallowed Kettleborough's effort which would have made it 1-2. Three goals in the last three minutes.


Date 10/2/62 Upton Park Att 21,829 Pos 5 6 F-A 1-2 H-T 0-1 Scorers: Woosnam 88, Pace 41, 74. Referee R Mann

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Leslie Kirkup Bond Bovington Brown Moore Scott Woosnam Sealey Dick Musgrove
Hodgkinson Coldwell Shaw G Richardson Shaw J Summers Allchurch Kettleborough Pace Russell Simpson

All West Ham's early season gloss has disappeared. The Blades have gone 13 games without defeat and in Derek Pace have one of the stars of the moment. Walter Winterbottom must have admired his volley which opened the scoring. At the death, Woosnam scored, then hit the bar.

End of Season:
Home Away
P W D L F A W D L F A Pts
5th SU 42 13 5 3 37 23 6 4 11 24 46 47
8th WH 42 11 6 4 49 37 6 4 11 27 45 44

Revolution Sr told me about the game at the Lane once: he may have also written about it for the Flashing Blade Fanzine now I think about it.

Dad said that when they were warming up, a group of West Ham players, including Bobby Moore, stood in a circle and played a sort of one touch passing game where they flicked the ball back and forth. They were incredibly skilful, and my Dad said that you didn't really see anything like that in those days (West Ham's training at the time was a lot more technical and skill based than most other teams'). Having watched this, My Dad and his mates thought we were going to get outplayed, and so it proved.

 

[HammerInPeace]

The opposite is true these days!

 

[Pollingtonblade]

I went to both games In 89/90

At the Lane we had about 200 corners and couldn't score- we lost 2-0 Mark Ward got both he had criticised Bassetts style of football before hand.

In the return under the lights at Upton Park/The Boleyn or whatever the fuck you called the ground we lost 5-0, and west ham fans also smashed most of the coach windows outside ground, bizarrely Sheffield United kept this game, the Oxford away thrashing and the Leeds thrashing on the end season video but didnt include our wins away at Swindon or the game at Oldham.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

91/92 West Ham featured in our first game of our new kop, off memory we scored an equaliser with a great corner routine Paul Beesely scoring

I also recall it was another joke crowd announcement the ground was rammed and attendance announced raised actual chuckles

The new kop was shit and amazingly we have never upgraded it.

 

[Jan Age]

Sheffield United 3 - 2 West Ham

My first season as a season ticket holder as a young lad.

A night match under the floodlights.

Bishop scored for them first 0-1

Homes scored for them again 0-2

But then the comeback happened.

Whitehouse with a belter 1-2

Brian Gayle from a corner 2-2

Rogers then made it 3-2

Great game and Carr and whitehouse were brilliant that night

 

[WalkelyFan]

I went to both games In 89/90

At the Lane we had about 200 corners and couldn't score- we lost 2-0 Mark Ward got both he had criticised Bassetts style of football before hand.

In the return under the lights at Upton Park/The Boleyn or whatever the fuck you called the ground we lost 5-0, and west ham fans also smashed most of the coach windows outside ground, bizarrely Sheffield United kept this game, the Oxford away thrashing and the Leeds thrashing on the end season video but didnt include our wins away at Swindon or the game at Oldham.

In case people think the number of corners was an exaggeration - it is but only just. I think the actual total was 28/29. Totally played them off the park and lost 2-0. The reason I remember it so well, I moved house that day.