The Arse

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Now Monday 4th March, 8pm.

 

[S64 Blade]

Should favour us a bit with it being a night game!

 

[Bell4]

Should favour us a bit with it being a night game!

Especially if we turn off the floodlights and issue our players with night vision goggles

 

[Snowflake]

Especially if we turn off the floodlights and issue our players with night vision goggles

Was it not Arsenal that we played in the first floodlit match or was that the first on radio (wireless) ?

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Can't help but think back to October 2019 when we beat Arsenal 1-0.

What a season that was and what a time to be a Blade.

For anyone who's of the same generation as me that is as good as it will ever get.

 

[Bell4]

Was it not Arsenal that we played in the first floodlit match or was that the first on radio (wireless) ?

First floodlit

 

[ZoneManWilf]

Convenient for the Arsenal fans.

 

[Bath Blade]

First floodlit

And first radio commentary.

 

[Silent Blade]

First floodlit

First floodlit was the friendly match against Rotherham

 

[Liaminho9]

Convenient for the Arsenal fans.

Yeh right pain in the arse for Utd fans that live in London too
No chance unless i leave the game 15 minutes early to get a train back

 

[gooseh]

Yeh right pain in the arse for Utd fans that live in London too
No chance unless i leave the game 15 minutes early to get a train back

I'm the opposite. And it's still a pain in the arse. Total jokes

 

[SouthStandGBlock]

Yet another home game it's very difficult to get to now and which I'll probably miss.

That's what Sky pay the club £110,000,000 a season for though.

 

[Weasel]

Was it not Arsenal that we played in the first floodlit match or was that the first on radio (wireless) ?

You might be thinking about a floodlit match played at Bramall Lane (which was a first) but it didn't involve United or Arsenal. The world's first football match under floodlights took place in 1878 at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, as the “Blues” played the “Reds” in an exhibition match. Bet the reds won.

Incidentally, according to Wiki, the first international game under floodlights of an England game at Wembley was 30 November 1955 against Spain, England winning 4–1. The first floodlit Football League match took place at Fratton Park, Portsmouth on 22 February 1956 between Portsmouth and Newcastle United.

We did have a 'first' with Arsenal but that was the first football match broadcast on radio (match at Highbury v United in January 1927 which ended 1-1).

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

Yeh right pain in the arse for Utd fans that live in London too
No chance unless i leave the game 15 minutes early to get a train back

You should be grateful mate. At least you wouldn't have to watch the last 3 Arsenal goals

 

[Cyprus Blade]

First floodlit was the friendly match against Rotherham

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Bramall Lane, !878 first floodlit match - https://www.englandsoldestfootballc....&text=The experiment was organised by Messrs.

 

[Loco Blade]

That gooners game under the lamps at the lane in 06/07 season . Bonkers game absolute bedlam on south stand . Christian Nade goal , jags in net and Julio Baptiste ( the beast ) up front for the arse Cesc Fiberglass bitching all night this is why I love the blades . Only we can invent this kind of drama ! Love it

 

[Barney Rubble]

It's a real pain in the arse for me as the match has now moved to my 66th birthday. My original plan was to go down to Sheffield for the weekend so I could see the match, have a few beers and a meal out afterwards, with more beers to follow back home on the Monday. Now I'll have to scratch the weekend and miss out on a alcohol fuelled birthday.

So I'll probably be the one trying to get the Sky TV is fucking shit chant started.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

That gooners game under the lamps at the lane in 06/07 season . Bonkers game absolute bedlam on south stand . Christian Nade goal , jags in net and Julio Baptiste ( the beast ) up front for the arse Cesc Fiberglass bitching all night this is why I love the blades . Only we can invent this kind of drama ! Love it

We played them on a Monday night in 2019 and had a decent result if I remember rightly.

 

[Weasel]

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Bramall Lane, !878 first floodlit match - https://www.englandsoldestfootballc....&text=The experiment was organised by Messrs.

'The Blues won by 2 goals to nil'.

Bollocks.

 

[loveWalrusDaveTheBlade]

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Bramall Lane, !878 first floodlit match - https://www.englandsoldestfootballclubs.com/140-years-ago-today-the-worlds-first-ever-floodlights-at-a-football-match/#:~:text=The world's first ever floodlights at a football match,-14th October 2018&text=The year 1878 marked another,by the Sheffield Football Association.&text=The experiment was organised by Messrs.

Jack Robinsons’ great Grandad - bottom left.

 

[gooseh]

That gooners game under the lamps at the lane in 06/07 season . Bonkers game absolute bedlam on south stand . Christian Nade goal , jags in net and Julio Baptiste ( the beast ) up front for the arse Cesc Fiberglass bitching all night this is why I love the blades . Only we can invent this kind of drama ! Love it

The beast, what a joke he was after all the fuss

 

[Silent Blade]

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Bramall Lane, !878 first floodlit match - https://www.englandsoldestfootballc....&text=The experiment was organised by Messrs.

Not Sheffield United's first floodlit match. Neither us nor Arsenal were formed then!

 

[Dkc]

Was it the first commentary game?

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Very true. I didn't say it was us Silent. But it was our ground. Arsenal of course have been in the top flight since the end of WW1 on the basis of finishing 6th (amended to 5th in 1975 due to a "miscalculation of goal difference") in the division below in the last season before the war (Barnsley finished higher and were not promoted). Tottenham and Wolves, who both had better cases, also missed out. There has never been any satisfactory explanation of why Arsenal were promoted or how they accrued so many votes. In "The Beautiful Game" Simon Inglis wrote, "never has the football league been so manipulated as it was in 1919". The guy who orchestrated it, Henry Norris, was banned from football for life in 1927 for corruption. Maybe part of the reason Arsenal have inverted comma's around the "Lucky" tag they carry.

 

[espoo blade]

Was it not Arsenal that we played in the first floodlit match or was that the first on radio (wireless) ?