The most bizarre game you attended at BDTBL

[DifferentClass]

I remember Alan Cork had a goal controversially disallowed at the Kop end otherwise it would have been 7-0.

The United winger crossed the ball from the byline and Cork bundled it over the line from close range.
However the ref said the ball had crossed the line before it was crossed, so he ordered a goal kick for Spurs.
I was near the Kop/ John Street corner flag that night so had a great view of the cross and only half the ball crossed the line, so it should have counted.

If we had beat Spurs 7-0 then it would have equalled their all time record defeat.

http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1046

Worth bearing in mind is that Gary Hamson had just beaten a full-strength Liverpool squad at the height of their power Bet that was a bizarre game...

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Watching England under 21s beat West Germany 21s 3-1. The only time I've watched a football match at Bramall Lane where United weren't involved.

There were quite a few under Adkins when United weren't involved.

 

[Blade for Sale]

Watching our own player, Peter Withe, playing against us on loan to Birmingham and scoring to beat us was pretty bizarre and fuckwitted even by mid 80s SUFC standards.
Coincidentally the same player scored the fastest goal I've ever seen at the Lane after 18 seconds in a 3-1 win v Barnsley. Always something surreal about a 1st minute goal.

 

[Balham]

Brentford. Clayton Donaldson played.

That's mine too. I missed the WBA game as I was on a train from Blackpool back to Sheff after a random night out

Donaldson didn't just play, he was one of the three sent off.

 

[Sheffsteel]

http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1046

Worth bearing in mind is that Gary Hamson had just beaten a full-strength Liverpool squad at the height of their power Bet that was a bizarre game...

Went to that game too
However on the night Liverpool dominated the game and deserved to win but we defended well and scored from a set piece.
Luck can always play a part so these types of shock results happen every now and then, so not too bizarre.

However beating a highly rated team 6-0 is a different matter and very rare.

 

[I should coco]

The butterfly wing turned into a ten year shit storm. Everything post-that moment has been steady decline until the win against Gillingham away last season.

Glad to see you've finally realised it was that bastard butterfly that caused it all.

And to think that all these years you've been blaming McCabe and the Desso...

 

[I should coco]

08 May 1979. My last game at the Lane as a civvy. Think it was a night match and we all piled down there because we have to win 8-0 to guarantee survival. It was never gonna happen.

I was 15 and young and daft enough to think that maybe if we scored early......

After nearly 50 years of watching United my fear, cynicism and our ability to cock up even the most certain of certainties leaves me in no doubt that if Leicester needed to turn up at the Lane, win 8-0 to stay up and send us down, it is a racing certainty.

 

[pommpey]

Glad to see you've finally realised it was that bastard butterfly that caused it all.

And to think that all these years you've been blaming McCabe and the Desso...

Aye. Whoda thought a butterfly would have sacke ... made Warnock resign, sold players, hired shit managers, sold more players, hired more shit managers ... etc, etc, etc ... GCI ... Div One ... yay, Team United ... etc ....

Chaos.

pommpey

 

[brownie4583]

Destroying Oldham 5-1 away was unexpected,Colin Morris and Keith Edwards scoring 2 each,Morris was brilliant that day and me and my mate ended up running to,and jumping into his MG Midget and speeding away being chased by around 5-10 Oldham fans

 

[I should coco]

Lost 4-0, but as you say, absolutely battered them. Weirdest game ever at the Lane that I can remember.

Strangely in the next/previous home game we beat someone else 4-0 (Pompey?) and didn't deserve it at all.

 

[I should coco]

Aye. Whoda thought a butterfly would have sacke ... made Warnock resign, sold players, hired shit managers, sold more players, hired more shit managers ... etc, etc, etc ... GCI ... Div One ... yay, Team United ... etc ....

Chaos.

Yup, that's what's chaotic about 'Chaos Theory'. Them butterflies can be right bastards in contract negotiations and poor old Warnock had no chance.

I think you are finally getting the hang of this

 

[Grecian2000]

Bizarre games,there were two.

Arsenal 5-0 winners at Highbury and Alan Ball sat on the ball to take the piss out of a nearby Tony Currie.

Sheffield United 5-0 winners against Arsenal at Bramall Lane and Tony Currie sat on the ball to repay the compliment to a nearby Alan Ball.

Arse winning 5-0 was at the Lane not Highbury (not John Hope's finest hour).
The following game at Highbury (after TC had his "revenge") Ball put his foot on the ball and pretended to tie his lace.

 

[dazzlingblade]

as bizarre goes, also the anglo italian cup game at home to udinese, strange competition, strange atmosphere, and one of the dirtiest games i have ever saw, think 3 were sent off if i remember rightly but could easily have been 10

 

[DifferentClass]

as bizarre goes, also the anglo italian cup game at home to udinese, strange competition, strange atmosphere, and one of the dirtiest games i have ever saw, think 3 were sent off if i remember rightly but could easily have been 10

Wasn't that the one where Bassett was sent off for running over to a diving Italian and telling him what he thought of his antics?

 

[McGrath]

For me it was the Anglo Italian cup match against Udinese (I think) in the 90s.

Bassett got sent off, several of the players got sent off. The atmosphere was wierd. The match was pointless, the competition was pointless and it was the first time I'd been since they'd demolished the John Street stand so there was a big empty space there

 

[Dkc]

V millwall i think last game of the season under big nose, back in pub after 20 minutes

Went to Leeds one year before the days of all-ticket allocations. We were planning to pay on the gate, and were drinking in a pub near the ground. Someone had a bright idea to get a round in at five to three, and we heard on the radio that we'd conceded an early goal. We ended up just staying in the pub and getting hammered.

 

[Maidenhead]

Pompey 86/87 they had three off we had one - won 1-0

With a Paul Mariner og

 

[Maidenhead]

United v Brighton, 3-0 up,cruising,3-4 down, looking dead, won 5-4.

John Francis now lives just round the corner from me now.

 

[Maidenhead]

I think you mean the 2-0 home defeat to West Ham in our promotion season 89/90.

Both goals from Mark Ward who was once featured in a Flashing Blade anagram as "dirty little git cheats"

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

The obvious ones have already been mentioned.

But just to throw a new one into the mix courtesy of Mr Adkins.

Home to Burton, lost 1-0. Don't think we strung 2 passes together all game, no shots, no movement, absolutely THE WORST game of football I've ever watched.

 

[Geordie Blade]

This one was only bizarre to me, but...

There was a midweek game in the 2000-2001 season, where I was working away in Newcastle (hence the moniker) and dashed down to get to the game. I arrived about two minutes in, and we conceded almost as soon as I sat down. About five minutes later, D'Jaffo equalised to put us 1-1. Glad to be back level and relieved to have made it on time, I settled down and watched the rest of the half. It suddenly struck me at half time that I had absolutely no idea who we were playing against! I had to wait until the start of the second half to look on the scoreboard (I'd have felt like a complete nob to have to ask the bloke next to me). It turned out to be Fulham, who were top of the league, so a 1-1 draw was a decent result, but it all felt quite weird to me.

 

[vorpal blade]

What about the first game that David Weir was in charge of - I thought we looked world beating!

 

[The Crab]

Aye. Whoda thought a butterfly would have sacke ... made Warnock resign, sold players, hired shit managers, sold more players, hired more shit managers ... etc, etc, etc ... GCI ... Div One ... yay, Team United ... etc ....

Chaos.

pommpey

This Butterfly can fuck right off. I only washed it once on 40 degrees and it fucking vapourised, it's as bad as the shirts

 

[1danewhitehouse]

Agree with those mentioned but will throw a couple more strange ones into the mix.




1999. Arsenal away in the FA cup. The Kanu/Overmars incident, Bruce threatening to take his players off the pitch etc. the game subsequently being replayed.



A year after the Keith Stroud Brentford debacle, we played them at home under Nigel Clough. We were on a great run trying to sneak towards the playoffs from a relegation place and they were looking to cement a top 2 finish. The game finished 0-0 but the strange incident was Kieron Freeman being sent off and Brentford awarded a penalty only for the Referee to consult his linesman, reverse his decision and someone had to go and fetch Freeman back from the dressing room to continue to the game. Think that’s the only time I’ve seen a player sent off and brought back on.

 

[71Blade]

for me it was the home game to Scunny we lost 0-4 and footballed them to death i remember the KOP applauding the Blades off the pitch having lost 0-4 there are not many games i can honestly remember seeing the Blades lose but being applauded by the home fans.

the old memory isn't what it used to be im sure Forte played for Scunny and scored a couple???

UTB

 

[TTMeysh]

Not at BDTBL but Mansfield in 't cup, 89 (I think). Played in a snow storm, their PA was on the blink so it sounded like Norman Collier doing the announcements, Bob Booker the most cultured footballer on display.

 

[The Crab]

Not at BDTBL but Mansfield in 't cup, 89 (I think). Played in a snow storm, their PA was on the blink so it sounded like Norman Collier doing the announcements, Bob Booker the most cultured footballer on display.

Ex Pig, Brian Cox in goal for them IIRC

 

[Sheffsteel]

for me it was the home game to Scunny we lost 0-4 and footballed them to death i remember the KOP applauding the Blades off the pitch having lost 0-4 there are not many games i can honestly remember seeing the Blades lose but being applauded by the home fans.

the old memory isn't what it used to be im sure Forte played for Scunny and scored a couple???

UTB

I came out of the ground buzzing with pride and excitement.
Thinking 'what a fantastic team' and 'keep playing like that and we'll be promoted' ha ha
We were simply brilliant that night and could have had 10 but lost 0-4.
I remember at 0-3 down still thinking we had a realistic chance of a draw because we were creating so many chances.
I stayed right to the final whilstle and remember that even in the last 5 minutes we could have easily scored 3 goals.

 

[S5Blade]

Battle of Bramall Lane for me..... absolutely bizarre.

 

[Woodthorpe blade]

I went to see Billy Graham at the lane, and got fingered by Cliff Richard. Does that count.