The most bizarre game you attended at BDTBL

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ShockingBadBuy said:
In addition to those already discussed, let me throw in Blades 0 Scunthorpe 4 in 2010. We dominated the game, hit the post/bar several times, were the better side by miles, but lost by 4 !

Oh, and some bloke called Martyn Wooolford scored.
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Beat me to it. If my memory serves me correctly, they had 3 shots on target yet we still conspired to let 4 in!! Gary Speed, God bless him, was never the same after that match...........

It took me a while to get over it too!:confused:
 
grafikhaus said:
The BoBL certainly takes some beating!

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Does anybody remember a home game v Leicester in the early 90s? A fan ran out of the South Stand and flattened either the linesman or a Leicester player?
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That linesman incident was away at Portsmouth in 1997-8.

The Battle of Bramall Lane was surely the weirdest. As well as others mentioned above I'd add these weird ones:

- beating Orient 6-3 the day after the Miners' Strike started in 1984: 2-0, 2-3, 6-3.
- beating Oldham 7-2 in the Zenith Cup after being 2-0 down after 5 minutes
- losing 2-1 to Udinese in the Anglo Italian in 1994-5, the second occasion 4 went off at the Lane
- United beating Huddersfield 5-1 in 1989 despite being outplayed for 75 minutes.
- Deane and Agana both scoring hatricks in the same game when we beat Chester City 6-1. That's only happened twice in our entire history I think.
- 4-4 draw vs Birmingham in 1996-7: 0-2 down at half time, we scored 4 in 15 minutes, but conceded 2 straight after.


The West Ham game which we lost 2-0 featured 28 corners for us and 1 for West Ham. 28 corners was a record at the time. West Ham got 2 penalties. Julian Dicks missed the first and Mark Ward scored the second.
 
Revolution said:
That linesman incident was away at Portsmouth in 1997-8.
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Not the one I mean, Rev. For one, I've never been to Portsmouth and the Leicester game was played on a sunny late-spring day. Me and a couple of mates were sat in the SS and this kid just ran out and flattened either one of their players (think it was) or the lino. Warnock was our manager then, so anyhting is possible! Looking at the records, I think it could have been April 21st, 2003 (Triple Assault season).
 
grafikhaus said:
Not the one I mean, Rev. For one, I've never been to Portsmouth and the Leicester game was played on a sunny late-spring day. Me and a couple of mates were sat in the SS and this kid just ran out and flattened either one of their players (think it was) or the lino. Warnock was our manager then, so anyhting is possible! Looking at the records, I think it could have been April 21st, 2003 (Triple Assault season).
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That was the day we made the playoffs and the Pigs were relegated. I don't recall that but it might have happened!
 
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.
 
grafikhaus said:
Not the one I mean, Rev. For one, I've never been to Portsmouth and the Leicester game was played on a sunny late-spring day. Me and a couple of mates were sat in the SS and this kid just ran out and flattened either one of their players (think it was) or the lino. Warnock was our manager then, so anyhting is possible! Looking at the records, I think it could have been April 21st, 2003 (Triple Assault season).
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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.

Second half one of their players was out by the SS touchline heading for goal and suddenly the South Stand emptied and the lead fan - can still see him in his denim and scarf - ran on, caught up with the player and decked him. Pitch invasion.

Not a good night. Linekar was playing that game I think.

pommpey
 
Surprised no-one's mentioned the Leeds league cup match when we turned them over in injury time.

Agree with most though, the Battle of BL game takes the biscuit.

A worthy mention also for any game involving fucking Walsall.
 
LS26BLADE said:
Walsall h end of 01/02

Think we drew or lost to send Barnsley down - no one cared
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I was furious about United's obvious lack of effort in the second half of this game, as we launched long balls up to 5 foot 7 Lewis Killeen, for 2 main reasons:

1. I had made a special effort to rush up from London to see the game and the players just went through the motions.

2. Walsall were responsible for the worst defeat in our history. Why should we help them?
 
More recently I thought the Port Vale game last season was bizarre (in a good way), 4 goals, 4 disallowed...and some fantastic football played, seemed like we could have had 10 that day...we just weren't used to that then :)
 
Tyler Durden said:
Yep, can't top that one.

Was a pleasure seeing Santos get his revenge on that dirty bastard though.

2nd weirdest was also against WBA in 2000. We played absolute dogshit and somehow thrashed them 6-0.
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It was an excellent performance during a great run. I had predicted 4 0 but it was 6.
 
vorpal blade said:
I remember a West Ham game in the early 1990s (or were they the 1980s) as I remember it we had 36 corners but didn't score and lost the game, but it may have been 26 and perhaps we drew?
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It was 28 corners, but 26 of them were in the second half. A very bizarre game, and our first home defeat of that season.
 



1973Blade said:
Beating Northampton 7-3 at home in the fourth division, we were 6-0 up with about five minutes to go.
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Don't think that happened. Unless I'm confused ha ha my memory goes more like.

Think it was 5-0 at half time and the Cobblers were shockingly bad, we missed loads of chances in that 1st half
It lightly rained throughout the whole 1st half but on about 30 minutes there was a torrential downpour (like a monsoon) for 10 minutes and parts of the pitch were becoming water logged. Still remember when Bob Hatton rounded the keeper and rolled the ball towards an empty net, the Kop and Hatton were celebrating the goal but there was a big puddle on the goal line at the Kop end and the ball suddenly stopped on the line. Their defender came back and cleared it. Thought it's bloody typical. United might be getting a record win then the match gets abandoned for a water logged pitch.

Anyway thankfully it stopped raining at half-time, all the talk at half-time was that we had a great chance of getting 10 and maybe even breaking our all time scoring record.

We were 6-0 up after about 50 minutes, so the scoring record was on
But at 6-0 we took our foot of the pedal and let Northampton into the game
6-1......then 6-2.......then 6-3.
At 6-3 I remember the crowd booing as we looked poor, our fans were furious.

Then near the end we scored to make it a more acceptable 7-3
However the strange thing was leaving the match there wasn't a feeling of joy.
It was more a feeling of anger and a lost opportunity to break our scoring record.
 
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MK Dons at home a few years ago. My mind is a blank apart from it was bizarre. I think George Long howler may have been involved. Anyone have any better recollection?

Also scunny at home a couple of years ago where we absolutely battered them but somehow managed to lose
 
My top five (bizarre, not necessarily 'great') is:

1. The Battle of Bramall Lane.
2. The Anglo-Italian cup game against Udinese (four or five sendings off, including Bassett?).
3. The see-saw game against Brighton in 1989.
4. A 0-1 defeat at home to Walsall in 2002. Last home game of the season, we were 13th. Nobody cared, other than that Wednesday might go down, so people were just watching the scoreboard all game. Gus Uhlenbeek was playing for Walsall and the (Blades) crowd were cheering and laughing every time he touched the ball.
5. The 6-0 win against Spurs in 1993. Spurs were a good team, so the result was probably the most unexpected I've seen at the Lane.
 
Geordie Blade said:
5. The 6-0 win against Spurs in 1993. Spurs were a good team, so the result was probably the most unexpected I've seen at the Lane.
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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.
 
ShockingBadBuy said:
In addition to those already discussed, let me throw in Blades 0 Scunthorpe 4 in 2010. We dominated the game, hit the post/bar several times, were the better side by miles, but lost by 4 !

Oh, and some bloke called Martyn Wooolford scored.
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Was trying to think what game this was.

I remember walking out thinking 5-0 to us would have flattered them, it could have been double figures, yet we somehow lost 4-0. Never seen anything like it.
 
Dkc said:
MK Dons at home a few years ago. My mind is a blank apart from it was bizarre. I think George Long howler may have been involved. Anyone have any better recollection?

Also scunny at home a couple of years ago where we absolutely battered them but somehow managed to lose
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Lost 4-0, but as you say, absolutely battered them. Weirdest game ever at the Lane that I can remember.
 
vorpal blade said:
I remember a West Ham game in the early 1990s (or were they the 1980s) as I remember it we had 36 corners but didn't score and lost the game, but it may have been 26 and perhaps we drew?
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IIRC, we lost, and also IIRC at the time it was a world record for corners in one game (I seem to remember 28?)
 
V millwall i think last game of the season under big nose, back in pub after 20 minutes
 
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Guesty said:
Other than the ones mentioned, beating Cardiff 5-3, all the goals in the second half.
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We had a fairly weird one during the Div4 season.

Beat Torquay 4-0, ALL the goals coming in the last few minutes of the first half. 85 minutes of dullness and 5 minutes of "total football".
 
Grecian2000 said:
We had a fairly weird one during the Div4 season.

Beat Torquay 4-0, ALL the goals coming in the last few minutes of the first half. 85 minutes of dullness and 5 minutes of "total football".
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That reminds me of another 2 games:

1986-7: 3-3 vs Reading. Winning 3-0 after an hour, they scored 3 goals in 5 mins.
2002-3 4-3 vs Ipswich. A repeat of the above save that Peschi scored a last minute winner. Also featured a goal from Brown that was the second hardest shot I ever saw from him after the goal against the Pigs the previous weekend.
 
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.
 



Dkc said:
Also scunny at home a couple of years ago where we absolutely battered them but somehow managed to lose
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I went to that game, it was a night match and we were brilliant creating chance after chance.

They scored with their 1st shot.... 0-1 but I knew we'd win.
Then they scored again with their 2nd shot.....again I was confident we'd win
Then they scored again to make it an incredible 0-3.
The weird thing is I stayed right to the end because I still felt we could get something from the game.

For me that's easily up there with the weirdest match I've ever seen.
It's one of the best I've seen us play and we could have hit double figures but we were thrashed.
 
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