The most bizarre game you attended at BDTBL

[ChipButtyBlade]

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.

I thought it was too,but i looked up this article.

This is TC being quoted

“He first did it at Highbury when they beat us 5-0. I was three yards away and I just clapped him,” Currie said. “He was taking ‘the mick’ but we were good mates from playing for England together. “But two years later the roles were reversed. I had scored two in the first 20 minutes and it was my turn to get my own back. He clapped and said: ‘I’ll have one for you next time’.” And Ball, who passed away four years ago, was true to his word. Currie recalled him stopping to put his foot on the ball and pretending to tie his laces when the teams met again.

Read more at: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/kiss-and-tell-as-icon-currie-to-spice-up-fans-tours-1-3551022

 

[United Aren't Back.]

That one where Dean Saunders threw the ball onto the keepers back then lobbed him, the cleverest goal iv ever seen. Genius.

Versus Port Vale, 1997.

 

[brownie4583]

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.

Was that the game when we won 1-0 and Booker got the winner from the spot in around 88th min?

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Another one - fag end of 01/02

We played Wimbledon or whatever they were called

They fetched about 20 fans and beat us 1-0

Don't think we mustered a shot on target.

In fact 01/02 season itself was one of the most boring ever, nothing of note happened no promotion race no relegation scrap, no cup run, and in the main boring games.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

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.

That was his 25th birthday. An FA Cup match, as the. League match months earlier was a 0 0, very unusual that season.
A few weeks later in the away league game v Ipswich, Ipswich had a man dismissed on 20 mins or so. We went 2 up and lost it 3 2.
In the 0 0, Laurens ten Heuvel was our striker.
In the FA Cup Wilko de Vogt was our keeper, made a couple of absolute howlers.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

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.

January 2002 a great game v Portsmouth at the Lane. Crouch headed in for them about the first minute, we won it with a Furlong penalty in injury time.
4 3. Comic cuts before half time, Tracey heading the ball away just before their Croatia international scored a gift. Monty scored too I think.
My sister was staying in the same hotel as the Pompey team, she had her room burgled by scrubbers who stunk so bad it was unbelievable BO.

 

[super_pig]

weirdest game? it was also my favourite game.. easy
Leeds home Easter 1974 (1973??) 1-1 draw
Leeds scored early and proceeded to do the entire repertoire of Leeds ness (time wasting . diving.. general cheating) for the whole game. The game kicked off slightly late and an end of season firework display (on a timer) went off with about 2 minutes of normal time left leaving a huge smoke screen all over the pitch.. out of the gloom came sub Steve Cammack to rocket in a 25 yarder.. Leeds were gutted. We went absolutely mental. it was like a victory
i was only a small kid at the time and a bloke picked me up and was waving me around over his head in what turned out to be the Leeds section of the old John Street. Awesome.

 

[Silent Blade]

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.
.

It wasnt from a set piece. Liverpool had lost possession and I think it was Sabella who assisted Hamson's goal

 

[Silent Blade]

weirdest game? it was also my favourite game.. easy
Leeds home Easter 1974 (1973??) 1-1 draw
Leeds scored early and proceeded to do the entire repertoire of Leeds ness (time wasting . diving.. general cheating) for the whole game. The game kicked off slightly late and an end of season firework display (on a timer) went off with about 2 minutes of normal time left leaving a huge smoke screen all over the pitch.. out of the gloom came sub Steve Cammack to rocket in a 25 yarder.. Leeds were gutted. We went absolutely mental. it was like a victory
i was only a small kid at the time and a bloke picked me up and was waving me around over his head in what turned out to be the Leeds section of the old John Street. Awesome.

Easter Tuesday 1975

 

[Silent Blade]

New Years Day 1955, my dad and his friend got into the ground 10 minutes late for the home game against Newcastle. He asked a spectator for the score "4-0 to United" was the reply. My dad told him to piss off! Asked another spectator for the score. "4-0 to United". We scored 4 in the first 8 minutes.

The final score was 6-2

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

December 56. United had won the opening game of the season at Rotherham 4-0, and by the time of the return match in December, the manager, Joe Mercer, had signed a centre-half to replace Joe Shaw, who he reckoned was too small. The new player, Malcolm Barrass, was big, slow, ageing, son of a former Wednesday player, and signed from Bolton, so it was bound to go well. The match began with the teams swapping ends, and the Kop having to alert Burgin (goalie), who was jogging into the penalty area, that the ball was coming behind him; that scare was the beginning of a horror show, with United losing 7-2. What would have been the odds of that result - a 7-2 home defeat to Rotherham? Joe Shaw was soon back in the team.
I was 9 at the time, and we stayed to the end of the match. My dad loved football, and never once left a match before the end. I have done exactly the same. You never know what might happen. And there is always the ref/linos to boo off.

 

[vorpal blade]

M. Barrass ....... how could they?

 

[1973Blade]

Every game we played at BTBL with a three sided ground, being able to see the world outside. It was like being sat on the toilet without a door.

 

[Silent Blade]

December 56. United had won the opening game of the season at Rotherham 4-0, and by the time of the return match in December, the manager, Joe Mercer, had signed a centre-half to replace Joe Shaw, who he reckoned was too small. The new player, Malcolm Barrass, was big, slow, ageing, son of a former Wednesday player, and signed from Bolton, so it was bound to go well. The match began with the teams swapping ends, and the Kop having to alert Burgin (goalie), who was jogging into the penalty area, that the ball was coming behind him; that scare was the beginning of a horror show, with United losing 7-2. What would have been the odds of that result - a 7-2 home defeat to Rotherham? Joe Shaw was soon back in the team.
I was 9 at the time, and we stayed to the end of the match. My dad loved football, and never once left a match before the end. I have done exactly the same. You never know what might happen. And there is always the ref/linos to boo off.

 

[super_pig]

Easter Tuesday 1975

thanks silent.. i thought you'd know.. yeah fair enough it was a setup .. thanks pal

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Very official-looking document, but it has the dates wrong. He made his debut for Utd in September 1956.

 

[pommpey]

I thought it was too,but i looked up this article.

This is TC being quoted

“He first did it at Highbury when they beat us 5-0. I was three yards away and I just clapped him,” Currie said. “He was taking ‘the mick’ but we were good mates from playing for England together. “But two years later the roles were reversed. I had scored two in the first 20 minutes and it was my turn to get my own back. He clapped and said: ‘I’ll have one for you next time’.” And Ball, who passed away four years ago, was true to his word. Currie recalled him stopping to put his foot on the ball and pretending to tie his laces when the teams met again.

Read more at: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/kiss-and-tell-as-icon-currie-to-spice-up-fans-tours-1-3551022

Is that right?

IIRC (Silent - help if possible)

I was at the Jan 72 game when Arsenal wiped their arses with us. We were fucking shambolic with George Graham basically running the show and Charlie George taking the piss. Alan Ball sat down on the ball and beckoned TC (or another player) to him in the second half (I think they were 4-0 up by then) Strangely the crowd didn't react much, I was down on the BLLT at the front by the white railings feeling petty wretched.

I went to the Sept 73 game with my sisters and we were late, missing the first goal which took us by surprise as my sisters were chatting to their mates on the Shoreham Street steps. When we took our position and we were well in charge.TC sat on the ball in front of Alan Ball and returned the complement. Fucking brilliant.

When my lad was mascot at Fratton Park, I spoke with Alan Ball and he very fondly remembered both episodes.

pommpey

 

[John Street West Terrace]

What is the most bizarre game you have attended over the years at BDTBL?
For me it's got to be the battle of Bramall Lane v WBA when the game was abandoned due to lack of players.....that was bizarre.

Yep the yam yam fight fest was like a football soap opera .. don't think could have topped it other than a one of us if there lot throwing in a Cantona king fu crowd kick

 

[Silent Blade]

Is that right?

IIRC (Silent - help if possible)

I was at the Jan 72 game when Arsenal wiped their arses with us. We were fucking shambolic with George Graham basically running the show and Charlie George taking the piss. Alan Ball sat down on the ball and beckoned TC (or another player) to him in the second half (I think they were 4-0 up by then) Strangely the crowd didn't react much, I was down on the BLLT at the front by the white railings feeling petty wretched.

I went to the Sept 73 game with my sisters and we were late, missing the first goal which took us by surprise as my sisters were chatting to their mates on the Shoreham Street steps. When we took our position and we were well in charge.TC sat on the ball in front of Alan Ball and returned the complement. Fucking brilliant.

When my lad was mascot at Fratton Park, I spoke with Alan Ball and he very fondly remembered both episodes.

pommpey

Correct. I missed the Sept 1973 match. Would have loved to see TC's revenge!

I still remember my dad's match report in his letter to me at my school

 

[N20 Blade]

January 2002 a great game v Portsmouth at the Lane. Crouch headed in for them about the first minute, we won it with a Furlong penalty in injury time.
4 3. Comic cuts before half time, Tracey heading the ball away just before their Croatia international scored a gift. Monty scored too I think.
My sister was staying in the same hotel as the Pompey team, she had her room burgled by scrubbers who stunk so bad it was unbelievable BO.

Mine too! Didn't Derry get sent off in the last minute and gave the Kop the middle finger!?

 

[Bla blade]

Play off semi v Forest, 2 down.....and out, cue magic from Pesch and Kabba.

Sun lunch game v Leeds in 1992 when they won the title. Some bizarre goals that day....Leeds first goal was like a pinball, Lee Chapman og and Gayle's og the daftest of the lot.

 

[Revolution]

New Years Day 1955, my dad and his friend got into the ground 10 minutes late for the home game against Newcastle. He asked a spectator for the score "4-0 to United" was the reply. My dad told him to piss off! Asked another spectator for the score. "4-0 to United". We scored 4 in the first 8 minutes.

The final score was 6-2

My Dad and my Grandad ran from town and missed the start. It was 1-0 when my Dad got there, and 3-0 when my Grandad got there after about 6 mins.

 

[georgethecat]

Maybe not a bizarre game but certainly a bizarre atmosphere. Last years debacle at home to Southend. A healthy midweek crowd who you can see are desperate for Chris wilder to be a success and yet 25 minutes in you feel like the whole club is ready to implode. Was like watching an impending train wreck. Thankfully we all know what happened next

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Also the 5-4 against Brighton in 89 , 3-1 up , then 4-3 down , levelled it , then John Francis ( remember him ) with diving header in time added on to win it.

And the 4-3 play off semi against Forest in 2003 , 0-2 and came back the dead , made even sweeter by you'll never beat Des Walkers OG

 

[blade too long]

sheff uitd 2 leeds utd 3

absolutely battered them should have won 10 - 3 but playing rees second half with a limp cost us the game when Gayle over protecting scored one of the weirdest own goals ever

they won the the last ever level playing field title before football was reformed into those with money and those left to fight over scraps

 

[Guesty]

The game wasn't that strange, but we're unlikely to see three goals as weird as those against Derby the other week in a single game again.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

I don't think we would have got it at Anfield

As I recall it, Kirkland either flattened one of our players, or handled outside the box, in the Anfield leg. Was he dismissed? No.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

As I recall it, Kirkland either flattened one of our players, or handled outside the box, in the Anfield leg. Was he dismissed? No.

It was Tommy Mooney who he assaulted , bang in front of us , fk knows how Kirkland stayed on the pitch .... then again Anfield

 

[Blade56]

WBA

 

[robbiez666]

The Spackman 2-0 first game of the season win against Sunderland where I spent the first half trying to compute the fact we were playing wing-backs.

When we beat Spurs 6:0

The 7:2 Zenith Data Systems Cup win against Oldham after being 2:0 down.