The unluckiest team of all?

[BaldeRunner]

As the ball inevitably flew into the back of the net yesterday and i adopted my all too common "Blades position" i.e. head in hands uttering a groan of disbelief and despair it struck me how many times i have hit this pose over the years. Whilst i don't think for a second that we are unlucky with this squad to be where we are, it does seem to me that our history shows that whatever mistakes we do make tend to be punished with cataclysmic results.

All teams miss crucial penalties. However, Don Givens took the worst penalty I have ever seen in 40 years of watching football and it catapulted us into the 4th division

The worst day of my footballing life was sitting at Stamford Bridge when a series of results that defied belief combined with our much used self destruct button to send us down with a squad that I think could have established itself in the Prem the following season. It took us many long years to recover from that moment

A last minute speculative shot arrows into the back of the net in the very last minute of the game. It happens to all clubs but to us it happens in a Wembley play-off final

We are doing well against al the odds back in the Premiership. Warnock decides that the adage "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result" doesn't apply to him and plays one up from away from home gaining zero points in our last 12 away games. This combines with the most scandalous piece of business over the Tevez affair and we are relegated just at the moment the really big money was to hit the Premiership League. It remains an outright disgrace and a slur on the face of football. Guess who were the only team to actually suffer?

We appoint Robson. A huge mistake but do we just get rid of him and move on like most clubs would do? Oh no, millions of pounds are wasted, the club is ripped apart and we end up hurtling towards the third divsion.

It just seems to me we ain't a lucky club. We make mistakes but, my God, we don't half pay for them. Perhaps these last 14 games will prove me wrong. Or perhaps we will get to the last game of the season needing to avoid a six goal defeat to stay up on goal difference. That's a game I think I will give a miss.

 

[Willie Carlin]

Granted we have had our fair share of misfortune. In my time of watching United I have tried everything imaginable on match days like wearing lucky shirts, red underpants etc. It just don't work. No such thing as bad luck in my opinion. Like the famous golfer Gary Player said. ''The more I practice the luckier I get'' Having said that I'm forever the optimist and hope the last 14 games do see you proved wrong.

 

[BaldeRunner]

I think we probably have the same ratio of bad luck to good luck as every other club and I agree with the Gary Player quote. It's just that our bad luck moments seem to have more catatrophic consequences than everyone else's!

 

[Kev Gee]

I dont think i will ever see the Blades win anything in my lifetime.
History shows us that ever since the first world war we are destined to maraude up & down through the 1st 2nd & third divisions, with brief moments of promise snuffed out by those gutless twats at boardroom level

 

[Maidenhead]

I dont think i will ever see the Blades win anything in my lifetime.
History shows us that ever since the first world war we are destined to maraude up & down through the 1st 2nd & third divisions, with brief moments of promise snuffed out by those gutless twats at boardroom level

A perfect example of why I and many of my mates rarely post on internet forums these days.

A ridiculous statement void of all considered opinion designed only to provoke a reaction (and it has succeeded) and boost the poster's ego.

Were it not for the so called "gutless twats" do you think that we would have a team to support all now?

And if we did, where would it be in the real world outside of the fantasy of your head.

Internet forums = a medium by which small minded sad people devoid of real lives can make themselves feel important.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Internet forums = a medium by which small minded sad people devoid of real lives can make themselves feel important.

.....anonymously

 

[Kev Gee]

A perfect example of why I and many of my mates rarely post on internet forums these days.

A ridiculous statement void of all considered opinion designed only to provoke a reaction (and it has succeeded) and boost the poster's ego.

Were it not for the so called "gutless twats" do you think that we would have a team to support all now?

And if we did, where would it be in the real world outside of the fantasy of your head.

Internet forums = a medium by which small minded sad people devoid of real lives can make themselves feel important.

Yes.

The internet.

A place for people whose opinion of things at SUFC my be different from yours.

IMO we have existed despite those at boardroom level.

Brearley, Woodhouse, Macdonald & Green.... And now Mccabe.


PS i have a nice real life myself, cheers!

 

[S64 Blade]

You make your own luck. Or at least those in charge at the club do. Webber hitting the post against Wigan on the last day of the Premier league wasn't unlucky as such, the unfortune part of that is that we didn't stengthen properly in January, which would have arguably aided our cause the post-Hulse injury.

I think if the club starts getting wrapped up in all this unlucky/referees are against us business it will be even more damaging.

 

[Sirius]

Yes.

The internet.

A place for people whose opinion of things at SUFC my be different from yours.

IMO we have existed despite those at boardroom level.

Brearley, Woodhouse, Macdonald & Green.... And now Mccabe.


PS i have a nice real life myself, cheers!

No such list would be complete without Mr Hinchcliffe's name being added to it. But we are by no means alone. No names. No pack drill, I could name a very long list of football directors at other clubs who were not quite as pure as the driven snow

 

[Deleted member 1486]

In terms of being consistently unlucky we seem to be right up there, but for the unluckiest series of events to hit a club you'd be hard pushed to beat Scarborough FC.

In 98/99 Carlisle United, desperate to save money, sold their back up keeper during the transfer window and also sent a loaned keeper back to his parent club, leaving them with a single keeper for the remainder of the season. Their only keeper then picked up a long term injury after the transfer window had shut, so the FA gave them special dispensation to sign a keeper on loan (Jimmy Glass).

In the final game of the season Carlisle went into their game against Plymouth in the relegation place, level on points with Scarborough (who, the previous season had lost in the league 3 playoffs!). Meaning Scarborough only had to match Carlisle's result to avoid relegation. Scarborough drew their game 1-1 with Peterborough, Carlisle were drawing their game 1-1. The Scarborough fans invaded the pitch in celebration.

The referee in the Carlisle game added on 4 minutes of injury time, in the 5th minute (!!!) Carlisle won a corner, on loan keeper Jimmy Glass (who, lest we forget, according to the FA's own rules, shouldn't have even been playing in the match) came up for the corner and scored a volley with the last kick of the game. Scarborough got relegated.

A couple of relegations later the club (founded in 1879) went out of business.

 

[raul]

A perfect example of why I and many of my mates rarely post on internet forums these days.

A ridiculous statement void of all considered opinion designed only to provoke a reaction (and it has succeeded) and boost the poster's ego.

Were it not for the so called "gutless twats" do you think that we would have a team to support all now?

And if we did, where would it be in the real world outside of the fantasy of your head.

Internet forums = a medium by which small minded sad people devoid of real lives can make themselves feel important.

Just like the fans of all those other 91 clubs who no longer exis....

Oh

 

[lenners]

A perfect example of why I and many of my mates rarely post on internet forums these days.

A ridiculous statement void of all considered opinion designed only to provoke a reaction (and it has succeeded) and boost the poster's ego.

Were it not for the so called "gutless twats" do you think that we would have a team to support all now?

And if we did, where would it be in the real world outside of the fantasy of your head.

Internet forums = a medium by which small minded sad people devoid of real lives can make themselves feel important.

Yes, where on earth would a club in one of the country's biggest cities with strong support have been without all those fantastic efforts of those in the boardroom over the years.
I dunno. Maybe where Wigan, Bolton, Stoke, Wolves, West Brom, Norwich, Ipswich, Blackburn, Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesbrough etc, etc have been?
Is that the answer?
Or were you being ironic and making a ridiculous statement of your own?

 

[BaldeRunner]

A perfect example of why I and many of my mates rarely post on internet forums these days.

A ridiculous statement void of all considered opinion designed only to provoke a reaction (and it has succeeded) and boost the poster's ego.

Were it not for the so called "gutless twats" do you think that we would have a team to support all now?

And if we did, where would it be in the real world outside of the fantasy of your head.

Internet forums = a medium by which small minded sad people devoid of real lives can make themselves feel important.

A bit of a harsh reply. At least the post from Kev Gee is backed up with some hard evidence. To my recollection we havent actually won anything since 1925. Our past has more than its fair share of boardroom incompetence ranging from Reg's jute business dealings, Hinchliffe's sudden disappearance, the bizarre Sam Hashimi episode and our inexplicable ventures into the Hungarian leagues . Add to that the selling of Mick Jones, Alex Sabella, Deane & Fjortoft on the same day, the two Kyles, James Beattie (I could go on but I wont) and I think Kev Gee's post has at least some evidence-backed foundation. Yours, however, just appears to be simply unpleasant and unecessary - particularly since the last comment youmake could easily be applied to yourself.