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Blades related:
  • The lesser spotted Kean Bryan (outside his natural habitat - promotion celebrations)
  • An empty Kop
  • Half forgotten faces that produce nostalgia for past glories - K Freeman/R Stearman
  • A "bad egg" or two...Ravel/Rodwell
  • A five minute youtube montage of Ravel's every touch in the game used to support the theory that he is indeed a footballing genius.
  • A split in said video's comment section between those who support the theory and those of the opinion he is abysmal/possesses a piss poor attitude/a waste of exceptional talent/unfounded accusations about his personal life with no evidence to support them
  • The pink seats in the Pukka Pies corner
  • A good proportion of Fylde in the Bramall Lane end (tucking into their packed lunches and secretly wishing they'd drawn a more glamorous established Prem Lge Team such as Southampton or Brighton)
  • A forum in meltdown if we do anything less than put nine past lowly Fylde and tiki-taka them off the park (particularly after disappointing losses to tin-pot Liverpool and Man City)
  • Assertions that our squad is NGE
  • Verrips...and our subsequent expulsion from the competition after a good run to the semi-finals for fielding an ineligible player. We have to pay extortionate compensation to every team we've beaten in the cup run, are crippled financially and relegated to League 2 never to be seen again. Wilder leaves for Bayern Munich and Alan Knill jumps off St Mary's church tower in despair, accidentally landing in Bury's manager chair again. The much criticised Blades' squad-players have to step up to the starting 11 and get turned over 5-0 by Knill's resurgent Bury.

Non-Blades related:
  • Stupid kick-off times
  • References to the magic of the cup
  • That Clem dude being all cheesy whilst showing us around Rochdale's changing rooms (that resemble a condemned community centre)
  • Grainy footage of that Sunderland manager running about at Wembley in his flasher's coat
  • 80s footage of Laurie Sanchez in tight shorts and the cup lid on Dave Beasant's perm.
  • Patronising and condascending attitudes towards plucky lower-league sides.
  • Televised games of uninspiring all-Premier League ties
  • Managers criticised for not respecting the cup and playing their strongest 11s
  • Players who also have jobs like postmen/electricians/courier drivers etc.
  • Players who have more famous players as relatives
  • A fan up a tree/on a grass bank/hanging out of an upper level flat
  • Pitch side burger vans
  • Actual muddy goal-mouths
  • The Magic of the FA Cup

Any more??
 



Neil Webb who played for Forest, Man United, Portsmouth and England actually got a job as a postie when he retired.

I can't see any current England international having to do that.

How times have changed.
 
Philliskirk to re-appear and remind us how brilliant he was.
 
"and from our slightly precarious vantage point we can just about make out "X" Cathedral, famously the burial site of "X".
 
Geordie Blade said:
I always like seeing the rough-looking non-league manager for his big day in the sun, wearing a brand new pinstriped suit (always with matching waistcoat), with enormous flower in the buttonhole. Bemused Championship team manager in the other dugout.
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Or a dapper Marco Silva type foreign manager looking bemused whilst he’s sat in a dugout that resembles a disused bus shelter at Dagenham & Redbridge
 



Swannyblade said:
Blades related:
  • The lesser spotted Kean Bryan (outside his natural habitat - promotion celebrations)
  • An empty Kop
  • Half forgotten faces that produce nostalgia for past glories - K Freeman/R Stearman
  • A "bad egg" or two...Ravel/Rodwell
  • A five minute youtube montage of Ravel's every touch in the game used to support the theory that he is indeed a footballing genius.
  • A split in said video's comment section between those who support the theory and those of the opinion he is abysmal/possesses a piss poor attitude/a waste of exceptional talent/unfounded accusations about his personal life with no evidence to support them
  • The pink seats in the Pukka Pies corner
  • A good proportion of Fylde in the Bramall Lane end (tucking into their packed lunches and secretly wishing they'd drawn a more glamorous established Prem Lge Team such as Southampton or Brighton)
  • A forum in meltdown if we do anything less than put nine past lowly Fylde and tiki-taka them off the park (particularly after disappointing losses to tin-pot Liverpool and Man City)
  • Assertions that our squad is NGE
  • Verrips...and our subsequent expulsion from the competition after a good run to the semi-finals for fielding an ineligible player. We have to pay extortionate compensation to every team we've beaten in the cup run, are crippled financially and relegated to League 2 never to be seen again. Wilder leaves for Bayern Munich and Alan Knill jumps off St Mary's church tower in despair, accidentally landing in Bury's manager chair again. The much criticised Blades' squad-players have to step up to the starting 11 and get turned over 5-0 by Knill's resurgent Bury.

Non-Blades related:
  • Stupid kick-off times
  • References to the magic of the cup
  • That Clem dude being all cheesy whilst showing us around Rochdale's changing rooms (that resemble a condemned community centre)
  • Grainy footage of that Sunderland manager running about at Wembley in his flasher's coat
  • 80s footage of Laurie Sanchez in tight shorts and the cup lid on Dave Beasant's perm.
  • Patronising and condascending attitudes towards plucky lower-league sides.
  • Televised games of uninspiring all-Premier League ties
  • Managers criticised for not respecting the cup and playing their strongest 11s
  • Players who also have jobs like postmen/electricians/courier drivers etc.
  • Players who have more famous players as relatives
  • A fan up a tree/on a grass bank/hanging out of an upper level flat
  • Pitch side burger vans
  • Actual muddy goal-mouths
  • The Magic of the FA Cup

Any more??
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You missed the one nil defeat off the list
 
Maidenhead said:
Neil Webb who played for Forest, Man United, Portsmouth and England actually got a job as a postie when he retired.

I can't see any current England international having to do that.

How times have changed.
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Tis true. He was based at the sorting office behind my work some years back. Just missed out on a modern football retirement by a couple of seasons and quite a few £££
 
Was hoping for snow or sunshine, I'm easy eather way, aslong as it doesn't rain, fucking hate rain.
 
You missed off Ronnie Radfords' thunderbastard. My favourite non blades goal. It contains everything good that football used to be - a pitch like a world war one battlefield, players with their hands tucked in their cuffs, snorkel parka wearing fans invading the pitch, a ground that was basically a few bus shelters around the pitch. give me this over meccano stands on out of town trading estates, plastic clappers and fucking VAR.
 
Top pundit surprised that Sheffield aren’t paying their usual direct football. Goes on to say Fylde as a suburb of Liverpool are bound to be inspired by.....talks about Liverpool
 
It is a shame that the whole ground wont be open. It's the weekend, and dem mighty blades are playing in a competitive football match at the lane, with the ultimate prize a worthwhile one.

It's cheap to get in, 250 loyalty points, what's not to love.

Wilder has apologised to the fans already for 11 changes, (I have no issue with that in this instance)

They should open the kop though. Surely we can get enough in. Seems silly to me that you can't just pay on the gate for this one too.
 
Garth Crooks having a weekend off as he knows as much about football below the premier league as I do about synchronised swimming.
 



Swannyblade said:
Blades related:
  • The lesser spotted Kean Bryan (outside his natural habitat - promotion celebrations)
  • An empty Kop
  • Half forgotten faces that produce nostalgia for past glories - K Freeman/R Stearman
  • A "bad egg" or two...Ravel/Rodwell
  • A five minute youtube montage of Ravel's every touch in the game used to support the theory that he is indeed a footballing genius.
  • A split in said video's comment section between those who support the theory and those of the opinion he is abysmal/possesses a piss poor attitude/a waste of exceptional talent/unfounded accusations about his personal life with no evidence to support them
  • The pink seats in the Pukka Pies corner
  • A good proportion of Fylde in the Bramall Lane end (tucking into their packed lunches and secretly wishing they'd drawn a more glamorous established Prem Lge Team such as Southampton or Brighton)
  • A forum in meltdown if we do anything less than put nine past lowly Fylde and tiki-taka them off the park (particularly after disappointing losses to tin-pot Liverpool and Man City)
  • Assertions that our squad is NGE
  • Verrips...and our subsequent expulsion from the competition after a good run to the semi-finals for fielding an ineligible player. We have to pay extortionate compensation to every team we've beaten in the cup run, are crippled financially and relegated to League 2 never to be seen again. Wilder leaves for Bayern Munich and Alan Knill jumps off St Mary's church tower in despair, accidentally landing in Bury's manager chair again. The much criticised Blades' squad-players have to step up to the starting 11 and get turned over 5-0 by Knill's resurgent Bury.

Non-Blades related:
  • Stupid kick-off times
  • References to the magic of the cup
  • That Clem dude being all cheesy whilst showing us around Rochdale's changing rooms (that resemble a condemned community centre)
  • Grainy footage of that Sunderland manager running about at Wembley in his flasher's coat
  • 80s footage of Laurie Sanchez in tight shorts and the cup lid on Dave Beasant's perm.
  • Patronising and condascending attitudes towards plucky lower-league sides.
  • Televised games of uninspiring all-Premier League ties
  • Managers criticised for not respecting the cup and playing their strongest 11s
  • Players who also have jobs like postmen/electricians/courier drivers etc.
  • Players who have more famous players as relatives
  • A fan up a tree/on a grass bank/hanging out of an upper level flat
  • Pitch side burger vans
  • Actual muddy goal-mouths
  • The Magic of the FA Cup

Any more??
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Disappointingly we probably won't see anything about players' full time jobs, because there are only two non league clubs left in the competition (Fylde and Hartlepool) and I'm pretty sure both are full time. So much less magic too ☹️. Until Fylde win 1-0 at Bramall Lane of course 😉
 
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