Things we can hope to see this weekend...

[HighfieldBlade]

Ronnie Radford's goal for Hereford v Newcastle 1972...

 

[bromtom]

Is VAR being run by Stockley Park with all the Premier League stuff? Or is it being run from a van in the carpark?

 

[HG1]

An entry in the Guinness book the records for the Premiere league team getting knocked out from the lowest team ever.

Haven’t we already got that one sewn up having lost the 1901 final to non league Spurs?

 

[DifferentClass]

What about the Hereford fans in their parkas dancing on a muddy pitch in the 70s?

Bollocks, Highfield beat me to it!

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

 

[Swannyblade]

Here he is...a healthy slice of extra mature cheddar Cheese with a large dollop of Cringe on top, and a side portion of Condescending crackers...prat

 

[1889]

As we know, all FA Cup matches are kicking off one minute past the hour, to talk about mental health*.

*Please note, the game at Brighton will start at 10 past, Sheffield Wednesday supporters are advised to get there early.

 

[Maidenhead]

A youngster with a home made tin foil and cardboard cup.

ZoneManWilf wasn't that young when we played Hull at Wembley

 

[blader]

The in studio pundits at the live game. There is always a standard guest (Alan Shearer for example) and then they pull out some bloke that has a tenuous link to both clubs.

For example, the Sunday night game will have a bloke that made 12 appearances for West Ham in the 80s and jogged past the priestfield stadium a few weeks ago during the Kent 10k.

 

[DronnieBlade]

The lesser spotted Sharp ?

The even lesser spotted Rav ?

The farewell of a favourite son / sons ?

UTB

 

[Silent Blade]

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

Kevin Hector was a postie too after his football career

 

[South London Blade]

A youngster with a home made tin foil and cardboard cup.

ZoneManWilf

 

[Maidenhead]

Kevin Hector was a postie too after his football career

Cheers Silent Blade as one postie to another, I never knew that

 

[Silent Blade]

Cheers Silent Blade as one postie to another, I never knew that

John Matthews too

 

[South London Blade]

ZoneManWilf wasn't that young when we played Hull at Wembley View attachment 67904

Should have checked the whole thread before I posted!

 

[Maidenhead]

John Matthews too

Blimey Charlie, how did we miss out on the football part of the career path?

 

[CornwallBlade]

Blimey Charlie, how did we miss out on the football part of the career path?

And Peter Bonetti of Chelsea. He became a postie on the Isle of Mull, I believe. Bet that works team of yours Maidenhead was something to watch

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Ronnie Radford's goal for Hereford v Newcastle 1972...

Three (possibly more?) ex-Blades played in that game. Can you name them?

Spoiler: Answer

John Tudor (Newcastle), Colin Addison, Ken Mallender (Hereford)

 

[gavtheblade]

Snow being cleared so games can go ahead.

All this before global warming, oh how I miss the days of shivering ones bollocks off...........

 

[CarlMcBlade]

A youngster with a home made tin foil and cardboard cup.

I remember when they were made out of used milk bottle tops. Bacofoil was always a cop out for me.

 

[Silent Blade]

Three (possibly more?) ex-Blades played in that game. Can you name them?

Spoiler: Answer

John Tudor (Newcastle), Colin Addison, Ken Mallender (Hereford)

There is one more that later played for the Blades and then 15 years later was our assistant manager.

 

[I should coco]

There is one more that later played for the Blades and then 15 years later was our assistant manager.

Viv Busby

 

[Cerberus Blade]

And Peter Bonetti of Chelsea. He became a postie on the Isle of Mull, I believe. Bet that works team of yours Maidenhead was something to watch

“Postman Cat”!

 

[Silent Blade]

Viv Busby

Correct, for years I had assumed that it was Stewart Barrowclough who crossed for MacDonald's goal but recently I found out that it was Viv Busby and hadn't realized he was on loan to Newcastle from Luton at the time.

 

[mattbianco1]

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??

Perfectly good goals being ruled out for offside by VAR and farcical goals being given at other grounds due to lack of VAR

 

[Swannyblade]

Perfectly good goals being ruled out for offside by VAR and farcical goals being given at other grounds due to lack of VAR

In the interests of consistency, which would you prefer?

 

[mattbianco1]

In the interests of consistency, which would you prefer?

A rethink of the offside law maybe ?!

 

[benn5712]

And Peter Bonetti of Chelsea. He became a postie on the Isle of Mull, I believe. Bet that works team of yours Maidenhead was something to watch

Andy Barnsley and Steve Ludlam did temporarily.

 

[Swannyblade]

A rethink of the offside law maybe ?!

I agree. Keep VAR and rethink the way it’s implemented, taking into consideration the margins for error present in the technology used (lets stop pretending that it’s accurate to the nearest millimetre when it clearly isn’t)

 

[CornwallBlade]

“Postman Cat”!