Time Goes By

[originaltrueblade]

Redgates, hot chestnuts in the air,the newspaper seller shouting his wares. Yellow and blue Sheffiled Transport buses, snow in the air. Stronger Sheffield accents in them days but fully understood in this amazing place. Then the butterfly feel as the Lane approaches. Sound of shoes on the wooden floor of that old John Street Stand pipe smoke in the air with the waft of oxo passing by. Autographs signed by Hodgy and co as the players freely mingle along the season ticket entrance of old John Street. Billy Hodgson pops out for a word along with hard man Richo and this time even Doc comes out and smiles and chats.Cec says hi and his friendliness is warming. Onto the terrace right next to where the players come out and then all of a sudden the visiting team come out to a crescendo of booing wait the ground falls absolutely silent and then it erupts as Coldwell leads em out those amazing red and white stripes. Wait a
Minute mind out up I jump onto the rails at the front with the rattle in
My hand swinging so hard my arms ached with tears in my eyes as the blades came out the sound of the Shoreham was deafening as Hodgy shoots the Kop with the toilet rolls flying. Not long and Doc glances a timely header into the bottom corner the ground shakes the rattles reach a crescendo. A few more times this happens and before you know it the whistle blows it's all over the blades have won the ground vibrates as our heroes March off with Billy Hodgson covered in mud. I stop as I walk along Bramall Lane I look back and think Wow! Now I am
Of chat with my Dad RIP my Dad. So vivid a day so exciting a day watching my team yet it's all over in a flash. Time eh a very strange phenomenon. Merry Christmas to the best supporters in the Land...& Merry Christmas Sheffield United. Now well over fifty years on.





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[crucialkneeligaman]

Redgates, hot chestnuts in the air,the newspaper seller shouting his wares. Yellow and blue Sheffiled Transport buses, snow in the air. Stronger Sheffield accents in them days but fully understood in this amazing place. Then the butterfly feel as the Lane approaches. Sound of shoes on the wooden floor of that old John Street Stand pipe smoke in the air with the waft of oxo passing by. Autographs signed by Hodgy and co as the players freely mingle along the season ticket entrance of old John Street. Billy Hodgson pops out for a word along with hard man Richo and this time even Doc comes out and smiles and chats.Cec says hi and his friendliness is warming. Onto the terrace right next to where the players come out and then all of a sudden the visiting team come out to a crescendo of booing wait the ground falls absolutely silent and then it erupts as Coldwell leads em out those amazing red and white stripes. Wait a
Minute mind out up I jump onto the rails at the front with the rattle in
My hand swinging so hard my arms ached with tears in my eyes as the blades came out the sound of the Shoreham was deafening as Hodgy shoots the Kop with the toilet rolls flying. Not long and Doc glances a timely header into the bottom corner the ground shakes the rattles reach a crescendo. A few more times this happens and before you know it the whistle blows it's all over the blades have won the ground vibrates as our heroes March off with Billy Hodgson covered in mud. I stop as I walk along Bramall Lane I look back and think Wow! Now I am
Of chat with my Dad RIP my Dad. So vivid a day so exciting a day watching my team yet it's all over in a flash. Time eh a very strange phenomenon. Merry Christmas to the best supporters in the Land...& Merry Christmas Sheffield United. Now well over fifty years on.





Read more at http://boards.footymad.net/sheffieldunited-mad/2109644874/#ZzWs1DB4q3AxRTG1.99

Yellow and Blue Sheffield buses OTB? , can't remember those

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

Very vivid..love stuff like this

 

[wardonia_blade]

The Blades shop on John Street

The old scoreboard

Bertie Blade

EDS

You can Do Magic

The cricket scoreboard on the Kop

Long queues waiting for a turnstile man with no change

Walking round to the other end at half-time

Hang Dick Wragg on the Kop

Rose Garden

The White Fence

The sports shop next to the Cricketers

The new Bramall Lane stand

The shirt with the city badge on it

The Arnold Laver sign

The Lane Social Club

The acid attack on the Kop

Kop chants based on the current pop charts (Sha-La-La-La Fenoughty etc)

 

[blade too long]

Christmas is upon us
the goose is getting fat
but lest not forget this yuletide
Gary Megsons still a twat

 

[Bladebri]

Yellow and Blue Sheffield buses OTB? , can't remember those

I remember the old 95 going up city road, smoking up stairs, conductor with tickets machine, them was the days

 

[Bladebri]

Very vivid..love stuff like this

What's your memories Jonny

 

[blade too long]

What's your memories Jonny

have the Romans left yet ?

 

[Grey Blade]

Yellow and Blue Sheffield buses OTB? , can't remember those

That was the colour when I first came to Sheffield in 1971.

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

Haha funnyyy!

What's 'Hang Dick Wragg on the Kop' all about then?

Sounds like a euphemism for a bunch of naughty schoolboys with their caps pulled down, sticking pages of an old whitehouse mag on the back of the stand wall they found tossed under a park hedgerow on the way to a game!

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

I'm only 37 so my football experiences/memories only go as far back to when my dad started taking me down our 'The Lane' in 1987.

The 'magical walk' to the ground will never leave me even though the Old Girls gone now...the extra skip in my step as i left the house scarf draped round my neck, the 100 yard walk to the bottom of my road to the traffic lights and then if i looked across up the little side street and squinted a bit..the first sighting of one of those magnificent old floodlight pylons towering up between the gaps in the housing. It becomes a game as you walk down the road to turn off down the next street, spot the floodlights peeping between houses....even now i still do this but sadly there's an empty space where they filled the skyline

 

[Rodley]

Bonus points for anyone who can recite all the verses of "We are the Shoreham Boot Boys".

 

[Woodwardfan]

Yellow/ Cream and blue trams too!

Cricket pitch, surrounded by roped fence.

Track suited ball boys on the cricket field

Captain Webb matches

Cigarette packets to collect

gangways on the Kop

crash barriers on the Kop

Crossways gangway on Kop halfway up

Wardonia Blades advert on back of programme

Autograph Scrap books with pasted newspaper photos

Charity blanket collections

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Subbuteo football, Subbuteo cricket and an ancient brass Howzat

 

[Partaloablade]

Marvellous memories of my early days of going to The Lane.

Billy Hodgson always covered in mud by the end of the game.

Going to watch the reserves and the anticipation when the first team scores were displayed every 15 minutes.

I even have an original "Owzthat"

 

[wardonia_blade]

Haha funnyyy!

What's 'Hang Dick Wragg on the Kop' all about then?

Sounds like a euphemism for a bunch of naughty schoolboys with their caps pulled down, sticking pages of an old whitehouse mag on the back of the stand wall they found tossed under a park hedgerow on the way to a game!

This was the first crowd unrest that I can remember. Playing Newcastle in Sept 1967. Unrest / anger due to Mick Jones being sold to Leeds during the week. Dick Wragg was chairman and villain of the piece. The chant was the suggested reprisal.

 

[Lane Ender]

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I remember the old 95 going up city road, smoking up stairs, conductor with tickets machine, them was the days

Jumping off before it had stopped

 

[Grappler]

Seeing this bloke in the match day program.......

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

I still have most of my old subbuteo stuff from the late 80s early 90s, and i have the 'Owzthat' in its little old blue tin as well!


Back to the 'Time Goes By'...

The sounds of some old tune being played through the old tannoy speakers growing louder as you walk closer to the ground (again, Worcesters was fantastic for this!)

The final few steps as the crowd swell around the ground increases and you reach the queue for the turnstiles... This was another magical moment... Handing your pennies over and then that gleeful excited push through the turnstile as the operator presses the pedal and that lovely 'clicketty clacketting' sound as it ratchets round!

Worcesters tunstiles were beautiful things to behold...made in 1933 and still going strong right to the end...they have been kept along with the front gates in storage to be incorporated into the new ground if we ever get one!

 

[Bladebri]

I still have most of my old subbuteo stuff from the late 80s early 90s, and i have the 'Owzthat' in its little old blue tin as well!


Back to the 'Time Goes By'...

The sounds of some old tune being played through the old tannoy speakers growing louder as you walk closer to the ground (again, Worcesters was fantastic for this!)

The final few steps as the crowd swell around the ground increases and you reach the queue for the turnstiles... This was another magical moment... Handing your pennies over and then that gleeful excited push through the turnstile as the operator presses the pedal and that lovely 'clicketty clacketting' sound as it ratchets round!

Worcesters tunstiles were beautiful things to behold...made in 1933 and still going strong right to the end...they have been kept along with the front gates in storage to be incorporated into the new ground if we ever get one!


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To much blue Jonny

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

I know sorry Bladebri
But this is all good blue..so you'll let me off


Just rooted my Owzthat out...

I have no idea how old it is, but it occupied a lot of lunchtimes and free space at school for me with my fictional 'all star' cricket teams i'd make up!

WG Grace caught Hobbs bowled Trueman 164!!!

 

[Tyler Durden]

Wonder what I'll tell the grandchildren about...

Wankers bringing Ipads to the match

Not being allowed to bring a flag or banner unless it has a fire safety certificate

Martin Woolford being tackled by fresh air.

Generic non-original songs being sung on the Kop. "Everywhere we gooooo", jesus christ, shoot me now.

You Unitedites from the 60's/70's had it far better, I wish I'd been around then.

 

[Bladebri]

I know sorry Bladebri
But this is all good blue..so you'll let me off


Just rooted my Owzthat out...

I have no idea how old it is, but it occupied a lot of lunchtimes and free space at school for me with my fictional 'all star' cricket teams i'd make up!

WG Grace caught Hobbs bowled Trueman 164!!!
Looks like it's been round the block a few times, but items like that bring back great memories and are cherished


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[Bladebri]

I know sorry Bladebri
But this is all good blue..so you'll let me off


Just rooted my Owzthat out...

I have no idea how old it is, but it occupied a lot of lunchtimes and free space at school for me with my fictional 'all star' cricket teams i'd make up!

WG Grace caught Hobbs bowled Trueman 164!!!


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Looks like it's been round the block a few times, but items like that bring back loads of memories and are cherished.

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

Indeed..i just can't remember if i got it from a lad in my year or if my dad gave it to me coz he said he had one like it during the early 50s! I never kept any of the score sheets i would meticulously write out sadly, i even did the old ball by ball in the overs column with dots or a 1,2,3,4,6 LB,W!

Ooh..another thing that made my saturdays magical back in the day...

My weekly pocket money allowance would religiously go on one thing only every saturday morning...down to the Newsagents, 'Roy of the Rovers reserved for Jonny please Mister!'

Hot Shot Hamish, Mighty Mouse, Melchester Rovers finest, The Safest Hands in Soccer, Billys Boots all served to make me fall in love with the beautiful game!

 

[cahill]

Loads of banners on the kop. Crowds walking down Shoreham street after the match. S.U.T. Buses.

TC blowing kisses to the crowd. Hodgy and his rolling gait as he ran to the kop end

The smell of tobacco

The old cricket pavilion

All standing terraces

The steps up to the right hand corner of the kop as you look towards the pitch

wagon wheel biscuits, bovril and chipmunk crisps

Hot pies with ice in the middle

 

[Worksop II]

Wonder what I'll tell the grandchildren about...

You can sit them on your your knee, and from behind your back, reveal your pristine 2015-2016, 127 year anniversary shirt .......

and young Tyler III will say .....

wot the fuck is that Grandad

 

[Tyler Durden]

You can sit them on your your knee, and from behind your back, reveal your pristine 2015-2016, 127 year anniversary shirt .......

and young Tyler III will say .....

wot the fuck is that Grandad

I literally LOL'd at that!

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

The smokey smell around Worcesters ground was usually laced with a lovely pungent aroma of fried onions and bovril!

If a ball got booted over one of the fences or even over the stand roof accasionally we were treated to the sight of an old chap hurriedly fetching a boat hook pole (a lot of balls ended up in the canal behind the canal end goal) and then returning 5-10 minutes later clutching the ball like a prized Faberge egg!

 

[Silent Blade]

This was the first crowd unrest that I can remember. Playing Newcastle in Sept 1967. Unrest / anger due to Mick Jones being sold to Leeds during the week. Dick Wragg was chairman and villain of the piece. The chant was the suggested reprisal.

We did turn down L**ds offer but Sam Bolton allegedly said that he would vote for Dick Wragg to be in the FA International committee if the offer for Jones was accepted