Top Blades performances on Live TV.

[CarlingBlade]

Blades v Villa in the 3rd Round of the FA Cup (3-1 to us) and the 1-1 in the FA Cup v Arsenal at Highbury (Andy Gray last minute pen) was a cracking match, Berkamp sent off, Cullips goal mysteriously disallowed and a last minute pen.

 

[BusheyBlade]

Anyone remember this classic?

Classic indeed! I watched with a bunch of Spurs supporting mates all of whom now class United as their second team.

 

[jt64]

Were we on before or after the weather in Norwegian?

 

[BigBed]

Remember that kit!!

 

[Geordie Blade]

I agree with the OP's top five. Honorable mentions to the two FA Cup quarter final penalty shootout wins over Blackburn (1993) and Coventry (1998).

 

[Jermyn]

The 2-1 win first leg league cup tie against Liverpool was good , tongue before he became crap

 

[Jehovah]

Good shout regards Portsmouth 1-2 blades. Watched it with my Wednesday mate who said"Jesus, I didn't realise you were this good"

I replied "neither did I!"

 

[Grecian2000]

Must be the play-off match v forest
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OK, I remember Pesky whipping off the shirt and giving it the "Oh my God" bit, but how has Kabbas ended up sans top? Don't remember that at all.
Obviously never saw any of it in the ground as I was a bit busy rolling around but never twigged it on telly afterwards.

 

[JJ Sefton]

The 3-2 defeat to Leeds at the end of 1991-2 was televised live. I am struggling to remember an earlier game that was live, though I may have missed an obvious one.

A 3-2 defeat against Birmingham in December 1966 was shown live on some experimental Pay TV thing. Not obvious, I'll grant you.

 

[Silent Blade]

A 3-2 defeat against Birmingham in December 1966 was shown live on some experimental Pay TV thing. Not obvious, I'll grant you.

Lifted from https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/articles/eight-bells-football-on-television/
Back in January 1966, 2,000 residents of Westminster and Southwark in London had their television sets fitted with slot boxes which allowed the transmission of non BBC and ITV programming in exchange for coin. Usually the programmes on offer were the sort of horror flicks which were nothing more than borderline bongo, but there were other treats: racing from Kempton, a bout between Muhammad Ali and Henry Cooper, and a show from St Pancras Mortuary for the benefit of medical students at the Royal Free Hospital.

The experiment was then rolled out to Sheffield in October, and within a month the UK's first-ever PPV game was transmitted: a friendly between Chelsea (see, nothing is new) and the newly crowned champions of Europe, Real Madrid. The star of the show was Ferenc Puskás — who the Guardian noted was "perpetually 39 to all his questioners these past four years, tubbier now, but with much of his old grace and a deal of his old skill" — but it was Chelsea who prevailed thanks to goals from Tony Hateley and John Hollins. Not bad for ten shillings.

Pay-TV was forced to close down less than two years later, pay television as a concept having made no serious advances into the national psyche. There had been one other live match, a 3-3 cracker between Burnley and Arsenal in the 1967-68 League Cup quarter finals, but the viewing figures were so low the entire enterprise has been almost completely forgotten today.

 

[GroovyBrad]

The 2-0 win against Charlton in the FA cup run was good, saying that I watched it on al jazeera tv at the local boozer, might not have been all above board

 

[1danewhitehouse]

Was the Coventry quarter final replay (from hereon known as Alan Kelly day) televised? One of my favourite games of all time.

Coming from 2-0 down to beat the shammers in 94 was good. Obviously the forest game has to be up there too.

 

[itsinyerblood]

The Forest game, exciting, two sides going at it, and we deservedly won, great match and thoroughly enjoyable.

 

[Jan Age]

Beating West ham 3-2 in about 1993

Yes ! I Was thinking of this one too!

 

[Russ]

Was the Coventry quarter final replay (from hereon known as Alan Kelly day) televised? One of my favourite games of all time.
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I think it might have been on sky. Wasn't it on a Friday night? I vaguely remember going into town for a few beers after.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Was the Coventry quarter final replay (from hereon known as Alan Kelly day) televised? One of my favourite games of all time.

It was Paddy's Day 1998 and I was out with a mate of mine from Mayo. If memory serves (and I was wasted so it probably doesn't) another game was being shown but when that finished they cut over to our match.

 

[1danewhitehouse]

I think it might have been on sky. Wasn't it on a Friday night? I vaguely remember going into town for a few beers after.

Thought it was midweek but could be wrong.

 

[DifferentClass]

The 2-1 win first leg league cup tie against Liverpool was good , tongue before he became crap

Don't remember that one being on telly but yeah Tonge played a blinder that night.

 

[Balham]

Wasn't our season opener against Leicester on sky when we won 4-1(?)?

Yep but it wasn't a vintage performance by any stretch of the imagination. We were deservedly being held 1-1 going into the last 10 before we scored three quick goals. In fact, our first two (Gray, Kabba) were both penalties.

Interesting lineup we played that day according to Sky http://www.skysports.com/football/sheff-utd-vs-leicester/61544

 

[I should coco]

Surely we all remember the first ever UK footy radio commentary.

The first sports event broadcast in the United Kingdom was a Rugby Union international between England and Wales, broadcast from Twickenham in January 1927. Two weeks later the first broadcast of a football match took place, with the BBC covering Arsenal's league fixture against Sheffield United at Highbury. Listeners to the broadcast could use numbered grids published in the Radio Times in order to ascertain in which area of the pitch the action was taking place due to a second commentator reading out grid references during the match.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting_of_sports_events

Seems like only yesterday......

 

[Silent Blade]

Thought it was midweek but could be wrong.

Yes it was midweek

 

[ThroughThinAndThinner]

Yep but it wasn't a vintage performance by any stretch of the imagination. We were deservedly being held 1-1 going into the last 10 before we scored three quick goals. In fact, our first two (Gray, Kabba) were both penalties.

Interesting lineup we played that day according to Sky http://www.skysports.com/football/sheff-utd-vs-leicester/61544

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Fair enough, was only a wee nipper so memory not that great other than the result!

 

[Balham]

Fair enough, was only a wee nipper so memory not that great other than the result!

Don't get me wrong, the result was great but it wasn't a performance which could be classed as "top". I was 21 at the time, on my summer break from Uni...so thanks for making me feel old

 

[zablade]

Don't remember that one being on telly but yeah Tonge played a blinder that night.

That was on Live TV.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

Pay-TV was forced to close down less than two years later, pay television as a concept having made no serious advances into the national psyche. There had been one other live match, a 3-3 cracker between Burnley and Arsenal in the 1967-68 League Cup quarter finals, but the viewing figures were so low the entire enterprise has been almost completely forgotten today.

Sky briefly trialled PPV football in the early 2000s on the PremPlus channel (in reality, they just took 40 games they'd bought the rights too and asked fans to pay extra to watch them. Cheeky fuckers!).

I remember the first time I watched the announcement (on Sky Sports) that it was coming, I've never picked up the phone so quick in my life.

-1 Sky TV customer.

 

[Revolution]

We were on TV on the first weekend of the season 5 years out of 6 at one point:

2005-6 Leicester (h) W4-1
2006-7 Liverpool (h) D1-1
2008-9 Birmingham (a) L 0-1
2009-10 Middlesbrough (a) D 0-0
2010-11 Cardiff (a) D 1-1

Andy Gray scored the first goal of the 2005-6 football league season, a penalty v Leicester as noted above. He was then sold to Sunderland and played on the first day of the PL season, and scored in that game too, against Charlton. I think that was the first goal of the season in the PL too - if so, that's an odd double.

Gray also completed an unusual, but not unique, feat in 2003-4. He played in 47 league games, 33 for Bradford and 14 for us.

 

[IOM Blade]

1-2

Beck scored first for Boro

Think the home game against Boro was on Sky that season too. Won 1-0 (Saunders) on the Tuesday after the Newcastle Semi Final defeat.

Watch both Newcastle and Boro games in a bar in Alicante.

 

[Jermyn]

Don't remember that one being on telly but yeah Tonge played a blinder that night.

Watched it on ITV. He was worth about 6 million after that , 18 months later about 6 quid

 

[10-0 win]

Two weeks later the first broadcast of a football match took place, with the BBC covering Arsenal's league fixture against Sheffield United at Highbury. Listeners to the broadcast could use numbered grids published in the Radio Times in order to ascertain in which area of the pitch the action was taking place due to a second commentator reading out grid references during the

The phrase Back to square one is a direct survivor of these radiobroadcasts

 

[coaxingstar71]

Middlesbrough 0 Blades 2.
Dane n Deano

As Silent Blade says, it was 2-1.

This is my favourite live Blades game as it was probably the first time while I'd been watching us that I thought we looked like a proper footballing team, rather than a plucky up-and-at-em side. It was a great performance against a good Boro side who I think had just come down from the Prem. Such a shame that side was dismantled 2 months later.

On another point, apart from the afore-mentioned TV experiments, wouldn't our first live appearance in the modern era have 1990 FA Cup quarter-final v Manchester Utd when we lost 1-0? I'm not certain because I was at the game rather than watching on TV.