Unitedite or Blade?

[Rodley]

The lad who made a lot of the "Blade" songs up was a blade called Bobby Hurst
Aka "Rotten" after the infamousSex Pistol he was fucking mental but a great laugh and a good lad.
Ask your uncle Ronnie about him

Is your Uncle Ronnie S? If so, is he still going to the Lane?

 

[mosbolad]

Im a Blunt.

Can't argue with that Sitwell!

 

[sitwell]

Can't argue with that Sitwell!

Grunters think it hurts me ,quite the opposite ,if they called me a Wendy I would be on the first train to Dignitas.

 

[Lane Ender]

Is your Uncle Ronnie S? If so, is he still going to the Lane?

Yes Sharpy he's not my uncle it's Silents
But he's old mukka of mine and he still turns out now and again

 

[FTPE]

Yoonitedite always reminds me of my grandad.
"How did the blades go on" always sounds like a none fan trying to over compensate.
Being a "blade" is great in some situations but being a unitedite feels perfect in all of them....
Let's stay in our bubble, there's no other uniteds anyway!

 

[Rodley]

Yes Sharpy he's not my uncle it's Silents
But he's old mukka of mine and he still turns out now and again

Good to hear, is Reg Basking Shark still around?

 

[sitwell]

Good to hear, is Reg Basking Shark still around?

I saw Bent nose in Town a few weeks ago ,not changed a bit.

 

[Lane Ender]

I saw Bent nose in Town a few weeks ago ,not changed a bit.

Do you mean bent nose Mitchell?

 

[Blade58]

"We're all Blades aren't we?" wasn't invented for nowt you know

 

[Hamburg Blade]

I tend to think Unitedite is more serious and proper, whereas Blade is more "one of the lads". Sign of the times, I suppose, that no one wants to be serious and proper, however it always sounds wrong when someone uses Blades in serious conversation. I don't particularly use Unitedite, but if I'm talking to non-Blades I don't use Blades, I use Sheffield United the first couple of times, to make the point that you can't say just Sheffield, then I shift to using just United to make the point that it isn't the name of ManUre. I know, very anal. If I refer to the fans I say United fans, I should probably change to Unitedites.
A couple of things I don't like - first is the way the club have started calling themselves the Blades; I do think it's more a fans' word and, as I say, doesn't sound serious enough for the club to use. The other thing, possibly related, is the term 'Blades fan' which has crept in. It's Blade, unless you're talking about your own fans, of course.

 

[Bladesince59]

Yes my Grandad always said 'unitedite'

Mine too. He supported them from 1908 and me from 1959

 

[Russ]

Talking to a football fan in Sheffield area (for many years probably as far back as 1890s) you claim to be an United-ite and he/she will know which club you are talking about
Talking to a football fan outside the Sheffield area you claim to be a Blade and he/she will know which club you are talking about. If you said United-Ite then he/she probably will think Man U

however if you google it, the first items are to do with us.

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=unitedite

 

[Lawrence]

It's a shame Unitedite has dropped out of fashion. It's sort of elegant.

I'm a Unitedite my son is a Blade

 

[Ecco1889]

a lot of older fans,and of course Jimmy muirs brother on when Saturday comes,call us yoo-nited

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Where I work, shop-talk often revolves around blades of the aero-engine variety.
Whenever blades were mentioned I started chanting...

mate: "Is the blade design finished?"
me: *clap-clap-clap-clap* The Blades!

mate: "Have the blades been fitted?"
me: *clap-clap-clap-clap* The Blades!

As you can imagine, it got quite tiresome.

 

[Oreyt]

My Grandad maintained that Blades were the team, Unitedites were the fans.

But then he wore his flat cap in bed, so feel free to ignore.

 

[RealMcCoy]

cutting edge, sharp and iconic

 

[Bob Socks]

In March 1966, as a 14 year old whippersnapper, I got talking to a Leicester fan called Greg Chapman on the kop at Filbert Street. It was the game (don’t know if any older blades remember it?) where Dave Parton took a gun (starting pistol) fired it and cleared the Leicester kop. Well, to cut a long story short, Greg got in touch with me about 4 years ago, he came up to Sheffield to meet me and take in a game at the Lane, I’d not seen him since boxing day 1970 when we played Leicester at the Lane. The first thing he said to me when I met him off the train was “so you’re still a Unitedite then.”

It was ‘Unitedite’ all through the 50’s 60’s and most of 70’s I think, it was maybe late 70s early 80’s when the term ‘Blade’ started being used.

 

[Bob Socks]

I saw Bent nose in Town a few weeks ago ,not changed a bit.

Except he looks more like Eric Pollard, than Eric Pollard does these days.

 

[Silent Blade]

Except he looks more like Eric Pollard, than Eric Pollard does these days.

40 years ago you said he looked like him

 

[BuryBlade]

cutting edge, sharp and iconic

hang on... when did we sign cutting, edge and iconic,
could be a great forward line tho'

mind you.. bet the edge gets recalled by U2

 

[BuryBlade]

same goes here.. my grandad; who sadly supported both teams, and could never understand why me n my brother didnt,
always called us United ites...

i think the blades tag began to be used more after our badge was reworked..
and the swords became more visible icon/ image etc..
i certainly used to call myself a unitedite up till about the late seventies then
a blade there on...

historically , we all know the origins of being known as blades..

 

[grafikhaus]

Yoonitedite always reminds me of my grandad.

Ditto. The very old Blades always say 'Yoo-nye-ted.' And walk around bowed with their hands clasped behind their backs. Strange.

 

[COME BACK CHED]

Although saying that I did have a selfie with David Piggy Hirst on Saturday night - that's a fact.

That is probably the saddest thing i have ever read , i do hope you are no older than eight .

 

[Bob Socks]

Ditto. The very old Blades always say 'Yoo-nye-ted.' And walk around bowed with their hands clasped behind their backs. Strange.

That's right pal, i remember years ago talking to an old flat capped Blade in a pub somewhere after the Blades had lost he said "They've always been bloody same, build ya up and let ya down, Yoo-bleedin-nited i call em." So every time they loose, i call em Yoo-bleedin -nited.

 

[super_pig]

It's a shame Unitedite has dropped out of fashion. It's sort of elegant.

i think it got stolen by those c*nts in Salford actually

 

[Boxer Blade]

Bob socks, was your Leicester mate back in the sixties a lad with blond hair
and always wore a leather jacket with his teams name on the back and often
went on the kop and supprted the blades

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Although saying that I did have a selfie with David Piggy Hirst on Saturday night - that's a fact.

Have you got a wide angle lens on your phone then

 

[SwissBlade]

Have you got a wide angle lens on your phone then

Panoramic !

 

[BushBlade]

Yoonitedite always reminds me of my grandad.
"How did the blades go on" always sounds like a none fan trying to over compensate.
Being a "blade" is great in some situations but being a unitedite feels perfect in all of them....
Let's stay in our bubble, there's no other uniteds anyway!

That's because if you were a Blade you say 'how did we get on?'