Was the 1979 derby, all ticket at the pig pen?

[Dkc]

Apologies for the video title

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Was in the North Stand with my wendy brother in law,never felt so pissed off in all my life.

 

[Going t lane]

Was in the North Stand with my wendy brother in law,never felt so pissed off in all my life.

 

[Going t lane]

Could we please forget that horrible day,no buses thumbed a lift on city rd,Blade picked me & 3 mates up,dropped us off at hillsboro park.horrible.walked it bk 2 town on infirmary road.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

1979. I had a ticket. I was 11 and remember it getting sent to my home in December and being able to talk about it at school.

Maybe the pigs end wasn't all ticket?

 

[Bert]

Like the Pig I know who insists there were no Blades on the Sty Kop in 1971. He was 4 at the time.

There were thousands of us centre right as you look at the shitheap from the pitch.

Bert was on their Kop

 

[Bert]

It was all ticket for them as well.
Bert swapped his Leppings Lane ticket to stand with a now deceased mate on their Kop.
Here is Bert's ticket.

 

[Silent Blade]

I recall Sabella getting some rough treatment to put him out of the game (Geoff King?)

Jeff Johnson

 

[INTAKE BLADE]

I walked from hackenthorpe as there were no buses, 11 am ko anall, only the Walsall fuck up beat that day for gut wrenching, I actually spilled a few tears thanks to don givens.
But hey, we have fire and brimstone man Chris wilder now. Bring it on.

 

[Red Hot Currie]

I was there that (awful) day. Many years later I was at our game at Charlton (last game of season under Kendall before we entered the play offs where we ultimately fooked it against Palace (fucking David Hopkin)). Anyhow - me and my mates git chatting to Bob Bolder (who played in goal for the wendys on Boxing Day 79) who was in charge of Charlton's hospitality. To be fair he was a top bloke and a good laugh. He was quite clear that in the Boxing day game they went after Sabella with the aim of putting him out of the game. Didn't really need to though as the mud saw to that. He also pissed himself laughing when I confessed that his finger tip save from Jeff Bourne had ruined my Xmas (and the next 30yrs). I was ready to smash him in the face. But the fact he's a big bugger meant I didn't. That and the fact that talking about that day brought on an attack of poat traumatic stress.

Please God let this next encounter with our porcine neighbours we one where we give them the absolute fucking arseholing of their lives. I realise that phrase lacks poetry.... but it helps with my anger.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I was there that (awful) day. Many years later I was at our game at Charlton (last game of season under Kendall before we entered the play offs where we ultimately fooked it against Palace (fucking David Hopkin)). Anyhow - me and my mates git chatting to Bob Bolder (who played in goal for the wendys on Boxing Day 79) who was in charge of Charlton's hospitality. To be fair he was a top bloke and a good laugh. He was quite clear that in the Boxing day game they went after Sabella with the aim of putting him out of the game. Didn't really need to though as the mud saw to that. He also pissed himself laughing when I confessed that his finger tip save from Jeff Bourne had ruined my Xmas (and the next 30yrs). I was ready to smash him in the face. But the fact he's a big bugger meant I didn't. That and the fact that talking about that day brought on an attack of poat traumatic stress.

Please God let this next encounter with our porcine neighbours we one where we give them the absolute fucking arseholing of their lives. I realise that phrase lacks poetry.... but it helps with my anger.

Remember when we went in 3-0 up at HT at the Lane. I thought that was the day. The only bloke in the ground who didn't know that they would come out second half all guns blazing was that dick of a manager we had at the time.

 

[Dkc]

I'm sure there were a fleet of buses after the game - football special buses maybe?

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Don't know if it was all ticket for the snorts but remember my dad did a postal application, we got ticket's on the front section of their south stand, not too far from the dug outs. I was ten year old then and the few away games I'd been too up to that time (Leeds, Oldham and Rotherham) we'd won, and I thought away games were great, United turned up and it'd be 2 points in the bag ... what a f***ing shock bd '79 was!

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Remember when we went in 3-0 up at HT at the Lane. I thought that was the day. The only bloke in the ground who didn't know that they would come out second half all guns blazing was that dick of a manager we had at the time.

The one we should have exacted full revenge for bd was the one at the sty in '06 when Akinshitebiyi missed a hatful of easy chances. That said we should have battered them at the sty in 01/02 and 02/03 seasons when we spurned easy chance after easy chance and ended up with a draw and a defeat for our vast superiority.

 

[WILLIAM H BONNEY]

Apologies for the video title

Thank you for vid mate and was there that day,cracking goal by curren though.

 

[Dkc]

Thank you for vid mate and was there that day,cracking goal by curren though.

It was. By that time everyone hated him of course. Just look at his celebration in front of the Blades fans on Boxing Day

It may not be PC to say it, but to most Blades of that era he was the "greasy gyppo"

 

[WILLIAM H BONNEY]

It was. By that time everyone hated him of course. Just look at his celebration in front of the Blades fans on Boxing Day

It may not be PC to say it, but to most Blades of that era he was the "greasy gyppo"

Then he ended up signing for you,what was he like like when he played for you matey.

 

[Paisley Blade]

I walked from hackenthorpe as there were no buses, 11 am ko anall, only the Walsall fuck up beat that day for gut wrenching, I actually spilled a few tears thanks to don givens.
But hey, we have fire and brimstone man Chris wilder now. Bring it on.

Walked down from Grenoside via Chaucer , can still see the women folk stood smoking in their new pink fluffy slippers, getting home God knows , remember Dad trying and failing to introduce the word Context...alright for him , he was at the 7-3

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

Then he ended up signing for you,what was he like like when he played for you matey.

Rubbish and unpopular.

Does that answer your question?

 

[Eyeball]

I must have been stood near to you. I can still remember the sound of the ball hitting the bar when we were attacking in the first half. I think we would have equalised if it had gone in.

Wasn't it Jeff bourne that hit the bar??

 

[WILLIAM H BONNEY]

Rubbish and unpopular.

Does that answer your question?

i guess so.

 

[speedymcgeady]

I'm sure there were a fleet of buses after the game - football special buses maybe?

There was...me, Frank Gordon,Paul Quinn and Danny Miskelly were the only blades on the bus back to Parson Cross after the game ....we got ripped to shreds verbally,and Danny got off 2 stops early ,with us,rather than take any more ..

It's the only time I've felt truly sick after losing a game,losing to Walsall,Chelsea or Wigan ,nor any of our play off final and cup semi finals come close.

 

['Doc' Pace my hero]

I had a ticket for the Leppings Lane end (standing) for the '79 Boxing day Derby at the sty.I went on my own and outside the ground a blade asked me if i would swop my ticket for one in the North stand (seating) as his mate had come up for xmas and they wanted to watch the match together.I did the swop as sitting down to watch a match was a bit special,even if it was mainly with the enemy.The game was fairly even until they put the floodlights on and a few minutes later Richardson flapped at a hopeful long range effort,it looked as though he never saw it !! It was some years later that i was told he had a problem with his eyesight and couldn't see properly under lights,i don't know if that was true,but it has been my excuse for the result ever since.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Then he ended up signing for you,what was he like like when he played for you matey.

Once a cunt , always a cunt ,
pity that cue ball didn't hit him on Boxing Day ,
never ever cheered for that fucker in a Blades shirt .
Givens , Curren , there is no depth of my hatred of these two cunts .

 

[northsomersetblade]

Wankers. That still makes my piss boil

 

[WILLIAM H BONNEY]

Once a cunt , always a cunt ,
pity that cue ball didn't hit him on Boxing Day ,
never ever cheered for that fucker in a Blades shirt .
Givens , Curren , there is no depth of my hatred of these two cunts .

that is a sad post my friend,

 

[Silent Blade]

Wasn't it Jeff bourne that hit the bar??

Yes and McPhail had a sitter saved by Bob Bolder in the follow up

 

[dublin 10 blade]

that is a sad post my friend,

Age hasn't soften my approach to either WHB .

 

[I should coco]

Remember when we went in 3-0 up at HT at the Lane. I thought that was the day. The only bloke in the ground who didn't know that they would come out second half all guns blazing was that dick of a manager we had at the time.

I really thought we might go on to wipe out Boxing Day memories that day. Was that the game where Ward was having a blinder but went off injured?

Then he ended up signing for you,what was he like like when he played for you matey.

The silly bastard ran out to the Kop at the first home game with his arms outstretched expecting a warm welcome. People were all over the fences trying to gob at him, lobbing spare change and he took some right abuse.

A wanker as a person, he'd been brilliant for Wendy but which silly bastard at the Lane that thought it might be a good idea, I'll never know.

"Where's your caravan..."

 

[Kelso]

Like the Pig I know who insists there were no Blades on the Sty Kop in 1971. He was 4 at the time.

There were thousands of us centre right as you look at the shitheap from the pitch.

That's true I was on there Kop along with a goood few more, remember seeing the highlights on the telly, and you could clearly see the group of blades on there kop, they even had a United flag