what about the worst game ,should be more popular :)

[Guesty]

Two that we didn't actually lose -

Away at Reading in 2005. The game finished 0-0 and would still be 0-0 if it were going on today. The highlight was Danny Webber coming on for his debut and as I recall getting caught offside 3 times before touching the ball.

The other was against Preston, I forget what season it was (the championship years post Warnock all seem to blend into one) but it was certainly in Winter. I've never been so called and the football was dreadful, neither team could string 3 passes together. Me and a few others were groaning when Preston put the ball out of play, never mind us! We won 1-0 with a goal befitting the game - Jamie Ward sent over a Free Kick as a cross and it sailed straight in.

 

[Selly]

Worst game in terms of how it made me feel: Chelsea 3 United 2, 7 May 1994
Worst performance by United: United 0 Oldham 5, 2 January 1988.

Can't argue with that.

I think the Wigan game tops the Chelsea game.

The crushing inevitability of that second half will haunt me to my grave.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

You're radically out as to when that game was. It was on 6th April 1985 when Porterfield was manager. We had had a good run which had pulled us fairly clear of the relegation places and the players ahd lost interest.

Absolutely right - I guess puberty must have played havoc with my powers of recall.

Checking to confirm I'm wrong surfaced 2 more subsequent games that were just as bad - a nil-nil with Carlisle and losing 1-0 to Shrewsbury (which, if my descending testicles haven't further distorted my memory, was even more devoid of joy or interest than the Fulham game).

 

[Revolution]

Absolutely right - I guess puberty must have played havoc with my powers of recall.

Checking to confirm I'm wrong surfaced 2 more subsequent games that were just as bad - a nil-nil with Carlisle and losing 1-0 to Shrewsbury (which, if my descending testicles haven't further distorted my memory, was even more devoid of joy or interest than the Fulham game).

I remember the Carlisle game. Someone - I think Cockerill - went close in the first 30 seconds. That was the sum total of action in the game.

The Shrewsbury and Fulham games were also dire. Leroy Rosenior got the early goal you mention, at the Kop end, and that was that. That season sucked after the Leeds game.

 

[Darren]

I remember the Carlisle game. Someone - I think Cockerill - went close in the first 30 seconds. That was the sum total of action in the game.

The Shrewsbury and Fulham games were also dire. Leroy Rosenior got the early goal you mention, at the Kop end, and that was that. That season sucked after the Leeds game.

We won at Palace a week after the Leeds game, which more or less made us safe. We had 9 games left, in which we failed to win any ( 3 draws) and only managed 4 goals (2 of them in the last 2-2 draw at Huddersfield).

I recall Philliskirk missing a sitter in the Fulham game. A free header from 4 yards that he put over the bar.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

We won at Palace a week after the Leeds game, which more or less made us safe. We had 9 games left, in which we failed to win any ( 3 draws) and only managed 4 goals (2 of them in the last 2-2 draw at Huddersfield).

I recall Philliskirk missing a sitter in the Fulham game. A free header from 4 yards that he put over the bar.

My abiding memory of Philliskirk was his seeming ability to jump downwards - i.e. he was smaller after taking off than he was when he was standing still. Most of his involvement in games I saw him in was accompanied by outbursts of "For Fuck's sake Phillis!" from the terrace in front of our seats in the John Street Stand.

 

[Balham]

I've seen some truly dull games during my time as a Blade but as I've never been a season ticket holder and only started going regularly in the Warnock era the title of worst game I've seen is one of the recent ones.

@Ollessendro's call of Palace 1-0 United is a good shout: a performance lacking in any sort of passion or belief but I'd have to go for United 0-1 Derby the following Saturday. After two away defeats at fellow relegation contenders we were at home to lower mid-table Derby. It was at that point that I realised that we were going down; we didn't have any shots that I can recall and the inevitability of defeat was there even before Robinson's goal.

 

[Northyorksblade]

Swindon away 0-0 in, I think 1994. Absolutely nothing happened all game.

There was some good singing though

 

[Ollessendro]

Why is it this thread is longer than the best ever games thread? Yer bunch of moanin, fickle fookin two hats!?

The Watford game Highbury_Blade was referring to was when Blackwell was in charge. Nyron Nosworthy's debut. Say no more. The next season Micky Adams achieved what seemed not possible in achieving the same scoreline and same level of stunning ineptitude. That was when Willo and Hendo were both sent off. The ref actually ruled the game, but it was just horrible watching ale house Micky's 9 cloggers get passed to death by the impressive Watford.

 

[super_pig]

Play-off final v Palace - the lad in front of me said to his mate "well, it's looking like extra ti..oh fucking hell"

or in my case.. 'they'll never score from there.. i'm going for a p*ss before e.t.. f**kin' 'ell'

 

[Grecian2000]

Why is it this thread is longer than the best ever games thread? Yer bunch of moanin, fickle fookin two hats!?

Probably because we had a four page thread of "Greatest Blades moments" less than a month ago which covered every decent game since the signing of the Magna Carta.

 

[Grecian2000]

i'm going for a p*ss before e.t.

Always a good move, that little fucker can piss for Mars.

 

[upton blade]

iv seen us lose plenty of games when we where sh*te but the opponents have scored or played well, or a certain player has stood out and played well and at least iv left BDTBL with summat to remember? the worst game i can remember ? home v Tranmere this season takes sum beating

 

[mattbianco1]

Surely Port Vale home followed by Heath sacking. Misery followed by joy

That's mine too i'd say

 

[Small Mendonca]

Derby 2-0 Blades 03/04 - abysmal performance and it was -7oc.
Blades 0-0 Tranmere 12/13 - one of the most boring games I have seen of recent.
Blades 0-1 Doncaster 08/09 - possibly the worst performance I have ever seen from United and it was freezing.

 

[Small Mendonca]

One has always stood out as a proper boreathon for me was a few years back we played Gillingham at home on the first day of the season I think it was 03/04. Boiling hot day and one of the most boring matches I can remember. I'm sure I remember Jason Brown being a knobhead for them as well.

I remember that game - it was boiling! Wasn't that when Warnock fell in love with Paul Shaw?

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Boxing Day 1979. Makes me feel sick just typing it in.

Abbey Stadium Cambridge 1979. Getting relegated to the 3rd division for the first time in our history. Felt worse than going down to the 4th as we'd sunk to an unthinkable low that our disgusting neighbours had already managed.

What with another dreadful event I look back to 1979 and see the worst year in this countries history.

Jusus grecian, thinking bout them 2 anall, was'nt sabella in our team then and did'nt we hit the bar in the second half ? v cambridge, long walk back to coaches then ours fuckin broke down on way home, not beatin leicester 9-0 sent us down after cambridge, just to split hairs, finished 2-2, also the '' vile '' at s6 on boxin day nuff said.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

27 January 2009

Sheffield United 0-1 Doncaster

I haven't been watching us half as long as most of the people on here but good God there can't have been many more matches in our history as boring as that.

 

[oldblade]

Mine was 1-2 at home v Wimbledon div 3 1984 , crowd of about 20k and we were shit ,terrible atmosphere after the game.

Garner scored a decent goal though. However, the game was a complete anti climax and appeared to have dealt a large dent to our promotion chances. A dent which got a whole lot bigger a few days later at Bolton!

For me it was May 2nd 1981. Sheffield United 0 Walsall 1. Condemning us to division 4. Felt like the world had just ended. The nearest I've ever come to shedding a tear at a football match. We've played a lot worse on many occasions, but the result meant the unimaginable had happened, and to think that just 6 years earlier we were a joy to watch and almost got into europe.

 

[mekkyblade]

Blades 0 crewe 0 05/06 season. Friday night kick off live on sky, snowing like fuck, first game i took our lass to (schoolboy error) think they were bottom of the table and we were flying, should have known it'd be a dead rubber.

 

[gavtheblade]

Blades 0 crewe 0 05/06 season. Friday night kick off live on sky, snowing like fuck, first game i took our lass to (schoolboy error) think they were bottom of the table and we were flying, should have known it'd be a dead rubber.

I remember this so well,i was in the pub under the light of just candle flickers as there had been a power cut in the birley when my dad rung tooing and frooing whether to drag our selves off to the lane that night or stay in the darkened alehouse?
Yep,you guessed right!friggin awful we were,and bobby ford was playing!

 

[Stafford Blade]

2 Games already mentioned..... The away game at Derby in 03/04 and that game at home against Crewe when it snowed a couple of hours before kick off.

The game at Derby in particular was the coldest I have ever been at a football match.

 

[Selly]

I remember this so well,i was in the pub under the light of just candle flickers as there had been a power cut in the birley when my dad rung tooing and frooing whether to drag our selves off to the lane that night or stay in the darkened alehouse?
Yep,you guessed right!friggin awful we were,and bobby ford was playing!

And had Akinbyi gone down when fouled in the box we would probably have won 1-0...

 

[davidpinder]

Wigan one boxing day lost 2-0 at home we were out played from start to finish can't remember the year not that long ago ie not 90's. Plenty more if i have a good think

or was it new years day??

 

[maxtheblade]

Mine's a proper random one from the Blackwell era - we drew 3-3 with Ipswich in September 2009 - injury time equaliser from Morgan in front of the Kop. On the face of it six goals and a grandstand finish should have been exciting but I've never been so bored at the Lane in my life. It probably didn't help that I was on a half-empty Bramall Lane Upper with zero atmosphere.

Sorry to say it but I swore that day I wouldn't go again while Blackwell was in charge and I stuck to it. His 'football' made a six-goal thriller dull.

Close runners-up would be 0-0 at QPR in March 2009 - dull dull dull - and another 0-0 against Birmingham in 97/98 where Borbokis missed a penalty.

 

[axel smeets]

Wigan one boxing day lost 2-0 at home we were out played from start to finish can't remember the year not that long ago ie not 90's. Plenty more if i have a good think

or was it new years day??

New Years Day 2005. I remember it well. My mate and I both had flu and dragged ourselves along only to witness this debacle. Certainly physically the worst I have ever felt at a football match.

 

[Small Mendonca]

New Years Day 2005. I remember it well. My mate and I both had flu and dragged ourselves along only to witness this debacle. Certainly physically the worst I have ever felt at a football match.

That game rings a bell! Was that the game where Steve Kabba briefly came back from injury but then got injured again or am I thinking of a different game?

 

[BladeInThatcham]

From bottom to top:
First time I left early - Sunderland at home in the Bruce era. We were twatted from start to finish and an absolute embarassment. We lost 0-4. I think that may even have been Bruce's last ever appearance?

Blackpool at home in the Robson disaster - they were not the force they are now and down to 10 men. It finished 1-1 I think but what struck me most was that there was absolutely no atmosphere at all.

Watford away in Blackwell's reign. It was a Tuesday game re-arranged because of previous weather. We lost 3-0 and I genuinely do not remember being so angry coming away from a game. Ever. Nor have I been since. I came on here and had a reight rant, I'm sure the post will be in the archives somewhere.

Then to the next level:
All joint 2nd place. Play off finals against Palace, Burnley and Udders. I don't need to describe any of these games.

And the winner:
2003 play off final vs Wolves. After what was OUR season, the hope and expectation was like I've never seen it. Excitement. Sunshine. Superb atmosphere outside and inside the ground. Then the fucking ref blew that frickin whistle and started the game. Over after 20 minutes or so. Just so so gutted. Annoyed that Warnock played Rankine ahead of McCall (still convinced to this day that this was a massive factor in the defeat). A pissing awful journey out of cardiff - my girlfriend at the time drove us back to Newbury whilst I sat in the passenger seat drinking can after can of stella trying to eliminate the pain. Staring at the still traffic on the M4. the Wolves fans celebrating in their cars, minibuses and coaches. And seriously contemplating whether any of this was actually worth it. Nothing is worth that amount of pain surely? Needless to say I attended the first game of the next season (Gills home already mentioned).

And yet we all come back for more everytime.

We're all blades ain't we?

 

[Northyorksblade]

New Years Day 2005. I remember it well. My mate and I both had flu and dragged ourselves along only to witness this debacle. Certainly physically the worst I have ever felt at a football match.

Now that's a good thread. Which game did you go to when you were really ill. Mine was away to Blackburn 1990? promotion year. A win would have just about seen us up. We had to park a mile from the ground. I had flu and felt so ill I could barely walk to the ground. It was terracing and we were stood next to a burger stand which made we want to throw up. A boring 0-0 and there was still that walk back to the car. I thought I was dying!

 

[andybrizz]

For you oldies out there, obviously the Wallsall match with the infamous Givens penalty miss, but does anybody remember the 3 consecutive games in January 1978, dicked at home by Arsenal in the cup 5-0, then at home by Bolton in the league 5-1, then away at Sunderland 5-1, sad, sad days, the Pigs thought it was funny at school asking if we'd heard that United had changed their phone number to 5-0-5-1-5-1 ...... w*nkers.

Andy