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

[Highbury_Blade]

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.

It's funny reading some of the posts from back then, there was some proper angry feelings going on

http://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?forums/general-blades-chat.5/page-344

 

[Large Mendonca]

There's been a few ! but the play-off final defeats take the award i think, closely followed by any defeat against the pigs.

 

[BladeFisher]

There was some good singing though

Was that the one in the Prem? If it was it wasn't that bad and I do recall the continual "Sheffield United, Sheffield United".

I've been to so many awful games I gave up counting! The one I particularly remember was Reading (A) in Harry Bassetts first (half) season. I walked out it was that dire and I got a parking ticket. Could never have guessed we would have got promoted the following two seasons!

 

[BladeFisher]

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

Yep heard that joke too, and I was at every bastard game! At Newcy Poly then. Funny enough I think we scored first at Sunderland. Cec Coldwell was in charge if I recall.

 

[TwoHeadedSexBeast]

Yep heard that joke too, and I was at every bastard game! At Newcy Poly then. Funny enough I think we scored first at Sunderland. Cec Coldwell was in charge if I recall.

I think that run of results cost old Cec the job full time.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

I think that run of results cost old Cec the job full time.

It did, and we got Harry Haslam in - what could possibly go wrong with that? I often read the rants and anger on here and wonder what the world would have been like if we'd had the Internet and message boards between 1976 and 1981.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

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.

Yes the home defeat by Oldham was a shocker. Totally demoralized the squad.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Now that's a good thread. Which game did you go to when you were really ill.

I remember that I shat myself in the Currys at Furnival Gate in January 2008 after we had lost 2-0 to Wednesday at Hillsborough.

That was a very unpleasant journey back home to Barnsley on the train. Capped off a pretty shit day all round quite nicely.

 

[axel smeets]

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?

I will of course stand to be corrected, but I have a feeling the game you might be thinking of was a year earlier, in between Christmas and New Year 2003, a 1-1 draw with Wigan around the 28th/29th. I think we had won the first of 2 successive Boxing Day trips to Coventry. A decent crowd of around 27000 turned up.

 

[Balham]

Derby 2-0 Blades 03/04 - abysmal performance and it was -7oc.

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

I'd blanked that from my memory. Wasn't the original game called off because the roads around the stadium were iced over, yet when we got to the rearranged fixture the entire town of Derby resembled something out of Narnia. The approach road to Pride Park was basically an ice rink.

And we were shit. Leon Osman scored the second IIRC.

 

[Darren]

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.

It was Morris who scored in the Wimbledon game.

 

[Darren]

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!

No he wasn't - he had left 4 years before!

 

[Darren]

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??

It was NYD 2005.

 

[Darren]

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?

You're thinking of a different Wigan game. The 1-1 draw on 28/12/03. Lester got our goal.

 

[Darren]

Was that the one in the Prem? If it was it wasn't that bad and I do recall the continual "Sheffield United, Sheffield United".

I've been to so many awful games I gave up counting! The one I particularly remember was Reading (A) in Harry Bassetts first (half) season. I walked out it was that dire and I got a parking ticket. Could never have guessed we would have got promoted the following two seasons!

That was on 30/4/88. We lost 1-2. Stancliffe scored. That defeat meant we couldn't avoid the relegation/promotion play offs

 

[Selly]

I'd blanked that from my memory. Wasn't the original game called off because the roads around the stadium were iced over, yet when we got to the rearranged fixture the entire town of Derby resembled something out of Narnia. The approach road to Pride Park was basically an ice rink.

And we were shit. Leon Osman scored the second IIRC.

I think the original game was at the start of December, and having arrived in Derby on the train I and my friends met a couple of London based blades (Minso and MaffYoo, who later married one of the aforementioned friends!!) in a pub in Derby town centre.

About halfway down my second pint, some coppers came in and told us the game was off due to a waterlogged pitch. (Thus turning the day into one of the better Blades Away days!!!)

Cut to January, and I'm sat in a meeting at work in Sheffield when it starts raining. This is, at first a releif as snow had been forecast. unfortunately it then starts snowing, with the rain having washed away all the grit already put down on the roads.

Chaos ensues. I end up walking back home from Beaucheif (where the bus stopped) all the way up to Totley ( in my "slick tyre" shoes) whilst my mate was sat in traffic on teh Parkway for 3 hours and I never managed to get to the game.

In the end, derby very kindly gave all Blades fans who didn`t make it the offer of tickets to teh fixture the next season, which we won 1-0 (Alan Quinn), in similar temperatures, albeit without the snow...

 

[Darren]

Yep heard that joke too, and I was at every bastard game! At Newcy Poly then. Funny enough I think we scored first at Sunderland. Cec Coldwell was in charge if I recall.

We were 5-0 down at Sunderland before Bobby Campbell scored a last minute goal with a clever beating off the offisde trap (he had the ball just inside the Sunderland half and was looking to play it forward and the Sunderland defence moved foward to spring the trap; Bobby just then decided to run through the advancing defence to leave him with a 1 on 1 with the goalie and a (pointless) goal). Its on the YTV goals video.

 

[metalblade]

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 that night well, I was stood out in the snowstorm for a hour and half selling programmes, if not for being on Sky the match would have been called off. It was certainly the coldest most miserable game I can remember.


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[torridon]

1999/2000 season i think, Man City 6 Blades 0, could of been 12, went to the game with my City mates, not enjoyable at all and even worse after, took some right stick!!

 

[VespaBlade]

Jan 12 1993- away v Burnley in the FA Cup replay. we won 4-2 after a comeback in the first leg on the 2nd Jan.

The first leg was dire and we were 2 down with about 10 mins to go before coming back with 2 late goals and the fight between Littlejohn and Heath inbetween. It saved the cup run and made my birthday.

And then to the replay.
Me, my mate Fozzy(RIP mate) and his brother Dave in a little old Fiesta on the M62, driving thru the snow and cold.
Gets to the junction near the 'little house on the prairie' and the traffic stopped.
This was about 6pm - we got to the next junction at 10.30 -pissed off, cold and hungry..

The only time I have been depressed listening to us win a game.... on a crackly radio.

Apart from all the play offs, semi finals, relegations and the odd loss to the swine and dirtyleeds, I can remember going to Swindon in the late 80's on the travel bus. The saturday after the Hungerford massacre. we lost, it was shite and then had a long, long, long coach journey back to the Lane.

Dreadful.

 

[Darren]

Jan 12 1993- away v Burnley in the FA Cup replay. we won 4-2 after a comeback in the first leg on the 2nd Jan.

The first leg was dire and we were 2 down with about 10 mins to go before coming back with 2 late goals and the fight between Littlejohn and Heath inbetween. It saved the cup run and made my birthday.

And then to the replay.
Me, my mate Fozzy(RIP mate) and his brother Dave in a little old Fiesta on the M62, driving thru the snow and cold.
Gets to the junction near the 'little house on the prairie' and the traffic stopped.
This was about 6pm - we got to the next junction at 10.30 -pissed off, cold and hungry..

The only time I have been depressed listening to us win a game.... on a crackly radio.

Apart from all the play offs, semi finals, relegations and the odd loss to the swine and dirtyleeds, I can remember going to Swindon in the late 80's on the travel bus. The saturday after the Hungerford massacre. we lost, it was shite and then had a long, long, long coach journey back to the Lane.

Dreadful.

The Swindon game was 22nd August 1987. We lost 2-0. Steve Foley played for them after leaving the Lane in the summer and the Swindon manager (Lou Macari?) had a dig saying how surprised he was as to how unfit Foley had been when he joined them.

 

[parisblade]

1999/2000 season i think, Man City 6 Blades 0, could of been 12, went to the game with my City mates, not enjoyable at all and even worse after, took some right stick!!

I went to that game as well. We were never going to do much once our keeper had been sent off We left after the 5th went in and enjoyed a much-needed pint in Glossop and on the Snake Pass before getting back to Sheff.

 

[Deadbat]

Been some shocking games and ones that were just awful to watch. I do recall that Derby 'ice' double header and gong down 2 banks on the 2nd game before we lost 2-0.

There have been some shockers but sadly the ones that stand out seem to be the ones that have seen us lose playoff finals, go down or ends a managers reign. At least the play off ones have a 'good day unti the game' felling so would rule them out.

The Chelsea and Wigan games were horrors. I cried after Chelsea (on my 15th birthday). Against Wigan I remember almost punching the back of the Kop as I left and stormed home in the p****g down rain; chuntering (Balotelli style 'why always us').

Port Vale 1-3 was one of the worst performance I ever saw but think the Oldham 0-5 under McEwan takes it for me. I remember I was only young but walking around the Kop as I was bored (m Dad did not seem to care) as the fans all arranged to meet in the car park. Truly horrific showing and an awful side as we tried to regroup from the Porterfield Dads Army with a team that was full of youth that were not good enough or ready (ironically a few went onto have good careers - Marsden, Mendonca etc).

I remember the back end of Porterfield-early McEwan and the Heath days as the worst periods of watching United and even though it is bad now (where we are) we have double the crowds we had then, in a nice ground and a sprinkling of young talent. When I think back to those sides with likes of Phil Thompson (who was done), Andy Leaning, Andy Barnley, Richard Cadette etc then maybe we dont have it so bad.

 

[mekkyblade]

I remember that night well, I was stood out in the snowstorm for a hour and half selling programmes, if not for being on Sky the match would have been called off. It was certainly the coldest most miserable game I can remember.


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Think iv got some photos from the game somewhere i was sat about a third of the way up on the kop just to the right of the goal

 

[BladeInThatcham]

Watford away Feb 2010 - found my post. God I was angry....

http://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/angry.17118/

 

[dublin 10 blade]

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

Was'nt the other joke about someone ringing up ticket office and asking what time do we kickoff to which the answer was every 15 minutes.How many did macdonald score that day?

 

[sitwell]

wasnt there a cigarette brand called 3, 5s ? never heard the last of it.

 

[INTAKE BLADE]

Port vale, remember sat on the kop thinking wtf am i doing watching this shit, repeated many times since,
Altrincham /Aldershot both away cup games, both horror shows.

But Walsall wins hands down for me, damn john Matthews

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Plymouth away a few years ago. Jags had to go in the net, Monty came on, we lost 3-0. An absolutely awful game and a real shitter of a journey there and home after when some prick on the coach decided to have numerous loud conversations on his mobile, all of which began and ended with the word "ciao".

The highlight of the otherwise shit day was that said prick fell in a puddle on the way back to the coach and had to travel home wet and covered in mud. Tosser.

You had a shitter of a journey? Some of us had to hitchhike there with a bloody camera crew cramping our style, meaning a late arrival (missed Plymouth's first goal), and then had to sleep on a roundabout*.

*If you still believe in Father Christmas and that stuff on telly is always 100% as shown, don't ever ask me, "Did you really sleep on that roundabout?" because the answer may disappoint. The Ibis in Plymouth does a great curry.

 

[munich]

My worst away day was Villa in the cup in 75. Pissed on 4-1. TC was total shite - and this was a year we thought we had a chance.