When Arsenal last failed to reach the Fourth Round..

[Punk Blade]

Found it on Youtube.

A seven minute video with one goal in the game, and it cuts to the ball already goal-bound with zero build up after just showing Arsenal knocking it around the back before a nothing chance. What awful editing.

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

Found it on Youtube.

Wow forgotten how shit those shirts were. WTF!

 

[Silent Blade]

Sid Cowans was brilliant in midfield. Was disappointed that Kendall decided against signing him for the following season

 

[Bladesman]

 

[John Street West Terrace]

95/96 we knocked them out in the 3rd Round. And who scored the winner?!

We played out of our skins that night , deserved winners and one of the best midfield performances I saw in a red & white shirt .... Gordon Cowans,,, absolute class

 

[I'll tell me dad.]

We played out of our skins that night , deserved winners and one of the best midfield performances I saw in a red & white shirt .... Gordon Cowans,,, absolute class

I think he got carried off injured in next round in snow against Villa. Don't remember seeing him much after that, was that him done?

 

[Tunstall Fred]

I think he got carried off injured in next round in snow against Villa. Don't remember seeing him much after that, was that him done?

Was that the Villa game when Don Hutchinson thought the game would be called off,so on the Friday night over indulged,then much to his drunken horror the game was on,and the Kop pelted Dwight Yorke with snowballs?

 

[Silent Blade]

Was that the Villa game when Don Hutchinson thought the game would be called off,so on the Friday night over indulged,then much to his drunken horror the game was on,and the Kop pelted Dwight Yorke with snowballs?

He over indulged on Saturday night and one of the director's wife spotted him drinking. He was subbed at half time

Most of the snowballs were thrown at the diving cheat Savo Milosevic

 

[I'll tell me dad.]

I remember being angry with Villa, something to do with the penalty award. I'm over it now though. (throws tub of Quality Street at bay window)

 

[1973Blade]

Well done Gary Brazil who managed Forest today against Arsenal. Is he next to Derek Richardson in this photo?

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Well done Gary Brazil who managed Forest today against Arsenal. Is he next to Derek Richardson in this photo?View attachment 35369

No I think that's the lad we got from Man United who had to retire,I think Brazil is far left,front row,next to Paul Garner

 

[BigBed]

Sadly the first season without Umbro, Avec diamond and yellow/purple kit.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Silent Blade was the lad from Man Utd called Steve Paterson?

 

[Silent Blade]

Well done Gary Brazil who managed Forest today against Arsenal. Is he next to Derek Richardson in this photo?View attachment 35369

No I think that's the lad we got from Man United who had to retire,I think Brazil is far left,front row,next to Paul Garner

Correct Fred. Steve Paterson joined us from Man U in summer 1980, the fee being £60,000. Suffered an ankle injury pre-season and then was forced to retire. He later managed Inverness, Aberdeen and Peterhead. Had battles with Alcoholism

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Sid Cowans was brilliant in midfield. Was disappointed that Kendall decided against signing him for the following season

Yes, me too. Kendall essentially filled the gap his departure created with Nigel Spackman, who I thought was poor in every respect in comparison to Cowans.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Interview with Kendall in the run-up to the Villa game has some entertaining snippets from the early Kendall days: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/kendall-relights-the-fire-1326256.html

The Arsenal replay was also notable for the United crowd chanting "ole" as each movement developed more patiently than they had been used to under Dave Bassett's successful-to-a-point stewardship. Most fans of direct teams will defiantly defend their tactics but deep down they prefer the fluency that a sophisticate such as Kendall can bring.

"It started in my first match at Ipswich as a mickey-take, I think," he said. "I played with five across the back because they had been leaking goals for fun and when we started passing it about the travelling fans came up with this. I don't remember ever playing against a Sheffield United side that didn't pass it but they did get labelled with the long-ball tag. When you talk about changing styles, players do that. My first job is to find out if a player is capable of it. I have inherited too many players here and too many of similar standards."

In fact, there were 40 and Kendall set about rebuilding. "I decided not to sit around and let nothing happen. I thought 'let's get in there and shake it up a little'." Bolton's offer of pounds 1.5m for Nathan Blake, to include Mark Patterson in the deal, was too tempting to turn down. It enabled him to sign for pounds 1.2m the gifted but difficult Don Hutchison from West Ham, who "has potential to go further than he has shown so far". In, too, have come the defenders Michel Vonk and Chris Short and have- pass-will-travel Gordon Cowans, now 37.

"I like my teams to have quality in most positions," he said. "They have got to be comfortable with the ball. Most of my training methods are with the ball. I never liked cross-country, but I would play with a ball all day."

In the case of Cowans he made an interesting point. There is a dearth of talent in this country, he agreed, as the result of the trend for direct play during the formative years of young players: it is why old stagers, who learnt when accurate passing was the vogue, are still in demand.

"I think it is starting to change because of the way the top teams are playing again but sometimes it still hard when you go to watch a game in the lower divisions to see whether a player can pass or control the ball with 20 players crammed in the centre circle. I have been to a game where both linesmen had their flags up for offside at the same time."

 

[Sparky]

That was one of the seasons where us John St STH were moved to the BLLT. I had a seat right on the back row behind the goal and that goal was a Beauty!

 

[Rusty view]

Carl Veart.

Diving header at the front post......I think.

 

[mattbianco1]

Found it on Youtube.

Somebody has stolen one of our stands!!

Remember that game, I was sat on the 18 yard line at the back of South Stand. Still goes down in my book as one of, if not THE best performance from a Blades team i've ever seen.

 

[1973Blade]

Somebody has stolen one of our stands!!

Remember that game, I was sat on the 18 yard line at the back of South Stand. Still goes down in my book as one of, if not THE best performance from a Blades team i've ever seen.

I had forgotten how bad it looked as a three sided ground.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

I had forgotten how bad it looked as a three sided ground.

Fred Wests garden,our esteemed former manager called it