Where does Billy Sharp rank?

[MojoMuffin]

How many Blades/ex Blades have played professionally into their 40s?

Grbic will take some beating. 77 years old and blind.

 

[Silent Blade]

How many Blades/ex Blades have played professionally into their 40s?

The oldest ever player to have played for us, Albert Sturgess, was 40 years old when he joined Norwich in 1923 and played 47 times for them. He was 42 when he retired from playing.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

The oldest ever player to have played for us, Albert Sturgess, was 40 years old when he joined Norwich in 1923 and played 47 times for them. He was 42 when he retired from playing.

Was he older than Gary Speed when he played his last match for us?

 

[Silent Blade]

Was he older than Gary Speed when he played his last match for us?

Yes

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Yes

Yes, I think you're right.

Speed might have been older if he'd played in the 2009-10 season but he never did.

 

[Silent Blade]

Yes, I think you're right.

Speed might have been older if he'd played in the 2009-10 season but he never did.

Albert Sturgess played in 9 league matches when he was 40, Billy Gillespie did just once.

Stuart McCall didnt play in any league games when he was 40 but he did start in one League Cup match (v Wrexham) and came on as sub v Stockport.

 

[LBA_Blade]

He did score 6 but two of them were penalties.

Against Fulham and Newcastle in 2020-21.

The latter was his 100th league goal for us.

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The only time VAR was kind to us!

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

The only time VAR was kind to us!

What about the McBurnie equaliser against Man Utd, the Tottenham goal when it hit Harry Kane's hand and the Snodgrass disallowed goal for West Ham?

 

[LBA_Blade]

What about the McBurnie equaliser against Man Utd, the Tottenham goal when it hit Harry Kane's hand and the Snodgrass disallowed goal for West Ham?

Blades tinted specs on today!

 

[DifferentClass]

What about the McBurnie equaliser against Man Utd, the Tottenham goal when it hit Harry Kane's hand and the Snodgrass disallowed goal for West Ham?

That Snodgrass "goyal" being disallowed was fucking hilarious, the neyt Neil Peart died IIRC.

 

[sufc323]

Happy 40th Bill.

Speed and McCall seemed ancient when they were playing in their late 30's, but to me Billy is still a spring chicken. I know his game isn't about running around in the middle of the park for 90 minutes, but credit to him for being able to play professional football into his 40's.

 

[jimmymuir]

Our greatest player in my lifetime. What a captain he was. He brought as much off the pitch, as he did on it.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

That Snodgrass "goyal" being disallowed was fucking hilarious, the neyt Neil Peart died IIRC.

It was; I heard the news whilst in the vicinity of Bramall Lane. That was also when I was on crutches so I had to sit in the special seats at the front of the South Stand right next to the away fans; I made the crutches into a giant v-sign which I then took great delight in waving at the West Ham fans. They loved it (of course).

 

[programmechap]

What about the McBurnie equaliser against Man Utd, the Tottenham goal when it hit Harry Kane's hand and the Snodgrass disallowed goal for West Ham?

Ditto the last minutee pen we got v Wolves in 2023.