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First for me was Burnley in 1993 – the late comeback to draw 2-2. The game had everything: a long-ranger from popular ex-Blade Adrian Heath, a nightmare error by Alan Kelly, a super strike from Hodges, two Adrians red-carded for fighting (Littlejohn, and unpopular ex-Blade villain Heath), and a late Beesley equaliser
Most memorable – sadly probably the 1st Arsenal away game in 1999.
January 1949. We beat New Brighton 5-2. As a 9-year-old I thought this football lark is easy -- until we were relegated that season. [I didn't know at the time that New Brighton were a non-league side].
Thanks for putting me right. I recall that my dad bought me a red and white rosette for that Cup match. I thought it brought the Blades good luck until a run of bad results proved otherwise. I chucked it on the fire at the end of the season.they weren’t non league. They were in division 3 North. They got voted out of the league in 1951.
0-3 at home to Swansea in Jan 2007. 15,000 in, around 6,000 from Swansea. They had a proper day out and took the piss out of our B-team.
I was at that one. If memory serves me well we scored 5 against them previous 3 games.Portsmouth away in January 1971. Went on the train special direct from Sheffield to Fratton. Before the match my dad pointed out Mike Trebilcock to me and explained that he scored twice for Everton in their 3-2 win against Wendy in the 1966 FA Cup final which meant that he is a "hero" to Blades fans. Mike scored Portsmouth's 2nd goal in our 2-0 defeat. I was in tears after the match and my dad tried to explain to me that promotion to the 1st division was more important than a good cup run and he thought that being knocked out of the FA Cup in the 3rd round would increase our promotion chances. He was right. On arriving back in Midland station, news filtered out that 66 fans had died in the Rangers v Celtic match.
That Sunderland match was around the following September.Think that was my first FA Cup game too - sat in the upper tier watching Malcolm McDonald tear us a new arsehole. Just after that, i went to the 3-2 Sunderland victory where Anderson (?) scored for us - didn't it come 2nd in goal of the season?
First for me was Burnley in 1993 – the late comeback to draw 2-2. The game had everything: a long-ranger from popular ex-Blade Adrian Heath, a nightmare error by Alan Kelly, a super strike from Hodges, two Adrians red-carded for fighting (Littlejohn, and unpopular ex-Blade villain Heath), and a late Beesley equaliser
Most memorable – sadly probably the 1st Arsenal away game in 1999.
That Sunderland match was around the following September.
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First for me was Burnley in 1993 – the late comeback to draw 2-2. The game had everything: a long-ranger from popular ex-Blade Adrian Heath, a nightmare error by Alan Kelly, a super strike from Hodges, two Adrians red-carded for fighting (Littlejohn, and unpopular ex-Blade villain Heath), and a late Beesley equaliser
Most memorable – sadly probably the 1st Arsenal away game in 1999.
I think it was actually the League Cup, but nonetheless it was sensational. 0 - 1 down to Weeds heading into injury time, up steps Jags to bang one in from ridiculous range. Just as I've prepared myself for the 90 minutes to end as a draw, The Chief puts his massive arse to great use to send Robinson the wrong way, clearing the way for Nuddy to slot home... Absolute pandemonium ensuesAs it’s FA Cup weekend this discussion came up in the pub last night
My first wasn’t exactly a good memory .. we lost at home to Arsenal 5-0 in the third round of the 77/78 season , think Cec Coldwell ( top bloke ) had been caretaker manager and we’d been on a decent run but came to a juddering halt that day , seem to recall we had another couple of heavy defeats after in league too
As for good memories I think I’ve been blessed as a Blade with quite a few successful cup runs in my time supporting the lads . Victories over Leeds ( twice that season inc league cup ) , Man Utd , Blackburn & Coventry , Aston Villa , QPR & the Hull SF .. but the one for me that ultimately ended up in a narrow defeat was the 1-0 loss to Arsenal at Old Trafford. For once as a team at the time we actually turned up for a big event and gave the best team in the country a hell of a game and except for one famous save who knows what could have been the outcome
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As it’s FA Cup weekend this discussion came up in the pub last night
My first wasn’t exactly a good memory .. we lost at home to Arsenal 5-0 in the third round of the 77/78 season , think Cec Coldwell ( top bloke ) had been caretaker manager and we’d been on a decent run but came to a juddering halt that day , seem to recall we had another couple of heavy defeats after in league too
As for good memories I think I’ve been blessed as a Blade with quite a few successful cup runs in my time supporting the lads . Victories over Leeds ( twice that season inc league cup ) , Man Utd , Blackburn & Coventry , Aston Villa , QPR & the Hull SF .. but the one for me that ultimately ended up in a narrow defeat was the 1-0 loss to Arsenal at Old Trafford. For once as a team at the time we actually turned up for a big event and gave the best team in the country a hell of a game and except for one famous save who knows what could have been the outcome
UTB
I think it was actually the League Cup, but nonetheless it was sensational. 0 - 1 down to Weeds heading into injury time, up steps Jags to bang one in from ridiculous range. Just as I've prepared myself for the 90 minutes to end as a draw, The Chief puts his massive arse to great use to send Robinson the wrong way, clearing the way for Nuddy to slot home... Absolute pandemonium ensues![]()
Then in March, the Kabba goal sunk Leeds again in FA cup.I think it was actually the League Cup, but nonetheless it was sensational. 0 - 1 down to Weeds heading into injury time, up steps Jags to bang one in from ridiculous range. Just as I've prepared myself for the 90 minutes to end as a draw, The Chief puts his massive arse to great use to send Robinson the wrong way, clearing the way for Nuddy to slot home... Absolute pandemonium ensues![]()
Heath only began playing for United around 1995 surely?
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