Your memories going to BDTBL when a kid

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any one else remember Trevor Hockeys velour covered car , hillman I believe, remember seeing him extracate himself from it in a velour suit with the round lapels and flares, one cool brother
 

cahill said:
Silent can you get the Wendy v Blades match 2-2 draw anywhere ? One of only 2 matches my father took me to see.
He died in 1992.
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Sept '66 at Hillsborough was the first time Bert saw the Blades play.
 
Bramall Lane in 1868...

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CarlingBlade said:
I live slightly closer to bishops house at the bottom of Warminster Rd, the house wouldn't have been here when you lived up this way.

2 kids now, a 4yr old boy and 2 yr old girl, she's a hand full even at that age :)
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Must have been built on the rhs going up from Bishops house.They used to be allotments.
Enjoy the kids,they soon grow up.
UTB
 
More random memories as a kid,down at the Lane..That Pavillion picture WB put up,reminds me of the bloke coming out with the score cards and fumbling about with the numbers.I have vague memories of him putting up the H/T score for the Wendy game,and purposely put the score to look like Wendy were winning,which was met with a few groans...only to change it around to show they were Infact losing,and then cheers and laughter from the crowd.
Does anyone remember the terraced houses behind the Lane End...you could see them from the Kop..running along from behind the BL stand upto the Railway pub.In the early '70's a lot of them were boarded up,so I had a crackpot 11 year old boy idea,of setting off on foot to the Lane one night with a mate,with the idea of breaking in to one of the boarded up houses and watching the game for free from one an upstairs window...the idea was aborted about a mile or two in..as it was getting dark,and it was a stupid idea anyway.
Anyone remember the old club shop on John Street...I persuaded my Dad to walk round from the Kop so I could buy a new scarf( the one with the thinner white stripes and the thin black stripe through it)..we'd played Spurs and just as we arrived at the door...it all kicked off on John Street..Me,my Brother and my Dad were trying to get in the shop to get out of the way,while the shopkeeper was trying to bolt the door..We laughed about it afterwards but it was a bit scary at the time.
Other memories..Remember goal celebrations were often just shaking hands with the scorer while running back to their own half..United's ball boys with the maroon track suit tops..Marching bands at H/T..My Dad singling out one of the Opposition players and telling me to watch him..he's a good player.Players like Worthington,Latchford,MacDonald,Peters,Greaves..Bobby Woodruff was another for Palace with his long throws.I'll shut up now..rambling on a bit.Great times back in the days when you didn't have a care in the world,and United was all you really cared about.UTB!
 
Silent Blade said:
See link below for list of matches on tv between 1955 and 1968. The list has increassed since the last time I looked at it. Maybe contacting the webmaster is worth a try?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/ITV/ITVfootball55-68.html

The link below is a list of matches on YTV since 1968. When I last asked YTV (about 10 yearss ago) about obtaining footage of matches, they said it would cost a lot so I decided to leave it

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/YTVfootball.html
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I'd kill to see some of those games from the late sixties and early seventies.

The FA Cup win against Everton was a great game. The home game against Luton in the promotion season saw the home debuts of Hope and Hockey and featured a great performance by Eddie Colquhoun up against Malcolm MacDonald. The 2-2 draw with Spurs in 1971 was a classic as was the 1-1 draw against Liverpool in which our goal was a bullet from TC. Another great goal was one scored by Alan Woodward in the 3-0 win over Derby in 1973. If I remember correctly, he exchanged passes with someone (Currie?) on the edge of the box before chesting it down and blasting home in-off the far post at the Kop end.

If any of this footage still exists there must be a market for it, surely?

By the way, I was right about the 1966 Leeds game, SB.
 

Blade58 said:
My first memory as a lad in my first couple of seasons was standing on John St, walking down to the front and grabbing hold of the railings whilst standing on the wall. Then waiting for the copper to walk past, telling us all to get down and then when he'd walked past, we all climbed back up again. Repeat 47 times!
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Exactly what we used to do - one of the coppers was probably my mates' Dad. He used to take us to the games - we always had to get there really early so normally stood right next to the players' tunnel.
Seem to remember my first game being a 0-2 defeat by Burnley - 1973?
 
I started going (fairly) regularly around '64/'65 and started going on the John Street terrace. Around 1965 I saw my first 'real' away supporters. About 20 of them from Stoke and they looked from another planet! Carrying a couple of huge red and white striped flags nailed to (look away now, H & S) lengths of four bi two. They were all loppy with long hair, 'greebos' we called them.

Around that time Luton brought a couple of dozen and they were a different species. Better dressed, they sang a song to the tune of Old MacDonald's Farm and used a word I was hearing for the very first time... 'wiv a waynk here, a waynk there...'

Football hooliganism was just beginning in earnest then, so naturally I started going on the kop ;). Scenes that were quite unbelievable to the modern fan were totally routine. The dress code back then (apart from Doc Martins) was either a white lab coat or a shortish tan tunic bought from Wakefields Army Stores on The Moor. The back of these were always 'decorated' with felt tip and bore Shakespearean verse such as 'Shoreham Aggro', 'SRA' (Shoreham Republican Army) etc.

Dozens of home made banners were made up from old bedsheets and held aloft with the aforementioned lengths of 4 x 2 (later, as hooliganism escalated and it was the done thing for the away team to try to 'take' the home teams turf, razor blades were embedded in these posts.)

Songs designed to provoke the police (esp. 'Harry Roberts is our Friend') were sung - the latter used to send the cops into a mighty rage. A couple - or maybe even just one - would charge into the kop from the back and all hell let loose. The first thing you'd see was a couple of coppers' helmets fly into the air followed a few minutes later by the cop/cops returning, having grabbed some unfortunate who just happened to catch their eye. Without fail, the cops' uniforms would be absolutely covered in spit.

I'll wind up with a reminisce about when the away fans, at half time, used to walk around to the kop via the pavilion with the sole intent of infiltrating the kop and causing as much mayhem as possible. This went on unopposed for ages until some bright spark thought it might be a good idea to prevent this half-time exodus. One I particularly remember was when around a hundred Wolves fans, all dressed absolutely identically in crop haircuts, Crombies (with a double-folded hankie in their club colours protruding from the breast pocket, skinny jeans (often faded) and DMs came strutting en masse in our direction. Fuck me! It looked exactly like a moving Lowry painting! (and they still dress like that!)

More later - Jack Archer Sports Shop, the old furniture van that was used to carry YTVs equipment (unbelievable!), when you could pay to buy a video of the 'highlights' of a single game, complete with utterly embarrassing commentary. Toodle pip!
 
Dnblade said:
More random memories as a kid,down at the Lane..That Pavillion picture WB put up,reminds me of the bloke coming out with the score cards and fumbling about with the numbers.I have vague memories of him putting up the H/T score for the Wendy game,and purposely put the score to look like Wendy were winning,which was met with a few groans...only to change it around to show they were Infact losing,and then cheers and laughter from the crowd.
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Remember the bloke very well. It was the same elderly man with short grey hair and glasses. He would be at reserves games too updating the score for our 1st team away match. Anyone know his name? I was watching our reserves match on the day our 1st team played at QPR in March 1971. In the first half he put up the score cards that QPR were winning. Then in the 2nd half he changed it as 2-0 to QPR. At the final whistle in the reserves match, it was still 2-0 to QPR and most of the spectators accepted that we had lost at QPR (5 days after we lost 2-1 at home to Hull in the Battle of BL) so we went through the gangways of the old JSS. My dad and I were already on the John Street pavement when there were shouting and confusion which made us turn round towards the gangway and I remember a tall man in the gangway putting his both arms up and indicating that the final score is 2-2, the fans rushed back to the JS terraces and were delighted to see the 2-2 score in the Pavillion. we had scored both goals (Woody and Hemsley pen) in the final two minutes!
 
Can you remember the Unitedite who lived near the bottom of Carterknowle who walked to every home game and stood on the Lane end , he had a really prominent birthmark covering over half his face. And David the policeman who worked on the Lane end and bullied away fans. His regular beat was Ecclesall Rd .
 
Silent Blade said:
Remember the bloke very well. It was the same elderly man with short grey hair and glasses. He would be at reserves games too updating the score for our 1st team away match. Anyone know his name? I was watching our reserves match on the day our 1st team played at QPR in March 1971. In the first half he put up the score cards that QPR were winning. Then in the 2nd half he changed it as 2-0 to QPR. At the final whistle in the reserves match, it was still 2-0 to QPR and most of the spectators accepted that we had lost at QPR (5 days after we lost 2-1 at home to Hull in the Battle of BL) so we went through the gangways of the old JSS. My dad and I were already on the John Street pavement when there were shouting and confusion which made us turn round towards the gangway and I remember a tall man in the gangway putting his both arms up and indicating that the final score is 2-2, the fans rushed back to the JS terraces and were delighted to see the 2-2 score in the Pavillion. we had scored both goals (Woody and Hemsley pen) in the final two minutes!
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I'm sure John Garrett may be able to help with the names.
 
Shalalalafenoughty said:
I'd kill to see some of those games from the late sixties and early seventies.

The FA Cup win against Everton was a great game. The home game against Luton in the promotion season saw the home debuts of Hope and Hockey and featured a great performance by Eddie Colquhoun up against Malcolm MacDonald. The 2-2 draw with Spurs in 1971 was a classic as was the 1-1 draw against Liverpool in which our goal was a bullet from TC. Another great goal was one scored by Alan Woodward in the 3-0 win over Derby in 1973. If I remember correctly, he exchanged passes with someone (Currie?) on the edge of the box before chesting it down and blasting home in-off the far post at the Kop end.

If any of this footage still exists there must be a market for it, surely?

By the way, I was right about the 1966 Leeds game, SB.
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Yes, you were right about the 1966 L**ds game. Also I notice that our 2-2 draw at Coventry in Aug 1967 and the Sheffield derby 1-0 defeat (John Ritchie scored) in Sept 67 were televised too. I became a committed Blade after watching the Everton game on YTV. Not long before that Luton game in Feb 71 Malcolm MacDonald had been boasting in a Sunday paper that it was easy for him to score in the 2nd division because the centre backs are not good enough. Our Eddie (not many CBs had his pace) had SuperMac in his pocket in that 2-1 win and at the end of the game, Eddie walked towards the desolate SuperMac and slow handclapped at him in a sarcastic way! Brilliant! Walthy mentioned the YTV video (produced in 1993) and you should be able to get one somewhere (maybe ebay?)
 
Silent Blade said:
Yes, you were right about the 1966 L**ds game. Also I notice that our 2-2 draw at Coventry in Aug 1967 and the Sheffield derby 1-0 defeat (John Ritchie scored) in Sept 67 were televised too. I became a committed Blade after watching the Everton game on YTV. Not long before that Luton game in Feb 71 Malcolm MacDonald had been boasting in a Sunday paper that it was easy for him to score in the 2nd division because the centre backs are not good enough. Our Eddie (not many CBs had his pace) had SuperMac in his pocket in that 2-1 win and at the end of the game, Eddie walked towards the desolate SuperMac and slow handclapped at him in a sarcastic way! Brilliant! Walthy mentioned the YTV video (produced in 1993) and you should be able to get one somewhere (maybe ebay?)
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I have the YTV video and if someone can convert it to DVD and take a copy for themselves, they should feel free to PM me.
 
My earliest memory of Bramall Lane was probably about 4 or 5 years old, driving past in a car! I didn't get into football until I left Sheffield in 1964 and my first game at BDTBL was in 1970 when I went with my grandfather to see the opening game of the season against Swindon Town on 22nd August.

My dad had recently been killed in an explosion and so I came to stay for a few weeks in the summer up from the Isle of Wight with my mum's parents where I used to live in Crimicar Lane.

My late Grandfather was strict but had a great dry sense of humour and before that game he disappeared into the garage before we caught the 60 bus into town and brought out a hatchet and a toilet roll! What a laugh. Hooliganism was rife then and it was his way of taking the mick. He had a tendency to support Wednesday but not particulatrly avidly, he was born in late 1901 and spent much of his life in the Prison service. His family came from Acorn Street, but later relatives moved out Owlerton way so that explains it.

Anyway we took our seats in the John Street stand and Don Rogers scored for Swindon IIRC but we won 2-1 so that was great. My next game was a tad boring 0-0 against Norwich but in the meantime I saw my local game at Fratton Park and we won 5-1. Happy days. A big Woodward fan ever since. I idolised that guy.

The thing I miss most about BDTBL is the floodlight towers. I wish they could have stayed. Always remember leaving Sheffield on the way south by train (particularly later when at Newcastle Poly) and you could see the floodlights. I always got I buzz from SUFC. A real love affair.

Yes I whinge and bitch they they are not good enough at times, but that is because I care with a passion. I wan't my (our) club to succeed once in a while and I think they are the most underperforming club in England. Anyway it doesnt take away the feeling of excitement going to a game at BL which for me being an exile is extra special.

UTB
 
Being a young Blade, many of the memories you talk about were before I was born. In fact, I only started going in the 2005 promotion season and that was such a false introduction into the life of a Blade. We won most weeks, often comprehensively beating teams. The season wasn't short of drama of course..when are they ever? One of my fondest memories had to be the 3-2 game against Hull which more or less guaranteed us promotion. Being 2-0 up and seemingly heading for another comfortable victory only to be pegged back. I still remember Unsworth finishing right under the Kop and the scenes that followed. The premier league season was a great season in terms of the atmosphere around the place. Often standing on my seat just in order to see and I can't quite describe the feeling and noise around the Lane when Nade scored against Arsenal. We somehow managed to then lose from an almost impossible situation against Wigan and the walk back to the car, piss wet through, emotionless, not speaking a word the whole way home. It's been a downward plunge in terms of United since..
 
Silent Blade said:
That is Norwich's equaliser in the 1959 FA Cup match. Their keeper, Nethercott stayed in goal after dislocating his shoulder when coming out to block Willie Hamilton's chance. Nethercott never played professional football again after this match as his injury couldnt be corrected properly
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It's on here SB..Billy Russell equalised at the Lane,then went down 3-2 at Carrow Road..Doc Pace and Gerry Summers with the goals.

http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/213539
 
Bladeforlife said:
The premier league season was a great season in terms of the atmosphere around the place. Often standing on my seat just in order to see and I can't quite describe the feeling and noise around the Lane when Nade scored against Arsenal.
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For all that there is to hate about the PL (and that's a hell of a lot), the sheer atmosphere and excitement still can't be matched. Just thinking about the noise from the crowd during injury time against Arsenal gives me goosebumps.
 
I wonder how many Blades on here can recall the team changes being shown on a board carried round the ground before the start of the match with the transport band playing by the tunnel on John Street.
Programme was a single sheet and no loud speakers.Kicked off at 2.00pm in winter.
UTB
 
Bladeforlife said:
Being a young Blade, many of the memories you talk about were before I was born. In fact, I only started going in the 2005 promotion season and that was such a false introduction into the life of a Blade.
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Ha, same here. I started supporting United as they went up from the third to the second and saw them go up to the first the following season. Sometime in the summer of 1990 I remember thinking to myself "This team can't ever lose".

You live and learn.
 

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