Your most influential decade as a Blade

[Suomi_Blade]

90's for me, fondest memories and favourite players from that era, also the first game I attended with my dad at the grand old age of 12

 

[Fulwood Blade]

that team eh?? reight team.. even the kit is a masterpiece

it was indeed - you should qualify for a trillion likes for that

UTB

 

[Cerberus Blade]

70’s was my era too. It was a coming of age for me as a teenager, youth clubs turned into night clubs, girls turned from objects of ridicule to objects of desire, my Timpson’s footy boots turned into Adidas and Puma, and Sheffield United turned into one of the best teams in the country.

Lynne Anderson let me explore her rose garden too!

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

Bloody hell GCB I was rooering me eyes out at that. I could hear the music from Simon Bates's theme from 'our tune' in me head while I was reading it. (That will be lost on anyone younger than mid 50's).

So just for you play this and read it and weep.



Oh, and for the record......

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"Our tune' Kinell B56, that brought back some memories.
I daren't even play the theme. Not with people around anyway!

Good thread, this.

I've been watching the Blades for 56 years and - like life - you've got to take the good with the bad. United first broke my heart when they got relegated on the last day of the season in 1968. I sat on the kop steps, cried and thought that nothing could ever disappoint me as much. But then I discovered women...

Many ups (and many more downs), United - like music - have been not just been the soundtrack of my youth, but the soundtrack of my life. Don't misunderstand me, I've travelled extensively and crammed in several lifetimes but there's just something about football. And United. Can anything possibly match that last day of the season at Leicester? Well, I still well up when I think of the celebrations after we beat Chesterfield to get promotion a couple of years ago.

United still retain the ability to amaze and delight me. I was talking to a guy just this lunchtime who told me that Proove restaurant in Broomhill took their pizza oven down to BDTBL last Tuesday to cook pizzas for (among others) the Milan players, and the Milan team said they were 'the best pizzas they'd ever tasted'. There's a certain class about United that will never be matched by the pigs.

Here's to the next 20 years...

Great stuff Graf

 

[wizadry]

Don’t know if you can read this but Silent is spit on - as always!

Magic

That’s a disgusting habit, he doesn’t deserve that.

 

[Silent Blade]

I remember going to Goodison Park to see us beat Everton in the FA Cup third round. They were the Champions, and we were in the top two of Division 2. That wasn`t in the seventies though, it was 1961.

Burnley were the champions in 1960. Everton were the champions in 1963

 

[Russ]

90's for me, fondest memories and favourite players from that era, also the first game I attended with my dad at the grand old age of 12

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I don’t think they’ve got the goal scorer minutes correct - they weren’t all scored in the 45th minute.

Shame that Gannon took (and missed) that penalty at the Bramall Lane end instead of letting Sir Bob take it for his hat-trick.

 

[ucandomagic]

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Don’t know if you can read this but Silent is spit on - as always!

Magic

That’s a disgusting habit, he doesn’t deserve that.

Whoops - sorry Silent - don’t know how Diouf or Carragher sneaked in there!

 

[HighfieldBlade]

1970s

 

[JJ Sefton]

I can't really do it by decade. I started going in 1988 so my formative years were under Bassett, up to 1995. Thats the era that made me the Unitedite I am, as it was John Harris for my dad.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I can't really do it by decade. I started going in 1988 so my formative years were under Bassett, up to 1995. Thats the era that made me the Unitedite I am, as it was John Harris for my dad.

It's interesting that you make reference to the managers of the day in both cases. I think the managers dictate the era don't they? Whether good or bad.

The good era's were under Harris, Bassett, Warnock and now Wilder. That's not to say that there weren't bad times as well, but generally speaking, these 4 managers gave us some very good times.

I wonder what we'll say about Wilder when we look back in a few years time (by which time I expect he'll have moved on to bigger and better things?).

 

[SwitchBLADE Smiles]

I've been watching United since the mid nineties, however being only 3 by the time 1990 arrived I don't remember a great deal of it. The first time I remember being properly 'hooked' was THAT play off game against the Dirties in the old Worthington Cup. Phenomenal. Cemented in place shortly afterwards after THAT game against Forest in the play offs.

 

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

Burnley were the champions in 1960. Everton were the champions in 1963

Of course. Thanks for that.