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Post by hagan on Aug 19, 2011 17:23:37 GMT
A curiousity, in one of their crimenovels of the mid 70's authors Gordon Williams and Terry Venables ( yes el tel) private eye Hazel is outside Wembley investigating and listening to Blades fans cheering and celebrating after beating West Ham 3-0 in the fa cup final.
Venables was still a QPR player, and obiously impressed with the bladesteam of the early 70's.
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Post by davidpowell on Aug 19, 2011 18:16:55 GMT
Was privileged enough to have seen them and remember the good times. Since Bassett, apart from half a season a piece from Spackers and Kendall, it's been nothing but anti- football. Bassett escapes any criticism because he had buttons to spend, and restored some pride back in the club. The rest of can go rot in hell.
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Post by fred emney on Aug 19, 2011 21:50:07 GMT
Aye it were grand early seventies, super football, super team, the only real problem was a lack of depth, any injuries & it was to the likes of Alan Ogden, Ian Holmes, Steve Goulding etc.
But the memories of TC, Woody, Billy, Sammy, Trev etc. were immense, enough to see you thru the drab cold winters evening of Blackwell`s attritional football torture.
Nice to hear we won the cup in `74 though, missed that`un!!. All quite believable apart from the scoreline... surely we`d have put 5 past the cheating hammers???.
Lord Dave`s team was , as Dave said the only one to match it, they gave me loads of good memories too, the game was direct but the team (unlike Blackie`s) was littered with skilful players like Deano, Agana, Headbutt Hodges, Jock Bryson, Gannon, etc. plus every player from Bradders to Beesley could cross a mean sharp ball into the box, non of these floaty trevor brooking tart balls into the goalies hands for us.
Good old Venables, he has gone up in my estimation.
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Post by hagan on Aug 20, 2011 9:00:40 GMT
Football in the 70' was all so different, most teams in divie one bought players from lower divisions , loosing 10 games of 42 was not unusual for the leaguewinners, everyone could beat anyone , and they did. Players stayed in unchanged lineups week in week out.
Most teams had their Gouldings and Ogdens, but also the occasional Cammack. A first team and a second team, very bad academys and training facilities,one sub and rarely any injuries(but for a broken leg-otherwise you played). Many players had sidejobs, and the flash players drove orange Capri's(LB), TC drove a Toyota.
Crowds were standing, toilets were stinking,fighting in the streets,no replica shirts(clubs didn't sell them) mostly scarves.
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Post by macdeblade on Aug 23, 2011 15:25:17 GMT
22 March 1975
Sheff utd 3 - West Ham 2
Managers
Ken Furphy - John Lyall
Jim Brown........ 1... Mervyn Day
Len Badger........ 2.... Keith Coleman
David Bradford... 3.....Frank Lampard
Keith Eddy......... 4.... John McDowell
Eddie Colquhoun 5... Tommy Taylor
John Flynn.......... 6.... Kevin Lock
Alan Woodward... 7... Billy Jennings
Mark Speight...... 8.... Graham Paddon
Steve Cammack.. 9.... Alan Taylor
Tony Currie .......10.... Trevor Brooking
Tony Fields .......11..... Bobby Gould
Currie 9,79, Woodward 57.... Scorers.... Gould 8, Jennings 29
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Post by fred emney on Aug 23, 2011 22:26:50 GMT
Decent side that, complete with the quality goal from the quality player!. Not sure the hammeroids were quite as strong as they were in 1972 when with Bobby Moore in his prime, Billy Dearden put 3 passed `em.
Why in my memory is the sun always shining in these halcyon days of long ago??.... even in the november night game (it were raining too!!) when we put 7 in ipswich`s net without reply??... must have been the glow of supporting the Red & white wizards!!
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