Snow nostalgia - who remembers this game? (2 Viewers)
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Sky_Blues_Talk
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Wow, that brings back memories, good times and my favourite home kit ever.
Sumo the Micky Quinn
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What about this one...
March 7th 1987
March 7th 1987
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fernandopartridge
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Funny that, the crowd for that game in total was probably less than the 15K who went to Sheffield for the quarter final what a week or two later?
Edit: 12878 gate on 7th March. 48005 gate on 14th March of which 15K were City! In fairness the weather probably had a big part to play...
Sky_Blues_Talk
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Back in the day when you could buy the kit from Earlsdon Sports Supplies. Remember that like it was yesterday. My 10th birthday and i was buzzing, feel sorry for the young fans these days who have always had to watch a club in free fall and never the games like the blackburn one. Lets hope this consortium story has legs.. PUSB
bringbackrattles
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Seen some great games in wintry conditions. Floodlights on in the afternoon,orange ball,Soupy Sam selling hot drinks,and piles of snow on the side of the pitch. But for older fans remember Ian StJohn playing for Liverpool at Highfield Road and knocking out Brian Lewis with a left hook ? My dad said it was the best punch he'd seen at a game !
no_loyalty
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Not looked at the vid, but was this the 5-0 City win when big Cris Whyte made his City debut?
eastwoodsdustman
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That was the game where Emmerson's career was effectively done by that prick Megson.
eastwoodsdustman
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I remember taking my younger cousin who was about 6 at the time to this one. We were bottom or very near the bottom at the time and just battered them. It stopped him even thinking about Man U or Liverpool as the team to support.
ovduk78
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Lars Bohinen was taken off cause he couldn't see the orange ball, I think he was later diagnosed as being colour blind
albatross
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remember that
hutch1972
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On loan I believe! I think it was his only game as well.
eastwoodsdustman
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I have that trouble with the orange one. God knows how I manage to play cricket. An Aussie cricketer can't play day night test matches as they use a pink ball which he can't see.
duffer
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Bugger me - that's why I'm useless at cricket (despite really enjoying playing). I'm slightly colour blind. I always thought it was 'cos I have sod-all coordination and don't much like getting hit by the ball.
Joy Division
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I went to the AFC Wimbledon away game in the FA cup a few years ago and could barely see that pink ball they used.
Sky Blue Dal
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Wow... great memories.
I went to that game, sat in the West Stand. Bloody freezing I could not feel my feet.
Thanks!!
clint van damme
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the coldest I have ever been at a football game. Snow blowing straight into the west end and if you didn't move it settled on you. Never forgive that horrible c**t megson for what he did that day.
bawtryneal
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Great memories and seems like yesterday.
Made me smile with all the negative comments on the other thread about Marcus Hall. Couple of great crosses which lead to goals.
Made me smile with all the negative comments on the other thread about Marcus Hall. Couple of great crosses which lead to goals.
skybluedan
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Hahaha peter ndlovu, was just thinking about him because yesterday my mate who lives in cape town and works at this backpackers hostel sent me a pic of him and nuddy from a couple of days ago and said he was with some woman and the local who works there said it was one of his women Hahahahahahah. Good old nuddy
skybluedan
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I really liked Marcus hall and could do with him now
skybluedan
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Was he the guy who had some hair missing wierdly
Skybluefaz
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It was more of a skin pigmentation thing. I don't think one player has left such a big impression on me in one game as he did that day. He was terrific.
skybluedan
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He was quality at one point weren't he , just seemed to win everything in the air
Ranjit Bhurpa
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I can remember a game at HR v Sheff Utd being abandoned due to snow with them leading 2-0 well into the game. Think we managed to win the re-arranged game 3-2 :happy:
shmmeee
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God I remember that like it was yesterday. Blackburn were champions at the time weren't they?
We'd been on an awful run of form and my Dad, who took me to the games, decided he'd had enough was going to go Christmas shopping. He told Bryan Richardson this before the game and Richardson said "the form we are on, if we win I'll buy your Christmas shopping every week" or something along those lines.
Took my Blackburn supporting mate and the rest is history. Richardson never did buy our shopping
Irish Sky Blue
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I remember that. It was the season Noel Cantwell was sacked. When we played Blades again Bob Dennisson was caretaker manager.
Happy_Martian
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Richardson never did buy our shopping
Did you ever expect any different from Richardson ?
And just to be reminded of Highfield Road, only 13 thousand there that day but the atmosphere was far more electric that anything the Ricoh can hope to generate.
Ranjit Bhurpa
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Bloody hell good memory. We were terrible in the first game but I didn't go when we played them again. Wasn't Dennison unbeaten in 6 or 7 games as caretaker?
Mcbean
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I guess nowadays that game in the snow would'nt be played - maybe the new type pitches would never get that way - but probably be cancelled due to health and safety - PC bollox - was at the Blackburn game - a team of characters - the sheffield kit in the second clip looked a bit the same as ours !
robbieray
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Was thereGod I remember that like it was yesterday. Blackburn were champions at the time weren't they?
We'd been on an awful run of form and my Dad, who took me to the games, decided he'd had enough was going to go Christmas shopping. He told Bryan Richardson this before the game and Richardson said "the form we are on, if we win I'll buy your Christmas shopping every week" or something along those lines.
Took my Blackburn supporting mate and the rest is history. Richardson never did buy our shopping
shmmeee
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Did you ever expect any different from Richardson ?
And just to be reminded of Highfield Road, only 13 thousand there that day but the atmosphere was far more electric that anything the Ricoh can hope to generate.
I expected him to at least get a rich businessman to buy our gifts and later take the profit when we returned them.
Irish Sky Blue
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I do remember the replayed game was a midweek night in the spring with the weather a complete contrast to that when the first game was abandoned. I also remember United had a good team with players like Tony Currie and Len Badger playing for them. I can't remember Dennisson's record but I do know that the " M. Men,Mercer and Milne came in in the close season and the football became as exciting under them as it had been dour under Cantwell.