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Happy 125th Birthday Sheffield United 22/3/2014


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(Getting Up early for Donny - for tomorrow!)

 

125 Years in Our Shadow  #OLDERBIGGERBETTER

 

Give them credit – the Blunts have done well getting this far.  Lovely Fans that they have :

 

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A Football club formed by Sheffield United Cricket Club – to raise much needed revenue BECAUSE The Famous Old Wednesday Club had developed, and moved to,  Olive Grove after decades of playing and SUCC creaming off  income from important matches at Bramall Lane.

 

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Without them life would have been SO dull.  The likes of Sheffield FC & Heeley FC just didn’t do it.

 

They could even come up with original Nickname – Wednesday had been called The Blades for years – with a lack of imagination they couldn’t come up with anything original and for years were known as the “Junior” Blades acknowledging their status as Wednesday’s upstart noisy neighbours.

 

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As it turned out they could not even get going without stealing a number of Wednesday players.

 

William Mosforth

 

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We all know THEY are the Pigs acknowledged in one other THEIR programmes from the 1960s

 

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But we must be thankful.  Without Sheffield’s Bottlers  we wouldn’t have enjoyed some rare old battles during the years

 

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1949/50

 

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Carlton puts them straight :

 

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Boxing Day 1979

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2344IwjPtws

 

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The return match in 1980 with Curran’s wonder goal :

 

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The FA Cup Semi Final & Waddle’s utterly amazing free kick :

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AjUM06dBwM

 

The wonderful 1990 Derby Double :

 

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Not forgetting Wednesday’s 2012 Promotion season - #MINDTHE GAP

 

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How many points ahead and games in hand??????????????

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1LiDWFQrGA

 

Not forgetting the contribution made by our Danny Boy!

 

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Heres to another 125 !

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Guest domSWFC

Love having majority ownership of the city with them in it. Credit to them, wouldn't be the club we are without them. Makes us look even more massive than we are when we are next to them. 

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I love how they're making a big deal about their 125th birthday, just as they did 5 years ago for their 120th birthday and as I'm sure they will in 5 years time for their 130th birthday.

You never see the big clubs doing this sort of thing for such nothing anniversaries, but then the pigs are a small club who wish they were a big club.

That's why they have to repeatedly tell everyone how old they are, how old their ground is, how the rules of football were written a "stones throw" away from it and this is why they felt the need to hijack Sheffield FC's birthday.

They say we live in the past but unlike them, we don't have to repeatedly ram our past down other clubs throats through fear they might forget it.

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I love how they're making a big deal about their 125th birthday, just as they did 5 years ago for their 120th birthday and as I'm sure they will in 5 years time for their 130th birthday.

You never see the big clubs doing this sort of thing for such nothing anniversaries, but then the pigs are a small club who wish they were a big club.

That's why they have to repeatedly tell everyone how old they are, how old their ground is, how the rules of football were written a "stones throw" away from it and this is why they felt the need to hijack Sheffield FC's birthday.

They say we live in the past but unlike them, we don't have to repeatedly ram our past down other clubs throats through fear they might forget it.

Well said

Everything about Sheffield united is small time

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They were our Junior Blades for their first 36 years. The last 89 years have been spent in our shadow !

 

Never in the entire history of the game has one tin of 'Duraglit' been made to last 125 years that's what makes Uniteds story all the more unique !

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Don't forget that time when they complained to the Houses of Parliament about their relegation and then subsequently sued -

 

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And when they went to court when Hillsborough was chosen as a potential London 2018 venue over Bramall Lane - http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/mar/11/sheffield-united-wednesday-hillsborough-bramall-lane

 

And this "cracker" -

 

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Guest mkowl

Kicking off at 1.25.

Surely that should have been 19.25 to celebrate the last time they did owt

Venue Hillsborough Park because at that time would be in shadow of their superior neighbour

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Kicking off at 1.25.

Surely that should have been 19.25 to celebrate the last time they did owt

Venue Hillsborough Park because at that time would be in shadow of their superior neighbour

Love that 19.25 Kick off time!!!!!

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