Orlando_Trustful Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Just another classic Pig trait that they portray. I also find it hilarious that they sign 'Hark Now Hear' and mention the Boxing Day Massacre in their own song. I wonder if they will change the words to the 'Bouncing Day Massacre' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ash60s Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 so in essence, Blades are offal full of woffle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennz Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 10 hours ago, Ibbo48 said: This and zzmdu are both right. At some point in the 70/80s some of our fans started calling them Pigs. I’d never heard the term used before this time. Incredibly a short while after this some Unitedites decided to use it in reference to us though there was no logic in it at all. This fits with my experience of it.....late 1972 was when I first heard it, I left school in 72 & had never heard the term from either set of fans all through my school life & I had plenty of mates who were Blades...of course that doesn't mean it was never used anywhere, just that I'd never heard it.........wouldn't have a clue who called it who first though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiejohn Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Again only my experience and not being from Sheffield maybe slightly different but I remember us referring to them as pigs around the jack charlton promotion season I called all united fans I knew pigs they usually replied with Wednesday poopydoo or suchlike but lo and behold a few years later they replied with the pig name. They are a strange set of fans to who originality is a stranger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibbo48 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Yep on reflection it was in the 70s but some time after the BDM. It was definitely started by us and I always assumed it was connected to bacon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 1 minute ago, Ibbo48 said: Yep on reflection it was in the 70s but some time after the BDM. It was definitely started by us and I always assumed it was connected to bacon. There were only 5 days left of the 70s after the BDM 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff King's dog Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 17 hours ago, zzmdu said: The truth is they copied us and starting calling it us in the late 1980s. Not sure about that mate. I went to Dinno comp in the late 70s where the Unitedites hilariously drew our 'new' Owl with a pig nose, ears and curly tail. One of my United mates who went away a lot, told me it was a name for Wednesday although not that widely used at the time. None of us at school called each other that and I only remember it becoming common in the late 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibbo48 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 1 minute ago, alanharper said: There were only 5 days left of the 70s after the BDM Ha ha my bad. Well I’m more confused than ever now. Think I better go back to my original 70/80s assumption. its not I term I’ve ever used and was never used in my circle of friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 You'd think " Boxing Day" are two words they would want to forget instead of doing a pathetic arrangement of the song. As for Pigs, must admit we were called it at school in the 70's and we called them the Blunts. Problem is on Praise and Grumble all the local idiot fans in the area call us it, and in a couple of fans books we are called it. Thing is, who gives a throw it's totally childish and puerile. Doesn't worry me one little bit. Can't see why it worries anyone over the age of 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Past Member Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 2 hours ago, Jeff King's dog said: Not sure about that mate. I went to Dinno comp in the late 70s where the Unitedites hilariously drew our 'new' Owl with a pig nose, ears and curly tail. One of my United mates who went away a lot, told me it was a name for Wednesday although not that widely used at the time. None of us at school called each other that and I only remember it becoming common in the late 80s. The Owl in question was unveiled in 1973, which fits in with you're timings. The SUFC Derby program of 1967 (thanks @dunsbyowl) mentioned the connection that Wednesday Fan made with SUFC & Piggery (red & white stripes = bacon) was folklore/custom. Now for something to be labelled & established as folklore/customs, many decades are needed for this. For example we're called Barnsley the Dingles for 20 years, this nickname would never be described as a Wednesday custom. For something to be called a Wednesday custom in 1967, this connection must be at least 4 decades old. Going back to the 1920s, at least. I've only heard the pig iron story in the last few years. This might be true, but I suspect it's a counter to the blunts 75 reasons why they started calling us the pigs. The red & white bacon thing goes back many many decades. The pigs, with no imagination, just copied (what is a pretty sad insult anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaddyOwl Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Dont forget we was actually the blades before them pigs! So once again they copied us because theor IQ is minimal like a thick cut pork chop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Claw Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoop Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 We’ve been the pigs ever since dem blades started making stuff up and rewriting the history books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormOwl Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Im surprised nether club fans have taken the term and used it as a positive and owned the term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoop Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 1 hour ago, The Claw said: Bonzai kop looks well 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaliceInBlunderland Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Always assumed we called it them due to either the red & white/streaky bacon thing, or the fact that red+white=pink, the colour of most pigs. As for them calling it us, I applaud their new found ability to string 4 letters together in such a way that it forms a real word, well done you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miffed Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 There is an old newspaper article from way back when, it reports on one of very early derby games and the reporter mentions that Wednesday were giving them the runaround and because of the colours of the respective shirts we looked like butchers putting pigs to the slaughter. Im sure @dunsbyowl has posted this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miffed Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 On a side note, there are a lot of things that United have stolen over the years...... even the Greasy Chip Butty isnt theirs, that was stolen from Rotherham. However, we have to admit that there are some wonderful things that we have stolen from them over the years and we should give them some credit for starting them..... such as the Boxing Day song which we took and "Mind the Gap" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigthinrob Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 On 16/01/2018 at 15:49, Geosword said: Absolutely this. They're just lazy copy and pasters. Took our nickname cos they couldn't be arsed to come up with one of their own. Took our shirt but just coloured it the opposite. Took our songs. Took our insults. And that's just off the top of my head. Probably umpteen more. Nothing original about them at all. Also this "City is their's" now apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dronfield Blue Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Wilder's players walk through walls for him is the latest grunt. One win in 10 would suggest they are bouncing off the walls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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