Stay classy Sheffield United....

Project Zeus

Project Zeus

Steve Chettle
How are Sheffield United broke even with the Premier League riches?

Did they spent £150m in the Championship?

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Red Ray's Redlist

Red Ray's Redlist

Viv Anderson
Lived in Sheffield 20+ years ago and knew groups from both set of pig fans (still amazes me they both use the same insult for each other).

Always found the Blunts to be more down to earth and they had no animosity to Forest. I wasn't really aware that anybody considered them our local rivals either. So its amazed me that since we were relegated last from the Prem the level of hatred that has sprouted. Where did it come from and why?
 
GOBIAS

GOBIAS

Ian Bowyer
Red Ray's Redlist said:
Lived in Sheffield 20+ years ago and knew groups from both set of pig fans (still amazes me they both use the same insult for each other).

Always found the Blunts to be more down to earth and they had no animosity to Forest. I wasn't really aware that anybody considered them our local rivals either. So its amazed me that since we were relegated last from the Prem the level of hatred that has sprouted. Where did it come from and why?
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That warnock team / era I guess.
 
Eddie Yates

Eddie Yates

Steve Chettle
Red Ray's Redlist said:
Lived in Sheffield 20+ years ago and knew groups from both set of pig fans (still amazes me they both use the same insult for each other).

Always found the Blunts to be more down to earth and they had no animosity to Forest. I wasn't really aware that anybody considered them our local rivals either. So its amazed me that since we were relegated last from the Prem the level of hatred that has sprouted. Where did it come from and why?
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Because they're massive wankers
 
Owl_In_Hucknall

Owl_In_Hucknall

First Team Squad
Red Ray's Redlist said:
Lived in Sheffield 20+ years ago and knew groups from both set of pig fans (still amazes me they both use the same insult for each other).

Always found the Blunts to be more down to earth and they had no animosity to Forest. I wasn't really aware that anybody considered them our local rivals either. So its amazed me that since we were relegated last from the Prem the level of hatred that has sprouted. Where did it come from and why?
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The pigs thing is simple…

Red and white stripes - streaky bacon

Blue and white stripes - butchers apron


United have never had or ever will have any class.

Wednesday were the first occupants of Bramall Lane, a fact they refuse to acknowledge when charting their history and how long that ground has been in continuous use.

Wednesday were nicknamed the Blades back in the early years, long before United appeared and to round things off they have an honours board which details such matters as losing FA Cup semi-finals. Namely the one we beat them in, in 1993.

No matter how long ago events occurred, or at what level the clubs currently operate at, they hate the fact that domestically, Sheffield Wednesday are still Yorkshire’s most successful football club.

As our former striker Mark Bright often says “Older, bigger, better”


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Bryn Gunn

Bryn Gunn

Cash is King!
Red Ray's Redlist said:
Lived in Sheffield 20+ years ago and knew groups from both set of pig fans (still amazes me they both use the same insult for each other).

Always found the Blunts to be more down to earth and they had no animosity to Forest. I wasn't really aware that anybody considered them our local rivals either. So its amazed me that since we were relegated last from the Prem the level of hatred that has sprouted. Where did it come from and why?
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Gobias is probably right with the Warnock era. That and some unsavoury big games against them like the Cup defeat and playoffs.
Like you say before that they weren’t even on the radar, I don’t recall us playing against them in the 1980’s, they were lower leagues.

I used to watch them the odd time with a local Blade I know. It was always a bit grim, attendances were around or under 10,000 and the fans seemed to have abnormal high levels of aggression.
Stood on their kop if word got round Wednesday had conceded it was met with more enthusiasm than anything happening on the pitch.
 
GOBIAS

GOBIAS

Ian Bowyer
Owl_In_Hucknall said:
It won’t happen.

Knowing them McBurnie will end up scoring 20 goals with his arse.

When the luck shines on them, it shines bright.


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They really are spawny ***** it has to be said. But we’ve seen from this stint in the premier league that there is such a big gap now. Their talk of Jack Robinson being good cover etc.. is totally laughable.
 
GOBIAS

GOBIAS

Ian Bowyer
Bryn Gunn said:
Gobias is probably right with the Warnock era. That and some unsavoury big games against them like the Cup defeat and playoffs.
Like you say before that they weren’t even on the radar, I don’t recall us playing against them in the 1980’s, they were lower leagues.

I used to watch them the odd time with a local Blade I know. It was always a bit grim, attendances were around or under 10,000 and the fans seemed to have abnormal high levels of aggression.
Stood on their kop if word got round Wednesday had conceded it was met with more enthusiasm than anything happening on the pitch.
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I remember when they were promoted early 90’s when I was a massive obsessive of football (obviously my early years were top flight football) and they had never entered my knowledge prior to that. I think they beat us around Christmas time and it was their first win or they had barely won. They must have gone on to stay up as they relegated us a couple of years later. I seem to remember them having a Christmas party every summer as that year they had only started playing at Christmas. Maybe I have put 2 and 2 together in my hazy mind and come up with 5.

Anyway mid 90’s I went to watch them as a neutral for some reason and their ground was only 3 sides as it was a dire game. They were proper in the doldrums.

Next time I came across them we all hated them so it must have been warnock and the fact they were chasing the same goals as us and were a dirty team and we became rivals. Add in the locality, the previous political history and the fact they are fat heads!!
 
GOBIAS

GOBIAS

Ian Bowyer
Actually another memory I have of them from very early 90’s was going with my dad to a home game against them. I think we won 2-0 and Tommy Gaynor scored a brace. In the upper Clough where you got child discount (tandem and tricycle tickets) I never remember there being away families. This game there were a few of them there which I’d never known. And they were actually gobby fat heads. Constantly outraged. Psycho injured one of their players in a fifty fifty and they went bananas. I presume most away fans in that area tended to keep quiet. Not them!! Because they are fat heads.
 
Bryn Gunn

Bryn Gunn

Cash is King!
GOBIAS said:
I remember when they were promoted early 90’s when I was a massive obsessive of football (obviously my early years were top flight football) and they had never entered my knowledge prior to that. I think they beat us around Christmas time and it was their first win or they had barely won. They must have gone on to stay up as they relegated us a couple of years later. I seem to remember them having a Christmas party every summer as that year they had only started playing at Christmas. Maybe I have put 2 and 2 together in my hazy mind and come up with 5.

Anyway mid 90’s I went to watch them as a neutral for some reason and their ground was only 3 sides as it was a dire game. They were proper in the doldrums.

Next time I came across them we all hated them so it must have been warnock and the fact they were chasing the same goals as us and were a dirty team and we became rivals. Add in the locality, the previous political history and the fact they are fat heads!!
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They were probably rebuilding the John Street stand when you went.

The club seems to attract a type or maybe they just become embittered after years of supporting them.
I worked in Sheffield for quite a while and think they are great folk, but get onto football and it was always the Blades that came across as tribal.
 
Rzar

Rzar

Bob McKinlay
People from Sheffield are bred to hate from that bitter generation.

I went to college with a mate from Sheffield, he doesn’t like football but his dad is a Sheffield United fan home & away. He basically brainwashed the kid into thinking everything that isn’t Sheffield is a backstabbing scumbag (Nottingham in particular) and after about a month here he was like WTF was he on about.

He still lives in Nottingham now, much to his bitter fathers disappointment obviously.
 
Alf-engelos Mindminackers

Alf-engelos Mindminackers

The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
Bryn Gunn

Bryn Gunn

Cash is King!
Rzar said:
People from Sheffield are bred to hate from that bitter generation.

I went to college with a mate from Sheffield, he doesn’t like football but his dad is a Sheffield United fan home & away. He basically brainwashed the kid into thinking everything that isn’t Sheffield is a backstabbing scumbag (Nottingham in particular) and after about a month here he was like WTF was he on about.

He still lives in Nottingham now, much to his bitter fathers disappointment obviously.
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Haha. Weird isnt it, seems to manifest through Sheffield United 🤣
 
M

MaxiRobriguez

Bob McKinlay
Red Ray's Redlist said:
Lived in Sheffield 20+ years ago and knew groups from both set of pig fans (still amazes me they both use the same insult for each other).

Always found the Blunts to be more down to earth and they had no animosity to Forest. I wasn't really aware that anybody considered them our local rivals either. So its amazed me that since we were relegated last from the Prem the level of hatred that has sprouted. Where did it come from and why?
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Miners strike laid the groundwork for it. Add in:

1) Warnock being a ****.
2) Them beating us in the play-offs, with us having Dawson sent off unfairly and them coming back from two goals down in the 2nd leg.
3) The F.A cup loss (quarters or round of 16) when they were in L1 and it kicked off.
4) Geographical distance.
5) The fact neither club had any modicum of success to focus on such that rivalries, even tepid ones, needed to come to the forefront to alleviate from boredom/lack of success.

In future years people will ask why Huddersfield fans hate us even though there's no real reason for there to be a rivarly:
1) ***** behaviour (it was a pen, we're in the prem)
2) Beaten in play-offs with questionable officiating.
3) F.A cup loss with fireworks.
4) Reasonably close distance.
5) Both clubs bit shit at the point they were playing each other.
 
eyupmeduck

eyupmeduck

Geoff Thomas
Can't work out how to link to Twitter but if you go to the poctured thread it essentially smashes to bits all of the stories that Dozy chap who the blunts were all over taking over was telling!

Makes Kirchner look like an amateur
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