Pretty sure i've seen highlights of this game. Were we wearing blue that day?
Genius in action. Georgie scored twice in this 2-1 win at the Victoria Ground in 1971. Gordon Banks, the finest there was at that time, can do nothing to stop him.
Awesome United pics
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Choccy´s amazing first season (and Fergie´s) with us, knocking 'em in as if he were Gert Muller. McClair and Strachan and Robson were fecking amazing that year. Knew it was the start of something really special, except it took longer than I anticipated.
Love those kits.Choccy´s amazing first season (and Fergie´s) with us, knocking 'em in as if he were Gert Muller. McClair and Strachan and Robson were fecking amazing that year. Knew it was the start of something really special, except it took longer than I anticipated.
Steve Coppell does a passable impression of a Cossack at the Hawthorns, circa 1979.
I was at that game with a pretty serious hangover. A Brummie mate got me a ticket and we watched it from their end. It was pretty grotty ground but you could get Faggots n' Pease take away. I creased up when the woman behind the counter started to chatter away like Benny from Crossroads.
Arsenal again, this time at Villa Park in 1983. Norman Whiteside scores the goal that sent United to Wembley.
Duxbury often looked like he was about to lay an egg!
Craven Cottage circa 1965. Nobody made use of the bird's eye view available from the trees behind the ground.
The Fulham player tackling Bestie is George Cohen who always looked old even when he was forced to retire at 29. Great little ground in retrospect, a total anathema to the modern game. More like a cricket ground than football.
How it was. A young United fan is led away at Anfield with a dart stuck in his nose.
Peter Brookes in 1978. If I remember rightly he was front page news because it was in his eye and he lost his sight. Years later he was on a TV programme talking about what happened and how he couldn't remove it. The person who threw the dart never owned up. Another weapon from the Scouses was the Kung fu stars made out of tin from cans.
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I never knew that he lost an eye. I didn't go to that particular game and only found out about the incident when it was splashed across the back page of the paper. I remember the kung fu stars story being attributed to United fans at Notts County in 1975. According to the Mirror, some lads made them in metalwork class. One was thrown at a copper which stuck in his helmet (the one on his head). I'll see if I can dig up he image.
I didn't know him personally but his story actually shook me. Having been hit by sharpened pennies during one game, Sheffield United possibly, I had decided to give going to aways a break. By then it was getting out of hand and I was getting ready for Uni. Soon after the professional hooligans moved in with their business cards and Inter City train tickets etc. Anyway looking forward to more pictures and memories.
Crown trouble in the 1968 derby game at Old Trafford.
A copper, truncheon in hand, wades into City fans in the Scoreboard End during the same 1968 game. There wasn't much segregation in those days and although the Scoreboard (then an open terrace) was allocated to City fans, United fans would normally turn up there in force.
Willie Morgan, here wearing the short-lived yellow and blue strip, against Sheffield United in 1972.
Not the best quality image but a rare shot of Alex Stepney taking a penalty is worth posting.
Tommy Baldwin during his brief United career.
Second Division champs 1975.
Second Division champs 1975.
Lame by today's standards but a really great day. Singing wildly and just enjoying ourselves. There was no rush by anyone to throw us out of the ground. Some of us partied through the night with serious hangovers next day.
On this day 6 years ago.
Ended up in the Stamford Arms in Bowdon that night with a couple of mates. After kicking out time, we tried to get into a club in Altrincham called Cezannes but got knocked back by the bouncer because the place was packed to the rafters and we weren't members. Travelled back down to London the following day with some seriously hung-over Cockney reds.
Tommy Baldwin during his brief United career.
Pointless trivia, but I think that's against Bristol City, who scored 5-6 minutes into stoppage tine to win 1-0. United also lost 1-0 at Bristol. Geoff Merrick marking Baldwin there.
Second Division champs 1975.
On the pitch at the end. Got some turf. Broke a platform heel doing it. Limped back to the city centre. I was 14. Thousands locked out. United beat Blackpool 4-0.
The only side to do the double over us that season weren't they?
I think so. although we couldn't beat Norwich over four matches that season.
Anfield 1970. United and Liverpool drew 1-1 with Brian Kidd scoring for the reds. The Liverpool player seen here is none other than Roy Evans who looks like he's just stepped on a turd.
Great shot of Sparky seconds after he'd scored the winner in the FA Cup semi-final replay at Maine Road in 1985.
I remember going up to Norwich on a freezing January night in 1975 to see us get knocked out of the League Cup.
Yeah. Last minute Macdougall goal for Norwich - 2-2 at United. Colin Suggett scored at Norwich - 1-0.
I was going to post some photos, but you're doing most of the ones I've found!
And here's their winning goal. A depressing night all round.
A pity. It was fun being giant killers, knocking out City, Burnley and Middlesbrough (all first division at the time).
Broke a platform lol!! I was 17 going on 18 and was in the Stretty Paddock probably looking down on you. I remember it was Blackpool, but mostly recall feeling a great sense of relief after the previous season.
The City game was great. A Gerry Daly penalty if I remember rightly.
Don't know that pub but we went back to London that night because the geography teacher from our college was holding a party over in Holloway area. I remember having an emotional evening with the girlfriend because I didn't arrive until long after closing time. Woke up to a serious hangover next afternoon wrapped in the girlfriend. She never understood footy. A couple of weeks later I found my programme in my jeans all mangled after my mum had washed them.
Yeah, but the Burnley game was great - Willie Morgan in the last minute - 3-2,
Yeah. looking down one me. I was in the Stretford End. I can't remember when I started going there, as I usually went in the Scoreboard End that season and in 72-3/73-4.
I thought it be safer in the Stretford Paddock v Rangers (74). It wasn't. Nowhere was, from town to ground, all the way down Warwick Road. Interesting though.
Actually, the Scoreboard End was a bit mad usually, as it had mixed United and e.g. Sunderland, Leeds fans in it.
What I still can't believe is that when I was 13-14 I was taking my 7-8 year old brother with me to matches.
Nice memories GD. We had a few posts about the Rangers game in an earlier part of this thread. We all did crazy things then, it's wild thinking what we actually got up to.
Interesting that the youngsters probably didn't realize that teams like Burnley, Leicester, Sheffield United, QPR, Derby, Bristol city & Co were all pretty established first division clubs then. Some great atmospheres as well.
Willie Morgan, here wearing the short-lived yellow and blue strip, against Sheffield United in 1972.
More of the yellow and blue.
George Graham
Gerry Daly - v Southampton (Osgood and Fisher)
Tony Dunne
Wyn Davies
Ian Donald
Eyebrows were raised when United paid in excess of £200,000 for Bournemouth striker Ted MacDougall. MacDougall's time at United was limited and we eventually sold to West Ham by Tommy Docherty, but not before he'd scored vital goals against Liverpool and Leeds.
Along with Wyn Davies.
Along with Wyn Davies.
I was at the Liverpool match. There was a lot of trouble that day with fans running from the Stretford End across the pitch to attack the Scousers in the Scoreboard. It was 1-0 at HT after Wyn Davies bundled the ball over the line.MacDougall's goal was pretty good, scoring from an angle from a pass by Tony Young. His goal against Leeds (Docherty's first game in charge) was a tap in after Willie Morgan had cut Leeds apart on their left.
A brilliant shot from a game that took place over 40 years ago.
