https://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/memries-of-ull-pt-2.62505/ Was 1983 really the last time we beat them in the league here?
With regard to the Shoreham biased report re City playing dirty the future English international Currie what I remember slid his studs down DeVries leg. Yes I remember the ref calling everyone together to calm down but no way was it just City Nerve tingling match he is right they got promotion but it was sweet that night. Please City beat the blunts,can’t stand them
I'm glad it still rankles with so many of them 47 years later. Wish I'd been at that game. Thought Ken Knighton was great for us in that short time he was here. We need someone like that now. In fact we need 3 or 4 like him now.
"Pressure? You know what pressure makes? Diamonds.’ ‘What’s the biggest room in the house? The room for improvement.’ 'You don't see the work he (Hammond) does.' ‘Off you go, Dean. Make sure you put the £5k in my coat.’ And some other bollocks about ‘flocks of geese’." I've made a note of these.
Why they called the pigs? To save embarrassment I googled to save asking , but even the weds and united fans have 100 different reasons why they call each other it ..
Not quite. Wednesday fans were proud ofbthe pig nickname. I used to work with a Wednesday fanatic whose family were founding members of The Wednesday which still entitled them to a ticket for any final they get to. Though living in Brid he only missed 1 game home or away, including mid week games, in the 11 years I worked with him. Hadn't seen him for overv12 years when I was watching a programme about policing of the Sheffield derby and they were rounding up any fans they thought weren't Blades and marching them to Bramall Lane. They had hauled a group out of a pub, none of who were wearing colours and he was in the middle of a group arguing about it being a free country, human rights etc...To no avail. Off they were marched. "The Wednesday" sports club was formed on 4th September 1867. The club was founded as a "Gentleman's Cricket Society." The football club was not founded until 13 years later, and first played its games at the Olive Grove Sports Ground in Heeley before moving to a new stadium in the Owlerton district of Sheffield. The first Ordnance Survey maps (1850's) mark a building close to where the stadium now stands as 'Swine Cottage'. They also show another farm on Penistone Road, south of where the North Stand is situated, which was also believed to be a large piggery. Pork farming is thought to have been practised in the area since the early 1800's, and did not cease until around 1900 when the city's rapid expansion put an end to livestock production in the area. At its height the "Owlerton Piggery," as it was known, provided work for some 50 employees. Initial discussions about a nickname began soon after the Wednesday arrived at Owlerton. In reference to their new home, most club officials were in favour of "The Owls." However, another suggestion was also popular. In view of the area's strong tradition of pork farming, a popular grass-roots alternative was "The Pigs." Although the name "Owls" prevailed, many working class supporters continued to refer to their team as "t'pigs." A popular song of the time "They may be t'Owls to some, (but they'll always be pigs to me)" was performed in music halls across South Yorkshire. As late as the 1920's, fans used to welcome their team onto the field with the characteristic grunting sound we still associate with the club. This peculiarity was once referred to by BBC commentator Edward Milburn, who famously described Hillsborough as a "sea of grunts" moments after The Wednesday won the First Division title in 1932.
We've had some tough things to contend with these last few years as our club is bled dry and bedevilled by truly appalling management by the owners. One of things they tried was music after goals despite being warned about it. It lasted one game before the club was firmly told where to stick it. Compare and contrast with one of the leading exponents of 'Tom Hark'ism who are our visitors tonight. Has there ever been such enthusiastic embracers of this crap? As if to prove it wasn't an aberration, they do that John Denver dirge 'Annie's song', complete with V shaped arms. Truly cringeworthy Kenworthy.
Damn, thought this was a thread about Peppa Pig as I have just had 2 days solid of watching said videos with my 2 year old granddaughter, Peppa, brother George, Daddy Pig and Mummy pig, riviting, .............. not. Oink Oink.
I had a long period of that. I asked her the other day if shd still liked Peppa The Pig. She gave me a withering look and said " Oh, grandad, of course not. I am 6 now!".
Started questioning my hatred of Sheffield Utd! Thank you very much for Keithy Edwards, Thank you very much, thank you very very very much... Thank you very much for Billy Whitehurst... etc... Thank you very much for Stephen Quinn... etc... Thank you very much for Wembley 2014... etc thank you very much for Harry Maguire... etc... Thank you very much for 3 points last night... etc.. can we play you every week?
