Originally Posted by
GrayBlade
You knew how to pick em for your debut game ya glory seeker!
We’d replaced the brilliant Mick Jones with the not so Brilliant Mick Hill by then although he did score the winner against the Dirties with a towering header. Also, our other blonde bombshell striker Sherman Birchenall has also been flogged off, and even though his replacement (here’s to you) Colin Addison was a very good player, he was more a number ten than a striker for me hence we were relegated.
The following season we signed John Tudor, one of the best and hardest headers of the ball ever to wear a Blades shirt. Harris tried TC as an out and out striker for a while and moved Addison (who by then seemed to constantly be wearing a pot on his wrist) further back. Also a special mention David (Enoch) Powel, a classy Weish international central defender who’s career was cut short far too soon by injury.
One thing that I have realised looking back is that it took a few years for that team to gel. Most of the players that got us promoted in 72 were there in that first season back in the second division.. Maybe a lesson to us all who expect players to settle and teams to gel in weeks?
Happy daze, glad you were hooked pal.