Quote Originally Posted by Darnall Siam Blade View Post
GrayBlade's post about the 7-3 thrashing we administered to our ' beloved neighbours' jogged my memory. I certainly remember that 1951 match which was a League match, obviously. I , also, seem to remember that we played a "friendly" match with them in the Isle of Man in the late forties-we drew 2-2. The thinking , at the time, was that our last meeting had been before the Second World War and, being starved of football, the demand to see the game would cause too much danger at whichever ground it was played at in Sheffield. Hence the decision to play in Isle of Man thereby ensuring that 80,000 fans (40,000 each club to prevent argument) could not afford to go there. As that is around your era Ronnie (about same age as me , I think,) do you remember anything about it?
We did play a friendly v. the other lot in the Isle of Man, 2 days after the end of the 1947-48 season, although I don't know the reason why. The crowd was recorded at 8,000 (which sounds suspiciously like a guess) but I was not one of them (I was just 8 at the time) and can't say it ever registered very prominently in my fledgling memory.
According to the records, it finished 2-2 with Collindridge and Sloan scoring for the blades.