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Bulmer1889 said:
No the week after was the manure game and that goal !
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It was estimated by The Sunday Mirror over 25000 set off for the game. Snake and Woodhead passes blocked by traffic at 2.30 so most returned home. About 9/10000 got into the game. Can't believe there were so few all-ticket games at the time and this wasn't one of them.
 
Bulmer1889 said:
The Johnson’s old harry and his sons harry jnr and Tom from ecclesfield who played for us
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The Johnsons
Old Harry and his sons Harry Jnr and Tom were probably the most famous family of professional footballers produced by Ecclesfield.
Certainly they had a unique place in the history of Sheffield United Football Club: for Old Harry played in the FA Cup-winning teams of 1899 and 1902, and was a losing finalist in 1901; while young Harry was in the 1925 team that lifted the FA Cup at Wembley, and Tom appeared in the 1936 final when the Blades lost to Arsenal.
Old Harry, born in 1876, was connected with United from 1897 to 1940, and gained six England caps. After making 275 League and Cup appearances as a wing-half back (his early years coincided with a remarkable phase in United’s history), he hung up his boots in 1909 and joined the backroom staff, on which he served as assistant trainer almost to the end of his life. He died in 1940.
Young Harry, born in January 1899, was a slightly-built but brave, resilient and bustling centre-forward who scored a record 252 goals for the club in 395 League and Cup matches between 1919 and 1931. In fact, he played his first senior games in 1916 during the wartime football period. He once scored five goals in a League game for United, on Boxing Day 1927. After joining Mansfield Town, he went on to score another century of goals before hanging up his boots. What was remarkable about Harry in the context of what he achieved in top-class football is that he was never a full-time professional, for all the time he was excelling with the Blades he was working as a metallurgist at the East End steelworks of Hadfields, where he was employed up to his formal retirement in 1963. He died in 1981.
Tom, born in May 1911, was a centre-half who started his professional career with the club in 1929 after two years as an amateur. He made 257 appearances before moving to Lincoln City in 1946. Unlike his brother Harry, Tom (he worked as an electrical engineer after his football days ended) continued to live in Ecclesfield, the family home being at The Wheel, right up to his death in 1983.
Left to right Tom, Old Harry, young Harry.
 
Mahatmafoot said:
It was estimated by The Sunday Mirror over 25000 set off for the game. Snake and Woodhead passes blocked by traffic at 2.30 so most returned home. About 9/10000 got into the game. Can't believe there were so few all-ticket games at the time and this wasn't one of them.
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We got in but only with 25 minutes left on the Stretford end when they opened the gates early. Just in time to see Best score. Thousands of Blades roaming the street outside the ground. They were doing alterations to Old Trafford at the time capacity was reduced to 56,000. We were three away from getting in the other end but when the temporary wall started to move due to crowd pressure they closed the gates. If Hemsley hadn't been injured Best wouldn't have scored the goal they played on match of the day for the next 10 bloody years!
 
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