Sheffield United vs Burnley

UTB 35
John Garrett’s
FABLES & FOLKLORE
Blades historian JOHN GARRETT’S long-running inimitable
account of following the Blades always provides a talking point
as UTB again extends a platform for his popular article...
In Stiches...
I must admit that I never get over
excited at the launch of a
new shirt.
Not that I don’t like to see a nice, sharp
new offering adorning the backs of our
players on the first day of the season,
far from it. I am also acutely aware of the
financial aspect of a new offering for the
club – it’s huge and I also love to see kids
in the streets around the City playing in
them. It’s noted that, certainly in the last
20 years or so, you seem to see far more
of the red and white variety than the other
colours from across the city, but then
I suppose that is the product of a couple
of spells in the Premier League, quite a
few Wembley visits and generally having
the upper hand on our neighbours in
terms of success (apart from a lifetime in
League One of course).
We also had a spell back in the
Warnock era when we ran a schools
project called ‘For Schools’ which looked
▲ Curtis Woodhouse in the infamous
gold shirt in a game at Forest
SHEFFIELD UNITED vs BURNLEY