That programme is brilliant, about three weeks of it left.

That derby match was actually a pretty tame one - I used to work in a pub on West St (one of the roads you saw last night, with plenty of bars) and it would be like Beirut all over the city centre after a game where one side had beaten the other. Was once driving through the city centre a few hours before a Steel City derby (wouldn't normally go anywhere near the city on Derby day, but forgot all about it), and got stuck just off West St while the police formed up to do a baton-charge into a crowd of Blades fans outside what used to be O'Neill's.

It wasn't the Sheffield Derby, by the way, it was the Steel City Derby. The Sheffield Derby is between Sheffield FC and Hallam FC.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on January 23rd 2009 at 09:57:40


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