The Battle of Bramall Lane - A Perfect Storm

Not The Top 20 Podcast

Sports

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to NTT20 Remembers: The Battle of Bramall Lane, where George and Ali - with contributions from Patrick Suffo and Alan Biggs - look back at the infamous game between Sheffield United and West Bromwich Albion in March 2002, the first professional football match in England ever to be abandoned due to lack of players. This episode is sponsored by Blacktype Bet. They are giving away a West Brom and Sheffield United kit from the Battle of Bramall Lane era. Head to twitter.com/NTT20Pod to find out more. You can sign up for a Black Type account online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign-up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. This is the first 'NTT20 Remembers' - a series in which George and Ali will review, recollect and present memories of iconic Football League games, teams, players or managers of the past, with contributions from those directly involved - in this instance: Patrick Suffo, who was sent off in the Battle of Bramall Lane, and Alan Biggs, the Sheffield sports guru and key performer in the aftermath, the lads sift through quotes and old footage to remind the listeners the characters, the incidents and the aftermath that made this day so special. Please feel free to get in touch to suggest any other potential topics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You wonder what to say and what to do, because you've never seen it before.
0:10.0	When I speak about football, talking about my career, I cannot speak about my career once without speaking about this moment.
0:19.0	What made it extraordinary was this suggestion that a manager had deliberately got a game abandoned.
0:26.6	And then I turned around and just headbutting.
0:30.6	I'm not even sure I touched the ball that day.
0:33.6	I had a telephone number for the referee, Eddie Wollstone home.
0:38.3	Going back, being in the same situation on the pitch, I'm not sure if I would have reacted to any different.
0:47.3	You know, football has this habit of throwing up, these dramas and which you think couldn't happen.
0:56.5	And so dramatic was this,
0:58.8	that I noticed that the Battle of Bramble Lake,
1:00.3	as it then became known,
1:03.6	now is its own Wikipedia page, would you believe?
1:04.5	It does.
1:06.2	And its own special podcast as well.
1:17.6	Music Hello, welcome to the not. Hello, welcome to the Not the Top 20 podcast.
1:33.3	We're an EFL podcast and this is something new from us, something that we're trying out for the first time, something that we hope and we think you will really, really enjoy.
1:42.7	We're sponsored by Black Type Bet, and on Friday night,
1:46.6	Sheffield United host West Bromwich Albion in the championship, the first game between the two
1:52.2	sides for almost nine years. And we thought, looking at the fixture list, a great time to wander
1:58.7	down memory lane, specifically to the Battle of bramall lane a day on
2:04.5	which for the first time ever an english professional football match was abandoned due to a lack of
2:10.3	players something that hadn't happened before and in 16 years has not happened since this episode's subheader is the perfect storm. And hopefully
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