22 old pictures of Sheffield United fans in the 90s and 00s queueing for big match tickets
Chris Holt
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Kieron Greveson, Dave Greveson and Craig Thistlethwaite are all smiles after getting their tickets (Photo: stuart hastings)
But back in the day, if you wanted to make sure you were getting to the big Blades games, the best and often only way of doing it was to head down to Bramall Lane yourself and get ready for a wait.
Sometimes families and friends would head down en masse to keep each other company, or maybe you were one of those designated to get them in for everyone else.
Sheffield United fans with tickets for their Play-Off Final with Huddersfield in 2012 (Photo: stuart hastings)
Queues very often snaked right around the car park at the Lane and out onto Cherry Street as Sheffield United fans lined-up to get tickets for the many big matches their team was involved in. That may have been a big derby clash, a Play-Off Final or a huge cup match against one of the country’s big guns.
Scroll through for pictures of supporters braving all weathers to make sure they got their hands on one.
Beers and onesies for these Sheffield United fans queuing for tickets at Bramall Lane ahead of the Play-off Final at Wembley - May 2012 (Photo: claire lewis)
The rain wasn't putting these fans off in 2012 (Photo: Chris Lawton)
More Blades patiently waiting to snap up their tickets for Wembley in 2012 (Photo: stuart hastings)
Fans queue for tickets outside Bramall Lane for the derby game with Sheffield Wednesday in January 2006 (Photo: Chris Lawton)
These fans in May 2009 make sure to rest up while they wait (Photo: Yorkshire Post)
Sheffield United fans Joanne and Paul Dawson with Wembley tickets for family and friends after queueing for 15 hours overnight (Photo: Yorkshire Post)
The hoods are up for this lot outside Bramall Lane in May 2012 (Photo: Chris Lawton)
Fans line up for tickets for the FA Cup quarter-final replay with Coventry in March 1998 (Photo: Waistell)
Sheffield United fans queueing for Wembley tickets ahead of the Play Off Final against Burnley in 2009 (Photo: Yorkshire Post)
This one was for the League Cup match against Liverpool in 2003 (Photo: Dennis Lound)
Samantha Knight, in 2003, looks a lot braver than the rest of them (Photo: Stuart Hastings)
People queue at Sheffield United for the FA cup tickets that went on sale at 9am on Saturday 29th March 2003. (Photo: Emma Nichols)
L to R - Claire Markham, John Taylor and Janet Chrimes (all correct) queue outside Sheffield United on Saturday 29th March to buy their FA Cup semi-final tickets that went on sale at 9am.
Waiting for their Wembley tickets in 2009 (Photo: Yorkshire Post)
These fans in 2003 have all bases covered (Photo: Stuart Hastings)
Sheffield United fans queueing to buy tickets for the derby at Hillsborough in December 2000 (Photo: Chris Lawton)
Day dawns as Sheffield United fans queue for tickets for their game against Liverpool in the League Cup semi-final in 2003 (Photo: Chris Lawton)
Sheffield United fans queueing around Bramall Lane for tickets for the Play-Off final with Wolves in 2003 (Photo: Chris Lawton)
An FA Cup fifth round tie with Arsenal was the reason for this one in February 2005 (Photo: Chris Lawton)
More Bramall Lane queues this time for tickets for the Play-Off Final at Cardiff in 2003 (Photo: Chris Lawton)
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