Its the year Wednesday re-designed the new badge to the outline on an Owl. The second was sunk in the Falklands conflict. In addition to this, like many others of the day, Wednesday fans wouldn't eat bacon on Sunday if we'd lost and they'd won. Share this post. Started 18 hours ago. The strip would use the white stripes of the Blades and the blue stripes of the Owls, giving a blue & white strip. So Sheffield United F C were formed and Charles Clegg became Chairman of both clubs. The truth is the term “Pig” started being used from about 1974. As always though , once we've discarded it we might let them use it. Some sort of correlation with 'Owls' has been vainly associated with Sheffield Wednesday for over one hundred years, but everyone knows it is a fat fucking lie. Thanks Andrew. Why are the Blades Sheffield United called the pigs? Their real nickname, the Pigs, comes from their red & white striped strip, rather like a pice of fatty bacon. Starring Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson and Mark Addy, it introduced some native Sheffield expressions to the World. The Blades are called after one of the historic products of Sheffield, cutlery. Indeed. The other two teams are Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United. In those days there was no such thing as floodlights, so they played all their games on a Wednesday afternoon. In their early days, Wednesday played at a number of grounds but normally used Bramall Lane for all the big matches. It's easy! Why are the Blades Sheffield United called the pigs. I was around in the mid 70’s and United used it to call Wednesday fans, can’t remember a single Wednesday fan using it towards Blades until the 80’s. So someone on the admin side has decided I should be a permanent reserve! This page was last edited on 12 May 2008, at 10:52. Started 15 hours ago. Speed Of Computer Monitor. Owlstalk | Sheffield Wednesday News for SWFC fans, Join Owlstalk and join in with the debate! Hence why United supporters were called pigs and Wednesday should not be!! The other two teams are Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United. I have no idea why Wednesday fans call United fans pigs though. Sheffield was already a world leader in the manufacture of steel and the steel making process involved starting with iron in moulds which slightly resembled a pig and which were universally known as pig iron. Sheffield has three well known football teams: Sheffield FC is thought to be the oldest club in the land (raising an interesting question of who they might have played against in early matches) but is now an amateur club. Link to post Share on other sites. Started 15 hours ago. Owlstalk | Sheffield Wednesday News for SWFC fans I thought it was because all Sheffield United supporters smelled of poo and look porcine, hence the "pigs" moniker? The ironic point is that, for the first 32 years of their existence Wednesday played in the same area as United. I've seen this story doing the rounds recently and I am doubtful but that's just my view . The plan would be to take the "Sheffield" from the Blades name and the "Wednesday" part from the Owls, making Sheffield Wednesday. I wonder if @dunsbyowl has a view on this. I was too young at the time to understand why he didn't want to talk about it. There was recent talk of amalgamating the two clubs. Well I got up to 700 odd posts about 5 years ago and then got knocked back to a few hundred. I've not heard that version of the pig story before. Aingarth, September 22, 2017 in I've read some stuff on here but congratulations, one of the worst posts ever, written by pork, signed off with streaky bacon. I've been on a lot of football forum's recently and always hear wednesday fans refered to as pig's 11 Answers English Football 8 years ago When Wednesday decided to have their own dedicated ground at Olive Grove in 1888, Charles Clegg realised that the winter income at Bramall Lane would cease so had the bright idea of creating a football club to go alongside the cricket club. Like passing "hand me downs" to your annoying little cousin. Some bullshit about one of the grounds being built on a pig sty (hillsbrough I think?). I’ve spoken to stacks of Blades/ Owls going to matches regularly from the 50’s, the term was never used in the 50’s or 60’s by anyone. Jul 14, 2020 #85 SilentWitness ShoelessWitness. During WW1, the "Sheffield Pals" were raised as part of the Kitchener Army. The book by John Harris, "Covenant with Death" is very much based on the Sheffield Pals. Of the 500 or so that went over the top on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, only 56 (check?) Another relatively recent film was When Saturday Comes. The Owls are so called as they play at Hillsborough stadium which borders the Owlerton district. The "Shiny Sheff" has had three incarnations. Why are sheffield wednesday fan's called pigs? Back to British Army Rumour Service Home. I subscribe to the red & white looks like bacon = pigs story - as for what BLane was before it was built on land owned by Danial Bramall part of which was used to keep Pigs . The name distinquished them from the other club in the area "Sheffield United". Started 1 hour ago. The first starred as HMS Ajax in the film "The Battle of the River Plate".