Sheffield United lost men due to the conditions, and without substitutions, the Blades were forced to carry on with limited numbers and eventually succumbed to a 3-0 defeat in this Football League One fixture on Saturday, 29th October 1932.
It was a strange game for any match from any era, it was one of them games which I’m sure would have been called off hours (if not a day) before kick-off, perhaps there was nothing funny about the 3-0 result but the conditions in which the Rovers and Blades players where forced to endure can be nothing more than described as barbaric.
Sheffield United lost men due to the conditions, and without substitutions, the Blades were forced to carry on with limited numbers and eventually succumbed to a 3-0 defeat in this Football League One fixture on Saturday, 29th October 1932.
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