Capturing the Blades: 1989-90

Bill Stephenson was given an access-all-areas pass to document United's successful 89/90 campaign. Now, for the first time, this photo record has been put together in book form

Words: David Taylor

From the minute social documentary photographer Bill Stephenson arrived in Sheffield in 1979, Sheffield United was a major fixture in his life. “I came to Sheffield to study Fine Art, and moved to the bottom of Woodhead Road,” says Stephenson from his home in Buxton. “Before they built the Westfield Health Centre corner stand, I could…