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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Bent Neilsens Screamer on January 24, 2016, 11:13:59 AM
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Good article in The Guardian on our home leg of this fixture
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jan/22/golden-goal-ken-mcnaught-for-aston-villa-v-barcelona-1983-super-cup
I've always associated Barca with the style of play that they currently use, this appears to suggest they could 'mix it' as well.
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Sounds like this game had everything.
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An amazing night. Yes, they were dirty fuc*ers.
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They were animals that night and we were not that far behind truth be told. Great night though, it was my birthday.
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An amazing night. Yes, they were dirty fuc*ers.
They made the Wimbledon team of the 80's look like a bunch of cheerleaders.
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Absolutely amazing night. Brilliant atmosphere. Villa Park was rocking. Barcelona, that night, were the dirtiest team I've ever seen. Just goes to show though how good we were. Not only could we play a bit, we could mix it up when we had too. If you look back at that team there was some proper hard bastards in it. Even the flair players like Cowan's could perform a tackle that would snap some of the current teams wimps in half. All good teams need an enforcer type, we had Withe, McNaught and Evans. Happy days!
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If there's footage anywhere look out for Peter Withe breaking their centre halfs nose when Shaw gets the first goal.
Pretty sure Alan Evans got sent off that night too along with a couple of theirs, and those were the days when you literally had to assault someone on the field to get sent off.
Their keeper was both the dirtiest and maddest man I've ever seen on a field. He just wanted to fight everyone. This was Barcelona!!!
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Great game. I had forgotten about the three sending offs
I think the line about preparing for the quarter final of the European Cup against Juve summed up the contrast between then and now
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Thirty seconds in, you can see Withe accidentally catching the Barcelona player in the face.
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The closest thing you'll ever see to a pantomime on a football pitch. Urriti (RIP) their keeper was off his nut all night.
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Used to watch it a lot on the Official History video and was always amazed at the moment when the keeper just slashes Sid's legs away from him after the penalty and how
incredible the atmosphere seemed - at the time, it wasn't something I'd experienced at Villa Park, having started going in '86.
It all seemed so recent then, watching it on video six years after it happened. Now it's 33 years ago!
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Am I right in remembering Allan Evans got sent off as well as their 2 players ?
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Am I right in remembering Allan Evans got sent off as well as their 2 players ?
Yes, two yellow cards.
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And didn't one of their players get sent off for "catching" a through ball near the half way line - or have I dreamt that ?
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Extraordinary game. I have the whole game on dvd. The player that copped for Peter Withe's elbow was down for ages getting treatment. The goalkeeper was a lunatic. He kicked Sid Cowans into the net after the penalty. I recently asked Ken McNaught to sign a picture from that game. I Said to him, "You wouldn't forget that game in a hurry would you". He said, "No, there was some good sport going on that night".
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Oh yes, you youngsters who only know the Barcelona from Pep Guardiola onwards would scarcely believe the filthy bastards they once were.
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I always felt that Barca game cost us any realistic chance we had of beating Juventus in the QF. Without Allan Evans (red carded v Barca) we were always going to struggle defensively. Des Bremner was a wonderful stop gap but not up to stopping the likes of Paolo Rossi.
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This day in 1983. What a night!
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My favourite night at Villa Park. I was twelve and to see us win a trophy (or to be accurate a plaque/shield) on home turf was great. The atmosphere was like nothing I had known before, mainly due to Barcelona whipping the Villa fans into a frenzy of partisan passion with their 'tactics'. The game would probably be abandoned now as there wouldn't be enough players left on the pitch. At least half of their team could have received red cards (including of course the goalkeeper). Standing on the Holte I had never seen the Trinity and Witton fans so loud and animated. Although unlike the other massive game a few weeks later against Juventus who brought a large amount of fans, Barcelona didn't seem to bring many at all. Small Heath won the Attari Soccer Sixes at the NEC the same night which is surely the only time two teams in the same city have won a trophy in that city on the same night.
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Certainly a game that has always stayed in my memory .Barcelona just could not handle losing .You had to see their keeper kicking Sid after he scored the penalty to believe it .Have never seen anything like that and how he was not sent off only the referee knows.Still makes me chuckle when i see Ken McNaught shadow boxing.Happy days.
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If I remember right Diego Maradona missed the game with hepatitis. If you think it was a crazy game imagine what it would have been like with Diego thrown into the mix.
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If I remember right Diego Maradona missed the game with hepatitis. If you think it was a crazy game imagine what it would have been like with Diego thrown into the mix.
I fear we may not have won Damo.....
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If I remember right Diego Maradona missed the game with hepatitis. If you think it was a crazy game imagine what it would have been like with Diego thrown into the mix.
I fear we may not have won Damo.....
I was under the impression Maradona was a flop at Barcelona, but injury and illness aside he still scored 22 goals in 36 games.
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If I remember right Diego Maradona missed the game with hepatitis. If you think it was a crazy game imagine what it would have been like with Diego thrown into the mix.
I fear we may not have won Damo.....
I was under the impression Maradona was a flop at Barcelona, but injury and illness aside he still scored 22 goals in 36 games.
Including that unreal chip against Athletic Bilbao I think it was
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If I remember right Diego Maradona missed the game with hepatitis. If you think it was a crazy game imagine what it would have been like with Diego thrown into the mix.
A bit like this maybe?
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If I remember right Diego Maradona missed the game with hepatitis. If you think it was a crazy game imagine what it would have been like with Diego thrown into the mix.
I fear we may not have won Damo.....
I was under the impression Maradona was a flop at Barcelona, but injury and illness aside he still scored 22 goals in 36 games.
Including that unreal chip against Athletic Bilbao I think it was
Was that in the same game that he was seriously injured by 'The Butcher Of Bilbao' Andoni Goikoetxea, who these days looks very much like a cross between Robert Lindsay and Robert Davi?
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37 years ago today, still one of my highlights supporting Villa being in the Holte that night with an incredible atmosphere.