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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Graylittle on December 24, 2018, 07:46:57 PM
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First of all Hello.
1989-90 We certainly were the surprise package, which games stick our for you.
Everton 6-2 That's what made the media and other teams notice us.
Spurs 2-0 away really started to believe it was possible.
WBA in the cup. Good old fashioned rivalry great goal by Daley.
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First of all Hello.
1989-90 We certainly were the surprise package, which games stick our for you.
Everton 6-2 That's what made the media and other teams notice us.
Spurs 2-0 away really started to believe it was possible.
WBA in the cup. Good old fashioned rivalry great goal by Daley.
Man United 3-0 Boxing Day and 2-1 Arsenal over Christmas. Tony Daley goal Vs Luton. David Platt scoring every week. Chrissy Price scoring at Arsenal.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X5gdh204kQU
Enjoy!
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First of all Hello.
1989-90 We certainly were the surprise package, which games stick our for you.
Everton 6-2 That's what made the media and other teams notice us.
Spurs 2-0 away really started to believe it was possible.
WBA in the cup. Good old fashioned rivalry great goal by Daley.
Man United 3-0 Boxing Day and 2-1 Arsenal over Christmas. Tony Daley goal Vs Luton. David Platt scoring every week. Chrissy Price scoring at Arsenal.
About five of us regularly shared a car (we did all own our own car we just took it in turns to drive) to away games in 1989/1990. Chris Price had never scored for us and missed a sitter late on in the game at Highbury. One of our gang then rather loudly gave the opinion that (and I quote) "Chris Price will never score for Villa as long as he has a hole in his arse". Moments later Chris Price scored the winner and the rest of us slaughtered our mate for that comment all the way back to Birmingham.
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First of all Hello.
1989-90 We certainly were the surprise package, which games stick our for you.
Everton 6-2 That's what made the media and other teams notice us.
Spurs 2-0 away really started to believe it was possible.
WBA in the cup. Good old fashioned rivalry great goal by Daley.
Man United 3-0 Boxing Day and 2-1 Arsenal over Christmas. Tony Daley goal Vs Luton. David Platt scoring every week. Chrissy Price scoring at Arsenal.
About five of us regularly shared a car (we did all own our own car we just took it in turns to drive) to away games in 1989/1990. Chris Price had never scored for us and missed a sitter late on in the game at Highbury. One of our gang then rather loudly gave the opinion that (and I quote) "Chris Price will never score for Villa as long as he has a hole in his arse". Moments later Chris Price scored the winner and the rest of us slaughtered our mate for that comment all the way back to Birmingham.
I watched Arsenal away on tv, it was the same night bbc1 showed facup semi final replay utd v Oldham.
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We played Coventry away on a Sunday and that's where it went wrong. A better memory of the day was the special piece the Sunday Mercury done that day , loads of old villa pictures from 70s and 80s.
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Our defence struggled when Mountfield became injured. He was an important player for us that season
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Everton 6-2 That's what made the media and other teams notice us.
The reason I'm a Villa fan!
Watching the Big Match Live on Central with my Everton-supporting cousin!!
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I was only 8. The Spurs away game where we won 2-0 and went top was my 9th birthday. Went to a few games that season including the 3-3 with Norwich which handed Liverpool the title.
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That was a great season, we had just been promoted two seasons earlier, struggled to stay up the first year up but then after a slow start in this season, really went on a tear. If we had started stronger we could have won the league that year. We were the surprise package and just kept grinding out good results (think Leicester), only this time Liverpool were not in the mood for easing up.
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We played Coventry away on a Sunday and that's where it went wrong. A better memory of the day was the special piece the Sunday Mercury done that day , loads of old villa pictures from 70s and 80s.
I think Derek Mountfield injured his knee that day and never really recovered his form and fitness for the rest of the season. I remember one of our mate's had a friend who knew Coventry's Greg Downs so we had free tickets in one of the home stands and got loads of stick off the Coventry fans.
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Happy days.
Albion in the Cup, Spurs, Arsenal and the last day at Everton: four of my all time favourite away days.
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Chelsea away on New Year’s Day - when Stamford Bridge was still a crumbling dump. Hangover, Daley wonder goal, locked in the away end for ages after. The end of the best festive period I can remember
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After all these years I can confess that the reason we lost out to Liverpool was because I went to the home defeats to Wimbledon and Man City, which at the time went against our form. I did go to the Luton away win, so maybe it wasn't all my fault.
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Happy days.
Albion in the Cup, Spurs, Arsenal and the last day at Everton: four of my all time favourite away days.
Everton was a legendary day out. I came out of White Hart Lane that night convinced we would win the league. Albion was a good day out too. Am I right in saying it was an early kick off? Early kick offs were great when you won and you could spend the rest of the day celebrating in the pub. On the flip side if you lose you have the whole of the day and night to stew on the result and sulk. Coventry on Boxing Day 1992 springs to mind.
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Albion was an early kick-off - I'd reckon at about noon as back at my girlfriend's (now wife) in time to be dragged back into town to go shopping...
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I loved Kent Nielsen. Didn't BFR describe him as "lightning slow?"
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My first season of going regularly. My highlight were the win over the champions Arsenal at christmas. The cup tie against Port Vale sticks in my mind too, hammering them 6-0 when it pissed it down all day.
For me we were never the same after that 3-0 defeat against Wimbledon but along with 92/93 and 95/96 this was my favourite season following the Villa.
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I went to every game bar Palace away for some reason. I'd say it was my favourite season following the Villa - some of the away days highlighted in other posts were just magical...as were my flares and pastel sweatshirts...and long hair (sob)
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I went to every game bar Palace away for some reason. I'd say it was my favourite season following the Villa - some of the away days highlighted in other posts were just magical...as were my flares and pastel sweatshirts...and long hair (sob)
You wore flares in 89/90?
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Well let’s call them baggy then. Either way they were roomy!
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I went to every game bar Palace away for some reason. I'd say it was my favourite season following the Villa - some of the away days highlighted in other posts were just magical...as were my flares and pastel sweatshirts...and long hair (sob)
You wore flares in 89/90?
Flares were big again around that time, just not the brown, polystyrene, low waist bell bottom types that Des was wearing.
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I went to every game bar Palace away for some reason. I'd say it was my favourite season following the Villa - some of the away days highlighted in other posts were just magical...as were my flares and pastel sweatshirts...and long hair (sob)
You wore flares in 89/90?
Was that when Garry Thompson scored what was possibly his only goal in a Palace shirt and we lost 1-0? I was there and I think it was the only time I ever sat in the seats at Selhurst Park. Whenever I saw us play Charlton or Wimbledon there I stood behind the goal.
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I went to every game bar Palace away for some reason. I'd say it was my favourite season following the Villa - some of the away days highlighted in other posts were just magical...as were my flares and pastel sweatshirts...and long hair (sob)
You wore flares in 89/90?
Was that when Garry Thompson scored what was possibly his only goal in a Palace shirt and we lost 1-0? I was there and I think it was the only time I ever sat in the seats at Selhurst Park. Whenever I saw us play Charlton or Wimbledon there I stood behind the goal.
It was a beautifully sunny day, but we were dire. I think that was also the game where scenes from The Firm were filmed, Gary Oldman appears on the metal stairway in the opposite corner of the ground to where we were sat.
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I went to every game bar Palace away for some reason. I'd say it was my favourite season following the Villa - some of the away days highlighted in other posts were just magical...as were my flares and pastel sweatshirts...and long hair (sob)
You wore flares in 89/90?
Was that when Garry Thompson scored what was possibly his only goal in a Palace shirt and we lost 1-0? I was there and I think it was the only time I ever sat in the seats at Selhurst Park. Whenever I saw us play Charlton or Wimbledon there I stood behind the goal.
It was a beautifully sunny day, but we were dire. I think that was also the game where scenes from The Firm were filmed, Gary Oldman appears on the metal stairway in the opposite corner of the ground to where we were sat.
Wasn't some of a 'football hooligan' film or TV programme filmed in the car park at Villa Park?
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Back Up?
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The Firm had a scene filmed at Palace ( you could here Villa being sung in background ). I think it was in our promotional season.
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Ah, realised this has been discussed now, should learn to read better before I post.
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The Firm had a scene filmed at Palace ( you could here Villa being sung in background ). I think it was in our promotional season.
Yeah it was 87/88 season bit of a moody day off the pitch if I remember correctly .
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I went to every game bar Palace away for some reason. I'd say it was my favourite season following the Villa - some of the away days highlighted in other posts were just magical...as were my flares and pastel sweatshirts...and long hair (sob)
You wore flares in 89/90?
Flares were big again around that time, just not the brown, polystyrene, low waist bell bottom types that Des was wearing.
Was? What’s with the past tense?
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Wasn't the first home game a 3-0 defeat to QPR with Beelzebub scoring a hatrick for them?
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Wasn't the first home game a 3-0 defeat to QPR with Beelzebub scoring a hatrick for them?
That was about a month in. The first home match was midweek against Liverpool. Andy Comyn played and we drew 1-1.
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Wasn't the first home game a 3-0 defeat to QPR with Beelzebub scoring a hatrick for them?
No, I think that was in September. And I think it was 1-3. I do seem to recall a few 'Taylor Out' phone calls to BRMB after that game. I think our next game was at home to Derby and they battered us but we scraped a 1-0 win and went on a fantastic run that pretty much lasted until February.
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Wasn't the first home game a 3-0 defeat to QPR with Beelzebub scoring a hatrick for them?
That was about a month in. The first home match was midweek against Liverpool. Andy Comyn played and we drew 1-1.
Am I right in saying we signed Comyn not long before that game and some people didn't even know of him or that we had bought him when his name was announced?
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Wasn't the first home game a 3-0 defeat to QPR with Beelzebub scoring a hatrick for them?
That was about a month in. The first home match was midweek against Liverpool. Andy Comyn played and we drew 1-1.
Am I right in saying we signed Comyn not long before that game and some people didn't even know of him or that we had bought him when his name was announced?
I think it was the day before.
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Wasn't the first home game a 3-0 defeat to QPR with Beelzebub scoring a hatrick for them?
That was about a month in. The first home match was midweek against Liverpool. Andy Comyn played and we drew 1-1.
I used to work in Manchester with a girl who lived next door to Andy Comyn in Cheshire, she went round and got me his autograph. Fun fact, the lass I worked with told me that Comyn’s mom was one of the dancers in the Black and White Minstrels.