I may have only been fifteen but I vividly remember phoning Tony Butler or some other sportsphonein to vent my anger at that man hod ge
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I may have only been fifteen but I vividly remember phoning Tony Butler or some other sportsphonein to vent my anger at that man hod ge
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Quote from: "andrew08" After the goal the Holte End sang "get the w...ker off the pitch" But they did sing ''Hodgey must go, Hodgey must go'' Can still see him plodding back to restart the game while Steve Hunt was giving some half hearted signal to the Holte as if to say 'give the guy a break'. Probably one of the most memorable moments have had down at VP. Martyn Smith
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I remember that game very well, it was the day me and my QPR supporting and thankfully now ex-wife got hitched, 29 October 94. Having said I remember it well I can't remember who scored the Rs first but I definitely remember the second, Bosnich airkicking a back pass and another ex-Villain Garry Penrice nipping in to score. It was about 10 days before Ron Atkinson was mercifully relieved of his duties, having severly IMV lost his way over the previous close season in refusing to spend any of the money that HDE was offering him, saying that the then current, aging, directionless squad was 'good enough'. All I remember about Hodgey is being booed and having 'We Hate Hodge' chorused at him by those massed in The School End, every time he touched the ball... Perhaps we should be grateful to him, in a perverse way. His performance in the 4-1 at home to Norwichhelped bring about the end of Graham Turner (I can't remember if Turner was sacked after that game or the adjacent 6-0 defeat away to Forest), which although it lead onto that brief painful blip that was Billy McNeill and relegation, eventually led to the appointment of the good GT and the late 80s rebuild job that he did. peter w
Quote from: "Legion" I think he lost his job after the 0-6 defeat at Forest. Now there's a game that was memorable. Not just for the shiteness of the performance, the celebrating of a corner as if it was the Cup final winning goal, the sacking of the manager afterwards, but for the great singing from the Villa fans. For those not there, remember the Semi-Final singing of 'My Old Man' for about 10-15 mins? Imagine that for about an hour and it was 'The bells Are Ringing' interspersed with, 'Cloughie Cloughie give us a wave' (to which he leapt out of the dug out to give us the biggest two armed wave ever! brilliant) The preamble to the great Everton singalong but better because it was done during the dark shit days. andyaston
I dont think Steve Hodge played before a crowd of over 35,000 during his time at Villa Park. Sums him and the era up really.
NickF
Quote from: Oscar Arce Chico was right it was the backpass that started the Hodge-barracking, but before that he made it quite clear in the press that he did'nt want to play for Villa anymore |
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