30th anniversay

[Chico Hamilton III]

30 years since we won the league. Can't believe how old I feel just typing that.

Anything being done to commemortae this?

We had a good session in London a few years ago to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Rotterdam - in a Bavarian Bier keller in Old Street.

[ez]

30 years, blimey! I was 16 then and still at school when the season started.

[Virgil Caine]

30 years Chico? I am staggered- where's my life gone? Don't know if you were there at Highbury on the final day of the season, I can remember it was all quite surreal. We were well beaten by Arsenal- (2-0?) and then news came through that Middlesborough had beaten Ipswich, against all odds, thanks to a Polish centre forward. Mayhem followed- Pele came onto the pitch, Villa fans ran on, Arsenal fans attacked Villa fans and me an my brother walked all the way up Holloway Road not fully understanding what had happened.

Once back in the car and listening to Sports Report did we fully appreciate that the club we had followed everywhere from  (in my case 1968) had won the English First Division though you have thought we had committed grand larcency by the way the Ipswich loving media reported on it.

Great times though so, so long ago.

[luke95]

Would love to read more tales of this day like as above .

I was a mere 10 year old wippersnapper doing my first ever season at home that season.     

[DeKuip]

I remember the traffic jam full of celebrating Villa fans on coaches heading away from Highbury afterwards - two or three of the coaches ahead of us had the skylights opened (or smashed through?) and Villa fans had climbed through and were celebrating on the roofs of the coaches in the traffic.
Also remember a Gooner giving it some from a shop doorway and a Villa fan jumping off the coach in front of us, smacking him in the face and nicking his sheepskin coat off him! Funny at the time after a few drinks but... no, still funny now too.

[nick harper]

It was at this point in the season - Jan into Feb, that we won 7 games on the trot to really put us and Ipswich out on our own for the title... and everyone began to think we might win this. It equalled the most league wins in succession in our history.

[Big Dick Edwards]

Did anyone end up in the Aston Tavern after the coaches returned to VP? It was an unforgettable night.

[BC54 VFC]

...and 40 years today since decimalisation!

[villa1]

Blimey, I don't know whether to celebrate the fact it's been 30 years or not!

I know where you're coming from though.

[hawkeye]

went down with some mates some villa others manure cov, got in the north bank, there were loads of villa in thier, it got a bit moody and i saw that Villa were being allowed to get out the front of the  north bank to walk around the pitch to the clock end, so i did the same about 20 minutes into the game, cant remember the game, was so intent listening to guys with radios all around, i remeber the pich invasion, the police charge and those words "may i be the first to congratulate Aston Villa.........
managed to find my mates some had stayed in the North Bank, like others said, it was a bit surreal and subdude , maybe because it was so intense those last few weeks of the season, maybe because going down to Highbury we thought we would need to win to make sure and then losing but winning the league, it was only on the way back that it became real -

[Villan For Life]

Bosco Jankovic. I wonder what he's doing now?

An incredible season full of golden memories. I feel fortunate to have witnessed this achievement. It will be years before it happens again, if at all. Looking back across 30 years, some of the memories are tinged with the regret that we never managed to build on the platform of 1980/1982. Part of being a Villa fan I suppose.

[Rimmy Jimmer]

I remember.... i think i'm right here but didn't he die about 10 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please correct me if this is wrong!

[The Left Side]

I made my first trip to Villa Park for the ipswich game at the end of the season, I can die saying I watched Villa in a championship season!

[nodge]

Yes he did, in 1993 I think and he was Yugoslavian

[Rimmy Jimmer]

Yes 1993 he died and was 42 years old! Has anyone got that name on the back of their shirt!