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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Holte's Last Stand
« on: May 02, 2014, 06:31:38 PM »
In 5 days it will be 20 years since the Holte's last stand.










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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2014, 06:34:19 PM »
Ah the memories of kids carrying crates to the match



Still makes me sad to see this









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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2014, 06:42:43 PM »
That was a strange day. Through school, exams, first job, girlfriends etc the Holte was a constant. I grew up on that terrace and I had some grit in my eye when I left it for the last time.

Wonderful pictures of a packed Holte End. It must have looked impressive from the pitch.

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2014, 06:52:38 PM »
Another reason I still  have a soft spot for Yorkie, his two goals that day, even though he has since said some very daft things.

Does anyone know why the Holte was rebuilt as a two tier stand?

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2014, 06:53:50 PM »
Another reason I still  have a soft spot for Yorkie, his two goals that day, even though he has since said some very daft things.

Does anyone know why the Holte was rebuilt as a two tier stand?

Because the back of a single tier structure would have been too far away from the Witton End goal for a seated area.

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2014, 06:56:30 PM »
A social history of Britain...

"Tell me, dad, what were the milk crates for?"

"Tell me, grandad, what are those strange coloured plastic things?"

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2014, 06:57:12 PM »
God I loved the Holte end in the old days when I went with my dad, certain games stick in my mind, Villa 2 Southampton 1 FA cup 4th round 1969, Villa 2 Man Utd 1 League cup semi final December 1970 and Villa 2 Bourmemouth 1 Division 3 February 1972, the atmosphere on the Holte in those matches was truly amazing, wipes away a tear.

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2014, 07:05:51 PM »
On the which side was worse forum I have voted for this year

I wonder if the holte could be the reason.

I keep looking back at how much fun we had back then on the old holte or am I looking through rose tinted specs

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2014, 07:06:42 PM »
The Left Side!

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2014, 07:10:31 PM »
We are the famous, the famous Holte End!

Who else stayed for ages after the match in an attempt to be the last one on The Holte, and also because you didn't want to leave knowing going down the match would never be the same again?

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2014, 07:14:35 PM »
I keep looking back at how much fun we had back then on the old holte or am I looking through rose tinted specs

There was much that left a lot to be desired about 70s and 80s terrace culture, but for the most part it was fun, a learning experience and one that I wouldn't have swapped for the world.  I consider myself lucky to have been a school boy and a teenager when my team climbed to the top of the tree. And even luckier to have witnessed much of it from arguably the best terraced end in the country.

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2014, 07:18:45 PM »
The flip side was during the mid 80s when everyone in the ground could have fit in half the Holte, it was a pretty depressing place to watch us be shit. 6-8K in a stand that held over 20K wasn't much fun.
But when it wanted to, The Holte pissed on every stand in the country. The Kop was nothing in comparison.

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2014, 07:24:00 PM »
A proper Holte and the AV floodlights. Reminds me why I fell in love with club.


Gives a sense of scale as to just how big it was.



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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #13 on: May 02, 2014, 07:26:00 PM »
True, those days were dire, but from a distance of thirty years I have a perverse sense of nostalgia for enduring those seasons on acres of empty concrete. 

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2014, 07:27:02 PM »


Full match, one of my favourite nights as a young Holte Ender.

 


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