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Offline flybo

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #15 on: May 02, 2014, 07:59:24 PM »
That was my last ever game on a terrace.
I am now in a wheelchair.
Had to be there on the Holte`s last day one of my friends did not do that game and i do remind that friend any chance i get. lol
Did not want to leave i think a small part of me and Villa died on that day.

Offline Kevin Dawson

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #16 on: May 02, 2014, 08:11:28 PM »
That was my last ever game on a terrace.
I am now in a wheelchair.
Had to be there on the Holte`s last day one of my friends did not do that game and i do remind that friend any chance i get. lol
Did not want to leave i think a small part of me and Villa died on that day.

Sorry to hear that flybo.
Platt might have turned into a nob of epic proportions, but he was a bloody brilliant player for us. Some of the finest goal celebrations ever involved him - Arsenal at home and that night at Spurs....

Offline royvilla949

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #17 on: May 02, 2014, 08:19:39 PM »
i remember when there was no roof over the holt

Offline dave shelley

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #18 on: May 02, 2014, 08:29:26 PM »
i remember when there was no roof over the holt

So do I.  I also remember no floodlights too.

Dave W.  Am I correct in saying that the capacity of the Holte was 24,000?

Offline Mister E

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #19 on: May 02, 2014, 08:37:30 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.



These are the days I remember most fondly (the left side. BTW).
« Last Edit: May 02, 2014, 08:39:40 PM by Mister E »

Offline Mister E

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #20 on: May 02, 2014, 08:41:01 PM »
Am I correct in saying that the capacity of the Holte was 24,000?
that's as I remember it, Dave.

Offline Walmley_Villa

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #21 on: May 02, 2014, 08:43:12 PM »
i remember when there was no roof over the holt

So do I.  I also remember no floodlights too.

Dave W.  Am I correct in saying that the capacity of the Holte was 24,000?

28000 was the max I believe. 19500 when it closed.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #22 on: May 02, 2014, 08:44:25 PM »
IIRC it was down to about 20K by last day. Before that it was at various times 24K, 28K and over 30K. I'm sure Dave will confirm/rubbish what I remember.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #23 on: May 02, 2014, 08:46:21 PM »
Quote
The first recorded reference to a sports terrace as "Kop" related to Woolwich Arsenal's Manor Ground in 1904.[2] A local newsman likened the silhouette of fans standing on a newly raised bank of earth to soldiers standing atop the hill at the Battle of Spion Kop. In 1906 Liverpool Echo sports editor Ernest Edwards noted of a new open-air embankment at Anfield: "This huge wall of earth has been termed 'Spion Kop', and no doubt this apt name will always be used in future in referring to this spot". The name was formally consummated in 1928 upon construction of a roof. It is thought to be the first terrace officially named Spion Kop. Many other English football clubs and some Rugby league clubs (such as Wigan's former home Central Park) applied the same name to stands in later years.

Villa Park's old Holte End was historically the largest of all Kop ends, closely followed by the old South Bank at Molineux, both once regularly holding crowds in excess of 30,000. However in the mid-1980s work was completed on Hillsborough's Kop which, with a capacity of around 22,000, became the largest roofed terrace in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spion_Kop_(stadiums)   

Offline flybo

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #24 on: May 02, 2014, 09:09:56 PM »
That was my last ever game on a terrace.
I am now in a wheelchair.
Had to be there on the Holte`s last day one of my friends did not do that game and i do remind that friend any chance i get. lol
Did not want to leave i think a small part of me and Villa died on that day.

Sorry to hear that flybo.
Platt might have turned into a nob of epic proportions, but he was a bloody brilliant player for us. Some of the finest goal celebrations ever involved him - Arsenal at home and that night at Spurs....
Still going to games i will haved mist 6 buy end of season do doing man £ity or spuds

Offline myf

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #25 on: May 02, 2014, 09:48:07 PM »
I was lucky to have a couple of seasons on it which included the BFR years. Never been the same since really

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #26 on: May 02, 2014, 10:25:37 PM »
I was a bottom right-er, good days.

Offline b23

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #27 on: May 02, 2014, 10:39:39 PM »
The Stretford End ? The Kop End ? They were seriously tiny compared to

The Holte End.

I have a Holte End brick in the loft. It was'nt stolen. I asked if i could take one.

Left side!!!

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #28 on: May 02, 2014, 10:51:15 PM »
what a magnificent pass by Cowans with his "weaker" foot to Platt for the second. Sat in the Witton for that game pretty much where the away fans would be now.

Offline IAmTheOneIanOlney

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Re: Holte's Last Stand
« Reply #29 on: May 02, 2014, 10:52:52 PM »
Great pictures, particularly the one looking up the stand. Brings it all back. August '86, lower right, Clive Allen destroying us, having to hold on to one of the pillars at the end until my dad and brother found me. Desperate for the next game.

Any other lower-righters remember an older gent and his grown-up son who were both a bit "different" and often ended up having a massive row or hitting each other?

 


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