Getting the Villa Special back to town and hoping the Argus would already be on sale.Drinking in the Upper Grounds when Benny from Crossroads was always in there.The toilets outside the Upper Grounds for some reason called "The Rhinos" by some.The bloke next to me in the old Trinity Road stand who used to jump up and down on his programme as we tumbled into the Third Division.Walking through town after a game and every window sill alive with starlings. Millions of 'em.The night we "ejected" all the Arsenal fans from the Holte End and they swarmed across the pitch and got into the Witton. That was the night Sammy Morgan terrorised Bob Wilson. 6ft 2, eyes of blue etcStaying in town on Saturday night drinking and then getting the Sunday Mercury about half ten on New St Station.
Quote from: ClarrieBlue on February 03, 2016, 07:18:35 PMGetting the Villa Special back to town and hoping the Argus would already be on sale.Drinking in the Upper Grounds when Benny from Crossroads was always in there.The toilets outside the Upper Grounds for some reason called "The Rhinos" by some.The bloke next to me in the old Trinity Road stand who used to jump up and down on his programme as we tumbled into the Third Division.Walking through town after a game and every window sill alive with starlings. Millions of 'em.The night we "ejected" all the Arsenal fans from the Holte End and they swarmed across the pitch and got into the Witton. That was the night Sammy Morgan terrorised Bob Wilson. 6ft 2, eyes of blue etcStaying in town on Saturday night drinking and then getting the Sunday Mercury about half ten on New St Station.yeah i remember the millions of starlings flying from the outskirts of Birmingham to the City centre every night , and i remember the arsenal cup game , i was with mates from school in the north bank highbury for the 1st match when sammy morgan got sent off and with my old man in the holte when he inevitably scored in the replay , yeah and i remember saturday nights upstairs in the hole in the wall or the red lion and if not going to barberellas , sloopys , rum runner or the cedar i would get the last bus home at 11pm
These days when a player from the opposition gets stretchered off they receive sympathetic applause. I remember a time when the would leave the pitch to the sound of "your going home in a f****** ambulance".
Lost In History @SadHappyAmazing 3h3 hours agoWonderful photo of Villa Park during a match between Aston Villa and Liverpool in 1907
QuoteLost In History @SadHappyAmazing 3h3 hours agoWonderful photo of Villa Park during a match between Aston Villa and Liverpool in 1907
Quote from: FrankyH on February 03, 2016, 06:06:20 PMStanding on the Holte End and getting a whiff of one of those God-Awful farts that smelled like the perpetrator had followed through and shit themselves.I definitely don't smell them now , maybe they disappeared when it went all seater or my sense of smell has diminished over the years.oh god yeah , thinking about it , i can smell one now , while i am eating my dinner
Standing on the Holte End and getting a whiff of one of those God-Awful farts that smelled like the perpetrator had followed through and shit themselves.I definitely don't smell them now , maybe they disappeared when it went all seater or my sense of smell has diminished over the years.