I was barred from going as a daft 16 year old provably the wisest thing my mum and dad ever stopped me from doing
Two questions: how much of the match was left when we went 2-0 up and why were we playing them anyway?
Quote from: usav on November 07, 2017, 02:59:11 PMTwo questions: how much of the match was left when we went 2-0 up and why were we playing them anyway?It was about 48 minutes in and we were playing them in a friendly because it was an international match weekend - a very unusual thing in those days.
I know someone who used to play in a local band at the time, he is also a blues fan but lived and worked amongst villa fans is well liked and popular with villa. Anyway his band were playing in town the night before the game, and a load of scotch walked in started saying "can yer play any status quo' they replied no, the scotch weren't happy and smashed the boozer up.
I was an apprentice and took the opportunity to earn a few extra pounds by working that saturday as there was no real game on.No social media then, but the days events were being played out on BRMBI went into town after work and as class of 82 says, a lot of villa around Hole in the wall and costermonger.There were a few scores settled in town, as guys who had been on the lash for two days were picked off.In hindsight a crazy fixture, Doug trying to make a few shekels on an International weekend.You only have to remember the mayhem at the England Scotland games at Wembley, to imagine what was going to happen, this was Braveheart, Carnival time with everyone invading the land of the sassenachs, for a drunken replay of Bannockburn.As an aside I think it was Sean (RIP) who was wearing his Celtic shirt and waving at them from the lower Trinity that raised the odds a bit.