I watched that Blackburn game on TV screens set up on the pitch in front of the Witton Lane.I'd forgot Sid was playing for them.
We had a restricted allocation due to redevelopment at Ewood, I'm sure it was in the hundreds and we sat in the old and very cramped mainstand.I remember being under the stand with Duran Duran's Come Undone playing over the PA and feeling utterly depressed, whenever I hear that song I'm there again.Didn't Sid run the midfield that night for them?
When we went to Blackburn, wasn't that when the away end was being rebuilt at Ewood? I remember hundreds of Villa fans being marched out of the home end, along the touchline and being shoved in to the away end. Was that the same season?
Liverpool home was a great day at VP, UTD at home in the league cup was a corker too. When we won at Forest away, I thought it was within touching distance. Then Big Ron tried to shoe horn Dalian back in the team when he didn't seem fully fit and we lost our mojo.
My abiding memory of that season was Stan Stauntons cracking goal up at Old Trafford on the live Sunday game. Outside of the left boot, arrowhead into the top corner.Didn’t we also do the double over Liverpool that year, as well as bear Man U atour place, draw at theirs? But threw in a few freak results too (spanked at Cov for instance).Happy days though. Joyfull football.
Quote from: garyshawsknee on March 21, 2018, 10:56:02 AMLiverpool home was a great day at VP, UTD at home in the league cup was a corker too. When we won at Forest away, I thought it was within touching distance. Then Big Ron tried to shoe horn Dalian back in the team when he didn't seem fully fit and we lost our mojo. I remember that. IIRC Yorke had been doing ok but we rushed Dalian back.
Quote from: Pat McMahon on March 21, 2018, 10:47:58 PMQuote from: garyshawsknee on March 21, 2018, 10:56:02 AMLiverpool home was a great day at VP, UTD at home in the league cup was a corker too. When we won at Forest away, I thought it was within touching distance. Then Big Ron tried to shoe horn Dalian back in the team when he didn't seem fully fit and we lost our mojo. I remember that. IIRC Yorke had been doing ok but we rushed Dalian back. York was doing more than okay, I always blamed Big Ron for not giving Yorke his chance, he fully deserved it yet he insisted with Dalian and we threw it away. We played some cracking football though. I'm knackered just rewatching the highlights of the draw at Old Trafford.