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Author Topic: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?  (Read 9241 times)

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #30 on: May 20, 2018, 11:35:57 PM »
There's loads of episodes of 'The Big Match' on Youtube, i've wasted a fair few hours watching some of them. They often showed a Midlands game so you get to hear Hugh Johns in them. Sadly not so much of Star Soccer on there.

Here's a later one with Villa v Watford in the FA Cup.


Stoke v Villa


Offline Damo70

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #31 on: May 20, 2018, 11:52:44 PM »
Hugh Johns I associate with the delicious smell of roast lamb and mint sauce.

Rush down Sunday dinner and get the best seat for Star Soccer. The theme tune was fantastic too.

I had no problem getting the best seat in the house for Star Soccer. I was an only child (funnily enough I still am), my dad used to go to the pub with my uncle Chris (and my grandad before his health problems) twice a week, every Thursday night and Sunday lunchtime and my mum used to listen to the radio in the kitchen. If I remember right BRMB used to do a thing connecting people on the phone to relatives abroad (usually Australia and maybe hosted by Ed Doolan?) and then do an Irish music show (Stephen Rhoades?) So my dad was out on the lash, my mum was listening to the radio in the kitchen and I had the living room and sofa* to myself.

*Actually I might have had my own bean bag in the living room by that point. Ask your parents kids.

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #32 on: May 21, 2018, 08:49:02 AM »
Hugh Johns for me also great day's brilliant theme tune.

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #33 on: May 21, 2018, 10:17:41 AM »
Hugh Johns and Star Soccer. Not just for his Villa commentaries but his Midlands work in general. 'Big Peter Withe', 'Sid Cowans', 'Pop Robson', 'Big Larry Lloyd', 'Wee Archie Gemmill'. He was also the forgotten commentator of the 1966 World Cup final on ITV as people only remember Kenneth Wolstenholme's famous words on the BBC. Obviously George Gavin's radio work for BRMB, particularly from 1980 to 1982 as well.

Liam 'Chippy' Brady

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #34 on: May 21, 2018, 10:30:07 AM »
Certainly not the most synonymous, but I love this commentary from Martin Tyler.  "Merson...it's dipPING OH! PAUL MERSON!"


Offline four fornicholl

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #35 on: May 21, 2018, 07:59:50 PM »
His name escapes me, again, but who used to do our commentaries on European nights on BBC radio?

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #36 on: May 22, 2018, 09:53:13 AM »
His name escapes me, again, but who used to do our commentaries on European nights on BBC radio?

Franksy :)

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #37 on: May 22, 2018, 09:57:41 AM »
Certainly not the most synonymous, but I love this commentary from Martin Tyler.  "Merson...it's dipPING OH! PAUL MERSON!"


What a dire shit game that was until the last minute... I remember it better than most games as I was watching it round my mate Shaun's house with our brothers and his dad.

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #38 on: May 22, 2018, 07:44:29 PM »
Just sit back and listen to the sublime, dulcet tones of Hugh Johns.



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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #39 on: May 23, 2018, 08:26:00 AM »
Hugh John's Star Soccer commentaries would start with him welcoming us to whatever ground it was and then giving us the background to the match over random shots of the players warming up in the style of their choosing which was sometimes half-hearted in those days.

Defenders would often "hoike" the ball forward rather than simply clear it.

The midlands bit would finish with a pitch side interview with Billy Wright every week.

There was something very comforting about that programme.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #40 on: May 23, 2018, 03:22:03 PM »
Hugh John's Star Soccer commentaries would start with him welcoming us to whatever ground it was and then giving us the background to the match over random shots of the players warming up in the style of their choosing which was sometimes half-hearted in those days.

Defenders would often "hoike" the ball forward rather than simply clear it.

The midlands bit would finish with a pitch side interview with Billy Wright every week.

There was something very comforting about that programme.


He also always used to introduce the referee and where he was from. Although there was usually a caption on the screen telling you as well.

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #41 on: May 23, 2018, 07:06:41 PM »
"Referee Daryl Reeves from Uxbridge"

Offline Damo70

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #42 on: May 23, 2018, 08:58:56 PM »
"Referee Daryl Reeves from Uxbridge"

That was the name and place I thought of but I wasn't sure if I had remembered right and couldn't be bothered to check it up. Our barmy bus load from Newtown and the black country drank in Uxbridge before and after the Bolton semi.

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #43 on: May 24, 2018, 03:25:56 AM »
As much as I thought of him as ordinary - Hugh Johns.  The magic moment though belongs to Brian Moore.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Which TV commentator do associate Aston Villa with the most?
« Reply #44 on: May 24, 2018, 04:22:10 PM »
Johnathan Pearce on MOTD when we beat Chelsea a few years back "Look at the Holte end, listen to the Holte end"!

 


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