best Holte End memories - standing

[villan from luton]

Sunderland in 1974/75, absolutely jam packed and great atmosphere

[luke95]

Not a match day experience but there was a time when you could just walk around the inside of Villa Park on none match days as it was left open to all .
Standing on a completely empty Holte End used to give me proper goose bumps, it was magical even when empty.

[thick_mike]

Freezing cold in a tiny crowd just before Christmas against Forest in the ZDS Cup. No villa players wanted to form the wall to defend a Stuart Pearce free kick on the edge of the box. Coldest I’ve ever been at a match.

[rob_bridge]

When we played Wimbledon and beat them 7-1 was a mad atmosphere in the snow and always sticks out for some reason

I was there but I don't remember any snow that day? Check the highlights on YouTube. ..

Must have got it mixed up with another game was definitely a good atmosphere though.

The 7-1 was a half empty seated Holte.

Rain. Wimbmedon. Forget it? Went at very short notice and loved it. Their 100 fans did a Conga.

[NatP]

If my memory is right it snowed when we beat Wimbledon towards the end of 92/93. It was the game where ST Holders could bring a friend for a quid and became my first match on the Holte End.

[dcdavecollett]

Bird's Eye/Eskimo?

[Damo70]

Kent Nielsen's goal against Inter. My mate disappeared about 10 yards away. It was half time before we could speak to eachother.

Tranmere penalties a different mate went as white as Casper the Ghost and couldn't watch the last 3 or 4 kicks. Just stood there with his back to the pitch.

I have never ended up so far from where I started on The Holte than the celebrations after Kent Nielson's goal against Inter. It took a good few minutes until the half a dozen or so of us who all stood together were reunited next to each other. The atmospheres at the Barcelona and Juventus games were electric and so too was the atmosphere later that year/ the following season when we beat Small Heath in the game that became known as 'the battle of Brum'.

[fbriai]

When we played Wimbledon and beat them 7-1 was a mad atmosphere in the snow and always sticks out for some reason

I was there but I don't remember any snow that day? Check the highlights on YouTube. ..

Must have got it mixed up with another game was definitely a good atmosphere though.

The 7-1 was a half empty seated Holte.

Rain. Wimbmedon. Forget it? Went at very short notice and loved it. Their 100 fans did a Conga.

I took my cousin to that one. He'd only ever been to one game before: Blues 7-1 Blackpool, which I think was a few weeks before.

[Damo70]

Freezing cold in a tiny crowd just before Christmas against Forest in the ZDS Cup. No villa players wanted to form the wall to defend a Stuart Pearce free kick on the edge of the box. Coldest I’ve ever been at a match.

We played Forest twice at Villa Park in the Simod/Zenith/whatever cup it was called that particular year. Once was a couple of days before Christmas in 1989 on a Friday night and I think we won 2-1 in the middle of that great run we had from September to March. I was on The Holte as usual and it would have been cold but I don't remember it being really really cold. We then played them in the same poxy competition under BFR. One of our 'gang' (I think it was Nodge) had complimentary tickets for The Trinity and it was the coldest I have ever been at Villa Park.

[Dave Wall]

Freezing cold in a tiny crowd just before Christmas against Forest in the ZDS Cup. No villa players wanted to form the wall to defend a Stuart Pearce free kick on the edge of the box. Coldest I’ve ever been at a match.

Attendance of about 7000 if I remember right.

[Damo70]

The 'Full Members'/'Simod'/'ZDS' cup started in 1985. The first game I can recall us playing in the competition was when we got stuffed 0-5 at Villa Park by Bradford and Ormondroyd caused us loads of problems in SGT's first season in 1987. I can't recall any ties we played in the competition before that. It did give me one of my favourite Villa memories when we beat Small Heath 6-0 on my eighteenth birthday.

[PeterWithesShin]

The previous season we beat Derby at home 4-1 and then lost 1-0 at Ipswich.

[four fornicholl]

I remember playing Leeds, first time in Witton Lane, can't remember anything though.

[PeterWithesShin]

I remember playing Leeds, first time in Witton Lane, can't remember anything though.

That was the Northern area semi, we won 2-0 at home. In the area final we lost both legs 2-1 against Boro.

[jcsutv]

Can remember Huddersfield stood at the back of the Holte as a 16 year old holding the roof, stood on the standing barriers. Alan McInally was sat on his ass 3 yards out trying to put the ball in the net. He failed but we sold him for a million anyway.😂