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42 years ago today Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
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Villafirst
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42 years ago today Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
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December 15, 2018, 06:43:01 AM »
Probably the finest first 45 minutes in the club's history. Your memories of that cold Wednesday evening in 1976.....
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Scratchins
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Re: 42 years ago today Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
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December 15, 2018, 07:54:37 AM »
I took a friend along who stood on the Witton with the Liverpool fans. At half time one of them sunk to his knees. His answer to his mates concern was "I'm praying for fog".
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Re: 42 years ago today Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
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December 15, 2018, 09:56:14 AM »
We were down the Witton in our usual spot, we got all the Villa goals along with Phil Thompson chasing the referee after nearly all of them! And yes, probably the finest I ever saw the Villa play. Wonderful night.
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Re: 42 years ago today Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
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December 16, 2018, 05:15:40 PM »
I wasn’t allowed to go had my olevel mocks and it being a school night. Funny how I was allowed however to go to blues, city, Stoke, qpr and all the others we list too that season
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Re: 42 years ago today Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
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December 16, 2018, 09:03:55 PM »
This was my first ever game at the Villa.
The atmosphere under the lights and the game was amazing.
Went away thinking all games would be like that!
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Re: 42 years ago today Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
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December 17, 2018, 10:57:22 PM »
I am ashamed to say that I missed this match, a good mate had bought me a ticket for, of all things, a Jasper Carrott gig at Birmingham Town Hall. He announced the score during the latter part of his act and it got the biggest laugh of the night.
If memory serves ATV didn’t have cameras there as they had decided in their infinite wisdom to cover Derek Hales’ debut for Derby but others with keener memories may be able to prove otherwise.
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Re: 42 years ago today Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
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December 19, 2018, 04:28:33 PM »
A surreal December night. Thrashing the best side in Europe in a first half alone, all the goals coming at the Witton End. Just another match that season where we put teams to the sword at Villa Park. No tv cameras there as ATV were more interested in Derby County at the time.
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Re: 42 years ago today Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
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December 21, 2018, 03:47:59 PM »
The derby game ended 0-0, of course.
Elsewhere, ITV might have covered an F A Cup tie in the East Midlands which ended, Mansfield Town 2, Matlock Town 5!!
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December 21, 2018, 09:34:33 PM »
Gary Newbon said that he sat in a box at Villa Park as a guest of M&B (or Ansells, I can't remember which) grimacing at every goal.
And it's at about this time whenever this game is mentioned on here that someone raises the subject of the mystery camera in the Witton End that supposedly took some film of the match.
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December 21, 2018, 09:50:32 PM »
I was lucky to be standing in the Witton End that night and it has to go down as the best Villa game i have ever seen .I can still picture Ray Clemence,Alan Kennedy,Phil Thompson and Emlyn Hughes arguing among themselves after each goal
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January 07, 2019, 11:36:17 AM »
What a match this was!
Villa were on fire in that first half, with three strikers, Little, Deehan and Gray tearing Liverpool apart.
Sat in the Trinity Road stand unusually instead of standing in the Holte, and had a perfect view of all the goals in that first half.
Derby had just signed Derek Hales from Charlton and the ATV cameras were there to record a drab 0-0 as others have said, so there is no footage of the game that exists anywhere unless there was the mystery camera Dave mentions!
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