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Villa Lew:
Villa 2 Southampton 1  29th January 1969 FA Cup 4th Round Replay

One of the great FA Cup matches played under the lights at VP. Southampton had a good side in those days with players like Mick Channon, Ron Davies, Terry Paine, Jimmy Gabriel and their hard man John McGrath in their line up. Channon opened the scoring for them and then Peter Broadbent equalised. The winner came from a Dave Rudge cross, which Lionel Martin turned in for the winner.

I remember the atmosphere that night was incredible with nearly 60,000 there. It was a few weeks after Doug took over.

Villa team   Dunn, Bradley, Aitken, Hole, Edwards, Turnbull, Rudge, Broadbent, Godfrey, Martin, Anderson.  Tommy Docherty Manager

wittonwarrior:
1976 away at the dell was a really colourful affair with hundreds of balloons

Oscar Arce:
Yes I was there, it was the best and scariest atmosphere I can remember.
These were the days when you literally crammed into your standing spot, as a young lad it was pretty frightening.
When Lionel's goal went in in front of the Holte End, the crowd surged forward and I found myself carried from the back of the Holte where we stood, to the front, and had to find my way back somehow to where my Dad and brother were standing, only to find the same had happened to them.
After literally squeezing your way into a spot it was common that you couldn't move your hands from your pockets...tell that to the kids of today and they couldn't comprehend it, but that's what it was like.
The game? I think the late Peter Broadbent was superb in the match, he bossed the game.

dave shelley:
I was at that match too and was also at the 2-2 draw at the Dell.  Absolutely tremendous atmosphere, one of those nights when you really got to know what Villa Park is all about.

I remember McGrath, acreal meat merchant if ever there was one, no football in him whatsoever.  I recall him scything down Ridge at one point in the game and wondering if There would ever walk again let alone carry on in that match.

IIRC, Blues had a replay against the Arse I think it was the night before and they won.  I went to that too with my old man.  In the crush and shuffle on the way out some Nose roared out: ' there's fifty thousand here tonight, let's see the fucking Villa beat that!'. He wasn't all wrong, they did have a near 50k crowd but, as Lew says, we had what I think was 59k.  Obsessed with us even back then.

papa lazarou:
I can't remember if it was this match or the League Cup semi with Man Utd that we were on a bus at the top of The Ridgeway and we were going nowhere due to the traffic being so bad. Half a dozen of us young 'uns jumped off and started to run to the ground. There were some of the less fit ones coughing and spluttering as we turned into Brookvale Road and the bus went past us with the rest of the passengers shouting and giving us the Vs.
It amazes me when some people can recall what actually happened in some of these matches. I remember the occasions but hardly anything that went on in the games.

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