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Villa 2 Stoke 1 17th November 1979

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Charlie8182:
Not the best quality footage (appears quite dark) but a game from just a few weeks after the boardroom battles/EGM, including a dog on the pitch, a rare sending off for those times, and a winner where the ref should have just given the goal instead of a penalty.

https://youtu.be/Yu-PMoN6Rok

dcdavecollett:
Great post!

Thanks a lot, Charlie.

GXVilla:
Brilliant Charlie! All I can remember was the dog coming on and the Holte chanting Andy is back!
(Andy Gray had just left for Wolves).
A very rare sighting of Mick Pejic as well!

Flamingo Lane:
That's an excellent find, and very interesting (and relatively rare) footage of the side in 79/80 evolving into the one that would become champions the following season.  It's especially interesting to see Brian Little and Gary Shaw playing together.

dave shelley:
Every time I look at these clips from back then, I always ask myself the same question...How the hell did Denis Mortimer not play for England?  That goal he scored there was just typical of the way he played, what a build up for it too; Sid's skill in taking the ball past the Stokie and then the exquisite pass.

Another question I ask myself is, how much better would those Villa players (and others to be fair) if they had pitches to play on like there are today?

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