Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Lucky Eddie on July 24, 2010, 11:07:40 AM
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I have a Holte End brick that I collected the day they knocked down the Trinity Road side wall, I wouldn't part with it for love nor money.
I'm also rather fond of a Villa united league cup final painting signed by Deano and Dalian and a very sad 'pride of the midlands' flag I bought on Erdington High Street twenty odd years ago that's been to London with me countless times since. :-)
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My 1981 supporters club photocard , I needed to travel to the European Cup Final.. I was 15 and my face looks beaming with joy.
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Mine would be my villa autograph book from years ago and my villa book collection.
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You lucky fucker, I've got mates with those and not one of them looks like they've aged a day since! Must have been something in the Rotterdam beer :-)
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My season ticket book was always the single thing that I would grab for if the flat was on fire but sadly I have no attachment whatsoever to my new 'seasoncards'. :-(
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There's a mirror at my parents' house with the old circluar badge and a really nice deep claret bearing the legend "A record 7 wins" of the FA Cup. It lists all our honours and you can place it between 77 and 81 based on what it includes.
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Had my photo taken with the European Cup back in 82, and it was pride of place in my bedroom for years till I left home and my Mom had a clear out and I haven't seen it since. It still bothers me to this day.
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Has to be my programmes. Every home programme from 1966 when I started and almost every away programme from 1969 up till i stopped buying the "match day magazine" in the early 1990s. Supplemented with buildling it up back into the 1950s plus a few pre war. Oldest I have is a Villa News and Record dated about 1912.
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My top 3;
1, The Story of Aston Villa, which is a book of cartoons by Norman Edwards, circa @ 1952 price 3/6
2, my home made flag , ASTON VILLA, LIONS 1874,,
which hung proudly at the Green Man before the game with Chelsea,
but the nice lady at Wembley said was too big to take into the ground,
after much grovelling she let me hang it over the wall by the corner flag.
3, My 6ft Lion mural on the back of my kitchen extension,
(still getting grief from she who must be obeyed on that one!)
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Got one of Paul McGraths shirts.
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Got one of Paul McGraths shirts.
Me too!! :-)
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1957 FA Cup Final programme and newspaper from that day.
Bought them off eBay a few years ago.
Desperately want to see Villa win the FA Cup again.
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1957 FA Cup Final programme and newspaper from that day.
Ive got the 1957 programme but not any newspapers. However I have the newspaper for the 1956 Cup Final, a blue coloured Birmingham saturday night sports paper which must have been the forerunner of the Sports Argus.
Im rather pleased that the one vague piece of small heath memorabilia I have relates to when they must have realised that the gypsy curse was for real. Well done Mr Trautmann.
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When I was a kid i won a signed shirt around 1986,the shirts was the white and yellow away striped shirt. It wasn't a vintage Villa team around that time but there's a couple of legends on there,Allan Evans and Andy Gray,but there's also Paul Kerr and Satan Hodge!!
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Dennis Mortimers autograph over the front of the Villa/Inter milan program from August 2007. Its framed and on wall.
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Framed white away "32 RED " shirt, signed with a picture of us in each corner of the frame collecting autographs. 1 of the pictures is of ourselves with GK and RL in the boardroom after they both signed also
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A painting of Villa Park from 1990 taken from a North Stand POV showing the old Holte, Witton and Trinity Road Stands. Also got the 1990 squad's signatures at the bottom (plus Doug's as well!).
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A 1993-94 shirt (without the Muller sponsorship) signed by Paul McGrath
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My original Champions of Europe shirt, need to get it framed at some point.
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I have a Terry Weir official Club photo of the 1976/77 League Cup winning squad, complete with cup, signed by all the players and staff.
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Gary Shaw autographed photo..a legend and my hero...oh what might have been for him...
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Gary Shaw autographed photo..a legend and my hero...oh what might have been for him...
Here here,and for us as well,though Doug probably would've sold him at the first chance!
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Sold all my stuff but kept my ticket from the European Cup Final.
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A Terry Weir photo of me and a few mates in the dug-out at Notts County in 1983 after a light-hearted half-time pitch invasion.
Stone me that's a long sentence.
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1957 FA Cup Final programme and newspaper from that day.
Ive got the 1957 programme but not any newspapers. However I have the newspaper for the 1956 Cup Final, a blue coloured Birmingham saturday night sports paper which must have been the forerunner of the Sports Argus.
Im rather pleased that the one vague piece of small heath memorabilia I have relates to when they must have realised that the gypsy curse was for real. Well done Mr Trautmann.
That would have been the Blue Mail. The Argus was a different publication which started in 1897.
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There's a mirror at my parents' house with the old circluar badge and a really nice deep claret bearing the legend "A record 7 wins" of the FA Cup. It lists all our honours and you can place it between 77 and 81 based on what it includes.
I was given a mirror like that - can't remember whether it had the honours on it but it was circular with that Villa badge- for my birthday - this would have been around 1982/83.
Anyway, I was just a kid and didn't have anywhere to hang it, so I put it on the floor next to my bed. Of course, I forgot about this when I woke up and trod on it, which cracked it.
I blame myself for the subsequent seven years...
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I have the last shirt Dwight Yorke ever wore for us, signed and framed.
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Probably my replica of the stadium , bought it for about £60 few years back- I also have nearly every home programme from about 1970 to early 90s but I they are taking up too much room and I want to sell them .
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Both programmes from the European Cup Final and my match tickit also a city final pink after the 57 cup final.
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Got a programme of every Villa game since I've been a season ticket holder. Aged 25 and almost approaching my 500th game
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I've recently acquired every program from 80/81 and 81/82 out of the loft of a house my dads mate was working in. The guy was throwing them out so my dads mate had 'em for me.
Not Villa related but I've also a totally completed card-book from 1971. Not bad for someone born 18 years later!
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I have every home programme from 1971/72 when my grandfather first took me down and we won the third division, 1976/77, the most exciting Villa side I've ever seen and 1980/81.
They're all in protected presentation packs. I take a look from time to time, if only to see Terry Weir's great photos.
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signed framed julian joachim shirt that I won on the old mailing list - picked it up at bodymoor at kit sponsors' day in 1997
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My 1981 supporters club photocard , I needed to travel to the European Cup Final.
Mine too, together with the match ticket.
Ex schoolmates Dad worked for the club at the time and was able to get us tickets for the match but we had to join the supporters club to get them. My mate was working in LA at the time and was desperate to go so I got my Dad to join to get the ticket for him. My mate went as my Dad and even now he doesn't look as old as my Dad did in the photo.
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The first Villa babygrow my son had.
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European cup final ticket, programme, Travel Tickets (David Dyer Travel) and replica final shirt (which sadly doesn't fit me anymore) and the framed photo of me and my dad woth the European Cup and Super Cup taken at VP by Terry Weir around March-ish 1983.
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A football signed by the 1982 squad.
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My collection of framed prints I purchased from Richard Whitehead.
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Got the home shirt of 2 seasons gone signed by all the squad, sadly donated by NRC with his name and number on the back.
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"It was Saturday evening August the 30th 1941, the day on which in peace time the English Football League commenced the season and here was I a member of H.M. Royal Air Force station at Silloth a small port & holiday resort situated on the north east coast of Cumberland with its beaches washed by the waters of the Solway Firth and twenty one miles from the garrison town of Carlisle. The weather was ideal, a fairly calm sun sent its rays southward and a balmy breeze lazily made its way from off the waters. All day I had been suffering from a great feeling of home sickness & when the day turned to be as grand I became worse. I looked at my watch 2.40 p.m. it told me. I put on my coat and smoothly stroad off through the park & towards the ground. I bought a programme from one of the service fellows of World War 1 & paid my 1/- & entered the gound through a well oiled turnstile. Oh what a ground as level as a billiard table, turf in good condition and a wonderful sight. 2.59 p.m. any moment now & those lads will come troopimg out, a great roar issues from the throats of the 50 thousand people that crowded the terracing and stands. "Here come the lads" & Jimmy Allen followed by Mush Callaghan & more other heroes in claret and blue emerged from the players ally and set foot on the turf and headed for the goal at the Church end of the ground. What a sight there was George Cummings last as usual and walking as if all this cheering was for him alone. "Good old George". Joe has now taken his place between the sticks and stoops to hold a cannon shot from Eric ( evergreen ) Houghton now in his twelth playing season for the Villa. Mossie now slips a ball forward& Frank Broome is off like a greyhound & on the run sends in a shot which Joe does wll to stop. The lads are on their toes today is the crowd's general opinion & to further this Haycock sends the now retrieved ball into the net like a flash well out of the goalies reach. The ref blows his whistle. But alas it is all a wonderful pipe dream & I open my eyes to see not the happy surroundings of Villa Park but the whiteness of the roof of our hut." Extracts from a letter written by by dad who passed away 10 yeras ago. My Mom is now in John Taylor Hospice with terminal cancer. I felt like sharing this extract as my Mom thought I should. This is my most prcious Villa momentum and is one of the reasons I am Claret and Blue. Good luck to us all for the season ahead and hope you don't mind the post.
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Wrote to Steve Stride when I was 11 as part of a school project about businesses in the community. He sent me back a piece of A4 headed paper signed by the whole squad. Steve Stride - top bloke.
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"It was Saturday evening August the 30th 1941, the day on which in peace time the English Football League commenced the season and here was I a member of H.M. Royal Air Force station at Silloth a small port & holiday resort situated on the north east coast of Cumberland with its beaches washed by the waters of the Solway Firth and twenty one miles from the garrison town of Carlisle. The weather was ideal, a fairly calm sun sent its rays southward and a balmy breeze lazily made its way from off the waters. All day I had been suffering from a great feeling of home sickness & when the day turned to be as grand I became worse. I looked at my watch 2.40 p.m. it told me. I put on my coat and smoothly stroad off through the park & towards the ground. I bought a programme from one of the service fellows of World War 1 & paid my 1/- & entered the gound through a well oiled turnstile. Oh what a ground as level as a billiard table, turf in good condition and a wonderful sight. 2.59 p.m. any moment now & those lads will come troopimg out, a great roar issues from the throats of the 50 thousand people that crowded the terracing and stands. "Here come the lads" & Jimmy Allen followed by Mush Callaghan & more other heroes in claret and blue emerged from the players ally and set foot on the turf and headed for the goal at the Church end of the ground. What a sight there was George Cummings last as usual and walking as if all this cheering was for him alone. "Good old George". Joe has now taken his place between the sticks and stoops to hold a cannon shot from Eric ( evergreen ) Houghton now in his twelth playing season for the Villa. Mossie now slips a ball forward& Frank Broome is off like a greyhound & on the run sends in a shot which Joe does wll to stop. The lads are on their toes today is the crowd's general opinion & to further this Haycock sends the now retrieved ball into the net like a flash well out of the goalies reach. The ref blows his whistle. But alas it is all a wonderful pipe dream & I open my eyes to see not the happy surroundings of Villa Park but the whiteness of the roof of our hut." Extracts from a letter written by by dad who passed away 10 yeras ago. My Mom is now in John Taylor Hospice with terminal cancer. I felt like sharing this extract as my Mom thought I should. This is my most prcious Villa momentum and is one of the reasons I am Claret and Blue. Good luck to us all for the season ahead and hope you don't mind the post.
Quality Brother, quality. Best wishes to your Mom.
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"It was Saturday evening August the 30th 1941, the day on which in peace time the English Football League commenced the season and here was I a member of H.M. Royal Air Force station at Silloth a small port & holiday resort situated on the north east coast of Cumberland with its beaches washed by the waters of the Solway Firth and twenty one miles from the garrison town of Carlisle. The weather was ideal, a fairly calm sun sent its rays southward and a balmy breeze lazily made its way from off the waters. All day I had been suffering from a great feeling of home sickness & when the day turned to be as grand I became worse. I looked at my watch 2.40 p.m. it told me. I put on my coat and smoothly stroad off through the park & towards the ground. I bought a programme from one of the service fellows of World War 1 & paid my 1/- & entered the gound through a well oiled turnstile. Oh what a ground as level as a billiard table, turf in good condition and a wonderful sight. 2.59 p.m. any moment now & those lads will come troopimg out, a great roar issues from the throats of the 50 thousand people that crowded the terracing and stands. "Here come the lads" & Jimmy Allen followed by Mush Callaghan & more other heroes in claret and blue emerged from the players ally and set foot on the turf and headed for the goal at the Church end of the ground. What a sight there was George Cummings last as usual and walking as if all this cheering was for him alone. "Good old George". Joe has now taken his place between the sticks and stoops to hold a cannon shot from Eric ( evergreen ) Houghton now in his twelth playing season for the Villa. Mossie now slips a ball forward& Frank Broome is off like a greyhound & on the run sends in a shot which Joe does wll to stop. The lads are on their toes today is the crowd's general opinion & to further this Haycock sends the now retrieved ball into the net like a flash well out of the goalies reach. The ref blows his whistle. But alas it is all a wonderful pipe dream & I open my eyes to see not the happy surroundings of Villa Park but the whiteness of the roof of our hut." Extracts from a letter written by by dad who passed away 10 yeras ago. My Mom is now in John Taylor Hospice with terminal cancer. I felt like sharing this extract as my Mom thought I should. This is my most prcious Villa momentum and is one of the reasons I am Claret and Blue. Good luck to us all for the season ahead and hope you don't mind the post.
Quality Brother, quality. Best wishes to your Mom.
Many thanks for sharing this with is us Dave, and I have recently been through a similar experience, so my heart goes out to you.
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Dave H, that was a beautiful post - thank you.
One of the things I treasure most is the letter I got back from Villa signed by Brian Little from when he was in charge of Villa. I wrote to the club as an 11 year old kid and never in my dreams did I think they would write back; the fact that they did bother to cemented the club and Sir Brian in my heart.
Then, my mom found an old Villa badge at a jumble sale at her church, I'm not 100% as to when it's from, but I'm guessing the 50's/60's. It's now proudly on my hoodie-jacket-thing's arm. (I hope that's not offensive to anyone, I'm just proud of it).
Lastly, my brother's Villa scarf that he passed on to me. When my family arrived in this country, my brother (rightly) picked the Villa. I used to take it everywhere with me as a kid and I love it to bits!
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A poster of the 81-82 season team photo with the Championship trophy, signed by the members of the European Cup winning squad and Tony Barton.
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Wonderful post, Dave H.
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That piece by Dave H should go in the fanzine, very moving.
Considering how long I've been supporting Villa I should have a load of stuff but over the years it has either been chucked out or mislaid. I wish I still had my first ever scarf but I left that on the 64 bus 38 years ago.
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My Norman Edwards original cartoon books, one from 1947 and the other to celebrate the cup win in 57. The former contains an introduction from Sir Patrick Hannon, president of Aston Villa, Mr Fred Normansell, chairman of the club and Mr J Broughton, vice-chairman. Handed down to me through my dad's side of the family and probably worth a bob or two now. My other favourite is my original 70s villa scarf (the white one with claret and blue stripes at intervals) with the old circular villa badge sewn on to it as we used to do in those days. Wear it to most matches as some on here will know!
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My limited edition Aston Villa watch, number 18 of only 250 made and my Villa tattoo. I also have an Aston Villa mirror on the wall in the bathroom
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You know those Russian doll things where you open it up to find a smaller one inside, and then again and again? I have a Villa set of those that my sister bought me back from Poland a few years ago. Hand painted and I really like it and it's pretty much unique as I have never seen another one like it.
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You know those Russian doll things where you open it up to find a smaller one inside, and then again and again? I have a Villa set of those that my sister bought me back from Poland a few years ago. Hand painted and I really like it and it's pretty much unique as I have never seen another one like it.
Our Nige would like those with his Polish Villa connections...
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I have a signed framed European cup shirt which I got for my retirement also have every season review since 1988 lots of other villa dvds and programs.
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Dave H, that is a beautiful momento, treasure it (I'm sure you will), but a very sad story.
Good luck to you and your family.
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Dave H. Fantastic post. Had tears in my eyes at the end of it. Wish your Mom the very best ....................
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"It was Saturday evening August the 30th 1941, the day on which in peace time the English Football League commenced the season and here was I a member of H.M. Royal Air Force station at Silloth a small port & holiday resort situated on the north east coast of Cumberland with its beaches washed by the waters of the Solway Firth and twenty one miles from the garrison town of Carlisle. The weather was ideal, a fairly calm sun sent its rays southward and a balmy breeze lazily made its way from off the waters. All day I had been suffering from a great feeling of home sickness & when the day turned to be as grand I became worse. I looked at my watch 2.40 p.m. it told me. I put on my coat and smoothly stroad off through the park & towards the ground. I bought a programme from one of the service fellows of World War 1 & paid my 1/- & entered the gound through a well oiled turnstile. Oh what a ground as level as a billiard table, turf in good condition and a wonderful sight. 2.59 p.m. any moment now & those lads will come troopimg out, a great roar issues from the throats of the 50 thousand people that crowded the terracing and stands. "Here come the lads" & Jimmy Allen followed by Mush Callaghan & more other heroes in claret and blue emerged from the players ally and set foot on the turf and headed for the goal at the Church end of the ground. What a sight there was George Cummings last as usual and walking as if all this cheering was for him alone. "Good old George". Joe has now taken his place between the sticks and stoops to hold a cannon shot from Eric ( evergreen ) Houghton now in his twelth playing season for the Villa. Mossie now slips a ball forward& Frank Broome is off like a greyhound & on the run sends in a shot which Joe does wll to stop. The lads are on their toes today is the crowd's general opinion & to further this Haycock sends the now retrieved ball into the net like a flash well out of the goalies reach. The ref blows his whistle. But alas it is all a wonderful pipe dream & I open my eyes to see not the happy surroundings of Villa Park but the whiteness of the roof of our hut." Extracts from a letter written by by dad who passed away 10 yeras ago. My Mom is now in John Taylor Hospice with terminal cancer. I felt like sharing this extract as my Mom thought I should. This is my most prcious Villa momentum and is one of the reasons I am Claret and Blue. Good luck to us all for the season ahead and hope you don't mind the post.
Everyone one of us at some point has dreamed of playing for Villa, or closing our eyes and reliving Villa moments. Great stuff Dave. Thank your mom for allowing this to be shared with us.
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Not sure if it counts but I've got Peter Withe's email address and mobile phone number.
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I have both the Official and Unofficial programs that i bought in Rotterdam, both signed by all the Villa players except Ken Mcnaught and bizarrely Ron Saunders.
I don't have my match ticket anymore but i do have my David Dryer travel voucher for B'ham to Boulogne.
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A Villa towel given to me from Sir Graham in 88 just after my old man died, I was only 12. My Mom used to work with some relative of his, he heard about me and sent it to me with some other stuff, but I still have the towel and still use it! He also sent a yearbook + programmes, signed with best wishes. Legend.
Also a 1982 Champions of Europre scarf, my old man bought me when I was a nipper.
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You know those Russian doll things where you open it up to find a smaller one inside, and then again and again? I have a Villa set of those that my sister bought me back from Poland a few years ago. Hand painted and I really like it and it's pretty much unique as I have never seen another one like it.
I have one too. Someone bought it for me while they were on a weekend break in Prague.
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30+ years of great memories & some good good friends, that will always be part of me .
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Oddly enough something I got yesterday. My dad was Villa through and through passed away nearly two years ago. I was going through the last of his old papers and came across the Villa Annual 1951 the year of my birth.
He'd told me in the past he had kept newspapers and Villa material to celebrate my birth but he had assumed he had lost them.
I left home at 16 and it was the Villa more than anything which kept Dad and me in contact.
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The scarf my dad wore to the 1957 cup final, knitted for him by my gran. And a book of autographs of the 1971 League Cup Final cup squad.
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You know those Russian doll things where you open it up to find a smaller one inside, and then again and again? I have a Villa set of those that my sister bought me back from Poland a few years ago. Hand painted and I really like it and it's pretty much unique as I have never seen another one like it.
I have one too. Someone bought it for me while they were on a weekend break in Prague.
Each doll has a different player painted on it, unfortunately mine is from a few years ago so Lard Arse is on the big one people see most often!
Hopefully yours is different?
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1957 FA Cup Final programme and newspaper from that day.
Bought them off eBay a few years ago.
Desperately want to see Villa win the FA Cup again.
Tim, what did you pay for the newspaper on ebay? I have a '57 framed Sports Argus hanging in the hall and would be interested to know what its worth.
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Mine is a Villa mug I bought in the clubshop on the day we beat Liverpool when it was Dean Saunders home debut - so it's almost 20 years old. It reminds me of that game and the friend I took to that match - it was his first time at Villa Park. It's black with the old round crest in gold on it - I love it. I'm amazed I've still got it after all these years - I must've moved about 7 times since then and I've never broke or lost it, which is some kinda miracle. And I still use it.
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You know those Russian doll things where you open it up to find a smaller one inside, and then again and again? I have a Villa set of those that my sister bought me back from Poland a few years ago. Hand painted and I really like it and it's pretty much unique as I have never seen another one like it.
I have one too. Someone bought it for me while they were on a weekend break in Prague.
Each doll has a different player painted on it, unfortunately mine is from a few years ago so Lard Arse is on the big one people see most often!
Hopefully yours is different?
No, it's not. Size order, largest to smallest: Barry, Agbonlahor, Milner, Young then Carew. Mine has pride of place on the windowsill of the spare bedroom.
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A framed, limited edition, autographed pencil portrait of God.
It was given to me on my 21st birthday - magic .
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Signed Home Villa shirt from GT's final season. Went to Halesowen (?) after Everton away and got Platty et al signature on my brother's shirt.
If you're reading this Chris you cant have it back! Its mine now!!!! And you cant reply 'cos you're banned. Hahahaha
Also got an old beer mug passed down from my Uncle and something else in a presentation box, plus a Villa pendant on wall in study, next to the scummy Stoke shirt (framed) from a drunken charity night at the local where my wife was trying to outbid me from back of room (and we didnt know we were both bidding!)
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We used to have a signed case ball that they warmed up with before the 57 cup final kicked off. My Mum let us kick it around as kids and it eventually fell to bits. I often wonder what it would be worth had it been kept in mint condition.
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Quite simply a Villa scarf that my grandad got me for my first game. I remember him saying 'you're one of us now.'
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A framed, limited edition, autographed pencil portrait of God.
It was given to me on my 21st birthday - magic .
Sounds great. I'm very jealous.
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My favourite Villa possession was against Sheffield United a few years ago when we kept the ball for about 5 minutes.
Or, a couple of signed footballs.
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James Milner
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Not one of mine, but a lad I know has the 'keep of the pitch' sign from the old Holte.
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White champions of Europe away top - a players one, number 4 on the back given to me by Jim Paul the old kit man in 1982. It's signed..but by the squad a few years later, it's still got Spink, Shaw and Evans but unfortunately Graham Turner signed it too.
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Photo of my & my brother with the European Cup, in full Villa kit.
I was only 5, but remember it vividly - especially the lad in front of us, who actually got IN the cup for his photo.
Ace
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It says "To Lee, Best Wishes, Dennis Mortimer"