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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Lambert and Payne on August 27, 2010, 08:27:42 PM
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I dont think i could find a topic on this so please correct me if there is!
Ill start the ball rolling in any cases. My personal favourite is the 3 2 win over everton when ashley scored with the last kick. The whole ground shouting who are ya and everton at us and Ashley pulled off something rather special. Need i say more?
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My video! My video!
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Tranmere - League Cup Semi Final 2nd Leg 27th February 1994
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This one:
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You beat to the punch there Lee.
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Far too many but if i had to pick one i would probably go for Tranmere at home 1994
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Blackburn in the League Cup has to be up there, but my favourite has to be Sunderland away in the cup, winning on pens with Guzan pulling off save after save. Was also my first away match that we won, though I've only been to four.
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1970/71 League Cup semi final beating Man U 2-1 at Villa Park after drawing the first leg 1-1 at Old Trafford.
We were in the third division then and they had Best, Law and Charlton. 62,500 in the ground with Lochhead and Pat Mcmahon scoring for Villa. We probably performed better in the first game but for the sheer unadultered passion, emotion and excitement beating the might of man u to get to the final - this was my favourite game ever.
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I would go with the tranmere game or the inter milan home games.
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Skipping over the obvious, of the games I've been to, the Blackburn cup game last season was bizarre but brilliant. Being 2-0 down to Arsenal and coming back to win was also very memorable.
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1970/71 League Cup semi final beating Man U 2-1 at Villa Park after drawing the first leg 1-1 at Old Trafford.
We were in the third division then and they had Best, Law and Charlton. 62,500 in the ground with Lochhead and Pat Mcmahon scoring for Villa. We probably performed better in the first game but for the sheer unadultered passion, emotion and excitement beating the might of man u to get to the final - this was my favourite game ever.
Yes, that was a magic night playing a side who had won the European Cup two years earlier. Also the 2-1 vs Bournemouth with 48110 inside Villa Park.
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So many. Nods to the selections so far but if I had to choose one game to re-live it would be the game at Hillsborough where we clinched promotion back to the 1st division with a 4-0 victory. It was the achievement of the promised land for so many who had been there through our seemingly terminal decline. On the pitch when the game was over , it washed over me in great waves that we were back and no-one could take it away from us. Cried like a baby
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Bournemouth at VP old 3rd division , Santos & Liverpool at VP 5-1
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I'm not sure I can narrow it down. Right up there are the 1996 League Cup final, John Gregory's first game against Liverpool, the home game against Athletico Madrid, victory at Anfield last season, 2-2 home draw with Newcastle in 1996/1997, victory at Old Trafford last season.
However, the 3-2 at Goodison was special.
It cheered me up no-end at a quite difficult period in my life and I don't think I will ever forget it!
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While my favourite Villa moment would have to be Young's winner at Goodison I think the 5-1 against Blues edges it in terms of the 90 minutes in general.
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Tranmere game for me as well that game had everything.
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Difficult to choose, but up there would be the 3-0 win over QPR at Highbury in the League Cup semi-final. Mainly because living in London the press down here assumed it would be a walkover for QPR.
A Little hatrick with one of my favourite headlines the following day - 'Litlle by Little by Little'.
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The last game of the 74-75 season v Sunderland always has a special place in my memory.
We'd just clinched promotion in midweek, and we knew we were back where we belonged. The sun shone, Villa Park looked amazing with 57,000 packed inside, the Sunderland team lined up and applauded Villa on to the pitch. thousands on the pitch at the end after a 2-0 win, all singing "We're Going Up". OK, the game itself was nothing special, but it was a memorable day for so many reasons - not least that it was my 21st!
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another favourite is the home match with Coventry just before Xmas 1995. Villa win 4-1, Milosevic hat-trick, BFR and Rico sent packing and Nigel Spink's last ever Villa Park appearance.
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Beating Liverpool 5-1
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The last game of the 74-75 season v Sunderland always has a special place in my memory.
We'd just clinched promotion in midweek, and we knew we were back where we belonged. The sun shone, Villa Park looked amazing with 57,000 packed inside, the Sunderland team lined up and applauded Villa on to the pitch. thousands on the pitch at the end after a 2-0 win, all singing "We're Going Up". OK, the game itself was nothing special, but it was a memorable day for so many reasons - not least that it was my 21st!
I wish I could remember the piss up that we must have had after the match.
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The last game of the 74-75 season v Sunderland always has a special place in my memory.
We'd just clinched promotion in midweek, and we knew we were back where we belonged. The sun shone, Villa Park looked amazing with 57,000 packed inside, the Sunderland team lined up and applauded Villa on to the pitch. thousands on the pitch at the end after a 2-0 win, all singing "We're Going Up". OK, the game itself was nothing special, but it was a memorable day for so many reasons - not least that it was my 21st!
I wish I could remember the piss up that we must have had after the match.
Awesome day that was. Had a few in the Aston tavern pre-game and on the walk to the ground got caught up in a group of several thousand Sunderland fans who were being escorted down Witton lane. Despite being covered in claret & blue we were not subjected to so much as a dirty look. Bearing in mind we actually prevented them getting promotion that day their fans even had the good grace to applaud the Holte End as they filed past after the final whistle. Had an enormous respect for the Mackems ever since
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Tranmere, easily.
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The last game of the 74-75 season v Sunderland always has a special place in my memory.
We'd just clinched promotion in midweek, and we knew we were back where we belonged. The sun shone, Villa Park looked amazing with 57,000 packed inside, the Sunderland team lined up and applauded Villa on to the pitch. thousands on the pitch at the end after a 2-0 win, all singing "We're Going Up". OK, the game itself was nothing special, but it was a memorable day for so many reasons - not least that it was my 21st!
I wish I could remember the piss up that we must have had after the match.
Awesome day that was. Had a few in the Aston tavern pre-game and on the walk to the ground got caught up in a group of several thousand Sunderland fans who were being escorted down Witton lane. Despite being covered in claret & blue we were not subjected to so much as a dirty look. Bearing in mind we actually prevented them getting promotion that day their fans even had the good grace to applaud the Holte End as they filed past after the final whistle. Had an enormous respect for the Mackems ever since
I've always had a soft spot for them too. Whenever they play an away game in the Midlands, loads of them always stop off in Lichfield for a drink on their way to the match. They're invariably good humoured and well-behaved. Proper fans for the most part.
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I'd say either the 6-4 against Blackburn or the 2-1 win against Ajax.
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Apart from Legion's two:
1996 Aston Villa 2 Leeds United 0
A day when I thought Sasa Curcic was truly the future. He and Yorke were pure Brazil for periods in that game.
1964 Aston Villa 4 Manchester United 0
An afternoon of delirium, capped by Denis Law being sent off. Alan Deakin had fouled him and ended up on the floor. Law attempted to launch Deakin's head into the Trinity. Mind you, didn't stop me holding the cuffs of my long sleeve shirt just like Law whenever I played. Dind't hewlp much with the football but I'm almost sure it made me look cool. Honest.
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I'll also add the next one.
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A couple of my favourites havn't been mentioned. Beating Barcelona 3-0 to win the super cup in '83 and being packed into the corner of the County Ground Swindon and celebrating promotion with the players when the other scores came through in '88. Beating Blues 6-0 in the simod cup on my eighteenth birthday wasn't bad either!
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Last game of the season at Everton when we drew 3-3 in I think SGT last game in charge.
Beating Inter Milan 2-0 at home.
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Favourite Villa Park games:
v Bournemouth 1971
v Sunderland 1975
v Liverpool 1976
v Tranmere 1996
Both games v Inter Milan
Favourite games away from Villa Park:
v Everton (LCF 3rd replay) 1977
v Everton 1981
v Bayern Munich 1982
v Man United (LCF) 1994
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It would be between 3 already mentioned:
1. Man U Semi
2. Bournemouth
3. Liverpool 5-1
The 1-0 victory at home against Small Heath on 12/04/69 has a special place in my heart as well.
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Of all the ones I have attended, my favourite game was the Atletico Madrid home game. It had everything, and when Collymore scored, I remembered me and my mate looking at one another in total disbelief before crying with utter joy, and bearhugging the two massive skinheads behind us in the Witton Lane. We were right next to the Atletico fans and we spent the whole game singing and chanting. I remember quite clearly thinking that it was the happiest I've ever been.
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Difficult to choose, but up there would be the 3-0 win over QPR at Highbury in the League Cup semi-final. Mainly because living in London the press down here assumed it would be a walkover for QPR.
A Little hatrick with one of my favourite headlines the following day - 'Litlle by Little by Little'.
This and the second replay at Old Trafford
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The Tranmere game had it all, never known a see saw rollercoster of emotions like that afternoon.
But hammering Inter Milan at our place when they had the best of the German and Italian national squad in their ranks was special too. Paul Birch doing a job on Matthaus, Klinsmann and Brehme looking completely shellshocked, Zenga thumping the ground after Kent Nielsens opener, the whole lot.
Tony Daley had one of those nights when he was pretty much untouchable too.
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Man Utd 94 at Wembley was a magical day. I think it's my favourite because the whole weekend in London was perfect.
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Beating Bradford in '88 - the last home game of the season with Platty's goal was a great day - Only around 35,000 there I think, but was a party atmosphere after we scored. Pretty tense until then though.
Don't think anyone has mentioned the boxing day and new years day extravaganza against Man Utd and Arsenal in 1990. I think we went top after beating Utd and I really did believe we could win the league coming away from the Arsenal win. Brilliant festive season atmosphere in the Holte too. What a turnaround from a couple of years previously.
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I think beating West Brom at VP 3-1 in 74/75.
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I remember the West Brom 74/75 game for;
Chico scoring,
bizarre snow storm, I think the game was in April
Match of the day coverage, I think they had a problem with their cameras, started in
colour , finished in black & white
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Actually beating Chelsea in 07/08 at home is up there with the best too. When Mourinho managed them we had some great games with them. We were their bogey team for a while. The 4-4 was special too, will never forget it and will always associate Martin laursen with that day.
Hope we restore that today!
UTV!!!
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For raw emotion, the Tranmere game had everything a supporter could want: goals, controversy, a great come back, a penalty shoot-out that swung first one way and then the other and ultimately a trip to Wembley at the end, all conducted in front of a standing Holte.
My favourite Villa Park memory, albeit a bitter-sweet one, is the first-leg defeat to Juventus in 1983.
Favourite ever game: no contest. Wednesday, 26th May 1982. Sometimes the significance of the result is vastly more important than the 90 minutes spent achieving it.
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Amazed that there aren't any mentions for;
1977(?) League Cup Final 2nd replay vs Everton
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1981 Highbury
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Has to be Manure 94 cup final for me, still have fond memories of singing "where's your treble gone", was simply a great day out.
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Has to be Manure 94 cup final for me, still have fond memories of singing "where's your treble gone", was simply a great day out.
It's between Tranmere and that game for me. Beating Man Ure was so good because we genuinely seemed to have a rivalry going then, after league title race the year before. Of course we very much went our separate ways shortly after that point.
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Tranmere, the last great terrace mental at VP, and quite possibly the country. I'm not sure anything will ever match the moment Dalian scored.
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It would be between 3 already mentioned:
1. Man U Semi
2. Bournemouth
3. Liverpool 5-1
I missed the Bournemouth game, I wish I was there for that.
The Tranmere game will take some beating though, it had everything.
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Tranmere, the last great terrace mental at VP, and quite possibly the country. I'm not sure anything will ever match the moment Dalian scored.
I get goose bumps thinking about that moment when Dalian scored. Complete ecstacy.
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Tranmere, the last great terrace mental at VP, and quite possibly the country. I'm not sure anything will ever match the moment Dalian scored.
I get goose bumps thinking about that moment when Dalian scored. Complete ecstacy.
When I'm just about to die and highlights of my life flash before my eyes that moment will be in there.
It still plays now.
I was in the top right hand corner of the Holte and it was like we collectively sucked the ball into the net that afternoon. Sheer bedlam. Soon to be followed by a rendition of 'BFR's claret and blue army' that felt like it went on for the duration of extra time.
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greetings!
1992 vs Cov 2-0 - final day of the season...scored from the kick off!
vs Inter Milan 1-1 (1993)
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Blackburn in the league cup at home last season