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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Dave Clark Five on November 09, 2010, 07:55:27 PM

Title: Which match...?
Post by: Dave Clark Five on November 09, 2010, 07:55:27 PM: Who did Villa play a friendly against the week before the 1971 League Cup Final?

There were 250 of us there with 40000 due to go to Wembley a week later!
Title: Re: Which match...?
Post by: newtonsballs on November 09, 2010, 09:34:28 PM: I was too busy getting my programme vouchers for my mate for the final! What is the answer!!!!!!
Title: Re: Which match...?
Post by: bertlambshank on November 09, 2010, 09:39:35 PM: Gornick Zabrze I hope.
Title: Re: Which match...?
Post by: Oh Andy on November 09, 2010, 09:56:35 PM: Lost 1.0 to Bury in the league.
Title: Re: Which match...?
Post by: Dave Clark Five on November 09, 2010, 11:02:07 PM: Yes it was Bury in Div 3. The friendly was a pre-season thing. I went to both matches but got them confused. At this game we got chased around the ground by Man City fans armed with bike chains. I had to run under a police horse to escape and got whacked by an old bag with a newspaper as I ran through the terraces, being called a bloody t'hooligan. The programme stand was turned over by the mob off The Special. All in all a normal away game in those times. Pity my memory isn't as good as the Rothmans Yearbook or Official History of Aston Villa. I thought we lost 3-1?
Title: Re: Which match...?
Post by: darren woolley on November 10, 2010, 09:17:29 AM: Ah them were the days.