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Title: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: Holtenderinthesky on December 15, 2010, 07:32:21 PM
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Remember this one?  We had just won 3-1 at Anfield a few days earlier and we looked like a really good passing side, particularly going forward.  How we played so well with Hassan Kachloul and Mustapha Hadji I'll never know but we did.  Remember Marion Parhars?  Kevin Davies playing for Saints too!
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: villa1 on December 15, 2010, 08:16:52 PM
A very random post there! :-)
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: eamonn on December 15, 2010, 08:17:15 PM
Memories Section in't it.

But yeah, hard to believe that in a couple of 8-12 game sequences under Gregory we actually played sexy football. Feb-May '98 when he first took over with Yorke, Collywobbles (for the Liverpool 2-1 win and home game against Aletico anyway) and lil'Lee all on-form in particular.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: villa1 on December 15, 2010, 08:19:24 PM
Was it the last game of the season? The one where some of our allocation went in fancy dress?
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: PaulTheVillan on December 15, 2010, 08:26:28 PM
Lovely football for our 2nd goal.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: PaulTheVillan on December 15, 2010, 08:29:19 PM
Here's one to cheer you all up.







Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: CheeriOneill on December 15, 2010, 08:30:54 PM
Am I mistaken or was that Mr B Balaban celebrating Hadji's third? 
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: The Left Side on December 15, 2010, 08:32:09 PM
I enjoyed that, some nice moves in those goals.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: Holtenderinthesky on December 15, 2010, 08:33:04 PM
Here's one to cheer you all up.









I was posting that Saints game due to how good I thought we were at the time.  That City game was 3 years later, and we were crap.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: The Left Side on December 15, 2010, 08:33:47 PM
Is that the game where Balaban missed the one v one? How different his Villa career could have been if that had gone in... or maybe not!
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: Holtenderinthesky on December 15, 2010, 08:36:20 PM
Is that the game where Balaban missed the one v one? How different his Villa career could have been if that had gone in... or maybe not!

Not sure though he did come on at Anfield the week before I think. 
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: ColinMac on December 15, 2010, 08:43:02 PM
Is that the game where Balaban missed the one v one? How different his Villa career could have been if that had gone in... or maybe not!

Yes it was.

Game was on my 31st birthday.

Memories......
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: SoccerHQ on December 15, 2010, 09:32:14 PM
I really liked the signings we made that summer, Mellberg came in and also Schmeichel...

Started off that season really well, were top in October and then it all predictably fizzled out around Xmas.

That game at Arsenal when we were 2-0 up and lost in the last minute also stands out from that season.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: darren woolley on December 16, 2010, 09:50:55 AM
A good move for second goal v Southampton played some good football that season, i would rather forget that Man City game.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: pedro25 on December 16, 2010, 01:11:17 PM
Schmeichel was an awful signing, used to go down in stages, replacing James with old red nose was a dreadful decision imo.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: not3bad on December 16, 2010, 01:42:48 PM
How we played so well with Hassan Kachloul and Mustapha Hadji I'll never know

I was a Mustapha Hadji fan.  Was I alone in this?
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: PaulTheVillan on December 16, 2010, 01:47:23 PM
I was also a Hadji fan.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: cheltenhamlion on December 16, 2010, 01:53:24 PM
Hadji and Kachloul. The pointless pair of show ponies.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: pedro25 on December 16, 2010, 02:57:28 PM
Yer I thought Hadji was great.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: The Left Side on December 16, 2010, 07:55:23 PM
Schmeichel was an awful signing, used to go down in stages, replacing James with old red nose was a dreadful decision imo.

I think that one was one of Doug's wasn't it? I was at Villa Park around the time of the press conference and the Villa shop had his shirt printed and behind the counter, I didn't know what was going on. As my cousin and I were driving out the ground Doug pulled up along side us with Schmiechel in the front and my cousin let the old bugger in while we had to wait, I still give him shit about it.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: eamonn on December 16, 2010, 08:15:55 PM
Kachloul was great for the first couple of months. Then a H&Ver sold him a piano (John M's current housemate if I'm not mistaken) and it was all downhill from there.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: Deano's Mullet on December 17, 2010, 09:43:13 AM
Angel's goal was absolute quality.
Title: Re: Southampton vs Aston Villa 2001
Post by: curiousorange on January 15, 2011, 03:22:18 PM
Watching the Saints game is a real Proustian rush - I was at uni at the time and I watched it in a bar on London Road, Leicester, with a Forest-supporting mate. It was one of these pointless wine bars and I went bananas every time we scored, much to the chagrin of the guy playing a gig on his acoustic guitar. Happy days.
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