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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Lambert and Payne on September 05, 2011, 08:32:00 PM
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What's you're favourite ever Villa game? For whatever reason, good personal memory, great result or a moment of brilliance. Personally mine is the 3 1 win over small heath, beating them for the 1st time at VP in the premier league. And it was the 1st time I witnessed us beating them. The relief that we were going to stay up and sending them down along the way was brilliant. Particuarly after such a miserable season. Gary Cahills goal, is also my favourite ever moment so far
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The 2-4 at Reading, went with my best mate and it was her first away game, the whole day was excellent and the match was a complete roller coaster.
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Bradford away in 87.Bonkers game from start to finish.
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Tough question, There are loads.
Villa 3 Everton 2 League Cup final at Old Trafford.
Villa 2 Sunderland 0. 1975 promotion year. 56,000
Norwich 0 Villa 4. Final game of 1975 promotion year. We'd beat them in the League Cup final but destroyed them at Carrow Road. Took around 10,000 to a night game, seemed a lot more. Made sweeter for me as their fans were chucking Potatoe sized stones at us and I copped a baker in the neck.
Villa 2 Bournmouth 1. 1971 promotion from Div 3. 48,500 for a 3rd division game.
I'll have to go for Villa 2 Man Utd 1 League Cup semi final 1971. 61,000
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Tranmere home. And not just because of the actual game.
Madrid away always brings back a few memories as well.
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The 15 minute period in the second half when the Champions of Europe outplayed a Juventus side containing half the previous year's World Cup winners and arguably two of the best midfielders in the world.
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Tranmere at home
League wise there are too many to mention.
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I would have to say Tranmere at home and Inter Milan at home first time around.
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Hard to select a home game but best ever away was 1980 at St Andrews when Alan Evans scored the winner right in front of where I was stood, downside I was in the Blose end as our end was sold out!!
The abuse I took (even as a 14 year old), though me and mate managed to scuttle off and stand somewhere else for the remainder of the game, one of the big advantages of terraces over the modern all seater stadiums. Though that was the last time I ever watched a game with rival fans.
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The European cup final, beating the Blues on Easter Monday '83 after they had embarassed us on Boxing Day, Albion away in the league cup '83, Bradford '87, Swindon '88, White Hart Lane 1990 when I felt we were going to win the league, Goodison Park 1990, Inter Milan under Dr Jo, Sheff Wed on BFR's return, beating Man U at Wembley in '94. But six nil versus Blues on my eighteenth birthday takes some beating, even if it was only the simod cup.
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Another vote for Tranmere from me!
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Derby 3-4 Villa. Midweek FA Cup 4th round, Shilton saving 2 penalties, Yorke hat trick (I think) and Darius Kubicki getting sent off, loads of Villa packed into a good old fashioned cramped venue under floodlights.
Magic.
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Loads of big away followings and wins when we were in old Div 3. We used to take over whole towns such as Bradford, Oldham and Rotherham and easily double their average gates. Loved those days in some ways.
Best ever - League Cup semi: Villa 2 M Utd 1.
Went with my best mate Dave, massive crowd, just the right age 16, to be dreamily hopeful and excited before, during and after the game. Warm glow and goosebumps thinking about it now. (Or is that the incontinence?)
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What's you're favourite ever Villa game? For whatever reason, good personal memory, great result or a moment of brilliance. Personally mine is the 3 1 win over small heath, beating them for the 1st time at VP in the premier league. And it was the 1st time I witnessed us beating them. The relief that we were going to stay up and sending them down along the way was brilliant. Particuarly after such a miserable season. Gary Cahills goal, is also my favourite ever moment so far
I'm with you on this one.
I was buzzing for hours after leaving Villa Park that day.
A fantastic day indeed.
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Tranmere at home, it was just an amazing occassion, the atmosphere was something else.
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5-1 for me. Closely followed by Everton away in 08/09.
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So many to choose from, but to pick one it would be beating West Brom 3-1 at VP in the promotion season of 74-75. Living in Oldbury with loads of horrible Albion fans as "mates" was grim for many years, and that was the game when I saw us beat the bastards for the first time, and the day we could all see that promotion back to the first Division was likely to be ours.
And all three goals at the Holte End in fairly quick succession having been 1-0 down at half time.
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6-2 against Everton in 89/90 was a pearler as was the 3-1 and 5-1 against the Blues but my all time fave league game was 4-2 against Liverpool in 92.Saunders brace and Rosenthal's miss.Great memories.
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I posted my favourite game earlier but my favourite 45 mins was the 5-1 vrs Liverpool.
In the 2nd half Liverpool just set out to stop us scoring more rather than get back into the game, so it was a pretty boring half.
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tranmere - the holte's last great stand
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6-2 against Everton in 89/90 was a pearler as was the 3-1 and 5-1 against the Blues but my all time fave league game was 4-2 against Liverpool in 92.Saunders brace and Rosenthal's miss.Great memories.
rosenthal was on radio 5 yesterday talking about that. i cannot believe it was nearly 20 years ago!!
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I wonder how many of us actually saw Rosenthal's miss first hand? I remember him rounding Spink and a groan went round Villa Park, then the sweet sound of the crossbar rattling as I looked back up.Superb.
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Tranmere. That night rocked in the Holte. The Liverpool 5-1. Also a vague memory of a game against Sunderland in the 70's when I was a kid...being on the north bank...getting passed down the front by the Makems...very old skool.
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I wonder how many of us actually saw Rosenthal's miss first hand? I remember him rounding Spink and a groan went round Villa Park, then the sweet sound of the crossbar rattling as I looked back up.Superb.
Quite a few, i'd have thought. Full house that day I imagine and it wasn't that long ago. Was sat in the Enclosure with my Dad. Never heard so much laughter in a football ground as then, brilliant game too.
Another vote for Tranmere for me. Nothing will ever top that, unless we ever win the league in the same way Arsenal did in '89.
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I have some great memories that will keep me warm in old age but aside from the big cup finals and semis, local derbies, clinching the League at Highbury my addition to this thread would be the 4-2 at Leicester when we won the league. A large and incredibly vocal Villa following who were really up for it - I think every player got a song or chant before kick off - a cracking see saw game and the Albion beat Ipswich 3-1 to help us out.
There wasa great atmosphere on the special back to New St too, and we sank a good many beers in the Boars Head afterwards, where I think Bucks Fizz won the Eurovision to much mirth in the bar. One of my mates won a few quid on the Grand National as well (I think it was the Bob Champion year). Just one of those days where you feel invincible in every part of your life, except for hangovers....
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I also remember that 4-2 v Leicester very well. I was at University at Leicester at the time and lived around the corner from Filbert Street. The family came for the day and, of course, the match.
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Tranmere - singin ''and we're all pissed up and we're [finally] going to wemberlee'' with tears in the eyes
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For me nothing will ever surpass the 1970 semi final at Villa Park.
We would need to get relegated twice before we could even start thinking about a repeat.
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Tranmere at home.
All of the UEFA Cup 97/98 games.
Man Utd and Leeds at Wembley.
Portsmouth League Cup Quarter Final 09
Man Utd and Liverpool away 09/10
Blackburn League Cup Semi Final 09/10 remains my favourite though!
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villa 5-1 Liverpool
villa 2-2 Barcalona
Villa 2-0 Inter (Kent's goal)
everton 2-3 Villa
rotterdam, and OT '77 and Wembley twice in the 90's
Villa 3-2 Cov.
for some reason beating the Dons 7-1 after they had a cracking start to the season and we looked particularly average.
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Both legs of the 1970 League Cup Semi Final even though I had my scarf nicked after the match at Old Trafford. The home leg has had so much written about it and was a real turning point in our history.
Another great night was the 4-0 at Hillsborough in 1975. We filled their giant Kop. I was first on the pitch at the end and got to the edge of the penalty area when I realised the ref had only blown for a free kick.
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1.tranmere 94
2.man utd,wembley 94
3.man utd away 09
4.coventry away 95
5.prague away 08
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Tranmere for me, then the cup final a few weeks later!
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loads of contenders for this,maybe united away in 09...not that brilliant of a game but the feeling when that final whistle went was amazing,didnt have a voice for about 3 days!
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Villa 2 Man UTD 1 November 1966. Incredible win, how Villa won I'll never know. Shut thier arrogant fans up though.
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loads of contenders for this,maybe united away in 09...not that brilliant of a game but the feeling when that final whistle went was amazing,didnt have a voice for about 3 days!
Almost two years ago? We were one of the best at the time. Genuinely thought we'd be comfortably top four after that win.
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Juventus 1983, yes we lost 1-2 at home but the atmosphere in the Holte that night will always stay with me.
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Liverpool at home in January 1981. We beat the then league champions 2-0 and played them off the park. This was the game when I first thought that we could actually win the league. Before then it was very much about waiting for something to go wrong and thankfully it never did.
Sir Dennis's goal in front of the Holte in the second half remains one of my favourite all time Villa goals. Brilliant move from by our corner flag and a great piece of interplay by Kenny Swain and Gary, Gary Shaw.
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Another vote for the Tranmere game.
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The next one.
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Tranmere at home
Everton 3 Villa 3 GT last game
Sheff W 2 Villa 3 Big Rons first
Both Milan games at VP were pretty special, I still shed a tear when I watch Phil King score that pen.
Go on Phil......
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League Cup semi-final 71.
16 years old, loving it and still get goosebumps.
Also the Everton League Cup Final ... winning at third attempt. Brian Little and Chris Nicholl.
Wonderful memories!
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Aside from the obvious, yer Tranmeres, Sheff Weds aways, Evertons etc. one of the games I've got very fond memories of Spurs away in '94, just after Ron was sacked.
3-0 after 20 mins, we gradually led them back in and by the time Klinsmann equalised with about 20 left they were all over us like a cheap suit. I think it stayed like that till the last minute when Deano took that ball down and smashed it in the far corner from nowhere.
Remember getting there early with Premier Travel and getting leathered in the Northumberland Park, I think. A very good day was that, and notable as that night was the first national lottery draw.
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Aside from the obvious, yer Tranmeres, Sheff Weds aways, Evertons etc. one of the games I've got very fond memories of Spurs away in '94, just after Ron was sacked.
3-0 after 20 mins, we gradually led them back in and by the time Klinsmann equalised with about 20 left they were all over us like a cheap suit. I think it stayed like that till the last minute when Deano took that ball down and smashed it in the far corner from nowhere.
Remember getting there early with Premier Travel and getting leathered in the Northumberland Park, I think. A very good day was that, and notable as that night was the first national lottery draw.
yes i remember that one very very well, amazing game and in my birthday week as well. Just two days later on the Monday i was on a school trip to London so i had to go back to Victoria Station again evoking memories of the Saturday and we saw Chris Ellison - Burnside from The Bill - stood under the giant arrivals/departures board so we got his autograph.Later in the evening my dad popped round to give me my birthday present, a Whittingham 22 shirt - and then two weeks or so later we sold him! On the telly that night was Buck Rogers in the 25th Century followed by Everton 2-0 Liverpool on the Monday Night Football, Duncan Ferguson scoring in Joe Royle's first match. And.....sorry, did i wander off here a bit.........?
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For a sequence of tremedous matches the 1977 Cup run takes some beating but I rmember the semi finals (all three of them!) against QPR as a 17-year old.
The night at Villa Park that ended 2-2 was one of the noisiest ever but the trip down to Highbury the week after was mad.
My mate and I had no spare money so borrowed the train fare from my Mom after she allowed me to bunk off from school.
We even made a flag with the lion on it but the paint wouldn't dry so we carried it in a plastic bag.
Had no food so nicked two pieces of bread pudding from a kiosk in Euston.
No idea where the ground was but there were thousands of Villa around so followed them.
Inside met up with a few other Black Country Villans and decided to "take" the North Bank (you could walk round the sides).
Repulsed by superior numbers we legged it back to the Clock End but were berated by members of the Stourbridge Lions Club for our hoolie behaviour.
The match was the amazing Sir Brian show with a hat-trick.
The journey home was eventful as we took the wrong train and ended up surrounded by QPR fans but kept quiet and made Euston for the last train.
A huge Villa fan ran up to us as we waved the flag and buried his face in it gleefully - leaving a lot of claret paint on his face for the journey home.
Still remember it every time I see the first goal go in and our flag can be seen near the front of the crowd.
Happy days.
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Villa 2 Man UTD 1 November 1966. Incredible win, how Villa won I'll never know. Shut thier arrogant fans up though.
That must have been the game where it was pretty much "shots in" for ManU for about 89 minutes, then I think it was Lew Chatterley - a centre half, filling in at centre forward, who totally against the run of play amazingly managed to break away and score the winner. My recollection is that ManU were so comfortably camped out in our penalty area that they presumed we were not capable of scoring, which, to be fair, neither did I.
As for my favourite game though, it has to be that other one at Villa Park against ManU, in 1970.
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For a sequence of tremedous matches the 1977 Cup run takes some beating but I rmember the semi finals (all three of them!) against QPR as a 17-year old.
The final and the 1st replay were turgid affairs in my recollection. With you all the way on the semis though, fantastic memories!
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League Cup semi-final 71.
16 years old, loving it and still get goosebumps.
Also the Everton League Cup Final ... winning at third attempt. Brian Little and Chris Nicholl.
Wonderful memories!
I would go with those two, plus
Villa 5 Liverpool 1, and an honourable mention for
Villa v Bournemouth in the Third Division.
On a more personal note, also have fond memories of Fulham-Villa about 6 years back. First game I took MV Junior to- Craven Cottage, evening game, Christmas holidays, Met up with family travelling down, 3-3 scoreline. Pretty good introduction to being a Villa fan.
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Rotterdam, 26/5/82 for sure. Also the 5-1 Liverpool game, best 45 minutes have ever seen from a Villa team. Arsenal away in 1980/81 when we lost 2-0, the feeling on the terraces when news of Jankovic scoring those two goals was amazing and never to be forgotten
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Arsenal 2-2 in LC 1996.
2-1 Athletic Madrid 1998, great save stopped us going through.
3-2 Leeds, Carboni!
5-1 blose
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Yeah one that sticks in that mind was the Leeds 3-2 cup game in 2000, Merson splitting his head in two setting up a goal and Carbone scoring from near the Witton corner flag. Brilliant game and I thought we'd reach the final after that, wish we hadn't.
More recent one would be the 0-2 win at Arsenal in 2008. Completely played them off the pitch that day, it really could've been 4 or 5. Thought we would finish top 4 and above Arsenal after watching that.
Last season's win there was fun aswell but a sidenote.
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I'd have to say the Tranmere game too. Still can see Atkinson's late header taking it to extra time.
Can I count a TV game? If so, Villa 6 Everton 2 in 88 or 89.
And one I was gutted to not see, but have seen highlights on YouTube is when we beat Cov 3-0 away, Savo scoring two.