Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine

Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Pete on October 25, 2011, 03:06:23 PM

Title: Villa on Making History - Radio 4 - 3pm
Post by: Pete on October 25, 2011, 03:06:23 PM

I just heard the lead-in to Making History - there will be a feature on 'What links Aston Villa to the ANC?' For those who can't get to hear it, I'm sure it will be available on the BBC website later.

Title: Re: Villa on Making History - Radio 4 - 3pm
Post by: pig on October 25, 2011, 08:28:39 PM

Quite an interesting program, not that much about Aston Villa just that we played this team of Black South African footballers in 1899. When they played Villa they wore a rosette of blue, white and red and said they were loyal to the Queen (Boer war was kicking off etc). I don't think there was anything particularly interesting about them playing Villa as apparently they played 50 times in 3 months while there were over here.