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Title: Villa vs Middlesbrough 73/74
Post by: Dave Clark Five on January 22, 2012, 07:12:38 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u76VIjD_7HM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u76VIjD_7HM&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

Bruce Rioch at his best.
Title: Re: Villa vs Middlesbrough 73/74
Post by: The Left Side on January 23, 2012, 01:57:51 AM
Great noise, thanks for posting!
Title: Re: Villa vs Middlesbrough 73/74
Post by: Pat McMahon on January 23, 2012, 03:13:42 AM
Dave, Youtube is banned in China (amsick of writing this on here!) but I assume this is the 25 yard late equaliser against Jack Charlton's Boro? A cracking goal that got us out of jail against a much better team.
Title: Re: Villa vs Middlesbrough 73/74
Post by: pooligan on January 23, 2012, 03:37:38 AM
Brought back many happy memories seeing that Bruce Rioch goal,along with Harry Burrowse ,he was the hardest shooting player i have seen in a Villa Shirt.Forgot just how muddy the pitches used to be
Title: Re: Villa vs Middlesbrough 73/74
Post by: Dave Clark Five on January 23, 2012, 05:36:58 PM
It is great to see that footage. Villa Park was bedlam as it always was. Was anybody here one of those kids who swamped Rioch after his goal?
Title: Re: Villa vs Middlesbrough 73/74
Post by: TopDeck113 on January 25, 2012, 07:06:41 PM
My second ever visit to Villa Park - and I don't think I ever knew it was televised on MOTD.  If the camera could only pan a few more degrees right for the Boro goal I might even see me with my brother and dad close up to the fence at the front of the Witton End. 

Other than the score and my favourite player scoring, my only other recollection of the match was Jack Charlton on the pitch collecting his players' tracksuit tops at the warm-up. It was the first time I'd ever see a World Cup winner in real life. 
Title: Re: Villa vs Middlesbrough 73/74
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on January 25, 2012, 07:35:04 PM
Good vid.

Was Boro's goal strictly speaking an own goal by Rioch ?

Also, I wonder how many of those young Villa fans running on the pitch are now balding middle aged cynics prone to a good moan on H & V ?  ;D
Title: Re: Villa vs Middlesbrough 73/74
Post by: Witton Warrior on January 26, 2012, 12:31:54 PM
I missed seeing Bruce Rioch by a season and it has always been a regret not to have witnessed a Villa great.
He always looked the epitome of a PE teacher.
(not that sort!)
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