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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: montague on May 31, 2012, 05:27:59 PM
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BBC highlights with Kenneth Wolstenhome on the club wesite now (apologies if somebody else has laready posted) -first time ive seen it since a lad so very exciting.
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/TV/OtherHighlightsDetail/0,,10265~2791712,00.html?userid=16113509&username=stevemoore280@googlemail.com×tamp=1338481210840&signature=hexZxn0Jr7yYlFXDj9x0qA%3D%3D
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Can't get it on this iPad as no Flash Player on it. There are highlights of the great night on The Villenium.
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Off to fire up the laptop.
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Can't get it on this iPad as no Flash Player on it. There are highlights of the great night on The Villenium.
Sorry Dave whats The Villenium a DVD? I have been trying to trace a copy of the two legs for sometime without success.
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Watched it a few nights ago and a tear came to my eye.
Best match I ever saw at VP and can remember it so well.
I was 17. The perfect age to be going absolutely fu**in' barmy throughout the game and especially at the end!
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Watched it a few nights ago and a tear came to my eye.
Best match I ever saw at VP and can remember it so well.
I was 17. The perfect age to be going absolutely fu**in' barmy throughout the game and especially at the end!
Best match I ever saw as well and to be honest I enjoyed the final even more than being in Rotterdam. We took that match to Spurs for eighty minutes and fully deserved to win.
Chicooooooooooooooooooo!
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I am there with you guys.
camped out on the saturday night along the Trinity for tickets.
By the time they started selling tickets the queue was 6 deep and stretched back around the Holte pub,kids were pushing in at the front, buying tickets and flogging them at the back to sheepskin wearing middle aged guys who did not want to be in a queue for hours.
The night of the game (I was 15) is the greatest memory I have of the Holte End, it roared the Villa to Victory after us going a goal behind.
I watched a You tube reccording of the final a couple of months ago, it brought tears to my eyes, nostalgia, with a Villa team wearing the correct colours playing great football.
Villa,Villa,Villa, Viiila
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AVTV is a pain in the arse. Every time I go there I have to sign back in again.
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Can't get it on this iPad as no Flash Player on it. There are highlights of the great night on The Villenium.
Sorry Dave whats The Villenium a DVD? I have been trying to trace a copy of the two legs for sometime without success.
It's a video that I have got. There is footage from both legs.
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I am there with you guys.
camped out on the saturday night along the Trinity for tickets.
By the time they started selling tickets the queue was 6 deep and stretched back around the Holte pub,kids were pushing in at the front, buying tickets and flogging them at the back to sheepskin wearing middle aged guys who did not want to be in a queue for hours.
The night of the game (I was 15) is the greatest memory I have of the Holte End, it roared the Villa to Victory after us going a goal behind.
I watched a You tube reccording of the final a couple of months ago, it brought tears to my eyes, nostalgia, with a Villa team wearing the correct colours playing great football.
Villa,Villa,Villa, Viiila
I joined the queue much later. It was about 0730 on the Sunday morning. As you say, it was six deep. When I got there, the queue stretched from the Enclosure turnstiles (from where they sold the tickets), round the back of the Holte pub and down as far as the Aston Hotel. By the time we got into Trinity Road, the back of the queue was visible, probably in Nelson Rd or Jardine Rd.
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I am there with you guys.
camped out on the saturday night along the Trinity for tickets.
By the time they started selling tickets the queue was 6 deep and stretched back around the Holte pub,kids were pushing in at the front, buying tickets and flogging them at the back to sheepskin wearing middle aged guys who did not want to be in a queue for hours.
The night of the game (I was 15) is the greatest memory I have of the Holte End, it roared the Villa to Victory after us going a goal behind.
I watched a You tube reccording of the final a couple of months ago, it brought tears to my eyes, nostalgia, with a Villa team wearing the correct colours playing great football.
Villa,Villa,Villa, Viiila
I joined the queue much later. It was about 0730 on the Sunday morning. As you say, it was six deep. When I got there, the queue stretched from the Enclosure turnstiles (from where they sold the tickets), round the back of the Holte pub and down as far as the Aston Hotel. By the time we got into Trinity Road, the back of the queue was visible, probably in Nelson Rd or Jardine Rd.
From the sounds of it I must have been next to you in the queue.
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Superb, never seen that before thanks.
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My Dad and I were up the Witton End. It was before all the stupid violence appeared, I remember the Man U fans coming past with decent banter, the occasional tug on the scarf with " we're going to beat you tonight sonny" I was only 10, but remember it so well. Probably my favourite Villa game.
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Thank you. Thank you.
I was 13 years old sitting in The Upper Trinity with my Dad and Mum, about 20 yards off the centre line towards the Witton and about 1/2 way back. Banging your feet on the wooden flooring, you knew it was special when most of the Upper Trinity were singing. You cannot tell on the footage just how loud the crowd was, trust me it was very loud that night. "Villa! Villa! Villa!".
The most magical hours I have ever spent watching the Villa, and I say that even having been at Highbury in 81 and Rotterdam in 82.
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I really wish we could get loud these day, it would frighten half the teams to death.
Have to say, Brian Kidd's goal would have had some in raptures these days. unsure whether he meant to overun the ball and drag it through or it just got stuck in the mud, good bit of skill whatever.
I'd forgotten how many chances we had too, and there's me saying how well I remembered it :)
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Can't watch the video yet but what a game, what an atmosphere.
I was in the first 20 or so too in that queue.
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In the queue. At Old Trafford. In the Holte. Still my all time favourite Villa experience. Bobby Charlton in print saying that it was no fluke- that Villa were the better team over both legs. And the Final still a magic memory, fans were brilliant and we outplayed Spurs.
Those games are when we got our pride and ambition back. A true turning point.
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Would love to see this video - I have wondered for years now why the club have never put this on sale.
I was there as a wee 8 year old and it was my first ever night game and first time on the Holte too. I only remember snippets of the game and being worried in the second half after a half time chat with my dad: he had been off work for 6 monhs after falling off a ladder on a building site and needed a corset to reduce his pain. The ground was so full that he had to put me on his shoulders for the whole game and he told me he was in great pain and we would have to leave at full time even if it went to extra time. We both went crazy at the winning goal, but I think his joy was more out of relief than elation.
As a bonus, the hghlights were on the box when we got back to the Holly Grove working men's club, a real rarity for us in those days. A triple joy - a semi final win, staying up till late to watch Villa on a colour tv and xmas eve the next day! Even now this is one of the great nights in my Villa memories.
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I remember Paddy Crerand saying about Pat McMahon after the Old Trafford leg. "Hes one paced" ....."bloody fast"
I took a bottle of pomagne (although I insisted it was champagne!) to the second leg at Villa Park . Me and my mate celebrated at will at the final whistle. The greatest footballing night of my life...bar none!
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Great memories. By far the largest crowd I had been in in my 16-year old life- until the final at Wembley 2 months later. Definitely up there in my 4 or 5 favourite Villa matches
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Wish I could see this.
The little bit on the 'Villenium' video includes the first leg and is in black & white, Davie Gibson crosses for Andy Lochead to score, great celebrations follow.
As others before me have said, and I said on the original thread for this subject, this game is the one that is my top memory of following the Villa.
The atmosphere was never beaten, the feeling of Villa once more becoming a power in football was irresistable, and that period in Villa's history, as mad as it sounds, even topped winning in Rotterdam in my memory.
Maybe it's because I was an impressionable teenager but it never, ever, got as exciting for me as that night in December 1970.
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Wish I could see this.
You can see it if you subscribe to AVTV. I'm with you, by the way, on the magnitude of this game. It may be nostalgia, but the match is probably the best that I have been to. The clip on AVTV, although of a decent duration, does not manage to bring the volume of the crowd over very well.
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Wish I could see this.
The little bit on the 'Villenium' video includes the first leg and is in black & white, Davie Gibson crosses for Andy Lochead to score, great celebrations follow.
As others before me have said, and I said on the original thread for this subject, this game is the one that is my top memory of following the Villa.
The atmosphere was never beaten, the feeling of Villa once more becoming a power in football was irresistable, and that period in Villa's history, as mad as it sounds, even topped winning in Rotterdam in my memory.
Maybe it's because I was an impressionable teenager but it never, ever, got as exciting for me as that night in December 1970.
I agree entirely and I was in my mid twenties.
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Brilliant! Close my eyes and I can almost taste it. One of my very favourite memories as a Villa fan, the feeling of pride walking into school next day and raising two fingers to the blose fans who had given the few Villa fans there merciless grief over the recent past
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Couldn't make the VP leg - but watched the OT leg from the Stretford End !!! Living in Manc at the time - got my ticket locally...
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The atmosphere was never beaten, the feeling of Villa once more becoming a power in football was irresistible, and that period in Villa's history, as mad as it sounds, even topped winning in Rotterdam in my memory.
Absolutely this
1970 - 1983 - The best period to be a Villa fan in the last 40 years...