Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: pauliewalnuts on July 04, 2012, 05:49:49 PM
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The last two years have been pretty piss poor, and low on excitement, but I was looking at some stuff on youtube, and really, we've had some cracking times since 2006.
For me, though, the most gobsmacking moment was this. I was watching on telly and remember being so shocked, i just sat there laughing maniacally and pointing at the screen shouting "look at that! look at that!"
Then, however, there was this. What I love most about this club is, just look at the Villa fans erupting into utter mayhem. It makes the hairs on the back of the neck stand up.
Then there was also this:
and this belter:
I think what I miss most, though, is the utter spirit we showed so often, at matches like this:
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Can't believe you left out beating Small Heath 5-1! Plus the time we won at Old Trafford; that was pretty special. My personal favourite has to be the Carling Cup semi-final though.
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The win over United was fantastic, we waited so long for it, it meant more than the wins over the shit down the road. The jubilation of our fans was brilliant
Our fans were brilliant that day
A european adventure!
Cheers Leeg!
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Remove the s from https and they will.
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For example (your second link):
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Great set of memories, by the way.
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Did anyone else lose track of the score?
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The one European memory that sticks out is beating Ajax 2-1. Glorious.
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In fact, pretty much everything Laursen did. There's a reason I don't mind looking a bit daft with his name on the back of the current shirt.
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how come in the arsenal game young took the pen? we would have won 3 - 0 if barry had took the pen???
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What a cracking thread. Absolutely magic. 06-10 was a great era. My favourite season was 08/09.
At Christmas 2008 I genuinely believed I'd soon see villa mount a season long title challenge.
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One more here, nowhere near as upbeat - but damn emotional and I'm proud to have been a part of it.
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Ron Saunders returning to VP for the Manure game.
And of course this.
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Kudos to PWS for that.
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Did anyone else lose track of the score?
That has to be my favourite - can guarantee they'll be mentioning that game in the programme in 50 years times
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The one European memory that sticks out is beating Ajax 2-1. Glorious.
The Ajax fans were brilliant that day. Noisy fuckers.
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The Blackburn game for me also. It's odd, I was watching it back just last night and remembered I'd saved a snippet from this site that someone (I've forgotten who, sorry!) had found elsewhere. A Crystal Palace fan who had enjoyed the game and was posting about it;
"Absolutely fan-bloody-tastic. Great entertainment, well done BBC, well done Villa, fair play to Blackburn for giving them a game. THe flags and scarves, the pitch invasion, the Wembley songs, it makes the hairs on my arms stand on end.
Bloody brilliant.
Great match. Great great match."
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Brilliant memories. Seems like a lifetime ago after the last few years!
Tell you what, it softens my bitterness towards MON a lot as well. Really good times.
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One of the standouts of that era for me was beating Chelsea 2-0 at home, with Zat Knight scoring on his debut and Doug Ellis mugging off Abramovich as he left early. Just remember it being a great atmosphere at Villa Park that day and we beat a good Chelsea side pretty comfortably.
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Much as I don't like Ellis, the look on his face as he offers his hand is great.
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The one European memory that sticks out is beating Ajax 2-1. Glorious.
The Ajax fans were brilliant that day. Noisy fuckers.
Not as noisy as the Rapid Vienna fans!
'The Nightmare Returns'
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What a brilliant thread. Get the feeling we will be able to start adding more videos to this over the coming years!
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What a brilliant thread. Get the feeling we will be able to start adding more videos to this over the coming years!
Fingers crossed
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I can't find a youtube link to it, but beating Liverpool 3-1 at Anfield in 2009.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3209233/epl_liverpool_1_3_aston_villa/
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Some great memories, but has to be the tribute to Stan just being beaten by the 25th european cup tribute. Great occassions