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Title: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: bertlambshank on July 11, 2012, 06:20:03 PM
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//RTV/1984/10/07/RTV071084005/?s=aston+villa+uefa+cup&st=0&pn=2
Enjoy.

Title: Re: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: VILLA MOLE on July 11, 2012, 06:29:22 PM
very good too few of them unfortunately

It was interesting  the Newcastle Utd Ipswich game after where the reporter refered to the black players that those wonderful geordie fans were racially chanting at  as coloureds.  I was 10 then was racism bad in 1984 ?
Title: Re: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: spk on July 11, 2012, 06:35:54 PM
Yeah it was ,i remember mark walters getting abuse from the holte,the one thing I dont miss from the old days.
Title: Re: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: VILLA MOLE on July 11, 2012, 07:00:17 PM
Yeah it was ,i remember mark walters getting abuse from the holte,the one thing I dont miss from the old days.

really ?  bloody hell i only remember getting excited when he picked up the ball on the halfway line
Title: Re: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: Irish villain on July 11, 2012, 07:06:09 PM
The racist chanting there just shows how far we have come. Did you notice the casual way the reported went from talking about the abusive chanting to the celebration of the goal? 'The jeers soon turned to cheers'.
Title: Re: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: spk on July 11, 2012, 07:07:19 PM
And some fans were worse than that,I remember going to Oldham away in the 5th round of the F.A. Cup,April 1990 with a black lad I knew from my local,walking to the ground he was racially abused (verbally) 3 times,we were to stunned and out numbered to do anything,ive hated Oldham ever since.We lost 3 nil by the way,and boy it was cold on that open terrace...
Title: Re: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: spk on July 11, 2012, 07:11:25 PM
Remember the scouse fans being the worst for that nonsense,London clubs and albion not being so bad(probaly because they had 3 great black players in the late 70s)
Title: Re: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: Charlie8182 on July 11, 2012, 07:56:03 PM
I went to this game, a great day although it was a rare highlight when Villa were well on the downturn from glories in previous seasons; and sadly you could probably count on one hand the times we've beaten them since.
Title: Re: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: VILLA MOLE on July 11, 2012, 08:07:01 PM
The racist chanting there just shows how far we have come. Did you notice the casual way the reported went from talking about the abusive chanting to the celebration of the goal? 'The jeers soon turned to cheers'.

yes lets ignore the colured chap and give our boys one hell of a cheering what
Title: Re: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: FrankyH on July 11, 2012, 08:10:05 PM
Before the start of that game , didn't a few parachutists land on the pitch ? I remember that one of them almost hit the roof of the small Witton Lane Stand and had to take evasive action by pulling one side of his parachute rope to correct his flight path.
Title: Re: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: The Left Side on July 11, 2012, 09:22:17 PM
Love the result, kit and giving them a walloping
Title: Re: Villa v Man Utd. 1984
Post by: Charlie8182 on July 11, 2012, 10:25:49 PM
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And some fans were worse than that,I remember going to Oldham away in the 5th round of the F.A. Cup,April 1990 with a black lad I knew from my local,walking to the ground he was racially abused (verbally) 3 times,we were to stunned and out numbered to do anything,ive hated Oldham ever since.We lost 3 nil by the way,and boy it was cold on that open terrace...

And the fact that they had Oldham legend Roger Palmer playing for them at that time would have been completely lost on them.
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