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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: bertlambshank on October 22, 2012, 07:10:45 PM
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What's the longest you have waited for the ticket office to open?
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About 10 hours. For FA Cup final tickets as I didn't have a ST that season but had enough stubs to be get them first stubs day. Me and my Albion mate arrived at the North Stand car park around 11-11.30pm and spent the night there.
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About 10 hours overnight for me for the 2000 Cup Final. ST holder but I wanted to make sure of getting the best tickets and view I could. As it turned out there was no best view.
I am sure a few will mention the queues round VP for Man U S/F tickets in 1970. Tickets were sold out the turnstiles of the Holte on the Trinity Road side, we joined a few yards down Witton Lane round the Holte pub but I think the queue at one stage was right round and onto Nelson Road.
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About 10 hours overnight for me for the 2000 Cup Final. ST holder but I wanted to make sure of getting the best tickets and view I could. As it turned out there was no best view.
I am sure a few will mention the queues round VP for Man U S/F tickets in 1970. Tickets were sold out the trunstiles of the Holte on the Trinity Road down, we joined a few yards down Witton Lane round the Holte pub but I think the queue at one stage was right round and onto Nelson Road.
2000 for me went after work at 2am.
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League Cup final in 94 was a bit of a mission.
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League Cup 2010, it was my first season without a season ticket in 11 years, had enough stubs to get tickets on 12 stubs, got there at 11 am and it was absolutely freezing, one bloke put a deckchair in his space and slept in his nice warm and cosy car (lucky barsteward)
In fairness to Villa they opened up the ticket office early and gave us all a cup of tea, when it opened up the que was huge and we were 11th in line. It was the most excited I've ever been as a Villa fan. I was too young to really appreciate Wembley 2000 and thought we'd win it the next year anyway. Still waiting to see my Villa boys hold up a trophy
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I was too young to really appreciate Wembley 2000 and thought we'd win it the next year anyway.
Are you mad? As regards the FA Cup Villa fans stopped thinking like that sometime between the wars.
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I was too young to really appreciate Wembley 2000 and thought we'd win it the next year anyway.
Are you mad? As regards the FA Cup Villa fans stopped thinking like that sometime between the wars.
8 years old and back from Wembley after watching a video of the Tranmere 1994 game the night before, anything seemed possible as a Villa fan
I soon learned
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I was too young to really appreciate Wembley 2000 and thought we'd win it the next year anyway.
Are you mad? As regards the FA Cup Villa fans stopped thinking like that sometime between the wars.
And start thinking it again at the beginning of every January.
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I remember in the 99/00 season I didn't go to many games, but the games I did go to were against the lesser teams, Wimbledon, Derby etc and luckily there was a points system so these stubs were more valuable when it came to getting FA cup final tickets.
So when they announced that the last batch of tickets were on sale the following morning I realised I had enough points to get a ticket, so I got myself to VP for around 10.30pm and there was already 2 people waiting in front of me!
The fact that I queued up for so long made the result and especially the performance even more disapointing.
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I queued from 3am for tickets for the Slavia Prague away game, I still to this day don't know why I did that?
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About 5 or 6 hours for Liverpool away, FA Cup '91.
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I seem to remember queuing up for a long while a few times for away tickets and possibly even a home cup game during our purple patch in the '89-'90 season. Was it after that they brought in the stamped card for away supporters? I ask that because I don't remember going through the same thing in '92-'93.
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The 1970 LCSF queue was legendary but I got there about 0730 on the day of sale so only had to queue a few hours.
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The 1970 LCSF, I took my position in the queue at about 10.00 on saturday evening, I was about half way down Trinty Lane stand.
The office opened the next morning at 9.00? when I got my ticket, the queue stretched pavement deep around the Holte Pub and down Witton Lane.
some young scallywags ( later steamers} were pushing in at the front, buying tickets and selling them for a serious profit to middle aged guys at the back of the queue.
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I remember queuing to get into the game V Ipswich 1981, The queue was back to the flyover of the motorway!
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A gang of us spent a Saturday night on Witton Lane before tickets went on sale for the FA Cup QF at Klanfield in '92 (yellow top, Thomas goal and a defeat).
I'm doing this from memory but I'm sure we played at Main Road that afternoon, a lot of fans got off coaches and just started queueing. Among the other highlights that (sleepless) night:
Listening to England in the cricket World Cup on a tiny radio.
A huge game of football involving about 50 people running the length of Witton Lane.
A mate turning up at about 4 am with some very welcome bacon sandwiches.
Another one abandoning the vigil to try and wake up the girl he was having an affair with who lived a few streets away, problem was he fancied the jump but she lived with her mom and dad.
My overiding memory though is me and one of our gang heading off to the Aston Tavern just before closing to grab a few beers for everyone. When we arrived and having bought our take out, we decided to grab a quick pint. The bell went and we squeezed in another which we were just finishing up when the landlord came out from behind the bar, shut the curtains locked the door than carried on serving. We landed back in the queue at about 2am to much derision from everyone else but feeling pretty refreshed.
Oh and when the tickets went on sale, a bloke in a sheepskin jacket tried to jump the queue and was almost lynched.
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About 10 hours overnight for me for the 2000 Cup Final. ST holder but I wanted to make sure of getting the best tickets and view I could. As it turned out there was no best view.
I am sure a few will mention the queues round VP for Man U S/F tickets in 1970. Tickets were sold out the trunstiles of the Holte on the Trinity Road down, we joined a few yards down Witton Lane round the Holte pub but I think the queue at one stage was right round and onto Nelson Road.
2000 for me went after work at 2am.
Same here. Thought it was going to be a very long morning, but got talking to a few lads about Villa teams and players of the past and it went by pretty quickly.
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I queued from 3am for tickets for the Slavia Prague away game, I still to this day don't know why I did that?
I did the same, and I think it was the morning after the Ajax game. Never had to que for League Cup's 94,96 same goes for the Fa Cup Semi and Final. As far as I remember it was a matter of just turning up.
I remember queuing with my dad for about an hour for tickets for West Brom in the FA Cup in 1998 same for Steaua Bucherest and Atletico Madrid the same season.
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I remember queuing for well over an hour for a ticket for Madrid away. For some stupid reason I decided i'd be able to do it before work as I worked city center and didn't start until 10am. By 10am I was still in the queue in the car park as this was the days when any more than 2 people in a queue and you were outside the ticket office. Got to work about an hour and a half late.
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4am on a cold Sunday morning in January 1990 for away tickets the FA Cup tie with the Boggies, the 2-0 Mountfield and Daley
Got there and there were about 50 ahead of us, bloke next to me had his dog with him saying h'd told the missus he was taking it for a walk.