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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: somec on March 15, 2013, 02:06:53 PM
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This was ome of the first games I remember going to.
What a goal from Tony Daley!
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It was certainly a million times better than the same fixture the previous season.
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I remember it being fucking freezing that day. However, I have no explanation as to why the pitch at the Holte End is covered in snow and the pitch at the Witton End looks comparatively tropical.
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Yes it was very cold and the pitch totally frozen towards the Holte - may not have gone ahead had it been played in this day in age.
One memory of the match that sticks in my mind is a particularly amazing piece of skill from the Lord our Saviour, Paul McGrath.
Defending the Holte, on a surface that made the likes on Niall Quinn look like Bambi on Ice the ball was drilled in to the box from out wide. Macca, faccing the Holte did a mid air back heeled flick at the near post and managed to clear the ball out of the box and we started a counter attack. Without trying to get too misty eyed over the great one, it was a particularly superb piece of skillful defending from a player that excelled at it week in week out, similar to his tackle on Ronnie Rosenthal at Anfield in 1993.
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Yes it was very cold and the pitch totally frozen towards the Holte - may not have gone ahead had it been played in this day in age.
One memory of the match that sticks in my mind is a particularly amazing piece of skill from the Lord our Saviour, Paul McGrath.
Defending the Holte, on a surface that made the likes on Niall Quinn look like Bambi on Ice the ball was drilled in to the box from out wide. Macca, faccing the Holte did a mid air back heeled flick at the near post and managed to clear the ball out of the box and we started a counter attack. Without trying to get too misty eyed over the great one, it was a particularly superb piece of skillful defending from a player that excelled at it week in week out, similar to his tackle on Ronnie Rosenthal at Anfield in 1993.
He had that flying back-heel clearance down to a fine art
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Great stuff
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Funny I have no recollection of that game. Remember David White hammering us the previous year though. Even my memory hates me!