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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: pbavfckuwait on May 01, 2013, 07:24:34 PM
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Thank you Aston Villa for giving me one of the best days in my life, 32 years ago tomorrow 2nd May 1981, we truly were the Children of the Revolution. ( If you do not know what I mean shame on you)
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Remember it like it was yesterday and that squad of 14 players will always be legends to me. I remember meeting Peter Withe in the late 1990's. I was in complete awe of him.
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One of the big pluses of being my age; is to be able to say unequivocally...I was there!
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One of the big pluses of being my age; is to be able to say unequivocally...I was there!
So was I!
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Couldnt get a ticket for highbury and was at villa park on the day watching the reserves beat forest i think it was .
The game kicked off at 2 pm at villa park and i had the tranny radio on the bus back to coventry when the news came that jankovic had scored i turned it up and many on the bus seemed pleased to hear ; 32 years ago - my how time has flown by!
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I've always maintained it's a pity that what came after it overshadowed winning the league. All the players say that the hardest part of winning the European Cup was qualifying for it.
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I've always maintained it's a pity that what came after it overshadowed winning the league. All the players say that the hardest part of winning the European Cup was qualifying for it.
I agree, the league was a hard 42 game slog, whereas the cup was 7 games excluding the easy 1st round.
Both were great achievements but the league was hardest to win .
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One of the big pluses of being my age; is to be able to say unequivocally...I was there!
So was I!
And me, with younger bruv, and Dad. It have never thought about it before, but it was actually the last time all three of us went to a game together.
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Looking back I realise how lucky I am that this happened in my early 20s, before I got married and had kids. I went to every one of those 42 league games that season (and the cup games) - it just fell perfectly for my life and I wouldn't even swap that bit of luck for a big lottery win now in my 50s.
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and me ;) I thought there was going to be many more at the time being a kid
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Coming out of Highbury and singing "Won the league,won the league".
Millions of us.
What a fantastic day.
I don`t actually remember anything about the journey home.
16 years old and pissed out of my brains.
I`ve continued to celebrate it from that day to this.
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fantastic day!! highbury 81 - bloody hell know I now I am old
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I wasn't there but remember the season with great clairty. I wsa living in Mancland at the time and so the pride I had on winning the league was like something bursting ourt of my chest.
The culmination of 11 years of development, progress and great football. Children of the Revolution indeed; something I've found difficult to articulate to my now-21 year-old son..
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This season may not seem so bad in 11 years time if we win the league in 2024!
My recollection of it as a 7 year old is lying on the carpet watching grandstand after the match had finished with all the villa fans streaming on to the pitch and a v shaped wedge of police seperating them from the arsenal fans running on from the north bank. Wishing I was there.
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Great times. I had to flog loads of things to be able to afford the European Cup away trips that followed but, with the exception of Hornby loco 34051 Sir Winston Churchill, I am glad that I did.
The fact that we used only 14 players to win the league is still incredible. We see a lot of the players around these days and I am glad they are being thrust into the limelight again.
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My old man had gone to Villa Park the week before & queued for hours for 2 tickets on the Clock End at Highbury which he duly got.
All the talk & banter on the Clock End that day was about Bobby Sands who was in his final days of his hunger strike, I can still remember some of the jokes I heard that day!
If you were there, you'll remember the guest of Arsenal on the pitch before the game was none other than Pele, he was booed off as he never came down the Clock End for a wave to the Villa fans the talentless, flacid cocked bastard.
Oh and lets not foget a big round of applause for Bosco Jankovic of Middlesborough, without whom this may not have been possible. Cheers Bosco.
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What a season, what memories, the first year I had a season ticket! Didn't get to many away as I was 12/13 and my Aunty used to take me down (God rest her soul) and wasn't at Highbury, but rremeber being glued to the radio in Mum's back garden.
Liverpool at home, when Dennis burst through for the 2nd was undoubtably the moment when I thought "We are going to win the league"
Thanks for the reminder pb....shame the kids of today don't have the hope we once had!
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http://youtu.be/cDVpkdTLV2c
I hadn't seen this before. At first ! thought it was only on for under a minute and a half - then I realised it says 1 hour and 22 minutes. The quality is a bit dodgy in places - but the story is all there!
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Sadly Bosco Jancovich died in 1993 he was only 42.
Thanks Bosco. RIP.
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I was at uni in Guildford and travelled up on the day - I remember going to Euston to tag along with Villa fans to the ground and finding hardly any of them arrived by train. I then didn't know how to get to Highbury and had to rely on some young kids who were going to set me on the right bus. I shall never forget approaching the ground and seeing a pub called 'The Gunners' or some such other Arsenal-affiliated name outside of which were hordes and hordes of Villa fans stood on tables and chairs which they had evidently brought out the pub. I have never seen so many Villa fans at one away match. As I've said on here many many times, one of my best memories is going up to Brum during the preceding week to queue overnight to get a ticket for the game. I got the last train out of Euston and arrived at New Street in the early hours, walked out to VP and was about third in the queue. The other lads got a brazier going and we had bacon and egg sandwiches from a local shop for brekkie. I can still remember walking away from the ticket booth in the North Stand with my ticket held aloft in my hands and everyone cheering me. The queue by that time was all the way round VP...
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And to think that the long haired skinny runt who rolled that ball agonisingly past Jimmy Rimmer for one of their goals is none other than Reading's now ex Matt Lucas lookalike manager. Never been able to get my head round that...
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Coming out of Highbury and singing "Won the league,won the league".
Millions of us.
What a fantastic day.
I don`t actually remember anything about the journey home.
16 years old and pissed out of my brains.
I`ve continued to celebrate it from that day to this.
We are about the same age!
I got a ticket from a neighbour and my best mate and I got the coach from behind Walsall train station down to Highbury that day!
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On this day Villa ran loads of coaches and they hadnt got enough stewards to run them so they asked me to look after one of them but it meant i got a free seat, would have preferred a standing tkt up Clock End but indeed a glorious day but ruined when on way home one coach breaks down on the M1........mine. Other coaches pulled over and took some of our passengers but being 'Captain' i had to stay with the ship. When finally managed to get away myself gone to collect my things including takings from Villa lottery cards......only had been nicked....i thought some 'robbing Villa bastard'.
My fears were unfounded as my coach then pulled up at whatever service station it was to be greeted by a Villa fan running toward me full of apologies, when he got opportunity to get on board another coach he just grabbed everything at hand and legged it......my faith restored.
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On this day Villa ran loads of coaches and they hadnt got enough stewards to run them so they asked me to look after one of them but it meant i got a free seat, would have preferred a standing tkt up Clock End but indeed a glorious day but ruined when on way home one coach breaks down on the M1........mine.
I was selected as steward for our coach but didn't get a ticket for my troubles. I think it was coach 74. Great journey up through Archway on the way back, with people jumping off and getting loads of beer in.
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There was good / bad Karma in these 2 years
The Good
I had left school in 80 and had started to go to the odd game away with a few older mates - i said that when i had a job i would "go for the whole season and not miss a game home or away" what a season to choose :D
The Bad
The following year and 2 days before me and my Dad was due to travel to Rotterdam the house gets burgled - match tickets, coach tickets and spending money all gone
We sat at home and watched on tv and although our greatest triumph there was a feeling of hollowness as we "should" have been there
That is the reason why the League win is always my favourite :'(
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Fucking hell- that's a terrible story. Really sorry to hear that happened to you. Bad enough getting burgled but missing out on Rotterdam would've been gut-wrenching I would imagine. Hopefully one day we get there to the final again and you do make it.
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My ticket only arrived on the morning of the match, my mum had arranged to go to our local sorting office at some ridiculous hour as I was getting a very early train, I returned home with a huge lump of Highbury turf and my brother had gone to Ayresome Park with a couple of his Boro supporting mates!
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Our 3 tickets didn't arrive until the morning of the game. My friends mum who still lives about 400 metres from Villa Park had qot for tickets for us. We waited nervousdly for the postman to arrive before a mad drive from Southampton to get to Higbury. We could hardly move at the back of the clock end. What an away following!.
Funnily enough the next day I went to see Villa reserves play against Dorchester Townin a friendly. Why they were playing I don't know.
Dorset Villa
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There was good / bad Karma in these 2 years
The Good
I had left school in 80 and had started to go to the odd game away with a few older mates - i said that when i had a job i would "go for the whole season and not miss a game home or away" what a season to choose :D
The Bad
The following year and 2 days before me and my Dad was due to travel to Rotterdam the house gets burgled - match tickets, coach tickets and spending money all gone
We sat at home and watched on tv and although our greatest triumph there was a feeling of hollowness as we "should" have been there
That is the reason why the League win is always my favourite :'(
There was good / bad Karma in these 2 years
The Good
My older brother coming home the day before the Rotterdam game saying he had managed to get us match tickets, coach tickets and spending money for the game - what a great memory
The Bad
Reading Hookey's story, terrible that you missed out
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Anybody got any photos from the day at Highbury?
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Anybody got any photos from the day at Highbury?
I haven't but there was a Match of the Day from the 80's or some such programme on TV a few years ago and I got a call from my brother to say he had spotted me as the Villa end started getting the news Boro were winning, I'd recorded it and sure enough there I was!
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Anybody got any photos from the day at Highbury?
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We didn`t have mobile phones back in those days.
And if we did,they`d probably have been used as missiles.
The NHS statistics would probably read:
Number of people hospitalised through mobile phone injuries= 37,963,215. (per month)
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There is a super photo somewhere in black and white of the Clock End which has been put on here several times and in which I can spot both myself and Frank who posts on here. And I think a number of other posters are in the photo too!
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Coming out of Highbury and singing "Won the league,won the league".
Millions of us.
What a fantastic day.
I don`t actually remember anything about the journey home.
16 years old and pissed out of my brains.
I`ve continued to celebrate it from that day to this.
We are about the same age!
I got a ticket from a neighbour and my best mate and I got the coach from behind Walsall train station down to Highbury that day!
We got a coach to London Victoria,then some tubes.I was relying on my cockney Villa mate to know where we were going.Christ knows how we got home !
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There is a super photo somewhere in black and white of the Clock End which has been put on here several times and in which I can spot both myself and Frank who posts on here. And I think a number of other posters are in the photo too!
Yep I think I know that one, I can see me and my Dad in it.
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I remember I planne on getting a load of stuff from the villa shop that day and was most upset to find the shop shut even though the reserves were at home - all the staff had gone to highbury from the club shop :(
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I was lucky enough to be in Rotterdam but my memories of the game at Highbury, like most of my memories as a ten year old that season, was listening to Butler and Gavin on BRMB. I remember the family of Villa fans from next door returning from the game and banging on our windows until my bluenose old man let them in, at which point they had a 'pile on' on him as he was sat on the sofa. To be fair, when he went out for our chippy tea he had brought back a bottle of champagne with him that I was given a small glass of. My fondest memories are of going to the civic reception (the next day if I remember right).
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One of the big pluses of being my age; is to be able to say unequivocally...I was there!
Ditto
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Here's my ticket.
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£1.80 read it and weep.
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(http://afchistory.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/villa.jpg?w=584&h=474)
http://afchistory.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/villa-lose-to-arsenal-but-are-crowned-champions-at-highbury-on-this-day-2nd-may-1981/villa-2/
http://afchistory.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/villa-lose-to-arsenal-but-are-crowned-champions-at-highbury-on-this-day-2nd-may-1981/villa2-2/
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In a roundabout way someone pointed out to me that today also marks the 20th anniversary of us conceeding the first Premier League title to Manchester United...
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My old man had gone to Villa Park the week before & queued for hours for 2 tickets on the Clock End at Highbury which he duly got.
All the talk & banter on the Clock End that day was about Bobby Sands who was in his final days of his hunger strike, I can still remember some of the jokes I heard that day!
If you were there, you'll remember the guest of Arsenal on the pitch before the game was none other than Pele, he was booed off as he never came down the Clock End for a wave to the Villa fans the talentless, flacid cocked bastard.
Oh and lets not foget a big round of applause for Bosco Jankovic of Middlesborough, without whom this may not have been possible. Cheers Bosco.
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I remember being there and we got into the british railway workers club for a drink before the game
C I U affiliated in high bury. But my memory of Pele was he came out towards us at the clock end
But he was wearing an Arsenal scarf to which he got some a bad reception from us!
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My old man had gone to Villa Park the week before & queued for hours for 2 tickets on the Clock End at Highbury which he duly got.
All the talk & banter on the Clock End that day was about Bobby Sands who was in his final days of his hunger strike, I can still remember some of the jokes I heard that day!
If you were there, you'll remember the guest of Arsenal on the pitch before the game was none other than Pele, he was booed off as he never came down the Clock End for a wave to the Villa fans the talentless, flacid cocked bastard.
Oh and lets not foget a big round of applause for Bosco Jankovic of Middlesborough, without whom this may not have been possible. Cheers Bosco.
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I remember being there and we got into the british railway workers club for a drink before the game
C I U affiliated in high bury. But my memory of Pele was he came out towards us at the clock end
But he was wearing an Arsenal scarf to which he got some a bad reception from us!
Pele was before the game, the pitch was invaded at the final whistle and I can't remember it ever being cleared properly. The were 2 dolly birds with him as well who got a rousing chorus of 'get yer tits out for the lads'
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Missed the Rotterdam game as being a service man at the time I was in the Falklands, but Highbury had always been one of my favorite grounds, remember wagging it from school and ended bunking a train from Brum to London and telling them we were on a school project getting showed around Highbury and that indoor pitch never seen anything like it, so to win it there was so so special, mind you got my nose bust having a row with a blue nose arse hole in the Shamrock when I got back to Brum, but would not change that day for anything, the ride up the M1 was something that will never be repeated.
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Look what I found today in my loft , You remember these
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Some brilliant images that stir the memories like it was yesterday - although i bemoan my age and the fact that my body is falling apart i would not swap youth for the memories of that era
We were indeed "there"
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We used to have these:
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Saturday 3pm every other week!
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I was there, with my dad, two sisters and brother-in-law.
I recall (correct me if I'm wrong) that the game was made all-ticket very close to the day of the game. But to be certain of getting into this game, my dad had bought 5 seat tickets direct from Arsenal many weeks before. However, these seats were very low to the pitch and right next to the North Bank amidst, obviously, the Arsenal fans. We therefore had a very different experience from those at the Clock End.
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http://youtu.be/cDVpkdTLV2c (http://youtu.be/cDVpkdTLV2c)
I hadn't seen this before. At first ! thought it was only on for under a minute and a half - then I realised it says 1 hour and 22 minutes. The quality is a bit dodgy in places - but the story is all there!
Great video - I particularly liked the story from Tony Morley about Saunders insisting that players had a nip of brandy before each game!
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I wrote a longish piece on a similar thread a couple of years ago, but it was a marathon day out for me and my mates ( subsequently I found it in a book by a bloke who comes on here and nicks posts without asking - Dave W knows his name) . A very draining experience that day and it was a lot moodier than many people remember.
Nice close up of Danny in the top picture posted above - he must have been sent down not long after this game.
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I was in one of the first Villa coaches to arrive back at VP after the Arsenal game. The atmosphere in the Aston Tavern as it filled up with more returning coachloads was amazing. I'll never forget it.
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I was in one of the first Villa coaches to arrive back at VP after the Arsenal game. The atmosphere in the Aston Tavern as it filled up with more returning coachloads was amazing. I'll never forget it.
We also went straight into the Aston Tavern. I will never understand why we went with the Travellers Club. Only benefit was that I can still remember the occasion, which wouldn't have been the case if we had gone by train with all the beer that would have been drunk.
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http://youtu.be/cDVpkdTLV2c (http://youtu.be/cDVpkdTLV2c)
I hadn't seen this before. At first ! thought it was only on for under a minute and a half - then I realised it says 1 hour and 22 minutes. The quality is a bit dodgy in places - but the story is all there!
Great video - I particularly liked the story from Tony Morley about Saunders insisting that players had a nip of brandy before each game!
I'm sure it's the official Champions DVD the club brought out a few years ago.
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I remember it being so crammed in the Clock End, I had some refreshments in a carrier - but couldnt take my arms from my side to reach it....till half time...
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I remember Pele was at Highbury that day, the Cocneys were singing " sign him up" . And I've never forgiven them for spoiling our day by coming on the pitch at the end and they wouldn't let the Villa players come back out to salute the fans.........
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It's great to see our triumph is not just remembered by us. In this month's When Saturday Comes there's a two-page photo spread and short article about us losing at Highbury and yet winning the title. There's a particularly excellent shot of our supporters massed in the clock end - well worth a look if you were there - plus photos of the subs bench, Dennis Mortimer and Ron Saunders (smiling), Gary Shaw, and our lot having invaded the pitch. Lovely stuff.
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Just been flicking through my copy of WSC now and came to the centre spread. Fantastic photos of a fantastic day! Those of us of a certain age to be the Children of the Revolution are so lucky to have those memories.
As an aside, someone I know celebrated her fiftieth birthday on 2nd May. She was somewhat taken aback when I told her that I could remember exactly what I was doing the day she celebrated turning 18!
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I find it hard to remember the day-i think i was so super charged i was out of it by the end.
Funnily enough i can recall the celebrations in the Windsor on the parade day better.Made a party at Gatsby's seem like a WI meeting.
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One of THE special days of following the club. I remember the majestic sight of all the travelers club coaches in convoy along the motorway , an agonising gridlock on the North circular at 2.30pm , the mayhem of those final minutes after the 'boro goal and a trip back where it still hadn't really sunk in. At Villa Park they'd switched on a single floodlight shining on The Holte like a lone welcome candle in the darkness. Mad hungover Sunday morning at the Council House where Sir Ron announced "I will now smile!" and then on the Monday night we beat the Blues six something at St Andrews in a testimonial they were desperate to win in front of a mainly Villa crowd that rocked the Tilton - Magical times!
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Just been flicking through my copy of WSC now and came to the centre spread. Fantastic photos of a fantastic day! Those of us of a certain age to be the Children of the Revolution are so lucky to have those memories.
As an aside, someone I know celebrated her fiftieth birthday on 2nd May. She was somewhat taken aback when I told her that I could remember exactly what I was doing the day she celebrated turning 18!
The thing that's most obvious about those crowd shots is that everyone in them is male and aged about 16-25. It brings it home how crowds have changed.
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quite simply the best yrs of my life. only missed one game all season boro away cause my dog died day before r.i.p. lassie. and i buried her at 3 o clock when we kicked off with my villa scarf round her neck. promised a mate i would go with him and he had seats behind the band we was amongst all arsenal but we never shut up all game that game was 90 mins of pure hell but the afters was amazing remember being on the roof of his car in a jam on way back to m1 and it seemed the holte was up there with me. had my villa flag out of his sunroof all way home aaah days that can never be repeated (or can they).
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Some Very good lads on the one photo , gone but not forgotten !
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How many Villa fans did we take to highbury? I've heard as low as 14000 and as many as 26000. Also is it true that it was a record away following for a top flight game?
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How many Villa fans did we take to highbury? I've heard as low as 14000 and as many as 26000. Also is it true that it was a record away following for a top flight game?
Most of the press at the tiime talked of 20,000, but I have no idea how many tickets were officially allocated. We had all the Clock End plus some fans in the seats. A few people were incognito in various parts of the ground too.
IIRC the gate was around 55-60k
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59,000 is the figure I remember Pat. All I know is that it was massive down that clock end, we were about half way between the main stand and the goal; half way up. What a day!
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59,000 is the figure I remember Pat. All I know is that it was massive down that clock end, we were about half way between the main stand and the goal; half way up. What a day!
57,472. Despite the figures bandied around since then, the Clock End held 14,000, say a couple of thousand with stand tickets and the same dotted elsewhere around the ground. We probably took around 18,000.
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59,000 is the figure I remember Pat. All I know is that it was massive down that clock end, we were about half way between the main stand and the goal; half way up. What a day!
57,472. Despite the figures bandied around since then, the Clock End held 14,000, say a couple of thousand with stand tickets and the same dotted elsewhere around the ground. We probably took around 18,000.
r
So basically about half as many as Everton brought to Villa Park in 1987......
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59,000 is the figure I remember Pat. All I know is that it was massive down that clock end, we were about half way between the main stand and the goal; half way up. What a day!
57,472. Despite the figures bandied around since then, the Clock End held 14,000, say a couple of thousand with stand tickets and the same dotted elsewhere around the ground. We probably took around 18,000.
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So basically about half as many as Everton brought to Villa Park in 1987......
Maybe a quarter. Depends who you talk to.
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57,472. Despite the figures bandied around since then, the Clock End held 14,000, say a couple of thousand with stand tickets and the same dotted elsewhere around the ground. We probably took around 18,000.
Fickle!
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in reply to ricos question about how many we took, the answer is quite simply we took more to highbury than blues get average gate.
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Like others feel very privileged to have attended Highbury and Rotterdam.
My memories of Highbury
Long queue of coaches stretching down from VP
Pele being escorted past us before going in the ground. He was about 10 yards away from me
A really poor performance from the team on the day
Vividly remember McDermot scuffed shot rolling past Jimmy toward where I was standing
Massive support from Villa
Getting on the pitch at the end and taking some turf home which i planted in the garden
Having my picture in the NoTW the next day
Great days
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I was 16 and pissed as a fart on cheap lager that my mate who had a mustache and so could get away with buying lager had bought, can't remember anything much. Was sick on the train on the way home.
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My memories of that day:
2 carloads; Me, my sister, my mate, his siter and dad, plus his brother and co.
Trying to listen to any nearby radio in the Clock end.
Going ballistic when we knew we'd done it.
Going on the pitch.
Stuck on the North Circular - all the horde in cars singing and chanting to bemused shoppers.
Chasing the Villa coach up the A40 - flashing the lights and pipping the horn as each player came to the back to fill up with booze.
Cheering and shouting Withe & McNaught as they got off the coach at Hockley Heath.
Meeting other fans in the Locker in Solihull and getting very pissed, then watching it on MOTD later.
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And to think that the long haired skinny runt who rolled that ball agonisingly past Jimmy Rimmer for one of their goals is none other than Reading's now ex Matt Lucas lookalike manager. Never been able to get my head round that...
Oddly when we played Reading in the FA Cup Quarter Final a few years ago, in the programme they asked him what his favourite memory from playing was. He said something like 'Arsenal against Villa on the last game of the 1980/81 season, the atmosphere from their fans that day was amazing'.
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I received a signed 80/81 shirt for my 50th in April which hangs proudly in our house and it brought home just what an amazing feat it was with just 14 players....
me and my Dad sadly could not go to Arsenal that day, but listened to the radio like many thousands of others.
UTV
the Doc
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I had a seat for that game and remember the sight of all the Villa fans in the clock end, the disappointment of how we played and the joy at realising we were about to win the league.
At the time I am sure Arsenal were no 'bigger' than us, I suppose the one regret is that we didn't keep building from that point. I went to loads of away games that year on the basis that it might not happen again but who knows, in 1978 you wouldn't have thought it was just around the corner. Wouldn't it be great if the power base of the premiership changed and we again had a chance?
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God bless Jankovic RIP
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Running on the pitch at the end of the game and trying to grab a divot as a keepsake. A copper grabbed me and punched me on the side of the head.
Stunning!
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