Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: pauliewalnuts on January 05, 2014, 11:51:34 PM
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My brother's wife's grandfather died a while back. My brother said that they were going through his stuff and "found some Villa stuff, which you can have" (he was a big fan).
I finally got round to looking through it all today. It's an impressive haul.
Firstly, I was impressed by the bag in which it came, which took me back to the 1970s and walking up to Waitrose on Stratford Road in Hall Green.
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So, first of all, there is a collection of newspapers from May 4, 1981.
Here are the back pages.
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A lot of the sports pages go with this story, seen here in the Bham Post:
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The Daily Express:
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True to form, the Daily Mail goes with this on the front page:
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But on the back page, again, they are focusing on Saunders:
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Then we have some matchday programs from the title season:
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A Sports Argus "What a Chase!" special pullout as the season neared its end:
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Then we have another Sports Argus special after we won it:
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With a tribute to the fans:
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And a tip of the hat to Mr Stride:
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Back page is a tribute to the 14:
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But, hey, don't worry, because the future is safe, we have this lot.
Noel Blake, Mark Kendall, Mark Jones, Robert CuntHopkins, Paul Birch and Mark Walters.
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Fantastic stuff
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I had those two Argus specials. I particularly remember the 'What A Chase' one. Also, that is Andy Blair in a Coventry kit on the front of one of those programmes isn't it?
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A Ron Saunders testimonial magazine
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A touching tribute from the late recently turned 100 Harry Kartz:
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Receiving the manager of the year gong from Eric Morecambe (I have no idea why, but I vividly remember seeing this photo as a 13 year old)
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Brilliant photo:
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A photo of the great man with Pat Cowdell (that's a name I haven't heard for a quarter of a century)
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The squads from the testimonial.
Against Small Heath, of all people
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A 1984/5 Souvenir handbook:
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Containing an excuse from the chairman.
Look at the bit about why they appointed Turner. Plus ca change.
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I love the header on this page, so stylish.
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Brilliant stuff.
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Contains "you must be fucking joking, I am only 16 and I already know those are shit" advert
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Slightly incongruously, a 1981 Steam Train special
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I've never seen this before, it's a sort of cartoonified, large format version of Peter Morris's book (which I have in its usual format)
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Contains much along these lines:
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Plus this book:
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Slightly sniffy Telegraph report, Monday May 4th 1981:
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Then there is a Dennis Mortimer testimonial mag:
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Mr Mortimer et famille:
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Randomly amusing piece of 1980s tush, centrefold Hoddle article:
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That's the official centenary book, The First 100 Years, which if anything is better known than the earlier one.
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That's just a quick scan of what is there.
Needless to say, I am bowled over by the collective magnificence of it. It was clearly horded and kept by someone who cared deeply about it for 30 years, and i will be stashing it along with the priceless stuff I've turned up over 10 years of family history research.
It all smells brilliantly of "old stuff", too.
If there's interest, I will have a proper look this week and scan some stuff properly, there is hundreds of pages of it, this is just a few randomly snapped low quality photos i took just now.
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Keep em coming.
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And Harry Kartz is still alive.
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Ha ha, that's a good point, Dave, I was confusing his 100th with his recent passing. Which of course, hasn't happened.
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Great stuff Paulie, keep the pics coming. I love it when I'm mooching through an old box or something and find old Villa stuff I'd forgotten I had.
A 1975 LC Final silk scarf of my dad's was one that delighted me a few years ago.
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I found a bottle of lemonade wrapped in the Villa kit last week.Christ knows when it was from early 90's I think.Most get round to opening it one day.
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I had all of those back in the day, just looking at the covers makes me nostalgic as I haven't seen then in 25 odd years.
I just wished I knew where they'd ended up.
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Those Argus specials certainly bring back some memories!
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"I feel that for everyone connected with Aston Villa Football Club the 1984/85 season is going to be a most exciting one".
Is that a fact Doug ? I don't think the 10,000 who turned up to watch us play Stoke would agree !
"Graham Turner was selected for many reasons".
Would cheaper salary than the other candidates be one of those reasons ?
This appointment was today's equivalent of Dean Smith taking over at Arsenal.
Unbelievable.
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I've got lots of similar stuff stretching back to the Tommy Docherty era. I think the oldest Sports Argus I kept was the day Villa lost 5-3 at home to Portsmouth in the season we got relegated to the Third Division. I've also got copies of the old Villa Times, the newspaper version. I hope my wife and kids don't just bin it all in ignorance when I die.
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"I feel that for everyone connected with Aston Villa Football Club the 1984/85 season is going to be a most exciting one".
Is that a fact Doug ? I don't think the 10,000 who turned up to watch us play Stoke would agree !
"Graham Turner was selected for many reasons".
Would cheaper salary than the other candidates be one of those reasons ?
This appointment was today's equivalent of Dean Smith taking over at Arsenal.
Unbelievable.
The' many reasons' were
1 Seems to do a good job with bugger all money to spend
2 Will be grateful for the job and do what I tell him to do without arguing
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I have box fulls of that sort of stuff from 1967 onwards just climbing into the loft now to dig it all out so many memories. Thanks so much