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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: OzVilla on February 27, 2014, 11:15:27 AM
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Answers on a postcard...............
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League cup semi final v Tranmere? Penalty shoot out?
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The final against man ure?
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Liam O'Brien missing a golden chance to put Wirrall on the map.
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Pins and needles on the Holte end through nerves?
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The last truly glorious pitch invasion
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Deffo villa 3 man u 1 no trebles that year
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Deffo villa 3 man u 1 no trebles that year
I think that was March 26th
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March 27th 1994 we beat them 3-1.
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Afraid I only watched the second leg on the telly. But the commentary was entertaining. And the penalties were still an ordeal.
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March 27th 1994 we beat them 3-1.
I have lost count of the number of United fans over the years who say they weren't bothered about the Coca Cola Cup and doing the treble that year. I always congratulate them on their acting ability because having seen their faces on the coaches after the game they were doing a very good job of looking totally gutted.
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March 27th 1994 we beat them 3-1.
I have lost count of the number of United fans over the years who say they weren't bothered about the Coca Cola Cup and doing the treble that year. I always congratulate them on their acting ability because having seen their faces on the coaches after the game they were doing a very good job of looking totally gutted.
They definitely cared. Although I'm sure it was sweetened somewhat by winning the double (and back to back league titles).
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League cup semi final v Tranmere? Penalty shoot out?
Spot On
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The last great English terrace mental.
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We only won because me and my mated did a 'good luck' lap of the outside of Villa Park before the game. We knew we needed to draw on extra help from somewhere and that was surely what won it for us.
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No, we won because our old black cat sat on my lap throughout and even got back on despite having hit the ceiling every time we scored.
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This makes me feel really old.
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Can't believe it's 20 years ago. What a roller coaster of an afternoon that was. Villa Park was absolutely rocking.
I can't remember another match where I went from total delirium to total despair and back again so many times.
I think the fact that I witnessed the humiliation at the away leg made it even better when we eventually got through.
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The last great English terrace mental.
Spot on! Forget the Liverpool game a few months later, the Tranmere match was the Holte End's last great stand.
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Can't believe it's 20 years ago. What a roller coaster of an afternoon that was. Villa Park was absolutely rocking.
I can't remember another match where I went from total delirium to total despair and back again so many times.
I think the fact that I witnessed the humiliation at the away leg made it even better when we eventually got through.
I also went to both - and the debacle of the FA Cup exit at Burnden Park sandwiched in the middle.
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Forget the Liverpool game a few months later, the Tranmere match was the Holte End's last great stand.
I hate people that do this but....this^^^^^^
A truly awe inspiring, impossible to describe maelstrom of emotional mayhem of an afternoon.
In the grand scheme of things it probably wouldn't have mattered that much if we had lost, it was just the League Cup, and even then it was losing it's importance, but at the time, on the day, it was a truly astonishing thing to be a part of.
We sucked Dalian's header into the net, I still believe that.
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If there was a Pantheon for Villa games attended this one would be in it.
I was right in line for Dalians header at he end of normal time and knew it was in the instant it left his forehead, celebrating like a demented Gibbon.
Anyone clever enough to post the footage? It'd be good to remind ourselves the type of club we can be.
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Still the best game I have been to, I'll never forget when Atkinson's goal went in the Holte End went mental.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQouQtaKr44 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQouQtaKr44)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOcBKdFqn5g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOcBKdFqn5g)
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the only team to be 3 nil down in a semi final and go on to win the cup..... i went to tranmere we were crap that night....but in my 47 years of going to villa park iv never been through so many emotions as the second leg against tranmere....thats why football is so wonderful....unlike against bradford
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I remember me and one other guy pushing out of the Holte before the pens, it was all too much.
Funniest thing was seeing the thousands flooding out as we missed and then flooding back in when they missed.
When the final pen was missed me and the other guy leaping into a massive bear hug. Never met him before or since.
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After Dalian had scored I ended up what seemed like miles away from where I was stood as the cross came in. I remember standing still after the initial mayhem around me had calmed down and I swear The Holte was moving under my feet like the actual stand was swaying.
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Was this played on a Sunday afternoon? I was there, think it was.
Great game, in the end.
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One of the great Villa Park occasions. The first trophy of my Villa watching career. Just an incredible game. Will still be talked about in 100 years even after those of us who were there have gone.
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We go on about the 6-4 Blackburn game but it doesn't hold a candle to the sheer emotions of Tranmere. Ok there were ten goals but the tension for me was never there unlike the Tranmere game. Ok it looked dicey when Blackburn went 2-0 up but even then we raced back into it pretty non fazed. Tranmere is THE epic Villa game of the last twenty five years at least.
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I went with my lad who was only a nipper at the time and we were chatting about it a couple of days ago and he remembers it in so much detail, it's one of those great father/son memories and pretty much the only one he can recall in any detail of us standing at Villa Park.
He could talk through all the goals, how I left him with my mate's missus while we went for a slash but came back smelling of beer but most of all just how loud it was.
He also mentioned about when we were in the car after and sat in traffic and everyone sounding their horns and him climbing across and him banging away on ours (it was a knackered old Metro, surprised it didn't fall apart) and then hanging his scarf out of the window all the way home. He got the bug that day.
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There is definitely something about trying to overcome a deficit in a second leg game. Especially when it is nail biting because you leave it so late. Probably the only subject on which you would compare Barcelona and Tranmere.
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I've seen all the big games at Villa Park from the start of the seventies to date but this game against little Tranmere was the most emotionally drained I've been at a football match and the most incredible atmosphere I've ever been in. I think it was a case that we'd been so starved of success since the European Cup win that we were all ravenous to get through to Wembley.
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Richardson's penalty bounced past us sitting in row three upstairs in the North Stand! Que Serra Serra still takes me back to the immediate post match celebrations that Sunday night. It was a masterstroke to repeat it immediately after the Blackburn semi 16 years later (wonder what they had lined up had we lost)
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My best day supporting the Villa, just a complete roller coaster of emotion. The atmosphere in the ground beforehand was of trepidation and the crowd being really unsure of what we could do and the first 20 minutes before we scored, we were abysmal, Aldridge should have scored about twice. Then we scored and the place went into meltdown for the next couple of hours. Without doubt the Holte Ends last great stand.
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My last home game before moving to the states. What a way to bid farewell to Villa Park.
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Greatest game ever for me. I know there have been bigger games but this is still the most memorable game in my 37 years supporting Villa. As others have said the sheer range of emotion and excitement have not been reached since.
I can only think it could be bettered if we had a Michael Thomas/Sergio Aguero moment to win the title against all odds and the chanes of that happenign are vitually zilch.
I feel blessed to have been there to witness it.