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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: kippaxvilla2 on July 09, 2014, 10:47:41 PM
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http://www.mds975.co.uk/audio/george-gavin-01-56.mp3
Some good memories here - Tom sounds really down.
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Remember it well. Freezing, wet day when a lower league side were simply swept aside in a home Cup tie.
Stares fondly into the distance.
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Remember it well. Freezing, wet day when a lower league side were simply swept aside in a home Cup tie.
Stares fondly into the distance.
Wet? It absolutely hammered it down that day!! If I recall correctly, the Port Vale fans were allocated either all or a large part of the old Witton Lane stand, meaning fans who usually sat in there (including me, My Dad and my brother) had to move. Unfortunately my Dad got tickets for the lower tier of the Trinity Road and we got absolutely soaked. I particularly remember Birchy scoring a screamer.
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Wettest I've ever been.
Stuart Gray wonder free kicks?
Port Vale moaning at only getting a 12,000 allocation? 3 times their average home gate
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I was on The Holte and probably had at least some cover. I certainly don't remember it being as wet as Huddersfield in 1987.
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I've had a few serious drenchings over the years but, the greatest soaking I ever got was at a match we played in Coventry. I can't remember when it was or the score but, I was soaked through to my skivvies despite having appropriate clothing. Late 70's early 80's?
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I don't remember getting a soaking at Coventry but I remember one of those freezing days when there was snow/ice on the pitch and snow piled up on the touchlines. I'm pretty sure it was in the Graham Turner days and we won three nil.
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Boro in the ZDS cup in 88-89 was a bit wet, not a good result either.
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The wettest I remember was just before kick-off at Tottenham in the league Cup in I think 93.
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I was on The Holte and probably had at least some cover. I certainly don't remember it being as wet as Huddersfield in 1987.
If you were stood next to me, which you were in all probability, you got soaked. It was when the roof only went half way.
I had a coat with a hood which stood up to the saoking manfully until midway through the second half when the water table in it collapsed and I got as wet as everyone else.
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Wimbledon away at Plough Lane in the FA Cup was probably the wettest I've ever been. I was standing in a pen with about three others (got shepherded there by the Bill) open to the elements and it pissed down. Then Alan Cork scores really late on to really put the tin lid on it. Thats how I remember it anyway.
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Wettest Athletico Bilbao in the UEFA CUP 1977
I was also on the open end at Huddersfield, it started raining as the ref blew the whistle to start the game, and it did not stop!!!
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With the possible exception of Chris Nicholl goals in cup finals I don't think anything gets exaggerated over the years as much as rain during the match. I swear some of these torrential downpours were actually dry.
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Nooooo! I'm still drying out my underpants from that match at Coventry. I've just remembered another good soaking I got at Preston in the 70/71 season.
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Wimbledon away at Plough Lane in the FA Cup was probably the wettest I've ever been. I was standing in a pen with about three others (got shepherded there by the Bill) open to the elements and it pissed down. Then Alan Cork scores really late on to really put the tin lid on it. Thats how I remember it anyway.
I was so wet that night the colour of the new underpants I had on actually ran.
A truly fucking awful night.
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I've had a few serious drenchings over the years but, the greatest soaking I ever got was at a match we played in Coventry. I can't remember when it was or the score but, I was soaked through to my skivvies despite having appropriate clothing. Late 70's early 80's?
Jan 1981. I was there as well. We won 2-1 and it was a very nervous last 20 mins as Cov battered us
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Thanks Rudy, that's the one. I used to like going there, we rarely lost and was back home early.
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I was on The Holte and probably had at least some cover. I certainly don't remember it being as wet as Huddersfield in 1987.
If you were stood next to me, which you were in all probability, you got soaked. It was when the roof only went half way.
I had a coat with a hood which stood up to the saoking manfully until midway through the second half when the water table in it collapsed and I got as wet as everyone else.
I definitely remember getting on the coach after the Huddersfield game and taking a bite of the burger I had just bought that was more water than burger by that point then getting my programme out of my pocket to read only to find it was just a lump of paper mache and totally unreadable. I also distinctively recall my travelling companion finding all of this very amusing.
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With the possible exception of Chris Nicholl goals in cup finals I don't think anything gets exaggerated over the years as much as rain during the match. I swear some of these torrential downpours were actually dry.
Do you really think Nicholl's goal at Old Trafford was exaggerated Dave? I was side on at Old Trafford and I swear he was fully forty yards out with no pedigree of being able to shoot like that from distance. An incredible strike.
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With the possible exception of Chris Nicholl goals in cup finals I don't think anything gets exaggerated over the years as much as rain during the match. I swear some of these torrential downpours were actually dry.
Do you really think Nicholl's goal at Old Trafford was exaggerated Dave? I was side on at Old Trafford and I swear he was fully forty yards out with no pedigree of being able to shoot like that from distance. An incredible strike.
There are those who will wear he was in Stockport.