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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Dave Javu on March 24, 2015, 09:39:36 AM
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It's my birthday today - which reminds me of one of my better birthdays - 24th March 1996.
Just about the most one-sided final between two top tier sides as you could get.
Dwight in his pomp, super Ian Taylor, our dear Lord mopping up at the back. Oh, and "SAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVOOOOOOO!". They had Carlton Palmer....
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Your comment got me thinking about one sided finals between top flight teams. I could only think of United against Brighton and Chelsea in the FA cup and against Wigan in the League cup or whatever it was called that year.
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Swansea v Bradford in the League cup final a few seasons ago was more than one sided.
Happy birthday David.
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Fine Day
Leeds were beaten before they got there.
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Swansea v Bradford in the League cup final a few seasons ago was more than one sided.
Happy birthday David.
1. I did say "top tier sides"
2. Cheers!
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It's still the only time we've ever acted like we belonged on the big stage. We're usually wide-eyed daytrippers but this one was turn up, do the job, go home with another trophy.
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The night before it seemed that every pub in London was crammed with Leeds fans. I was so pissed at the game that I had to check the score the next morning.
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Happy birthday Dave, can you find the second half?
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The night before it seemed that every pub in London was crammed with Leeds fans. I was so pissed at the game that I had to check the score the next morning.
I was out in Ealing and it was rammed full of Leeds fans.
The Super Thomas Brolin chant must have been used very infrequently used after that weekend.
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Happy birthday Dave, can you find the second half?
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And the whole game
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Thanks Dave and PWS. I enjoyed watching some of that again, reminded me that we had a very good side then with some very good players.
Very sad to see Gary Speed knowing now what was to become of him. RIP.
Around about 1:57 during the after-match punditry, Jack Charlton trying to say Milosevic. It was very funny.
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Great day for the Villa
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I still feel no part of this win. I was in Australia and there was no TV coverage, and no radio updates. I went from pub to pub but could find nothing. It wasn't until next day that I could find out the score. Horrible experience. I've never been able to sit and watch it as it feels (gloriously) empty.
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Happy Days!
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My favorite period so far from 1993 to the kick off of the FA Cup Final of 2000. I went to virtually every game and all over Europe. We've been largely shite ever since!
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My favorite period so far from 1993 to the kick off of the FA Cup Final of 2000. I went to virtually every game and all over Europe. We've been largely shite ever since!
Don't even think about the number of opportunities we had around then to kick on.
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I was sat next to Julian Joachim and what a great day
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I went to the 94 Final but had to miss this one as we just couldn't get a ticket plus I did A-Level finals around that same time. Savo was my favourite player in the squad so to see him score was really special.
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I went to the 94 Final but had to miss this one as we just couldn't get a ticket plus I did A-Level finals around that same time. Savo was my favourite player in the squad so to see him score was really special.
Did you have a bandana Deano?
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As Dave says, the only time we've ever acted like we belonged at that level. Fucking great day though, the Dwight Yorke song after the game was something special.
I remember on the coach home passing a mini van full of Leeds broken down on the motorway and they were sat on the bank, just outside London, and thinking what a shit ending to a shit day it must have been for them.
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I went to the 94 Final but had to miss this one as we just couldn't get a ticket plus I did A-Level finals around that same time. Savo was my favourite player in the squad so to see him score was really special.
Yeh but I never wore it in public. Made me look.....stupid.
Did you have a bandana Deano?
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Fantastic day, we walked around liked we owned the place. The Dwight Yorke (New York, New York) song sticks in my mind from the end as it boomed around the tannoy and terraces of Wembley.
The only negative of the day was trying to find a pub in central London and a copper giving us a right earful for doing absolutely nothing other than walking the wrong way. I guess there had been some trouble with Leeds fans and he wanted the are cleared of any football fans, not matter who they supported.
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Dragged out of bed on the Sat for the early train to London after a heavy session the night before, I never really sobbered up all weekend.
A great day ended with us doing Aerobics* in the hotel lobby with a load of girls we met from Denmark who we bought back from the pub.
*Not a euphamism, actual Aerobics.
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I was sat next to Julian Joachim and what a great day
I was sat near to Cyrille Regis at the final in '94, but not next to him. Although I did sit next to Nigel Clough at a Paul Simon concert a few days before he played in the 1991 FA Cup final.
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Apart from the game itself my overriding memory of the day is of a middle aged Leeds fan applauding the Villa fans' coaches as they pulled out of the car park. Better than 1994 when after the game a (about) 15 year old ManUre fan ran up to two of us in the car park, smacked me in the chest, and ran off.
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It's my birthday today - which reminds me of one of my better birthdays - 24th March 1996.
Just about the most one-sided final between two top tier sides as you could get.
Dwight in his pomp, super Ian Taylor, our dear Lord mopping up at the back. Oh, and "SAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVOOOOOOO!". They had Carlton Palmer....
My birthday is March 24 as well Dave. Happy birthday yesterday to us.
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Can't believe I was taking a piss with a copper when Savo scored.
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A mate and I got our tickets from the Villa, got in to Wembley only to find our seat row didn't exist. Savo had scored one in about 10 games prior to this game and was silly odds to score the first goal - it paid for the ticket, travel and booze for the day. Watching McCallister going backwards and knowing we were going to win early in the second half - happy days!
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Great day out, much less nervy than the 94 final against Man Utd.
I thought all finals were jubilant affairs, until I went to the FA Cup Final ... :O(
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Can't believe I was taking a piss with a copper when Savo scored.
Blimey Simon, you must have been a top boy to have your own designated copper.
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A mate and I got our tickets from the Villa, got in to Wembley only to find our seat row didn't exist. Savo had scored one in about 10 games prior to this game and was silly odds to score the first goal - it paid for the ticket, travel and booze for the day. Watching McCallister going backwards and knowing we were going to win early in the second half - happy days!
He'd scored 3 in the previous 3 games.
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Can't believe I was taking a piss with a copper when Savo scored.
A couple of posters who were witness to it might correct me on this but if I remember the story correctly my cousins husband was away having a piss when Savo scored. One of my mates took the piss out of him when he returned (there had been a bit of niggle between them previously over the merits or otherwise of Savo) and it was about ten years later at a party I threw before they spoke a word to each other again.
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I was too busy willing Leeds to score in the last few minutes as I'd had a fiver on Savo 3-1 at 66-1.
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Can't believe I was taking a piss with a copper when Savo scored.
Blimey Simon, you must have been a top boy to have your own designated copper.
Radio Rental me.
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A mate and I got our tickets from the Villa, got in to Wembley only to find our seat row didn't exist. Savo had scored one in about 10 games prior to this game and was silly odds to score the first goal - it paid for the ticket, travel and booze for the day. Watching McCallister going backwards and knowing we were going to win early in the second half - happy days!
He'd scored 3 in the previous 3 games.
no he didnt - we lost 2-0 to Sheff Wed, drew 0-0 with Middlesborough and beat QPR 3-2 the previous three games - scored against QPR, going back he'd scored against Sheff Wed and then nothing since the Coventry game before Christmas.
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I can't remember what Savo's form was like at the time, but I got him in the first scorer sweepstake on the coach on the way down and remember everyone else laughing.
One thing that sticks in my mind is the fireworks that went off when the teams came out of the tunnel and on to the pitch. Seemed a bit weird.
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A mate and I got our tickets from the Villa, got in to Wembley only to find our seat row didn't exist. Savo had scored one in about 10 games prior to this game and was silly odds to score the first goal - it paid for the ticket, travel and booze for the day. Watching McCallister going backwards and knowing we were going to win early in the second half - happy days!
He'd scored 3 in the previous 3 games.
no he didnt - we lost 2-0 to Sheff Wed, drew 0-0 with Middlesborough and beat QPR 3-2 the previous three games - scored against QPR, going back he'd scored against Sheff Wed and then nothing since the Coventry game before Christmas.
He didn't play against Boro. 2 vs Sheff Wed (H), 1 vs QPR, 0 vs Sheff Wed (A). 3 in 3. 3 in 4 if you count the FACQF at Forest.
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Who would have thought at the time of winning this, that nearly 20 years later we'd still be waiting for our next trophy? :(
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A mate and I got our tickets from the Villa, got in to Wembley only to find our seat row didn't exist. Savo had scored one in about 10 games prior to this game and was silly odds to score the first goal - it paid for the ticket, travel and booze for the day. Watching McCallister going backwards and knowing we were going to win early in the second half - happy days!
He'd scored 3 in the previous 3 games.
no he didnt - we lost 2-0 to Sheff Wed, drew 0-0 with Middlesborough and beat QPR 3-2 the previous three games - scored against QPR, going back he'd scored against Sheff Wed and then nothing since the Coventry game before Christmas.
He didn't play against Boro. 2 vs Sheff Wed (H), 1 vs QPR, 0 vs Sheff Wed (A). 3 in 3. 3 in 4 if you count the FACQF at Forest.
And he scored in the next league game after Wembley away at Chelsea. I loved Savo.
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Was any of you guys in St Joseph's social club opposite wembley arena before the game.
What a piss up and what a sing song
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Watched this live in a pub in Philadelphia full of fucking ManUre glory hunting ****** - their match against Spurs was on afterwards. IIRC none of them even knew about the 94 final.
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I have no idea what we did before the game, i'm sure we went on one of the official coaches, and being picked up at Edgbaston cricket ground rings a bell. Although that may have been another game but I didn't go on official coaches very often. I'm sure when we got back to VP we went in the Tavern. I wasn't even that pissed but can't remember much more than that.
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Actually this might be the game where one of the drop off points back in town was outside the Bar St Martin and the big braves Zulus were picking off scarfers etc as they left the coaches and gave some a right kicking. Does that ring any bells or was that '94?
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I have no idea what we did before the game, i'm sure we went on one of the official coaches, and being picked up at Edgbaston cricket ground rings a bell. Although that may have been another game but I didn't go on official coaches very often. I'm sure when we got back to VP we went in the Tavern. I wasn't even that pissed but can't remember much more than that.
It would make sense if the Edgbaston pickup was the 1996 FA Cup semi as Villa Park was being used for the other one that day.
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That's it. Cheers Dave.
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Actually i'm not sure it is as I remember us passing the Chelsea coaches heading to VP and i'm sure that was on the Expressway.
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Actually i'm not sure it is as I remember us passing the Chelsea coaches heading to VP and i'm sure that was on the Expressway.
Chelsea were playing at Villa.
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I know, but if we left Edgbaston we wouldn't passed them on the Expressway would we? We definitely passed the Chelsea coaches.
I need someone with a better memory than me who traveled on the official coaches!
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I know, but if we left Edgbaston we wouldn't passed them on the Expressway would we? We definitely passed the Chelsea coaches.
I need someone with a better memory than me who traveled on the official coaches!
It would make sense for you to be going that way.
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Only picked up the last few posts of this thread but for many years Chelsea's biggest supporters club outside london was Worcester maybe they come off the m5 at jct 4 then down the a38 through Northfield selly oak edgbaston etc
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Late to the party on this one but still ranks as one of my favourite Villa games, it was my first trip to Wembley and my older bro took me with him. I genuinely thought at the time that it was always like this and we were on an upward trajectory that would see us over-taking Man U by the end of the 90s.It just seemed normal, Villa in the final. What is the song about Gordon Strachan having VD?!