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Title: 23 years ago today.
Post by: LTA on October 03, 2015, 11:14:49 AM
Dalian Atkinson scored his wonder goal at Wimbledon.

That makes me feel old.
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: Legion on October 03, 2015, 11:40:59 AM
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Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: Legion on October 03, 2015, 11:41:23 AM
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: garyshawsknee on October 03, 2015, 12:31:26 PM
Bloody hell, makes me feel old too, 23 years since I have left school. Still make my favourite Villa goal, shame it was scored at a dive like Selhurst Park.
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: The Left Side on October 03, 2015, 02:18:21 PM
Where did the time go?
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on October 03, 2015, 08:07:41 PM
Was at the game at the back of the terracing so it took less than a minute to run to the bog and back for a pee.
Enough time to miss the goal and be back in time to see the bloke with the brolly.
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: Deano's Mullet on October 04, 2015, 08:15:21 AM
Will we ever have anything like this again? I watch the old clips and I could cry. Its like none of it ever happened.
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: LeeB on October 04, 2015, 10:23:17 AM
Will we ever have anything like this again? I watch the old clips and I could cry. Its like none of it ever happened.


When you watch even Gregory's fairly average sides they look light years from what we see now.
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: frank on October 04, 2015, 03:48:45 PM
I was on the open terrace in pouring rain - wet through, with water running down my neck, before the game even started. But what a goal! One of the best Villa goals I've seen live
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: Kimaster1976 on October 04, 2015, 07:52:54 PM
We sure are light years away from those days, sadly in the current football climate unless we get taken over by asian billionaires they ain't coming back either, best we can ever hope for is like a last season....survive in the premier league and hope to get a cup run, football has changed. Big Ron wheeled and dealed to put together the best footballing side we ever had. Can't happen now. I'm already nostalgic for the O'Neil era and it was only 5 years ago and we hardly were a great side then but at least we had some purpose and seemed to be aiming for something.
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: eamonn on October 12, 2015, 06:26:56 PM
Will we ever have anything like this again? I watch the old clips and I could cry. Its like none of it ever happened.


Come on Deano. You love all those clips, they're ingrained in you and most importantly you enjoyed them as they happened. Be thankful.
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: eamonn on October 12, 2015, 06:31:41 PM
Bloody hell, makes me feel old too, 23 years since I have left school. Still make my favourite Villa goal, shame it was scored at a dive like Selhurst Park.

Dunno, is it really better playing them at their identikit modern soulless stadium built next to Croydon IKEA in a huge car park?

Wimbledon or Palace in the Premier League at Selhurst Park in 2015 would be a wonderful anachronism amidst all the bland, corporate, characterless shit that Richard Scudamore wet-dreamed-up.
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on October 14, 2015, 06:46:04 AM
If you listen carefully you can hear my voice screaming "pass it for fucks sake, pass it!"
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: itbrvilla on October 14, 2015, 07:28:26 AM
Who was the chap with the brolly?
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on October 14, 2015, 10:56:27 AM
Who was the chap with the brolly?

From Stourbridge, Rioch his nickname is. Mate of mine lives in the flat below him. He's still dining out on his moment of yampiness all those years ago.....

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/

Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: Damo70 on October 14, 2015, 01:20:32 PM
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I wonder if the other bloke on the pitch by Segers spends every day of his life wishing that

A - He had run to the other side of the goal where the players went to celebrate.

B - Brought a prop. Maybe something like an umbrella.
Title: Re: 23 years ago today.
Post by: Meanwood Villa on October 14, 2015, 09:30:38 PM
I was on the open terrace in pouring rain - wet through, with water running down my neck, before the game even started. But what a goal! One of the best Villa goals I've seen live

Should have brought a brolly!
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