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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Dave Wall on January 07, 2017, 10:59:25 PM
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1 Blues 5-1.
2 Inter 90.
3 Coventry 01.
4 W.B.A 98.
5 Inter 94.
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1. Man Utd 23/12/70
2. Sunderland 4/75
3. Liverpool 15/12/76
4. Bournemouth 72
5. Blues. 9/75
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1 Sunderland 74/5
2 Barcelona super cup
3 Liverpool 76/7
4 Anderlecht 81/2
5 Baggies 80/1
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Rotherham this season was good. Amazed no mentions for Tranmere yet.
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Tranmere 1994
Inter 1990
Olbiyun 2015
SHA 2008
Bradford 1988
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Rotherham this season was good. Amazed no mentions for Tranmere yet.
I was trying to!
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Ones I've been at:
Tranmere
Blues 5-1
Barcelona Super Cup
Coventry 2001
Albion 1981
Inter 1990
Atletico Madrid UEFA cup could well have been in there if Hendrie had scored!
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Rotherham this season was good. Amazed no mentions for Tranmere yet.
Tranmere was amazing to be fair, I was in the witton lane end right near the Tranmere fans, I think you are right there
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Ones I've been to;
Tranmere 94
Inter 90
Middlesboro 81
Bradford 88
Man Utd 89
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Man United 70/71
Bournemouth 71/72
Sunderland 74/75
Tranmere 93/94
Ajax 08/09
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Tranmere Semi
Sunderland promotion game
Anderlect European Cup semi
Barcelona UEFA Cup/Super Cup not much to choose between them
West Brom on the way to the league
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Athletico
albion 2015
Inter 90
Tranmere
Barca super cup
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Imagine if this was on a Blues forum. It would be
1. Villa
2. Villa
3. Villa
4. Villa
5. Villa
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Tranmere
Coventry 2001
Chelsea 2003-04
Spurs 1998-99
Blues 2008-09
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Tranmere
Inter 90
Barca 77 / 82
Cov 2001
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I really enjoyed Newcastle last season. After all the shit it was good to have a bit of a laugh and somehow the team managed not to completely kill it by not losing.
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1. West Brom 2015
2. Ajax 2008
3. Blackburn 2010
4. Arsenal 2008
5. Blues 2015
Bare in mind I went to my first game in 2007...
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Other memorable ones not mentioned thus far, Arsenal 98/99 and Chelsea 13/14
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From games I've been to these ones stand out
Inter 94
Atletico
Ajax
Sunderland 6-1
Rotherham 2016
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Tranmere 94
Arsenal semi 1996
Inter 1994
Rotherham this season for the optimism
Birmingham home 88-89 league cup game.
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Tranmere 94
Inter 90
Chelsea 2-0
Albion 15
Blues 5-1
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Arsenal f.a. Cup 1974
West brom 1975
man Utd 1970
West brom 2015 f.a. Cup
Sunderland 1975
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I was only old enough to regularly go around 2005/06 so here's some of my favourites. Not necessarily the top atmospheres but maybe a few of these have been forgotten about now.
- West Brom FA Cup Quarter Final (2015)
- 2-1 vs West brom (The Monday night a few days before we played them in the quarter final, Benteke scored a penalty with one of the last kicks of the game)
- 6-1 vs Sunderland (Another special Monday night, Benteke and Matthew Lowton - of all people - were both unplayable)
- 1-0 vs Chelsea (Delph scored with his heel and Mourinho got sent off)
- 2-1 vs Leicester in the FA Cup (Lambert had been sacked and Sherwood was in the stands)
- 4-3 vs West Brom (2-0 down early on, 3-3 at HT)
- 1-0 vs Newcastle (in 2010 or 11, we were close to the drop but a James Collins header in front of the North Stand helped secure some safety)
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Glum
Humdrum
Despondent
Angry
Disappointed.
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Atletico Madrid.
West Brom , Peter Withe intercepting Batson's back pass.
Blues , Geddis and Shaw on the way to League Champions.
Liverpool , Mortimer on the way to Captaining the League Champions.
Inter Milan , Kent Nielsen's screamer and Paul Birch's masterclass performance.
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On just using games I was at:
Man Utd - 3-0 win Boxing Day 1989
Inter Milan 1990
Tranmere 1993
Inter Milan 1994
Villa 3-2 Arsenal xmas 1998 was it or 99.....really thought we was going to win the league or go very very close that day
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I honestly think Atletico would have topped the lot if we'd scored again, the roof would have come off. I was in the Upper North (usually Lower Holte but my Dad went to Madrid for the away leg and wasn't sure if he could afford the home game) as an 11 year old and it was rocking. I missed the Inter and Tranmere games, I started going in 94/95 but not regularly. Had my first season ticket in 95/96. Brilliant season to start going as I went to the Coca Cola Cup Final and FA Cup semi at Old Trafford.
Atletico
Blues 3-1 & 5-1
Albion FA Cup 2015. Second half was the loudest VP has been for years, including Blues games.
Blackburn 6-4
Best 'standard' league game I can recall, Sunderland 6-1.
Other highlights: Giving it large as a 14 year old in the new Trinity right next to the Coventry fans when we sent them down. Relegating Newcastle. Finding out Blues had gone down after beating Liverpool. A few under O'Neill; 2-0 v Chelsea, 4-1 Newcastle, 2-2 Arsenal Boxing Day.
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All my favourites have already been mentioned.
So here's some more:
Arsenal league cup semi 96
QPR lc semi 77
Brighton oct 80 to go top of the league
Chester City 75 lc semi. first big game atmosphere
Not necessarily the biggest crowds but still memorable.
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All my favourites have already been mentioned.
So here's some more:
Arsenal league cup semi 96
QPR lc semi 77
Brighton oct 80 to go top of the league
Chester City 75 lc semi. first big game atmosphere
Not necessarily the biggest crowds but still memorable.
Bravo rougegorge, went to all those matches and agree some of the attendances weren't high but atmosphere was brilliant, thanks for the reminder, especially the Chester 2nd semi.
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v Liverpool in 88 in the cup was full on rocking in the Holte, until they scored.
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Not the best atmosphere singing-wise but most intimidating and hostile atmosphere was Blues 03/03/03, which I'm sure everyone would agree with. Never seen anything like it before or since. The only way anything will come close is if we play them in a League Cup or Play Off semi final.
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My favourites have all been mentioned above but my grandad spoke reverently of the atmosphere of the QPR and Southampton FA cup games in 1969 l think - 41,000 and 59,000 respectively.
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I was at the QPR Cup game in 1969 - in the old Witton Lane - terrific atmosphere with Tommy Docherty's new team playing the team he'd left us for (after only a few weeks).
It's hard to choose my 5 favourites. but if pushed for games I went to - I'd go for :
1994 Inter Milan
1977 QPR (LCSF)
1975 Blues
1982 Anderlecht
1976 Liverpool
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Yeah that Blues game in 2003 was so strange. Atmosphere was so volatile the wife kept grabbing me getting panicked saying she didn't like it and wanted to leave. There was then numerous fights and confrontations going on about us on the route back to the car she made us run all the way lol it took a while before she was comfy going again.
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Tranmere 1994
Inter 1990
Liverpool 1992 - Saunders debut
Man U, LC 1992. The plastics had the entire Witton Lane. Late Saunders winner.
Inter 1994
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1.Tranmere 1994
2.Inter 1990
3.Albion 2015
4.Liverpool fa cup 1988
5.Arsenal 1990
Others to mention A Madrid UEFA CUP,Leeds FA CUP 2000,Bradford 1988,Arsenal Boxing day around 2009,Liverpool 1994 last day of the Holte.
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Yeah that Blues game in 2003 was so strange. Atmosphere was so volatile the wife kept grabbing me getting panicked saying she didn't like it and wanted to leave. There was then numerous fights and confrontations going on about us on the route back to the car she made us run all the way lol it took a while before she was comfy going again.
I recently watched the brief highlights on sky's classic games - even all these later watching on tv the horrible atmosphere comes over loud and clear. Obviously, it wasn't helped by us having 2 players sent off. It's always been hostile against them for as long as I can remember, but this night was the strangest atmosphere of all. Definitely a good move for this not to be an evening game any more.
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Tranmere 1994
Inter 1990
Liverpool 1992 - Saunders debut
Man U, LC 1992. The plastics had the entire Witton Lane. Late Saunders winner.
Inter 1994
Didn't God hit our own post in the last minute of the Utd league cup game ? Afterwards Big Ron said he didn't want to give away a corner. Really noisy night I remember.
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Tranmere 1994
Inter 1990
Liverpool 1992 - Saunders debut
Man U, LC 1992. The plastics had the entire Witton Lane. Late Saunders winner.
Inter 1994
Didn't God hit our own post in the last minute of the Utd league cup game ? Afterwards Big Ron said he didn't want to give away a corner. Really noisy night I remember.
That's right.
Giggs getting absolute dogs abuse as soon as he got on the pitch, for some reason. The plastics mocking BFR for most of the game, and a world-class surge from the Holte when Deano sent the beggars packing. One of the last great surges, IIRC.
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Tranmere 1994
Inter 1994
Liverpool 1994
Liverpool 1988 - Only because it was my first game
Man U 1991 - BFR's first game in charge
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Glum
Humdrum
Despondent
Angry
Disappointed.
Snow White and the Dystopian Dwarves.
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5 biggest games for me - sadly a long time ago
1978 Villa 2 Barcelona 2
25 April 1981 Villa 3 Middlesboro 0 - last home game & singing "We're gonna win the league"
26 Dec 1989 Villa 3 Man U 0
30 Dec 1989 Villa 2 Arsenal 1
Oct 1990 Villa 2 Inter Milan 0
Runners up April 82 Villa 1 Anderlecht 0
Special mention to Jan 1984 live on BBC1. Villa 1 Liverpool 0 at half time, before we lost 1-3 Ian Rush hat trick. The burning of a Liverpool scarf at the back of the Holte, knees up Mother Brown and the brick through the bus windscreen on the way home to Warwick, our driver was a hero, he must have been frozen !
I think this was the first live to game from Villa Park ?
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Athletic Madrid
Ajax
Blues 3-1
Blues 5-1
Chelsea 2-0
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Arsenal when Santa fell from the sky.
The Holte was a rocking. Dion, Dion Dublin in the air.
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Southampton 1969
Manchester United 1970
Bournemouth 1972
Arsenal 1974
West Brom 1975
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ian price
will never forget the "walk on walk on" we did on the holte against arsenal in 74 that night it went on for a bout 5 minutes it was better and louder than anything the scousers have ever done
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Games I was at
Liverpool 5-1 76
Barca 2-2 78
Athletic 2-1 98
Coventry 3-2 01
Blues 3-1 06
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5 biggest games for me - sadly a long time ago
1978 Villa 2 Barcelona 2
25 April 1981 Villa 3 Middlesboro 0 - last home game & singing "We're gonna win the league"
26 Dec 1989 Villa 3 Man U 0
30 Dec 1989 Villa 2 Arsenal 1
Oct 1990 Villa 3 Inter Milan 0
Runners up April 82 Villa 1 Anderlecht 0
Special mention to Jan 1984 live on BBC1. Villa 1 Liverpool 0 at half time, before we lost 1-3 Ian Rush hat trick. The burning of a Liverpool scarf at the back of the Holte, knees up Mother Brown and the brick through the bus windscreen on the way home to Warwick, our driver was a hero, he must have been frozen !
I think this was the first live to game from Villa Park ?
Remember that night as it was freezing, remember turning up at the holte an hour before kick off and the turnstiles werent open
didnt the bbc also put a shed like structure right at the back of the holte and stuck a cameraman in it
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My top three would all be from 1983. Barcelona, Juventus and 'The Battle Of Brum'.
After a day I came up with the other two. Inter in 1990 and Bradford in 1988 (last but one game before Swindon away?)
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My 5 best atmosphere's at Villa Park
v Inter 1990 ( first game on the Holte)
v Tranmere 1994
v Coventry 2001
v Ajax 2008
v Man Utd 1995
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There's been some cracking atmospheres at non-Villa games too.
Lazio fans were loud in the Holte v Majorca in 99. Very colourful ocassion.
Scotland v Holland and Holland v Switzerland at Euro 96.
Liverpool v West Ham League cup final replay,
All those FA cup semis - Man Utd v Leeds in a night match in 1970 was the first I went to and the ground had a real buzz that night. I also went to a few semis where it was very quiet as well, probably as the games were often let downs.
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Liverpool 5-1 1976
Man U 2-1 1970
Blues 5-1 2008
Liverpool 2-0 1981
West Brom 3-0 1956
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Tranmere. 1994. by a country mile the best atmosphere I've ever experienced in a football ground.
Inter Milan in the same year was the closest.
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Tranmere. 1994. by a country mile the best atmosphere I've ever experienced in a football ground.
Inter Milan in the same year was the closest.
Exactly this from me as well. An unforgettable experience. Nothing comes close.
I found the atmosphere against Blues in 2003 (when Dublin got sent off) the most hate filled atmosphere I ever experienced.
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5 biggest games for me - sadly a long time ago
1978 Villa 2 Barcelona 2
25 April 1981 Villa 3 Middlesboro 0 - last home game & singing "We're gonna win the league"
26 Dec 1989 Villa 3 Man U 0
30 Dec 1989 Villa 2 Arsenal 1
Oct 1990 Villa 3 Inter Milan 0
Runners up April 82 Villa 1 Anderlecht 0
Special mention to Jan 1984 live on BBC1. Villa 1 Liverpool 0 at half time, before we lost 1-3 Ian Rush hat trick. The burning of a Liverpool scarf at the back of the Holte, knees up Mother Brown and the brick through the bus windscreen on the way home to Warwick, our driver was a hero, he must have been frozen !
I think this was the first live to game from Villa Park ?
Remember that night as it was freezing, remember turning up at the holte an hour before kick off and the turnstiles werent open
didnt the bbc also put a shed like structure right at the back of the holte and stuck a cameraman in it
Well remembered
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_RAH20K6z9E