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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Tugby Villain on January 11, 2017, 09:32:51 PM
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Evening guys, down here at Tugby Villa HQ we're having a debate about Villa games in the snow. I seem to remember one about ten years ago, but I could be wrong. The old man says we've never played on a snowy pitch. Mother Tugby and Sister Tugby couldn't care less. So, just in case there are more knowledgeable chaps on here: have we ever played in the snow? Thanks!
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Evening guys, down here at Tugby Villa HQ we're having a debate about Villa games in the snow. I seem to remember one about ten years ago, but I could be wrong. The old man says we've never played on a snowy pitch. Mother Tugby and Sister Tugby couldn't care less. So, just in case there are more knowledgeable chaps on here: have we ever played in the snow? Thanks!
Seem to recall a game against Wimbledon in the 90s in the snow and one against Man City when Tony Daley scored a great volley.
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Evening guys, down here at Tugby Villa HQ we're having a debate about Villa games in the snow. I seem to remember one about ten years ago, but I could be wrong. The old man says we've never played on a snowy pitch. Mother Tugby and Sister Tugby couldn't care less. So, just in case there are more knowledgeable chaps on here: have we ever played in the snow? Thanks!
Seem to recall a game against Wimbledon in the 90s in the snow and one against Man City when Tony Daley scored a great volley.
I thought of that game, think we won 3 1 but cant remember if it was snow or really heavy frost
im sure we played at the bitters 1985 ish in a league cup replay in the snow and we won 2 1 i think
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Liverpool at home over Christmas seven years ago - wasn't that in the snow?
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Definitely. Bastard freezing cold, hardly anything happened until injury time when two of our players fell over to present a chance to the most inform striker in Europe. A thoroughly miserable evening.
Similarly, another horrible, snowy game against Southampton. Fuck all happened except for Le Tissier briefly putting down his KFC to score twice.
I can't remember us winning in the snow while I've been watching, but we must have done.
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Liverpool at home over Christmas seven years ago - wasn't that in the snow?
It was, a blizzard, but the snow hadn't settled so it wasn't a white pitch ( I flew home on Christmas Day from Shanghai to see us lose 3-0 to Arsenal and 1-0 to Liverpool, so engrained in my mind).
I recall the 2-0 v Cardiff on Boxing Day 1968 on a sunny snowy day, and a 2-0 home defeat to QPR around 1976. A blizzard during a 2-1 home win v Newcastle in December 1976 too. I think it snowed the day we beat Boro 3-0 in our penultimate game in 1981 too, but after the game.
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Villa 0 Southampton 2 back in 1994/95 was almost in the snow and thoroughly depressing, rumours were the players were out on the piss the night before and it certainly showed.
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April 1975 ? v WBA, Blizzard conditions which I think must have affected the BBC cameras as the footage I have is in black & white. 3-1 to us, think it was the Easter weekend.
2 outstanding memories for me;
Chico scored , & a certain Mr Wile, giving the Holte a double Harvey Smith!!
Oh & Bill Howell was probably still in his 2nd hand pram.
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I can remember throwing snowballs at Ray Clemence from the Holte End after the snow had been shuffled of the pitch
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The one that springs to mind immediately is Tommy Docherty's first game at Villa Park, a 2-0 win over Cardiff City on Boxing Day 1968.
I can still see Brian Tiler heading the ball into the net in front of the Holte End, in front of a massive crowd and a snowy pitch with just the lines cleared, like they used to then, and an orange ball.
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There's a thread on here showing a snow-covered Villa Park taken from the top of the old Sitting End. I'm pretty sure the opposition was Blackburn, the year was 1963 and the result was 0-0. The pitch markings were blue. I was there.
We played the Stripey's sometime in the sixties in the League Cup when they definitely a better team than us. That was in the snow. I remember both sets of forwards being bombarded with snowballs. We lost the match, can't say who were the better at hitting the centre-forwards.
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(http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/with-the-snow-continuing-to-fall-the-groundstaff-are-hard-at-work-picture-id501583786)
(http://prints.colorsport.co.uk/p/210/villa-park-in-the-snow-in-1963-4199151.jpg)
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(http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/files/2009/12/soccer1.jpg)
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Was it Sheff Utd we beat in the cup away and the sides of the pitch were absolutely full of the shovelled snow, think Yorke scored a cheeky penalty too?
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Evening guys, down here at Tugby Villa HQ we're having a debate about Villa games in the snow. I seem to remember one about ten years ago, but I could be wrong. The old man says we've never played on a snowy pitch. Mother Tugby and Sister Tugby couldn't care less. So, just in case there are more knowledgeable chaps on here: have we ever played in the snow? Thanks!
Seem to recall a game against Wimbledon in the 90s in the snow and one against Man City when Tony Daley scored a great volley.
That Wimbledon game immediately popped in my head. Off the top of my head we won 7-0 or 7-1 and Tommy Johnson get three.
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Here you go, what a team that was:
http://www.11v11.com/matches/aston-villa-v-wimbledon-11-february-1995-22003/
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Here you go, what a team that was:
http://www.11v11.com/matches/aston-villa-v-wimbledon-11-february-1995-22003/
What I'd give to have either an Ian Taylor or an Andy Townsend in our midfield now, let alone them both in there!
There can't have been many times in history a team has come from behind to win 7-1!!!
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No snow.
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I remember freezing in the snow at home to Wimbledon once
Also remember chucking snowballs at Steve Ogrizovic at Highfield Road in the mid 80s. He was fending them off with his goalie's man bag
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No snow.
Yorkie's finish! Good times.
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I remember freezing in the snow at home to Wimbledon once
Also remember chucking snowballs at Steve Ogrizovic at Highfield Road in the mid 80s. He was fending them off with his goalie's man bag
Remember that
when he was in front of us second half one of of them landed on top of his head and he pretended nothing was wrong and he played on with it on his head for a couple of minutes
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There was a blizzard early in the second half for John Gregory's first game in charge v. Liverpool. We won 2-1. It was the game where Collymore -who scored both our goals- claimed he was the victim of racist abuse from a Liverpool player.
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Here you go, what a team that was:
http://www.11v11.com/matches/aston-villa-v-wimbledon-11-february-1995-22003/
Funny how 12 years on we are in Championship yet averaging 5-7k more average crowds than then in the premiership
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Was it Sheff Utd we beat in the cup away and the sides of the pitch were absolutely full of the shovelled snow, think Yorke scored a cheeky penalty too?
28/1/1996
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There was a blizzard early in the second half for John Gregory's first game in charge v. Liverpool. We won 2-1. It was the game where Collymore -who scored both our goals- claimed he was the victim of racist abuse from a Liverpool player.
Great game. Though I think Stanley's claim came the season after when we lost 4-2, but it could have been 7-7. Steve Harness was the target of his wrath if I remember correctly?!
Dublin, Collymore and Merson were my second favourite ever front three, after Yorke, Savo and Tommy Johnson.