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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: castlefields_villan on January 26, 2017, 10:15:47 AM
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Villa 3, Barcelona 0 (agg 3-1)
A truly incredible game - Barcelona at their absolute worst.
Although this was really only a prestige game, I was so pleased we won it, after losing to Penarol in the World Club Cup a few weeks earlier.
A tremendous performance by us - a late Gary Shaw goal to level the tie, In extra time, Sid scoring after his penalty was initially saved (and getting assaulted for his troubles) and a bullet header by Ken McNaught to clinch the game.
They had 2 players sent off ?
Any memories folks ?
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Yes, I was at the game. As well as their two sent off, I think we had Alan Evans sent off too?
I was in The North Stand, and you can see my dads head from the back on the TV footage when Cowans scored.
He then got right royally kicked up in the air, when trying to get the ball. For which the keeper got a yellow!!ken Mcnaught then does some shadow booking with one of them in the aftermath.
I think there were calls for Barcelona to be banned from Europe after that match?
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I don't think that I've seen a dirtier team at Villa Park. The treatment of Sid after he scored was abysmal and McNaught and Withe stepped in to protect him.
Evans was sent off and missed the home leg of the quarter final against Juve through suspension.
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32,000 there and most of them were in the Holte End. Incredible atmosphere in there that night. The roof nearly lifted when Gary Shaw scored that instinctive, brilliant goal.
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Yeah dirty b******s, especially when things started going wrong for them. How their goalie stayed on after booting Sid I will never understand. But that was typical of Barca in 70s and 80s, thugs
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My 10th birthday and the old man got us tickets in the Trinity Road, upper tier, right on the halfway line. Unforgettable night.
On the footage look out for Peter Withe break the Barca centre halves nose in the lead up to the first goal.
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Yes a truly unforgettable game - atmosphere was at its best.
Yes, absolutely disgraceful behaviour from Barcleona (although we'd had a warning of what they were like then when we played them in 1978) and there were calls for them to be banned from Europe altogether.
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Lent my mate a Villa scarf , which he threw on the pitch at the end.
He told me Peter Withe picked it up and wore it.I believed him , but had a nagging doubt he just told me that because I had lost a scarf !
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Ken McNaught shadow boxing their player after/before the penalty was the stand out for me as a skinny teenager
Its on you tube somewhere
If only I could post a link
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One of the biggest games in my lifetime I missed was in aus.
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Highlights
Full game
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Apart from all the obvious reasons this remains a special game for me as it was the first game I stood on The Holte. I was always in the seats with the family before this.
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Yes a truly unforgettable game - atmosphere was at its best.
Yes, absolutely disgraceful behaviour from Barcleona (although we'd had a warning of what they were like then when we played them in 1978) and there were calls for them to be banned from Europe altogether.
The media had also taken note when they outkicked Spurs in the Cup Winners Cup (?) semi final the previous April (on the night we were at Anderlecht).
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Great fun that night. I was down the Witton End in my usual spot. Ken McNaught truly taking the piss out of them with the shadow boxing. That,to me, was so much more humiliating to them than us becoming involved in a mass brawl. We really howled at them during that, after seeing Ken sparring and laughing at them at the same time.
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I was on the Holte End, absolute bedlam when Shaw scored with about 10 minutes left of normal time.
We all thought that the Barca defender was play acting when it took a while for the game to restart as he was lying on the turf being attended to, until he got up covered in blood courtesy of Peter Withe's elbow, good job the ref never saw it!
Whenever I hear Men at Work's Down under, I always think of that night.
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Was on the Holte to the noise when shaw scored was unbelievable lost my mates with the surge for 5 minutes .
When there defender was on the floor after super Gary shaws equaliser the guy who came on in the raincoat my mate said " crikey they got dell boy on there bench"
Actually forgot How good the atmosphere was when I posted on top five atmospheres thread
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Alonso playing for Barcelona, is Xabi Alonso's father.
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I was there as a 17 year old. Very happy days. Barca were appalling that night
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more than anything I really miss those nets. nothing better than seeing the net bulge and the keeper having to bend over to negotiate rolling net to retrieve the ball.
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I was age 9. Aside from the carnage on pitch, strongest memory is getting into the car with my dad after, and in the usual traffic, WM playing 'We are the Champions'.
I can't remember any radio moments after Highbury (biggest memory there was being terrified getting knocked off the crash barrier & the clod of turf lobbed into the stand we planted in our garden) or Rotterdam (it was onto the official travel coach, so that was the time that song meant Villa).
What a privileged childhood I had.
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If anyone has a ticket stub for this match they normally get good prices on ebay.
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One of the best nights at Villa Park ever. The atmosphere was incredible. Barcelona were appalling, probably the dirtiest team I have ever seen. They took an incredible dislike to Mark Walters, who I think came on as Sub. They literally kicked him up in the air at every opportunity. Having said that Withe's elbow on the centre half for Shaw's goal was something else.
Brilliant memories!
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Drive up from Southampton on my own. Drove straight back to the shipyard where I worked , a couple of hours sleep in the car and then clocked back on for work. Great night !
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Drive up from Southampton on my own. Drove straight back to the shipyard where I worked , a couple of hours sleep in the car and then clocked back on for work. Great night !
Superb support Dorset - the things we've done for Villa - what a contrast between your support and the glory hunting tv supporters of today.
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Will Villa ever play teams like Barcelona again? It's so sad to see Villa struggle as they are against the likes of Brentford and Barnsley. Watching great night's like that against Barcelona are really double edged for me in our present position.
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It was a great night, one of the best. But it wasn't a big crowd as I remember (just checked 31,000).