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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: wittonwarrior on March 13, 2017, 05:50:55 PM
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Wembley Wembley we're all pissed up - game a massive let down but at least we won the cup eventually
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It was yesterday. I know because it was 7th birthday and my first trip to Wembley. I don't remember sod all about it though.
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Yeah I paid ten times face value for my standing ticket outside the ground, so a very expensive nil nil. Quite surprising really as that 77 team was the best I've ever seen.
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terrible game though all I can remember was duncan mckenzies chip shot probably because I was well oiled.
I actually got tickets through my season ticket then some from stubs and then some because I was a shareholder. the replay at Hillsborough was better with awesome support from us taking over there kop then old Trafford
happy days
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Pass the ball back, pass the ball back, pass the ball back Everton !
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The delay to the second half because a bandsman lost one of his spurs on the pitch during the interval ?
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It was yesterday. I know because it was 7th birthday and my first trip to Wembley. I don't remember sod all about it though.
Yes you're quite right PWS - 12th March 1977 - after three amazing games against QPR to get there and that unbelievably exciting team of that season - a 0-0 draw was probably the last result anyone would've expected. Like others there I can barely remember anything about the game itself.
Still we did have all the excitement of the occasion beforehand and of course, it all came good a few weeks later at Old Trafford.
Happy days
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The delay to the second half because a bandsman lost one of his spurs on the pitch during the interval ?
If memory serves, John Gidman found it.
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What I remember about that day apart from the shit football was, prior to kick-off there was a fight between two Villa fans standing behind us on the Wembley terrace which promptly came to a halt when one of them claimed to have lost one of his contact lenses. The rest was surreal as about twenty-odd of us were down on our hands and knees helping him look for it and IIRC the other protagonist joined in and helped.
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I got tickets by phoning around and eventually bought 2 tickets from Rochdale...Turned out they were in the Everton end but swapped them at Wembley with a couple of Everton fans who had tickets in our end.. After all that the game was highly forgettable
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We all agree Aston villa are magic
We all agree Everton are tragic
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I was home on leave from the navy, my old man who if anything was a nose, but more Villa one week, Sty Andrews the next, went and stayed up all night to get me a ticket, think with tokens from the program, missed the first replay but was at Old Trafford for that great night.
QPR was that won at Highbury, or Coventry, old age.
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I was home on leave from the navy, my old man who if anything was a nose, but more Villa one week, Sty Andrews the next, went and stayed up all night to get me a ticket, think with tokens from the program, missed the first replay but was at Old Trafford for that great night.
QPR was that won at Highbury, or Coventry, old age.
Highbury -the night Brian Little truly walked on water (well thick mud anyway)
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We lost the toss for venue 1st replay of the semi. The second replay had been pencilled in for the following Thursday at the hawthorns happy days
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I met Chris Nicholl after going on a stadium tour a couple of years ago. He told me the players got a bonus for every cup final they played in back then. Because it went to 3 games Doug had to pay them 3 times. Of course he didn't like that so contracts changed after that and it became cup final wins instead of appearances.
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After all the excitement of the QPR games, the occasion got to me.
In London the night before the game, drinking from early morning, so pissed I fell over and went to sleep on the terrace before half time.
Mates woke me up at the end, probably the best option.
Wide awake for the replays, Old Trafford, A night to remember.