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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: kippaxvilla2 on April 19, 2020, 02:03:55 PM
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God I’m bored.
Few to choose from. The only goal against us I ever clapped at Villa was Paul Ince’s for Wet Spam late 80’s I think. Anyone remember that one? Scholes I suppose....grudgingly.
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I seem to remember that Ince goal dropped us right in the relegation shit. The game was a relegation six pointer. There was a big away following from West Ham that day. I think they had just re-signed McAvennie from Celtic and he made his second debut for them that day. I suppose another Villa Park goal that sticks in the mind is Giggs for Manure against Arsenal in the semi. I also remember the night we beat Millwall 3-1 in the league cup around 88/89. Neil Ruddock scored a cracking goal but it was overshadowed by an even better goal for us from Alan McInally.
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Scholes doesn't count as he should already have been sent off. Seem to recall Wright-Phillips scoring a brilliant goal against us, two great Sheffield Wednesday goals in the Championship and two Portsmouth screamers when that twat Redknapp was managing them, off the top of my head.
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Only 1 contender for me - Johan Cruyff for Barcelona at Villa Park in the EUFA Cup on 1st March 1978. Barca's 1st goal on the night when he glided from the half way line past numerous Villa players and from just outside the penalty area hit it into the bottom corner. I was on the Holte End directly in line with him when he shot and immediately could see it was never going to be saved. That was the one and only time that I have ever seen an opposition player getting a standing ovation from the Villa crowd.
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The one that clearly stands out for me was Colin Brazier of Wolves in I think September 1977, beautifully lobbing an intended back pass into his own net with 15 minutes or so left of a game that had been meandering to a 0-0 draw. We won 2-0 in the end.
It was actually sweet justice, as Wolves had spent the best part of the game sending a stream of back passes back to their keeper (the days of course when keepers could pick the ball up from a back pass).
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Sherwood scored a 40 yarder one season I think, was playing for Spurs.
Another that sticks in my mind was Distin picking up the ball on halfway line and just running through our defence although it probably wasn't as good as that in reality.
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Arsenal beat us a lot of times at VP, but it was one of their goals, I think scored by Ashley Cole. A brilliant move, ripped us to bits and smashed in a the end.
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Mark Pembridge volley for Luton 1991. If memory serves it was like McGinn"s vs Sheffield Wed last season.
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Mark Pembridge volley for Luton 1991. If memory serves it was like McGinn"s vs Sheffield Wed last season.
I remember it for two reasons I think.
1. Good goal
2. Another goal that dropped us into the relegation shit if I remember right.
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Another Arsenal one was Pires's chip.
Matt Jansen also scored a scorcher, possibly a cup game? He was a great prospect but was severely injured in a motorbike crash.
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Bergkamps first time ‘pass’ shot in the 3-2 was brilliant.
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Roy Keane (or Nigel Clough for Forest). Hit it from outside the box, attacking the Holte, on the Trinity Road side with the outside of his foot into the top right corner.
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Only 1 contender for me - Johan Cruyff for Barcelona at Villa Park in the EUFA Cup on 1st March 1978. Barca's 1st goal on the night when he glided from the half way line past numerous Villa players and from just outside the penalty area hit it into the bottom corner. I was on the Holte End directly in line with him when he shot and immediately could see it was never going to be saved. That was the one and only time that I have ever seen an opposition player getting a standing ovation from the Villa crowd.
Cruyff was indeed superb that night and thoroughly deserved his standing ovation when he left the field. There is footage of that game on youtube. However, for Cruyff's goal I do think Rimmer could have done better. So, for sheer precision (two goalies wouldn't have saved it) Colin Brazier's effort still does edge it for me. Would you believe from the same season?
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Matt le Tissier scored a couple of blinders at VP; I am fairly sure.
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What about by Villa player home and away unless it’s allready been done.
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Mark Pembridge volley for Luton 1991. If memory serves it was like McGinn"s vs Sheffield Wed last season.
Great OG by Mountfield as well....
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Scholes’ volley for me.
I remember that was the first time I thought he was a good player. Not because of the goal, more so, I then understood what his position was; he just sat in the centre circle and orchestrated the whole match (Pirlo-esque). It’s funny how you need to see some players live to ‘get it’.
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I remember applauding an Arsenal goal when I used to sit in the Upper Holte. Most people around me did aswell. It was a bloody brilliant goal.
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Scholes volley from a corner. David Rocastle lob.
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Scholes’ volley for me.
I remember that was the first time I thought he was a good player. Not because of the goal, more so, I then understood what his position was; he just sat in the centre circle and orchestrated the whole match (Pirlo-esque). It’s funny how you need to see some players live to ‘get it’.
He spent the entire match kicking everything that moved. Not saying he wasn't a great player, but the game is a lot easier when the rules don't apply to you. An utterly disgraceful performance by the referee, I assume he asked for Scholes' autograph after the game.
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Scholes volley
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Matt le Tissier. Every bloody year.
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Another vote for Scholes Volley from me
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Cruyff isn’t the only player to have been applauded by us when being subbed. Without thinking too much I can recall Thierry Henry, Gianfranco Zola and Frank Lampard having that acclaim. Along with various ex Villa players returning.
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Cruyff isn’t the only player to have been applauded by us when being subbed. Without thinking too much I can recall Thierry Henry, Gianfranco Zola and Frank Lampard having that acclaim. Along with various ex Villa players returning.
No way was any of that comparable to when Cruyff left the stage.
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Cruyff isn’t the only player to have been applauded by us when being subbed. Without thinking too much I can recall Thierry Henry, Gianfranco Zola and Frank Lampard having that acclaim. Along with various ex Villa players returning.
Lampard was given a good ovation at the final whistle after achieving being Chelsea's top scorer in their history.
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Cruyff isn’t the only player to have been applauded by us when being subbed. Without thinking too much I can recall Thierry Henry, Gianfranco Zola and Frank Lampard having that acclaim. Along with various ex Villa players returning.
I did write "That was the one and only time that I have ever seen an opposition player getting a standing ovation from the Villa crowd." I accept that other players got the same when I wasn't there.
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Another Arsenal one was Pires's chip.
Matt Jansen also scored a scorcher, possibly a cup game? He was a great prospect but was severely injured in a motorbike crash.
Was gonna nominate the Jansen one too, for Palace if remember right
Ashley Cole was a superb effort
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I remember Sulley Muntari scoring a blinder for Portsmouth in around 2007.
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That's who I was thinking of. Forgot his name.
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The one that clearly stands out for me was Colin Brazier of Wolves in I think September 1977, beautifully lobbing an intended back pass into his own net with 15 minutes or so left of a game that had been meandering to a 0-0 draw. We won 2-0 in the end.
It was actually sweet justice, as Wolves had spent the best part of the game sending a stream of back passes back to their keeper (the days of course when keepers could pick the ball up from a back pass).
Just seen this thread and Colin Brazier’s wonderfully executed lob after 70- 75 minutes of cynical anti football was a joy to behold, and the first goal that sprung to mind. As you say, two keepers wouldn’t have stopped it.cue hearty chants of “Pass the ball back, Wanderers”.
This match was played on a Friday night and I have no idea why. It was a real rarity in those days.
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Cruyff isn’t the only player to have been applauded by us when being subbed. Without thinking too much I can recall Thierry Henry, Gianfranco Zola and Frank Lampard having that acclaim. Along with various ex Villa players returning.
I believe I heard the Holte actually singing Pat Jennings name during a midweek win over Spurs just after winning the league cup in 1977.
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IIRC in the 2007 game we battered them and yet found ourselves 3-0 down after an hour or so and they'd only had 2 shots on target.
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I seem to remember that Ince goal dropped us right in the relegation shit. The game was a relegation six pointer. There was a big away following from West Ham that day. I think they had just re-signed McAvennie from Celtic and he made his second debut for them that day. I suppose another Villa Park goal that sticks in the mind is Giggs for Manure against Arsenal in the semi. I also remember the night we beat Millwall 3-1 in the league cup around 88/89. Neil Ruddock scored a cracking goal but it was overshadowed by an even better goal for us from Alan McInally.
Ruddock's was a belter, I'd remember it less fondly had we not come back to win. Also remember walking back to Erdington with a couple of mates across Salford Bridge and a transit van heading for the M1 pulling up beside us, the door sliding upon and a man with an estuary accent and a puffa jacket enquiring "COME ON YOU WANKERS, DO YOU WANT A GO?" which we declined by allowing the blood to drain from our 16 year old faces.
Tr*v*r Fr*nc*s got a great goal in the process of scoring a hat trick around the same time for QPR I think?
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I was up in what is now, but wasn't then, the upper away fans bit in the Witton for the Scholes goal, he was pretty much right in front of me when he hit it and it was indeed a brilliant goal.
What made it particularly brilliant on rewatching on television was the sound of the ball smashing against the cross bar on the way in, which is the finest sound in football.
I also remember that Paul Ince goal, that was a belter, and that Luton one too (though not the player who scored it, although I vaguely recall he was of Brummie extraction and possibly a childhood Villa fan).
Another one - Boniek's goal against Juventus in 1983, for the ball through from Platini, which was one of the sublimest passes I have ever seen.
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That Francis hat trick for QPR and a sublime chip all in the first half.i think he was player manager at the time and subbed himself at half time.
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I was up in what is now, but wasn't then, the upper away fans bit in the Witton for the Scholes goal, he was pretty much right in front of me when he hit it and it was indeed a brilliant goal.
What made it particularly brilliant on rewatching on television was the sound of the ball smashing against the cross bar on the way in, which is the finest sound in football.
I also remember that Paul Ince goal, that was a belter, and that Luton one too (though not the player who scored it, although I vaguely recall he was of Brummie extraction and possibly a childhood Villa fan).
Another one - Boniek's goal against Juventus in 1983, for the ball through from Platini, which was one of the sublimest passes I have ever seen.
Yes I was thinking of Boniek too.
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That Francis hat trick for QPR and a sublime chip all in the first half.i think he was player manager at the time and subbed himself at half time.
He's only just finished walking off the raggy ******.
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Another Arsenal one was Pires's chip.
Matt Jansen also scored a scorcher, possibly a cup game? He was a great prospect but was severely injured in a motorbike crash.
Was gonna nominate the Jansen one too, for Palace if remember right
Ashley Cole was a superb effort
My wife’s university house mate was going out with Matt Jansen. He was a really nice lad but I’m guessing that was one of the reasons he didn’t have the career his talent warranted. Great prospect but just didn’t quite happen.
To bring it back around, as Cruyff said of Laudrup, ‘if he’d born in the favellas, he’d be thought of in the same bracket as Pele’.
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That Sully Muntari one for me. 30 yards out, outside of the foot, Roberto Carlos level of swerve and it flew into the top corner, fucking brilliant. That was the game Harry Redknapp really endeared himself to the Villa Park crowd and was hit on the head with a 50p piece for his troubles.
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Les Ferdinand scored a screamer for QPR when we beat them 4-1 early in the 93/94 season. I can still recall the clink it made when it hit the stanchion.
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IIRC in the 2007 game we battered them and yet found ourselves 3-0 down after an hour or so and they'd only had 2 shots on target.
That game always sticks in my mind simply for us getting booed off at half time which I simply didn't get because as you say we were playing well and they pretty much scored with their only shots (plus Gardner OG early on).
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The Ince goal.
https://youtu.be/YpDi76ef6Ns
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Cruyff it was a pleasure just to be there and watch the great man play, he was on a different level to everyone else - one of the true greats of the game.
But the best team I have seen was that Juventus side - they were unbelievable.
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Either one or both goals scored by Celta Vigo at VP in Nov'98. As far as I recall, they were both really slick team moves rather than individual efforts but we were unbeaten and top of the league at the time (Dwight who?) and Celta outplaying us left a lasting impression on me. I willed us to buy some of their technical players who we were linked with over the next couple of years - Haim Revivo, Valery Karpin as well as the Holte End hero that never was, Benni McCarthy but it never happened.
We sunk to sixth place, which would be our natural home quite a bit over the next decade or so (oh, to be as frustrated by that now as we were then!) and barely six months after Vigo's victory, Yorke had the three most prestigious club medals in his back pocket...
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God I’m bored.
Few to choose from. The only goal against us I ever clapped at Villa was Paul Ince’s for Wet Spam late 80’s I think. Anyone remember that one? Scholes I suppose....grudgingly.
That's mad, when I saw this thread title that goal sprung into my head.
Other than that, the Distin goal for Man City was pretty outrageous, and Scholes with one his many thunderbastard volleys, a game in which I think Ronaldo also scored a beauty and I had the wheels nicked off my car.
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I've got a vague memory of Ian Wright scoring a superb individual goal for Arsenal in a bank holiday Monday drubbing at Villa Park, as we were nosediving in Little's first season.
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Matt Le Tissier got a belter of a last minute winner against us. Did nothing else all game apart from that.
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Scholes's was the one I will always remember.
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I try to block them out as best i can but yes, the Scholes one normally does spring to mind.
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Any reason why this depressing thread isn't consigned to Villa Memories?
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Memories are now present day convo thanks to covid.
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God I’m bored.
Few to choose from. The only goal against us I ever clapped at Villa was Paul Ince’s for Wet Spam late 80’s I think. Anyone remember that one? Scholes I suppose....grudgingly.
Was that one in the first minute? Pretty sure Ince scored for them whilst I was queuing to get in the Holte, and finished 0-1? Great days
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Can't remember - it was definitely first half. And we lost 1-0.
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Adam Reach's goal for Sheffield Wednesday after about 20 seconds a couple of seasons ago was one of the most spectacular in recent memory.
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Paul Scholes.
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Iirc league cup game against millwall.produced 2 different brilliant goals
Cracker of a shot from Terry Hurlock followed by a stunning individual run by McNally
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While as claret and blue eyed as the next man I've always been able to applaud an opposition goal if it warranted it. That Mark Pembridge goal was certainly in that category. Dwight Gayle also scored a belter against us at VP for Palace in the last minute to win them the game.
Juventus' first goal at VP in 1983 was another brilliant goal, well constructed and clinically finished with a near post header by their striker who's name escapes me. I think he'd recently returned from a ban for taking bribes.
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Paulo Rossi
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Cruyff it was a pleasure just to be there and watch the great man play, he was on a different level to everyone else - one of the true greats of the game.
But the best team I have seen was that Juventus side - they were unbelievable.
Wholly agree
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Adam Reach's goal for Sheffield Wednesday after about 20 seconds a couple of seasons ago was one of the most spectacular in recent memory.
That's certainly the one from the last 3-4 years.
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Opposition goal, but not player...Shaun Teale's 1st minute own goal v Forest in '91 was pretty spectacular
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Reach for me too - an absolute corker.
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Scholes for me aswell.
Brunt scored a good one for West Brom very early in the game, it was either the 4-3 or the Benteke last minute penalty game.
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aside from the scholes volley and pires's lob against schmeichel, sylvan distin scored an amazing goal in a mid-week match for man city.
won the ball on the edge of his own box. 1-2 on the halfway line and just ran on and slotted it into the net. you can see it here: https://dugout.com/mancity/sylvain-distin-s-incredible-solo-run-vs-aston-villa (https://dugout.com/mancity/sylvain-distin-s-incredible-solo-run-vs-aston-villa)
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Ted Macdougall for Bournemouth.Spectacular and we won anyway.
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Ted Macdougall for Bournemouth.Spectacular and we won anyway.
Oh arr. Forgot about that one.
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Either one or both goals scored by Celta Vigo at VP in Nov'98. As far as I recall, they were both really slick team moves rather than individual efforts but we were unbeaten and top of the league at the time (Dwight who?) and Celta outplaying us left a lasting impression on me. I willed us to buy some of their technical players who we were linked with over the next couple of years - Haim Revivo, Valery Karpin as well as the Holte End hero that never was, Benni McCarthy but it never happened.
It would have been that UEFA cup run that convinced Real Madrid to pick up Michel Salgado and Claude Makelele from them as well.
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Ted Macdougal diving header for Bornmouth
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Either one or both goals scored by Celta Vigo at VP in Nov'98. As far as I recall, they were both really slick team moves rather than individual efforts but we were unbeaten and top of the league at the time (Dwight who?) and Celta outplaying us left a lasting impression on me. I willed us to buy some of their technical players who we were linked with over the next couple of years - Haim Revivo, Valery Karpin as well as the Holte End hero that never was, Benni McCarthy but it never happened.
It would have been that UEFA cup run that convinced Real Madrid to pick up Michel Salgado and Claude Makelele from them as well.
Spartak Moscow were brilliant at Villa Park in 1983. Although they needed a last gasp goal to beat us on the night, for most of the game they appeared to have at least two more players on the pitch than us. Their passing and movement were brilliant. I think around that time Spartak provided half of the USSR team and Dynamo Kiev provided the other half.
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aside from the scholes volley and pires's lob against schmeichel, sylvan distin scored an amazing goal in a mid-week match for man city.
won the ball on the edge of his own box. 1-2 on the halfway line and just ran on and slotted it into the net. you can see it here: https://dugout.com/mancity/sylvain-distin-s-incredible-solo-run-vs-aston-villa (https://dugout.com/mancity/sylvain-distin-s-incredible-solo-run-vs-aston-villa)
Liam Ridgewell demonstrating exactly why he was plying his trade with Small Heath within 12 months is what I remember most about that one. That and the fact that it was a rare visit to Villa Park for my sister as it was her birthday that day and didn't want the family to disappear on her big day.
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Razor Ruddock for Millwall, midweek league cup 88, hardly anyone there. McInally barged his way through about 5 of their Players from the half way line later in 1st half to overshadow it.
Dalian Atkinson for Ipswich in the league cup, possibly same season. Flicked the ball up, with back to goal, swivelled on a sixpence and hit one into the top corner. Thankfully we beat them 6-2
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Ted Macdougall for Bournemouth.Spectacular and we won anyway.
Going back to the Third division, I remember the game vrs Torquay.
We battered them for 89 minutes, but, couldn't score.
For 1 minute, at some point, Torquay broke away, and a chap called Caves (Jimmy?) hit a belter from, what seemed liked, 35 yards out.
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it was Micky Cave, wasn't it? Thumped it past John Dunn from about thirty yards.
He played for Bournemouth the following season.
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I seem to recall Boniek's goal for Juventus in 1983 was a decent effort.
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Bobby Charlton circa 1965, got the ball in his own half and beat nearly all of our lot and thumped it in from just outside the box.
Mike Ferguson for Blackburn, something similar. Superb goals, and Manure were champions that year but we still won that match.
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Another Arsenal one was Pires's chip.
Matt Jansen also scored a scorcher, possibly a cup game? He was a great prospect but was severely injured in a motorbike crash.
The Jansen one was a great strike. 3-1 villa win, league game
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The Ince goal.
https://youtu.be/YpDi76ef6Ns
First time I’ve ever seen this. What a goal that was
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First time for me too. Wow !!
Although we showed blues levels of backing off Hutton.
But still awesome
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Another Arsenal one was Pires's chip.
Matt Jansen also scored a scorcher, possibly a cup game? He was a great prospect but was severely injured in a motorbike crash.
The Jansen one was a great strike. 3-1 villa win, league game
Jansen scored 44 goals in 153 games for Blackburn and was called up by England but missed the game through illness. His career was effectively finished by a motorcycle accident on holiday in Italy that left him in a coma for six days.
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We weren’t playing that day, but this was pretty special at VP
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U6hFvOwV9yk
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Ruddock and Rambo.
https://youtu.be/V0dNKsKDQ1w
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A spectacular overhead kick from Arsenal's Paul Davis (at the Witton End) in May 1983 which received some applause from the Villa fans, we won the game 2-1.
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That Pires goal from 2004 or whenever.
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I was lucky enough to have tickets for the World Cup games at Villa Park. Remember this one clearly.
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Another Arsenal one was Pires's chip.
Matt Jansen also scored a scorcher, possibly a cup game? He was a great prospect but was severely injured in a motorbike crash.
The Jansen one was a great strike. 3-1 villa win, league game
i remember going in half-time 3-0 up in that game thinking it was going to be another Wimbledon 7-1. As it was we played at a more leisurely pace in the second half and Palace bossed it enough that we barely looked like scoring again. Great goal from Savo in that game too.
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It's annoying/embarrassing that to most neutrals, best goal at VP inevitably involves a game we werent playing, never mind scored in - Giggs against Arsenal in the FA Cup.
After that, Scholes' effort would probably be chosen...would any casual neuts recall any of our screamers at home?
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A spectacular overhead kick from Arsenal's Paul Davis (at the Witton End) in May 1983 which received some applause from the Villa fans, we won the game 2-1.
That was in Ken McNaught's last game for the club.
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The Ince goal.
https://youtu.be/YpDi76ef6Ns
First time I’ve ever seen this. What a goal that was
Cowans in his prime would never have let a player run past him like that.
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But Cowans was in his prime then, so I've heard.
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But Cowans was in his prime then, so I've heard.
He struggled a bit the first season he came back from Italy, but the side around him was still a bit patchwork. We were a God-less bunch for a start.
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I was 10 years old and idolised our centre forward Tony Hateley. It was November 1965 and we were playing Chelsea.
Tony Hateley was touted for a big money move at the time and Chelsea were favourites to sign him.
They had a 19 year old centre forward playing that day who was absolutely brilliant, his name was Peter Osgood. He scored the best goal I have ever witnessed against us.
As I remember it He kept the ball in play by the corner flag where I was standing at the Holte end/ Witton Lane and proceeded to dribble past 4 Villa players which took him to about the penalty spot before smacking the ball back just inside our Goalies right hand post.
Doesn't seem to be any reporting of the goal and I have never spoken to anyone else who remembers it. But shortly afterwards He scored a similar goal which was shown on TV.
Might have been against Burnley.
Osgood would have been a World beater but He had a very bad broken leg and although having a great career never became the superstar He promised to be.
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it was Micky Cave, wasn't it? Thumped it past John Dunn from about thirty yards.
He played for Bournemouth the following season.
I was chatting to some Torquay fans about this a while back. I was only a nipper but still remember Mickey Cave’s goal that day. He hit it so well John Dunn just stood and watched it whizz past him. They told me that we battered them all game and it was daylight robbery.
Apparently Cave died In his car from carbon monoxide poisoning a few years after his career ended.
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That's shocking!
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It's annoying/embarrassing that to most neutrals, best goal at VP inevitably involves a game we werent playing, never mind scored in - Giggs against Arsenal in the FA Cup.
After that, Scholes' effort would probably be chosen...would any casual neuts recall any of our screamers at home?
not sure what your point is Eamonn? I posted the Giggs goal because it genuinely is one of the best goals scored by an opposition player I’ve seen at VP. The fact it wasn’t against Villa can only be a bonus as far as I’m concerned. You can’t argue Giggs wasn’t an opposition player-he played against us loads of times. Thankfully it was Arsenal on the receiving end that day though!
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Is there a thread best Villa goal?
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Is there a thread best Villa goal?
Dalian's at Selhurst against Wimbledon?
Tony Morley's at Everton in the title season?
Tony Morley's two goals in Berlin?
Gary Cahill against the noses?
Steve Hunt and Simon Stainrod recreating the Willie Carr/Ernie Hunt 'donkey kick routine' at home to Leicester?
Although I am not sure there was any TV footage of that last one.
Oops, just remembered Deano's at home to Ipswich.
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Jack's at Old Trafford?
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Nielsen vs Inter must be in there somewhere
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The best ever Villa goal is quite obviously Chris Nicholl v Everton at Old Trafford, so lets not have any more discussion about that. Thank you.
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Not the best but amongst the most important, Bosko Jankovic.
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Tony Daley at Maine Road is the best I have seen.
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The best ever Villa goal is quite obviously Chris Nicholl v Everton at Old Trafford, so lets not have any more discussion about that. Thank you.
Fair enough in my book.
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I remember Robert Pires scoring a great goal (lobbed the keeper) , unfortunately is was for Arsenal against us.
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Tony Daley at Maine Road is the best I have seen.
I think I was at Maine Road on two occasions when Tony Daley scored in a Villa win. '87-88 in one of his first games back after missing the first half of the season. I think it was televised in the Granada and central regions only. Also in 1989-1990 around the start of our excellent run when we finished runners up to Liverpool.
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Tony Daley at Maine Road is the best I have seen.
I think I was at Maine Road on two occasions when Tony Daley scored in a Villa win. '87-88 in one of his first games back after missing the first half of the season. I think it was televised in the Granada and central regions only. Also in 1989-1990 around the start of our excellent run when we finished runners up to Liverpool.
I remember him starting in the right back position and going on this amazing run slaloming past player after player and past the keeper. Even the citeh fans applauded the goal.
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it was Micky Cave, wasn't it? Thumped it past John Dunn from about thirty yards.
He played for Bournemouth the following season.
I was chatting to some Torquay fans about this a while back. I was only a nipper but still remember Mickey Cave’s goal that day. He hit it so well John Dunn just stood and watched it whizz past him. They told me that we battered them all game and it was daylight robbery.
Apparently Cave died In his car from carbon monoxide poisoning a few years after his career ended.
That's sad.
This was my 4th Villa game and I don't think I've witnessed such a one sided game since.
I don't actually remember much about the game besides the goal, obviously, and that they played in yellow. My first 3 games were Gillingham and Bristol Rovers x 2, Blue shirts White shorts. Bristol had this blonde winger who was quite good, Graydon I think his name was. Wonder what happened to him?
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The week before the Torquay game, we'd won 5-3 at Reading. Vic Crowe said after the TU match, that we'd had more chances against them than the previous week.
I remember Pat McMahon missing a chance from two yards out!!
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Mustafa Haji scoring for Coventry in their relegation game.
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I've been having to Google this and still am not sure of my memory. I'm remembering Mike Ferguson, then of Blackburn Rogers waltzing through us to score a wonderful goal. I was in the Witton End and it was greeted with silence. I think we were on our way down.
We bought him later but he didn't do much for us.
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I've been having to Google this and still am not sure of my memory. I'm remembering Mike Ferguson, then of Blackburn Rogers waltzing through us to score a wonderful goal. I was in the Witton End and it was greeted with silence. I think we were on our way down.
We bought him later but he didn't do much for us.
You're right, I posted about that goal earlier in the thread. I too was down the Witton End that day but I do remember plenty of applause for it, myself included. You're also right in that he never really shone for us.
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Ted Macdougall for Bournemouth.Spectacular and we won anyway.
Going back to the Third division, I remember the game vrs Torquay.
We battered them for 89 minutes, but, couldn't score.
For 1 minute, at some point, Torquay broke away, and a chap called Caves (Jimmy?) hit a belter from, what seemed liked, 35 yards out.
I very much remember that match v Torquay, and especially the goal. I remember it because as the goal was scored, there were four or so Torquay fans sat a few rows behind us in the Trinity Road stand, who understandably stood up and celebrated. This was all too much for Jock, who always sat in the row in front of where me and my dad sat. Jock gave out some abuse to these Torquay fans (for whom the goal was probably a highlight of their following their team). 'Bloody hell, Jock, calm down' my dad said.
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I've been having to Google this and still am not sure of my memory. I'm remembering Mike Ferguson, then of Blackburn Rogers waltzing through us to score a wonderful goal. I was in the Witton End and it was greeted with silence. I think we were on our way down.
We bought him later but he didn't do much for us.
You're right, I posted about that goal earlier in the thread. I too was down the Witton End that day but I do remember plenty of applause for it, myself included. You're also right in that he never really shone for us.
Between that and Olaftab's choice in the post above, they reinforce one of the old Villa tropes - buy a player who played well against us. More specifically, over-pay for him and watch him fail to look anything like the player he was when he played for the opposition. Sobering to hear it was happening long before John Gregory made it a speciality!