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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: kippaxvilla2 on September 05, 2020, 12:16:00 AM
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As the link suggest this is footage I have never seen before. It’s quite incredible. Hats off to Villa Boy again. God knows how he gets hold of this material. Which as far as I know has been hidden for nearly 40 years!
https://youtu.be/YiqL7efT-rM
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Amazing video from Villa Boy, enjoy.
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Brilliant unseen footage, well done Villa Boy
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Never seen that before, any idea who was filming it? There were a lot of faces I didn't recognise. Bloke called Bomber seemed popular whoever he is.
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Well that footage certainly seems to reflect the disorganised and chaotic nature of the day!
We were sat amongst the Arsenal fans near the foot of the North Bank, and they were in no mood to simply stand by and let us enjoy our triumph. We had bought seats for this game some weeks beforehand, from a bloke my dad knew, having seen how the last day would be likely to play out. I may be wrong, but I recall that the game was only made an all ticket affair a week or so before the game itself.
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Well that footage certainly seems to reflect the disorganised and chaotic nature of the day!
We were sat amongst the Arsenal fans near the foot of the North Bank, and they were in no mood to simply stand by and let us enjoy our triumph. We had bought seats for this game some weeks beforehand, from a bloke my dad knew, having seen how the last day would be likely to play out. I may be wrong, but I recall that the game was only made an all ticket affair a week or so before the game itself.
The Sunday before. It was, indeed, chaotic.
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The crush coming out of the ground that day was terrible. Amazing footage, for some reason my Dad allowed me and brother to go on the pitch that day.
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As I've posted many times about this, me and my mate did what we never did and that was to leave just before the end. We avoided the crush and just as we got down the steps at the clock end the roar went up, I thought we'd scored and hung back a bit and asked who'd got it only to be told 'Boro had scored a second! A surreal day for certain.
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I’m struggling to work out which is which. I can’t see the clock easily. We’re we the ones mostly still in the stands at the end or the ones on the right on the pitch?
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I’m struggling to work out which is which. I can’t see the clock easily. We’re we the ones mostly still in the stands at the end of the ones on the right on the pitch?
Clock end is to the left
I was on the pitch somewhere at the end taking a bit of turf. I’d forgotten how many fans were on the pitch at the end but do remember random scuffles. Great memories including being v close to Pele as he walked past before the match
With both this and Rotterdam I don’t recall what we did after the game other than being herded onto the coaches and driven away ASAP given the hooliganism at the time. If it happened now I don’t think I’d be sober for a week!
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Historic footage.Remember being stuck on the North Circular and worried we'd miss kick-off.Then the madness of the Clock-end- the full spectrum of emotions in a few minutes. Once out of the ground it was Villa everywhere. Thick traffic all the way back and a lovely touch when the coaches got back to Villa Park- the Holte End floodlights were on. We ended up in The New Bell -just beat last orders! One of the great days!
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Historic footage.Remember being stuck on the North Circular and worried we'd miss kick-off.Then the madness of the Clock-end- the full spectrum of emotions in a few minutes. Once out of the ground it was Villa everywhere. Thick traffic all the way back and a lovely touch when the coaches got back to Villa Park- the Holte End floodlights were on. We ended up in The New Bell -just beat last orders! One of the great days!
By getting out those few minutes early, we beat all that and coincidently, we too got back to the New Bell and were also back in time to buy the Argus.
One of the things that stick in the memory is stopping at lights on the North Circular and a car full of Arse fans pulling up alongside and gesturing to wind down my window(they knew we were Villa as our scarves were hanging out of the back windows) and I thought here we go but despite that I wound down my window and to my surprise they all started yelling congratulations and how they were delighted we'd won the league as they didn't want Ipswich to win it as they hated them. Happy days.
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Wow, if I'd known you then Dave I'd have rung ahead to get us a round in! It was touch and go that we'd make it! 😃
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Historic footage.Remember being stuck on the North Circular and worried we'd miss kick-off.Then the madness of the Clock-end- the full spectrum of emotions in a few minutes. Once out of the ground it was Villa everywhere. Thick traffic all the way back and a lovely touch when the coaches got back to Villa Park- the Holte End floodlights were on. We ended up in The New Bell -just beat last orders! One of the great days!
By getting out those few minutes early, we beat all that and coincidently, we too got back to the New Bell and were also back in time to buy the Argus.
One of the things that stick in the memory is stopping at lights on the North Circular and a car full of Arse fans pulling up alongside and gesturing to wind down my window(they knew we were Villa as our scarves were hanging out of the back windows) and I thought here we go but despite that I wound down my window and to my surprise they all started yelling congratulations and how they were delighted we'd won the league as they didn't want Ipswich to win it as they hated them. Happy days.
Gents, do you mean The New Bell at the bottom of Booths Farm Road, Great Barr by any chance?
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Historic footage.Remember being stuck on the North Circular and worried we'd miss kick-off.Then the madness of the Clock-end- the full spectrum of emotions in a few minutes. Once out of the ground it was Villa everywhere. Thick traffic all the way back and a lovely touch when the coaches got back to Villa Park- the Holte End floodlights were on. We ended up in The New Bell -just beat last orders! One of the great days!
By getting out those few minutes early, we beat all that and coincidently, we too got back to the New Bell and were also back in time to buy the Argus.
One of the things that stick in the memory is stopping at lights on the North Circular and a car full of Arse fans pulling up alongside and gesturing to wind down my window(they knew we were Villa as our scarves were hanging out of the back windows) and I thought here we go but despite that I wound down my window and to my surprise they all started yelling congratulations and how they were delighted we'd won the league as they didn't want Ipswich to win it as they hated them. Happy days.
Gents, do you mean The New Bell at the bottom of Booths Farm Road, Great Barr by any chance?
That's the one.
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Amazing.
Some lucky chap has a picture of himself and Gary Shaws cock hanging on his living room wall. Priceless.
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Historic footage.Remember being stuck on the North Circular and worried we'd miss kick-off.Then the madness of the Clock-end- the full spectrum of emotions in a few minutes. Once out of the ground it was Villa everywhere. Thick traffic all the way back and a lovely touch when the coaches got back to Villa Park- the Holte End floodlights were on. We ended up in The New Bell -just beat last orders! One of the great days!
By getting out those few minutes early, we beat all that and coincidently, we too got back to the New Bell and were also back in time to buy the Argus.
One of the things that stick in the memory is stopping at lights on the North Circular and a car full of Arse fans pulling up alongside and gesturing to wind down my window(they knew we were Villa as our scarves were hanging out of the back windows) and I thought here we go but despite that I wound down my window and to my surprise they all started yelling congratulations and how they were delighted we'd won the league as they didn't want Ipswich to win it as they hated them. Happy days.
Gents, do you mean The New Bell at the bottom of Booths Farm Road, Great Barr by any chance?
That's the one.
Small world, was my local from 1975....We got home about 10:45 from Highbury so couldn’t celebrate with Bert that night!
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In Peter Withe's autobiography he talks about that Highbury game. Apparently a few of the players were mates with the Fewtrell family and one member of the family was in the Villa dressing room with a video camera after the match.
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The ITN news from 02/05/81 is below with a feature on us becoming league champions from 11:31 to 13:18. It also has a 'very' brief snippet of the all important Middlesbrough Ipswich game on 21:16
Interestingly enough after that it features Chelsea fans causing bother and breaking their own crossbar when Notts County won promotion.
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Great find and the interview between Tony Francis and Ron Saunders is brilliant. The answer to 'is this the proudest day of your life' is typical Ron Saunders.
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Only just caught up with this. Did anyone else spot a young Robert Hopkins in the dressing room towards the end of the video?
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.. Deleted post , wrong dates.
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40 years ago - 16 in London with my mates happy days
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Just realised it'll be the 40th anniversary this May. I can still remember things from that day as though it happened last week. The coach I was on was one of the first to arrive back in Aston so we got bench seats in the Aston Tavern and watched it slowly fill up as more happy Villa fans arrived back from London. My group had copies of the Sports Argus and in the centre pages there was a double page poster proclaiming 'Villa Champions'. We had our copies lined up on the bench frame behind us. Funny the little things you remember.