Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: eamonn on March 05, 2023, 10:34:56 PM
-
I just noticed this pop-up in a football group I follow on Facebook. 40 years ago to the day - March 5th 1983. My namesake, Eamonn Deacy, scored his one and only Villa goal. Withe and Shaw also on-target in a 3-2 win. No footage of it on youtube, that I could find...
And they didn't always keep record of the minute goals were scored back then in contemporary press reports. Can anyone jog their memory and tell the story of the game?
We went 4th in the table. Come the season's end, although we finished 6th, actually only 3 points separated us and runners-up Watford. Liverpool ran away with it.
It shows that although our league position the previous season when we won the European Cup was pretty poor (I think we still hold the record for winning the European Cup with the lowest final league-position), there was still a good old side knocking around, two years on from the league triumph.
-
Dougonomics had yet to take its dead-hand grip on the team.
Ellis had only been back a few months and needed more time to exert his malign influence. It was still a fine team, though the away record was clearly a cause for concern.
The season you mention was probably Sid's finest as a player and he ended it as an established England player. Tragically, he broke his leg in a pre-season 'friendly' that summer.
-
Sid was set for a move that summer to an Italian side until he got badly injured, remember seeing the photo's of his leg - horrendous.
-
www.avfchistory.co.uk/game/3744
-
There's more information to be found on the Galway United Archive, on Twitter, including photos of our three goals.
-
wow 18000 attendance for a win and we were 5th and European champions 😳
-
There's more information to be found on the Galway United Archive, on Twitter, including photos of our three goals.
Nice one!
Some great action pics here: https://twitter.com/AndrewUllah/status/1632405544907464704
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqd4LDpXwAAVPi3?format=jpg&name=large)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqd4LeeXoAAYE8Y?format=jpg&name=large)
-
I went to the game (just a few days after the Juventus one), a cracking goal from Deacy at the Holte End to equalise making it 2-2.
-
Only game my Dad ever took me to. Thanks for posting!
-
You're welcome!
I want to see footage of these goals! I think BBC had MOTD in this particular season so surely there were cameras there.
-
wow 18000 attendance for a win and we were 5th and European champions 😳
45,500 were in the same ground three days prior for the Juventus home-leg.
I was too young to appreciate Sid, and don't remember seeing these highlights. Just watching now, I was admiring the way he gets the ball out of his feet in the build-up to his equalising goal not knowing that he was to get on the end of the move in such spectacular fashion. The bullet of a header was obviously worthy of any game too and one that Peter Withe, who he bustled out of the way in the process, would have been proud of.
-
wow 18000 attendance for a win and we were 5th and European champions 😳
That would be the official attendance. In those pictures there's plenty of empty seats in the Witton but it's towards the one end, the Trinity looks pretty full up and down. Admittedly the North stand could sometimes be a bit sparse and of course we can't see the largest terrace in English football with its mostly cash paying clientele.
Each home game during the 2nd half a piece of paper would be handed to Doug Ellis in the directors box ( he was back by then), a quick calculation and a message back and 10 minutes later the tannoy would announce the attendance.
-
wow 18000 attendance for a win and we were 5th and European champions 😳
That would be the official attendance. In those pictures there's plenty of empty seats in the Witton but it's towards the one end, the Trinity looks pretty full up and down. Admittedly the North stand could sometimes be a bit sparse and of course we can't see the largest terrace in English football with its mostly cash paying clientele.
Each home game during the 2nd half a piece of paper would be handed to Doug Ellis in the directors box ( he was back by then), a quick calculation and a message back and 10 minutes later the tannoy would announce the attendance.
There were definately some dodgy attendances given back then. I certainly wouldn't put it beyond Doug to look at the general trend of falling attendances and see an opportunity.
The Everton 6-2 game was given as 17k, for example
-
I've watched that Sid goal against Juve a few times now. I mean, it has everything...technical ability, great feet, vision and bravery. An unbelievable run into the box and the best flying header you could wish to see. Fuckin' hell, what a guy!
-
If there was a better passer of a football over long distances with either foot, I'd like to know his name.
-
I've watched that Sid goal against Juve a few times now. I mean, it has everything...technical ability, great feet, vision and bravery. An unbelievable run into the box and the best flying header you could wish to see. Fuckin' hell, what a guy!
Remember that goal like it was yesterday. I was 14 and was banned from going on my own as the old man wasn’t well. I went, paid for it afterwards but it was worth it just to see Sid play. A wonderful goal, an unbelievable midfielder and my favourite ever player at the Villa.
-
If there was a better passer of a football over long distances with either foot, I'd like to know his name.
His tackling wasn't bad either.
-
For someone of such a slight frame, his tackling was phenomenal, Cowans could win the ball fairly and squarely against any of the so called hard men of the day, and boy were there some, his bravery in the tackle was truly something. He also had this great technique of dispossessing an opponent of the ball by sliding in on him from behind, going to ground, coming away with the ball glued to his feet, and with his opponent left in a heap, wondering what had just happened.
-
He did that so many times!
-
Best team I've ever seen live, that Juventus one.
Zoff, Gentile, Cabrini, Scirea, Tardelli, Rossi, Platini and Boniek. What great, great players.
Oh and Bettega was in the team too.
Two magnificent pieces of skill in that clip - Sid's shuffle, and Platini's ball for Boniek to score.
Anyone who doesn't want us back in Europe ASAP is smoking crack as far as I am concerned.
-
I've watched that Sid goal against Juve a few times now. I mean, it has everything...technical ability, great feet, vision and bravery. An unbelievable run into the box and the best flying header you could wish to see. Fuckin' hell, what a guy!
Although, Zoff getting beaten like that at his near post.
*whistly thing*
-
Spartak Moscow in 1983 put in the best performance by an away side at VP I ever saw. It will probably never be beaten as in my mind now they would have battered Brazil '70 that night. But they were very very good.
-
We must have been pretty good as well Spartak only beat us with a late, deflected shot.
-
I was too young for those ones, so Celta Vigo handing our arses to us at VP in November '98 when we were top of the league was chastening. I've always looked out for their results since.
-
Spartak Moscow in 1983 put in the best performance by an away side at VP I ever saw. It will probably never be beaten as in my mind now they would have battered Brazil '70 that night. But they were very very good.
Heartily agree, they were absolutely brilliant that night.
-
Spartak Moscow in 1983 put in the best performance by an away side at VP I ever saw. It will probably never be beaten as in my mind now they would have battered Brazil '70 that night. But they were very very good.
Heartily agree, they were absolutely brilliant that night.
We were going through in that game all the way from the 2nd minute when Peter Withe put us in front in the game and on aggregate right up until Cherenkov got his second in the 89th minute. I remember it as a breathless sort of game with both sides counter-attacking.
-
Best team I've ever seen live, that Juventus one.
Zoff, Gentile, Cabrini, Scirea, Tardelli, Rossi, Platini and Boniek. What great, great players.
Oh and Bettega was in the team too.
Two magnificent pieces of skill in that clip - Sid's shuffle, and Platini's ball for Boniek to score.
Anyone who doesn't want us back in Europe ASAP is smoking crack as far as I am concerned.
Hey, that's unfair, every crackhead I know wants us in Europe too.
-
Spartak Moscow in 1983 put in the best performance by an away side at VP I ever saw. It will probably never be beaten as in my mind now they would have battered Brazil '70 that night. But they were very very good.
Heartily agree, they were absolutely brilliant that night.
It was football from the future.
-
Spartak Moscow in 1983 put in the best performance by an away side at VP I ever saw. It will probably never be beaten as in my mind now they would have battered Brazil '70 that night. But they were very very good.
Heartily agree, they were absolutely brilliant that night.
We were going through in that game all the way from the 2nd minute when Peter Withe put us in front in the game and on aggregate right up until Cherenkov got his second in the 89th minute. I remember it as a breathless sort of game with both sides counter-attacking.
We led the whole tie after scoring early on in Moscow, with them only equalising for the second time after Ormsby gave a penalty away in the last minute of the first leg. Walters's goal was fantastic.
-
Yes, a brilliant turn and shot from the right-hand corner of the box.
What a player he could have been!
-
The away game with Walters' goal.
https://youtu.be/hVu9K1f_wyU