Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Lucky Eddie on May 27, 2015, 06:28:51 PM
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Didn't pickles the dog find the cup?
I thought we'd lost but then found it?
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That was the World Cup. We lost the FA Cup (more times than they've ever won it) and it never resurfaced.
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We also lost the European Cup for a short while.
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Let's hope there's a few nervous security guards come Saturday night.
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No way we are losing the one on Sunday!
During the victory parade that is!!
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Ta muchly; thanks for jogging my memory.
How briefly did we lose the European Cup and does that story involve the Scot Arms?
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Here you go (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8709846.stm)
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Cheers
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FA cup was melted down- fact
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The fact that a couple of players took the European cup to a pub for a piss up and lost it just seems incredulous
The chances of that not being leaked to the press now, or of the players not being castigated for reckless behaviour, or of two players mixing with fans and playing darts, must be minimal.
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Who won the darts match?
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the coppers playing a game to see who "wins" the European Cup......lol
would love to see their photo's as well..
UTV
The Doc
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Years ago (15?) I played for a decent non-League team in Herts, currently Southern Conf. We won a cup at the end of the season and a about six of us stole it and 'took it for a drink'. By about 10pm we were playing 'catch' with it. The inevitable happened and it was dropped. We took it clubbing and I awoke about 10am'ish with a bad neck; I'd slept on the cup.
We later found out it was almost 100 years old and now had a bent arm and a slightly skew stem. We returned it to the club and legged it...luckily it was never mentioned.
We were presented it again at a dinner about two months later, myself and the other berks involved said nothing.
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It's hard to believe now, but it's true that they casually lugged the cup around various pubs and clubs. I had some photos taken holding it with Gary Shaw and Gordon Cowans on either side. It was just a small Social Club in Handsworth Wood.
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After the Tony Barton memorial dinner we carried the League Cup from the ICC to the Copthorne. I got asked to take it back to Villa Park and it was in my house all afternoon.
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As humorous as the story is, the pedant in me can't let go of the line "the pair took the gigantic silver cup, which weighs up to 15kg,"
It can't weigh up to 15 kg, as it's weight can't fluctuate (well technically it's mass can diminish but not enough to count in this context.)
It can weigh 15kg, around 15kg, just under/over 15 kg but not up to 15kg.
Pedants rant over.
As others have said, unbelievable for those that have only known football in the mega money era.
It's a good job it wasn't Ron Saunders they had to confess to!
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The fact that a couple of players took the European cup to a pub for a piss up and lost it just seems incredulous
The chances of that not being leaked to the press now, or of the players not being castigated for reckless behaviour, or of two players mixing with fans and playing darts, must be minimal.
I'm sure I have heard Phil Thompson tell a similar story about the same trophy and a pub where he grew up in Kirkby. I'm also pretty sure Thompson and Dennis Mortimer either went to the same school or played for the same boys team. Or possibly both.
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Didn't a certain player perform a certain bodily function in a certain cup, according to legend?
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At an evening with Tony Morley at a social club earlier this year, he was telling a similar tale. He said that they had left him with the cup one evening after a similar function or something of the likes, and he thought he would take it back home to Merseyside to show his family and mates. Apparently, whilst having a few beers in his old local, he turned round startled to see one of the resident barmy locals taking a slash in the European Cup!
Upon questioning what on earth he was doing, apparently the urinating scousers response was that he was sure some Germans would be drinking out of the cup in the near future :)