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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Mister E on June 20, 2017, 02:51:43 PM

Title: Read and weep
Post by: Mister E on June 20, 2017, 02:51:43 PM
This is a great summary of the times we lived back when Villa were a force to be reckoned with!
For all those who missed the 1970's and 1980's, here is a little bit of what it was like (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/20/how-englands-first-wave-of-heavy-metal-football-conquered-europe).
From the Grauniad online.
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: SteveN on June 20, 2017, 07:07:33 PM
Great read, thanks for posting.  I'm weeping.
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: Nelly on June 20, 2017, 07:18:01 PM
Thanks Mister E. I'm weeping that we might not, if ever, see those sorts of days again.
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: DB on June 20, 2017, 10:34:48 PM
Great read. My 2 great passions, Villa and Metal....although never really liked Judas Priest. Tony Morley does have a touch of the Rick Parfitt about him in that picture.
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: West Derby Villan on June 21, 2017, 08:48:44 AM
Great read Mister E
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: kipeye on June 21, 2017, 07:49:19 PM
You made an old man happy. Not forgetting the dross in both-Plenty of great bands around then and some epic games of football.
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: class-of-82 on June 21, 2017, 08:12:41 PM
superb read
brought it all home today when it was confirmed it was the hottest june since 1976, 17 years old just left school and the seeds of the greatest attacking villa team ever seen in my lifetime was being put together 6 years later??? well you know the rest
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: Mister E on June 22, 2017, 11:31:23 AM
superb read
brought it all home today when it was confirmed it was the hottest june since 1976, 17 years old just left school and the seeds of the greatest attacking villa team ever seen in my lifetime was being put together 6 years later??? well you know the rest
Yeah, I was 18 in 1976 and I now believe we lived through Villa's Golden Era, starting in 1970: what an amazing 12 years, in the prime of my life! And the music of that period was - in the main - also epic.
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: robbo1874 on June 26, 2017, 10:37:06 AM
I was 3 in 1976 - spent most of the time naked or in underpants, with a fat tummy. Remember it well. Nice article, but a bit contrived. Quality pic of mr withe and Mr mcnaught with the fans outside the ground. Fella far left resembles someone in the Villains book?
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: Axl Rose on June 26, 2017, 11:21:32 AM
Great read. My 2 great passions, Villa and Metal....although never really liked Judas Priest. Tony Morley does have a touch of the Rick Parfitt about him in that picture.

Me too! Metal and Villa, besides my wife, family and great friends, are the only things I truly love.

Great article. Thank you for sharing.
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: darren woolley on June 26, 2017, 11:24:09 AM
Good read thanks for posting Mister E.
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: Mister E on June 26, 2017, 12:13:23 PM
Good read thanks for posting Mister E.
Not at all, darren.
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: Damo70 on June 26, 2017, 12:35:14 PM
Brilliant piece.
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: in exile on June 26, 2017, 02:07:38 PM
I was 43 in 1976 - spent most of the time naked or in underpants, with a fat tummy. Remember it well. Nice.

Fixed
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: garyfouroaks on July 04, 2017, 10:18:41 AM
A brilliant, heart warming read- thank you
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on July 04, 2017, 10:54:26 AM
That's a great read - some lovely, almost poetic touches and some wonderful memories.
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Post by: CT on July 04, 2017, 01:03:37 PM
That was a terrific read, thanks.
Title: Re: Read and weep
Post by: anton hillman on July 06, 2017, 01:21:44 AM
Great memories that I was lucky to experience but I am also old enough to remember the bad times of the late 60s when many of us thought that the Villa were finished. How wrong we were! Good times will come again to Vila Park, despite the current malaise and the signing of John Terry. We do wake up from bad dreams.
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