Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: dave.woodhall on March 18, 2018, 12:25:46 PM
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http://thebirminghampress.com/2018/03/winter-blunderland/
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Well summarised Dave. I can remember every detail of previous fade outs that you've alluded to. Hopefully we'll win the play-off final in a couple of months!
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Done. Sorry it's late.
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You did mention Oldham but I was expecting a comparison with temperatures at Boundary Park in 1990.
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You did mention Oldham but I was expecting a comparison with temperatures at Boundary Park in 1990.
When it comes to football my memories of extreme conditions are instant.
Wettest - Huddersfield away 1987
Coldest - Notts County away 1992
Frosty/Icy playing conditions - Liverpool at home 1984, Ian Rush hat-trick.
For some reason I have no recollections of particularly hot ones,although if my memory of being at the game as an eleven year old is right I seem to recall Rotterdam was very humid.
On my (four I think) visits to Oldham I do recall it was never quite a tropical paradise. In fact it made Blackpool seem like the Bahamas.
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Done. Sorry it's late.
What is it that is 'done' every week?
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Done. Sorry it's late.
What is it that is 'done' every week?
Legion breaks something.
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Good post Dave
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I'd been avoiding reading that thinking it was going to depress me even more after this weeks game's but it's actually had the opposite effect. Hopefully history can repeat itself.
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Still depressed, but thanks for trying Dave.
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Were we such unlikely challengers in '90?
Presumably Leicester '16 take the ultimate accolade.
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Were we such unlikely challengers in '90?
Presumably Leicester '16 take the ultimate accolade.
We had Ian Ormondroyd in the team.
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Were we such unlikely challengers in '90?
Presumably Leicester '16 take the ultimate accolade.
We had Ian Ormondroyd in the team.
;D
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Considering how we'd stayed up the previous season and the run we'd been on before Dean Saunders did what he did best and missed a hatful of chances for Derby that probably kept SGT in a job, i'd say there's a gnats chuff between us and Leicester.
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Another good read Dave.
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Oldham away certainly ranks as one of the coldest. Went a couple of times. Villa park briefly turning into the Antarctic vs Man City during half time about 20 years ago sticks in the memory also.
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That Notts County away game was unbelievably cold. I was living in Nottingham at the time and went out in a thin t-shirt. Surprised I survived. And we missed a penalty!
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Actually, it was saved.:)
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Another good read Dave.
Great article.
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Done. Sorry it's late.
What is it that is 'done' every week?
Sorry for the late reply. As well as what the boss has put earlier, it simply means that I have put the link on our FB Page.
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You did mention Oldham but I was expecting a comparison with temperatures at Boundary Park in 1990.
When it comes to football my memories of extreme conditions are instant.
Wettest - Huddersfield away 1987
Coldest - Notts County away 1992
Frosty/Icy playing conditions - Liverpool at home 1984, Ian Rush hat-trick.
For some reason I have no recollections of particularly hot ones,although if my memory of being at the game as an eleven year old is right I seem to recall Rotterdam was very humid.
On my (four I think) visits to Oldham I do recall it was never quite a tropical paradise. In fact it made Blackpool seem like the Bahamas.
Im going to volunteer another candidate for wettest. Wimbledon away on a weekday night in around Oct or November 1992, I think. I think it was League Cup. Their open end, full of us lot , open to a total downpour, 90 minutes 0-0 then they score after 119 minutes. One of the best atmospheres I remember because it was so terrible.
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You did mention Oldham but I was expecting a comparison with temperatures at Boundary Park in 1990.
When it comes to football my memories of extreme conditions are instant.
Wettest - Huddersfield away 1987
Coldest - Notts County away 1992
Frosty/Icy playing conditions - Liverpool at home 1984, Ian Rush hat-trick.
For some reason I have no recollections of particularly hot ones,although if my memory of being at the game as an eleven year old is right I seem to recall Rotterdam was very humid.
On my (four I think) visits to Oldham I do recall it was never quite a tropical paradise. In fact it made Blackpool seem like the Bahamas.
Im going to volunteer another candidate for wettest. Wimbledon away on a weekday night in around Oct or November 1992, I think. I think it was League Cup. Their open end, full of us lot , open to a total downpour, 90 minutes 0-0 then they score after 119 minutes. One of the best atmospheres I remember because it was so terrible.
I'm pretty sure that was an FA Cup 3rd replay. Alan bastard Cork. It was so wet I could wring my trenchcoat out before getting in the car for the long drive home.
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I remember us playing in the sixties ,at Villa Park with touch lines painted blue on a snowy pitch. I think it was Blackburn or QPR .