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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Villa Lew on April 08, 2021, 10:32:27 AM
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Villa 1 Albion 0 Attendance 47,998
Brendon Baston gives us a helping hand on the way to our first title for 71 years, the great Peter Withe gets the winner.
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Villa 1 Albion 0 Attendance 47,998
Brendon Baston gives us a helping hand on the way to our first title for 71 years, the great Peter Withe gets the winner.
I suspect the real/unofficial attendance would have been more than 47,998. I remember listening to the game on BRMB.
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I know of the goal, but that's the first time I've ever seen it.
Nicely taken by Withe.
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Albion ended up 4th that year and were still in with an outside chance of the title at that point as far as I remember. A dreadful nervy game, but when that goal went in!
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A pivotal moment in our history.
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I was reading elsewhere, that BT sport are doing a documentary on Villa winning the title in the 80-81 season
Should be interesting to watch - if I had BT sport!!!
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I think it's about the European Cup win, and it's coming out next year.
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Happy League Title Day.
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I have just printed a list of our great 14 and added Ron and special guest Bosco Jankovic
and i've printed it off to raise a pint to each and everyone of them.
Will be a heavy and expensive session but way i look at it is that i'm unlikely to be around
to celebrate 50th, or if i am, not in a fit state to have a day on lash which i can still just about do.
Have a great day one and all!!!!
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I was 10 and listened to the Arsenal game on the radio at my granny’s (RIP) in Small Heath. When Bosko did his bit for the cause it was so exciting. Such a lovely memory.
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The sight of all those Villa coaches snaking in convoy down the motorway was phenomenal. We just made kick off ! Will raise a glass to the Villa clan later
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Only time I've ever celebrated a Villa defeat, a fantastic day.
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Great day. The nerves obviously got to us as we were v poor. Managed to nick some of the turf and plant it it in my mom and dads garden when I got home. Got v close to Pele who was ushered through the crowds before the game
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I cried.
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I cried.
I warned my son before kick off at the Arsenal cup final that I would cry if we won. It was also his birthday that day.
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I was 10 and listened to the Arsenal game on the radio at my granny’s (RIP) in Small Heath. When Bosko did his bit for the cause it was so exciting. Such a lovely memory.
I was also ten and listened to it on the radio (BRMB) at home as I did a lot of the games that season. I didn't start going every other week until the 1981/1982 season. The only game I went to in the title winning season was the game away to Small Heath.
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Real rollercoaster of a day. Thought we'd blown it until the news started filtering through of Bosco's goals. Traffic jam all the way back to the M1 so we were out the car and dancing in the streets. Not sure we stopped drinking till it was time for the Town Hall parade the next morning! What a ride from the dark days of relegation to the Third division.
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Real rollercoaster of a day. Thought we'd blown it until the news started filtering through of Bosco's goals. Traffic jam all the way back to the M1 so we were out the car and dancing in the streets. Not sure we stopped drinking till it was time for the Town Hall parade the next morning! What a ride from the dark days of relegation to the Third division.
I was at the civic reception at the council house with my Mum and a Villa fan who worked for my Dad. It was cold, wet and windy.
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Someone had a radio near to me on the clock end. The commentator said "there's been another goal at Boro". Thought that's it the titles gone. Then heard Denis Law say " I want to be the first to congratulate Aston Villa on winning the title".What a moment !
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I was listening to the radio as well.
I'd assumed that we'd need 'boro' to do us a favour, as we were so poor at Highbury. Trouble was, they'd shown how crap they were at VP the previous week when we stuffed 'em 3-0.
Then Bosko proved me wrong...