Can anyone help?

[claret and blue blood]

Remember it well, I was 13 at the time, it was the Doc's second game in charge, we'd beaten Norwich the week before and Boxing Day (my Birthday) was a typical packed Holte end roaring on the team, we beat Carlisle away 1-0 in the next game to make it 3 straight wins. Wish I could help with the photo- good luck !

We had 5 straight wins from when the Doc arrived, we knocked QPR out the cup. I'm not sure about the 5th win, may have been Huddersfield at home?

I think you're right, I'd forgotten about the QPR game, the thing I can remember was Barry Hole scoring against Norwich in Doc's first game, that match I was stood on the Witton end where he scored ! The Doc came to our school Holte Grammar with Freddie Mwila and Emment Kapengwe ? a few months later and addressed our assembly, making his famous remark about  40,000 of us turning up to watch the shirts dry on the line !

[Oscar Arce]

I remember this game well.
It was on a frozen pitch, unplayable today, the Villa groundstaff had covered it with straw and it was all around theedge of the pitch. Tiler scored his goal and celebrated in front of the Holte End, it was a header ad the best it got really for Brian, he never really won over the fans particularly as Docherty signed him and made him captain straight away on his debut.
That was the start of the great Villa comeback.
As Andy said, Redknapp was Tiler's best mate, he was in charge at Bournemouth when they both took heir ill-fated trip to the World Cup. RIP.

[tomd2103]

He's up he's down he's in the Rose and Crown Barrie Hole Barrie Hole!

For younger viewers Barrie was Welsh and liked a drink....remind you of anyone

Dylan Thomas???

I was at that game and have fond memories. My first white Christmas and I think it was the only game I ever went to with both my dad and my grandad. I remember the area outside the Trinity enclosure being treacherous and my grandad going arse over tit. And Christmas is all the more enjoyable if we win on Boxing Day.

I was thinking of James Collins Pat.   Dylan Thomas  was a Premiership winning lush!
Come to think about it so was Richard Burton.
What is it about the Welsh and drink?[/quote]

As opposed to the Scots, Irish and indeed the English?

[Percy McCarthy]

My three sons are called Tyler, Kurtis and Lewis, after Brian, George (and Mayfield) and Chatterley. It was only after I named lewis that I discovered that that wasn't actually Chatterley's christian name.

[bob rowe]

Wasn't Lew Chatterleys real name Lawson?

[Dr Butler]

My first ever game, Great -Grandfather, Grand-father, Dad and his 5 brothers and assorted cousins all went and stood on the Holte, I just about remember it.

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[Ron Manager]

Wasn't Lew Chatterleys real name Lawson?

Certainly was and still is!

[E I Adio]

I remember the match and the goal well. (Although I was standing on the Holte, not sitting in a nice comfortable warm seat in the Trinity ALITA.)

The start of yet another false dawn.