League Cup 2nd round 79/80. We won the first leg away 2-0 and somehow managed to then lose the 2nd 2-0 at home. Think it was 9-8 on pens with their keeper missing.
My first Villa game aged 7........magical seeing those AV floodlights from Holborn Hill for the first time.
Didn't get home till gone 11 on a school night as well (unless it was half term can't remember). Afterwards wanted to go and watch Villa every night!
Around that time my best mates dad kept trying to get me to follow the Blues.....i remember watching Blues vs Tampa Bay Rowdies in a friendly around that era. My two memories of that game, kicking a coke can around the bottom of their Kop with a nose and the half time entertainment which consisted of a supporter on the pitch trying to kick a ball into the open sunroof of a shit Austin Metro
.Get it in and you won the bloody thing.......