The end of the line - Graham Taylor

[London Villan]

I’m sure SGT would have similar thoughts too.

[Rico]

Yep, still the best away game I've ever been to. Superb support, and Sid Cowans goal was a thing of beauty. It's been said that Graham Taylor recommended to HDE that Ron Atkinson should be his successor,  but Doug being Doug knew better and appointed Venglos instead. That worked out well. Not!

[LeeB]

Sid's free kick is the best I've seen live and it's the most Sid goal ever, pure nonchelance and class.

[dave.woodhall]

Yep, still the best away game I've ever been to. Superb support, and Sid Cowans goal was a thing of beauty. It's been said that Graham Taylor recommended to HDE that Ron Atkinson should be his successor,  but Doug being Doug knew better and appointed Venglos instead. That worked out well. Not!

in defence of Doug (not a thing I've often said), Wednesday had just been relegated and Ron wanted the chance to get them back up. As he put it, "Under no cirucmstances could I leave then".

[Chico Hamilton III]

That day at Goodison we had the best away following I’ve ever seen. The fact that it was 32 years ago is depressing and frightening at the same time. For perspective, 32 years before that we were just about still the FA cup holders.

[dave.woodhall]

The older I get the more I realise a day like that is unlikely to be repeated.

It never could be. For a start it would be on a Sunday, so you wouldn't have such a good day out. We wouldn't get as many tickets, it would be live on Tv and everything's just too downright serious these days. I firmly believe that the brief window from 1989-92, post-Hillsborough and pre-Premier League, was as good as it got. There was a sense of freedom; we were away from the 'treat supporters as hooligans' mentality but rampant commercialism hadn't kicked in. Then you had the sheer pleasure of doing something totally unexpected as well as being the end of a horrible chapter in our history.

[Bad English]

I couldn't get to Everton but I was at another much-discussed away game that season: Oldham Athletic in the FA Cup.

[Drummond]

I can hear that chant ringing in my ears. Beautiful moment.

[eamonn]

The older I get the more I realise a day like that is unlikely to be repeated.

It never could be. For a start it would be on a Sunday, so you wouldn't have such a good day out. We wouldn't get as many tickets, it would be live on Tv and everything's just too downright serious these days. I firmly believe that the brief window from 1989-92, post-Hillsborough and pre-Premier League, was as good as it got. There was a sense of freedom; we were away from the 'treat supporters as hooligans' mentality but rampant commercialism hadn't kicked in. Then you had the sheer pleasure of doing something totally unexpected as well as being the end of a horrible chapter in our history.

And everyone involved was much younger and care-free 

[Lastfootstamper]

I know it was only a little over a year after Hillsborough, but weren't the fences still up?

[Chris Harte]

I know it was only a little over a year after Hillsborough, but weren't the fences still up?

The fences had gone.

[Lastfootstamper]

I know it was only a little over a year after Hillsborough, but weren't the fences still up?

The fences had gone.

Thanks for the video, it was a wonderful day. Maybe it was all those previous years of being behind fences that makes memories of those times generally appear as if viewed through mesh.

[Exeter 77]

I think the fences were still up on the terracing at Villa Park but with the gates open. That's as I remember it for that season anyway.

Edit: This is the 6-2 home game v Everton and the fences were still in place but I think they were removed in the summer of 1990.
https://youtu.be/e0YC38zjhD8

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I know it was only a little over a year after Hillsborough, but weren't the fences still up?

The fences had gone.

Cheers, Chris, never seen that before. Always loved our trips to  Goodison, the Morley game being the highlight but this one was my last one there and certainly recharged the Villa batteries for years of disappointment later down the road. It was a perfect day despite not winning. I've always said our support is brilliant but this was something else. We were back and it was all down to one man.

[PeterWithe]

I was at this game and haven't seen/heard anything like it before or since. I seem to recall Villa had two-thirds filled the top tier of Everton's three tier stand.

Yup, I was up there and was very impressed that there were escalators to get you up to the top tier.