You know those Russian doll things where you open it up to find a smaller one inside, and then again and again? I have a Villa set of those that my sister bought me back from Poland a few years ago. Hand painted and I really like it and it's pretty much unique as I have never seen another one like it.
"It was Saturday evening August the 30th 1941, the day on which in peace time the English Football League commenced the season and here was I a member of H.M. Royal Air Force station at Silloth a small port & holiday resort situated on the north east coast of Cumberland with its beaches washed by the waters of the Solway Firth and twenty one miles from the garrison town of Carlisle. The weather was ideal, a fairly calm sun sent its rays southward and a balmy breeze lazily made its way from off the waters. All day I had been suffering from a great feeling of home sickness & when the day turned to be as grand I became worse. I looked at my watch 2.40 p.m. it told me. I put on my coat and smoothly stroad off through the park & towards the ground. I bought a programme from one of the service fellows of World War 1 & paid my 1/- & entered the gound through a well oiled turnstile. Oh what a ground as level as a billiard table, turf in good condition and a wonderful sight. 2.59 p.m. any moment now & those lads will come troopimg out, a great roar issues from the throats of the 50 thousand people that crowded the terracing and stands. "Here come the lads" & Jimmy Allen followed by Mush Callaghan & more other heroes in claret and blue emerged from the players ally and set foot on the turf and headed for the goal at the Church end of the ground. What a sight there was George Cummings last as usual and walking as if all this cheering was for him alone. "Good old George". Joe has now taken his place between the sticks and stoops to hold a cannon shot from Eric ( evergreen ) Houghton now in his twelth playing season for the Villa. Mossie now slips a ball forward& Frank Broome is off like a greyhound & on the run sends in a shot which Joe does wll to stop. The lads are on their toes today is the crowd's general opinion & to further this Haycock sends the now retrieved ball into the net like a flash well out of the goalies reach. The ref blows his whistle. But alas it is all a wonderful pipe dream & I open my eyes to see not the happy surroundings of Villa Park but the whiteness of the roof of our hut." Extracts from a letter written by by dad who passed away 10 yeras ago. My Mom is now in John Taylor Hospice with terminal cancer. I felt like sharing this extract as my Mom thought I should. This is my most prcious Villa momentum and is one of the reasons I am Claret and Blue. Good luck to us all for the season ahead and hope you don't mind the post.
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