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Offline mikeb1982

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Re: 51 years
« Reply #30 on: March 19, 2011, 08:30:34 PM »
Thanks for this, great stuff

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Re: 51 years
« Reply #31 on: March 20, 2011, 06:36:46 PM »
Great to see this, Chico: several of my boyhood heroes are there, not to mention the famous curved balcony of the Trinity Road stand. It was, I think, the biggest Villa Park crowd I ever experienced, several thousand more than the Man U League Cup SF. My father, my brother and I arrived at 1 o'clock to get decent places at the Holte End. With about an hour to go before kick-off you just couldn't move, and during the game if, like us, you were behind a barrier, you were crushed by the surge of the crowd behind you when Villa scored.

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Re: 51 years
« Reply #32 on: May 28, 2011, 02:25:32 PM »
I was at this game,so my father tells  me, cant remember it though as i would have been 6 years old. Was that peter mcparland scoring the goal ?

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Re: 51 years
« Reply #33 on: May 29, 2011, 10:23:31 AM »
I was at this game,so my father tells  me, cant remember it though as i would have been 6 years old. Was that peter mcparland scoring the goal ?
Yes, he scored the 2nd goal

Offline Dave Clark Five

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Re: 51 years
« Reply #34 on: May 29, 2011, 12:14:58 PM »
It was, I think, the biggest Villa Park crowd I ever experienced, several thousand more than the Man U League Cup SF.

69732 according to records. The bigger Witton Lane Stand would have enabled getting a few more in plus less concerns about safety.

 


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