34 years ago tonight!

[Oh Andy]

One of my favourite games ever from my favourite season... Mind you 80/81 and 81/82 weren't too bad either.

[hawkeye]

i was there and didnt remember the goals in detail, i was stood in The Holte End, I remember Villa just tearing them apart wave after wave of attack. It was a sureal feeling watching that Liverpool team going through the motions but just couldnt get near us, i remember Mortimer having a great game picking the ball up and running at them from deep and then passing the ball. It was as the report said about movement and quick acurate passing. We carried on for about 15 minutes into the second half but we could not reach the heights of the first half, certainly the most comprehensive Villa win in terms of playing style I have ever seen. I also remember switching on ATV to watch the sports section and being told that we didnt go to the Villa game but went to see Derek Hales make his debut for Derby.

[Dave Cooper please]

It was the day I fell in love with Brian Little.

[Mike Jeffries]

A nine year old me was there.

It's a standing joke in our family, that Jake Findlay being in goal for us and Ray Kennedy scoring for them, were the only details I could remember when asked about it, in the days after the game.

I think I had Post Euphoria shock syndrome  .

[eamonn]

It was the day I fell in love with Brian Little.

He was a stud in fairness. Those long flowing locks, great cheekbones....oh right, yeah.

[willywombat]

Great night,they were a fantastic team to watch for sure

[dave shelley]

For those of us there just one question; will it ever get better than that? since that night there have been some great teams in the old first division and the subsequent premier league but that night of football by Villa remains the best I've ever had the privelage to witness.  Dare I venture to suggest that that team of '77/'78 was better than the one that eventually returned the holy grail back to Villa Park.

[DeKuip]

Dare I venture to suggest that that team of '77/'78 was better than the one that eventually returned the holy grail back to Villa Park.

I assume you meant 76-77? 
I said earlier in the thread that I thought that season was the best for football (most exciting games), but although I'd agree the 76-77 team was the most exciting to watch - the best TEAM we've had in my memory was the 80-81 side that won the league. Still good to watch, but certainly much better defensively, a winning team.
Don't forget that although 76-77 side was brilliant at home they didn't do so well on their travels in the league.

[Legion]

I was only 5. I'd love to see footage of it.

[Oscar Arce]

I was there also, unusually for me in the trinity Upper with my Dad and Big Bro.
Deehan's goals were carbon copies of each other, Liverpool actually made a fist of it in the second half, but in the first half they were well and truly battered.
Probably the best Villa performance I can ever remember and I'd love to see footage of it, but i thought there wasa'nt even a camera at the game ?
Bloody Derek Hales the bearded git....

[Pat McMahon]

I was there with my dad, 3 days after my birthday, standing on the left side of the old (non segregated) Witton where we always used to stand at that time. Like others above it was the greatest performance I have ever witnessed by a Villa team in what was the finest footballing season that Villa have produced in my lifetime.

I remember the grudge against Newbon et al the day after on Central TV as I was desperate to see the trouncing again on the box. A further, minor gripe, was that our next home fixture was cancelled due to snow (I think it was against Derby) so the Terry Weir photos of the goals were in the cancelled matchday programme which I never saw. I always thought Villa should have carried them over to our next edition.

[dave shelley]

I was only 5. I'd love to see footage of it.

I stand erected!

[dave shelley]

Dare I venture to suggest that that team of '77/'78 was better than the one that eventually returned the holy grail back to Villa Park.

I assume you meant 76-77? 
I said earlier in the thread that I thought that season was the best for football (most exciting games), but although I'd agree the 76-77 team was the most exciting to watch - the best TEAM we've had in my memory was the 80-81 side that won the league. Still good to watch, but certainly much better defensively, a winning team.
Don't forget that although 76-77 side was brilliant at home they didn't do so well on their travels in the league.

Sorry quoted on wrong post. Complete dimwit! me that is

[adrenachrome]

34 years. Fucking hell.

I was at Warwick University at the time, and went to the game a load of mates who I had known  at Bourneville College a couple of years before, so it must have been some sort of reunion. Several of them weren't even Villa fans, and one was a Nose from Solihull who had been in the same class as John Deehan.

We were particularly good at playing through a high defensive line using the offside trap at that time, and it was poetry in motion watching us tear them apart in the first half.

[Dave Clark Five]

December 15th 1976 - Aston Villa 5 Liverpool 1....... What are your memories of that astonishing night?
I actually missed it! The only home game that season that I missed! Just wish that amateur footage of the goals that Sky showed a few years back would be shown again.

Do you guys realise that the club have in their possession 45 minutes of footage from the epic second leg of the semi final against Man Utd from Dec 23rd 1970 at VP when we beat them 2-1 to reach Wembley? I know for a this for a fact that they have the footage having helped the media dept with some rare goal footage from the Valur second leg in the European Cup campaign from '82.
They said over 12 months ago to me that they would edit and clean up the footage for DVD release - but so far......nothing! Perhaps the same department helped with the new home kit release!

I was there and reckon they paid us off at half time to ease off them a bit.

Regarding the 23 Dec 1970 epic, that is nearly forty years ago and is still a vivid memory. Trouble is, I am boring myself talking about it now. Get me that video.