Villa Park in the snow

[VillaZogmariner]

From 1963.

[VillaAlways]

What a great picture

[TimTheVillain]

Fantastic photo ........

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Has the bloke in the foreground just let one rip and found himself in the unenviable position of following through?

[TimTheVillain]

Has the bloke in the foreground just let one rip and found himself in the unenviable position of following through?

lol

An 'away' fan I think !!

[E I Adio]

Not a snood or pair of gloves to be seen on the pitch I'll bet.

[dave shelley]

Not sure but I think I was at this match as a fourteen year old. I've a feeling it was against Blackburn ended 0-0 and all the lines were painted blue. Villa had a decent team up until that big freeze somewhere near the top of the old first division under Joe Mercer. Don't know where they went wrong after that but what started out as a season of promise went belly up. Sound familiar?

[eamonn]

Google only seems to throw up images from the Liverpool game last year.

Some good ones in Terry Weir's book I seem to recall.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

If I remember correctly the the Boxing Day 1968 game with Cardiff was played in ice and snow.
The Docs 2nd game, Brian Tiler scoring on in debut, 41,000 crowd.

[Deano's Mullet]

The one game that comes to mind for me that had lots of snow (and heavy fog) was Man City at home in December 91, Yorke and Regis scored with a couple of headers and Daley scored an amazing volley infront of the Holte. I also recall lots of supporters wearing xmas hats that claimed Santa was a Villa fan. The abiding image i have the match is seeing the almost ghostly figure of Les Sealey in our goal - you could hardly see him but by god you could hear him.

[dave.woodhall]

Not sure but I think I was at this match as a fourteen year old. I've a feeling it was against Blackburn ended 0-0 and all the lines were painted blue. Villa had a decent team up until that big freeze somewhere near the top of the old first division under Joe Mercer. Don't know where they went wrong after that but what started out as a season of promise went belly up. Sound familiar?

If it's the Blackburn game, and it almost certainly is, it's an important afternoon in our history. John Russell, the cleverest man alive, called it the day we stopped being the biggest club in the world.   

At the time of the Big Freeze of 1962-63 the Mercer Minors were doing well, and had an outside chance of the title. However, the cold snap set in and after a month without a home game the club, desperate for income, played Blackburn on 19th January. The game finished 0-0 but damaged the pitch to such an extent that we were unable to play at Villa Park again until 7th March, when we beat Bristol Rovers in an FA Cup replay. We later had a run of eleven straight league defeats, as part of 19 games in the last 9 weeks of the season, which saw us just avoid relegation and lose the League Cup final. The team never recovered and Joe Mercer was sacked at the end of the following season.

[Dave Clark Five]

Has the bloke in the foreground just let one rip and found himself in the unenviable position of following through?

He is just wafting his coat tails to spread it around.

[pooligan]

I to was at that game and i i am pretty sure it was the Blackburn game which ended 0-0 . I remember the blue pitch markings and the orange ball and also the long walk back to the city centre with my father as it was almost impossible to catch a bus because of the weather   

[adrenachrome]

If I remember correctly the the Boxing Day 1968 game with Cardiff was played in ice and snow.
The Docs 2nd game, Brian Tiler scoring on in debut, 41,000 crowd.

I remember that game very well, and there were doubts about it going ahead.

Cardiff were top of the division, I think, and a big roar went up when the attendance was announced. I remember Brian Tiler's goal in vivid detail: a header into the roof of the net from a corner.

[The Left Side]

Great wintery pics guys