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Author Topic: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals  (Read 7248 times)

Offline Deano's Mullet

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Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« on: September 21, 2011, 06:33:54 PM »


this might cheer us all up.

Offline The Left Side

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2011, 07:41:33 PM »
Lovely images of VP and always nice to beat that lot.

Offline flybo

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2011, 08:33:41 PM »
thanks mate :-))

Offline The Left Side

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2011, 09:09:52 PM »
I also like the kit, except for the claret shorts of course!

Offline Richard C

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2011, 09:13:28 PM »
I was married that day.

Offline usav

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2011, 12:56:28 AM »
I was married that day.

Before or after the game?

Offline Pat McMahon

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2011, 07:03:11 AM »
I missed this game because my dopey sister got married by the Scott Arms at 3.45 that day.

To be fair to her she had been trying for the previous Saturday, but I remember the look on her face as she broke the news of the date to me - the first day of the season. She was genuinely panicked when the fixture list came out, since we lived in Great Barr where there were as many Albion fans as Blues and this was always a big one for us. Luckily the priest saw we were all a bit fidgety and let us out at 4.45pm so we could clock the final score, then we got blattered.

Offline The Left Side

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2011, 05:00:09 PM »
So why was Allan Evans made captain with Dennis Mortimer in the side?

Offline andyaston

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2011, 05:47:50 PM »
Funny how a crowd of 30,000 can get lost within Villa Park today yet a similar crowd back then made the place look pretty full.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2011, 06:03:01 PM »
I saw this on ESPN a year or two back. One of my favourite games, Steve Mcmahon had a great debut and Brendan Ormsby, replacing Ken McNaught scored the winner. If I remember right McNaught had only left us for Albion about a week before.

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2011, 06:09:14 PM »
Funny how a crowd of 30,000 can get lost within Villa Park today yet a similar crowd back then made the place look pretty full.

Because of the Holte.   You could have anywhere between 15,000-25,000 people on the Holte and visually it didn't look that different.

Offline Percy McCarthy

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2011, 06:52:30 PM »
I missed this game because my dopey sister got married by the Scott Arms at 3.45 that day.

To be fair to her she had been trying for the previous Saturday, but I remember the look on her face as she broke the news of the date to me - the first day of the season. She was genuinely panicked when the fixture list came out, since we lived in Great Barr where there were as many Albion fans as Blues and this was always a big one for us. Luckily the priest saw we were all a bit fidgety and let us out at 4.45pm so we could clock the final score, then we got blattered.

My brother got married on the day of a Villa-Blues game. No contest.

Sorry our kid.

Offline eamonn

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2011, 03:05:23 AM »
I missed this game because my dopey sister got married by the Scott Arms at 3.45 that day.

To be fair to her she had been trying for the previous Saturday, but I remember the look on her face as she broke the news of the date to me - the first day of the season. She was genuinely panicked when the fixture list came out, since we lived in Great Barr where there were as many Albion fans as Blues and this was always a big one for us. Luckily the priest saw we were all a bit fidgety and let us out at 4.45pm so we could clock the final score, then we got blattered.

Did she marry Richard C, above?

Offline Pat McMahon

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2011, 06:27:57 AM »
I missed this game because my dopey sister got married by the Scott Arms at 3.45 that day.

To be fair to her she had been trying for the previous Saturday, but I remember the look on her face as she broke the news of the date to me - the first day of the season. She was genuinely panicked when the fixture list came out, since we lived in Great Barr where there were as many Albion fans as Blues and this was always a big one for us. Luckily the priest saw we were all a bit fidgety and let us out at 4.45pm so we could clock the final score, then we got blattered.

My brother got married on the day of a Villa-Blues game. No contest.

Sorry our kid.

You were lucky Percy, I had to give my sister away so couldn't opt out of that one.  Nowadays I could just dial in by conference call from the Holte, but it was different in pre-war Britain.

Offline TonyD

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Re: Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals
« Reply #14 on: September 24, 2011, 11:14:25 PM »
I remember that game as if was yesterday.   More like 35,000+ there.  We were always c5k down of the real crowd. Was always know that the club would pocket some of the gate money without the taxman having his share.   This stopped when the Holte and Witton End went. 

 


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