Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals

[Deano's Mullet]

this might cheer us all up.

[The Left Side]

Lovely images of VP and always nice to beat that lot.

[flybo]

thanks mate :-))

[The Left Side]

I also like the kit, except for the claret shorts of course!

[Richard C]

I was married that day.

[usav]

I was married that day.

Before or after the game?

[Pat McMahon]

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.

[The Left Side]

So why was Allan Evans made captain with Dennis Mortimer in the side?

[andyaston]

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.

[Damo70]

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.

[usav]

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.

[Percy McCarthy]

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.

[eamonn]

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?

[Pat McMahon]

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.

[TonyD]

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.