Villa 4-3 WBA 1983 all the goals

[Astral Weeks]

I remember this game so well. First game of the season, a baking hot summer afternoon, and my wife and I went to the game with a couple of Albion-supporting friends.

Doesn't get much better.

[ColinMac]

Gary Shaw did his knee for the first time in the game after this. Never the same again.

[darren woolley]

Cheers Deano happy days.

[montague]

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

Cant remember but I do recall a feeling that Dennis's days were numbered - and everytime he was anywhere near a touchline he got standing ovations all day.

[Damo70]

I think Dennis was after a new contract and Doug wasn't prepared to give it to him. There was talk of he and Tony Morley following McNaught to Albion, which Morley did a few months later.