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Re: Lowest crowd at a Villa Park game attended
« Reply #30 on: December 08, 2011, 06:57:17 AM »
I vaguely remember a testimonial for Charlie Aitken that had a scandalously low 5 or 6k in attendance. I think it was the night before a Cup Final in the mid 70's. Does that ring a bell with anyone?

I'm almost sure I was there, will have to ask the old fella later, though his memory is worse than mine. What I can tell you is that we played a Midland Select XI on  26th May, 1977, which was the night after the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Borussia Mönchengladbach. The FA Cup Final was played on the Saturday before.

A quick look on Ebay shows the Official Match programme that features Ron Saunders at Bodymoor holding the League Cup and down in the bottom left, a tiny picture of Charlie. My guess is that it was very poorly organised, probably at the last minute.

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Re: Lowest crowd at a Villa Park game attended
« Reply #31 on: December 11, 2011, 05:41:44 PM »
Platt's 'testimonial' v Bari at VP - I think there were around 7,000 there?

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Re: Lowest crowd at a Villa Park game attended
« Reply #32 on: December 11, 2011, 07:18:48 PM »
Platt's 'testimonial' v Bari at VP - I think there were around 7,000 there?

He kicked off Paul Birch's testimonial too, I don't think many went to that game but I could be wrong.

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Re: Lowest crowd at a Villa Park game attended
« Reply #33 on: December 11, 2011, 08:22:53 PM »
I remember a game against Watford which finished 1-1, probably April 1985 and i think the crowd was just over 10,000

I remember playing Liverpool on a Friday night in I think in 1984, it was cold and dark and we got to the Holte about 645 for a 730 kick off and they hadn't opened the turnstiles.

I think we had 20k there in the end and MOTD had put a cameraman on a plank of wood and two milk crates at the back of the Holte which some people tried to pull over at the end. We lost 3-1 and Rush scored a hatrick

Blimey i think i remember that cameraman too. Were fans pulling on a rope that was tied to his little platform?

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Re: Lowest crowd at a Villa Park game attended
« Reply #34 on: December 11, 2011, 09:11:38 PM »
I vaguely remember a testimonial for Charlie Aitken that had a scandalously low 5 or 6k in attendance. I think it was the night before a Cup Final in the mid 70's. Does that ring a bell with anyone?

I'm almost sure I was there, will have to ask the old fella later, though his memory is worse than mine. What I can tell you is that we played a Midland Select XI on  26th May, 1977, which was the night after the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Borussia Mönchengladbach. The FA Cup Final was played on the Saturday before.

A quick look on Ebay shows the Official Match programme that features Ron Saunders at Bodymoor holding the League Cup and down in the bottom left, a tiny picture of Charlie. My guess is that it was very poorly organised, probably at the last minute.
Thanks for that; sounds right to me now. All I can remember was it being a nice summer's evening, and the crowd being so low

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Re: Lowest crowd at a Villa Park game attended
« Reply #35 on: December 12, 2011, 11:43:47 AM »
That 1985 season was my first going down regularly but I cant mind the Southampton attendance being anything out of the ordinary, perhaps I missed that one. Thing was in those seasons a crowd above 15k was considered half decent.

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Re: Lowest crowd at a Villa Park game attended
« Reply #36 on: December 12, 2011, 11:47:45 AM »
Yeh that game for Platt was a very low crowd. Proper crap game too i think, he also refused to sign a autograph for me that night, i was well upset!!!

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Re: Lowest crowd at a Villa Park game attended
« Reply #37 on: December 12, 2011, 01:21:30 PM »
Platt's 'testimonial' v Bari at VP - I think there were around 7,000 there?

He kicked off Paul Birch's testimonial too, I don't think many went to that game but I could be wrong.

We have always had crap attendances for testimonials. 

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Re: Lowest crowd at a Villa Park game attended
« Reply #38 on: December 13, 2011, 06:47:50 AM »
Southampton 1993 and Southampton again in our league cup run in 2000. Their was 17,000 their. Was also at Blackburn at home in the league cupast season.

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Re: Lowest crowd at a Villa Park game attended
« Reply #39 on: December 17, 2011, 02:13:59 PM »
Yes, THAT Southampton game!

Also a Simod Cup game, home to Bradford (lost 5-0 I think) - I'm sure the crowd was about 5k - a couple of decided to go in with the Bradford fans for a laugh - I'm sure they brought about 100! Rather summed up that competition.

 


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