When We Were Good.

[darren woolley]

Happy days.

[OzVilla]

I enjoyed this season more than the Title year in 81.  We were fantstic up until the last couple of weeks.

[garyshawsknee]

If only BFR hadn't have dropped Yorke,we wouldve been Champions.

[The Man With A Stick]

Great days,twenty years down the line,you wouldn't think its the same club.

We were in a worse state 18 months later than we are now, so I wouldn't get too depressed.

[Oscar Arce]

Passing and moving...as Brooking says, exactly what we do not do now, the players just stand and watch, there is no movement whatsoever.
We were a good side then, and are a million trillion miles away from that now.

[LeeB]

Goal of the month, every month.

[N'Rexy]

Class. Look whats happend to Wednesday since then. Puts some of our current troubles into some sort of perspective.

[timeoutbigbar]

This was the season before I started going down to VP at 6/7ish, but still a great watch.  Cheers for that.

[eamonn]

If only BFR hadn't have dropped Yorke,we wouldve been Champions.

Is that the common consensus? Genuinely curious, was too young to remember every game that season.

[Warren Aspinall]

If only BFR hadn't have dropped Yorke,we wouldve been Champions.

Is that the common consensus? Genuinely curious, was too young to remember every game that season.

I think so, Dalian Atkinson came back from injury & we tailed off. Looking at the league table we only got 6 points from our last 8 games.

[Witton Warrior]

Passing and moving...as Brooking says, exactly what we do not do now, the players just stand and watch, there is no movement whatsoever.
We were a good side then, and are a million trillion miles away from that now.

Just what I was thinking as I watched it Oscar.

Move, pass, control, shoot <sigh>

[garyshawsknee]

If only BFR hadn't have dropped Yorke,we wouldve been Champions.

Is that the common consensus? Genuinely curious, was too young to remember every game that season.

It was,Yorke and Saunders had started to really work well together both scoring goals,the Big Ron brought in Dalian,who wasn't fully fit,i think he moved Yorke to the wing,and the wheels started to come off.

A few years later when Sir Brian bought Collymore,he tried to accomadate Yorke,Collymore and Savo,it never worked and we had a terrible start to the season,in hindsight we should have flogged Savo straight away as Yorke was so good he could play with anyone,he couldve got the best out of Collymore.

[PeterWithesShin]

I remember going to the Sheff Wed game with a mate who was a gloryhunter Manc fan. This was his first ever live game. That first goal is near the top of my all time fave Villa goals. I remember as we leaving the Holte (left side of course) that it seemed something was kicking off outside the exit. As there was a real bottle neck and then loads of running to and from the top of the stairs.