Pre-match drinking - all change next season

[Des Little]

Anyone got an update when the Tavern is re opening? Is it first game of the season, or the Parma game?

[andyaston]

There will be as many who used to go in the Aston Tavern every week as went to the 8000 attendance Southampton game.

That's a good point.

However, I would like to point out that I was, really, at the Southampton game.

I vividly recall sitting in acres of space on the Holte. Yes, sitting.










me and 25,000 others

I wasn't there but I did go to the Simod Cup game against Notts Forest and there was less than 6,000 in attendance on a Friday night I think. Strange atmosphere indeed.

[Pete3206]

Anyone got an update when the Tavern is re opening? Is it first game of the season, or the Parma game?

Newcastle game.

[Steve kirk]

Is the Aston Tavern really reopening?  my Dad would drink in there in the 60's and early 70's before Saturday matches with me in the corridor with a glass of orange and a packet of crisps panicking as he ordered another pint of mild at 2 45, so many happy memories of that old boozer.

[Damo70]

There will be as many who used to go in the Aston Tavern every week as went to the 8000 attendance Southampton game.

That's a good point.

However, I would like to point out that I was, really, at the Southampton game.

I vividly recall sitting in acres of space on the Holte. Yes, sitting.










me and 25,000 others

I wasn't there but I did go to the Simod Cup game against Notts Forest and there was less than 6,000 in attendance on a Friday night I think. Strange atmosphere indeed.

That Southampton game was the one season I moved from The Holte and had a season ticket in the Trinity with my mate and his dad. I had never seen the Holte look so empty on a match day. I can vividly remember a point around kick off time when we gave each other a stunned look as we realised it really wasn't going to get any more full.

[levico]

There will be as many who used to go in the Aston Tavern every week as went to the 8000 attendance Southampton game.

That's a good point.

However, I would like to point out that I was, really, at the Southampton game.

I vividly recall sitting in acres of space on the Holte. Yes, sitting.










me and 25,000 others

I wasn't there but I did go to the Simod Cup game against Notts Forest and there was less than 6,000 in attendance on a Friday night I think. Strange atmosphere indeed.

I remember that match. It was freezing and we lost 2-0.

[Damo70]

I think the freezing Forest game in the Simod/ZDS cup was a midweek game under BFR and we lost. There was an earlier game in the same competition under SGT, which we won on a Friday night. If I remember right it was very close to Christmas, something like the 22nd or 23rd of December.

[dave.woodhall]

I think the freezing Forest game in the Simod/ZDS cup was a midweek game under BFR and we lost. There was an earlier game in the same competition under SGT, which we won on a Friday night. If I remember right it was very close to Christmas, something like the 22nd or 23rd of December.

Leeds, 1989-90.

[Damo70]

Just looked it up. We won 2-1 at Hull in November, beat Forest 2-0 at VP on 22nd Dec 1989, then beat Leeds 2-0 in the January at VP (I have no recollection of that game whatsoever), then lost both legs of 'The Northern Final' 2-1 to Boro.

[dave.woodhall]

And here was me thinking it was Leeds before Christmas. The only thing I remember about that game was walking back toward Aston station and overhearing the following exchange between two Leeds fans:

"Are we gooin' t'right way?"

"Ar don't know but we're Leeds so we doon't gi' a fook."

They're not like normal people.

[peter w]

I remember having a bit of footballing respect for Vinnie Jones after the Leeds game. they were totally outclassed but he was their best player on the night and put in a shift. I also remember him getting the ball about 50 yards out and starting a run on goal and he was clean through. He got about 10 yards.

[cdbearsfan]

Pretty sure we played Dirty Leeds that year too. I was sat in the North Stand as an innocent nine-year-old and had to ask my Dad why their fans kept booing Tony Daley.

They haven't changed much since.

[Damo70]

There was an evening game at Elland road in the eighties. I think it was a league cup tie in the Graham Turner days and Walters and Daley both got loads of abuse.

[AGRIPPA]

I remember the Forest game in the Simod Cup… without doubt the coldest game I have ever attended.
Remember thinking it was the small crowd which made it so cold…. and we lost...

[silhillvilla]

I remember the Forest game in the Simod Cup… without doubt the coldest game I have ever attended.
Remember thinking it was the small crowd which made it so cold…. and we lost...

No way. The coldest game ever was the Liverpool league cup game midweek when the power went and there was a long delay. Think we were still playing at 11pm.