Therapy for all Villains

[AV82EC]

Leicester 1 Middlesbrough 1 (Replay Leicester 1 Middlesbrough 0). Ah, the happy memories???

Replay at Hillsborough if I recall.

[Exeter 77]

To keep myself optimistic I may go and watch us win the 1983 European Cup.

Just like the previous year the over-whelming favourites were beaten.

[jembob]

I've just been watching highlights of the 08/09 season - away victories at Arsenal and the famous one at Everton. Thumping home wins against Citeh and Bolton. It brought back just how exciting we were at the time and what a really good finisher Gabby can be.
It's shocking to think how bad things were last season compared to a time when Gary Lineker introduced one of our games with 'If there's one team in the Premiership that can break into the monopoly of the top 4 at present, it looks most likely to be Aston Villa'

[Risso]

Loved the 96 final, even though the lack of tension strangely made it less enjoyable than when we beat Man U two years before.  I've never been at a game where I was so certain that we'd batter the opposition.

[Mortimer's Bear]

We looked like we belonged there that day, the only one of my 6 Wembley visits where I can really say this.

[Mortimer's Bear]

Great day, great season.  Still wear my shirt from that season, think that's the last one i bought actually.

I remember the following week weren't we at Old Trafford for the FA Cup semi?   

Yep. What a comedown from the previous week that semi was. Old Trafford had banks of empty seats as both sides came nowhere near selling out their allocation.

I also remember how little legroom there was between the rows of seats in the Stretford.

Bit random (and I may well have dreamt this) but wasn't there a small fire in the empty seats?

[tomd2103]

Wrong year aside, you are right in saying that it was a special day.  Probably one of the most complete performances I have seen from a Villa team and they played Leeds off the park that day.  The one thing that could have made it better was if Blues had beaten Leeds in the semi-final that year and they had been on the end of that performance instead!! 

Bloody hell! Can you imagine the carnage at Wembley if that lot had got to the final that year?! I think they've had to have built a new ground earlier, if that'd been the final!!

Agreed, the day would probably be remembered for different reasons if they'd have got there. Thank goodness it didn't happen, likewise for possible semi in 2010.

 I remember a Leeds player (might well have been McAllister) getting hit with coin when taking a corner at St. Andrews in that semi-final in 1996.  Not only was he hit with a coin, I seem to remember one delightful Blues fan also throwing a snooker ball at the same time which just missed his head.  They are a lovely bunch aren't they!! 

[Vancouver]

Great day, great season.  Still wear my shirt from that season, think that's the last one i bought actually.

I remember the following week weren't we at Old Trafford for the FA Cup semi?   

Yep. What a comedown from the previous week that semi was. Old Trafford had banks of empty seats as both sides came nowhere near selling out their allocation.

I also remember how little legroom there was between the rows of seats in the Stretford.

Weren't the tickets a princely £35 or something and everyone said that it was just too much??

[willywombat]

Great day, great season.  Still wear my shirt from that season, think that's the last one i bought actually.

I remember the following week weren't we at Old Trafford for the FA Cup semi?   

Yep. What a comedown from the previous week that semi was. Old Trafford had banks of empty seats as both sides came nowhere near selling out their allocation.

I also remember how little legroom there was between the rows of seats in the Stretford.

Weren't the tickets a princely £35 or something and everyone said that it was just too much??

The average wage was only 3 shillings and sixpence a week in them days though

[Deano's Mullet]

ah hell, might as well watch it at least

part one

part two

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part 3

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part 4

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if you'd have told me back then i would be so disinterested in football now i would never have believed it. happy days.