Happy 30th!

[PeterWithesShin]

Happy Rotterdam day folks.

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[Dave Cooper please]

The Champions League is just a money driven farce IMO where you can finish 6th in the league and still win the fookin thing

Whilst I agree with your sentiments, we finished 11th the season we won it!

[olaftab]

Fininshing 11th is irrelevant. We were Champions in the seseon we won it.

[Chris Jameson]

On the ferry back there was a monumentally pissed bloke just singing 'Put another log on the fire' endlessly. Have a vague recollection of a foreign camera crew being on the ferry journey out hoping to catch English hooligans in action. They didn't.

[Villan For Life]

Even now 30 years later and as a 45 year old miserable git the memories of that day still send shivers down my spine.

I will forever be in awe of that squad and what they achieved.

[dave.woodhall]

The disappointing thing about this is that the Club have done nothing to celebrate the 30 years.

I was with Gary Shaw last night and he was upset that nothing was planned for today.  The club were quick enough to 'market' them when they took over!!  That said it was great being in the presence of royalty, last night, raising glass after glass to the 14!!

I think the general feeling was that the 25th anniversary celebrations were also a lot of wrongs being righted and a big fuss again five years later would be a bit too much, too soon.

[Chipsticks]

The disappointing thing about this is that the Club have done nothing to celebrate the 30 years.

I was with Gary Shaw last night and he was upset that nothing was planned for today.  The club were quick enough to 'market' them when they took over!!  That said it was great being in the presence of royalty, last night, raising glass after glass to the 14!!

I think the general feeling was that the 25th anniversary celebrations were also a lot of wrongs being righted and a big fuss again five years later would be a bit too much, too soon.

Out of interest, what are these 'wrongs being righted'?

Not to sound condescending; I'm just a younger fan who's curious.

[darren woolley]

One of the best day's of my life I was only young but it will still stay with me forever.

[dave.woodhall]

The disappointing thing about this is that the Club have done nothing to celebrate the 30 years.

I was with Gary Shaw last night and he was upset that nothing was planned for today.  The club were quick enough to 'market' them when they took over!!  That said it was great being in the presence of royalty, last night, raising glass after glass to the 14!!

I think the general feeling was that the 25th anniversary celebrations were also a lot of wrongs being righted and a big fuss again five years later would be a bit too much, too soon.

Out of interest, what are these 'wrongs being righted'?

Not to sound condescending; I'm just a younger fan who's curious.

They were basically ignored from the day Doug took over until the day he left. The way Tony Barton was treated is still the most shameful episode in the club's history.

[Steve67]

I was 14.  Watched it at home on the telly.  I couldn't help feeling that, had it have been Man United, it would have been on the back of the papers for weeks.  Because it was Villa, we got a grudging "oh, and by the way, Aston Villa won a trophy!" Brilliant days to be a Villa fan, great the following year as well when we won the Super Cup by beating a really dirty Barcelona at VP.  Magic times. Like I said yesterday, I really hope Randy understands what this means to the fans and hope he's wanting it all back again.

[Mark Samuels]

I was eight and watching on TV but I remember the night very well. I retired to my bedroom and hid for the final 10 minutes, and my Dad shouted up to me when the offside goal went in. My late uncle was there, mind - a fantastic thing to see. Today is also my ninth wedding anniversary - it was a coincidence when we booked the wedding but once I knew the date was open, there was only option. My poor wife is reminded of the coincidence every year by my entire family. Basically, a great day for me all round!

[Charlie8182]

I couldn't help feeling that, had it have been Man United, it would have been on the back of the papers for weeks.  Because it was Villa, we got a grudging "oh, and by the way, Aston Villa won a trophy!"

It could be argued that the Falklands conflict at the time took precedence over everything, although what has disappointed me ever since is that Spurs unremarkably won the FA Cup final replay the following night against QPR and that always seems to get more of a mention to this day, including also their 81 Cup win over our League Championship win.
I was nearly 10 so I'm glad I'm was old enough to clearly remember it, and also went to the home games against Valur, Dynamo Berlin, Kiev & Anderlecht.  My dad recorded it on our Betamax video, it has been transferred over to disk since which includes Dickie Davies, Big Ron and Jimmy Greaves (with hair) in the TV studio.

[Dave Cooper please]

Fininshing 11th is irrelevant. We were Champions in the seseon we won it.

Yes, I'm with you, but I just keep seeing this "Chelsea finished 6th and won it" stuff, when in actual fact they qualified fairly and squarely by the competitions rules, and they will be in it next season as holders despite finishing 6th. So much like us really!

[greenwichvilla]

For those that went to the game (I wasn't even born, sadly) how much were the tickets and were they easy to get hold of? Did things like Season Ticket Holders with X away games get priority etc?