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Offline Steve67

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2012, 09:55:37 PM »
I wonder if Randy REALLY gets it?

Offline Legion

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2012, 09:58:48 PM »
I wonder if Randy REALLY gets it?

So what? Can't we just take pride in our achievement? Is there really any need to bring the current stewardship into this?

Offline BC54 VFC

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2012, 10:05:22 PM »
Exactly this time thirty years ago I was dancing on a table in a pub behind New Street Station, before catching a train to Folkestone.

"Rotterdam, Rotterdam; oh we're all pissed up and we're going to Rotterdam; Rotterdam, Rotterdam."
« Last Edit: May 25, 2012, 10:07:10 PM by BC54 VFC »

Offline James

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2012, 10:07:16 PM »
I was 16 and en route home to Wales from a week's tenting in Blackpool with my older brother (a Liverpool fan) in his MkII Cortina (which had comically ejected both wiper blades in the rain on the way up there just north of Stafford, one to the left and one to the right! Hehe). We were listening on the radio and had pulled into Sandbach Services for a comfort break for him. I stayed with the car, he went for the break. When he came out he said, "You scored then?" and all I could say was "Peter Withe" over and over again before asking, "How did you know?" and he replied, "I heard you yelling all the way from the Gents!"

Thank you AVFC for an amazing memory that will stay with me until I die!

Offline Witton Warrior

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2012, 10:26:23 PM »
I was living in the back room of a friend's house, had just started going out with my now wife and trashed our single bed when THAT goal went in...

Offline Fergal

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2012, 10:50:17 PM »
I could cry seeing that

Offline Fergal

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2012, 10:51:16 PM »
What could we have become if we had only built on that moment?

Offline Chris Jameson

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2012, 10:55:57 PM »
I was amongst the lucky few thousand that have seen us become European Champions.

Offline eamonn

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2012, 10:56:55 PM »
Ye lucky feckers.  I wasn't born and I'll likely never see such a feat.
 Then again, if the 6th best team in England can do it maybe there is hopw.

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #24 on: May 25, 2012, 11:02:52 PM »
I was in a shared house in Ilford with 3 other female teachers (from various parts of the country).

They were watching who knows what, on TV.  I was listening to the radio in the kitchen.  When the final whistle came I did a lap of honour across the sofa and then rang my dad.  They thought I was mad and they were right!

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #25 on: May 25, 2012, 11:05:56 PM »
I was only 12 so it was decided I was too young to go, although I was at all the home legs. My sister and dad went and she says one of her greatest memories of our dad was the expression of sheer happiness on his face when Withe scored.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #26 on: May 25, 2012, 11:07:39 PM »

Offline mattjpa

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #27 on: May 25, 2012, 11:42:49 PM »
I was in a shared house in Ilford with 3 other female teachers (from various parts of the country).

They were watching who knows what, on TV.  I was listening to the radio in the kitchen.  When the final whistle came I did a lap of honour across the sofa and then rang my dad.  They thought I was mad and they were right!

there is no honour in lap dancing, regardless of location....

Offline Steve67

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #28 on: May 25, 2012, 11:48:50 PM »
I wonder if Randy REALLY gets it?

So what? Can't we just take pride in our achievement? Is there really any need to bring the current stewardship into this?

Take a fuckin chill pill!!  Be nice to dream that one day soon Villa might be in a position to get there again.

Offline dave.woodhall

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Re: Happy 30th!
« Reply #29 on: May 25, 2012, 11:49:55 PM »
I wonder if Randy REALLY gets it?

So what? Can't we just take pride in our achievement? Is there really any need to bring the current stewardship into this?

Take a fuckin chill pill!!  Be nice to dream that one day soon Villa might be in a position to get there again.

Please don't abuse Legion. Bad luck can be transferable.

 


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