Ticket queuing at Villa Park.

[sid1964]

I remember queuing to get into the game V Ipswich 1981, The queue was back to the flyover of the motorway!

[Nev]

A gang of us spent a Saturday night on Witton Lane before tickets went on sale for the FA Cup QF at Klanfield in '92 (yellow top, Thomas goal and a defeat).

I'm doing this from memory but I'm sure we played at Main Road that afternoon, a lot of fans got off coaches and just started queueing. Among the other highlights that (sleepless) night:

Listening to England in the cricket World Cup on a tiny radio.
A huge game of football involving about 50 people running the length of Witton Lane.
A mate turning up at about 4 am with some very welcome bacon sandwiches.
Another one abandoning the vigil to try and wake up the girl he was having an affair with who lived a few streets away, problem was he fancied the jump but she lived with her mom and dad.

My overiding memory though is me and one of our gang heading off to the Aston Tavern just before closing to grab a few beers for everyone. When we arrived and having bought our take out, we decided to grab a quick pint. The bell went and we squeezed in another which we were just finishing up when the landlord came out from behind the bar, shut the curtains locked the door than carried on serving. We landed back in the queue at about 2am to much derision from everyone else but feeling pretty refreshed.

Oh and when the tickets went on sale, a bloke in a sheepskin jacket tried to jump the queue and was almost lynched.

[tomd2103]

About 10 hours overnight for me for the 2000 Cup Final. ST holder but I wanted to make sure of getting the best tickets and view I could. As it turned out there was no best view.
I am sure a few will mention the queues round VP for Man U S/F tickets in 1970. Tickets were sold out the trunstiles of the Holte on the Trinity Road down, we joined a few yards down Witton Lane round the Holte pub but I think the queue at one stage was right round and onto Nelson Road.

2000 for me went after work at 2am.

Same here.  Thought it was going to be a very long morning, but got talking to a few lads about Villa teams and players of the past and it went by pretty quickly.   

[Holte L2]

I queued from 3am for tickets for the Slavia Prague away game, I still to this day don't know why I did that?

I did the same, and I think it was the morning after the Ajax game.  Never had to que for League Cup's 94,96 same goes for the Fa Cup Semi and Final.  As far as I remember it was a matter of just turning up.

I remember queuing with my dad for about an hour for tickets for West Brom in the FA Cup in 1998 same for Steaua Bucherest and Atletico Madrid the same season.

[PeterWithesShin]

I remember queuing for well over an hour for a ticket for Madrid away. For some stupid reason I decided i'd be able to do it before work as I worked city center and didn't start until 10am. By 10am I was still in the queue in the car park as this was the days when any more than 2 people in a queue and you were outside the ticket office. Got to work about an hour and a half late.

[OzVilla]

4am on a cold Sunday morning in January 1990 for away tickets the FA Cup tie with the Boggies, the 2-0 Mountfield and Daley

Got there and there were about 50 ahead of us, bloke next to me had his dog with him saying h'd told the missus he was taking it for a walk.