Can anyone help?

[Virgil Caine]

This request is to any H&V subscriber who can remember the Villa v Cardiff Boxing Day match I think in 1968. We won 2-0 and debutant Brian Tiler scored. The Birmingham Evening Mail took a photo of a crowded Holte End and a on it is an 11 year old My Left Foot with his long departed Dad, God Bless him. If you have a copy of this photo/cutting and able to scan and send me I would be very appreciative as it is a very happy memory I could pass on to MLF junior.I have in the past tried The Birmingham Mail archive dept and they weren't helpful to say the least.

Mods- please either move or delete if this is not an appropriate use of the site.

[dave.woodhall]

Try the Birmingham library archives section. They'll definitely have it there.

[Ron Manager]

Yes it will be in there but you will have to find it on a roll . However I have to come into Brum either tommorrow or Tuesday so if you like I will have a look for you.

Unless of course you want to do it yourself (its quite exciting) its on the fifth floor . Ask the staff on the desk if they can help you.

Some are OK and a few are from another planet.

PM me if you want me to sort it out.

Tiler scored with a header cant think who got the other possibly Brian Greenhalgh. I remember it was freezing

[Legion]

Couldn't you contact the club as it would more than likely be in our archives?

[dave.woodhall]

I don't think the club have Mail photos. 

A word of warning for anyone who ever looks at the library's local newspaper archives. Apart from the reduced opening hours during the move to the new place, always allow yourself at least four times longer than you think you'll need. It's impossible to go in there and only look at what you want; you will always find yourself distracted. 

[Ron Manager]

I don't think the club have Mail photos. 

A word of warning for anyone who ever looks at the library's local newspaper archives. Apart from the reduced opening hours during the move to the new place, always allow yourself at least four times longer than you think you'll need. It's impossible to go in there and only look at what you want; you will always find yourself distracted.

How true, how very true!

[PGW]

Remember this game well Barry Hole got the first goal - a header from the edge of the box.....a goal he celebrated to excess!!!

[Ron Manager]

Remember this game well Barry Hole got the first goal - a header from the edge of the box.....a goal he celebrated to excess!!!

He's up he's down he's in the Rose and Crown Barrie Hole Barrie Hole!

For younger viewers Barrie was Welsh and liked a drink....remind you of anyone

[Pat McMahon]

He's up he's down he's in the Rose and Crown Barrie Hole Barrie Hole!

For younger viewers Barrie was Welsh and liked a drink....remind you of anyone
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Dylan Thomas???

I was at that game and have fond memories. My first white Christmas and I think it was the only game I ever went to with both my dad and my grandad. I remember the area outside the Trinity enclosure being treacherous and my grandad going arse over tit. And Christmas is all the more enjoyable if we win on Boxing Day.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The Docs 2nd game in charge, nearly 40,000 watching Brian Tiler score on his debut on a snow covered pitch.
RIP Toby Tiler, if he was still alive maybe he would been on the touchline alongside Harry Redknapp yesterday.

[Ron Manager]

He's up he's down he's in the Rose and Crown Barrie Hole Barrie Hole!

For younger viewers Barrie was Welsh and liked a drink....remind you of anyone

Dylan Thomas???

I was at that game and have fond memories. My first white Christmas and I think it was the only game I ever went to with both my dad and my grandad. I remember the area outside the Trinity enclosure being treacherous and my grandad going arse over tit. And Christmas is all the more enjoyable if we win on Boxing Day.
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I was thinking of James Collins Pat.   Dylan Thomas  was a Premiership winning lush!
Come to think about it so was Richard Burton.
What is it about the Welsh and drink?

[Virgil Caine]

It makes the sheep seem more attractive?

Apologies to all Welsh Villa supporters, and thank you to all respondents- Birmingham Library Archive will be visited soon.

[BegbieAV]

Sorry I can't help you out, but it was my first game at Villa Park, I was 6 years old, can't remember too much about the game but I remember the snow piled up around the pitch and I remember having a swig of whiskey from uncles hip flask at half time.

[claret and blue blood]

Remember it well, I was 13 at the time, it was the Doc's second game in charge, we'd beaten Norwich the week before and Boxing Day (my Birthday) was a typical packed Holte end roaring on the team, we beat Carlisle away 1-0 in the next game to make it 3 straight wins. Wish I could help with the photo- good luck !

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Remember it well, I was 13 at the time, it was the Doc's second game in charge, we'd beaten Norwich the week before and Boxing Day (my Birthday) was a typical packed Holte end roaring on the team, we beat Carlisle away 1-0 in the next game to make it 3 straight wins. Wish I could help with the photo- good luck !

We had 5 straight wins from when the Doc arrived, we knocked QPR out the cup. I'm not sure about the 5th win, may have been Huddersfield at home?