32 Years tomorrow

[Chris Jameson]

Anybody got any photos from the day at Highbury?

I haven't but there was a Match of the Day from the 80's or some such programme on TV a few years ago and I got a call from my brother to say he had spotted me as the Villa end started getting the news Boro were winning, I'd recorded it and sure enough there I was!

[Number-7]

Anybody got any photos from the day at Highbury?
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We didn`t have mobile phones back in those days.
And if we did,they`d probably have been used as missiles.
The NHS statistics would probably read:
Number of people hospitalised through mobile phone injuries= 37,963,215. (per month)

[richard moore]

There is a super photo somewhere in black and white of the Clock End which has been put on here several times and in which I can spot both myself and Frank who posts on here. And I think a number of other posters are in the photo too!

[Number-7]

Coming out of Highbury and singing "Won the league,won the league".
Millions of us.
What a fantastic day.
I don`t actually remember anything about the journey home.
16 years old and pissed out of my brains.
I`ve continued to celebrate it from that day to this.

We are about the same age!
I got a ticket from a neighbour and my best mate and I got the coach from behind Walsall train station down to Highbury that day!

We got a coach to London Victoria,then some tubes.I was relying on my cockney Villa mate to know where we were going.Christ knows how we got home !

[Jon Crofts]

There is a super photo somewhere in black and white of the Clock End which has been put on here several times and in which I can spot both myself and Frank who posts on here. And I think a number of other posters are in the photo too!

Yep I think I know that one, I can see me and my Dad in it.

[eastie]

I remember I planne on getting a load of stuff from the villa shop that day and was most upset to find the shop shut even though the reserves were at home - all the staff had gone to highbury from the club shop

[Damo70]

I was lucky enough to be in Rotterdam but my memories of the game at Highbury, like most of my memories as a ten year old that season, was listening to Butler and Gavin on BRMB. I remember the family of Villa fans from next door returning from the game and banging on our windows until my bluenose old man let them in, at which point they had a 'pile on' on him as he was sat on the sofa. To be fair, when he went out for our chippy tea he had brought back a bottle of champagne with him that I was given a small glass of. My fondest memories are of going to the civic reception (the next day if I remember right).

[MONCABA]

One of the big pluses of being my age; is to be able to say unequivocally...I was there!

Ditto

[Dave Clark Five]

Here's my ticket.

[Jon Crofts]

£1.80 read it and weep.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

http://afchistory.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/villa-lose-to-arsenal-but-are-crowned-champions-at-highbury-on-this-day-2nd-may-1981/villa-2/

http://afchistory.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/villa-lose-to-arsenal-but-are-crowned-champions-at-highbury-on-this-day-2nd-may-1981/villa2-2/

[TopDeck113]

In a roundabout way someone pointed out to me that today also marks the 20th anniversary of us conceeding the first Premier League title to Manchester United...

[Confusious says]

My old man had gone to Villa Park the week before & queued for hours for 2 tickets on the Clock End at Highbury which he duly got.
All the talk & banter on the Clock End that day was about Bobby Sands who was in his final days of his hunger strike, I can still remember some of the jokes I heard that day!
If you were there, you'll remember the guest of Arsenal on the pitch before the game was none other than Pele, he was booed off as he never came down the Clock End for a wave to the Villa fans the talentless, flacid cocked bastard.

Oh and lets not foget a big round of applause for Bosco Jankovic of Middlesborough, without whom this may not have been possible.  Cheers Bosco.
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I remember being there and we got into the british railway workers club for a drink before the game
C I U affiliated in high bury.  But my memory of Pele was he came out towards us at the clock end
But he was wearing an Arsenal scarf to which he got some a bad reception from us!

[Jon Crofts]

My old man had gone to Villa Park the week before & queued for hours for 2 tickets on the Clock End at Highbury which he duly got.
All the talk & banter on the Clock End that day was about Bobby Sands who was in his final days of his hunger strike, I can still remember some of the jokes I heard that day!
If you were there, you'll remember the guest of Arsenal on the pitch before the game was none other than Pele, he was booed off as he never came down the Clock End for a wave to the Villa fans the talentless, flacid cocked bastard.

Oh and lets not foget a big round of applause for Bosco Jankovic of Middlesborough, without whom this may not have been possible.  Cheers Bosco.
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I remember being there and we got into the british railway workers club for a drink before the game
C I U affiliated in high bury.  But my memory of Pele was he came out towards us at the clock end
But he was wearing an Arsenal scarf to which he got some a bad reception from us!

Pele was before the game, the pitch was invaded at the final whistle and I can't remember it ever being cleared properly.  The were 2 dolly birds with him as well who got a rousing chorus of 'get yer tits out for the lads'