1980s Villa Park Nike ad

[Pete3206]

This isn't the one but, remember this one?

[The Left Side]

Love the dressing room Nike advert and the ansells one isn't bad either.

[RussellC]

Awesome. Both of them.

[Damo70]

One programme ad that has always stuck in my mind is from 1983 I think. The Villa squad posing proudly with their brand new club sponsored Austin Maestros. I also seem to remember the first time we had Mita on our shirts was for the live Friday night game with Liverpool around the same time. Probably the first season it was allowed for TV games. Suddenly the ground was full of Mita ads and the programme that night was more like a photo copier catalogue.

[dave.woodhall]

One programme ad that has always stuck in my mind is from 1983 I think. The Villa squad posing proudly with their brand new club sponsored Austin Maestros. I also seem to remember the first time we had Mita on our shirts was for the live Friday night game with Liverpool around the same time. Probably the first season it was allowed for TV games. Suddenly the ground was full of Mita ads and the programme that night was more like a photo copier catalogue.

Even now I don't think any club has ever prostituted itself to a sponsor as much as we did for Mita.

[PeterWithesShin]

[Clampy]

Anyone else remember the Ansells advert that was on TV straight after the final?

Yes, i do. It's strangely the one clear memory i have of the final itself.

[PeterWithesShin]

Thank you Clampy! I love you.

[Clampy]

Thank you Clampy! I love you.

If it's the one i'm thinking of, did it flash up 'Congratulations Villa' or something like that at the end?

[PeterWithesShin]

I can't remember. Main reason I remember the advert at all is that we taped the final for my dad and sister to watch when they were back and left it running. Also taped loads of the news reports that ext day. Wish I knew where it was.

[Villan For Life]

The memories of Rotterdam and of the season before still send shivers down my spine and turn me into a nostalgic, jabbering wreck.

[martin o`who??]

Ages ago, I uploaded a larger version of this image:



I'd scanned it and tidied it up a bit. It is an advert from a Villa matchday programme from the early 1980s (obviously).

Just wondering - does anyone have a copy of it? Am sure I uploaded it here, but it was prior to the server move, so the original post will have been lost.

I dont think this was a Nike ad because these shirts were made by Le coq Sportif.

[Damo70]

If I didn't know better I would swear that is Ian Ormondroyd in the picture.

[dave shelley]

For an idea how much football has changed, I have a copy of the reissue the Evening Mail did of their edition the day after we won it, and it got about a third of the front page.

These days (for any club) it'd be a 20 page special.

I've still got my original, along with original copies of any of the next day's papers I could manage to get.  They're cherished.

[gervilla]

Ages ago, I uploaded a larger version of this image:



I'd scanned it and tidied it up a bit. It is an advert from a Villa matchday programme from the early 1980s (obviously).

Just wondering - does anyone have a copy of it? Am sure I uploaded it here, but it was prior to the server move, so the original post will have been lost.

I dont think this was a Nike ad because these shirts were made by Le coq Sportif.

Yes it was.
What is the only logo visible in the picture ?
They also supplied the football boots for the whole team for the final.