theme from an unmade silent movie

[saunders_heroes]

remember stoping my motor on way back from snobs in the outside lane of the bristol road when butler told us to "get on ya knees and pray for the villa" when we was 1-0 down to penarol. there we was 5 of us praying on the grass. ah happy days

That would be right. I remember it kicked off in the early hours of a Sunday morning.

[Damo70]

remember stoping my motor on way back from snobs in the outside lane of the bristol road when butler told us to "get on ya knees and pray for the villa" when we was 1-0 down to penarol. there we was 5 of us praying on the grass. ah happy days

That would be right. I remember it kicked off in the early hours of a Sunday morning.

Didn't we get something like a half hour ITV 'special' at some point on the Sunday afternoon?

[Pat McMahon]

remember stoping my motor on way back from snobs in the outside lane of the bristol road when butler told us to "get on ya knees and pray for the villa" when we was 1-0 down to penarol. there we was 5 of us praying on the grass. ah happy days

That would be right. I remember it kicked off in the early hours of a Sunday morning.

Didn't we get something like a half hour ITV 'special' at some point on the Sunday afternoon?

Yes - which was probably the equivalent to a normal main match on Star Soccer or MOTD.

What really annoyed me about that game was that either that weekend or the following Saturday on Football Focus there was a report on Liverpool playing somewhere in Africa. Villa playing in Tokyo was obviously a far bigger game but the BBC decided to follow Liverpool on safari (IIRC lots of air time to Grobbelaar with shots of big game in the background).

[Damo70]

I tend to have a good memory when it comes to football, but for the life of me the only two of those finals I can remember is our game and Liverpool losing 3-0 to Zico's team Flamengo the year before. I know Forest lost one and Cloughie made a comment along the lines of the Japanese being able to make a radio or TV the size of a button but not being able to grow grass on a football pitch.

[silhillvilla]

"La la la la
La la la la
Drrrr ump
La la la la la la la la"

"Goooooal at Villa Park"