19 years ago today - Little spends big

[Deano's Mullet]

1995/1996 season - one of the great Villa seasons of recent memory.

The away trips in the two cup runs that season were awesome.

if memory serves the league cup we went to Peterborough 1-1, Arsenal 2-2. I think the other legs were at home.
FA Cup - Ipswich 3-1 Sheff United 1-0 and Forest 1-0. I went to the Forest game, Franz Carr scored and we wore the blue AST kit which I loved - mainly cos we usually won in it - even though everyone else seemed to hate it. We were also drawn away to Gravesend but played the game at VP as the away team.

[Deano's Mullet]

1995/1996 season - one of the great Villa seasons of recent memory.

The away trips in the two cup runs that season were awesome.

Spurs and Forest?

Franz Carr scored in one leg...

Spurs was 1993-94 season, Houghton and Barrett the goalscorers.

[Deano's Mullet]

Villa vs Gravesend

[Richard E]

Sheffield United, Ipswich, the semi final at Highbury...

[Mortimer's Bear]

1995/1996 season - one of the great Villa seasons of recent memory.

The away trips in the two cup runs that season were awesome.

if memory serves the league cup we went to Peterborough 1-1, Arsenal 2-2. I think the other legs were at home.
FA Cup - Ipswich 3-1 Sheff United 1-0 and Forest 1-0. I went to the Forest game, Franz Carr scored and we wore the blue AST kit which I loved - mainly cos we usually won in it - even though everyone else seemed to hate it. We were also drawn away to Gravesend but played the game at VP as the away team.

I loved that Villa kit, I loved that Villa team, I loved that era and life was generally awesome back then (I was 14). Football now still means an awful lot to me but back then it really was the be-all and end-all.

[Darlo Dave]

When did Southgate and Milosevic come in then?

And others like Draper and Curcic.

We signed Mark Draper on my birthday, so it would have been Summer 1995. 

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

Sheffield United, Ipswich, the semi final at Highbury...

I had a fiver on Gary Charles at 66-1 to score first against Sheffield United and he missed what was basically an open goal, with a header, at 0-0. Everyone else in the away end got over it pretty quickly. I didn't.
Sid was playing for Sheff Utd then - I remember the Villa fans singing his name and cheering his every touch while the game was going on. Only time I can recall non-offensive singing for an opposition player.

[cheltenhamlion]

I won a King's ransom for a nipper at Middlesbrough the one year.

New Years Day evening kick off. My two quid bet I was allowed for each game (put on by a family member of course) went on Alan Wright for first goal at 66-1.

I don't think I would have the oomph to do that trip on New Years Day ever again.

Only 5 of us went from Cheltenham so Johnny Holder drove to Villa and we caught the official coaches up.