Is no one going to mention 20 years ago today then?

[dave shelley]

No, we won because our old black cat sat on my lap throughout and even got back on despite having hit the ceiling every time we scored.

[richtheholtender]

This makes me feel really old.

[Richie]

Can't believe it's 20 years ago. What a roller coaster of an afternoon that was. Villa Park was absolutely rocking.

I can't remember another match where I went from total delirium to total despair and back again so many times.

I think the fact that I witnessed the humiliation at the away leg made it even better when we eventually got through.

[TopDeck113]

The last great English terrace mental.

Spot on! Forget the Liverpool game a few months later, the Tranmere match was the Holte End's last great stand.

[TopDeck113]

Can't believe it's 20 years ago. What a roller coaster of an afternoon that was. Villa Park was absolutely rocking.

I can't remember another match where I went from total delirium to total despair and back again so many times.

I think the fact that I witnessed the humiliation at the away leg made it even better when we eventually got through.

I also went to both - and the debacle of the FA Cup exit at Burnden Park sandwiched in the middle.

[Dave Cooper please]

Forget the Liverpool game a few months later, the Tranmere match was the Holte End's last great stand.

I hate people that do this but....this^^^^^^

A truly awe inspiring, impossible to describe maelstrom of emotional mayhem of an afternoon.
In the grand scheme of things it probably wouldn't have mattered that much if we had lost, it was just the League Cup, and even then it was losing it's importance, but at the time, on the day, it was a truly astonishing thing to be a part of.
We sucked Dalian's header into the net, I still believe that.

[OzVilla]

If there was a Pantheon for Villa games attended this one would be in it.

I was right in line for Dalians header at he end of normal time and knew it was in the instant it left his forehead, celebrating like a demented Gibbon.

Anyone clever enough to post the footage? It'd be good to remind ourselves the type of club we can be.

[Legion]

[Legion]

[Legion]

[Karlos96]

Still the best game I have been to, I'll never forget when Atkinson's goal went in the Holte End went mental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQouQtaKr44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOcBKdFqn5g

[the hole in the wall]

the only team to be 3 nil down in a semi final and go on to win the cup..... i went to tranmere we were crap that night....but in my 47  years of going to villa park iv never been through so many emotions as the second leg against tranmere....thats why football is so wonderful....unlike against bradford

[lovejoy]

I remember me and one other guy pushing out of the Holte before the pens, it was all too much.
Funniest thing was seeing the thousands flooding out as we missed and then flooding back in when they missed.
When the final pen was missed me and the other guy leaping into a massive bear hug. Never met him before or since.

[PeterWithesShin]

After Dalian had scored I ended up what seemed like miles away from where I was stood as the cross came in. I remember standing still after the initial mayhem around me had calmed down and I swear The Holte was moving under my feet like the actual stand was swaying.

[eric woolban woolban]

Was this played on a Sunday afternoon? I was there, think it was.

Great game, in the end.