Villa v Juventus 2.3.83

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[pauliewalnuts]

The best side I have seen play live at Villa Park by an absolutely huge margin.

Staggering talent in that side, Zoff, Scirea, Gentile, Boniek, Platini, Tardelli, Rossi, what a line up that was. They were brilliant.

[Rotterdam]

Ditto PaulieW. Boniek was the mutts nuts. Platini and Rossi were hardly shoddy.
Great night.

[pauliewalnuts]

When Trappatoni came back as Inter manager a few years later, when West Germany had just won the World Cup and they had Brehme, Matthaus and Klinsmann in their side, I remember "Who the fucking hell are you?" coming from the Holte.

I also remember Trap smacked his head on the old, tiny dugouts roof and had a massive lump on his bonce. The night of Kent Nielsen and the massive spit.

[nigel]

The best side I have seen play live at Villa Park by an absolutely huge margin.

Staggering talent in that side, Zoff, Scirea, Gentile, Boniek, Platini, Tardelli, Rossi, what a line up that was. They were brilliant.

Agree.
I'd go along with the 'Best side seen at Villa Park' tag.

Boniek and Rossi were probably my two favourite world players at the time.

[Sunny Villa]

I went the away game , not for the feint hearted , certainly after they were given some rough treatment at VP after one of the Villa lads got stabbed quite badly.

The guilty one and his mates were all from the South of England

We mustered up maybe 80 to leave the station , those that were there with England prior new what was coming .

We got cheeky and headed off to a park by the ground as we heard there was a bar there .

Funny really , we had tickets for their area ,  which went down badly when we put a union jack on the fence.

Eventually the carribaneri escorted us to the Villa fans to be pelted with all sorts all game.

At the end of the game , it looked like half of Turin was waiting for us.

We got back somewhat unscathed and enjoyed a nice cold cider in the Brittania.

[OzVilla]

I remember getting into the North Stand just on kick off as traffic was horrendous. Massive Juve Flag in the Trinity upper and when Rossi scored in the first few minutes we realized we were surrounded by Italians.

We had a goal dubiously disallowed in the first half too, Shaw for pushing Gentele IIRC. We played really well cosidering we were up against that lot, Sid particularly was superb against the equally superb Platini.

[nigel]

I remember getting into the North Stand just on kick off as traffic was horrendous. Massive Juve Flag in the Trinity upper and when Rossi scored in the first few minutes we realized we were surrounded by Italians.

We had a goal dubiously disallowed in the first half too, Shaw for pushing Gentele IIRC. We played really well cosidering we were up against that lot, Sid particularly was superb against the equally superb Platini.

Those sort of games really highlighted, for me, how good Sid was.
The surprising thing was that it was Bari he went to and not one of the bigger teams.

[Big Dick Edwards]

Juve were certainly the star-studded team of the moment in 1983 and it was crushing to go one down so quickly, but while their teamsheet was extremely impressive, Spartak Moscow put in the best display by an away team at Villa Park in my memory.

[Damo70]

I remember getting into the North Stand just on kick off as traffic was horrendous. Massive Juve Flag in the Trinity upper and when Rossi scored in the first few minutes we realized we were surrounded by Italians.

We had a goal dubiously disallowed in the first half too, Shaw for pushing Gentele IIRC. We played really well cosidering we were up against that lot, Sid particularly was superb against the equally superb Platini.

Those sort of games really highlighted, for me, how good Sid was.
The surprising thing was that it was Bari he went to and not one of the bigger teams.

He was going to Napoli in '83 until they changed presidents. He would have gone to one of the big Italian teams in my opinion if it wasn't for the two foreigner rule. Even Zico had to make do with Udinese.

[dave.woodhall]

Juve were certainly the star-studded team of the moment in 1983 and it was crushing to go one down so quickly, but while their teamsheet was extremely impressive, Spartak Moscow put in the best display by an away team at Villa Park in my memory.

They're the ones who have been forgotten but at the time they were reckoned to have been better than Juventus.

[PeterWithesShin]

I often mention Spartak, they impressed the hell out of me that night.

[andyaston]

I often mention Spartak, they impressed the hell out of me that night.

Yea, and we were seconds away from qualifying.