It was 11 years ago today

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

03.03.03

Lest we forget.

No I mean, let's forget.

[Dave Javu]

Forget what?

See, gone already.

[Legion]

Was that c*nt night or the reverse fixture?

[usav]

Was that c*nt night or the reverse fixture?

I think it was this one.   This was the all time low.

[Dr Butler]

my..how they have fallen.....

[Damo70]

I wonder how much those souvenir 'double over the Villa' mirrors make on ebay these days.

[dave.woodhall]

****** night was this one, the home game.

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Quite easily the moodiest atmosphere at a game of football I have ever attended. Even moodier than the previous game at the Sty. Absolutely evil.

I can still remember Enckleman scooping down as if he were picking up flowers...

[LeeB]

My mate shut my fingers in the car door when we got back to the car.

I think I just sighed.

Probably the most depressing Villa performance I've ever seen, mostly for the way we stooped to their level, on and off the pitch.

[Deano's Mullet]

Swings and roundabouts, it was a terrible night and we didn't win any of the next four derbies after that one either but on the cheerful side, apart from a league cup defeat we haven't lost any of the last eight in the league vs them I do believe, 6 wins and 2 draws.

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My mate shut my fingers in the car door when we got back to the car.

I think I just sighed.

Probably the most depressing Villa performance I've ever seen, mostly for the way we stooped to their level, on and off the pitch.

I always think the Mail was partly culpable with that. The way they had been stoking things up with "Noses in the Holte" meant that a lot of people on top of the Hardcore/Youth/C Crew types were out looking for it.

[dave.woodhall]

My mate shut my fingers in the car door when we got back to the car.

I think I just sighed.

Probably the most depressing Villa performance I've ever seen, mostly for the way we stooped to their level, on and off the pitch.

I always think the Mail was partly culpable with that. The way they had been stoking things up with "Noses in the Holte" meant that a lot of people on top of the Hardcore/Youth/C Crew types were out looking for it.

Undoubtedly. I also think they came with the attitude that they could walk around the ground like they owned it, partly fostered by their owners, and even many of our ordinary supporters weren't going to let them. 

[LeeB]

My mate shut my fingers in the car door when we got back to the car.

I think I just sighed.

Probably the most depressing Villa performance I've ever seen, mostly for the way we stooped to their level, on and off the pitch.

I always think the Mail was partly culpable with that. The way they had been stoking things up with "Noses in the Holte" meant that a lot of people on top of the Hardcore/Youth/C Crew types were out looking for it.

Undoubtedly. I also think they came with the attitude that they could walk around the ground like they owned it, partly fostered by their owners, and even many of our ordinary supporters weren't going to let them. 

I think many of them were surprised at the scale of the venom they faced, because during their decades in the wilderness laying waste to the likes of Torquay and Brentford, they'd built up a myth that they were some kind of Uber-firm, and mere association with them made you a bona fida top boy, and of course the yin to this yang was that every Villa fan was lily livered posh boy from Sutton.

[class_of_82]

Loved that night from 4pm in town till I climbed into bed at 1am. Sod the result it was the night so many blue and white myths was smashed so far you needed the Hubble telescope to see them.
Didn't see many of those cheap gold badges hanging out on way back into town.

[pooligan]

I remember one of the Villa security guys i knew ,telling me a few days later ,that he had never seen an away following get such a good hiding as the noses that night. He said it was well past midnight before the security guys were allowed to go home. The Venom showed towards our neighbours that night is certainly the worst i have ever seen.