20 years ago today

[Chico Hamilton III]

Villa's cup fill it up

[Dr Butler]

a brilliant day and stopped them winning the domestic treble !

""where's your treble gone""

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

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[Damo70]

Great day. I was so hyped up I didn't go to bed the night before. It was a few weeks before I moved out of my parents house and I worked my way through the drinks cabinet. The first and last time in my life I ever drank Cinzano. I went down the road for a newspaper at about seven. Despite staying up all night drinking I felt fresh as a daisy.

[flybo]

Do not go but watched it with some friends one a manure fan " You are only here to make up the numbers" Yes we made them up Villa 3 manure 1 lol

[robbo1874]

Great day. I was so hyped up I didn't go to bed the night before. It was a few weeks before I moved out of my parents house and I worked my way through the drinks cabinet. The first and last time in my life I ever drank Cinzano. I went down the road for a newspaper at about seven. Despite staying up all night drinking I felt fresh as a daisy.

Nice post damo. I was a filthy student at the time in north London. Had been on the mick mills the night before and wasn't the freshest the next day, also had tonsilitis. One of the best days of my Villa supporting career though-  first villa wembley final. What a day! Rest of the night is a bit hazy after leaving the ground! Big Ron, where's ya jewellery gone?

[fbriai]

What a day! We had lost four on the bounce going into it as well, hadn't we? No-one gave us a chance.

I was sat way up behind the goal we were playing towards in the first-half. Cyrille Regis was sat a few seats away.

Coming after the Tranmere semi-final and then being followed by the win over Inter a few months later, that was an amazing time to be following the Villa.

[Damo70]

What a day! We had lost four on the bounce going into it as well, hadn't we? No-one gave us a chance.

I was sat way up behind the goal we were playing towards in the first-half. Cyrille Regis was sat a few seats away.

Coming after the Tranmere semi-final and then being followed by the win over Inter a few months later, that was an amazing time to be following the Villa.

You must have been very close to me as I could see Regis from where I was sitting but I can't quite remember exactly where he was in relation to me. Definitely to my left but more than a few seats away and may have been a row in front or behind. I punched the bloke in front of me in the back of the neck whilst attempting to to Bosnich's job for him when we were under pressure at 2-1. I apologised but I don't think he even felt it much everyone was so hyped up at that point.

[fbriai]

What a day! We had lost four on the bounce going into it as well, hadn't we? No-one gave us a chance.

I was sat way up behind the goal we were playing towards in the first-half. Cyrille Regis was sat a few seats away.

Coming after the Tranmere semi-final and then being followed by the win over Inter a few months later, that was an amazing time to be following the Villa.

You must have been very close to me as I could see Regis from where I was sitting but I can't quite remember exactly where he was in relation to me. Definitely to my left but more than a few seats away and may have been a row in front or behind. I punched the bloke in front of me in the back of the neck whilst attempting to to Bosnich's job for him when we were under pressure at 2-1. I apologised but I don't think he even felt it much everyone was so hyped up at that point.

It sounds as though we were sat very close to one another! He was to my left, a few seats away - maybe ten or so, I don't remember clearly - and, I think, one row behind.

[The Left Side]

Great day out, on a par with Tranmere because we beat the so called Treble winners, as mentioned earlier we were told Manure just had to show up. So many superb memories and the save that Bozzie made at 2-1 was top drawer, utv!

[usav]

Something that nobody has mentioned really, is the fact that we genuinely had a bit of a rivalry going with ManUre back then.   They had only just pipped us to the league the year before and our games around that time were always very close.  So yes, although we were underdogs, we weren't coming at it from a no-hope situation, we belonged there and had the players to do them some damage - and so it proved.

[Richard E]

I always remember from the commentary Brian Moore and Kevin Keegan moaning about Kanchelskis being sent off - for stopping a certain goal with his hands in the last minute of a Cup Final when the result was on a knife edge!

[Richard E]

As the free kick Deano scored from was being lined up when it was still 1-0 the bloke next to us turned to us and said "If this goes in I'm going to come in my trousers."

Next thing that happened was the ball hit the back of the net. We never found out if he was telling the truth - although we did ask. 

[glasses]

I always remember from the commentary Brian Moore and Kevin Keegan moaning about Kanchelskis being sent off - for stopping a certain goal with his hands in the last minute of a Cup Final when the result was on a knife edge!

Me too.

I also remember Keegan saying something about us struggling to get into the game or something, just as Atkinson was put through to score!

[Pete3206]

I liked how Brian Moore described Man Utd's play as some sort of exhibition performance, seconds before we scored the first goal.

What a magnificent weekend that was.