Same for me Richard. It just serves to further polarise how awful we are now. A completely different club.
I was at the 2nd leg of the 71 League cup final right at the back of the Holte, 14 years old, Villa starting the fightback after 2 relegations, such happy days 71 through to 82, I am glad I am old enough to have lived through it, I do watch some old Villa footage to make me feel better but my usual antidote is to watch Laurel and Hardy films, incredibly old but still brilliantly funny.
Quote from: Steve kirk on April 06, 2014, 04:34:54 PMI was at the 2nd leg of the 71 League cup final right at the back of the Holte, 14 years old, Villa starting the fightback after 2 relegations, such happy days 71 through to 82, I am glad I am old enough to have lived through it, I do watch some old Villa footage to make me feel better but my usual antidote is to watch Laurel and Hardy films, incredibly old but still brilliantly funny.And i am seriously afraid we may not see its like again, certainly not Quote from: martin o`who?? on April 10, 2014, 07:55:30 AMQuote from: Steve kirk on April 06, 2014, 04:34:54 PMI was at the 2nd leg of the 71 League cup final right at the back of the Holte, 14 years old, Villa starting the fightback after 2 relegations, such happy days 71 through to 82, I am glad I am old enough to have lived through it, I do watch some old Villa footage to make me feel better but my usual antidote is to watch Laurel and Hardy films, incredibly old but still brilliantly funny.And i am seriously afraid we may not see its like again, certainly not in my lifetime.I am hoping and praying that my 2 sons (23 and 24) will see a period where the club in a football sense become great again.
Quote from: Steve kirk on April 06, 2014, 04:34:54 PMI was at the 2nd leg of the 71 League cup final right at the back of the Holte, 14 years old, Villa starting the fightback after 2 relegations, such happy days 71 through to 82, I am glad I am old enough to have lived through it, I do watch some old Villa footage to make me feel better but my usual antidote is to watch Laurel and Hardy films, incredibly old but still brilliantly funny.And i am seriously afraid we may not see its like again, certainly not in my lifetime.
Quote from: martin o`who?? on April 10, 2014, 07:55:30 AMQuote from: Steve kirk on April 06, 2014, 04:34:54 PMI was at the 2nd leg of the 71 League cup final right at the back of the Holte, 14 years old, Villa starting the fightback after 2 relegations, such happy days 71 through to 82, I am glad I am old enough to have lived through it, I do watch some old Villa footage to make me feel better but my usual antidote is to watch Laurel and Hardy films, incredibly old but still brilliantly funny.And i am seriously afraid we may not see its like again, certainly not Quote from: martin o`who?? on April 10, 2014, 07:55:30 AMQuote from: Steve kirk on April 06, 2014, 04:34:54 PMI was at the 2nd leg of the 71 League cup final right at the back of the Holte, 14 years old, Villa starting the fightback after 2 relegations, such happy days 71 through to 82, I am glad I am old enough to have lived through it, I do watch some old Villa footage to make me feel better but my usual antidote is to watch Laurel and Hardy films, incredibly old but still brilliantly funny.And i am seriously afraid we may not see its like again, certainly not in my lifetime.I am hoping and praying that my 2 sons (23 and 24) will see a period where the club in a football sense become great again.Even if we did see it again, it wouldn't be the same. It would mean we had a mega rich sugar daddy and that we'd bought success. That would never feel the same as I felt watching us in the 2 league cup final wins of the 90s. Those weren't bought, they were earned.I've come to accept that the game has changed and will never be the same again. And for that reason I can now take it PR leave it. That's the real shame, not that we're shot at the moment.