That was my last ever game on a terrace.I am now in a wheelchair.Had to be there on the Holte`s last day one of my friends did not do that game and i do remind that friend any chance i get. lolDid not want to leave i think a small part of me and Villa died on that day.
i remember when there was no roof over the holt
A proper Holte and the AV floodlights. Reminds me why I fell in love with club.Gives a sense of scale as to just how big it was.
Am I correct in saying that the capacity of the Holte was 24,000?
Quote from: royvilla949 on May 02, 2014, 08:19:39 PMi remember when there was no roof over the holtSo do I. I also remember no floodlights too. Dave W. Am I correct in saying that the capacity of the Holte was 24,000?
The first recorded reference to a sports terrace as "Kop" related to Woolwich Arsenal's Manor Ground in 1904.[2] A local newsman likened the silhouette of fans standing on a newly raised bank of earth to soldiers standing atop the hill at the Battle of Spion Kop. In 1906 Liverpool Echo sports editor Ernest Edwards noted of a new open-air embankment at Anfield: "This huge wall of earth has been termed 'Spion Kop', and no doubt this apt name will always be used in future in referring to this spot". The name was formally consummated in 1928 upon construction of a roof. It is thought to be the first terrace officially named Spion Kop. Many other English football clubs and some Rugby league clubs (such as Wigan's former home Central Park) applied the same name to stands in later years.Villa Park's old Holte End was historically the largest of all Kop ends, closely followed by the old South Bank at Molineux, both once regularly holding crowds in excess of 30,000. However in the mid-1980s work was completed on Hillsborough's Kop which, with a capacity of around 22,000, became the largest roofed terrace in Europe.
Quote from: flybo on May 02, 2014, 07:59:24 PMThat was my last ever game on a terrace.I am now in a wheelchair.Had to be there on the Holte`s last day one of my friends did not do that game and i do remind that friend any chance i get. lolDid not want to leave i think a small part of me and Villa died on that day.Sorry to hear that flybo.Platt might have turned into a nob of epic proportions, but he was a bloody brilliant player for us. Some of the finest goal celebrations ever involved him - Arsenal at home and that night at Spurs....