Funny or Strange Happenings You Have Witnessed As a Villa Fan

[clash city rocker]

Blackburn away in the cup about 1977 I think..They had a local brass band playing before the game who I think must have warmed up in the bar..!! After they passed the villa fans one went arse over tit , fell over the advertising boards and finished up in the seats.

[thick_mike]

At the Dalian Atkinson umbrella goal of the season game...they were giving away jars of Ragu at Waterloo station. Every Villa fan on the way to the game had at least two jars. The police were frisking people on the way in and confiscating the jars. There was a pile of Ragu the size of the old Witton End Bankjust inside the turnstiles.

I tried to start a chant of "Ragu Aggro" and nobody joined in

[steamer]

Derby away in the 70,s.
Think it was a cup game, we all on the side, ground absolutely packed. Alan Dewar dropped to the floor clutching his chest. big gap opened up around him.
Cue, Saint Johns Ambulance men hauling him onto the pitch, walking him off in an old fashioned stretcher around the touch line. only for him to jump up like Lazarus, start dancing and waving his Villa scarf before jumping back into the crowd and disappearing.

[Richard E]

Old Trafford last game of the season what a turn out,86 I think.
Steve Sims defending at Bradford in 87 is the funniest 90 minutes of football you can witness.

The second penalty was a particularly fine piece of handball, worthy of a top goalkeeper.

[dave shelley]

The 1977 League Cup final at Wembley.  Two Villa fans behind us knocking seven bells of shit out of each other for some unknown reason when a truce was called because one of them had lost a contact lens.  Cue about twenty of us on our hands and knees trying to find it.  I don't know if we ever did because the teams came out.  Funny because during half time didn't a bandsman lose a ceremonial spur or something from his boot that had them hold the equivalent of a treasure hunt until it was found?

The lines of the pitch marked blue in the snow and ice during the big freeze of 1963 when we eventually got a game on.

[wombat]

The continued abuse and subsequent collapse in performance of the Oxford United Goalkeeper during a League Cup game at the Manor Ground in Oct 1993.

No Hair
The Keepers Got No Hair
The Keepers Got No Hair
The Keepers Got No Hair

No Hair

Repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat.

The bloke got pelters that day.

21 years on and now i've got NO HAIR..... What goes round...

[Damo70]

Old Trafford last game of the season what a turn out,86 I think.
Steve Sims defending at Bradford in 87 is the funniest 90 minutes of football you can witness.

The second penalty was a particularly fine piece of handball, worthy of a top goalkeeper.

Steve Sims insisted on taking any free kicks we were awarded deep in our own half. I lost count of the number of grounds I was at to witness him attempt to kick the ball deep into the opposition half, only to succeed in kicking it out of play. This was always followed by him quizzically examining him boot in attempt to find out what went wrong!

[castlefields_villan]

A match ball being stuck in the top of the old Trinity Road stand for weeks on end around 1984 - am I right in thinking it was a mis-clearance from Andy Blair that put it there ?

[castlefields_villan]

Beating Wolves 3 times in a couple of weeks in the autumn of 1981

League Cup - First leg (H) 3-2
League (A) 3-0 chants of "we'll be back on Tuesday night"
League Cup - Second leg (A) 2-1 (I think)

They were still the big enemy at the time - as it was only two years since the unimaginable happened and Andy Gray had left us to go there

[Villa in Denmark]

Home game v Ipswich early '90s.
Ipswich attacking the Holte, ball rolls across the edge of the penalty area.
Ipswich player no 1 takes a total fresh air shot and lands on his arse.
Ball rolls further to Ipswich player no 2 who promptly tako a fresh air shot and lands on.his arse.

[Damo70]

I have always found Noel Blake's manic celebration of what he thought was an equaliser at VP in '83 very funny.  Also, on the subject of derby goal celebrations, does anyone else have a recollection of Howard Gayle scoring what turned out to be the winner in the return match that season? As I remember it, in the belief he had received some racist abuse from the crowd he climbed the fencing of the kop to perform a monkey impression.

[Charlie8182]

A match ball being stuck in the top of the old Trinity Road stand for weeks on end around 1984 - am I right in thinking it was a mis-clearance from Andy Blair that put it there ?

I remember it happening, Sid Cowans put it there in 1983 against Wolves in the FA Cup, and I'm sure it stayed there years!

Am I the only one who remembers a mini pitch invasion by our fans against Stoke later that same season in a 4-0 win, I'm sure several dozen ran onto the field from the old Witton Lane stand and returned to the seats, no idea why.

[Exeter 77]

The Coventry fan trying to stage a sit in on the centre spot after Cyrille Regis had scored for us after about 12 seconds in the last game if 1991-92.

[eric woolban woolban]

The corner flag incident.

Was a corner flag once nominated as man of the match or did I imagine it. Early noughties

[Broughty-Villian]

Beating Wolves 3 times in a couple of weeks in the autumn of 1981

League Cup - First leg (H) 3-2
League (A) 3-0 chants of "we'll be back on Tuesday night"
League Cup - Second leg (A) 2-1 (I think)

They were still the big enemy at the time - as it was only two years since the unimaginable happened and Andy Gray had left us to go there

I cannot remember if his first game against us was at VP or the dingles, but I do remember him missing a sitter, and my old man sagely nodding his agreement with Ron Saunders for selling him. think it was a cup match.