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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #105 on: January 08, 2015, 09:32:54 PM »
I remember many of the above but for me two stick in the brain:
West Ham 1 Villa 0 FA Cup Quarter Final 1980. It was going to be our year. We had held them brilliantly for 90 minutes. Then Ken McNaught handled? and Stewart scored from the spot. Unbelievable.
Sheffield United 2 Villa 1. 14th Feb 1976. I had started college in Sheffield the previous year and had seen the Blades thrashed several times including 5-1 at Villa Park. They had 4 points only by February and were bottom by a street. Villa go there, play abysmally and who should score the winner but Chris Guthrie, who must have been the most inept centre forward ever to grace the top division. Beyond humiliation.


Here a link to the West Ham game if you bear to watch it. Ray Stewart never missed penalties so it was all over when McNaught stuck his hand up.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=west+ham+aston+villa+fa+cup+quarter+final&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=4461386D613264737D474461386D613264737D47


I hate West Ham more than coffee.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #106 on: January 09, 2015, 05:42:13 PM »
It was Mountfield. He didn't play again that season. The only game Platt didn't play was the last game of the season.

He did, and he was still knackered, as he was outstripped by Robert Rosario for Norwich's equalizer in the penultimate game.

Correct. He wore a knee support but was clearly struggling.

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #107 on: January 10, 2015, 10:41:18 AM »
Wednesday 9 Jan 1991
 Fa cup 3Rd replay  v Wimbledon at Plough Lane
Lost 1-0 and they scored in the 120th minute.Absolutely lashed it down in the open end and never been so wet or miserable on a homeward coach journey.

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #108 on: January 10, 2015, 02:55:37 PM »
Wednesday 9 Jan 1991
 Fa cup 3Rd replay  v Wimbledon at Plough Lane
Lost 1-0 and they scored in the 120th minute.Absolutely lashed it down in the open end and never been so wet or miserable on a homeward coach journey.

Then under BFR they did us down there on penalties. I think Vinny Jones scored the winning pen. I was was tempted to let his tyres down when I passed his sponsored car in the car park after the game. White BMW.

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #109 on: January 12, 2015, 07:45:34 AM »
Wednesday 9 Jan 1991
 Fa cup 3Rd replay  v Wimbledon at Plough Lane
Lost 1-0 and they scored in the 120th minute.Absolutely lashed it down in the open end and never been so wet or miserable on a homeward coach journey.

Then under BFR they did us down there on penalties. I think Vinny Jones scored the winning pen. I was was tempted to let his tyres down when I passed his sponsored car in the car park after the game. White BMW.

Was that the fog game, where you couldn't see past the half way line? A depressing night that was.

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #110 on: January 12, 2015, 12:06:17 PM »
Wednesday 9 Jan 1991
 Fa cup 3Rd replay  v Wimbledon at Plough Lane
Lost 1-0 and they scored in the 120th minute.Absolutely lashed it down in the open end and never been so wet or miserable on a homeward coach journey.

Then under BFR they did us down there on penalties. I think Vinny Jones scored the winning pen. I was was tempted to let his tyres down when I passed his sponsored car in the car park after the game. White BMW.

Was that the fog game, where you couldn't see past the half way line? A depressing night that was.

I had forgotten the fog but I think you are right.

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #111 on: January 12, 2015, 11:39:39 PM »
Pretty sure the fog game was February 93 ,F.A cup 4th round replay. Lost the penalty shootout after a dismal 0-0 draw. Couldn't see the Sainsbury's end at all.

Sounds right to me although I have no recollection of the first game at Villa Park, even though I would have been there. 1-1? 0-0?

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #112 on: January 12, 2015, 11:42:35 PM »
Wednesday 9 Jan 1991
 Fa cup 3Rd replay  v Wimbledon at Plough Lane
Lost 1-0 and they scored in the 120th minute.Absolutely lashed it down in the open end and never been so wet or miserable on a homeward coach journey.

Then under BFR they did us down there on penalties. I think Vinny Jones scored the winning pen. I was was tempted to let his tyres down when I passed his sponsored car in the car park after the game. White BMW.

Was that the fog game, where you couldn't see past the half way line? A depressing night that was.

I had forgotten the fog but I think you are right.
Pretty sure the fog one was the F.A cup 4th round replay in February 93.
Couldn't see the Sainsbury's end of the pitch at all and by the second half most of the pitch was shrouded in fog.
Lost a penalty shootout after a dismal 0-0 draw.

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #113 on: January 12, 2015, 11:44:46 PM »
I think Teale missed the decisive penalty. Richardson may have missed one too. Taken in front of the Villa fans.

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #114 on: January 13, 2015, 02:25:06 AM »
I remember the fog game well. Was standing with the Villa fans in the open end as it was at the time when Richardson nearly hit us with his pen.It was a big end and we were halfway up !The drive home after along the M1,M6 and M42 to Redditch where i was living at the time was the longest drive home from a away match i can recall

As for the other Wimbledon cup game,god did it piss it down that night. Poxy little ground had no cover and boy did i get drenched.Just to complete the misery ,they scored in the last minute of extra time.Think it was Alan Cork,via a wicked deflection of a villa players shoulder,who i think may have been Paul Birch

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #115 on: January 13, 2015, 10:16:49 AM »
I think you are right in saying it was Alan Cork although I wasn't at that game. That is the gap in my collection of miserable trips to Selhurst.

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #116 on: January 22, 2015, 09:12:39 PM »
I was at the West Ham FA Cup game in 1980 and was a broken man when they got that late penalty in the last minute. We could well have won the cup that year if we'd taken them back to VP for the replay.

That pales into insignificance though when I recall we couldn't overcome Bradford over two legs in the Carling Cup a couple of seasons ago. Inept.

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #117 on: January 22, 2015, 11:09:51 PM »
The 2-1 defeat at home to Citeh under Howard Kendall during 89-90.  Peter feckin Reid popped up for their winner at villa park.  The beginning of the end of our title push that year.

Also earlier in that same season where it all started to go wrong a 0-3 at home to Wimbledon.  Awful.

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #118 on: January 22, 2015, 11:45:47 PM »
1-0 to Leicester away in 1970 which virtually condemned us to the Third Division.We should have taken the lead as Pat McMahon's shot flew past Shilton into the goal ,hitting the stanchion,rebounding out and the ref and his officials not awarding a goal.'Honest'Shilton said he would have told the ref if he had have asked him.Leicester had another incident like that and changed their goal nets.
A defeat made more bitter by my motorbike breaking down on the journey home.
Also 'gut wrenching' was the seemingly decisive defeat at home to Ipswich in 81,fortunately the sentiment wasn't shared by Ron Saunders.

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Re: Gut wrenching defeats.
« Reply #119 on: January 25, 2015, 12:11:26 AM »
1-0 to Leicester away in 1970 which virtually condemned us to the Third Division.We should have taken the lead as Pat McMahon's shot flew past Shilton into the goal ,hitting the stanchion,rebounding out and the ref and his officials not awarding a goal.'Honest'Shilton said he would have told the ref if he had have asked him.Leicester had another incident like that and changed their goal nets.
A defeat made more bitter by my motorbike breaking down on the journey home.
Also 'gut wrenching' was the seemingly decisive defeat at home to Ipswich in 81,fortunately the sentiment wasn't shared by Ron Saunders.

I was at that game, and I agree with you. In fact, we were playing quite well towards the end of that season, and there were definitely teams worse that us that stayed up. This is why I never accept the received wisdom that the the worst teams go down and the final league table "tells the truth".

The worst defeat for me was 4-0 at the Sty when I was 12 years old and had my Villa hat nicked waking back to town.

 


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