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[Ron Manager]

6th November 1976....

just for all us old Villa romantics.....

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The Doc

Good job the internet wasn't around then. We would all be moaning about the marking of Pearson for their first goal!

Andy's second goal was a cracker though!!

[LeeB]

6th November 1976....

just for all us old Villa romantics.....

UTV
The Doc

That's brilliant. I've seen it a million times before, but I still love watching it. Hard to describe the emotions I feel watching my Dad scoring for the club I love, into a packed Holte End and the fans going wild. You can tell how much he loved scoring. He was 20 years old, a few weeks short of his 21st and not too long before he met my Mum in Flints in Mere Green. Love the huge collar in the interview at the end too!

That game happened 3 days after I was born. Brilliant. Thanks for posting, DB.

I arrived 3 days before we beat Liverpool 5-1 a few weeks later. The name Lee was very popular at that point, there must have been another 15 lads in our year with the same name.

[E I Adio]

6th November 1976....

just for all us old Villa romantics.....

UTV
The Doc

Great to see that again. That really was a fantastically entertaining and talented team.

I'm reminded that Graydon's dreadful penalty was even worse than the one he'd got away with at Wembley the previous year.

[richard moore]

6th November 1976....

just for all us old Villa romantics.....

UTV
The Doc

Great to see that again. That really was a fantastically entertaining and talented team.

I'm reminded that Graydon's dreadful penalty was even worse than the one he'd got away with at Wembley the previous year.

I could cry for about a 100 different reasons when I see that...starting with seeing the old Holte, the proper strip, the right badge, mention of the Witton End where my Dad used to stand...oh dear, it really does make me well up

[el león Benidorm]

Best Thread for a long long time.

[PeterWithe]

Best Thread for a long long time.

It is good and, as ever, has very little to do with the title.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

It's turned into a Villa Memories thread.

I love some of those advertising boards - "Effluent Disposal Limited" - (now dormant according to Companies House).

[pauliewalnuts]

6th November 1976....

just for all us old Villa romantics.....

UTV
The Doc

Wow, that's absolutely magnificent viewing.

I remember watching us then, we had a sort of glamour club swagger about us. A real swagger.

[E I Adio]

I was a bit sad when I noticed the Davenports ad.

I wonder if the Ansells Bittermen ad was still on the Witton Lane stand at that time.

[Jimbo]

Ha ha, don't worry, JG, I'll get over it one of these days. There were a lot of Villa-mad kids down our road, as you'd imagine, so I think they handed out their fair share of autographs while they were there. I definitely caught him at the wrong time. But the whole thing demonstrates just how far removed today's footballers are from ordinary fans.

Is it true your old man is from the Drumchapel estate in Glasgow?

Yes, he's a Drumchapel lad. My Granny still lived there until she sadly passed away last year & my Uncle lives 5 minutes away. Wasn't the nicest of places to grow up when my Dad was a kid, that's for sure.

As strange as it sounds we had a family holiday in Drumchapel in 1976 - that hot summer. Some family friends had a flat there, which we used while they were on holiday. It didn't really register at the time that it wasn't quite the Algarve, but the locals were friendly, if anything fairly bemused by our Brummie accents. I genuinely don't think they'd ever heard anyone speak like us before, and could barely understand a word we said. Likewise for us, actually.

The enduring image I have of Glasgow then, even though I was very young, was of suited drunks spark out on the pavement all over the city centre, surrounded by empty bottles of scotch and chip papers. The Gorbals were still standing, just. My, how it's changed.   

[pauliewalnuts]

Regarding Frank Carrodus, I'm sure I remember him running the outer circle route for a charity event during his time with us - something I don't think you'd see a top flight player do nowadays.

I definitely remember that.

[E I Adio]

Regarding Frank Carrodus, I'm sure I remember him running the outer circle route for a charity event during his time with us - something I don't think you'd see a top flight player do nowadays.

I definitely remember that.

I walked it once and that was bad enough. (BRMB's Walkathon)

Stupidly I wore a new pair of trainers and finished with massive blisters on the soles of both feet.

[tony scott]

Most fearless Centre forward Villa have had in my time . I started in in 1959 with Gerry Hitchens.

[Damo70]

It's turned into a Villa Memories thread.

I love some of those advertising boards - "Effluent Disposal Limited" - (now dormant according to Companies House).

You know you are watching footage of 1970's English football when the off pitch battle for advertising space is Esso v Texaco and Vision Hire v Radio Rentals.

[luke95]

I was a bit sad when I noticed the Davenports ad.

I wonder if the Ansells Bittermen ad was still on the Witton Lane stand at that time.

The Ansells Bittermen sign was up there well into the 80s if not till the stand was pulled down