Bournemouth

[steamer]

if you watch the youtube clip of that home game in 72, the first guy you see jumping on the pitch to celebrate is a mousey haired guy in a crombie.
It was my mate Steve Hadden.
His next claim to fame, was that he had a heart attack at Villa Park last year and was given CPF and rushed to hospital.
Take it easy tomorrow Steve, win or lose, NO Heart attacks !!

[Pat McMahon]

if you watch the youtube clip of that home game in 72, the first guy you see jumping on the pitch to celebrate is a mousey haired guy in a crombie.
It was my mate Steve Hadden.
His next claim to fame, was that he had a heart attack at Villa Park last year and was given CPF and rushed to hospital.
Take it easy tomorrow Steve, win or lose, NO Heart attacks !!

Was he the one who was on the pitch and in the penalty area  a nano second after the winner went in? I always wondered how he did that so quickly.

[Rudy65]

if you watch the youtube clip of that home game in 72, the first guy you see jumping on the pitch to celebrate is a mousey haired guy in a crombie.
It was my mate Steve Hadden.
His next claim to fame, was that he had a heart attack at Villa Park last year and was given CPF and rushed to hospital.
Take it easy tomorrow Steve, win or lose, NO Heart attacks !!

Was that against Bradford in the LC semi 2013?

[steamer]

That was Steve.
A really fit guy (in his youth) played at a county level football

[pooligan]

I was at Dean Court for that 3rd division match on October 23 1971 when we lost 3-0. It is a game i remember fairly well,sadly for all the wrong reasons. Villa were without both regular full backs,Wright and Aitken who both injured.So  reserve full back Keith Bradley who i never rated came in and we played three centre halfs in Tiler,Turnbull and Curtis and we were torn to shreds by their forward duo of MacDougall and Boyer.

I remember the ground was in the middle of a park and the game was a sell out.The stat website i use, say the crowd was 20,305, which i must admit i find surprising as i remember it being a small ground.

The other two things i remember about the day, was that it was really warm and the walk from the station to the ground and back was one of the longest i can recall and a mob of their fans waiting for us at the station after the game.

[Big Dick Edwards]

When we played them in the third division would John Bond have been their manager?

He was. When he moved on to Norwich he took several of the Bournemouth players with him, including Phil Boyer and Mel Machin. Ted McDougall was their star player (he scored nine goals in a single FA Cup tie that season) and he was bought by Manchester United the year after, but Phil Boyer was an under rated and a more than decent strike partner. Both Boyer and McDougall were at Norwich in 1975 and played against Villa in the League Cup Final.

[castlefields_villan]

Well fancy that ! - first game of the new season !