Brian Little and David Bernstein to join the board

[Mostinho II]

At least we have the past!

[Mostinho II]

I did love his Villa team, happy days.

[AVH87]

Timing wise we can moan that it should have been done years ago, it was not , but at least the two appointments last week were in the areas the club has been screaming out for. King and Holis I am not sure but Little and Bernstein, big step in the right direction.

Although in defence of Hollis in his role, Bernstein and Little look two good appointments from him.

[Nelly]

"Villa just prove again, that they never, ever give up". It's like a different club. They could do with showing some of these classics in the board room.

[Risso]

I did love his Villa team, happy days.

Me too.  Just shows how hard this football management lark is.  Two top 5 finishes and a cup, when all we were missing is that fabled "missing piece of the jigsaw".  I'd seen a lot of Sasa Curcic playing for Bolton, and he was brilliant for them.  Started off like a house on fire for us, then went crazy and rubbish after a few months.  Then exactly the same end result with Stan Collymore.  If those two had played to their full potential for us, I firmly believe we'd have been in with a very good shout at a title.  As it was, 97/98 was a disaster.

[Pete]

Yeh I read that. He must of been desperate. Seemingly the only time a footballers career was ended prematurely and it was a good thing! Well sort of. I'm just glad he didn't taint his career in such a fashion. Sweet Pete, cheers! I watched the Blues one on YouTube - so they've always been dirty, talentless bastards then? 

The footage of the whole '77 final is on Youtube as well, if you ever have a spare couple of hours. I can never decide whether that night or the Liverpool 5-1 is my favourite experience of watching the Villa.

[Mostinho II]

Mine was probably 3-2 against Arsenal. 18th of December 1998. Very drunk, very happy. Shame about Santa but you can't have it all. I will watch the full final when I get chance. Maybe the current team would look good if filmed with 70's cameras? Maybe not.

[dave.woodhall]

Yeh I read that. He must of been desperate. Seemingly the only time a footballers career was ended prematurely and it was a good thing! Well sort of. I'm just glad he didn't taint his career in such a fashion. Sweet Pete, cheers! I watched the Blues one on YouTube - so they've always been dirty, talentless bastards then? 

Pedant alert:

The medical didn't end his career. He carried on the following season and got injured in (circa) early March.

[dave shelley]

There's something in the back of my head regarding that time with Brian.  I think I was out at Bodymoor watching the training and the players used to move the portable goals around.  Brian and another couple of players were moving one of these said goals when he jokingly said, "Come on lads, I'm supposed to have a bad back".  Or words to that effect.  I often wondered after that if he failed the medical at the sty because of that.

[LeeB]

Imagine losing an iconic, brilliant, home grown player to injury, and then simply replacing him with another.

Those were the days, my friend.

[dave.woodhall]

There's something in the back of my head regarding that time with Brian.  I think I was out at Bodymoor watching the training and the players used to move the portable goals around.  Brian and another couple of players were moving one of these said goals when he jokingly said, "Come on lads, I'm supposed to have a bad back".  Or words to that effect.  I often wondered after that if he failed the medical at the sty because of that.

He did.

[McGraths Dry Cleaning]

At least we have the past!

It's the only thing we have to look forward to these days 

[Toronto Villa]

There will be good days again. There always has been. I'm sure when we were in Division 3 nobody back then would have imagined us being Champions of Europe.

[Ron Manager]

There will be good days again. There always has been. I'm sure when we were in Division 3 nobody back then would have imagined us being Champions of Europe.

That is very true TV It was the equivalent of man landing on the moon.

[Toronto Villa]

Give me a a break. A man landed on the moon? That sounds as crazy as two Villa wins in a row.