League Cup 2nd Round - Wigan Athletic (H)

[Richard E]

Has the date for this tie been confirmed yet ?

I can't see anything on Pravda

On the App it is being shown as Tues 22nd at 7.45.

[London Villan]

Can't even get on the site at the moment.

[cheltenhamlion]

Has the date for this tie been confirmed yet ?

I can't see anything on Pravda

On the App it is being shown as Tues 22nd at 7.45.

It will have to be the Tuesday as we are in Brizzle on the Friday.

[cdbearsfan]

The Twitter page confirmed it as being on the Tuesday a few hours ago.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/897084166386438146

[eamonn]

Oxford City v Alvechurch in the last qualifying round back in the day of proper football, which had 5 replays.

We played each other six times in less than three weeks - Saturday, Tuesday, Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, Monday - and four of those games went to extra time. Plus we had a league game in between, and we all had full-time jobs as well. Then we had to play Aldershot in the first round proper on the Wednesday, two days after we finally beat Oxford, by which time we were on our knees.

In those days after the first replay any others had to be held on neutral ground. We won the toss for where the third game would be, so we played it at St Andrews. The fourth was at Oxford United, then they won the toss to decide where the fifth would be so we played at the Manor Ground again, and the sixth game was at Villa Park. I remember that it was freezing cold. Today it probably wouldn't have been played because of the frozen pitch.

After the game we went into the home dressing-room and Doug Ellis came down and started pouring out the champagne for us. We were exhausted, and there was the Aston Villa chairman pouring champagne into paper cups. We were too knackered to go out afterwards. I think we shared the champagne with the Oxford lads, but we all had work the next day, they had to get down to Oxford and we were playing Aldershot two nights later. It was quite a parting, though. We'd got to know them so well and we shared this great saga.

What year was that and who said it?

[PeterWithesShin]

Graham Allner, 1971.

[eamonn]

Cool.

[spartacuss]

Re: free cup ticket for season ticket holders. Surely this was a cast-iron promise which (for all too obvious reasons...) hasn't been fulfilled yet and now it can be? 

Can I be first to state that I'll be well pissed-off if they renege on this and there's at least two of us who won't buy tickets for this one.

[CJ]

With  just a week to go to the game still nothing on the OS about tickets for this ("details to be announced in due course"), so I thought I'd ring to make sure they had my Cup Scheme form and that I'd get my ticket. Rang this morning - 25 minute queue, rang this afternoon, 40 minute queue. Still not got through. Not impressed with ticketing at all this season

[Comrade Blitz]

AVFC Support on Twitter confirmed that this is a/the free ticket match for ST holders

[CJ]

Details now starting to appear on the OS:

Carabao Cup
Tuesday August 22
Kick-off: 7.45pm
Villa Park
Prices: £15 (adults), £10 (concessions), £5 (U16s)

FREE ENTRY to season ticket holders - this will automatically be added to your card

For non-season ticket holders:
Only tickets purchased before 3.30pm on Friday August 18 will be posted to supporters. All tickets purchased after this deadline will be available for collection only - or you can Print at Home if you book online and have access to a printer.

[dave.woodhall]

For fifteen quid my ticket will stay unsold.

[brian green]

Does anybody know if Junction 6 will be open by this game?  Its closure adds two hours to our round trip.

[London Villan]

I can imagine a lot of season ticket holders will give it a miss.

[leylandalbion]

I'm certainly not travelling 200 miles for it. I don't suspect I could give my 4 tickets away either