Get well soon Tony Morley (minor knee [possibly hip] op - no need to panic!)

[PeterWithesShin]

British soldiers i'd have thought?

[cdbearsfan]

Maybe. Didn't know we had soldiers in the East as late as that.

[Legion]

British soldiers i'd have thought?

Think so.

[andyh]

That was proper European football tv coverage.

[SoccerHQ]

Used to bump into him regularly at Penns Hall and in Walmley village back in the day.

Always happy to have a quick chat.

[West Derby Villan]

Speedy recovery European Cup Winner, Tony Morley

[aldridgeboy]

Regularly drink with him in Mere Green. Top bloke and some great stories.

[WarszaVillan]

Maybe. Didn't know we had soldiers in the East as late as that.

They would have come over from West Berlin I would imagine. I spoke to someone recently (an Irish lad) who lived in W.Berlin in the 1980s and he said that he would quite regularly go for a drink in the East. Brendan Ormsby and Ivor Linton in defence - the rock that won us the cup

[cdbearsfan]

I didn't know you could just pop from the West to the East that easily. Obviously, the local population couldn't.

[dave.woodhall]

I didn't know you could just pop from the West to the East that easily. Obviously, the local population couldn't.

You could get in. You just couldn't get back.

[darren woolley]

Get well soon Tony.

[Pat McMahon]

I didn't know you could just pop from the West to the East that easily. Obviously, the local population couldn't.

I knew some blokes from the Cup in Sutton who went to that game - we went with them to Anderlecht.

They said there were maybe 400-500 Villa fans there and a good number of squaddies who jumped over from West Berlin. It was common to pop over as booze was incredibly cheap in East Berlin. Apparently outside the stadium a small mob of  Berlin fans were looking for trouble after the game and the squaddies  told my mates to leave it to them. Which they did.

[cdbearsfan]

So... if the East Germans wanted to defect they should really have just sewn themselves a convincing Britisher uniform and they'd have got away with it!

[Chris Jameson]

Anybody else see the thread title and panic slightly before seeing it was 'only' a knee op?

[cdbearsfan]

Yes.