George Gavin's BRMB commentary of Peter Withe's Rotterdam winner

[Withe Gusto]

https://youtu.be/MZS2ziSZutM

A couple of weeks ago i found an old audio cassette in a draw full of old stuff, with the word 'villa' written on it in pencil.
It is 44 minutes of Villa stuff taped off BRMB in 1981 and 1982. It includes the fantastic George Gavin commentary on Withe's winner, which is the first clip i have made into a Youtube video.

I think it might be unique, I certainly can't find this anywhere else on the internet.

Enjoy!

[German James]

Lovely! Thank you, Mr. Gusto!

[Andy Poole]

Awesome.

[four fornicholl]

Fantastic!!!!!!!!

[The Left Side]

Bloody great stuff

[TopDeck113]

Great!

[Damo70]

I remember them repeatedly 'teasing' it on BRMB in the build up to the World club championship in the middle of the night in December 1982. Finally Tony Butler played the recording. I still have a copy of the BBC Radio WM vinyl recording of the commentary on the game with interviews with the players at the civic reception on the B side.

Without listening to it, from memory George Gavin says something along the lines of "Peter Withe has got the goal! Tony Morley for the first time tonight got the cross over and it was the easiest thing in the world for Peter Withe to score".

[andyh]

That is absolutely priceless.
Well done.

[LeeB]

https://youtu.be/MZS2ziSZutM

A couple of weeks ago i found an old audio cassette in a draw full of old stuff, with the word 'villa' written on it in pencil.
It is 44 minutes of Villa stuff taped off BRMB in 1981 and 1982. It includes the fantastic George Gavin commentary on Withe's winner, which is the first clip i have made into a Youtube video.

I think it might be unique, I certainly can't find this anywhere else on the internet.

Enjoy!

Have you got the Geroge Gavin/ Tom Ross stuff from 89/90 up yet mate?

[Withe Gusto]

Have you got the Geroge Gavin/ Tom Ross stuff from 89/90 up yet mate?
[/quote]

Alright mate, the Gavin/Ross stuff is on a BRMB fan archive at http://www.mds975.co.uk/Content/brmb_archives.html
I found that site when checking the internet to find if my stuff was already online somewhere.

[Withe Gusto]

I'm interested to know if anyone else remembers the commentary at all?
The Brian Moore TV commentary is iconic of course, his words displayed on the North Stand, but i think Gavin's is much better!

The other stuff on the cassette, which i will share when ive put them online, is clips of Tony Butler reporting from the council house reception for the 81 championship, includes interviews on the balcony with several players.
Then its George Gavin presenting a Villa season review, which includes clips from the season and an interesting interview with Ron Saunders which includes the line "you will have to excuse me i've drunk a fair bit of brandy".

[Tucson Villain]

Great stuff

[cdbearsfan]

Great video, thanks for sharing. Would be interested to hear more.

[Legion]

Ace. Glad you managed to get back logged in on here to share it.

[Pat McMahon]

I'm interested to know if anyone else remembers the commentary at all?
The Brian Moore TV commentary is iconic of course, his words displayed on the North Stand, but i think Gavin's is much better!

The other stuff on the cassette, which i will share when ive put them online, is clips of Tony Butler reporting from the council house reception for the 81 championship, includes interviews on the balcony with several players.
Then its George Gavin presenting a Villa season review, which includes clips from the season and an interesting interview with Ron Saunders which includes the line "you will have to excuse me i've drunk a fair bit of brandy".

I remember the commentary wel.

I was in Rotterdam but got my sister at home to tape the BRMB programme. I played it to death at the time and the cassettes died so not heard it in about 30 years. Am at work now so will listen later.

I remember a rousing chorus of "We're on the march with Barton's army" before kick off which gave me goosebumps, as well as a bloke on a night shift phoning in (probably after queuing for a payphone) for a match report in the 2nd half, looking to know the ebb and flow of the game, and all Butler could say to him was "They're winning 1-0" and then cut him off.