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[pauliewalnuts]

I seem to recall Curtis Davies making a clearance from the halfway line back over our own bar pretty much.

Remember Habib Beye putting the ball out of play for no particular reason and Rapid Vienna scoring from the resulting corner.

It must have been more of a shock to see Habib Beye actually playing.

[Rory]

I seem to recall Curtis Davies making a clearance from the halfway line back over our own bar pretty much.

Remember Habib Beye putting the ball out of play for no particular reason and Rapid Vienna scoring from the resulting corner.

I think that's the one I am recalling, got the wrong player though!

I think I remember that. I was sat in the Upper North for some reason and it was really quiet - until that 'clearance', at which point a bloke a couple of rows in front let out the most theatrical "FUH-KIN-ELL" I've ever heard.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Think he was playing at left back for some reason

[john e]

I remember David Geddis playing the ball back to the goalkeeper from halfway into the opponent’s half
FA cup away at Ewood park a long time ago

4th round January 1980 I would guess.

Sounds about right

Bloody hell I was 18
Not realising the next two years we’re going to be the best ever supporting the Villa

[pauliewalnuts]

Think he was playing at left back for some reason

Ah yes, the MON 'left back at right back, right back at left back' thing.

The Luke Young Conundrum.

[eamonn]

Or Carlos "Spanish football's golden age but I've got two left feet" Cuellar filling-in at RB.

[PeterWithe]

David Platt went through a period of making ever more elaborate back passes to his keeper, I recall him juggling the ball a few times before volleying it 30 yards back, he looked rather more impressed with himself than a bemused Holte End did.

[TelfordVilla]

It seems this thread has wandered way off track.

[Richard E]

It’s one of the unwritten laws of football that if you concede an unnecessary corner the opposition inevitably score from it.

[LeeB]

David Platt went through a period of making ever more elaborate back passes to his keeper, I recall him juggling the ball a few times before volleying it 30 yards back, he looked rather more impressed with himself than a bemused Holte End did.

I remember a glorious, full length diving header from the edge of the box back to Spink, when we were 4-0 down at Leeds in the League Cup.

[Percy McCarthy]

David Platt went through a period of making ever more elaborate back passes to his keeper, I recall him juggling the ball a few times before volleying it 30 yards back, he looked rather more impressed with himself than a bemused Holte End did.

Yes, I remember how much effort he used to put into his back passes. And he did always seem pleased with himself as well. Was still often met with a smattering of applause, then again as the other night showed, some people will clap any old shite.

[kippaxvilla2]

I seem to recall Curtis Davies making a clearance from the halfway line back over our own bar pretty much.

I have a feeling that was the home leg against Rapid Vienna.  Another dreadful game in Europe under MO’N.

[Sexual Ealing]

David Platt went through a period of making ever more elaborate back passes to his keeper, I recall him juggling the ball a few times before volleying it 30 yards back, he looked rather more impressed with himself than a bemused Holte End did.

Yes, I remember how much effort he used to put into his back passes. And he did always seem pleased with himself as well. Was still often met with a smattering of applause, then again as the other night showed, some people will clap any old shite.

I'd forgotten that people used to clap back passes. What the fuck?!

[john e]

It seems this thread has wandered way off track.

Yeah it’s brilliant though isn’t it
Some of the individual memories of non-descript things that stay in the mind

[Risso]

The one that sticks in my mind was Curtis Davies going to head the ball with nobody else anywhere near, and missing it completely by about three feet. Against Wigan perhaps?