Aston Villa Season 1991-1992

[Simon Page]

My main memory of it was fully understanding just how good Cyrille Regis was. It was also nice to be decent again as, 89/90 apart, we'd only had fleeting moments for a few years.

[Mister E]

May i be the first to say that Sheffield Wednesday away on the first day of the season was one of the best away days ever.

Lives long in my memory; fantastic day out.

[Steve67]

May i be the first to say that Sheffield Wednesday away on the first day of the season was one of the best away days ever.

Lives long in my memory; fantastic day out.

Agreed, absolutely tremendous day. 

[LeeB]

I think we won 5 in a row and were going well, then got battered 4-1 at home to Leeds. From then on it was patchy with a good cup run that sould have been better.

Highlight aside from the opening day, going 2-0 down at Spurs to come back and win 5-2.

[Dave P]

I remember that quarter final against Liverpool being my first genuine heartache with the Villa. There’s been a few since!

[Damo70]

I remember that quarter final against Liverpool being my first genuine heartache with the Villa. There’s been a few since!

My first Villa heartache was losing the FA Cup quarter final to a late Ray Stewart penalty in 1980. I wasn't even there, I was watching the World Of Sport goal updates coming up whilst watching the wrestling.

I was at the Liverpool quarter final and we played well despite being given f*ck all by the aptly named P. Don. That is the year that could and should have been our year. We would have faced a semi final and final both against second division sides.

[KevinGage]

Sadly, I don't remember much about the rest of the season, seemed a bit of a let down from what I remember.   Obviously next season was fantastic - close to being perfect.

Hillsborough was standout.  Tottingham away at the back end of the season was a great day out too.

The goal drought which occurred around Feb/ March (though not in the cup, weirdly enough)set us back, but any season where we beat Arsenal, Liverpool, Totttingham, Chelsea and Man Citeh in the near future will prob be viewed as a good one. 

We were 3rd going into November (unless the memory is playing tricks) and were spoken about as outsiders for the title.   We won three of our games around the Christmas period as well (Citeh, West Ham and Soton) which is unusual for us.

[kippaxvilla2]

Ron turned out to be a patchy manager as much as I loved him.  Great periods in the first season the wonderful second season until Easter and then 42 points from 43 games was it until he got the tin tack.

[KevinGage]

This was season we signed the two German lads as well, Matthaus Breitkreutz and Stefan Beinlich.

Don't think Beinlich appeared in the first team, but Breitktreutz came in against Norwich or Everton at home (maybe both). Looked like he had good delivery from set pieces, particularly right corner with the left peg. Had a little of the Sid Cowans about him in general play as well - maybe too little, based on his career after us.

Beinlich appeared a bit more at the back end of 93/94  IIRC.  But if I had to guess which one out of the two of them would go on to be German international and have a good career in the Bundesliga, it wouldn't have been him.

[curiousorange]

Both the Swindon and Liverpool cup games were beautiful Sunday afternoons. I'm still pretty gutted about that quarter final. Win it and win the cup. I used to have a tape Andy Grey did called 'An Insight to the Villa' where he talked about the season as a whole, and IIRC he was pretty adamant that if Ron had have started with Froggatt we would have won.

[Nev]

I remember queing overnight on Witton Lane for the Liverpool QF tickets, it was a Sat night and we'd been away at Man City that day. Me and a mate were dispatched to the Aston Tavern to get a carry out and had about 6 pints before we ventured back. There was a game of football with about 30 a side and someone had the Cricket WC on the radio.

[LeeB]

I remember queing overnight on Witton Lane for the Liverpool QF tickets, it was a Sat night and we'd been away at Man City that day. Me and a mate were dispatched to the Aston Tavern to get a carry out and had about 6 pints before we ventured back. There was a game of football with about 30 a side and someone had the Cricket WC on the radio.

I remember it being a very dank morning, getting there very early and being amazed at the numbers already there, and obviously spending the next few hours trying to work out if there were going to have any left when we got to the office.

Our kid, bored of having his hot hatches stolen, had instead bought an old Astra van for £500 and I think 6 of us were piled into it. Made a great sound banging the panels in time to "BFR's claret and blue army"

[Clark W Griswold]

I remember queing overnight on Witton Lane for the Liverpool QF tickets, it was a Sat night and we'd been away at Man City that day. Me and a mate were dispatched to the Aston Tavern to get a carry out and had about 6 pints before we ventured back. There was a game of football with about 30 a side and someone had the Cricket WC on the radio.

I remember it being a very dank morning, getting there very early and being amazed at the numbers already there, and obviously spending the next few hours trying to work out if there were going to have any left when we got to the office.

Our kid, bored of having his hot hatches stolen, had instead bought an old Astra van for £500 and I think 6 of us were piled into it. Made a great sound banging the panels in time to "BFR's claret and blue army"

Yes, i think that remains to this day the longest i've stood and queued for tickets for anything. We turned up on the day but likewise i couldn't quite believe it and worried they'd be sold out by the time we got there. I remember on match day a lot of moaning about the fact that Liverpool had some empty seats in the home end as well.
I went to loads of away games that season but missed Sheff Wed as i was on holiday and Tottenham because i was in trouble with my dad about how little college work i'd been doing for the previous 6 months. The 2 best ones as well.

[LeeB]

I remember queing overnight on Witton Lane for the Liverpool QF tickets, it was a Sat night and we'd been away at Man City that day. Me and a mate were dispatched to the Aston Tavern to get a carry out and had about 6 pints before we ventured back. There was a game of football with about 30 a side and someone had the Cricket WC on the radio.

I remember it being a very dank morning, getting there very early and being amazed at the numbers already there, and obviously spending the next few hours trying to work out if there were going to have any left when we got to the office.

Our kid, bored of having his hot hatches stolen, had instead bought an old Astra van for £500 and I think 6 of us were piled into it. Made a great sound banging the panels in time to "BFR's claret and blue army"

Yes, i think that remains to this day the longest i've stood and queued for tickets for anything. We turned up on the day but likewise i couldn't quite believe it and worried they'd be sold out by the time we got there. I remember on match day a lot of moaning about the fact that Liverpool had some empty seats in the home end as well.
I went to loads of away games that season but missed Sheff Wed as i was on holiday and Tottenham because i was in trouble with my dad about how little college work i'd been doing for the previous 6 months. The 2 best ones as well.

We went everywhere around that time, but missed Spurs as my brother, who as a 15 year old I was reliant on for travel, was buying white goods that day for his new house.

Shameful.

[WarszaVillan]

I remember that quarter final against Liverpool being my first genuine heartache with the Villa. There’s been a few since!

My first Villa heartache was losing the FA Cup quarter final to a late Ray Stewart penalty in 1980. I wasn't even there, I was watching the World Of Sport goal updates coming up whilst watching the wrestling.

I was at the Liverpool quarter final and we played well despite being given f*ck all by the aptly named P. Don. That is the year that could and should have been our year. We would have faced a semi final and final both against second division sides.

I think we must be around the same age. The West Ham quarter final was gut wrenching, I can still remember the goal being reported on the radio. McNaught needlessly handled the ball from a corner, which increased the hostility towards him from sections of the supporters who had never accepted him fully as Nicholl's replacement.