Happy Rotterdam Day

[Legion]

[Duncan Shaw]

Aaaaahhhhhh…..

So fortunate to have lived through that period.  My lad will never see the like.

[simon ward 50]

Going all misty eyed!

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

"Champions of Europe" day! UTV!

[Damo70]

I am so grateful my old man (who is a nose) took me to Rotterdam as an eleven year old. I didn't know I was going until the morning we were leaving! I was in the front row of the top tier behind the goal we scored in. My main memory is of the heat. I also remember Nigel Spink warming up in goal before the game whereas I don't think Jimmy Rimmer did. I also remember our coachload managing to get the early editions of the following days papers detailing our win. I still have the commemorative pennant we were all given on the coach and it is one of my most treasured possessions. The match programme is somewhere at my parents house.

[Exeter 77]

This one Damo?

[Villan For Life]

What a wonderful day and treasured memories.

I had an email from the club earlier with a link to a name the squad and manager quiz. Those of us of a certain vintage can still reel off the names of all of them, every one of them a legend.

[Holte L2]

What a wonderful day and treasured memories.

I had an email from the club earlier with a link to a name the squad and manager quiz. Those of us of a certain vintage can still real off the names of all of them, every one of them a legend.

I'm 35 mate. Was born 2 years after Rotterdam. I can real the name off easily.

[TonyD]

This one Damo?

I have one those.    What a day. 

[villa `cross the mersey]

I have many happy memories of things I have done in my life - that whole experience is up there - as is the match against Anderlecht - my ability to speak Dutch and French enabled me and a few buddies to get home unscathed after that game

[itmustbe_it is!]

I suspect there's a few on here like me. When I watched this on TV aged 12 (regular match goer but the trouble in Anderlecht stopped my dad taking me to the final) I was obviously over the moon, but I didn't realise , as a kid, the enormity of what I wa witnessing. It was just Villa winning in Europe, it's what we did. I never had any doubt but we would win, unlike my dad ! That was the amazing thing about growing up with Villa at that time, and I feel so privileged to have done so.

I also remember when that feeling of Villa invincible was ripped out of me.....it was the following year, when Paolo Rossi put Juve ahead at VP after a few minutes. That wasn't how things were meant to be !

[Steve67]

Come on you Villa boys. I was 14, watched it on the telly.  Does anyone remember who the co-commentator was? 

[itmustbe_it is!]

Brian Clough !

[Steve67]

Brian Clough !

Kerching!  Yup.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'll never forget how completely biased towards us Clough was.