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Author Topic: Cruyff graces Villa Park  (Read 2274 times)

Online Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air

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Cruyff graces Villa Park
« on: June 09, 2020, 09:43:54 PM »



Offline sid1964

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2020, 12:26:18 PM »
What a player and a pleasure to have seen him play.

Online SteveN

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2020, 01:22:45 PM »
By far the best player I ever saw live, and I saw Beckenbauer, Best and Pele.

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2020, 10:44:25 PM »
By far the best player I ever saw live, and I saw Beckenbauer, Best and Pele.
This. Best performance by an away player on that night that I have ever seen.

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2020, 11:12:40 PM »
Glad to say I was the game but I was only 8 and all I can really remember (vaguely) are the two late equalisers.

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2020, 08:58:48 AM »
A privilege to be there that night, what a player and what a comeback.  A lesson for people that night; don't leave before the final whistle, when we got into the pub after the match, blokes were moaning about us losing two nil, nothing about the performance of possibly the best player they'd ever seen and when we told them it ended two all we got the usual fuck off, they took a bit of convincing.  Fabulous player, fabulous night and Villa fans showing their class again with the ovation they gave him as he was substituted.

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2020, 10:22:31 PM »
I was there too, as a one eyed 15 year old, and was sulking at the game until the last few wonderful minutes :)

I’d like to say I’m different now but I haven’t really evolved in 40 years

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2020, 10:28:02 PM »
One of the things that really irritated me about our demise in the last decade is that we no longer got the increasingly rare opportunities to see players such as Cruyff, Platini, Boniek and Mattheus because we no longer had any chance of getting into Europe.

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2020, 07:06:59 AM »
Great to see the highlights, I do wish they were longer and the quality better.

Cruyff was just brilliant that night and to think he was not only carrying an injury but was unwell as well. What a brilliant player. 

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2020, 07:07:29 AM »
The disappointing thing at the time was that we could have won the 2nd leg and gone through to the next round.

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2020, 11:56:56 PM »
yes, the MWWOW put 10-man Villa ahead, but we couldn't hold on.

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2020, 01:18:56 PM »
I was there,and the title,grace's Villa Park is spot on. 8)

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Re: Cruyff graces Villa Park
« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2020, 09:48:07 PM »
Problem was we had to play the second leg on grass, a surface we were unused to.

 


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