Brilliant post! Some great images.I have a framed shot of Pat McMahon's winner at home.A memory that will last forever...
What was the away game like Frank? I know we had a good following there but was it a backs to the wall game?
Thanks for posting.My first big game at Villa Park and my first time up the Holte - I was agog the whole evening like a young lad out of a comic.My dad had been off work for 6 months after falling off a ladder on a building site and he kept his promise to get tickets and put me on his shoulders for the game but sometime late on he did say to me that if it went to extra time we’d have to leave as he was in agony. Luckily Pat McMahon came up with the winner. I remember his mate driving us back to the working men’s club he ran in Chase Terrace and I was able to stay up and watch the highlights since it was school holidays. A truly amazing night for an 8 year old and probably the Xmas highlight that year.Those 11 men were absolute legends in any reckoning of our history. Does anybody have the team from that nigh - looks like Rich and Tyler were in civvies in the above photo.And I love Wolstenholme simply referring to us as the Villa, like a true connoisseur would do.