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Author Topic: Villa Winning The League. 1981.  (Read 3722 times)

Offline four fornicholl

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Re: Villa Winning The League. 1981.
« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2020, 10:08:45 AM »
Amazing.
Some lucky chap has a picture of himself and Gary Shaws cock hanging on his living room wall. Priceless.

Offline West Derby Villan

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Re: Villa Winning The League. 1981.
« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2020, 12:42:48 PM »
Historic footage.Remember being stuck on the North Circular and worried we'd miss kick-off.Then the madness of the Clock-end- the full spectrum of emotions in a few minutes. Once out of the ground it was Villa everywhere. Thick traffic all the way back and a lovely touch when the coaches got back to Villa Park- the Holte End floodlights were on. We ended up in The New Bell -just beat last orders! One of the great days!

By getting out those few minutes early, we beat all that and coincidently, we too got back to the New Bell and were also back in time to buy the Argus.

One of the things that stick in the memory is stopping at lights on the North Circular and a car full of Arse fans pulling up alongside and gesturing to wind down my window(they knew we were Villa as our scarves were hanging out of the back windows) and I thought here we go but despite that I wound down my window and to my surprise they all started yelling congratulations and how they were delighted we'd won the league as they didn't want Ipswich to win it as they hated them.  Happy days.

Gents, do you mean The New Bell at the bottom of Booths Farm Road, Great Barr by any chance?

That's the one.

Small world, was my local from 1975....We got home about 10:45 from Highbury so couldn’t celebrate with Bert that night!

Offline Damo70

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Re: Villa Winning The League. 1981.
« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2020, 12:57:03 PM »
In Peter Withe's autobiography he talks about that Highbury game. Apparently a few of the players were mates with the Fewtrell family and one member of the family was in the Villa dressing room with a video camera after the match.

Offline Charlie8182

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Re: Villa Winning The League. 1981.
« Reply #18 on: December 24, 2020, 07:19:08 AM »
The ITN news from 02/05/81 is below with a feature on us becoming league champions from 11:31 to 13:18. It also has a 'very' brief snippet of the all important Middlesbrough Ipswich game on 21:16
Interestingly enough after that it features Chelsea fans causing bother and breaking their own crossbar when Notts County won promotion.

« Last Edit: December 24, 2020, 07:31:49 AM by Charlie8182 »

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Re: Villa Winning The League. 1981.
« Reply #19 on: December 24, 2020, 08:42:23 AM »
Great find and the interview between Tony Francis and Ron Saunders is brilliant. The answer to 'is this the proudest day of your life' is typical Ron Saunders.

Offline Dick Edwards

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Re: Villa Winning The League. 1981.
« Reply #20 on: December 28, 2020, 01:02:11 PM »
Only just caught up with this. Did anyone else spot a young Robert Hopkins in the dressing room towards the end of the video?

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Re: Villa Winning The League. 1981.
« Reply #21 on: January 28, 2021, 09:16:03 PM »
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« Last Edit: January 28, 2021, 09:18:14 PM by FrankyH »

Offline sid1964

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Re: Villa Winning The League. 1981.
« Reply #22 on: January 29, 2021, 10:34:52 AM »
40 years ago - 16 in London with my mates happy days

Offline Dick Edwards

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Re: Villa Winning The League. 1981.
« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2021, 08:56:46 AM »
Just realised it'll be the 40th anniversary this May. I can still remember things from that day as though it happened last week. The coach I was on was one of the first to arrive back in Aston so we got bench seats in the Aston Tavern and watched it slowly fill up as more happy Villa fans arrived back from London. My group had copies of the Sports Argus and in the centre pages there was a double page poster proclaiming 'Villa Champions'. We had our copies lined up on the bench frame behind us. Funny the little things you remember.

 


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