Villa Park Redevelopment

[john e]

I'll always remember being at the Rovers when we played Barnet in the FA Trophy, back when Barnet were the main non league side. When the attendance was announced there was a mass of laughter around the ground as it was about half of the amount actually in the ground.

Didn’t they have a ‘big character ‘ owner at the time?

[kippaxvilla2]

There was one under Ron that was advertsied as 29k and H&V mag commented afterwards that 'where in the ground could you have fitted another 11,000 people?

[PeterWithesShin]

We had a spell of 3 years where the only 30k league crown I can think of was Everton when they brought 10K+. Then we had 36k v Bradford and crowds slowly climbed again.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'll always remember being at the Rovers when we played Barnet in the FA Trophy, back when Barnet were the main non league side. When the attendance was announced there was a mass of laughter around the ground as it was about half of the amount actually in the ground.

Didn’t they have a ‘big character ‘ owner at the time?

Stan Flashman was at Barnet.

[Pat Mustard]

There was one under Ron that was advertsied as 29k and H&V mag commented afterwards that 'where in the ground could you have fitted another 11,000 people?

That was the Arsenal 3-1 I think - Villa Park was rammed that day.

This was it - 29k 

[kippaxvilla2]

I remember Big Ron chasing Daley up the touchline to get him to run faster.