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Offline Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air

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Blue seats and private boxes
« on: March 15, 2021, 10:51:50 PM »
 Gary Newbon talks to Doug Ellis about plans to build boxes which will include a bar and waiter service.

https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-04081972-interview-doug-ellis-aston-villa-chairman

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Re: Blue seats and private boxes
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2021, 08:05:21 PM »
Kind of enjoyed that......thanks.

Offline wittonwarrior

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Re: Blue seats and private boxes
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2021, 04:30:21 PM »
Even now he still gets to me. 

Offline LeeB

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Re: Blue seats and private boxes
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2021, 04:47:09 PM »
Even now he still gets to me. 

Me too pal, me too.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Blue seats and private boxes
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2021, 04:55:13 PM »
Gary Newbon talks to Doug Ellis about plans to build boxes which will include a bar and waiter service.

https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-04081972-interview-doug-ellis-aston-villa-chairman

The only thing I took from that was that Doug seemed to want us to know he had been to the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City.

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Re: Blue seats and private boxes
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2021, 07:16:51 PM »
Those blue seats didn’t last long. Early Doug was forward thinking, almost visionary.  what he turned into from the late 70s was the problem...

Offline Des Little

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Re: Blue seats and private boxes
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2021, 09:54:42 AM »
Those blue seats didn’t last long. Early Doug was forward thinking, almost visionary.  what he turned into from the late 70s was the problem...

I was thinking that. I had my first ST in Trinity lower in 1980, and the seats were wooden. What happened to the blue?

 


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