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[curiousorange]

20 years today.

[joe_c]

Happy C*** Night to all who celebrate.

[LeeB]

20 years, bloody hell

[Brend'Watkins]

20 years on and I still have a rumble in the pit of my stomach. There was certainly some energy in the ground that night.

[Martyn Smith]

Ah memories...


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[dave.woodhall]

Ah memories...


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And what was good about that? It cost us the match, it dragged us down to their level.

[Walmley_Villa]

I remember leaving the Upper Holte just before the end and heading towards Aston Church and there were rows of riot police with batons and shields standing prepared like a Roman legion.
Another Villa fan I know didn't get back to his car by IMI until 1am as the roads were blocked by disorder. caused by our fans. Yes the soft Villa myth was certainly dispelled that night. Bonkers to have it on a Monday night after the away game.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

What was it that set Teh Robo off that night, calling Mac and Dave and everybody else c***s?

The nerve of other Villa fans doing something that he hadn't thought of or would take credit for.

[Matt C]

Never been to a game before or since where there was such a nasty undercurrent around the place - unfortunately matters on the pitch matched the atmosphere. The earliest I’ve ever left a game.

[Martyn Smith]

Ah memories...


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And what was good about that? It cost us the match, it dragged us down to their level.

It wasn't, in toto, at all good. But who among us here can honestly say that in the darkest recesses of their soul that they didn't take just a moment's delight in seeing Savage get twatted, moreover by own of our own...

[Scratchins]

Over dinner at an away European trip with some senior Villa department heads the conversation moved to that match. I asked what Savage had said to Dion and was told that no one heard it and no one knew. I don't believe that at all, he must have come out with something very offensive. 

[kippaxvilla2]

Na he did Dion good and proper and Dion fell right into the trap.

[Risso]

Na he did Dion good and proper and Dion fell right into the trap.

Yep, Dion was shouting into the camera "he's a cheat!" as he walked off, so I think he was just incensed at what he thought was Savage's dive in the first place. Which is wasn't to be fair, Dion went through him like a dose of salts.

[LeeB]

They work together now at the BBC and I don't think there's any hard feelings. I did think at the time that Savage must have said something, possibly racist, to have turned the normally mild mannered Dublin into a raging bull, but if he had you'd have known by now, and I'm sure Dublin has refuted anything like that before. It was just a physical manifestation of the miasma of hate that seemingly descended on every one of us that night.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

To be fair to Savage, it was his claim to fame. Without Dion he was nobody.