Super Villans BT 82 Doc

[Villan82]

YT pulled it before it even got published!

Why haven't the official history and the Villa Park 100 years ever made it to youtube? Would it be the same problem as here?

The Club should make those classics available. There is very little good villa content to reminisce on

[cdbearsfan]

I'd like an updated Villa history documentary but, preferably, when we have actually bloody won something again. Ideally before our 150th birthday. No rush, lads...

[Rudy65]

Cheers Gerrin. Top man

Couldn't sleep tonight so what to do? Watch the BT documentary of course. It was superb with lots of new footage and of course the interviews with the 81/82 legends. Consider myself v lucky to have been a ST holder during the 80/81 and 81/82 seasons and even more so to have been at Highbury and Rotterdam as a 16 and 17 yr old. Got pretty emotional watching that and thinking of the mates I shared those times with. Great days indeed.

Thanks again to Gerrin for his work

[Villafirst]

I like to see the club commission a remastered Blu-ray of the European Cup final. Amazing things can be done these days with old footage. It'd be great to see it with rich colours and a much sharper image. The DVD released some years ago wasn't that great quality. Obviously they'd need to work on the original master tape from ITV.

[Gerrin]

Cheers Gerrin. Top man

Couldn't sleep tonight so what to do? Watch the BT documentary of course. It was superb with lots of new footage and of course the interviews with the 81/82 legends. Consider myself v lucky to have been a ST holder during the 80/81 and 81/82 seasons and even more so to have been at Highbury and Rotterdam as a 16 and 17 yr old. Got pretty emotional watching that and thinking of the mates I shared those times with. Great days indeed.

Thanks again to Gerrin for his work

Glad you enjoyed it, I have to say it's probably the best Villa documentary I've seen. Far too good to be hidden away on a subscription channel for only a few to see. The Highbury section was the highlight for me. 15,000 Villa fans in the clock end looked absolutely insane.

[Duncan Shaw]

Thanks Gerrin I will download for posterity!  I watched the 1st half on demand on BT last night.  My missus hates football but even she got into it and thought it was great.  it was a great insight for her into my teenage life!!

It's the best thing I've seen on TV in years!!

[sid1964]

Thanks so much for downloading the documentary, fantastic memories of those years and wonderful times to be an Aston Villa fan, still brings a tear to my eye seeing the Peter Withe goal.

How can a football club mean so much to me!!!

[aldridgeboy]

Thanks so much Gerrin. Just downloaded as we boarded a flight!!
Suitably airdropped to my IPad for the perfect in flight viewing !

[Nelly]

YT pulled it before it even got published!

Leeg, you could try Dailymotion?

Gerrin - thank you so much for this! I purchased a month long sub to BT Sport with a view to trying to screen record this but it was so low framerate when I watched it back. Thanks so much for sorting this!

[Jon Crofts]

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[villadelph]

Can't thank you enough Gerrin - thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Stu]

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I know why the forum does this and obviously fair enough. As a general point though I can’t help thinking that requiring people to have massive clobbering subscriptions to everything that TV/Streaming companies are asking for it.

[eamonn]

Just watched it. Absolutely outstanding film from start to finish. A brilliant actor and Villa fan narrating it, generous highlights and rare footage, the cracking stories (Morley and Saunders' on-going rows!), poor Jimmy Rimmer's tears, the contemporary ever-shifting soundtrack (a sure sign that the programme had a decent budget) and the lovely tribute at the end to three of the men involved who have since passed-on. 

Plus, there was enough quirky animation to nudge any kids in your life towards getting the Villa bug. Only thing I could criticise it for was no mention of Sir Brian when discussing Villa's ascent in the late-70s, concentrating on Andy Gray alone. 

9/10 and thanks so much Gerrin for organising the download.

40 years on, I missed out on those days due to being T-2.5 years old but documents like this make me proud to be a Villan.

[dcdavecollett]

In a sense, it was great to see so many of them getting so emotional about those times/games.

They cared as much as us!

[dave shelley]

In a sense, it was great to see so many of them getting so emotional about those times/games.

They cared as much as us!

I pretty certain they still do.