27 years

[JD]

I had been in New Zealand for close to two years. I was working in Wellington at the time.

Don't remember much of the game as we didn't get a great deal of coverage over here.

[Allan C]

I was 37, in the RAF living in deepest Cambridgeshire. I missed this game and the every game that season from January to April. What a season that was

[rob_bridge]

I was 37, in the RAF living in deepest Cambridgeshire. I missed this game and the every game that season from January to April. What a season that was

I was at the perfect age - 23. Best supporting in person season of my life. I was too young to properly appreciate the early 80s

[Axl Rose]

There are a couple of gobby little man Utd fans in there, so I'm going to take great joy in laughing at them as they enter the lecture hall.

Are they from Manchester, by any chance? I'd be amazed if they weren't.

Two of them skived off! Bastards

Not a peep from two man Utd supporting colleagues either.

Lovely stuff

[Bad English]

There was one in my first and second lessons this morning. They got the full treatment. It's 2022 and 13 year-old kids are wearing Manyoo tops here in SW France. FFS!

[Axl Rose]

There was one in my first and second lessons this morning. They got the full treatment. It's 2022 and 13 year-old kidsare wearing Manyoo tops here in SW France. FFS!

Good work, mate!

[Mister E]

Sad that we have to have this thread at all, although it's fascinating to read these personal stories.
I was 37, had moved up to Harrogate 6 years' earlier and had 2 kids. Tom, my Yorkshire-born, Villa-supporting, football-coaching son is now 30!
I didn't get to the game then but thoroughly enjoyed being there yesterday.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I was 27 so it was literally half a lifetime ago. I was sitting in the Upper Holte for it then and was in Upper Holte yesterday.

[Breezeblock]

I was 29, my son was 1 and I was living in a rented house in Erdington. I couldn't go to the match 'cos I was skint and my (now thankfully ex) missus insisted on spending every spare penny on booze and fags. Funnily enough I couldn't go to yesterdays match cos I was visiting my current missus down in Wokingham.

[Clark W Griswold]

I was just turning 20, had a season ticket and had for a few years and hardly missed a match. I missed that one though as i was on holiday. Fucker. I don't go down too much these days but i did go yesterday. Fucking brilliant! In actual fact yesterday was one of my favourite home games in the 35 years i've been going. In fact for me it was certainly the best since the 5-1 blues demolition.

[Richard]

I was only 30 and living in Hall Green, my son hadn't been born but ironically he now lives in Manchester and we are going together on Thursday.

[eamonn]

Just watching some of the full game back on AVTV, sounds like Brian Little doing co-comms with Jack Woodward. Seemed fitting! Not sure if he spoke much about the '95 game.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

42,going on 43. I was working for Social Services in Kent, and I’d just been given the poison chalice of delivering an IT system that supported Care Management for around 2,000 angry Care Workers that an in house team had failed to deliver, and ICL consultancies had failed too.

It was then I fully realised what a nightmare job for them it could be. Badly paid, always trying not to be the next Sun Exclusive.

Lovely people doing a thankless job for pennies, and I dropped the first management system for Care Management in the country on them. I left not long after, but I left a lot of those 2,000 an abiding love/hate for Aston Villa (one of my team was Jimmy Brown’s auntie).

[wince]

Risso where’s the tattoo?? Don’t make me shout your name like the punisher did to Russo!

[N'ZMAV]

I was 12 - so probably being a prick.

I was 2 weeks from being 12, do probably playing with Manta Force

Manta Force was class