Aston Villa: On This Day

[Exeter 77]

In a similar vein to the On This Day thread in Off Topic but specifically for Villa.

Just an excuse for me to post my favourite ever Villa goal - Tony Morley's second here.

43 years ago today Dynamo Berlin 1 Aston Villa 2

[Meanwood Villa]

First one isn't half bad either

[dcdavecollett]

Reminds me of Dalian's brace at Hillsborough in 1992, two goals that were so good it was hard to say which was best.

[jon collett]

Yes I remember those and the two Alan McInally got against Millwall!

[LeeB]

Yes I remember those and the two Alan McInally got against Millwall!

Neil Ruddock scored with a thunderbastard for Millwall in that game too.

[Dave P]

2 years of Unai today.  What a ride so far.

[Exeter 77]

43 years ago today Gary Shaw scores twice v Wolves in the league game in between two legs of a league cup tie against the same opposition.

And 34 years ago today Kent Nielsen's finest hour (which makes me feel really old!)

[LeeB]

43 years ago today Gary Shaw scores twice v Wolves in the league game in between two legs of a league cup tie against the same opposition.

And 34 years ago today Kent Nielsen's finest hour (which makes me feel really!)

I can vividly remember getting home from school and checking teletext to see we'd drawn Inter, and being beyond excited by it.

[usav]

I can vividly remember the Inter game.  I was just 16 and went to the game with my older brother who is an Albion fan - I even remember meeting him at the station.  Memorable because I had never been to a game with him before, it was always my other brother who took me to games when I was younger, but I can't remember where he was for this.

I was stood right behind the piss-missile from Nielsen.....what a goal.  I remember Cowans bossing the game that night.  I also remember being disappointed with Inter not filling their allocation of tickets for such a big club (not to mention big game in my eyes).

[Exeter 77]

Today in 1958 Gordon Sidney Cowans was born.

[dcdavecollett]

..as was the concept of passing the ball accurately up to forty yards off either foot.

[trinityoap]

The forty yard pass from Sid would come after he had run thirty yards to slide in from behind an opponent to take the ball off him ,get up and turn without touching the said opponent who would still be wondering where the ball had gone.

[dcdavecollett]

Yep, that was our Sid!

[dave.woodhall]

..as was the concept of passing the ball accurately up to forty yards off either foot.

By a seven year old in Aldershot.

[LeeB]

..as was the concept of passing the ball accurately up to forty yards off either foot.

By a seven year old in Aldershot.

I got that, which I'm impressed with as he left the club a few years before I was born.