Great reading.My first full season following Villa. The Charlton massacre was probably the only home game I missed that year.My dad had gone on.about how Charlton were our bogey team and we never beat them.Being a young lad,I didn't fancy it on a miserable,rainy day.
Watching the results coming in,David Coleman standing over the teleprinter,
and the score being so unusual,that it printed it out in full ELEVEN.First and last time I've been unhappy about an emphatic Villa win.
Many years later,having a hip replacement and talking to a fellow patient,he asked me ,"Who did Villa play in their next home game ?" Scunthorpe was my Mastermind reply.
The patient asking me ,had been the Scunthorpe centre forward that day ,Harry Middleton.He went on to do some scouting for Villa and his son,Darren,played at u21 level for Villa.
Harry's route into pro football was unusual in that he joined Wolves after scoring frequently for Kynochs in the Birmingham Works League.
