Isnt it funny that every Villa fans and maybe other clubs supporters as well when making the first trip to Anfield notice is the size of the Kop.
That’s a really good theory/explanation except that I’ve always been a miserably, pessimistic bugger!
Its very funny you should mention senility, I think that is me. The strange thing is I well remember things such as getting off the tube at Euston Square 45 years ago and getting battered by Spurs fans, being chased all the way back to Hudderfield Station, running like a mad man to avoid going in the Trent at Nottingham and the car breaking down at Knutsford services resulting in a taxi to the game at Blackburn and back again. But I dont remember a thing about the games.
Is it linked to the way old guys like me convince ourselves thaxxt our summer school holidays were six weeks of tropical sunshine and we were all babe magnets. A check of meteorological records shows that the majority of fifties and sixties summers were nothing special. So we remember the positives of our youthful years. Dad took me to my first villa game in the fifties which were a mixed bag of glory and gloom. But l fell in love with the villa in the sixties which were generally a disaster. This was the time of players such as Tommy mitchinson,Bobby park,dick Edwards and for a short period, John Woodward. In retrospect,this was a dire time for Aston Villa. But l can still recall Derby triumphs, beating man u. I've somehow wiped the many poor displays but remember great days with my mates. Perhaps a villan psychologist can help and explain our irrational obsession with our beloved football club.
Is that Dickie Edwards guitar I can see?LP
Is it linked to the way old guys like me convince ourselves thaxxt our summer school holidays were six weeks of tropical sunshine and we were all babe magnets. A check of meteorological records shows that the majority of fifties and sixties summers were nothing special. So we remember the positives of our youthful years. Dad took me to my first villa game in the fifties which were a mixed bag of glory and gloom. But l fell in love with the villa in the sixties which were generally a disaster. This was the time of players such as Tommy mitchinson,Bobby park,dick Edwards and for a short period, John Woodward. In retrospect,this was a dire time for Aston Villa. But l can still recall Derby triumphs, beating man u. I've somehow wiped the many poor displays but remember great days with my mates. Perhaps a villan psychologist can help and explain our irrational obsession with our beloved football club.
Thats perhaps not such a good thread Silhill if wives and girlfriends get hold of the outcomes and work out the cost over the years.
Looking at my ‘portly’ shape in the mirror, I must have been a fridge magnet! You mention some equally memorable players especially John Woodward whose career was sadly ruined by a vicious tackle at Carrier Bag Albion. He was signed to replace the legend Tony Hateley but never got the chance to fulfill his undoubted promise thanks to that challenge. I worked with his wife at Walsall Town Hall and John eventually worked at the Gala Baths across the road.LP
Is it linked to the way old guys like me convince ourselves thaxxt our summer school holidays were six weeks of tropical sunshine and we were all babe magnets. A check of meteorological records shows that the majority of fifties and sixties summers were nothing special. So we remember the positives of our youthful years. Dad took me to my first villa game in the fifties which were a mixed bag of glory and gloom. But l fell in love with the villa in the sixties which were generally a disaster. This was the time of players such as Tommy mitchinson,Bobby park,dick Edwards and for a short period, John Woodward. In retrospect,this was a dire time for Aston Villa. But l can still recall Derby triumphs, beating man u. I've somehow wiped the many poor displays but remember great days with my mates. Perhaps a villan psychologist can help and explain our irrational obsession with our beloved football club.
Was this during the short but lively reign of Tommy docherty? I remember saints fans calling Mick channon doreen.did Peter broadbent score and did Lionel Martin score the winner.not sure about details as l also remember a 2-1 home defeat to saints when Jimmy MC calling hit a late winner in a thrill a minute game.l think Bobby stokes scored the winner against y red mancs in the final. My dad always said that the team who beat the villa always won the cup . I remember telling a posh fan last season after our annual surrender but he wasn't convinced.
Still make me laugh when we had Wright Aitken Arce Hole in the same line up.
It was a magical night - never ever to be forgotten. My friends Dad broke the world record for the number of people in an Austin Cambridge to get us all there. No idea how I got back. To think it was nearly 50 years ago is just plain scary.
Maybe John McGrath?
