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Xela Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 2 hours ago, Mark Albrighton said: One of the best games I've been at. What a day! On a side note, I always think fashion hasn't changed since the 90's... then i see the crowd! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 When Ugo hit the bar and then Richardson blasted over the bar, from the spot I had feared the very worst, but Bozzie saved the day. He was top class during his time with us, what a pity it was that he was then tempted to re-join Newton Heath (the grass is not always greener) and make a move that virtually ended his PL career. He had played 3 games for them before they cancelled his contract in 1991, he then played 179 games for us, before returning there and making 23 appearances before moving to Chelsea, where he played all of 5 games. What a waste! For some reason he also seems to refer to his time at Newton Heath and Chelsea, more often than he does his time with us during interviews (despite having won two League Cup winners medals with us). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Yeah I loved Bozzie, I was gutted when he left as he was one of the best keepers out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow1988 Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 So just scrolling through twitter. Which of these do you enjoy most? Yesterday's OTD or today's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 I know it's fairly recent history, but it all seemed so much more fun, even a couple of years back. When did shit start to get so serious? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Marvellous. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sidcow Posted May 14, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted May 14, 2022 (edited) I found this video fascinating. It shows how long ourselves and Everton were the 2 main teams in England, most of league history really. It also shows how we really messed up in Premier League times and how the big 6 are all really quite recent interlopers. Making it big at the right time at the formation of the Premier League really moulded the current situation. Bearing in mind we finished second in the first season it shows what a massive opportunity we missed. Edited May 14, 2022 by sidcow 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 10 hours ago, sidcow said: I found this video fascinating. It shows how long ourselves and Everton were the 2 main teams in England, most of league history really. It also shows how we really messed up in Premier League times and how the big 6 are all really quite recent interlopers. Making it big at the right time at the formation of the Premier League really moulded the current situation. Bearing in mind we finished second in the first season it shows what a massive opportunity we missed. Sunderland as well. They've been managed appallingly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_Evans Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 We won our last FA Cup 8 years before Liverpool won their first. Despite all their success over the last 65 years, they have only today overtaken our total number of wins. Will we ever see that beautiful pot at Villa Park again? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 16 minutes ago, Stephen_Evans said: We won our last FA Cup 8 years before Liverpool won their first. Despite all their success over the last 65 years, they have only today overtaken our total number of wins. Will we ever see that beautiful pot at Villa Park again? Dunno. All we can say is that the club is in the best shape than for many a year.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sidcow Posted May 14, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted May 14, 2022 59 minutes ago, Stephen_Evans said: We won our last FA Cup 8 years before Liverpool won their first. Despite all their success over the last 65 years, they have only today overtaken our total number of wins. Will we ever see that beautiful pot at Villa Park again? Our record of 7 FA Cups stood as a record for decades and took 80 odd years to accomplish. Some clubs have won nearly that many in the last 25 years. Whilst the Premier League has been the making of English football it's also destroyed it. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 On 27/02/2022 at 15:59, John said: For some reason he also seems to refer to his time at Newton Heath and Chelsea, more often than he does his time with us during interviews (despite having won two League Cup winners medals with us). That’ll be because he’s an absolute total and utter 🛎 end. I did some work at his house years ago. The guy was so far up himself I can’t begin to tell you. Strangely enough a friend of mine once had Yorkie view her house with a view to buying it. I know he’s a plonker and burnt all his bridges with us when he went north but apparently he was great. Talked about The Villa and played with her young lads. He didn’t buy the house but spent ages there chatting football, of course generally Villa. He couldn’t have been nicer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 12 hours ago, Stephen_Evans said: We won our last FA Cup 8 years before Liverpool won their first. Despite all their success over the last 65 years, they have only today overtaken our total number of wins. Will we ever see that beautiful pot at Villa Park again? I know what you mean but in the last 15 years Portsmouth, Wigan and Leicester have managed to win it. That has to give us a small (very small!) glimmer of hope.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 12 hours ago, Stephen_Evans said: We won our last FA Cup 8 years before Liverpool won their first. Despite all their success over the last 65 years, they have only today overtaken our total number of wins. Will we ever see that beautiful pot at Villa Park again? I really hope so. I've always wanted to see us lift that trophy, from the 60s/70s when I would sit at home in front of the TV for the whole Saturday, to the days when we kept getting drawn away in Round 6, to those Wembley cup final days that started with hope, that was ultimately dashed. I've said before, that I would love us to do it whilst Peter McParland was still around to see it (don't those photographs below show Peter's pride in having won it with us? That third photograph adorns my wall by the way). It would also be nice for a few of us old boys that have witnessed us win almost everything else from the mid 70s onwards to see it lifted, to complete our set of domestic trophies, let alone for those fans that have now followed us for upwards of twenty odd years, without seeing us lift one of the big trophies. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 Happy Boys of 82 Day everyone! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 I have read some comments on a Rangers website about the 'infamous' friendly game and how they "took over" the Holte End? The consensus was they came down to fight and teamed up with Liverpool fans to cause maximum disruption in the Holte... Is this correct, was anyone there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 I was there, I'm not aware of them teaming up with Liverpool fans, in fact I doubt whether they would have been particularly friendly with them either. I think that they came down, got drunk and decided that they would stand en masse on the Holte. Villa fans sensibly decamped to the Witton End (in our case across the pitch at half time, because we had arrived five minutes before kick off and unaware that we were two of the few usual Holte Enders in our usual spot, until another mate whispered to us "Welcome to Glasgow"). It seemed that every other Rangers fan had a scar on their face and the one that didn't had a bottle of whisky in their pocket. My mate and I had neither, so we rather stood out in the crowd, even before someone we knew waved at us, as he was being marched behind the goal, arm in arm with two policeman. Predictably all of the Rangers fans in front of us turned around to see who he was waving to, as did we! They were fighting each other at the top of the Holte before it kicked off proper, but when we went 2-0 up, that was the final straw for them and they decided a drunken brawl was preferable to seeing their team take a beating on the pitch. Sore losers! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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