aston villa away then called division one, be about 1980, we got the full end behind the goals and obviously in those days it was stand up terraces. tbh cant remember the result ! I know dennis tueart scored from a pen.
we arrived an hour before KO, already quite a few city fans in the end. The songs where going beer was flowing. Then the Saturday special trains turned up, must have been 7,000 city fans, lots where in the villa end and started to wave at us. Trouble started caused by city fans in the villa end so police escorted them round the edge of the pitch and in to the away end. Must have been 150 or 200 of them.
this was still before KO, the end was packed. We all sang "we shall not, we shall not be moved". But the hilarious thing was we all sat on the floor as we sang, loud and for a long time. We did it a couple of times throughout the game after scoring.
Next the whole end held up the match day programme above their heads with the page open showing I think Roger Palmer ( could be wrong ) and sang "you'll never walk alone". The villa fans at each side where in stitches. Ten minutes later the whole end picked up off the floor any chip paper wrappers, pie tins, any old rubbish and held that up to the song of YWNWA. The sight was unbelievable, the rubbish held in the air and the song echoing round. Again villa fans where laughing away.
was much the same throughout the game, songs belting out, great away day.
Anybody else by any chance go to that game ?
im also pretty sure we sang if you hate man utd long before 1990.
