woof woof ! wrote:I remember watching the Villa /Bayern final on the telly ..As I recall Villa started or played most of the match with a teenage keeper playerg his first senior game !! and he had a blinder . Bayern murdered them for 99.9% of the game but couldn't score ,it was like the "Alamo" bodies falling every where.. On a rare Villa counter the ball came in from wide on the left and Peter Whithe ? bundled it in for Villa's winner .
Don't remember how Villa won the league they were pretty average IMO .
Leonmc0708 wrote:woof woof ! wrote:I remember watching the Villa /Bayern final on the telly ..As I recall Villa started or played most of the match with a teenage keeper playerg his first senior game !! and he had a blinder . Bayern murdered them for 99.9% of the game but couldn't score ,it was like the "Alamo" bodies falling every where.. On a rare Villa counter the ball came in from wide on the left and Peter Whithe ? bundled it in for Villa's winner .
Don't remember how Villa won the league they were pretty average IMO .
Nigel Spink ?
bigmick wrote:They were a good side though, don't let anyone tell you different.
bigmick wrote:Like all Championship winning teams the Villa one was a good side. Workmanlike with little bits of flair thrownin. They had couple of older guys and a couple of really promising younger fells who never really kicked on and fulfilled their potential.
Top of my head (and one or two of these may not have been in THAT team but were definately of that era) has Derek Mountfield at centre-half who was very John Terry like in his goalscoring prowess. They had Dennis Mortimer and Gordon Cowans in midfield who were both good players (particularly Cowans), a bloke called Tony Morley who was a bit of a pigeon catcher on the wing, and the aforementioned Withe and Gary Shaw upfront.
Morley and Shaw never really kicked on as itlooked like they might, though in the case of the prodigeously talented Shaw, I'm almost certain that serious injury did as much as anything to stop him in his tracks.
They were a good side though, don't let anyone tell you different.
gabbyh wrote:In the 7o's and 80's the tackling was ruthless and hard. Tackling from behind was allowed and keepers were not as well protected as they are now.
The English league in the 80's was well respected in Europe, we were hard and firm tacklers, didn't cheat by diving and trying to get a fellow professional booked or sent off. If a player fell to the floor, he was definitely injured!!
European teams may have thought us lacking in the skill they had, but they still respected us. Liverpool at the time were a mix of grafters and skilled players.
The difference now is the amount of money in the game. Money ruins all sports eventually.
Todays players may be more skillful, but their attitude stinks.
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