I was there remember it well, joyous first half, then horrible second halfJust watched highlights of our last away game in the prem May 2001.
It was painful.
Same here! It was pretty interesting afterwards.I was there, got house bricks thrown at me after the game to make things worse.
I remember those shutters coming up and getting out of there as fast as possible. Was only 16 at the time and it was not an enjoyable away day in the slightest.It was amusing when the shutters got lifted on the concourse at half time……
Horrible day all round and their fans and the old bill were a bunch of cunts.
And don’t get me started on that useless fuckpig Juan Pablo Angel who saved his only league goal of the season for us.
If we do get promoted and play the fuckers again I think a few may change their mind from their ‘There’s no rivalry there’ stance.
It was amusing when the shutters got lifted on the concourse at half time……
Horrible day all round and their fans and the old bill were a bunch of cunts.
And don’t get me started on that useless fuckpig Juan Pablo Angel who saved his only league goal of the season for us.
If we do get promoted and play the fuckers again I think a few may change their mind from their ‘There’s no rivalry there’ stance.
I think all sides were lucky CCTV wasn’t as widespread! Most of my upper body and back were a mixture of black, brown, blue and yellow for a couple of weeks afterwards.It was a rough day.... the atmosphere in and around The Rocket and the station was charged up... it seemed like most people felt we were down and wanted to go out with a bang.
I remember the train stopped on a road bridge somewhere before Witton and there were loads of Villa fans walking underneath, and the hostility from the train was unbelievable.
Made all the worse by being up at half time and having our hopes up.
After the game was pretty bad from all concerned.... Cov, Villa, Police.... a lot of rumours going round that Birmingham were around after trouble as well.
I think a lot of people were fortunate that CCTV wasn't quite so prevalent, and on that day the police took the approach of dealing with trouble on the spot, rather than letting people get on with it and recording it all... i took a baton round the head & back, and am eternally thankful that they were the only real consequences (except of course for 15 years of downhill spiral at CCFC....!)
Presume he got off as it was hard to argue without cctv that the kid wasn't already cabbaged being a Vile fan.A Villa fan was badly beaten by a copper, to the point of being a cabbage, the copper was charged and it went to court in Warwick, got a not guilty in the end but I remember hearing about the trial dragging on for months, may have been years. Bad shit that.
I was there, and weirdly don't remember being that down about it.
As I recall we'd been sinking for a long time before it finally happened and from memory the defeat against Everton that season was a far, far worse performance.
I think I'd convinced myself that a year in the Championship would be a nice change, actually winning more than eight games in a season and then bouncing back refreshed. Shows what I knew, eh.
Game changed after he went off. Had been playing like a man possessed!Even if we’d have held on to the 2 nil lead that day we would have gone down from memory as Derby beat Man U at old Trafford
wasn’t that the game that Telfer broke his leg in as well?
I’m sure we could have still technically stayed up on the final game but all of the other games had to go our way and we had to beat Bradford something like 15-0.Villa will go on about sending us down… they didn’t. We were getting relegated regardless of the result. Grim old day. Would be great to play them again… but I don’t get the animosity towards them. Maybe I’m getting old
Aren't all Villa fans cabbages anyway, the judge probably thought there was fuck all wrong with the c**t.A Villa fan was badly beaten by a copper, to the point of being a cabbage, the copper was charged and it went to court in Warwick, got a not guilty in the end but I remember hearing about the trial dragging on for months, may have been years. Bad shit that.
Aren't all Villa fans cabbages anyway, the judge probably thought there was fuck all wrong with the c**t.
Bit harsh I know, but I struggle to find any sympathy for Villa fans after their attitude to us that day.
What would our attitude be to Villa had we sent them down around that time?
Probably something pretty similar.
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