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History Boys and Renaissance Men
at 18:16:06

A great blog and set of replies, highly evocative.

A fantastic era for the club, great times. But painful too, and the agony of not winning the league in 81 will never be matched for me. I had a feeling that Arsenal (Talbot had a blinder) would beat Villa and away at Middlesbrough we were one half from doing it (felt as though we would have beaten Southampton at home if the league were on the line).

Villa had their share of good fortune with injuries and the stat I remember is they only used 14 players, I think they played something like 46 games all season.

I genuinely feel that we were the best team in Europe that season year and each year when you look at the teams that would line up in the Champions League and Uefa Cup if the qualifying criteria were still the same, it is clear what an achievement winning the Uefa Cup was at that time.

I would dispute that the noise is louder now than for the Mariner header at the Churchmans end at home to Liverpool (77?), or the Muhren volley in front of the North Stand in the 6th round replay at home to Forest in 81, just a couple of standouts from so many.

But in fairness, it is all seater now and I do agree with the blog, it is more fun again and long may it continue. A long way to go but I like to think we have turned the corner.
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