Villa fan here. I remember this night so well. Sitting in lower Holt and when blues scored at least 20 blues fans jumped up celebrating. Big fights kicked off. I was only 14 with my 2 mates. Was pretty tense atmosphere all night. Then on the way to aston train station with helicopters flying all over with spot lights on fans scrapping outside the ground. Pretty scary for a young fan without my parents. Just ran to the station.
A relative of mine was a copper in the west mids police and they said there were hundreds if not thousands of arrests during these games but they never published figures as they didn't want it too reflect badly on the city.
@@jonnym7926I'm Villa through and through and never miss a home match but I just love football in general so I never pass up an opportunity to go any game if a tickets going spare and I've been to so many of the so called big derby football matches where apparently fans hate eachother etc ect but I'll tell you now no derby is a hateful as the Villa Birmingham derby. It's pure nastiness.
Wolves fan. I never got why Blues fans despised Villa so much (besides geography) but since working with a bunch of them this last five years I can understand.
@@JF-sb5mo Why exactly are we in your shadow? We go where we want, do what we want, it's a predominantly Blues town, when we play we hardly see you, cos a lot of your fans are commuter. So come on do pray tell?
I wasn't at this particular game but can totally agree about the hate comment. I'm a bluenose and been to many Villa- Blues games and I must say the atmosphere in the ground is electric. That hostile feeling you get when the match is about to kick off is scary but brilliant. I crave these derby's and hope Blues can sort this joke out with the board and hopefully both teams will meet agin soon.
As a young villa fan this was my first derby, and my worst. I got shit about this one at school for years haha. Had some better times since against the blues, got to love derby day. Who knows when the next one will be.
Enjoy your time in the league you should be in, fella. I am a Blue Nose and was in the Holte End when we beat you 2-1. I behaved myself. One day some miracle will happen and Blues will rise again.
Blues have really being missing Fahey this season. I didn't rate him like a lot of fans but I think in his abscence we've been really shown up this season. Get well Keith.
I’m a blues fan and sat in the holte end with 3 other blues fans as the vile couldn’t sell their tickets. I was only 16 and celebrated both goals. Great memories
Doubt all you want. It happened and I wasn’t the only group of blues supporters in that stand. We all stood up and celebrated not once but twice. I guess you watched it on tv 🤣
The tackle was a sending off , The headbutt was a sending off ,,, But the commentators are looking to blame the player in blue saying it must have been something he said ....
It was bubbling under the surface all night, but the tackle and the headbutt was the catalyst which led to everything else that happened afterwards. It was possibly the most poisonous atmosphere I've ever been in.
He was annoyed and had a right to be. Six foot and 13 stone through your ankle. I only played until I was 26 and my ankles are bad and crack like twigs when I turn them. On sticks if I had been a pro until 32.
dublin's challenge was very very late in the first place, of corse Savage said something that really annoyed Dublin but with a late challenge and a blatent headbutt (not the worst in the world but he definetly moved his head towards Savage) he couldn't have hoped to stay on the pitch. Silly play by Dublin in such an important game
No prob mate. It ended up finishing at 10 mins when there was prob a couple of minutes left which showed it all erupt at the end with Joey Gudjonsson's tackle on Upson and the fans losing it. Will try and upload the rest when I get chance.
Enckelman should have had that second goal covered he basically chickened out. Despite enjoying the result as a Blues fan I was never a Robbie Savage fan. As the poor brother in the second City any win over Villa was Gold dust whether us Blues fans like to admit it or not!
Can't disagree there. Savage was a crafty so-and-so - even before we signed him. He had a deserved reputation for cheating and generally being a snake. He even admitted that he'd have engineered a move to join Villa if Mark Hughes had gone there instead of Blackburn, and I'm sure he would have. With regard to the Enckleman mistake- we all laughed at the time, but you could tell that his confidence was shot to pieces after the first game, and a mistake was always likely to happen in the return game. If he'd kept his cool, he'd have got there first, but as you said, he saw Horsfield bearing down on him and bottled it. Ah well, Villa have certainly got their revenge since those heady days, and I've lost count of the times that we've bottled these derbies since.
I was never keen on savage either, a gobshite, who would run a mile if someone squared up to him. And his piss poor excuse for going to Blackburn. Tosser.
For all those accusing Savage of saying something racist should know after the game Dublin admitted that nothing of the sort was said. What Dublin did was wrong and should have known better. Might of cost Villa a chance of winning the game. KRO!!!!
@JohnGolf123 What do you expect from a Graham Taylor team! He had the same tactics for the whole of his career, worked in the 80s but not in the 90s (as we all saw with England) and nearly got Villa relegated the season this game was played.
light years is more than an overstatement- a 0-1 win against us isnt what i call light years ahead, we outplayed you for 80 minutes. get ready to once again be equal to the team that carrys this citys name mate ;)
