Liverpool 1 Aston Villa 2 - League Div 1 - 5th Nov 1977

Score - 2-1 to Aston Villa
Competition - League Division One
Venue - Anfield
Attendance - 50,436

[@raycarter4030]

i enjoyed that soooo much. utv.

[@Pickettytitch69-om7nk]

Magnificent battling performance by the Villa. Never realised about that great run and shot against the crossbar near the end by Frank Carrodus, superb skills. Very much a workhorse in the Saunders mould.

[@johngameson9768]

Lets do it Again Next Week

[@MyVadson]

Only British players and coaches! What the glorious times!

[@johngameson9768]

No Rolling Round on the floor , and Crying to the Ref Great times

[@randyborstol2491]

come on man - getting owned by American billionaire capitalists and having a team full of foreign players some of whom believe lgbt people are punishable by death and a woman's evidence in court is worth half of the man's and that no rape exists between man and wife and the prophet had a 6 year old wife - is called progress! Progressive values.

[@Pickettytitch69-om7nk]

@@randyborstol2491 And look at all those decades of ''grooming gangs'' in the UK, towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford where hundreds of young white girls were victims. An outrage that was hushed up and suppressed up by Labour, police and social services. The indigenous white, Christian culture attacked by the foreign invader.

[@crispycat4852]

Can we appreciate just how good that 2nd Goal from Andy Gray was? He made it look far easier than it was but It was a display of wolrd class Centre forward play, something that very few can do at the highest level , I've seen Harry Kane for example score goals that required a similar set of capabilities but few others these days The initial control on the chest was superb setting the ball up In front of him to move onto rather than on top of him that would then require anither touch after giving the defender time to recover fully, then his strength to hold off the defender and not be put off balance who was now shoulder to shoulder leaning into him just as he was about to shoot and then not just smashing It head down at Clemence but lifting it sliightly Every aspect of that goal had to be perfect and It was Even though It wasn't soectacular It was a delight to see as an example of elite CF play , doing all the simple things extremely well

[@Pickettytitch69-om7nk]

I always remember the day before, the Evening Mail proclaiming that there would be 10,000 Villa fans attending this match but the evidence here is that it was considerably less. Not least because many would have been watching in silence due to Scouse thugs on the look out for away fans to attack, these were the days of very serious soccer violence. On that evening, in fact, I was enjoying a pint in the Halfway House in Four Oaks when two Villa lads walked in, still in a state of terror, they still looked to be very badly shaken up. I myself came within an ace 14 months later of being beaten beaten up by three Scouse Evertonians after Villa's 1-1 draw there on 30/1/79. Never felt so frightened and shit scared at a game. I went there on the Traveller's Club coach, I estimate no more than 60-70 fans journeyed up. Evans put us in front 1-0 on 53 mins..but on the old Park End terrace...no one jumped up, I estimate up to 2,000 Scouse louts on that section... I stood in silence under the TV gantry on the half-way line. Etched in my mind forever, it was a horrible, terrifying experience....it scarred me for life.

[@kevinjeenes]

Horrible place in the 70s for away fans, ...I can vouch for that