Aston Villa Champions 1980 - 1981 - Season Review

[@charliebridges3584]

I'm an Arsenal fan since 1979 but really enjoyed this. Brought back great memories of the game in better days, when it wasn't ruined by big money.

[@darrenhammond6384]

So right mate,,,, unfortunately its all about money now.

[@norbertalbertz7259]

I have huge respect for Aston villa, I'm a rangers fan but my English team is the villa

[@MrDaiseymay]

From a fan of a unbeaten side---thanks.

[@norbertalbertz7259]

@Al Zheimer. No you dont

[@probablygraham]

Glad there's one Rangers fan with respect for anything at all. I was at the "match" on October 9th 1976 when the Rangers fans showed some of the most disgusting behaviour I have ever seen - and it was supposed to be a friendly. To call them animals is an insult to animals. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2jRh4yOq96Dndk

[@danny4063]

How did you feel after Gerrard?

[@probablygraham]

@@danny4063 I'm not really sure what Gerrard has to do with it. The fact that he was manager of Rangers until November 2021 doesn't change my opinion of the Rangers fans in 1976.

[@bendanielsmusicnow4533]

Grew up in Bristol but for some reason I chose Villa as my team when I was about six in 1983 - everyone else supported Liverpool etc - I realised later I’d just missed the glory times and had to watch villas depressing demise through the 80s - there was a real sense of depression in the air at the ground when I first saw them in 86 when I was 10 or 11, the air of greatness hung over the club and the mystery and charm of the stadium was so intense an experience for me as a youngster. How I would have loved to be in that Holte end when it was terraces and Villa were on their way to the league title - what a time it must have been.x

[@darrenhammond6384]

@bendanielsmusicnow4533 Mate, look forward to the future especially with Unai Emery in charge. However i can tell you that from personal experience that standing in the Holte End on match days was something else especially when we were in full voice, amazing,outstanding and unforgettable.

[@glenngastonjonsson7954]

When I was about 5 or 6 I learned to read. Often from milk cortons, but also from these pieces of paper that contained the 13 games that you could bet on the upcoming saturday. Betting on sports was totally state regulated in Sweden back then, and since swedish football wasn't on in the winter time, there were the horses or english football. The names of the teams were wonderfully exotic. Somehow we could often see "The game of the day" live on a saturday, when people in Britain only could see it later in the evening. Strange network deal. Anyhow, I learnt to love the fantastic names of these teams, like Manchester United, Manchester City, Newcastle, West Ham, Queens Park Rangers, Crystal Palace... For some reason, Liverpool or Arsenal weren't tantalising enough. But the team name that grabbed me was Aston Villa. So cool. They werent in the first division back then, but as I learnt more about the club through the village library, and through some football magazine I persuaded "Sten i kiosken" to import, I became more involved. The following season; "Sten i kiosken" started selling football cards. Of course, I had collected WC 74 and 78, but now I could see the faces of Brian Little, John Deehan, Dennis Mortimer, my idols. I remember that Jimmy Rimmer still was representing Arsenal in that card deck.. Any how, that`s an example of how you can start to love a football club. I'm also very proud of the fact that Olof Mellberg from my swedish favourite club ,Degerfors, did so well in Aston Villa.

[@darrenhammond6384]

I found out, completely by accident , that Jimmy Rimmer lives in the same city that i do in British Columbia, Canada. I met him once a few years back, a real Gentleman. I am originally from Birmingham and a Villa fan,,,, what are the chances eh?

[@sararichmond8476]

First division title win- I was there. European Cup win - I was there. Promotion back to the Premier League - I was there. Long live the Almighty VILLA!!!!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@pekkanikkonen3070]

i am Finnish and just crazy for the English football all around UK. When I found this page during mobile telephone,quickly searched , - " Veikkaajan käsikirja 1981-82 " - , for the next season with Champions as well Ipswich Town to the Europien fields. Just realized how fast years past with , - "handbook 1981-82 "- , when in Finland had 1 channel every Saturdays for the English I division match - LIVE - at on clock 16.55 with TV ..of course .TheVillans has ,in that time , incredible fantastic manager Mr. R.Saunders and a whole team. Fortunately we have , at on now days , technology for the fans to find out information . Do not let this situation ( y.2020 -21 ) disturb your mind. Great is that (my opinion) that people can find books and material what is availeble each other. Thank You for sharing this memoriable video flash.

[@lennoxmate4064]

I’m a Blues fan but this was a great side. They played some great football. This was back in the day when the top flight of English football ruled the world and it was mega competitive. Liverpool were dominant but smaller clubs had great success.

[@mauriechiandotto2752]

I’m a 58 year old Aussie, I used to buy the English football magazines when I was in my teens and gravitated to Villa as my team. I loved watching Shaw and Withe working together scoring goals. Then Mark Bosnich joined and I loved an Aussie played for them. To Villa.. always a fan

[@mrvillan6951]

Tony Dorigo too. UTV

[@sicknote6949]

Thanks for reminding me of being with my wonderful Grandad at Villa park for a lot of those home games and of course the European nights the following season.. UTV

[@Navarone73]

Villa had such a great team! Many wonderful players! I just noticed that Brian McClair was in Villa's youth system this system but never got a match. Went to Motherwell the following season and the rest is history. Thanx for the upload!

[@misterspitfire6564]

All these Villa legends in one video - I'm in heaven!

[@ManiMani548]

I'm from Bulgaria, but I've been an Arsenal fan since the Cup Winners' Cup final against Valencia in 1980. /I was 15 then/ In the final against Bayern, however, I supported Aston Villa. A month earlier, my Bulgarian team CSKA Sofia was eliminated by the Germans in the semi-finals. However, I was sure Villa would manage to beat them and I'm really happy to have guessed the winner.

[@bernardjay379]

Super team coming from a Manchester United fan. Denis Mortimer, Gordon Cowans, Tony Morley etc all super players.

[@leecollison8795]

Best vid ever watched all

[@stevemantell8359]

To be in the clock end at Highbury that day was just awesome, one I’ll never forget.

[@davidpendry7731]

They just moulded together as an exceptional team. Go Villa

[@stephenreie9847]

Same as the comment below, I've been a VILLA fan since 1978, seeing them win the league and European cup was something else, favourite player, Shaw 👍

[@hullster9970]

Thanks for this. I was 10 and no one could stop me running around the living room.

[@noelreilly8860]

Was at Highbury on the last day when we lost but won the league as Ipswich lost. What a day. VTID🦁

[@markhemming318]

This was my era. When we ruled the roost.

[@stevebloomer7027]

Brilliant team; Cowans was a fantastic player.

[@darrenhammond6384]

"Sid" Cowans was awesome, in all 3 of his spells with Villa. I was very lucky indeed to have watched him play many many times.

[@lordofglencoe7084]

I hope one thing after the end of this f...covid , i will go to Villa Park with my wife to see a game . I love this team since 1980 , i was 12 years old and i travel to england with school only to buy the Aston Villa shirt !

[@perrynnlynch3811]

Great comment.

[@theoneonlymusicchannel]

one day we will shine again

[@MrDaiseymay]

WELL, I GUESS BY NOW, YOU KNOW 'WE' ARE BACK IN THE TOP LEAGUE LATER THIS YEAR ? (2019--20 SEASON)

[@MrDaiseymay]

and looking into my Crystal Ball--yes, Villa beat Liverpool 7--2.

[@AllPRO786]

We are back lad!!

[@jamesandolini1087]

How Shaw, Withe, Mortimer, Morley, Swain and Cowans weren’t regular England players is puzzling. Ron Greenwood missed a fair few tricks there. Quality players and a great team.

[@MrDaiseymay]

I DON'T REMEMBER MANY PLAYER'S WITH THEIR TALENTS, LET ALONE, BETTER.

[@hockleyrebelDJ]

totally agree

[@sebastianvella8992]

@@hockleyrebelDJ When I first saw this comment I said hang on a minute there were sure better players at the time in England. Keegan was better than Shaw that is a fact. Mariner was almost as good as Withe and maybe here you have a point. Channon used to play upfront and before that Latchford was prefered. Both good players but in 1980-82 era Withe was better. Morley was good, but at the time Peter Barnes was considered better Woodcoock would also play there. Swain could never get in as right-back as there was Neal at the time and Anderson as his reserve and in the late seventies there was also Cherry at Leeds all considered better by all. As for Cowans that was Hoddle's position. Mortimer's position in midfield was at first taken by Coppel and later by Wilkins and of course Bryan Robson all 3 quality world class players. However, all my research came into question when I saw the results of England in 1981 when this Villa team was at its best. In 1981 England only won two matches both against Hungary. In 1981 England lost against Spain (Wembley), Brazil (Wembley), Scotland (Wembley), Norway (Oslo) and Switzerland (Basle). They drew with Romania (Wembley) and Wales (Wembley). Considering these results all my previous analysis seems futile and it begs the question how Greenwood kept his job after such a bad patch of results. Maybe your analyis at least for the period 1981 seems to make a lot of sense. So congratulations for your comment and for making me change my mind. By the way I am a Liverpool fan and not a Villa fan, but what's right is right.

[@ManiMani548]

What a classy footballer Tony Morley was! Stupid Ron Greenwood took him to the World Cup in Spain and didn't play him for even a minute. I remember as recently as the last match against Spain in the second stage group, he only brought on Keegan and Brooking with 17 minutes to go./Their only appearance during England's entire participation/. In my opinion, with any other coach, England would easily have played in the final, and why not win the cup, despite Italy's up-tempo team.

[@redflag8970]

@@ManiMani548 Ron greenwood was a strange appointment as England coach

[@faiwilsonho8735]

Legend Tony Morley is my coach, my mentor when he played in Hong Kong, very lucky met him in 2011 and 2017 @Villa Park and Bodymoor Heath

[@robmorton8188]

A team that left their mark in footballs rich tapestry won the league with 14 players then marched into to lift the European cup and to have been there is something is. special

[@1963billevans]

Great video! Well played for putting it together. Those were the best of times. Can we do the same, perhaps, with our current team? When the stars align....

[@western-oud1898]

Superb..man watching this gives me so much nostalgia as the villa team that won the league and European Cup are my earliest memories as a villa fan and my childhood team..as a 7/8 year old boy I thought villa won everything 😀

[@Rose_19911]

thank you for uploading this mate, me & my dad have just watched it all way through... dad gripped throughout lol

[@Gour80]

Aston Villa Forever!!!

[@kojakxx]

My first ever season ticket, my first ever far away game (Liverpool L2-1) the 3-3 away at Middlesborough was my first (and last) ever police arrest (I couldn't see their goals because of the snow) and that Arsenal game was mad at the end, all aged 14. How footy has changed but the emotions for the fans doesnt. p.s. Thanks Božo Janković, R.I.P.

[@davewright8206]

aston villa 0 everton 2 that was the first villa game i went to (this brings a lot of memories back .. football was more like football back then

[@ACDCBOWSKI]

Absolutely fantastic, still puts s tear in my eye:-)

[@stevebloomer7027]

Villa were treated like shit by Greenwood. Shaw, Mortimer, Morley, and Cowans all should have gone to Italy in the Euros and Spain in the World Cup - those 4 were a ready made team; much as everyone liked Trevor Francis, he was never a centre-forward; he was just an outside forward but he got the nod every time. So many of those Villa players should have been playing for England between 1980 and 1982. Greenwood's problem, however, was Hungary. He saw Honved in the 1950s as being the side which formed the great Hungary side of 1953 and from 1977 onwards felt that Liverpool were the team to do the same for his England team. Problem was that Liverpool's players were old and past it but 1980. Neal was a defensive liability, McDermott was good but stuttered after 1980 and Keegan was such a busy fucker that he cost England a goal in Italy in 1976 and a goal in Italy in 1980 for pissing about. In the end, we bumbled our way to the finals, and went out like a light when we got there. Meanwhile the League champions easily turn over the West Germans who get to the World Cup final. Shameful. By the way, I'm no Villa fan.

[@michaelocarroll7150]

Great memories, stood on the hill outside Villa park in the snow when we lost to Ipswich when they shut the gates with thousands still trying to get in. But we got ticket's for that day in North London. These player's will always be football gods in our eye's!

[@neilcowen2831]

What a team !!! Love my villa 🙏

[@ZeldaFitz]

That old 1st division trophy is so much better looking than the tacky PL one.

[@GravityBoy72]

Peter Withe... rising and heading into the opposite corner. He was a brilliant center-forward.

[@MrDaiseymay]

ONE OF THE VERY BEST HEADER'S OF THE BALL.

[@roddyteague6246]

@@MrDaiseymay Also one of the best commentators-Hugh Johns.

[@paulmcdonough1093]

just me uncle peter to me ha. i am everton fan though thats the reason i watch,mortimer was a scouser to morley as well,

[@andymacfaul2852]

Middlesbrough at home, right? Cracking header in front of the MOTD cameras.

[@GravityBoy72]

@@andymacfaul2852 He did it quite a few times. Away at Leicester I seem to recall. I was there. Happy days.

[@brianbale9511]

Villa followed Nottingham forest success and yes it was well deserved

[@Grifftinderpals]

Mortimer, Morley, Shaw, Cowan, Evans, Withe....imagine what that would be worth today....? What a side, and Saunders at the heart of it. Proper men too.

[@carlesq.]

Thanks for upload

[@garethhook9972]

Rimmer was a good keeper some of his saves were unreal

[@MrDaiseymay]

Arsenal let him go--FAR too early

[@garethhook9972]

Very true and then years later history repeated it self

[@andymacfaul2852]

@@MrDaiseymay You might be right, but they did get Jennings, who Spurs definitely let go too early.

[@hammerfalljag]

Withe's wearing a cap from Joondalup in Australia, the same club former Rangers and Burnley winger Ted McMinn played for.

[@BlueLegend595]

Perth Western Australia.

[@stevereeves2140]

Villa are one of only 10 teams to be champions of England in the last 40 seasons.

[@carlesq.]

Stevanski007 And only used 14 players

[@stevereeves2140]

Carl Esq Yes, an amazing achievement. Sad that Eamon Deacey is no longer with us.

[@carlesq.]

Stevanski007 Indeed

[@carlesq.]

Stevanski007 Nice to see the Ford logo of my old 'timeline'

[@stevereeves2140]

Carl Esq Hey my friend, so you are aware of all the changes going on. Most people are asleep to it.

[@michaelheaney233]

I would put a thousand likes! Ciao dall'italia ! VTID!

[@redflag8970]

refreshing season this was an both villa an ipswich were great. massive turnout at highbury where they were crowned.

[@colinjennings3661]

Dennis Mortimer was a fantastic player and a better captain.

[@davewright8206]

arsenal got to qualify for europe by winning ,so they were pretty happy too ,it was a little fiesty (to say the least ) before the game

[@tiberiusblue6961]

Should bring this club logo back

[@davidrickard9869]

I'm Australian and sat up to watch us win I was 13 loved the name so became a villain 4 life

[@peakyblinder777]

The great Peter Whithe - proper centre forward 💯🔥👏👏👏💜💙

[@funkybuddhaInit]

Under the playlist it states "12 unavailable videos are hidden". Were these taken down for copyright? Any chance that you have the original URL's for those videos? Even though they are taken down, the URL could be useful. Any ideas where I can get other season reviews?

[@davewright8206]

i remember being in the holte end ,a woman in a villa poncho "peter withe ,paying money for old rope !" five mins later he scores a 20 yarder

[@peakyblinder777]

Does anyone know the date of this documentary (when , what year was these interviews from) ? Thank you 👍

[@tomasjurogutierrez2294]

71 years for get the league, but at least was worth.

[@markbannister2469]

Superb

[@davewright8206]

i was there ,in the clock end utv

[@hockleyrebelDJ]

Europe Come on lads

[@nickash9936]

Aston villa could,EV easily have 6 or 7 players for england with 20 caps or more

[@probablygraham]

Yippee aye ehhhh, yippee aye oh-ohhhhh - Holte Enders in the sky. VTID.

[@albertknight1971]

Remember it well, We beat you 2.0 at Highbury, you won the league because Ipswich lost to Middlesbrough, you bought 16.000 to Arsenal. 👍👊

[@joelrosas1908]

Ready light thunder love 7

[@bertcert991]

Tractor boys were robbed beat Villa 3 times that season but ran out of steam very fortunate champions

[@VillaBoy]

@@ben597 Rubbish

[@Hogbearer]

Stupidity at 14:47-14:51

[@mohdhasyudin111]

Who's care?? Live in the past. Now there are shite.. One of the first founder English league. But now there are relegation team. Only people live near Birmingham support them. Others from outside none. This day it's not enough .look how man city buy 'invisible'fans from outside the Manchester. Still can't fully full the stadium.

[@Scotty-UK]

Wow doesn’t this comment make you look a right dickhead now 🤣🤣🤣🤣