Originally Posted by
animallittle3
Easter saturday 1981 it was , away to Walsall at the old Fellows Park ground .
We were holding our place in the automatic promotion places but it was tight between us , Huddersfield , Chesterfield , Charlton and Rorherham for the three spots , only a couple of points separated us .
I seem to remember easter was late that year and there were only about 4 games left .
I remember too it was a red hot day and so wary of dehydrating we took plenty of fluids on the kexborough bus down to the midlands .
We got there quite late due to the bank holiday traffic and the weather , managed to get inside the ground 10 minutes before KO .
The away end was packed out , 4k easily and absolutely no room at all to see the game .
There was a brick wall which ran behind the terraces and we climbed up on that and got a perfect view .
We drew the game 1-1 which wasn't good because Walsall were in the bottom 4 .
After the game we were booked in to a massive WMC in Lichfield , absolutely huge this place was .
At first it was a bit edgy with the locals , some of the local Villa fans were a bit hostile , taking over the concert room didn't go down too well .
Once it was established that we all wanted Villa to win the league , which they did , it calmed down .
Once the ale started going down and the disco fired up it was perfectly fine .
We even got an invite back anytime we wanted which most definitely didn't happen too much with Kexborough supporters .
I think filling a collection box with a load of cash for a local young lass who was very ill helped enormously .
Feck knows how I remember this shyte from all those years ago because I can't remember what I did last week now .