Proper football. 1 sub, numbers 1 - 12 on shirts, no names, no advertising, run out on to pitch, kick ball around, kick off. Brilliant. Hardly ever a backwards pass. Proper terracing, proper atmosphere. I've followed Villa through thick and thin since 67 and always will but modern football fries my head. Just look at the Holte End back then. Incredible. All Seater mandate ruined grounds.

Went to this game with my late dad i was 11 now 53 Villa and my late dad are still in my heart

Went to Villa with United in 1977 and was blown away by the size and noise of the Holte End

The Holte before the fencing divide! Knees up mother brown!!

Andy Gray was brilliant in this game & his second goal is my favourite of all the Villa goals he ever scored.

The third villa goal summed up Andy Gray . Brave and fearless to the point of madness. He was a great centre forward during his first two years at villa.

The best United away kit of all time!!!

The ‘old’ Holte End when it was standing. Those were the days...

I was 10 and my villa following days were just starting. Andy Gray was my first hero, was heartbroken when he went to Wolves. That whole villa team were legends, 75-82 were magical years for us.

I remember being at the game but I don't remember anything about the evening afterwards :-) Andy Gray was so small but as you see in the winning goal, he outjumped everyone. Great memories of standing in the Holte with over 20,000 other fans.

Thanks Villa Boy...what a splendid football, what style and beauty. Salutes from Barcelona. Football? England on 70's...of course...

Great Game..Great Atmosphere........Great Result Loved the old Trinity Rd Stand....Memories os sitting in it with my late father

Thanks for these great videos.. I am a villa fan from Greece.. Villa is one of the greatest clubs... Thanks for the memories with these videos..

Villa had more major honours to their name than any other English club at this point in time and had been the most successful club in English football for three-quarters of the twentieth century! When Sky/BTSports journalists and viewers try to re-write the history of the game and tell you that club x, y and z are the biggest and most historic, point them in the direction of Villa Park and remind them that the game's original giant - the truly great, historic "big" club of English football - is Aston Villa FC. Also tell them Villa's DNA demands they will one day be back on the very top of the pile, in their rightful place.

It was a tipical English match:power,skill and speed, fantastic

One of my favourite games ever, what an atmosphere, what a pitch.

I was 18 years old what a fantastic game old school football ⚽️ end to end 👏 great memories in the holte end. Villa fans are greatest fans end of story. Up the villa

Oh God. What happened to Villa. Andy Gray is one of our all time greats. Still that team mainly broke up in 1978-79 and a virtual new team won the league and European cup shortly after. Can Villa be ever as great again.. Yes.

Fabulous to look back on those days. I would have been there in the Wilton Lane. If you listen carefully they play the theme of the unmade silent movie at the start by Hurricane Smith. My favourite players back then were Cropley, Carradous and Graydon but what a team throughout in truth. Also I bet the groundsmen earned his money!! 🦛 playground

Both teams would win trophies that season, United the FA Cup and Villa the League Cup.

This Andy Gray is the same that played at Everton?...What a good player. Fantastic match between great teams.

Woah Andy, woah Andy, you're the greatest, the Holte End say, Woah Andy, woah Andy, we'll be with you all the way.

Was at the game. One of the best games I have ever witnessed. Two very good sides going toe to toe.

This was Villa's greatest team. Unlucky that lots of games in long cup runs effected league games and Andy Gray was just unplayable at this time. Saunders' had to break up the team for various reason's ---injuries, players wanting to leave/aging etc -----but he built another great team.

As a 6 year old at the time , I refused to go after getting caught up with police horses and a charge from West Ham outside the ground on my previous trip to Villa Park .......My Dad and brother had seats next to Macari who signed their program.......Needless to say , when they returned unscathed, had a great game , great seats and a Villa win , I was beside myself with envy ......lol

I was there as a 14 year old villa fan and when Andy gray scored the winning goal I went crazy great memories 😀😀😀👍👍👍

Brilliant footage, shame their is no highlights of the 75 league cup game. 2=1 United and a brilliant atmosphere all night, classic cup tie.

Can't wait to see Aston Villa here in Townsville ,North Queensland when they meet the Brisbane Roar later this month at the recently built "Bendigo Bank" stadium,which has an all seater capacity of 25000.

wow, these names (both sides) come drifting past me, like ghosts from my MUCH younger days. Look at the state of that center circle, and only early November, despite following one of the longest hottest, driest summer's, on record. I guess Technology makes today's turfs look unreal, no matter which month it was. Note how fortunate United were, having a sympathetic Ref, 4 or 5 times.

What a brilliant team Villa were.

Great ground villa park was

still my favourite away game

Villa destroyed mighty Liverpool the following month. Happy days!

I remember the Rangers game. We was let into the Holte end, even though the Rangers fans had already broken in to the Holte, they were throwing bottles up to the roof gurders, showering glass everywhere, match abandonded a guy got stabbed, as far as i remember. Good times the 70s being a Villa fan.

Great memories thanks I was there in the holte THE RIGHT SIDE 🙌

United started well that season and were top of the league in early October. Then Buchan got injured and they couldn't function without him. He came back in mid-December and, of the 21 league and cup matches between Christmas and mid-April, United W 16 D 3 L 2. By then they were in the FA Cup semis and they threw three or four of the remaining league matches before winning at Wembley.

When footy was great to watch.

Andy Gray young player and player of the season in the same year. Only two players have ever done that and Gray did it at Villa

I think that there's another reason why he didn't end up at Celtic!!

Best night of my life.

1874, what a great year for football.

that team had goals to spare andy missed 2 sitters and stumpy missed the pen and we still won

I remember Andy Gray catching Laurie Sivvel in the face against Ipswich. There was blood everywhere.

Will Villa ever be this good again??????

When football was real and for the working class, then, along came the money!!

Chaos against Rangers in the friendly a few weeks previous to this game thousands of jocks running amok

Up the Villa 🦁

Why did Villa sell Andy Gray to Wolves, he was a class centre forward both on the ground and in the air?

I was pretty dissapounted that night

alex steptney reminds me of scottish keepers in that era,awful,,andy gray would run into a wall to get the ball,,hard as nails

That's just what *Rangers* fans do. Liquidation is permanent!

1977.

Ah the days when Man U fans were Mancunians before the post '93 plastics.