150th Anniversary game

[Villan82]

At the risk of being unpopular I can see the reason why they put this one as the 150th anniversary game.  Bit of mystique about it will sell more tickets for a game where otherwise we would be looking at 25k odd.  Not supporting it just understating the cynical logic.

Yes but the problem is Heck has done so much to antagonise us up to this point that it is hard to cut him some slack. He basically made so many unpopular decisions in his first year that it's at a stage where you can't really give him the benefit of the doubt. He'd have to do something quite spectacularly popular - announce we were rebuilding the ground in the style of the old Trinity or some such - to get back in the good books.

[kippaxvilla2]

The criticism I saw on the Heck thread about hypocrisy for buying CL tickets makes me laugh.  I boycott as much as possible places like Costa as I prefer to give my money to local coffee shops.  People can’t quite do the same with football club supporting.  It’s still fine to criticise things if you don’t agree with them and still not boycott it.

[Lucky Eddie]

Will the refreshments be one pound fity in the away end?

[sid1964]

Just out of interest what was the attendance for the 100th year anniversary game?

[Tuscans]

[Exeter 77]

Just out of interest what was the attendance for the 100th year anniversary game?

29481 according to this Leeds site.
https://www.ozwhitelufc.net.au/leeds_friendlies/leeds_united_first_team_friendlies_details/leeds_united_first_team_friendlies_details.php

[Charlie8182]

Just out of interest what was the attendance for the 100th year anniversary game?

29,481

[cdbearsfan]

Not too bad for a friendly. Though losing to Brian Clough's Leeds is pretty shocking. Thankfully that match wasn't in the film (I don't think so, anyway).

[LukeJames]

I haven't brought a replica shirt for 20 odd years but I love this one. I'll probably get it unless they try something stupid and charge £150.

[KRS]

I doubt I’d get the black replica shirt (unless they release a version without the text around the badge), but looks like they’ve nailed it with the adidas casual wear…the claret hoody, adidas detail in black and stand-alone lion in black. Take my money.

[eamonn]

Just out of interest what was the attendance for the 100th year anniversary game?

29481 according to this Leeds site.
https://www.ozwhitelufc.net.au/leeds_friendlies/leeds_united_first_team_friendlies_details/leeds_united_first_team_friendlies_details.php

Interesting resource - if you scroll down it gives details of a mid-season friendly we played against Leeds at Elland Road in January 1985 in aid of the victims of famine in Ethiopia. Just as well Band Aid had already sold a few million records as less than 2,000 turned-up for the game! It was snowing, in fairness. I wonder if we took many. Wolfie and a few dozen others maybe?

https://www.ozwhitelufc.net.au/leeds_friendlies/leeds_united_teamsheets/Aston%20Villa%2015-01-1985.php

Match Report by David Hopps: Courtesy Mark Ledgard

If only Leeds had played in white...

Leeds United 1 Aston Villa 3

About five million people bought the Band Aid pop single in response to the Ethiopian Famine Appeal. Last night Leeds United and Aston Villa did their bit, on a rather smaller scale as only 1,781 spectators braved temperatures around freezing at Elland Road for this charity match.

The bleak scene could hardly have been more unreal. At first glance it was more reminiscent of hockey than soccer-ice hockey, considering the white surface, a hockey international on the terraces where hundreds of school children, guests of the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Coun. Douglas Gabb, sang in a slightly higher key than normal.

In truth, undersoil heating ensured the pitch was in perfect shape, the ball ran freely despite the covering of snow and both sides, realising they might not get another match for weeks, produced a respectable work rate. Leeds proved that, as they took the lead five minutes before half-time. Swan rose well to head on Aspin's ball down the right. Dickinson accelerated through from full back to cross and Sheridan, stealing in from midfield, had time to trap the ball before sliding it past Spink.

Sheridan's balance stood out through a net curtain of falling snowflakes and Aspin and Withe looked willing enough to contest possession in a snowdrift. But as the lights of the gritting lorries flashed by the ground, so ensuring a safe journey home for the Lord Mayor and his entourage, Hughes found life was more hazardous for goalkeepers. McMahon's shot squirmed out of his grasp and Gibson, free on the left, scored from six yards.

Villa, grasping the opportunity for match practice had named the side intended to meet Watford last Saturday and they took the lead after forty-eight minutes, when Gibson headed his second from Dorigo's cross. Interest for Leeds centred on their debutants-Stiles, a midfield player, and Swan, centre half for the reserves, but slipping in alongside McCluskey last night. It would be unfair to judge them in such conditions, as it would a third debutant, who came on as substitute with Donnelly midway through the second half. Both wore a No. 14 shirt. Simmonds, the junior partner, had the short-sleeved one. Walters, increasingly dangerous down the left, missed an excellent chance before crossing for McMahon to head in from almost on the line and stretch Villa's lead fifteen minutes from time.

With proceeds divided between the Lord Mayor's Ethiopian Famine Appeal, the Royal commonwealth Society for the Blind and selected local charities, Frank Gray captured the charitable mood three minutes later as he allowed Spink to save his gently-struck penalty. Leeds, canary yellow shirts glinting against the snow, should have played in white. They would have been unstoppable.

[Smirker]

I doubt I’d get the black replica shirt (unless they release a version without the text around the badge), but looks like they’ve nailed it with the adidas casual wear…the claret hoody, adidas detail in black and stand-alone lion in black. Take my money.

Link to the casual wear please.

[KRS]

I doubt I’d get the black replica shirt (unless they release a version without the text around the badge), but looks like they’ve nailed it with the adidas casual wear…the claret hoody, adidas detail in black and stand-alone lion in black. Take my money.

Link to the casual wear please.

This is what came up on my Google feed with a few pics…

https://www.soccerbible.com/performance/football-apparel/2025/01/adidas-marks-aston-villa-s-150th-anniversary-with-heritage-inspired-jersey/

…I trust the hoody that Ramsey is wearing is claret rather than red as per the image below.

[aldridgeboy]

[Smirker]

I doubt I’d get the black replica shirt (unless they release a version without the text around the badge), but looks like they’ve nailed it with the adidas casual wear…the claret hoody, adidas detail in black and stand-alone lion in black. Take my money.

Link to the casual wear please.

This is what came up on my Google feed with a few pics…

https://www.soccerbible.com/performance/football-apparel/2025/01/adidas-marks-aston-villa-s-150th-anniversary-with-heritage-inspired-jersey/

…I trust the hoody that Ramsey is wearing is claret rather than red as per the image below.

They are nice