Aston Villa 3 Manchester Utd 2 - League Div 1 - 6th Nov 1976

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

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

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.

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

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..

The best United away kit of all time!!!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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