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Remembering Villa's last chaotic meeting with Barcelona, 43 years on
03.11.26, 10:18
When Aston Villa fans proudly sing that they ‘even conquered Europe,’ they are, of course, harking back to the greatest night in the club’s history, when Tony Barton’s side overcame Bayern Munich in the European Cup final.
In the intervening years, when often Villa languished at the wrong end of the table, that success has taken on even greater significance. “From Rotterdam to Rotherham,” read an infamous sign at Villa Park, when the side dropped out of the top flight just under a decade ago.
Many - myself included - grew up with the tales from Villa’s glory years of the 1980s. And, yet, one of those great triumphs is barely afforded more than a footnote in the retelling of that era; the encore after the main event.
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Freelance reporter. Nearly a decade's experience in the media industry and a former Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool club correspondent. A Villa fan from birth, Michael was born in Birmingham but grew up in Belfast.