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Football stadiums then and now – interactive quiz
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7 out of 10. Not bad for a youngster1
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8 and made a schoolboy error with one I really should have got.0
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Not Ibrox given your roots surely? ;-)Sillybilly said:8 and made a schoolboy error with one I really should have got.
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'Fraid so. I went for villa park.RedChaser said:
Not Ibrox given your roots surely? ;-)Sillybilly said:8 and made a schoolboy error with one I really should have got.
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So did many of us, that flaming badge is what did it and the back of the main stand at Villa Park is not that disimilar brick work. :-(Sillybilly said:
'Fraid so. I went for villa park.RedChaser said:
Not Ibrox given your roots surely? ;-)Sillybilly said:8 and made a schoolboy error with one I really should have got.
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9/10 - went for Villa Park instead of Ibrox.0
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Full 10/10 for me
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What two teams are playing on picture 8 think it could be Chelsea v Sheff Wed half final 19660
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9 out of 10, back of the net!
Got the Ibrox one wrong, thought the badge on the stand in the background was Aston Villas!
Those crowds, what a memory.0 - Sponsored links:
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9 out of 10
Strangely, got the St Andrews one wrong!
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According to Wiki that game was at Villa Park, so i'm wondering if Brum are playing Chelsea but for some reason (Cup game?) are wearing white.Lewis Coaches said:What two teams are playing on picture 8 think it could be Chelsea v Sheff Wed half final 1966
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Interesting. Very similar in appearance and effectively the same motto underneath. Is there something connecting a lion in that posture with "being prepared", I wonder?Henry Irving said:0 -
I ballsed up that question because I reasoned if it was St Andrews, Birmingham City would have been playing at home in blue - and neither team wore blue kit in the photo.redlanered said:
According to Wiki that game was at Villa Park, so i'm wondering if Brum are playing Chelsea but for some reason (Cup game?) are wearing white.Lewis Coaches said:What two teams are playing on picture 8 think it could be Chelsea v Sheff Wed half final 1966
And I've been to St Andrews enough times ........ !
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Both badges are taken from the lion rampant on the Scottish Standard. This heraldic design is very important north of the border and has a history dating back some 1,000 years. Presumably to a time when prides of Panthera leo could be seen strolling around the glens. It's therefore easy to see why Rangers adopted the symbol.Algarveaddick said:8, why have Rangers got Villa's badge on their wall?
Villa introduced their lion (originally reversed) in 1878. The cover story was that it was in honour of several Scottish players the club had "The Scottish Contingent". It seems though that club administrator William McGregor, the founding father of The Football League no less, was the sort of Scottish teetotal Wesleyan who would have enjoyed nothing better than foisting his own heritage onto others. Interestingly, due to a problem with the club's laundry the badge was almost immediately removed from Villa's shirts and didn't make a return until 1957. In that time they had changed their colours from all black the the claret and blue they have today.
The badges of Chelsea, Middlesbrough and Millwall also feature rampant lions and there are clear trends between the three: None are Scottish, all are chavvy. Fair play to Chelsea and Middlesbrough though, whose badges are apparently adaptations of local crests. Millwall fans are still fighting amongst themselves as to the origins of theirs, though. Some say it is the Scottish Lion, others claim that it was because there was a taste for things African down in the docks at the time they were formed, whilst a third argument is that they became known as the lions due to some early giant killings in the cup. Yeah, right!2 -
am I the only one for who the link doesn't work, try and click on the first answer and nothing happens0
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No you aren't - waste of time.Elthamaddick said:am I the only one for who the link doesn't work, try and click on the first answer and nothing happens
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I think it's very honest of all of you who got Rangers/Villa mixed up after this was posted as the 6th post on this threadCharltonparklane said:9, thought Ibrox was Villa Park.
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OK show offs move over, anyone prepared to admit to worse than my 5?0
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Both Villa's Trinity Road Stand and The South Stand at Ibrox were designed by the same engineer and share certain similarities.1 -
When did the four peak roof go? 80?cafc999 said:The West Stand then (1972)
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We're they from that pack of slides we found?
Must be 1000s of others that need sorting and digitalising.0 -
the 'then' one is and the 'now' one was given to me by an elderly fan
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I think the then photo is about 10 years later, circa 1982.0
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I will check the info on the slide when I get in tonight.happyvalley said:I think the then photo is about 10 years later, circa 1982.
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Short video of The Valley from 1979. Might bring back some memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw5Zy1BORVI 2 -
Tear jerker that one, nice.0
