It may well seem like a shameless plug once again, but I really do use The Villa Wire myself and I just spotted this little gem in the Flickr feed:-

What you’re looking at is Kenilworth Road on the 9th April 1983 and I think that’s Colin Gibson in the foreground. The scoreboard reveals the game is all square at 1-1 when this snap was taken, but thanks to a late winner from David Moss – shown in the video below – Luton took all three points with a 2-1 victory.

After winning the league in ’81 and the European Cup in ’82, Villa went on to finish 6th in the league in ’83 and were dumped out of the European Cup in the quarter finals by Juventus. It wasn’t a season entirely without silverware though, we did win the European Super Cup thanks to an ill-tempered 3-0 victory over Barcelona at Villa Park, with 2 of the goals coming in extra time after being tied 1-1 on aggregate after 90 minutes. Three players were sent off.

[Picture used with kind permission from BG hatter]