The Critic Magazine

NICK TIMOTHY

I WAS TEN YEARS OLD when I attended the first NIGHT MATCH I can remember. I had been going to Villa Park for three years, but this was different. It was the first year I had a season ticket, I could stay up on a school night, it was 24 October 1990 and Villa were playing Inter Milan in the second round of the UEFA Cup.

Inter boasted the West German World Cup winners, Andreas Brehme, Lothar Matthäus and Jürgen Klinsmann, and other international stars like Walter Zenga, Giuseppe Bergomi and Nicola Berti. Villa had

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