Aston Villa 1981 League Winners Signed Football

Aston Villa 1981 League  Winners Signed Football. This fantastic piece of Aston Villa signed memorabilia is signed by players who won the 1981 League Championship and went onto win the 1982 European Cup. It has been signed by the players in person. It was a raffle prize ran by  Bedworth Round Table  summer fate that was held on 20 June 1981.  It was won by Nuneaton and Bedworth Mayor Jeff Plate and can be seen being presented with it along with his son Paul Plate,  by the Chairman of the Bedworth Rounf Table. It can be supplied with a acrylic display case at the listed price or without. 100% authentic and supplied with our lifetime guarantee and Coa.

The 1981 First Division Championship Biography

The 1970s was an era of boardroom unrest at Villa Park. Ron Saunders had a strained relationship with Doug Ellis, resenting Doug's perceived interference in football matters. Over time Ellis became an isolated figure on the board, as the other directors sided with Saunders. He was ousted as chairman in 1975 to make way for Sir William Dugdale. He remained on the board until 1979, when he left the club after a protracted power struggle with majority shareholder Ron Bendall. With Ellis gone, Saunders became all-powerful as manager.

Villa achieved a seventh top-flight league title in 1980–81, with players such as Gordon Cowans, Tony Morley and captain Dennis Mortimer leading the club to its first top-flight title in 71 years. Remarkably, they did so using just 14 players, with seven players being ever-presents. Villa's Birmingham-born forward Gary Shaw was named 1980-1981 PFA Young Player of the Year.

To the surprise of the club and fans, Ron Saunders quit halfway through the 1981–82 season, with Villa in the quarter final of the European Cup. Saunders had expressed his exasperation with the board at the lack of funds available to him to strengthen the team and fell out with the chairman Ron Bendall over the terms of his contract. He was replaced by his softly-spoken assistant manager Tony Barton who guided the club to a 1–0 victory over Bayern Munich in the European Cup final in Rotterdam courtesy of a Peter Withe goal in the 67th minute. Ten minutes into the final, Villa's first choice goalkeeper, Jimmy Rimmer, was injured and young substitute keeper Nigel Spink was called into action, having only made one previous appearance in the first team. Spink performed superbly, keeping a clean sheet, and helping Villa become only the fourth English club to lift the European Cup.

1982 European Cup Biography

The 1982 European Cup Final was played on 26 May 1982. English champions Aston Villa defeated West German league winners Bayern Munich 1–0 at De Kuip in Rotterdam, Netherlands to win the European Cup for the first, and so far, only time, and continue the streak of English teams winning the competition, being the sixth consecutive victory by an English side.

Aston Villa Team

GK 1 England Jimmy Rimmer Substituted off 9' RB 2 England Kenny Swain CB 5 Scotland Ken McNaught CB 4 Scotland Allan Evans LB 3 England Gary Williams Yellow card 38' CM 6 England Dennis Mortimer (c) CM 10 England Gordon Cowans CM 7 Scotland Des Bremner RW 9 England Peter Withe CF 8 England Gary Shaw LW 11 England Tony Morley Substitutes: GK 16 England Nigel Spink Substituted in 9' DF England Colin Gibson MF Scotland Andy Blair MF England Pat Heard FW England David Geddis

Manager: England Tony Barton

Bayern Munich Team

GK 1 West Germany Manfred Müller RB 2 West Germany Wolfgang Dremmler CB 4 West Germany Hans Weiner CB 5 West Germany Klaus Augenthaler LB 3 West Germany Udo Horsmann RM 10 West Germany Reinhold Mathy Substituted off 51' CM 6 West Germany Wolfgang Kraus Substituted off 78' CM 8 West Germany Paul Breitner (c) LM 7 West Germany Bernd Dürnberger CF 9 West Germany Dieter Hoeneß CF 11 West Germany Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Substitutes: MF 16 West Germany Günter Güttler Substituted in 51' MF 13 West Germany Kurt Niedermayer Substituted in 78' GK West Germany Walter Junghans

Manager: Hungary Pál Csernai

THERE ARE ONLY A HANDFUL AROUND AND ARE A MUST FOR ANY COLLECTOR OF SIGNED ASTON VILLA SHIRTS OR SIGNED FOOTBALL MEMORABILIA.

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