'I said to my mate in the Holte End - think we should get out of here'

Our story about the worst ever violence at Villa Park has always proved to be a big talking point among football fans online.

Last week we brought you unseen photographs and detailed accounts of the hooliganism during Aston Villa's 'friendly' against Rangers on October 9 1976.

It may have been years ago since the disturbing events as drunken yobs wreaked havoc at the ground and around birmingham-city-centre>Birmingham city centre.

But following our nostalgia recollection of 'Sick Saturday' we were inundated with comments from supporters who still remember the ugly scenes.

To read a detailed account of what happened that day, click here

Here are a selection of the responses we received.

Angela Fisher Was Jones

I was a St John's Ambulance Cadet at the time. The cadets were invited along "just in case", and often sat through the whole match. Not that day. Ten minutes after start of play we were called back to the First Aid room.

It is not an exaggeration to say it resembled a war zone. I looked after a man who'd been punched in the nose, he was drunk and had a nosebleed and wouldn't stop trying to light a cigarette. I looked after a man who'd been stabbed in the side. He didn't feel the stab, only realised when he felt wetness on his shirt, it was blood. I remember four police officers holding up an officer that had been attacked.

The ambulances were backwards and forwards to the hospital. We abandoned keeping a record of all the injured, too many people needing looking after....and we'd run out of room in the book. It wasn't until long after the official finishing time that we knew that the match had been called on during the second half.

My overriding memory of that day was standing next to a lovely lady from Glasgow who said to me "please don't judge all of Glasgow by what has happened today". And I never did.

Richard French

It wasn't pleasant, I remember getting into the Holte End and a Rangers fan wanted to exchange scarves, I declined his kind offer. Then a fellow Villan, said to me, 'I think we should get out of here' I looked up to the top of the Holte to see a mass of Rangers scarves. OMG I thought, don't fancy this at all. Then I saw my mate on the track alongside the pitch.

I joined him and off we went escorted by the Police to the old Witton End. The match itself was looking good for Villa and we took the lead, Deehan scored if I remember right. Then just into the second half we scored again, can't remember who scored off the top of my head. Then all hell let loose, match abandoned.

Martin Binks

I was there with my dad Ken Binks on his birthday. We got okay apart from a slight twist to my dads knee. My late mom and my brother was stuck in town as the buses got took off.

Mickey Sheldon

I remember that my dad would not let me go, I wonder why

Kevin Mawby

Was there that day. We had to stand on the old Witton Lane end as Rangers fans were in the Holte End. Their fans were drunk before the game. One took a flying kick at the double decker bus we were on. There were reports that coaches were dropping fans off in the city centre at 2am in the morning.

John Brummie Winter

I was at the match but managed to avoid getting hurt. As a 16-year-old I had been to many home games from the age of five with my father and never saw anything as savage as that day.