The dazzling skills of Pele and team mates, on a far from perfect pitch, lit up the stadium which occasionally was "bathed in darkness" as the floodlights spluttered.
Goalkeeper Cejas refused to start the game until the lights were returned to normal!
To get into the Holte End would have cost you 70p and the club took £35,000 on the night. It cost £18,000 to stage the match , which saw Pat McMahon score after 5 minutes. Edu equalised after 60 mins and when Bruce Rioch was fouled in the penalty area, Ray Graydon slotted the penalty home.
The Villa team included: Cumbes, Wright, Aitken, Curtis, Turnbull, Graydon, McMahon, Lochead, Hamilton, Martin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD1rGkbHHI0 there is no sound!
The Santos tour was a money making scheme, using Pele in his later years as a "circus attraction".
Two days later the tour went to Sheffield Wednesday where Santos lost 0-2. There were no floodlight problems this time as they played at 2.30pm due to "restrictions" caused by the miners' strike. Tommy Craig followed Pele round the midfield for the last ten minutes of the match so that he could get the great man's shirt off his back!
Other tours in Britain and Europe were treated like a money making circus for both teams and Pele reaped rewards.
"The bird that laid the "Golden Egg" was about to fly the coop!" He became a footballing busker.
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