2010 Your Villa and non Villa highlights of the year

[Lucky Eddie]

Blackburn at home for me was the highlight of our year; meant a great deal to all our kids to have their first Wembley trip in the bank.

Apart from a saturday league unbeaten promotion season the rest of last year can *uck off as far as I'm concerned.

Happy New Year to you all Villa fans.

[villa1]

Villa related: the trip to Wembley for the cup final. Mainly because we spent the whole weekend down there, enjoying a few beers around London.

Non Villa related: the birth of my son. Although he's already got 3 Villa kits, a flag above his cot and we had a tour of the ground for Father's day. So I suppose it's slightly Villa related!

[eastie]

the blackburn semi at home and the 2nd half at reading- lowest without doubt 6-0 at newcastle , our other thrashings were against half decent teams , but 6 -0 at newcastle was pathetic!

[mrfuse]

The trips to Wembley were great apart from the results obviously.. sigh was that really only this year? how far we have fallen!

Had a great a great trip around Germany apart from a certain sunday afternoon where i found a pub to watch villa and i happened to be be the only villa fan surrounded by Geordie's ....how i chuckled

[Pete3206]

Highs:
Cup runs
Dodgy penalty vs SHA
Emerging young talent.
Emile Heskey playing well

Lows:
MON
Losing the FA Cup semi final
The decline of the team since GH took over and the appalling attitude of experienced players.
Robert Pires
The disgrace in and around the Sty in the cup game.

[Fin Feds Dad]

Villa related High : Wembley for the Carling Cup Final - my Sons first trip to Wembley so there were 3 generations of us on Wembley Way - even Phil Dowd couldn't ruin that for us.

Non Villa related high : taking my FA badges and running my Sons under 8s football side / my 4 yr old daughters nativity play.

[Simba]

Low: Losing at Anfield and consistently playing the ball sideways behind the half way line as if WE were playing for time.

I have seen some crap played by Villa over the years but never seen that defeatism.

High: Ok cups an' all. But watching us outplay United was a treat. Thought we had cracked it then. And the emergence of the youngsters through a very impressive youth/reserve set up.

[curiousorange]

High (Villa): 6-4. Made me feel 10 years old again and simultaneously aged me fifty years!
Low (Villa): Milner leaving. Though it was inevitable, it was obvious we'd lost the player that gelled the team together and I knew we were in the shit.

High (non-Villa): Finding the job I'm doing now. It's turned me into a completely different person.
Low (non-Villa): Breaking up with my girlfriend. Looked back at my diaries for that period the other day. Scary stuff.

[darren woolley]

Highs: the cup runs we had culminating in that 10 goal thriller against Blackburn.
Lows: Losing in the Final/Semi Final at wembley, MON, the results so far under GH.

[The Left Side]

Highs: the cup runs we had culminating in that 10 goal thriller against Blackburn.
Lows: Losing in the Final/Semi Final at wembley, MON, the results so far under GH.

Spot on Darren!

[luke25]

High- The Reading game, took my best mate to her first game, the whole day was fantastic and she's now hooked, Low- Our last game at City, first time I genuinly felt we were in the shit

[luke25]

High- The Reading game, took my best mate to her first game, the whole day was fantastic and she's now hooked, Low- Our last game at City, first time I genuinly felt we were in the shit

[nuninho]

Villa High - Reading 2nd half - first time me and my son had bonded with the Villa scoring.
Villa Lows - This season....

Other High - Messi's 3rd against Arsenal.  Barca were breathtaking that night.

[Villa'Zawg]

Villa High - 25/4/2010 Beat the Blues 1-0 and reach our highest points total since the 42 game 92/93 season. 2 games to go and level on points with Spurs in 4th.

Villa Low - 22/07/2010 1st day of pre-season. General Krulak returns from his summer hols with the message "...What we see right now is the Club getting a handle on the wage side of the house.  This is no different than what we have done once before.  This means we have to sell some players...".

[Clampy]

Villa High- It's a tough one, either Blackburn in the 2nd leg Semi, Reading away when we were 2-0 down or beating Man Utd at Old Trafford and getting called a wanker by a Man Utd fan on the way out. It still makes me smile now. Dublin in pre-season was a cracking day as well.

Non Villa- Walking round the Grand Canyon ( which was awesome) and pulling up outside Vinny's Jones's house in Beverley Hills and wondering how a man of such little talent could afford to live in such a place. I was cross.