1980/81 Champions

[Dave Summers]

Just found this article which shows that those boys from East Anglia are still as bitter 32 years on.  Yes I am sure if you hadn't fluked that FA Cup 3rd Round you would have won the league !!!!!!!!

http://www.greenun24.co.uk/ipswich-town/latest-news/ipswich_v_villa_video_did_paul_mariner_s_goal_cost_blues_league_title_1_1758630

[Big Dick Edwards]

And if my Aunt had a cock she'd be my uncle. Get over it, you tractor-driving tossers.

[Charlie8182]

In their last 10 league matches of that season, they lost 7 and won 3 - clearly not good enough to win the league, just as we wasn't in 1989/90 & 1992/93.
Points wise, they actually were closer to winning the league the season after but were edged out my Liverpool, but funnily enough that never gets brought up.

[Villan For Life]

It gives me a warm glow knowing that after almost 32 years they are still bitter. I love it when the likes of Brazil still mention it.

We got 60 points, they didn't end of story.

[Oscar Arce]

   Brazil mentions it virtually every morning, the red-faced bloated bitter bald twat.

[Pete3206]

This is how it finished:
1    Aston Villa    42    26    8    8    72    40    +32    60
2    Ipswich Town    42    23    10    9    77    43    +34    56

How it would have finshed if 3 points for a win had been introduced a year earlier:
1    Aston Villa    42    26    8    8    72    40    +32    86
2    Ipswich Town    42    23    10    9    77    43    +34    79

[Pat McMahon]

I remember Bill Shankly saying in his Sports Argus column that no team ever wins the League through luck.

You can't be lucky over 42 games.

[Bad English]

Ah "Thirsty Alan Brazil", eh?

[andyaston]

In their last 10 league matches of that season, they lost 7 and won 3 - clearly not good enough to win the league, just as we wasn't in 1989/90 & 1992/93.
Points wise, they actually were closer to winning the league the season after but were edged out my Liverpool, but funnily enough that never gets brought up.

Well put

[PeterWithesShin]

Funny how they never mention how we outplayed them both times down there. Or the blatant penalty we should have had in the game at VP. Funny that.

[Exeter 77]

Strange how the author chooses to  illustrate his point with a video of another competition which Villa won that season.

[dave.woodhall]

What pisses me off even more than the "Ipswich lost the league" bollocks is that when you look at the final table and what those clubs dd in Europe around that time it could be said that it was the strongest-ever first division, yet the champions are thought of as poor. How does that work?

[Exeter 77]

I'd never thought of it like that before but that division had two clubs who had won the previous four European Cups plus winning again that season with the finalists from the previous Cup Winners Cup and that season's UEFA Cup winners.

[villan from luton]

Funny how they never mention how we outplayed them both times down there. Or the blatant penalty we should have had in the game at VP. Funny that.

Quite right, how they won both those games I will never know, we were superb. They were the team the press wanted to win, with their supposed better footballing ability. What a load of tosh, the football we played that season was superb, though still think the 76/77 team just edged them for excitement

[davevillan]

We won more games then Ipswich that season, lost less then them.
In the game at VP, didnt we batter them, but got punished as we 'gave' them 2 goals?
The words bitter & twisted spring to mind :-)