Quote from: Greg N'Ash on March 04, 2013, 11:20:54 AMThere was an aritificial happiness under pubehead/Lerner based presumably on the assumption we had a tactical genius in the manager's seat and a guy who would bankroll us off it. The 2nd bit was obviously encouraged by Lerner and his pals with the "no budget" mantra and whispers about paying 30m for a player. A lot of the abject misery since then is the comedown from that I believe. We were promised top players, attractive football and the CL, and we got Ireland, hoofball and probably relegation.No people were happy because we were winning a lot more games than we lost and challenging near the top. The sustainability of it all is now a matter of hindsight, but at the time people were smiling (well at least more of us were) about beating Man U or Chelsea, or thrashing the Blues, or getting to a cup final, or challenging for the top four. Pretty simple really
There was an aritificial happiness under pubehead/Lerner based presumably on the assumption we had a tactical genius in the manager's seat and a guy who would bankroll us off it. The 2nd bit was obviously encouraged by Lerner and his pals with the "no budget" mantra and whispers about paying 30m for a player. A lot of the abject misery since then is the comedown from that I believe. We were promised top players, attractive football and the CL, and we got Ireland, hoofball and probably relegation.
I am slightly concerned that there is an entire generation of Villa supporters who have never seen us win anything, or were too young to really remember our last trophy at Wembley.It's shit for the younger fans; huge expense to see their team, Villa look as far away from a trophy as ever, and they live in an era when money doesn't just talk but bellows.
manchester, support a shite villa side?Honestly i now not arsed if we go down, I just want us to level off and start winning and that involves a season in champioship so be it
Unfortunately, you can never really, truly walk away from it all.It is in your blood, passed down from one generation to another, like some sort of bad chromosome, or a club foot, or diabetes.