Any particular reasons for winning the fa cup

[Jimbo]

The 2000 final was one of my worst experiences watching the Villa. Singing Abide With Me was the highlight of the day, but the lowlight was as low as any I've known. It was the ultimate shit sandwich, with a side order of vomit fries. Unless a miracle takes place, I won't be able to attend this one, but this is the greatest cup competition in the world, so please - sweet, boiling Jesus K. Christ - let us fuck these fuckers and bring home the silver.

[castlefields_villan]

It is the greatest club cup competition in the world as well as the oldest.  It's sad to see how it's become a bit of an inconvenience these days with everything else football has to accommodate.   Plus for the majority of casual tv viewers 5.30pm is better than 3.00pm if you've got such other important things such as shopping to do!

I think the BBC has done it a big favour to dedicating the whole day to it - like in the good old days.

I'm pretty sure we'll have most neutrals (apart from those in the B9 and B10 areas and a few in Smethwick) on our side - it would be superb to play our part in putting the FA Cup Final back where it deserves to be in the football calendar by winning it in style - although I will settle for winning it 1-0 !

[dave shelley]

I'm one of the lucky few that have known the Villa to have won all the domestic honours in my lifetime.  Also to be winners on European adventures.  I'm sixty-six now and, eight when we last won the FA Cup.  That's a long time to go without winning a trophy that Aston Villa are synonymous with.  I would dearly love to see us win it again, not just for me, but for my son, my daughter and all of my five grandsons, even though some of them are too young to understand at the moment.  I would also love to see us win it for my long-dead old man, who instilled in me the love of this wonderful club and all its magnificent and unsurpassed history and tradition.

Come on you Lions!

[PeterWithe]

I used to go to games with my mate and his Dad, we watched some of the most memorable games of this generation together, the SGT years, BFR, Brian Little and Gregory including the 94 & 97 League Cup wins. The boasts were that whilst my mate was there in Rotterdam without his Dad, Snr had seen us win the FA Cup in 1957 and this grated immensly, winning the FA Cup meant everything to him, more even than another League Championship, the loss in 2000 was taken pretty badly. When I met my now missus we drifted apart and we began to sit in different parts of the ground and spoke less frequently. A lump that was troubling him was misdiagnosed on a few occasions and by the time the doctors had recognised it as cancer it was too late and he never did see us lift the FA Cup.

I saw his Dad the other day for the first time in fifteen years and we had a good catch up and we took a long trip down memory lane, a good omen.

Forgive the sentimentality but thats why I'd like to win it.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

I haven't seen us win a trophy yet, this feels like the right time to change that.

I think that is so important. I was at Highbury, in Rotterdam, at Swindon, in Blackpool and at Wembley for all the finals we won up to 2000, but for me it is all about our fans under the age of 20, which you must just about be Bosko, seeing us win things and being successful. As I walked out of Wembley after the semi, I saw loads of children (not meaning you Bosko) in the full kit with the painted faces and reflected on how they must associate Villa with the bottom of half of the Premier League and how wrong that is. I even see it in my two daughters, aged 16 and 20, who seem amazed if I tell them we beat Spurs or Liverpool or Arsenal, as if that could never happen and how dare we do so.

I'm 21, but yeah, it's important the younger generations of Villa fans see us win stuff. With the way football is nowadays, it's too easy for kids to follow the successful teams and watch them every week on TV. We need a few more to become hooked, something I hope a cup win would help us achieve.

[peter w]

Growing up we had won it more times than anyone else. tottenham levelled with us and then i think it was man U who took the record (actually tottenham in the early 90s probably did) but it's always been the Villa Holy Grail. We've won everything else of note and now this one. 2000 was just horrible. The whole day feels like a blur. A horrible blur. This could our last chance to do it. Its taken too long and we're now here. Take this chance Villa. This is the one.

[el león Benidorm]

Reading some of the posts on here is not improving my reputation as a hard nosed miserable git at work.

I echo so many of the sentiments and hope that winning the cup this year helps with create a whole new bank of reasons for winning it.

[MONCABA]

My Dad was there in 57 with my eldest brother . I didn't come along until 1960. The 29th  May would have been my Dad's 100th birthday,  so a number of us will be in Belfast for the weekend,  the place of his birth celebrating.  My eldest brother will be using my ticket for the final sitting with my son. Winning the FA Cup will mean 3 generations of our family will have been there in person when we've  lifted  the cup.

[Des Little]

Because it's our turn.

[joe_c]

I am 42 and am at that age probably among the last generation of Villa fans to have grown up with us having the most wins. I remember looking at the record books in probably 1979 or 1980 and seeing that the only clubs one win behind were Newcastle and Blackburn, neither of whom were in the top flight and clearly the record was not in danger any time soon...

Fast forward 30 something years and I was shocked to discover recently that Chelsea were now level with us. Chelsea. A club who didn't even exist when we won the trophy for the first, second or third time and who treated the 2000 final no better than if it were a testimonial.

What I am getting at in my convoluted way is this. Politically, I am socialist but in football terms I support the aristocracy. And the aristocracy is nothing without the trappings of its position, namely the silverware and the deference of the nation. I hope in a week's time to see the aristocracy restored to its rightful position.

[ez]

Having watched us win the league cup, the league and the european cup i believed the fa cup would soon follow. Had that great team not been dismantled so quickly i expect we would have got it too. I've always loved the magic of the fa cup final but pained that we were never involved in it especially when smaller clubs like Coventry and Wimbledon were winning it. The 2000 final was unbelievable for the wrong reasons. We could do with winning it now to give us a taste of glory again. The under 20s have never had the feelgood factor you get from seeing us winning trophies.

[curiousorange]

Because I made a promise to a man that's no longer here that when we got to another FA Cup Final, we would go. I'll have his European Cup Final Travelcard with me in lieu of his presence.

Also, on a personal level, it's time to dream another dream.

[PeterWithesShin]

For most of the reasons given. Plus this is my dad, and his dad (on the right as you look at the pic), with it in 1957. They are both HEITS so I can't have a similar picture, but I want to to be able to join them in having seen us win it before i'm just another HEITS.

[Legion]

The last one to complete my set and the first one to start Freddy's.

[Bad English]

Because seven times we've won it and we'll catch the others up.