The AVFC 10 Year Challenge

[Legion]

[SoccerHQ]

Were even higher on this actual weekend, won at Sunderland (with 10 men) 2-1 and were either 3rd or 4th. Moscow was still a full 5 and a half weeks away....

[LeeB]

Were even higher on this actual weekend, won at Sunderland (with 10 men) 2-1 and were either 3rd or 4th. Moscow was still a full 5 and a half weeks away....

Fucking hell, that was 10 years ago!!!!

[PeterWithesShin]

[Roysmert]

Won 8 away. We were spoilt.

[SoccerHQ]

Ah 4th then. Think Blackurn was next away game and we won that and went 3rd for a week which was highest we'd been in 10 years at that stage of the season.

One strange thing I only noticed the other day...went to the archive match threads forum as wanted to check one from 09/10 (don't ask) and found there were only match threads starting from August 2010. Seems this site must've switched servers around the time MON left....

Just think "Why didn't Barry take the penalty?" Arsenal match thread seemingly lost forever.

[SoccerHQ]

Also had to do a double take at that relegation zone. I know that was the famous 2 points in 8 games season for Spurs but thought Redknapp had pulled them well away from trouble by middle of January.

They go down and they'd be the ones predicting 0-3 home defeat to Hull this weekend.

[UK Redsox]

Spuds being bottom was a strange one. I thick that Goal Difference is a good indicator of whether a team can escape. Spuds may have been last but their GD was ten better than teams above them. For the same reason, I think Newcastle will get out of it this year

[luke95]

& about 12 other of those have suffered relegation since.

[cdbearsfan]

Another bloody depressing thread. Boo.

[Risso]

Three points off top spot.

[SoccerHQ]

Shows the gulf to the top these days. Man. United were CL holders that season and reached the final again that year.

Liverpool on 57 points after same number of games this season. Spurs on 48 points would've been clear by a point that season.

[Toronto Villa]

That season our record right into Feb was superb. We weren't always great to watch at home but that side on the break away from Villa Park was outstanding at times. Then literally Everton away in the FA Cup onwards including off course Moscow and Stoke we simply collapsed and shattered into a thousand pieces. Immensely depressing.

https://www.11v11.com/teams/aston-villa/tab/matches/season/2009/

[dave.woodhall]

It just shows that we're not the only club to have gone backwards, and you can turn round just as quickly.

[Toronto Villa]

It just shows that we're not the only club to have gone backwards, and you can turn round just as quickly.

Absolutely, but it's certainly a lot "easier" if that's the right word to be in decline and maintain that course versus turning it around. Spurs are very much the club that did that, but looking at that table 11 of those teams were relegated since and only 3 are back in the PL today. And of that group that went down a good number dropped into the next tier, nearly went broke or at minimum flirted with administration. And speaking of Spurs, as you've also pointed out before landing a world record transfer fee for a player they were about to ship to Birmingham helped them rebuild a lot quicker than others.