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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: SoccerHQ on January 29, 2012, 06:15:08 PM
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Go on then let's have them...
Today.
An exact replica at Highbury in 2001 when we were 2-0 up at half time and lost 3-2.
Manure last season, battered them in the second half, were 2-0 up with ten minutes left and drew.
White Hart Lane 2007. 4-1 up after 70 minutes....
Old Trafford April 2009, 2-1 up after 80 minutes, lost 3-2.
Manure in the cup in 2002, 2-0 up with 15 minutes left, somehow lost 3-2.
Any more, any I've missed out (that Leicester home game in the mid 90s?)
Why oh why are we always so bad at defending leads, it's been a major achilles heel under so many different managers and playing staff.
Beyond a joke now, Arsenal aren't even in good form!
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The Spurs one still rankles with me the most. 4-1 when I left work, it got to 4-3 so I turned the car radio off as I thought I'd jinxed it. Got up to the M42 roundabout at Tamworth and turned it back on as I knew it would have just finished. Heard the Spurs fans singing in the background...
Cue the most foul-mouthed volley of abuse I've ever shouted at anything in my entire life. The people in the car next to me at the lights must have thought I was having a breakdown.
That stupid, stupid, stupid pissing team will be the death of me one day. I pity all the poor bastards having to make their way home tonight.
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2 0 up at home to Blues and that injury time Stern John equaliser...............
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The 4-4 against Wimbledon when we were 4-1 up.
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Worcestershire Senior Cup final, second leg. Rovers away to the scum of kiddy. They were near the top of the conference we were Beazer Homes Midland. First leg at the Vic finished 0-0. We battered them at the dump and were 2-0 up with 9 mins to go. I forget what happened next.
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Jan 1984 I think we were 1 up at West Brom and lost 3 1 in the last 10 minutes or so my memory tells me - snowy day too !
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The 4-4 against Wimbledon when we were 4-1 up.
Wasn't that the Leicester game?
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Yes. Sorry. Not in too good a frame of mind at the moment.
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Manure in the cup in 2002, 2-0 up with 15 minutes left, somehow lost 3-2.
Remember this one clearly, it was on my 17th birthday. Won't ever forgive them for it!
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"The Stoke game", 2-0 up in the 88th minute, drew 2-2.
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I'm actually in pain
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Far too many you'd have thought I'd have grown accustomed to the pain now.
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The Spurs one still rankles with me the most. 4-1 when I left work, it got to 4-3 so I turned the car radio off as I thought I'd jinxed it. Got up to the M42 roundabout at Tamworth and turned it back on as I knew it would have just finished. Heard the Spurs fans singing in the background...
Cue the most foul-mouthed volley of abuse I've ever shouted at anything in my entire life. The people in the car next to me at the lights must have thought I was having a breakdown.
That stupid, stupid, stupid pissing team will be the death of me one day. I pity all the poor bastards having to make their way home tonight.
That one cost me £890 on an accumulator. I'd picked 7 Spanish teams on the Sunday and stupidly added Villa for the Monday night.
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Weren't we 3-1 up against Wimbledon and proceeded to lose 4-3. Ron Atkinson's last game I believe.
I'm sure it happens to other teams too. We've comeback quite a few times too.
2 down to Southampton to win 3-2. Coventry too (sending them down) Arsenal also (Dublin). Spurs away when we won 5-2.
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Mancs at home last season. Mancs away a few seasons ago when that tosser came off the bench. In fact the mancs most seasons.
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Weren't we 3-1 up against Wimbledon and proceeded to lose 4-3. Ron Atkinson's last game I believe.
That might be the one I was on about.
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Two up at home to Arsenal, drew 2-2 with Platt scoring for them IIRC.
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Two up at home to Arsenal, drew 2-2 with Platt scoring for them IIRC.
Pretty sure that Arsenal equaliser came in the 96th minute of injury time.
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96th minute of injury time.
Blimey! Had someone had open-heart surgery on the pitch!
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They had to keep inflating Platt's head.
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Newcastle away last year.
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4-4 vs Leicester in 1996, I think!
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The 3-0 defeat against Liverpool at Old Trafford in the 1996 FA Cup semi final was typical of many capitulations against them. Once the first had gone in, it was obvious what was about to happen. We have had so many occasions when we have built ourselves up, only to be let down. I would like to say that our day will come but whether I will still be around to see it is another matter.
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2 0 up at home to Blues and that injury time Stern John equaliser...............
Ah yes
*mouth fills up with sick*
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Man ure in the FA Cup at Villa Park. Two nil up with about ten mins to go. End up losing 2 - 3. Horrible mancs dancing on the pitch. I know of someone who will remain nameless who had an online bet with ten mins left of £3000 for Villa to win. Ouch! He was nearly suicidal afterwards!
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Tottenham at home - 1978/79 i think - Ardiles / Villa etc...2 - 0 up with about 25 mins to go lost 3-2 (thats if my memory is correct)
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Top around Christmas in a Gregory season. Ended up scraping sixth place in the end. second half of the season capitulation.
Also capitulated after 'that photo' when we beat Southampton 4-1. Lost the next game to Liverpool at home 4-2 and the season pretty much capitulated after that.
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The first one that sprang to my mind was Leicester in 1995. 4-1 to 4-4. It ended a good couple of months that had taken us from the relegation zone to the top half and started a couple of months that sent us back the other way and nearly sent us down. Obviously the Stern John game wasn't great either.
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Tottenham at home - 1978/79 i think - Ardiles / Villa etc...2 - 0 up with about 25 mins to go lost 3-2 (thats if my memory is correct)
Sid, that was my earliest memory of a capitulation. IIRC They actually scored 3 times in the last 12 minutes (in the days of 1 minute injury time ) and we had hitherto been completely dominant. A real sickener as until then under Saunders we had always been a team that finished matches strongly.
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Big Ron's final game at Selhurst - horrendous and so predictable whilst watching.
4-1 up at home against Leicester a few days after avenging the above defeat against Wimbledon with not long left. My mate and I moved around to the bottom left corner of the Holte in order to make a swift exit at the final whistle. Didn't move or about 15 minutes after it. Galling, that one.
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Oldham FA Cup Quarter Final 1990 - total collapse...
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7-1 at Chelsea wasn't too good.
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7-1 at Chelsea wasn't too good.
Thanks for reminding me.
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There was an attempted captulation in the game following the 4-3 at Wimbledon where we coughed up a 3-0 lead at Spurs before winning in the last minute. Who took charge of that game? Was it Jim Walker? And has any other team had back to back 4-3 scorelines I wonder?
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There was an attempted captulation in the game following the 4-3 at Wimbledon where we coughed up a 3-0 lead at Spurs before winning in the last minute. Who took charge of that game? Was it Jim Walker? And has any other team had back to back 4-3 scorelines I wonder?
I believe it was Jim Barren's only game in charge.
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This 1-5 mauling at home to Citeh - see our defence was crap then too. Amazing coz of one man (Dr Jo) how we had become so inept at the back overnight.
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I was there for that Leicester one, 4-1 up with 15 minutes left we were stroking it about, we were giving it the big Ole for about 5 minutes, Tommy Johnson hit the bar which would have made it 5 and we completely fell apart to a Mark Draper inspired comeback. From recollection the season then fell apart and we only stayed up because we got a jammy 1-0 in the last minute at Ipswich.
I remember watching the Wimbledon 4-3 defeat on Ceefax, I think it was the first time I uttered those immortal words "Typical fucking Villa" which I've rarely not made use of since at least 3 or 4 times a season.
The Spurs 4-4 was another miserable night and I broke my small portable radio as I threw it across the room when Spurs nicked there equaliser.
There must be other clubs who this happens to, mustn't there?
However sometimes we do it in reverse. A particularly sweet one was a 2-2 against Everton in 90/91 when we were 2-0 down with 10 minutes left and nicked the draw with an Ian Olney injury time header. Neville Southall was furious which made it all the sweeter as the scruffy fucker had wasted about 10 minutes of the second half with his goal kicks.
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The Leicester game was a fucker. And that Everton match had goals from Robert Warzycha if I remember correctly.
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The Leicester game was a fucker. And that Everton match had goals from Robert Warzycha if I remember correctly.
I was at both and i won't go on about the Leicester one, the Everton game was daylight robbery... we were awful and somehow managed a draw!
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I believe a certain bespectacled man was in charge of Leicester that night.