Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: SoccerHQ on December 21, 2019, 11:32:36 PM
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Just to add to the positivity this evening!
Best- Has to be May. Taking out WBA over two legs and then finally playing well at Wembley in a major final. Perfect way to go up and nice to have a feel good summer for once.
Honourable mentions to Benteke and Grealish at their best and various points of the decade. Probably in the minority but I enjoyed periods of Sherwood's reign aswell, up to 6-1 at Southampton. Some good wins in the league and cup under him.
The Worst
You could probably read one of the Lord of the Rings novels quicker than thinking up all the bad moments.
In order:
Losing league cup final to Man. United
MON walking out.
Appointing McLeish
Appointing Lambert.
15-0 over xmas 2012.
Bradford..........(shudders).
FA cup final.
Delph.
2015-16.
Getting turned over by likes of Barnsley and Brentford in our first season in the championship.
Losing the play off final. Not just the day but the turmoil for the next few weeks.
When it's listed there it really has been a very forgettable decade that's set the club back a long time in terms of ranking of clubs in England.
In the 50s we had the FA cup win, 70s had a similar resurgence and league cup win, little needs to be said for 80s and 90s, ups and downs but ultimately success in league and cup. 00s was when we slipped from being one of the top clubs in the land but still had a fair few top 6 finishes and cup runs.
Only 60s been worse than this decade post war.
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The FAC semi final win against Liverpool was my favourite.
The worst - Bradford.
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FA Cup semi, in the fancy seats surrounded by Liverpool fans, going insane when we scored. A complete performance.
0-1 Gabby at St Andrews, probably the best goal celebrations ive ever been involved in, ended up miles from my seat.
Random one but Reading away around 2013ish? Won 1-2, my last proper away game that I went too.
Villa 2-2 man utd under Houllier. As close as we'd gotten to beating them at VP for years, the Holte was sucking the ball into the net in that 2nd half, we tore them apart for 70 minutes before the obligatory collapse in the last 20.
Reading 2-4 Villa, FA Cup. 2-0 down at half time, 3 goals in around 10 second half minutes to turn it around, once again wild celebrations.
Bad memories? Too fucking many.
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6-1 and 4-1 vs Sunderland
FAC games vs Albion and Liverpool
Benteke goals pretty much all of them
Wolves 4-1
Too many worst moments - mainly Chelsea away on that day
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The Gabby sty winner was in the 00s so a few months out mate.
The liverpool semi final was certainly a fantastic day but ultimately it felt hollow given the total s*** on a stick performance we served up in the cup final.
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The Gabby sty winner was in the 00s so a few months out mate.
Aaaaagh balls, I blame the Vyodka.
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The only real positives I can think of is the Championship Play Off win and the euphoria brought around by that and the fact that we seem to have good owners and a CEO who seems to know what he's doing.
So many negatives with Lamberk, Randy, Xia, Sherwank, Black, Garde, relegation, 0-6 v Liverpool. This has not been a great decade and it looks like we will be in the bottom three as it ends.
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When it's listed there it really has been a very forgettable decade that's set the club back a long time in terms of ranking of clubs in England.
I think it’s actually been a very memorable decade but mainly for the wrong reasons.
Best: Our run in to last season starting with the 4-0 win over Derby (and Jacks goal) including 10 straight wins and promotion at Wembley. The real feel good factor was there with the team and the fans which I don’t think has been there in years, and I mean years!!
Worst: So many to choose from, but the depressing Lambert years - it just merges through to Remi Garde in 2015/16, relegation was almost a merciful release.
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Best .... Liverpool FA Cup Semi
Worst.... Appointing Mcleish
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Best? The period where we won promotion back to the Premier League.
Worst? Most of the rest.
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Best. Play off final
Worst. Appointing Mcleish and realising Lerner actually didn't give a toss
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Best is a toss up between Albion and Liverpool in the FA Cup.
Worst was the final.
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Just to add to the positivity this evening!
Best- Has to be May. Taking out WBA over two legs and then finally playing well at Wembley in a major final. Perfect way to go up and nice to have a feel good summer for once.
Honourable mentions to Benteke and Grealish at their best and various points of the decade. Probably in the minority but I enjoyed periods of Sherwood's reign aswell, up to 6-1 at Southampton. Some good wins in the league and cup under him.
The Worst
You could probably read one of the Lord of the Rings novels quicker than thinking up all the bad moments.
In order:
Losing league cup final to Man. United
MON walking out.
Appointing McLeish
Appointing Lambert.
15-0 over xmas 2012.
Bradford..........(shudders).
FA cup final.
Delph.
2015-16.
Getting turned over by likes of Barnsley and Brentford in our first season in the championship.
Losing the play off final. Not just the day but the turmoil for the next few weeks.
When it's listed there it really has been a very forgettable decade that's set the club back a long time in terms of ranking of clubs in England.
In the 50s we had the FA cup win, 70s had a similar resurgence and league cup win, little needs to be said for 80s and 90s, ups and downs but ultimately success in league and cup. 00s was when we slipped from being one of the top clubs in the land but still had a fair few top 6 finishes and cup runs.
Only 60s been worse than this decade post war.
Not so sure about appointing Lambert. Generally him coming was well received at the time It's only when we had horror Christmas that spooked him to the point that he was like a rabbit in headlights afterwards
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Best? The period where we won promotion back to the Premier League.
Worst? Most of the rest.
Yep, that's about the size of it.
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Shit decade with few highlights, we have been very much diminished by it. We're back in the prem now I guess, but it feels very much like more of the same shit we've had to put up with since 2011 or so.
It is completely wank, and our failure, that Birmingham doesn't have a powerhouse club anymore. The Blues are never going to do anything worthwhile, but we haven't won a trophy for 23 years. At that age, I had seen us runners up to the championship twice, two league cup wins, knocking Inter out of the UEFA cup, taking on Atletico Madrid etc.
The kids now have fuck all to remember, just a load of shit and diminished horizons. Credit to them for still turning up.
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The obvious are beating Liverpool in the FA Cup Semi Final and the play off win over Derby County the worst for me the FA Cup Final defeat to Arsenal the League Cup Final with Man Utd were Vidic should have had a red card and our relegation from the Premier League.
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The Arse Humiliation the worse.
The play off win the best.
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Decade of might have been - if managed better.
Highlights - reaching the FA Cup final
play off winners
most games against Small Heath
Some really good pre season jaunts
The renewed active interest in the Villa by more than a few
Super Jack
The flip
relegation
ticket away prices in the Championship
The Bradford semi
Learner losing interest
Garde/Black
Lescott, Bacuna
McLeish
At the end of the day however I still love the Villa as much as I did 1st January 2010 so nothing changes for better or worse
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Blackburn league Cup semi finals
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As O’Neil left in 2010, not counting any of his era. This has been generally the worst 9 years for me as a Villa fan and my first game was in 82, so experienced struggle and relegation previously.
Worst amongst all that, the no show in FA Cup final was soul destroying. The no show in the play off final under Bruce also soul destroying. Bradford semi final humiliating, Sherwood interviews, embarrassing dickhead, The gradual horrible slow decline after O’Neil left and the knowledge of what we could of done with good management and players around Benteke. And finally the almost cathartic release of relegation.
Ending on a positive, the best.
Liverpool semi final brought a drunk tear to my eye. But the immensity and pure joy of the 10 game run last year, with our boy Jack pulling the strings, and having my kids experience that with me as well, will never be forgotten.
Just hope the memories not tarnished by relegation. Let’s get behind them Boxing Day!!!
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Worst - Small Heath winning the first proper trophy in their history
Best - Them being relegated a few weeks later and still being in the Championship a decade later
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Second.
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The FAC semi final win against Liverpool was my favourite.
The worst - Bradford.
Yep would go along with that. The Liverpool semi final reminded me a bit of the Coca Cola Cup Final when we beat Manchester United in 1994 in that it just felt like we were going to win that day.
Bradford was terrible in itself, but it just topped off the month or so that had come before it. Looking back, what is even more frustrating is that we had begun to turn the corner by the time the final came around and would have had a decent chance of beating Swansea in the final.
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Worst - Small Heath winning the first proper trophy in their history
Best - Them being relegated a few weeks later and still being in the Championship a decade later
We're not obsessed you know!
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Best - play off final, followed by Liverpool semi.
Worst - the Xmas period in 2012 when we lost the 3 games 15-0 in total. Bradford semis, the FA Cup final, relegation, the list is almost endless.
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Best
Monday May 27th play off final.
Worst.
Defeat at Leicester 2-3 after leading 2-0. After this game everything got worse and eventually led us to relegatio.
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That Leicester result was a real sliding doors moment for me.
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Best were the playoff final and Liverpool semi final.
Worst are...too many to recall.
Losing Ugo, Sir Graham, Ron, and Dalian were also very very sad.