Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: PeterWithesShin on May 24, 2026, 06:03:57 PM
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Never in doubt.
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First time we've done the double over Citeh since 1962/63.
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When was the last time we did the double over ManC?
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How in the actual...Can't believe our hungover/second string beat them away!
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Wow, what a second half.
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And the moral of the story for next season? Go into every Villa game not bothering how we do.
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When was the last time we did the double over ManC?
1962/63.
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This team, man. How some of them played the full 90 (+) is beyond me
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League double completed.
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Typical! We win up there when we didn't need to and I didn't watch it.
Hahaha hahaha!!!!
Up The Fucking Villa.
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Championies, Championies, ole, ole ole....
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We've had worse finishes to a season.
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What a f**king team.
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We’ve had worse weeks, Rodney.
What a season. UTV
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Fuck off Sky, get the cameras on our lot, we won the match.
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Freiburg can count themselves lucky that we didn't play our second string against them.
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Played like Brazil second half, Villa showed class on and off the pitch today.
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Coupon busters. UTV
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When is the last time we won at Man City? 2012?
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The greatest season ive had as a Villa fan. The way weve responded after that Spurs game has been magnificent. To win the cup is amazing, to finish.4th again with 19 wins just seals it. Magnificent.
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I weirdly may have enjoyed that nearly as much as Wednesday... Or at least way more than I expected to.
I've been nauseated by the C115y and Pep wankfest for years now, so taking 6 points off them and pissing on their chips has put a huge grin on my face.
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And the moral of the story for next season? Go into every Villa game not bothering how we do.
Nah, the moral of the story is we need to go on 2 night benders every Wednesday!
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I've had worse weeks as a Villa fan.
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Didn't expect us to win both our last two league fixtures. What an end to the season. Hell of a turnaround from a few weeks ago.
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Lovely.
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Fuck off Sky, get the cameras on our lot, we won the match.
No chance. You’ll only see that on Villa socials. Even MOTD won’t bother with us.
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It's a funny old game. What a great season.
Just need PSG to humiliate Arsenal and my cup runneth over.
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Regrets? Beating Wham, losing to Spurs.
I said some time ago that 60 points would be enough for CL. Who’d have thought it would be 58?
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What a great way to finish an incredible season. Enjoy the break everyone. Big summer ahead, as they all are. Get it right and the league needs to watch out...because Villa are coming.
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Jingle Bells
Can we play pissed every week? Can we play pissed ev-rey week.
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If Bailey wasn't Bailey we would have hammered them 1-4 minimum. He couldn't even slot a simple pass to Watkins for a deserved hat trick. Awful player, good riddance!
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The greatest season ive had as a Villa fan. The way weve responded after that Spurs game has been magnificent. To win the cup is amazing, to finish.4th again with 19 wins just seals it. Magnificent.
Yeah was thinking myself that previously for me it was undoubtedly either 89/90 or 92/93 as the highlight (was 20 days old for the European Cup final so can’t really claim that one!). Got to be this season now, hasn’t it?
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What a great way to finish an incredible season. Enjoy the break everyone. Big summer ahead, as they all are. Get it right and the league needs to watch out...because Villa are coming.
Well said
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that was a special second half - tactical masterclass at HT for that second half by King Unai.
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Can we show some respect here please? Three people will be employed by different clubs next season. How does a win away to the team who finished second count in comparison?
Quite right that they didn't show a second of our guys saluting the fans at the end. They should have muted the sound tbh
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Probably the best half this season. Should get pissed up more often.
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What a fantastic win, after the exertions of the last 9 days, on and then off the pitch. This gives out a strong message, we do mean business.
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The greatest season ive had as a Villa fan. The way weve responded after that Spurs game has been magnificent. To win the cup is amazing, to finish.4th again with 19 wins just seals it. Magnificent.
Yeah was thinking myself that previously for me it was undoubtedly either 89/90 or 92/93 as the highlight (was 20 days old for the European Cup final so can’t really claim that one!). Got to be this season now, hasn’t it?
81-82 was a mediocre seaon all in. We only just about scraped a top half place in the league
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We doubled mancity and got doubled by F ing Brentford.....hey ho.
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That was a lot more fun than I was expecting. Great players, great season. COYVB.
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I gave zero shits about the result before the game, but winning the ‘turning up at Pep Guardiola’s leaving do and pissing in the punch bowl’ bowl feels pretty great.
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Can we show some respect here please? Three people will be employed by different clubs next season. How does a win away to the team who finished second count in comparison?
Quite right that they didn't show a second of our guys saluting the fans at the end. They should have muted the sound tbh
Quite right. Utterly disrespectful. As was beating them at home with kids and hangovers. We need to know our place.
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Vomit inducing guards of honour.
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
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We were absolutely superb from minute 43 onwards. Bossed the second half. Onana, stay fit, absolutely superb. Other than Bailey, who was bloody crap, the rest of them, second half, were superb. I hope we can get some quality in because we really have the foundation of a very good side. Played some lovely football. Two nicely taken goals from ollie. Buendia, Barkley, Mings, Lindelof, all worked really hard. What a week, what win. 4-2 against Liverpool, beating Freiburg, beating C115ty. FANTASTIC.
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Also well done RCF. That's his other team in the Champions League group stage, I think.
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Great that Guardiola's swansong will always be accompanied by, the game itself won by Aston Villa....great way to sign off the season.
68, 66, 65 points, nothing if not consistent under Emery...very strange PL season in truth. West Ham down on 39 points.
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23 points gained from losing positions. The most in the league.
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If Bailey wasn't Bailey we would have hammered them 1-4 minimum. He couldn't even slot a simple pass to Watkins for a deserved hat trick. Awful player, good riddance!
He'd have fucked up the pass anyway.
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Fuck off Sky, get the cameras on our lot, we won the match.
It will allow our own supporters get away from the ground much easier
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First away league win since January.
Can't wait for next season. Is someone going to start the Walsall match thread ?
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Bailey was crap, but hit the post and absolutely never stopped for 90 minutes.
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The top 8 teams in the PL all lost at Villa Park this season
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Great that Guardiola's swansong will always be accompanied by, the game itself won by Aston Villa....great way to sign off the season.
68, 66, 65 points, nothing if not consistent under Emery...very strange PL season in truth. West Ham down on 39 points.
That feels like revenge for the.last.day in 2022.which i kept getting flashbacks to towards the end.
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I thought we played better at times today than we did on Wednesday. Lovely way to finish a top season. We're bloody good aye we?
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Glad we beat them
The Cheats That TheybAre!!!!!
(Ian Paisley Snr voice)
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A message to fans coming home and trying to get a fish supper. No chips! Villa pissed on them all!
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I said when we reached 58 points there was a strong chance that was enough even if we lost every remaining league game.
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I said when we reached 58 points there was a strong chance that was enough even if we lost every remaining league game.
Where's your quote?!! 🙄🤣
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Great that Guardiola's swansong will always be accompanied by, the game itself won by Aston Villa....great way to sign off the season.
68, 66, 65 points, nothing if not consistent under Emery...very strange PL season in truth. West Ham down on 39 points.
Shocking, we are getting lower points
season on season, Emery Out.
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I said when we reached 58 points there was a strong chance that was enough even if we lost every remaining league game.
Where's your quote?!! 🙄🤣
:P ;D
We qualified weeks ago. Odds are high that even if we lose every game we'll still have enough points for top 5. And we won't lose every game.
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This team, man. How some of them played the full 90 (+) is beyond me
Okay it was only Parks football back in the 80s & 90s but leaving a night club at 2am and playing 90 mins on a Sunday morning was a great way of sobering up I found.
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So much for Smithy wanting us to be 6 points clear of Champs League rivals before our last two league games ;D
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That game reminded me of the 2-0 vs Arsenal two years ago. Under the cosh first half, utter dominance in the second.
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So impressive in all areas of the pitch in the second half after being under the cosh for the first 45. Where on earth did they get that energy from?
Shout out for Bizot too for that lovely save when we were one nil down.
What a week to be a Villa fan.
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There aren't many things more Villa than losing to Fulham, Forest and Spurs and then twatting Forest, Liverpool, strolling a cup win winning at ManC.
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I've had worse weeks as a Villa fan.
Indeed mate. We were there in some horrendous weeks like Spurs and Wigan at home in the league and Bradford and Millwall in cups. We deserve weeks like this.
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So 4th, a few more pennies in the bank, and nice to finish above the Redscouse.
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Absolutely astonished that we won. Did feel like the subs meant we got stronger as the game went on.
Typical Pep leaves after we start always beating them.
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Who played well today?
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So 4th, a few more pennies in the bank, and nice to finish above the Redscouse.
[/quotSo 4th, a few more pennies in the bank, and nice to finish above the Redscouse.
First time since 2010 I think.
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Well, I cared about this game and I'm relieved/chuffed we won. Maybe we can afford Rashford's extra £20k a week now and pick-off Bournemouth's best players since we've deprived them of CL football. That and Liverpool being shit again.
It would have been annoying to finish lower than the Redshite having been 3rd for over half the season.
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Who played well today?
Lindelof Watkins Mings..... all of them. Bailey end product could have been better but he stretched their defence all second half.
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Who played well today?
Lindelof Watkins Mings..... all of them. Bailey end product could have been better but he stretched their defence all second half.
Luiz show any signs of life?
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Cash coming on changed things, as did their GOH guff.
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I thought I didn’t give a toss all morning, but I was gutted when Foden scored. Well done VAR (on Ollie’s goal as well).
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What a bloody result that is
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Can we play you every week. Can we play you every week…
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
I agree. I think winning Europa, hanging around in the top 4 all season and at times flirting with top place has fortified us as a team. We have the belief now and if next season we find ourselves in top 3 around xmas we will know that we belong there.
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
I agree. I think winning Europa, hanging around in the top 4 all season and at times flirting with top place has fortified us as a team. We have the belief now and if next season we find ourselves in top 3 around xmas we will know that we belong there.
And I think Unai will learn a lot of lessons from last summer!
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Hangover cure #115. Spend 45 minutes playing football barely getting out your own half let alone into the opposition half while keeping the score down to one goal. Rest for 15 minutes.
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Last 6 against them W4 L2. Pretty impressive considering their years of cheating, oil money and financial disparity.
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I’ve just watched the highlights. Ollie”s second goal is incredible. It’s a sign of a good goal when the last defender ends up on his arse.
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Cash coming on changed things, as did their GOH guff.
Cash always changes things.
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I thought I didn’t give a toss all morning, but I was gutted when Foden scored. Well done VAR (on Ollie’s goal as well).
VAR favouring the big European sides again.
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Pep's chips duly pissed on - YES !
OK first-half riding our luck somewhat. Second-half really good, especially when our regulars got on. Watkins was superb - despite apparently not being good enough.
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
I’d say it’s more 50/50.
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
I’d say it’s more 50/50.
We either will or we won't so it's definitely 50/50.
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If Bailey wasn't Bailey we would have hammered them 1-4 minimum. He couldn't even slot a simple pass to Watkins for a deserved hat trick. Awful player, good riddance!
Absolutely crucial in getting us over the line in that first qualification for the Champions League. He’s not the same now, but let’s not completely slag off a player who has played an important role for us.
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I'm so happy we've finished 4th - that's a proper season, imagine what we could have done if we hadn't wasted the transfer windows too.....
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
I’d say it’s more 50/50.
We either will or we won't so it's definitely 50/50.
33/1 to win it. Behind Arse, Citeh, Manure, and Plop which I sort of get. But Chavski at 11/1 ?
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I wonder what the odds were in August for us not getting a league penalty all season?
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My mind wanders back to when my youngest son, aged about 5 or 6, with a Conor Hourihane poster on his wall, realised there was another division that Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd and Arsenal were in and that being about fourth or fifth in our league didn’t mean we were one of the best teams in the country. I had tried and failed to keep this from him but no doubt some pesky schoolmate had exposed him to this uncomfortable truth.
“Why aren’t we in that league?” he asked.
“We’re trying son” I said.
Similarly, I grimaced when he wanted SJMs name on the back of his shirt in Gerrard’s one summer, thinking ‘he won’t be playing much in the coming season’.
Look at us all now.
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That result was a surprise: a very nice one nevertheless!
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Never in doubt. Unai was never going to give up the chance to piss on Pep’s chips.