Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: cdbearsfan on May 31, 2015, 02:22:08 AM
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I'm utterly fucking devastated. Can anyone think of any reasons to be cheerful?
Best I can come up with is that we didn't go down but with Benteke likely to leave I reckon relegation is more likely than winning a proper trophy. Plus the mooted takeover by a consortium that can't actually afford to buy us, and therefore wants, presumably, to saddle us with debts, fills me with dread.
If possible, someone, cheer me up. Please?
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Only positive from today, is that I've lived in London for a year now, and today, I bought my first sub £3.50 pint i
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I am grasping for some hope as well. A couple of crumbs I cling to.
1.) Our manager is pretty open (arguably too open) about our problems. Thats a relief that the guy who is most important sees our crisis as well.
2.) We have some decent players who are committed to the club. Players like Delph & Grealish don't become bad after 3 games.
As for the rest, well its just awful isn't it? We came bottom of the survivors in the league. We can't dodge that. Last summer we spent a pittance on a rag tag band of hit & miss has beens or never beens. Some have done alright most haven't. Our trajectory has been downward for years and the last three games have been very sobering, causing me to take stock and realise where we are. It aint pretty.
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I cooked a fantastic dinner tonight, immediately after the game. You'd have loved it. Next time, I'll invite you.
Another positive; met some brilliant Villa fans today. I'm so proud to support a team that attracts so many wonderful people.
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There's no football to ruin your weekends for the next 10 weeks.
Cheered me up no end that has.
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The disappointment really hit me after midnight. The complete lack of any performance. But I couldn't put my finger on what we could have done differently - Arsenal just outclassed us. Which is a shame as they haven't performed at Wembley until today.
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Inverness won today. There's still hope.
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Just imagine if we'd been humiliated today by Reading.
Thankfully Arsenal got lucky and beat them in the semi-final.
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Half of that shite won't be there next season.
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When the sun goes supernova and consumes the Earth all trace of that game will be destroyed forever.
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Half of that shite won't be there next season.
I think you'll find they will be ;)
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Inverness won today. There's still hope.
Why, do you think we could enter the Scottish Cup?
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The dreadful flag didn't make it past the turnstiles.
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Oh, and no Thursday/Sunday fixture faffery.
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Judging by the crowd yesterday we have some fit female supporters.
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The 3rd round is scheduled for Sat 2nd Jan 2016 and the Final is Sat 21st Mat 2016.
It's going to be our year. Come on you Villa boys !
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The only positive I can draw is that sherwood and any new owners in waiting have a clear understanding of the massive rebuilding job that's required this summer. The result will leave a bad taste in the mouth this summer
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Judging by the crowd yesterday we have some fit female supporters.
Where they pissed too?
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We start in the prem again.
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We DIDN'T set yet another negative record.
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Well I didnt know I was going till Thursday evening,thanks to my son getting me a ticket for my birthday.
He also organised transport so spent the day with him & his mates.
Saw so many people I,ve not seen for years & made so many new friends on the grassy knoll outside the Holiday Inn.
Then the game started...
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Could have been worse....can you imagine being an Athletico Madrid fan after the European Cup Final last year?
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Today is the 150th Anniversary of the first sermon in the then new Aston Villa Wesleyan Chapel.
Lifted from the excellent birminghamhistory.co.uk website, a clipping from the Birmingham Post 29/5/1865.
Rejoice!
(http://images.birminghamhistory.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10011/opening_of_methodist_chapel2C_lozells_rd_george_st.jpg)
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Suzanne Virdee friended me on Facebook.
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Suzanne Virdee friended me on Facebook.
And that is what you call a result!!!
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Half of that shite won't be there next season.
I think you'll find they will be ;)
From Sherwoods comments, he is going to bomb a number out. Whether anybody buys them is a different matter, but as long as they're not stinking the pitch out I don't care.
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I made it home in sub 2 hours
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It's pissing down in London for Arsenal's open top bus parade.
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I made it home in sub 2 hours
It took me nearly that long from New Street to Sandwell and Dudley due to signalling problems. Perfect end to a marvellous evening.
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My boy slept for six and a half hours when I got back, so I'm not sleep deprived.
I look forward to inflicting such misery on him in a couple of years.
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I haven't paid for a season ticket and am not minded to after yesterday.
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A charity will be getting a donation of a massive unused flag that they will be able to recycle into lots and lots of claret and blue items of clothing.
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We are not in the Europa League. It did for Hull and it would have done for us. How about that for a cheery 7000th post.
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I was born into one of the Grandest Football Clubs in England with a history I will always be proud of. We also have some of the best fans around. Except for 1 or 2 minor incidents the Villa Fans were brilliant yesterday. Started off at Wealstone FC for a beer and no doubt the 600+ fans that were there would be welcomed back with open arms. Tubed into Wembley & onto Green Man and you wouldn't know Arsenal were playing. Great atmosphere in the ground and not normally my thing but thought all the flags looked brilliant. Again after the game a little subdued but the Villa fans were still singing on Wembley Way & on the tube.
Couldn't believe how passionless the Arsenal fans were. We left on final whistle and hoards of them were on Wembley Way not even seeing there team lift the cup. Maybe they are bored of the big occasion.
Gutted by the performance on the pitch but still proud to belong to Aston Villa & it's wonderful band of supporters.
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We're fans that are very used to disappointment, so we should be in a position to get over it fairly quickly.
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I am renewing my season ticket, Aston Villa is my team and I love it, I have plenty to be thankful for, I am not a Bluenose, Stripeyfilth or Doghead, I am still only 57 and feasibly, just feasibly if I have to wait another 57 years I could be just be alive, I am not in a wheelchair, have all my faculties, today I woke up,my mate from Thailand went to Wembley in a Villa dressing gown, Lambert is not our Manager, we are in the Premier League, the Villa support made me proud, I can choose my attitude and today is a good day and I look forward to the start of the new season.
This is Aston Villa and for me, it is perfect.
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Renewed weeks ago. Utv VTID .
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Suzanne Virdee friended me on Facebook.
Bastard!
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We DIDN'T set yet another negative record.
WAsn't it our heaviest ever cup final defeat?
Sorry should be cheering up.....erm......er........I got free beer at half time?
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The lad I am sharing a room with had a bet on 3-0 Arsenal and Walcott first goal.
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Well my kids are happy as they don't have to endure a 6hr drive to see the open top bus tour. they greeted me at the door last night as I came back from the pub . I wasnt in the mood to smile. grumpy dad!
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Only positive from today, is that I've lived in London for a year now, and today, I bought my first sub £3.50 pint i
Where?
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We DIDN'T set yet another negative record.
WAsn't it our heaviest ever cup final defeat?
Sorry should be cheering up.....erm......er........I got free beer at half time?
Think it was heaviest cup final defeat in 26 years. So could have been worse.
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Could have been worse....can you imagine being an Athletico Madrid fan after the European Cup Final last year?
I think they could console themselves that they are the third best spanish side with a good squad and manager. Meanwhile at VP........
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We are the 17th best side in England.
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The positives are that score line yesterday was a true reflection of both teams performance on the day and gap in quality over the season. So it should leave Sherwood and Fox in no doubt about what needs doing.
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We DIDN'T set yet another negative record.
WAsn't it our heaviest ever cup final defeat?
Sorry should be cheering up.....erm......er........I got free beer at half time?
Think it was heaviest cup final defeat in 26 years. So could have been worse.
There hasn't been a heavier final defeat since 1903.
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Arsenal were really very good... in the form they are in with the players they've got who could have beaten them? Look at their subs bench FFS.... no.... doesn't cheer me up either.
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We DIDN'T set yet another negative record.
WAsn't it our heaviest ever cup final defeat?
Sorry should be cheering up.....erm......er........I got free beer at half time?
Think it was heaviest cup final defeat in 26 years. So could have been worse.
There hasn't been a heavier final defeat since 1903.
United beat Chelsea 4-0 in 1994, so it wouldn't be the heaviest in 26 years. Although I admit heaviest in 21 years doesn't sound that much better.
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Chelsea at least had the excuse that Elleray kept giving Man U random penalties. The only other four goal defeat since 1903 was Brighton, who had already managed to take them to a replay.
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So 21 years not 26. That's cheered me up
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Didn't manu beat Millwall 4 nil about 10 yrs ago? Also, didn't Newcastle get beat 4 nil by arse in late nineties?
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Didn't manu beat Millwall 4 nil about 10 yrs ago? Also, didn't Newcastle get beat 4 nil by arse in late nineties?
3-0 Millwall lost
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Just watched the game again and n'zogbia was so pityful he actually made me chuckle. I am sure he just decided his game plan was to run around like headless chicken for 90 mins while thinking " what the fuck am I doing here". Today I feel he will be sat somewhere wondering if yesterday was just a dream and tomorrow he will be back to mowing grass for the council. I bet he never dreamed he would be a professional footballer and if that's the case then he was right.
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Didn't manu beat Millwall 4 nil about 10 yrs ago? Also, didn't Newcastle get beat 4 nil by arse in late nineties?
If I remember right Newcastle got beat 2-0 by Arsenal (with Given in goal) in 1998 and also got beat 2-0 by United in 1999. I think Harper was in goal for them for United game.
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CNZ is probably head down meandering around some gaudy mall in Dubai around about now
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Thinking about n'zobia has anyone else on here found themselves in a job and on the first day thought " fuck me I'm way out of depth here and if they don't suss me and sack me by the end of the week then it will be a miracle ".
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Thinking about n'zobia has anyone else on here found themselves in a job and on the first day thought " fuck me I'm way out of depth here and if they don't suss me and sack me by the end of the week then it will be a miracle ".
How different football would be if players had real world contracts of employment instead of the ridiculous cash cows they have today?
Being a lazy demotivated useless barrel of lard (N'Zogbia) would mean you got fired, no money, no wages rather than being allowed to fester on week after week stinking the place out.
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Thinking about n'zobia has anyone else on here found themselves in a job and on the first day thought " fuck me I'm way out of depth here and if they don't suss me and sack me by the end of the week then it will be a miracle ".
I felt exactly like that in my job, and spent loads of time at home trying to get up to speed. But I haven't been through an Ofsted yet, which is my Cup Final, I suppose. I'd like to think I won't be so much of a headless chicken.
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My post cup final breakfast menu:
Hard cheese.
Sour Grapes.
Egg on face.
Humble Pie.
Pint of Bitter.
Lets face it, over the past few weeks we've basically been sold a pup. We're now confronted with a manager with the haunted look of someone who's wondering what the fuck he's got himself into and how he's going to get out of it. Results against Southampton and Burnley were forgiven on the basis that the cup final was on the minds of the players. Faithful supporters have shelled out inflated prices to witness that this was not the case, we really are well, crap, and once again a laughing stock in our workplaces and in the media. To cap it all, our one game a season owner sits in the Royal Box with a big stupid grin on his face. Have a great summer and, oh, whats for lunch?....
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We're the second best team in this year's FA Cup competition out of all the teams who entered.
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Thank god that's over with.
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The semi final was still one of my favourite days as a Villa fan.
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If you can bear to watch the third goal again, the commentary on this is quite funny.
http://youtu.be/SQrYVXLxL2k
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If you can bear to watch the third goal again, the commentary on this is quite funny.
http://youtu.be/SQrYVXLxL2k
Ha ha did I hear that right??!!
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Upon sober consideration. I think we have been too hard on ourselves and the team. Teams get thrashed in cups all the time, world class teams get thrashed (Barcelona, Brazil) and can come back stronger. Arsenal themselves have been on the wrong end of a league thrashing in recent years (8-2) as well.
I think it was so galling for me because we have had zero chance of winning anything for years, so to get so close felt doubly rough. But it wasn't so long ago Arsenal were being roundly mocked for not winning anything either, so things can change.
So anyway, onwards. We got a thrashing and looked terrible, it happens to richer clubs than us, we should learn what we can (not much) and look forward to next season. The money odds are stacked against us, but thats true for at least half of the league. We stayed up and played some truly great stuff in patches. Maybe we can play that great stuff a bit more often next season :)
There, that cheer you up?
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Inevitably I encountered a bluenose as I went into work and was greeted with a mocking laugh and a rhetorical "That was worth it wasn't it"? I'd no preparerd response but heard myself telling him of the new friends I'd made, the laughs we'd had, the chats we'd had with Arsenal fans , the fact I'd sung Abide with me and been respectable,and the feeling of pride most of the day that my team were part of it all. And that yes it was worth it every minute.
I don'the think he really understood but it at least led to a reasonable conversation.
Interestingly a Stoke supporterwho I don't know too well mailed me to say that years on from their loss it's being part of it all that's memorable not the game or result.
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Receive new claim earlier. Bag lost on the tube our claims handler doesn't like. Arsenal fan. After the cup final. Lost because he was on the phone to his mate when he got off. Within seconds of the final whistle.
It couldn't be? Could it?
And if not, I am not paying the claim on the general principal that he is a ******.
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Mayo last won the All-Ireland football championship in 1951. Since 1989 they have reached the All-Ireland final 7 times and lost every one of them.
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Bump.
Pissed off again. Need some happy thoughts...
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Bump.
Pissed off again. Need some happy thoughts...
It's Friday mate - you can drink it all away for a few hours and then start again tomorrow
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Sounds like a plan!
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It's only 24 minutes until kick off.