Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: garyshawsknee on April 02, 2016, 05:49:51 PM
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When the inevitable happens, there won't be the usual middle aged guy crying on Sky as we have been down for a long time. This season we could have easily shed a tear every weekend, but when did Villa last make you cry ?
Mine was 1987 aged 9 when we sold Mark Walters.
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I cry before every game when I'm setting out and then after the match when my girlfriend tells me I've had too much and have to leave the pub.
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I haven't cried over football since England lost to Argentina in 1998.
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The camera will still catch some numpty bawling his eyes out next week. Why would you cry though? We've been down since December.
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when they wrap the coat around Hatch's shoulders and they all escape out of the big iron gates
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The last (only?) time I cried at a Villa game was during Abide With Me at Wembley last season.
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I definitely had tears in my eyes after Dion scored that penalty in 2000.
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The last (only?) time I cried at a Villa game was during Abide With Me at Wembley last season.
Me too.
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I cried with happiness when we won the league & again a year later when we won the European cup.
Relegation just makes me angry!
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I was welling up before both FA Cup Finals but not crying.
My boy, aged 10, cried his eyes out when Arsenal went 3-0 up.
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Oh and I definitely cried before the 2000 final, my mom died less than a year before and I stood outside the ground looking at the twin towers thinking of her and my dad, who passed a decade earlier, and blarted like a girl for about a minute.
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When we were last relegated. I was about 14 and I think we lost the West Ham.
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The last (only?) time I cried at a Villa game was during Abide With Me at Wembley last season.
I don't think I cried but I was welling up then too. As I was momentarily after the final whistle in the semi.
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When we were last relegated. I was about 14 and I think we lost the West Ham.
Sheffield Wednesday
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When we were last relegated. I was about 14 and I think we lost the West Ham.
Sheff Weds, I didn't cry but I welled up a bit leaving The Holte. I'd not long turned 16.
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When we beat Man Utd second leg league cup final 1971 and again when we played Spurs off the park and still lost the final. God I was proud of the club that day.
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May 1982
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In Rotterdam. I think the amount of alcohol I had consumed meant the stiff upper lip was not so britishly ( is that a word allowed on countdown) stiff at the end of the game.
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I was close after Tranmere at home. It was an energy sapping afternoon.
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Not strictly Villa, but when my mum wouldn't let me go see pele, and she definitely wasn't going to take me.I was still at primary but couldn't understand why she wouldn't let me go,
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Almost at Wembley SF last year
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Watching the "Proud History : Bright Future" CD they sent out to Season Ticket holders - I now just have a cold hate in my heart...
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26 May 1982. And again on the train home the following day - just sitting there, as knackered as I'd ever felt in my life, thinking of all the European Cup finals I'd watched on tele as a kid and trying to comprehend that I'd just watched my team win it.
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Inter Milan's 3rd being allowed when it had clearly crossed the line.
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When Andy Gray signed for Wolves when I was a kid.
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The SF against Redscouse, someone squirted salted water in my eyes
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The replay final against Everton when we equalised and then went behind very quickly afterwards in the 3-2 League Cup Final win. I was only about 10 at the time. We are going down now but they only deserve anger, not my tears.
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Never cried over football. I'm not a Geordie.
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I cried when I was 9 and we lost.
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Imagine if someone cried every time we lost this season? They'd be dead of dehydration by now.
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There will be no need for tears this time.
I really mean this, too, but the fact that we have looked dead and buried and actually getting worse for months now means the club have inflicted, at least in this sense, an "easy" relegation on us - no last day trauma, no bad luck, no freak result killing us off.
They killed us off in January. Anyone who doesn't make use of that four months warning is a moron.
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I didn't cry as such, but when the rallying roar went around Wembley in the second half of last year's semi final, it was quite emotional.
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I definitely had tears in my ears after Dion scored that penalty in 2000.
Me too!
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The last time I cried about life's distractions was after hearing the Bootleg Beatles play Hey Jude the day after doing too many naughty things at Glastonbury. Even if I was equally Merse-like on matematically-sure day I wouldn't blub as we've had more than enough preparation for the fateful day.
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There will be no need for tears this time.
I really mean this, too, but the fact that we have looked dead and buried and actually getting worse for months now means the club have inflicted, at least in this sense, an "easy" relegation on us - no last day trauma, no bad luck, no freak result killing us off.
They killed us off in January. Anyone who doesn't make use of that four months warning is a moron.
Yep, I bet Blues and Albion fans are secretly gutted too. There's few things funnier than seeing either of those succumb to last day drama and tumble back from whence they came. Their lot don't get that joy with us though - it's been death by a thousand cuts.
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I felt like crying during the FA Cup final 2015...
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It'll actually feel like a blessed relief when we go down. They'll be no tears from me, but there might be if we don't bounce straight back up next season.
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There will be no need for tears this time.
I really mean this, too, but the fact that we have looked dead and buried and actually getting worse for months now means the club have inflicted, at least in this sense, an "easy" relegation on us - no last day trauma, no bad luck, no freak result killing us off.
They killed us off in January. Anyone who doesn't make use of that four months warning is a moron.
I agree. I will be upset and angry, but there will also be an element of almost relief in there as well.
As for crying, never cried because of what has happened on the pitch, but was another one who welled up during Abide With Me at the Cup Final last season thinking of people no longer with us who would have loved to be there.
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I can't wait for next season.
We've won 22 home games in the last 5 years. Having a season ticket over that time has been fucking crap. I'm looking forward to actually going to the match wondering whether we'll win rather than knowing we won't.
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Never cried at a game but I sobbed for a long time on the night of 3/3/03 when a middle aged man died of a heart attack in my arms in Aston Park.
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I know I have in the past. Not done it for a while. A defeat used to piss me off for a week. Now it's a few minutes
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None of those fuckers are worth getting upset over. Not one
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Never cried at a game but I sobbed for a long time on the night of 3/3/03 when a middle aged man died of a heart attack in my arms in Aston Park.
Someone seemed to have collapsed on the hill up to Aston Pwrk after the game today, was being attended to by paramedics, anyone know what happened?
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A tear definitely rolled down my cheek during 'Abide with me' at Wembley.
I now know I was not the only one!
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I cried at the last home game of the season 3 years ago, against Chelsea. That was more to do with Stilyan Petrov and personal family shit than anything else.
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I had a tear in my eye when the boys of '82 went onto the pitch before the Sheffield United game and Unmade Silent Movie started playing.
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I got a bit emotional when we lost to Oldham at home in May 1993 to confirm Yanited as champions. I was upset for me, my fellow fans and the also for the players. I knew after the Fergietime game thiings wernt going our way but it hit me hard at the end for some reason.
As for this lot, I might cry if they're still here next season but that's all.
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My nam told me that my grandad came home crying from the Albion in 1959 when Ronnie Allen scored with 30 seconds to go to seal relegation. My grandad was distraught and was mocked by some Albion fans outside ethe Whorethorns. He was no hooligan but took his jacket off in order to land a few pissbawlers on his tormentors. He never cried at the Villa again, even when we dropped to the 3rd in 1970.
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Welled up a bit last game in front of the Holte - when that clown was singing the scouser song and got drowned out by 40k people booing and whistling. That was magic.
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A wonderful Birmingham lady named Amy Dainty died two years ago aged 99. Her father and my grandfather were bosom friends and diehard Villa fans. When we were relegated for the first time she told they made a pact to end it all by jumping off the gasholders at Saltley where they both worked. When they got there the gasholders were empty and at ground level so they went in The Sycamore and got pissed.
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I cried at the first game I attended after my cancer treatment when my son put his arm round my shoulder during the 19th minute applause.
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You have had our internet arms around you too Mr Smith.
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Thank you, Mr Green, it was all greatly appreciated. Three and a half years in remission now and life is good so I am not going to let the useless bastards masquerading as a football team bother me.
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Mine was singing Abide with me with my Dad at the 2000 F A Cup Final. Something I always wanted to do.
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Mine was singing Abide with me with my Dad at the 2000 F A Cup Final. Something I always wanted to do.
I almost look back on that 'performance' fondly now.
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I had a tear in my eye when the boys of '82 went onto the pitch before the Sheffield United game and Unmade Silent Movie started playing.
Same here. That tune gets me every time. The only other thing I can recall bringing tears is seeing the Trinity reduced to rubble. That had me upset for weeks. What Villa are doesn't affect me any more. It's what we were that makes me emotional.
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The only time I have was as an 8 year old, losing the second leg to Inter Milan.
The current team deserve our scorn not our tears.
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I teared up during Abide With Me last year, but the last time I properly sobbed was losing the 2000 Final.
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2nd Feb 1997. Savo Milosevic scuffs a shot in against Sunderland on a bitterly cold day, during a terrible game. The Holte starts singing Holte Enders In The Sky.
It was my first game after my Dad died.
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Walking out the 2000 final
First time we've been in the final for generations, nothing Villa related has come close to the disappointment of that day since.
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Being a biggest softie on H@V here is my list of blubbing over Villa
1969/70 Leicester away, blubbed when I got home (McMahon goal disallowed)
1971 League cup final against Spurs, cried tears of pride
1975 League cup final v Norwich cried when Ian Ross lifted the cup.
1981 cried when radio announced we were League champions
1994 cried at end of penalty shoot out against Tranmere
2000 cried at end of F A Cup final when we didn't turn up.
Numerous other times I was close to blubbing over our club, just the way I am.
Beat that !!!!
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The replay final against Everton when we equalised and then went behind very quickly afterwards in the 3-2 League Cup Final win. I was only about 10 at the time. We are going down now but they only deserve anger, not my tears.
Pedant alert: the scoring didn't quite go like that.
0-1
1-1 (Nichol)
2-1 (Little)
2-2
3-2 (Little).
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Nothing wrong with it. If it can move a person to tears during the good times such as a cup final then there is nothing wrong with it during bad times.
April 2012 when Wigan beat United and it looked, for the first time in my lifetime really, like villa could seriously go down and there would be a Premier League without the villa, I posted here that it hit me and I had a tear or two. It's been coming in a while so that shock factor that was there in the McLeish year isn't there at all now.
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When Spartak beat us.
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No tears for this lot of numpties only for the young kids who have been introduced to this wonderful club by caring fathers and have had to put up with all sorts of grief from other kids at school.
That's where my sympathy lies.
The players, nothing but contempt for the so called experienced premier league chancers who brought us to this.....professionals they don't know the meaning of the word
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If there was an inkling of a chance we might stay up, i'd expect to be emotional about it. But we've been going down since November time. I won't say I'll take it with a shrug and a smile but by and large, the sting's been drawn.
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Although from my previous post you can see i'm very prone to crying over Villa there will be no tears this time when were officially down.
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The replay final against Everton when we equalised and then went behind very quickly afterwards in the 3-2 League Cup Final win. I was only about 10 at the time. We are going down now but they only deserve anger, not my tears.
Pedant alert: the scoring didn't quite go like that.
0-1
1-1 (Nichol)
2-1 (Little)
2-2
3-2 (Little).
Thanks Percy. I must have been cheering at going 2-1 up and then getting pegged back. What a game!
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The replay final against Everton when we equalised and then went behind very quickly afterwards in the 3-2 League Cup Final win. I was only about 10 at the time. We are going down now but they only deserve anger, not my tears.
Pedant alert: the scoring didn't quite go like that.
0-1
1-1 (Nichol)
2-1 (Little)
2-2
3-2 (Little).
Thanks Percy. I must have been cheering at going 2-1 up and then getting pegged back. What a game!
Fantastic. Probably my favourite ever.
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The replay final against Everton when we equalised and then went behind very quickly afterwards in the 3-2 League Cup Final win. I was only about 10 at the time. We are going down now but they only deserve anger, not my tears.
Pedant alert: the scoring didn't quite go like that.
0-1
1-1 (Nichol)
2-1 (Little)
2-2
3-2 (Little).
Thanks Percy. I must have been cheering at going 2-1 up and then getting pegged back. What a game!
Fantastic. Probably my favourite ever.
Double pedant alert, Nicholl
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Someone seemed to have collapsed on the hill up to Aston Pwrk after the game today, was being attended to by paramedics, anyone know what happened?
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If you mean near to the school, I didn't see what led up to it but I saw the paramedics arrive and tend to someone. It was a child who they walked to the ambulance with. The child was holding his stomach and looked very pale but I would guess it wasn't anything major.
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I definitely had tears in my ears after Dion scored that penalty in 2000.
Never cried at football but that was definitely the most emotional moment for me.
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Thank you, Mr Green, it was all greatly appreciated. Three and a half years in remission now and life is good so I am not going to let the useless bastards masquerading as a football team bother me.
Is it really that long Chris? Fantastic, long may it continue. Mind yourself.
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Anderlecht (amongst all the mayhem )
Rotterdam
Wembley semi last year when the final whistle went
Wembley final last year as the team walked out
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Good news, Chris.
Keep it going!