Arsenal v Aston Villa F.A. Cup 4th Round Post-Match Thread

[Dave Clark Five]

Good performances are flukes, according to some. Would those who slagged McLeish at 90 mins have given him credit at 45?
Of course not.

[London Villan]

At 45 mins we were in a great, but fortunate position. We'd not bossed the game, but we had stopped them playing to an extent and had a two goal lead. Not to capitalise on that in the way we did was pathetic.

[Kingthing]

I feel like I've been raped.

[Californian Villain]

How unexpected.  In 45 years of watching Villa I'd never seen us do anything like that, especially in the cup.  I mean honestly who'd have  thunk it?

Entirely predictable. Our season ended at halftime.

[ez]

Shaun Teale's opinion of McLeish on fb... he doesn't hold back!

pray tell more to us non Twitterers (did I just invent a word?)

Villa players tweets all in one place...
http://www.ftbpro.com/teams/aston-villa#player-tweets

[Californian Villain]

I feel like I've been raped.

LOL. No you don't.

[saunders_heroes]

At 45 mins we were in a great, but fortunate position. We'd not bossed the game, but we had stopped them playing to an extent and had a two goal lead. Not to capitalise on that in the way we did was pathetic.

It wasn't fortunate. We played well first half. Stopped them playing and scored two fine goals. What was lucky about that? They were always going to throw everything at us second half and they did. Crap defending cost us in the end.

[TheSandman]

Well I thought N'Zobia looked pretty useful at Wigan and I thought Hutton looked good in the few games I saw him play for Rangers and Scotland. I also thought Shorey looked good at Reading and Curtis Davies looked quite classy at Albion, possibly the new Paul McGrath.

Then again I'm not a highly paid football manager who isn't just seeing these players on the telly.

It's not just AM that has bought us some stinkers.

The problem that Alex faces is that he has less money to spend and thus will make fewer signings. Ever signing he makes will be under much more pressure. O'Neill signed Davies, Sidwell and Harewood but he also signed Young and Milner. AM has not been able to sign as many players and as a result has had fewer chances to get it right or wrong as things stand.

[gervilla]

I feel like I've been raped.

I feel like we threw away a two goal lead. I wouldn't go that far.

[brian green]

Just got home from the game and I am too tired to check to see if anyone else has mentioned it but there was a very nasty incident with the police and stewards just after the final whistle.

My son caught it on video so you can see for yourself I hope very soon once he has posted it.

A lad whose name I obtained called Lee Bannerjee was spotted by the stewards lighting a cigarette and all hell broke loose from the stewards closely followed by the police.   It was an absolutely over the top reaction to a minor thing but it very easily could have sparked a serious incident.   I managed to push my way through the mob of stewards and police and spoke to Lee to tell him to stay calm, to ask him his name and to tell the police and the stewards to follow the rules and use only proportionate force.

As you can imagine the police and the stewards then turned on me but I pointed out that my son was videoing everything and said that's Damon Green the ITV news journalist.   It wasn't  it was his younger brother but by God you should have seen them get the message.   One said to my son "you don't need to film us, we have it all on CCTV"  to which I replied "yes, and who controls the CCTV?  you do".

Like I say if my son can get the clip up have a look at it and tell me whether that is an appropriate response to a fan lighting a cigarette.

In passing we should have guess the coppers were spoiling for bother when they - without a word - marched across the approach concourse and snatched the beer out of our hands.   A sign somewhere saying alcohol must not be taken past this point would have been a nice gesture to the fans they are only too happy to take money off for beer inside the ground.

[dave.woodhall]

I feel like I've been raped.

That's a bit strong.

[Legion]

Neither would I. That's going a bit too far.

[London Villan]

At 45 mins we were in a great, but fortunate position. We'd not bossed the game, but we had stopped them playing to an extent and had a two goal lead. Not to capitalise on that in the way we did was pathetic.

It wasn't fortunate. We played well first half. Stopped them playing and scored two fine goals. What was lucky about that? They were always going to throw everything at us second half and they did. Crap defending cost us in the end.

2 - 0 up away from home without been in charge of the game was fortunate, yes we took the goals well but they were our only two real chances.

[maidstonevillain]

Was in the Arsenal end courtesy of season ticket holders. Unfortunately was sussed when Villa scored their second, so had a lot of stick to put up with when Arsenals third went in.

Said to MV junior about a minute before Arsenal scored that if we can get thru the first 15 mins we will be alright. You  knew as soon as they scored they would go onto win. OK a shade unlucky with the goals, but mainly down to comedy defending. So predictable. I blame the midfield as much as the defence, just do not seem to be able to hang onto the ball.

I would like to say that we did spend a very pleasant hour post-match in the Kings Head up towards Finsbury Park. Proper pub, with lots of good chat with old Skool Arsenal fans.

So spare a thought for MV junior at school tomorrow, down here in the Arsenal hinterland, for the grief he is going get from all the new wave fans, who have never been any where near the Emirates. Suppose it serves him right for texting them all at half time. He will learn.

[UK Redsox]

Quite possibly the weirdest game I've ever been to. Absolutely battered for most of the first half but go in 2 up.

The Bent goal (just seen it on TV) was one hell of a finish to a great counter-attack.