Worst news as a Villa fan?

[Irish villain]

The single worst moment for me was losing the FA Cup Final in 2000. I was nineteen and I cried on my mum's shoulder like a baby.

I had erased this from my memory. I had turned 14 two days earlier. That was a hard day. We gave such an insipid performance which made it all the worse.

[Pat McMahon]

Mine is a selfish one: coming home from school in February 1977 to be met by my unemployed dad telling me Villa had sold out of tickets for the Wembley final v Everton.

Hope you got to the other two games.

As an aside, I was living in Liverpool at the time, and was to meet the family, who had the tickets, at Hillsborough for the second game. Unfortunately, although I was not to know at the time, dad had his wallet lifted at the M1 services with all his cash and the tickets. Spotted wandering around by a mounted copper, who asked me if I needed a ticket, and produced one from his pocket and gave it to me.

Fair play to the cop. Did your dad get to see the game too?

I didn't see either of the two replays as my dad would have stolen money to get us to Wembley, but not OT or Hillsboro. I was gutted but as he was out of work I had no right to complain.

[N'ZMAV]

03-03-03

that was the worst!

[TonyD]

When Gazza went to Rangers in 95.  I thought he was coming to us.

[Broughty-Villian]

Saunders leaving and Ray graydon going

[sonlyme]

The worst came as I sat relaxing in a bar in Paris.  The job we were on was done - on budget and before time.  We were given a fat cash bonus and had two days on the razz in view - hotel paid - expenses still in our pockets.  My bluenose colleague came in with the news.  McLeish has gone to Villa.

We all felt awful.  Bluenose and Villa alike.

It ruined those two glorious days - everytime we started having fun the memory returned and flattened it.  Drink was the only cure, and never before has the world seen Bluenose and Villan united in their bemused grief - supporting each other as they blindly stumbled through the alleys round Montmarte and Château Rouge.

I had hoped for a new vision for Villa - after Houllier I hoped for someone that would follow the Barca model -  train youngsters in the right way to play - and a team that actually cared for the club they grew up in.  Gone in a moment.  Possibly the worst decision Lerner has ever taken.  Relegation comes from a long way off, it is not really a shock.  Star players leave - but others come and the team remains the team.  But this, this was sodium chloride on the green shoots of Villa's future.

It was my darkest hour.  Truly.

[Risso]

I think Les Ferdinand signing for Newcastle instead of joining the Brian Little revolution at Villa.  Given how well he did on Tyneside, I think his signing would have had us challenging (even more) seriously for the title, and might also have meant that Sir Brian didn't sign Collymore a couple of years later which send everything tits up.

Either that or us signing John Fashanu.  A nonsense signing to allow Atkinson's mate Fash to work at Central a bit more easily, at that point I knew that Atkinson wasn't long for the Villa job.

[LeeB]

"Brian Little has resigned as Aston Villa manager"

[SoccerHQ]

Probably me worst moment as a villa fan was hearing we had sold Yorke to Man. United which was difficult to hear for a 9 year old. Since then I've had a fairly relaxed view to key players leaving us.

The two results against SHA in 02/03 really hurt aswell probably due to the manner of it. Again since then very few results cut me up much nowadays after the immediate aftermatch of them. Even the cup final in 2010 I was fairly philiosophical afterwards (apart from towards that cnut Dowd) think we'd go on to bigger and better things. Opps.

[silhillvilla]

77/78 FA Cup 3rd Rd draw
Everton will play Nr2, Aston Villa.
We lost 4-1.

[Lastfootstamper]

Pubehead walking out. Just the timing of it. Felt like a personal kick in the bollocks. Don't get me wrong, in retrospect I'd have had no qualms with him getting the old heave-ho 14 months earlier, and I've seen enough managers come and go to know to not get too attached to them. But FIVE DAYS??? That's just disrespectful

edit: that, and the day we sold Andy Gray. I worshipped that man. But I was only 13

[kippaxvilla2]

Hearing the Villa Park announcer saying that the goalscorer for Sheff Wed was Nigel Jemson after Les Sealey carried the ball over the line then chased George Courteney the length of the park.

[richtheholtender]

Two in about five minutes once.

First, being told Steve Bruce had for equalised for Manchester United in the 12th minute of injury time against Sheffield Wednesday.

Secondly, being announced over the tannoy that Steve Bruce had scored again for Manchester United in the 18th minute of inury time against Sheffield Wedensday.

We laboured to a nil nil draw against Coventry and from that point on you knew the title was gone.

I bet that's when Fergie time first reared it's ugly head.

And this

Unsure, but Yorke going was pretty hard to take as a 9 year old.

[Matt C]

As a 10-year old who idiolised him, Platt being sold. I'd never even considered until that point that a player could possibly want to leave Villa, nor that we would sell him. I learnt quickly.

[cdbearsfan]

Hearing the Villa Park announcer saying that the goalscorer for Sheff Wed was Nigel Jemson after Les Sealey carried the ball over the line then chased George Courteney the length of the park.

I was sat in the front row of the North Stand right behind that. No way did it ever cross the fucking line. Courtney was a bastard.