Worst news as a Villa fan?

[Big Dick Edwards]

Giddie and Andy Gray going

This. Two of my favourite ever players in 45 years of watching Villa. However, two years later we were  Champions of Europe! Just confirms football is a team game and no individuals are bigger than the club.

[richard moore]

Lots to choose from but probably Saunders going. In more recent times, it has to be McLeish because you just knew it would end very badly

[Pete3206]

Sid leaving for Bari.
I was 10 and gutted.

I was gutted when he 'left' for Napoli in 1983. As good as done and announced when they had a change at the top and it fell through. Cue the celebrations. Then weeks later he broke his leg.

Pre-season game wasn't it? I remember the footage of him in total shock at he held his upper leg, while the lower half dangled in the air.

[dave shelley]

Sid leaving for Bari.
I was 10 and gutted.

I was gutted when he 'left' for Napoli in 1983. As good as done and announced when they had a change at the top and it fell through. Cue the celebrations. Then weeks later he broke his leg.

Pre-season game wasn't it? I remember the footage of him in total shock at he held his upper leg, while the lower half dangled in the air.

And don't forget the bastard that did it to him kicking the ball at him as he lay on the ground! C**t.

[kippaxvilla2]

Media reports that Villa were about approach Birmingham City manager Alex MCleish about the vacant manager position.

This.  I cannot remember being so scared and pissed off about one thing in all my life.

[villan from luton]

The news sid had been done by the butcher of bilbao in pre season game was probably my worst news. Him and McMahon would have been a brilliant double act.

[Villafirst]

Benteke's written transfer request on 8th July was pretty bad, but, heh it's all a bad dream now!!!

[Irish villain]

Media reports that Villa were about approach Birmingham City manager Alex MCleish about the vacant manager position.

This.  I cannot remember being so scared and pissed off about one thing in all my life.

I was in the UK visiting a friend in Southend when that rumour first came to light. By the time I got back to Dublin the deal was more or less done. I remember a lot of us on here trying to find positives but it was so hard. I remember the day those pics pf him with a villa scarf started circulating, it all seemed so wrong.

[pauliewalnuts]

Media reports that Villa were about approach Birmingham City manager Alex MCleish about the vacant manager position.

This.  I cannot remember being so scared and pissed off about one thing in all my life.

I still look back to that and find it utterly, utterly gobsmacking to think that it really did happen.

I can't believe there was one person (other than McLeish himself) on the face of the earth who thought that was a good decision, and it just so happened to be Randy Lerner.

[peter w]

I still maintain that mcleish was hung out to dry. We needed a full season cutting back. not many other managers would have accepted the job and who else to take the sting out of lerner's sever cost cutting but the manager appointed from our relgated neighbours? If it went well, lerner would have got the plaudits. if it went as just about everyone expected it to, McLeish would get the shitstorm.

[Deano's Mullet]

Leeds United (a) 1995. Heard on the radio - Bosnich sent off, Villa impotent up front. Last minute Carlton Palmer goal for them. The week before we were mullered 4-0 at home to Arsenal. I honestly thought we were gone. Thankfully a week later, in one of the warmest days I can ever remember at Villa Park, Liverpool turned up in the white suits, Yorke and Saunders played a blinder and we won 2-0. After that Leeds game I never felt so negative about our league status until December 2012.

[Richard E]

Hearing that John Fashanu had signed.

[Pat McMahon]

Media reports that Villa were about approach Birmingham City manager Alex MCleish about the vacant manager position.

This.  I cannot remember being so scared and pissed off about one thing in all my life.

I was in the UK visiting a friend in Southend when that rumour first came to light. By the time I got back to Dublin the deal was more or less done. I remember a lot of us on here trying to find positives but it was so hard. I remember the day those pics pf him with a villa scarf started circulating, it all seemed so wrong.

Mel, Southend is a shithole at the best of times, but to be there on the day of that appointment must have made it worse.

[Dave Clark Five]

Leaving Crewe ten minutes early to get the 2118 and finding that a dozen knobheads had done the same. What is it with these people that they have to act like twats on trains? On their own, they would not say boo to a goose on a commuter train in the morning but, after a football match, they are a fucking pain.

[ez]

Media reports that Villa were about approach Birmingham City manager Alex MCleish about the vacant manager position.

This.  I cannot remember being so scared and pissed off about one thing in all my life.

I still look back to that and find it utterly, utterly gobsmacking to think that it really did happen.

I can't believe there was one person (other than McLeish himself) on the face of the earth who thought that was a good decision, and it just so happened to be Randy Lerner.

I was nonchalant when I first heard the reports of the approach. I may have even smirked. After all, it was so ridiculous it had to be nonsense.