The Biggest Disappointment of Recent Times Our last FA Cup Final

[JD]

I have no recollection of the game this thread is talking about. I don't think it actually happened, we all imagined it did. 

[Concrete John]

Biggest disappointment?  Everytime someone open's up a certain thread and she's still alive.  Which is amplified when you're just in from the pub!

[newtonsballs]

I'll forgive John Gregory for many things but not for the worst Cup Final in my living memory. I'd dreamt of taking my son to watch the Villa play in a Cup Final at Wembley - I did and it was shit, thanks John.

[Pete3206]

I remember talking to a bloke in a Chelsea shirt in a Paddington pub around 8 or 9 in the evening, after the match. He politely told me that he "didn't speak English". That's about the last thing I remember of that night and had the most horrific hangover the next morning. Depressed, in pain and with untouched, vomit inducing breakfasts behind us, we left our hotel with the intention of getting the train home, but ended up in several pubs on the way to the station and got hammered again.

[Legion]

I have a limited edition framed signed picture of this match by N.J. Davies hanging on my hall wall. Entitled F.A. Cup Finals - End of an Era - Wembley Stadium May 2000. No. 77/2000.

[cheltenhamlion]

I have a recollection of us going down in a limo and being "papped" by Wembley Conference Centre as they thought we were Five arriving for a gig.

We took the piss with me waving just a hand from our tinted window before getting a round of fucks from the snappers when I popped my head out of the sun roof.

We also got a curry, with plates and cutlery for the trip back from a place up the top of the Hangar Lane gyratory.

I was asleep for the last hour home.

[russon]

I don't think it's over-dramatizing matters to say the Bradford debacle last week. Stunning embarrassment and so disappointing given this cup was our lifeline in a nightmare season. We might yet recover in the 2nd leg but I can't remember feeling more disappointed in my club than that night.

[PeterWithesShin]

I have a recollection of us going down in a limo and being "papped" by Wembley Conference Centre as they thought we were Five arriving for a gig.

We took the piss with me waving just a hand from our tinted window before getting a round of fucks from the snappers when I popped my head out of the sun roof.

We also got a curry, with plates and cutlery for the trip back from a place up the top of the Hangar Lane gyratory.

I was asleep for the last hour home.

We did a limo there as well. It was great on the journey down. Hardly a word was said on the journey back!

Here is a pic us before we left in front of our limo. Look at the hope, happiness and expectations on our faces. Little did we know what was to come. For those interested, i'm the one looking like i'm trying to strangle someone.

[Tucson Villain]

I watched the game at Mad Dog In The Fog in San Francisco. I left there gutted and embarrassed. I was not a big Gregory fan anyway, but after this gutless performance he was never going to win me over.

[Zakk Fatt]

I was one of the lucky ones who couldnt get a ticket.  But I remember watching on TV and with 10 minutes left wishing the ref would blow the final whistle at 1-0 to Chelsea.  The only time in my life I have given up all hope at 1 down and gone to make a cup of tea.  Thoroughly rubbish that day, I have a match programme somewhere as it was the last Final at the old Wembley but its still in its brown delivery envelope, I have never looked at it beyond the front cover.  It is signed by the two captains, I'll sell it one day to a Chelsea collector no doubt.

[sid1964]

i had a great day until 3pm, and then it all went downhill from there on!

[usav]

We had great plans to go out in London that night and stay at a mate's house, we were so pissed off we just drove home staight from Wembley.

[steamer]

I travelled over from S.A for the game.
My U.K Passport had expired and I travelled on my S.A Passport.

At Passport control, a rat faced Cockney asked me, "what is the purpose of your visit "
I had put my Villa shirt on prior to disembarking, " I am here to see the Villa win the cup" i do not think it registered.
Great weekend, lots of reunions, my first return for 17 years.
Loads of drinking and reminiscing, the game I completly forgot.
My poor old dad, who had moved to S.A and had been to the 57 cup final watched it here with my brother and sons on the T.V
I do not think we even shared a comment about the game afterwards.

Please god let me come back for another one.