League Cup Semi Final - Bradford City

[PaulWinch again]

Perfect draw, very happy.

[Simon Ward]

Happy here too!

[Simon Ward]

1-1 at Valley Parade - anyone know when on sale an how many tickets we will get
3-1 at Villa Park.

Totally buzzing after the draw.

Arsenal got about 4,500!

[Le Lapin]

Great draw for us. I know we are happy with the draw, but I reckon Bradford are too. Will be a tricky one, they will genuinely think they have a chance against us with our iffy results up until the last month. If we can keep some semblance of form in the league and confidence is high going into these games then we'll have too much for them. If we revert to our form earlier in the season and doubt starts creeping in then a motivated and confident Bradford could give us a lot of problems and who knows where that will end up.
No game is a banker when you are Villa.

[Holte L2]

With it being two legged, and the return at our place this should be a comfortable victory. And i am/we are all overly confident of this.

Ive also seen comments about booking trains and hotels for the final, this may be a bit premature but who can blame them

UTFV!

We deserve this

I'd already booked my train to London that weekend.  Was doing Arsenal away, and staying at my friend who's a Spurs fan and going to West Ham/Spurs.    £22 return from Manchester so I'm rather happy!

[Ron Manager]

We should be capable of beating Bradford over two legs. In fact the gods have favoured us. Swansea are at home in their second leg so if they can put in a decent performance at Stamford Bridge they too have a chance.

Hopefully Darren Bent will be fit to add goalpower (perhaps off the bench) if required. And if we are very lucky Frank Lampard may have moved on before Swansea play Chealsea as Rafa has intimated he may go before the end of the season.

All in all it couldnt have worked out any better. Its up to the players to perform as they can and we might win the League cup for a sixth time.

[Kingthing]

According to their forums they're delighted.

[silhillvilla]

Will be my first trip back to Valley Parade since 1987, blimey was that 4-2 win really 26 years ago !!

[Dr Butler]

trying to decide wether to go or not as it seems a long way from Cambridge....

a good draw, but to be honest I would of taken any of the others, Bradford over the two legs ?? we should get through.

UTV
The Doc

[Dave Summers]

Will be my first trip back to Valley Parade since 1987, blimey was that 4-2 win really 26 years ago !!

Mine too. Doesn't time fly?

That was one of my all time favourite away days because they were flying at the top of the league then and everyone thought we would get beat.  The two Gray's made their debuts though and we beat them more comfortably even than 4-2 suggests, because it was only Steve Sims playing at being a goalkeeper that gave them two pens to keep em in it.  Think our front three was Aspinall, Thompson and Rambo wasn't it?

[JUAN PABLO]

Whoever said Oldham were a better team than us when they beat us in the Cup is having a laugh. We should have won the league that year.

stop talking about that oldham game , one of the worse games I have ever been too.   ;/       

[JUAN PABLO]

They have a VP too hehe.

yeah I was abit confused when I first read that ')

[JUAN PABLO]

I was at the Chester semi  in 1975 ( I think they were Division 4)  and having drawn away 2-2 we took a 2-0 lead at home, and fans were wanking all the way to Wembley.

Chester got back to 2-2 and we went through unassisted fucking childbirth to beat them 3-2,Keith Leonard delivering the goods if I recall correctly. I bet there are a fe w twists and turns yet.

With the right attitude we will be fine, but only if, and I think we have the right manager for that.

i was there at that one .  How time flies and Keith Leonard used to play footy with my dad under Arthur Cox , met him when Gary sprake was in hospital , great bloke .

[dave.woodhall]

According to their forums they're delighted.

Good for them. If they're so fucking clever how come they aren't twenty points clear at the top of division four?

[MarkM]

According to their forums they're delighted.

Good for them. If they're so fucking clever how come they aren't twenty points clear at the top of division four?

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