League Cup Semi Final - Bradford City

[SoccerHQ]

Is this Tuesday or Wednesday? Normally they alternate the games on different nights to the first leg but given we're playing Millwall now on the Friday, I presume this is again on a Tuesday?

[bertlambshank]

Holte End 1986? Twats.

[PeterWithesShin]

The Happy Brigade have spoken:

www.myoldmansaid.com/villa-park-heading-lowest-semifinal-attendance/

Spot the error, by the way.

That the Holte was being redeveloped in '86?

Still, MOMS is the voice of the Villa fan so what they say must be true.

[myf]

They'll be loud with 6k. is that a fixed percentage we have to offer them?

[bertlambshank]

They'll be loud with 6k. is that a fixed percentage we have to offer them?

Yep.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

The Happy Brigade have spoken:

www.myoldmansaid.com/villa-park-heading-lowest-semifinal-attendance/

Spot the error, by the way.

They seem to have missed off the Leicester Semi of 2000. I remember a few empty seats at that one.

[PeterWithesShin]

They chose to ignore the Bolton semi as well, which was less than 37K.

[Des Little]

What a lovely big pair of hairy bollocks.

[Ghost of Pongo Waring]

The Happy Brigade have spoken:

www.myoldmansaid.com/villa-park-heading-lowest-semifinal-attendance/

Spot the error, by the way.

That the Holte was being redeveloped in '86?

Still, MOMS is the voice of the Villa fan so what they say must be true.

There's 4800 tickets left and Saturday will be the first home game since they went on general sale not every one buys over the phone or on the net. With just under two weeks to go it's too early for this doom and gloom about the attendance.

To be fair about the mistake about the Holte they're only eight years out, if I'm right/

[Lastfootstamper]

The Happy Brigade have spoken:

www.myoldmansaid.com/villa-park-heading-lowest-semifinal-attendance/

Spot the error, by the way.

That the Holte was being redeveloped in '86?

Still, MOMS is the voice of the Villa fan so what they say must be true.

Youngsters, probably googled attendances and assumed that that was the only reason why it could've been so low. THOSE were dark days

[Pete3206]

The Happy Brigade have spoken:

www.myoldmansaid.com/villa-park-heading-lowest-semifinal-attendance/

Spot the error, by the way.

They seem to have missed off the Leicester Semi of 2000. I remember a few empty seats at that one.

28,037

[Chipsticks]

Is this Tuesday or Wednesday? Normally they alternate the games on different nights to the first leg but given we're playing Millwall now on the Friday, I presume this is again on a Tuesday?

Yep.

[Dave Clark Five]

We won't outsing 6500 supporters unless there is some blood and thunder on the pitch. Of course, this is different as there will be an away following that rarely go home, never mind away, so they may tire of singing the same shit after about 10 minutes. At Villa Park, like everywhere else, you have a hard core. Attendances above the norm don't necessarily mean louder support. You tend to get more whingeing. The higher the crowd, the more the moaning.

[MyOldManSaid]

Yep, a younger chap put up that post and was asked to add the list of significant semi-finals that Villa won through to the final and also give the piece a title. I just saw it and noticed the Holte End reference (all changed now). His reply - "I was wondering why we were only getting 20,000-odd for a home game vs Liverpool and also a semi." A younger generation don't actually know of how low the attendances were a few decades ago...even when we had a bigger capacity. Even some of the attendances in the 1981 when Villa won the league are shocking.

The main problem with the post was the title of the piece ('lowest attendance'), which had nothing to do with the content, plus ticket sales are way past the lowest ever already.

Sorry about the errors. More worrying is the number of people who didn't notice anything at all! UTV

[Jim Shoes]

We all know the issues with the "team" we are piss poor but the 12th man has to stir that night!!

We are playing a 4th tier club, at VP and although it's difficult to see this shower of shite keeping a clean sheet it would only take a 2-0 win to see us through to Wembley.

We may as well raise the roof because with this squad it will be a very long time before Villa are in another semi, 90mins with a Tranmere type support might just be the catalyst for the team to perform. If not then we can't blame ourselves, if anyone gets on the players back they may as well go stand in the Bradford end.