IF.................

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I often wonder what would've happened if we'd have bought Teddy Sheringham instead of Tony Cascarino.

[nigel]

If he'd have scored than everything that happened afterwards in the game would have been different and nobody knows how it would have panned out.

You could ask 'what if' about any incident in any game and spend the rest of your time creating fantasy matches in your head, which is all this is.

FFS, It's a light hearted, hypothetical scenario.
Don't take it so matter of factly!

The lads probably had nightmares over it, and he shouldn't, because in the end we won.

[nigel]

I often wonder what would've happened if we'd have bought Teddy Sheringham instead of Tony Cascarino.

Should have bought both, they were a team

[Concrete John]

Biggest one for me is April 10th 1993.

"What if...................?"

[nigel]

Biggest one for me is April 10th 1993.

"What if...................?"

Is that the day you got married 

[rob_bridge]

If Ronald Koeman had got sent off for felling Platt would England have beaten Ireland in the last 16 in USA 1994.

[Ads]

I have heard that this is the basis of Back to the Future IV.

[Brend'Watkins]

Just think, what if Ireland this season ran around a bit more and gave just a little bit of a shit.  We might possibly be in with a chance of Europe now.

[eastie]

Good old Telly, taking time out from admiring Birmingham's blossom to murder this song by Bread.

Who loves ya baby?

[Concrete John]

Biggest one for me is April 10th 1993.

"What if...................?"

Is that the day you got married 

10th April 1993 should be etched into every Villa fan's memory as 'a day that will live in infamy'!

[maidstonevillain]

Biggest one for me is April 10th 1993.

"What if...................?"

Is that the day you got married 

10th April 1993 should be etched into every Villa fan's memory as 'a day that will live in infamy'!

That is the last game I went to until I started taking the children in 2005/2006. A watershed in many ways.

[eamonn]

If we had but world enough and time
This coyness mistress would be no crime
I would spend a thousand years to adore each breast
And a considerably longer amount for all the rest

But time's winged chariot is ever at our back
And its long skanky finger will go smack, smack, smack

The grave's a fine and private place
But none I think do there embrace
So let us take all our sweetness and wrap it up into one ball
And thus, though we cannot make our sun stand still
Yet we shall make him run!

[Ghost of Pongo Waring]

If he'd have scored than everything that happened afterwards in the game would have been different and nobody knows how it would have panned out.

You could ask 'what if' about any incident in any game and spend the rest of your time creating fantasy matches in your head, which is all this is.

FFS, It's a light hearted, hypothetical scenario.
Don't take it so matter of factly!

The lads probably had nightmares over it, and he shouldn't, because in the end we won.

I doubt very much that he's had nightmares over it. It isn't the first bad miss he's made and it won't be the last.
The same could be said for every striker, ever, in the history of football.

You could make a hypothetical scenario about every single kick in a game. Change one thing and entire game changes afterwards.

If he'd scored would the ball have had to be cleared off the line by Bent? The second half would be influenced by the first half, which would be different.
Would West Ham have attacked more and scored, would a player have made a bad challenge and got sent off, would we have scored more.

The possibilities are infinite and ultimately pointless.

[andyaston]

Good point Rudyard.

[nigel]

If he'd have scored than everything that happened afterwards in the game would have been different and nobody knows how it would have panned out.

You could ask 'what if' about any incident in any game and spend the rest of your time creating fantasy matches in your head, which is all this is.

FFS, It's a light hearted, hypothetical scenario.
Don't take it so matter of factly!

The lads probably had nightmares over it, and he shouldn't, because in the end we won.

I doubt very much that he's had nightmares over it. It isn't the first bad miss he's made and it won't be the last.
The same could be said for every striker, ever, in the history of football.

You could make a hypothetical scenario about every single kick in a game. Change one thing and entire game changes afterwards.

If he'd scored would the ball have had to be cleared off the line by Bent? The second half would be influenced by the first half, which would be different.
Would West Ham have attacked more and scored, would a player have made a bad challenge and got sent off, would we have scored more.

The possibilities are infinite and ultimately pointless.

Dear oh dear!!!