I am not sure how the certainty of losing to yet another late goal, after getting our hopes up and shelling out big bucks, is an experience we should cry too many tears about missing.
It is ironic that Villa's best chance of winning a trophy should arrive exactly at the time when the club is so happily sawing away at the branch it is sitting on but when a club has so criminally cocked a snook at the words of its own motto, no one can deny that they deserved their fate.
My own disappointment was that Bradford lost by such a big margin, which robbed them of any consolation they might have deserved.
