This is what we want on Boxing Day

[Deano's Mullet]

Picture quality not the best but this is Villa vs Palace from the 1990-91 season. Pretty much same time of year, a Villa side on the slide and 3 vital points.


Or this

4-0 vs Everton. Unlike the Palace game I was at this one. Memories of this mainly revolve around the Baros handball which my Everton mate who sat in the North Stand that day always reminds me about. A four nil win which never looked on the cards and was a pleasant surprise at the end. Fuck me it was cold afterwards making way back to our hotel, remember me and all my mates were sick as a dog all night having caught a chill but the match result was more than worth it. Would anyone argue that possibly despite how it went in the end of O'Leary we had a better side then?  Our last Boxing Day win.

[Legion]

Or this:

[Deano's Mullet]

Or this:

The level of performance yes but I'd hate to be celebrating a 2-2 draw with Palace, especially if we went 2-0 down to them. We need a win!

[Legion]

If we perform like that against Palace, we'll hit double figures.

[Deano's Mullet]

Please McGrath, yes. However I have a bad feeling about this game. The sort of opposition we need to attack, not sit back and hope to counter. About time we won on Boxing Day, only one win in last 12 BD fixtures according to the Sun. The last one prior to the 4-0 Everton must have been........I'm thinking Tottenham at home when Collymore got 2. No tell a lie, we won at Derby 2-0 one year since in that bloody awful LDV striped kit, Boateng and Tayls scored I think.