Mistakes and missed opportunities

[WestleyArmsAV]

The only 2-2 games I can remember during 90s v Arse, were:

VP when Lee Dixon got a late leveler after Savo put us 2 up
Another at the Library when Savo equalized
And the league cup semi

[Ads]

Could be.

I reemember us coming from 2 down in the semi-final in 96. I don't know. Madness is the only reasonable answer.

[Weedy]

Reading Mr Woodhall's post, I wonder where we'd be in this league if we had capitalised on what we had:-

Top fifteen bestselling UK football teams (by merchandise sales) of all time on Amazon.co.uk:
1. Manchester United
2. Chelsea
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
5. Tottenham Hotspur
6. West Ham
7. Leeds United
8. Manchester City
9. Newcastle United
10. Aston Villa
11. Everton
12. Sunderland
13. Queens Park Rangers
14. Nottingham Forest
15. West Bromwich Albion

Source:
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2539840/Manchester-United-Amazon-uk-club-merchandise-rankings.html

[dave.woodhall]

Reading Mr Woodhall's post, I wonder where we'd be in this league if we had capitalised on what we had:-

Top fifteen bestselling UK football teams (by merchandise sales) of all time on Amazon.co.uk:
1. Manchester United
2. Chelsea
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
5. Tottenham Hotspur
6. West Ham
7. Leeds United
8. Manchester City
9. Newcastle United
10. Aston Villa
11. Everton
12. Sunderland
13. Queens Park Rangers
14. Nottingham Forest
15. West Bromwich Albion

Source:
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2539840/Manchester-United-Amazon-uk-club-merchandise-rankings.html

You just know that all over Smethwick, Stripeys are frantically committing that list to memory so they can reel off a list of clubs wot am bigga then the Villa.

[London Villan]

Surprised at Everton's position in that list and West Ham's.

[dave.woodhall]

Surprised at Everton's position in that list and West Ham's.

I'm not at West Ham's. Think how many tourists go to London.   

[go on the dog]

I'm sure I read in a book( could have been one of yours Dave) that we played Arsenal in a cup game and who ever lost there manager was going and both teams were going after the same manager. We won and Arsenal brought George Graham in, we stuck with Turner

[BoldmereVilla]

Signing Cascariono instead of Sheringham.
Not paying the extra 250k Wolves wanted for us to buy Robbie Keane then selling Oakes to Wolves a month later for 250k.
Buying utter tossers like Steve Hodge and (I didn't know where Bham was)Unsworth.
The desperate Odreary days !!!!

Plenty of missed chances and mistakes but still    Love the Villa !!!

[TonyD]

Surprised at Everton's position in that list and West Ham's.

I'm not at West Ham's. Think how many tourists go to London.   

QPR?  WTF?

[TonyD]

Surprised at Everton's position in that list and West Ham's.

I'm not at West Ham's. Think how many tourists go to London.   

QPR?  WTF?

Just read the article and Napoli are ahead of  Barcelona etc ..... really??

[dave.woodhall]

I'm sure I read in a book( could have been one of yours Dave) that we played Arsenal in a cup game and who ever lost there manager was going and both teams were going after the same manager. We won and Arsenal brought George Graham in, we stuck with Turner

It wasn't as clear-cut as that but it was the League Cup quarter final replay 1986. We won at Highbury and afterwards Turner was asked if he would have been sacked had we lost; his denial was about the least convincing you could imagine. Don Howe left Arsenal a few weeks later and it doesn't take much to imagine us sacking Turner if we'd lost and going for Graham.   

[simboy]

I'm sure I read in a book( could have been one of yours Dave) that we played Arsenal in a cup game and who ever lost there manager was going and both teams were going after the same manager. We won and Arsenal brought George Graham in, we stuck with Turner

It wasn't as clear-cut as that but it was the League Cup quarter final replay 1986. We won at Highbury and afterwards Turner was asked if he would have been sacked had we lost; his denial was about the least convincing you could imagine. Don Howe left Arsenal a few weeks later and it doesn't take much to imagine us sacking Turner if we'd lost and going for Graham.   

The Arse appointed a caretaker to the end of the season didn't they and ended up top half? We escaped relegation

[dave.woodhall]

I'm sure I read in a book( could have been one of yours Dave) that we played Arsenal in a cup game and who ever lost there manager was going and both teams were going after the same manager. We won and Arsenal brought George Graham in, we stuck with Turner

It wasn't as clear-cut as that but it was the League Cup quarter final replay 1986. We won at Highbury and afterwards Turner was asked if he would have been sacked had we lost; his denial was about the least convincing you could imagine. Don Howe left Arsenal a few weeks later and it doesn't take much to imagine us sacking Turner if we'd lost and going for Graham.   

The Arse appointed a caretaker to the end of the season didn't they and ended up top half? We escaped relegation

Steve Burtenshaw. Then Graham took over and the rest is history.

[rob_bridge]

I'm sure I read in a book( could have been one of yours Dave) that we played Arsenal in a cup game and who ever lost there manager was going and both teams were going after the same manager. We won and Arsenal brought George Graham in, we stuck with Turner

It wasn't as clear-cut as that but it was the League Cup quarter final replay 1986. We won at Highbury and afterwards Turner was asked if he would have been sacked had we lost; his denial was about the least convincing you could imagine. Don Howe left Arsenal a few weeks later and it doesn't take much to imagine us sacking Turner if we'd lost and going for Graham.   

Didn't Turner say he was 5 minutes from the sack in an ill tempered FA Cup tie v Pompey. Was that earlier that season? Stainrod wound them up and one of them kicked him. Birch or Kerr got a late equaliser.

[dave.woodhall]

I'm sure I read in a book( could have been one of yours Dave) that we played Arsenal in a cup game and who ever lost there manager was going and both teams were going after the same manager. We won and Arsenal brought George Graham in, we stuck with Turner

It wasn't as clear-cut as that but it was the League Cup quarter final replay 1986. We won at Highbury and afterwards Turner was asked if he would have been sacked had we lost; his denial was about the least convincing you could imagine. Don Howe left Arsenal a few weeks later and it doesn't take much to imagine us sacking Turner if we'd lost and going for Graham.   

Didn't Turner say he was 5 minutes from the sack in an ill tempered FA Cup tie v Pompey. Was that earlier that season? Stainrod wound them up and one of them kicked him. Birch or Kerr got a late equaliser.

Same season. It pissed down and we got a late equaliser.