Aston Villa 2-0 Albion FA Cup Qtr Final post match thread

[Somniloquism]

Daily Mail

Aston Villa face a major FA inquiry, a substantial fine and the threat of a ground closure after West Bromwich Albion players appeared to be assaulted as the FA Cup quarter-final at Villa Park descended into chaos with an unrestrained pitch invasion joined by thousands of Villa fans.

In alarming scenes, which were a throwback to the football hooliganism of the Seventies and Eighties, West Brom players were left defenceless as fans rushed on to the pitch.

Scorer Fabian Delph claimed he was bitten, while Boaz Myhill, Craig Dawson and Callum McManaman all appeared to be barged aggressively, and the latter seemingly struck on the back of the head by one fan as Dawson attempted to shepherd him off.

The FA can impose a range of sanctions from ground closure to fines, if the club have been considered negligent. There is no prospect of Villa being thrown out of the tournament but any ground closure or reduction in capacity could affect the team in their fight against relegation. The most likely outcome would seem to be a fine in the region of £100,000.

Apparently the press repeating this third hand have not actually seen the interview where he says this. Its on the BBC website. He is openly laughing when he says it.

He then after in another interview when asked about it says "Villa fans will get no criticism from me, they were fantastic today."

Honestly I know the sports press are pretty bad but they are reaching new levels of hysterical over reaction here.

 

They probably just read the BBC text updates of the game and decided to take that line from it.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Daily Mail

Aston Villa face a major FA inquiry, a substantial fine and the threat of a ground closure after West Bromwich Albion players appeared to be assaulted as the FA Cup quarter-final at Villa Park descended into chaos with an unrestrained pitch invasion joined by thousands of Villa fans.

In alarming scenes, which were a throwback to the football hooliganism of the Seventies and Eighties, West Brom players were left defenceless as fans rushed on to the pitch.

Scorer Fabian Delph claimed he was bitten, while Boaz Myhill, Craig Dawson and Callum McManaman all appeared to be barged aggressively, and the latter seemingly struck on the back of the head by one fan as Dawson attempted to shepherd him off.

The FA can impose a range of sanctions from ground closure to fines, if the club have been considered negligent. There is no prospect of Villa being thrown out of the tournament but any ground closure or reduction in capacity could affect the team in their fight against relegation. The most likely outcome would seem to be a fine in the region of £100,000.

Apparently the press repeating this third hand have not actually seen the interview where he says this. Its on the BBC website. He is openly laughing when he says it.

He then after in another interview when asked about it says "Villa fans will get no criticism from me, they were fantastic today."

Honestly I know the sports press are pretty bad but they are reaching new levels of hysterical over reaction here.

 

They probably just read the BBC text updates of the game and decided to take that line from it.

I suppose I shouldn't expect any better but bloody hell its crazy.

[adrenachrome]

Sad to say the club have fucked it up big time. They thought the rigorous ticketing policy for the game would mean that they could divert resources from the holte.

Unfortunately they did not factor in the base stupididity of many layers of our support. Maybe these people have a point: watching through a high fence would be something like the truth. Monkeys on juice.

[West Derby Villan]

To. Those sad bitters I thought my mates with tatooes get a life

[Goldie.7]

I would never sit below rival fans I don't want piss, coins and seats anywhere near my head, never had any bother in P8 but below.....no thanks.

[Louzie0]

Sad to say the club have fucked it up big time. They thought the rigorous ticketing policy for the game would mean that they could divert resources from the holte.

Unfortunately they did not factor in the base stupididity of many layers of our support. Maybe these people have a point: watching through a high fence would be something like the truth. Monkeys on juice.

Many layers? Come on.

Some of our support, like the small number who ran on after the goal and before the whistle.
Some of Albion's support who threw seats, again a small number.
No problem personally with an exuberant pitch invasion at the end of a quarter final.

There were 40,000 people in the ground. Fewer than 1% were behaving like dickheads.

[adrenachrome]

Look at them. This is not natural exuberance. They are taking selfies waving at the cameras and trying to get a piece of the players. Like schoolgirls with Beatlemania.

The club trusted us and they have been rewarded royally.

[Louzie0]

Look at them. This is not natural exuberance. They are taking selfies waving at the cameras and trying to get a piece of the players. Like schoolgirls with Beatlemania.

The club trusted us and they have been rewarded royally.

I'd call that exuberance. Exactly like Beatlemania. Getting carried away with happiness, wanting to get close to players and say well done and give them a big hug.

Although being on the receiving end of such extravagant affection is probably not as much fun, especially if somebody wants your boot as a memento. 

[OzVilla]

I have seen a couple of reports that McManaman was giving as good as he got before Dawson hoiked him off. I was disappointed that Pulis was very quick to point the blame finger at Villa without condemning his own fans for chucking seats.

Also, is the stewarding and policing of a game like this not a joint effort, with WM police and some of the stewards from Albion in use too?

Just watched the end in glorious HD and as the fans ran on McManaman actually looks
like he jumps on purpose into the path of a fan running on, he actually switched his feet to try and trip the fan up. The fan swerves to miss him and just carries on running.

If you can check it out yourself, he's the player nearest the far post when the whistle sounds. Looks like he instigated something maybe out of frustration but to be fair to the fan he just kept running to celebrate with a Villa player.

I wouldn't put anything past those sanctimonious tossers to turn this into a Villa witch hunt, that would be right up their street and be completely ignoring the seat throwing , far more dangerous and menacing.  The Meaning Evil and WM will probably have a field day if we let them.

They'll be a bit of a stink for a couple of days, the Villa get a fine, the Albion should also get some sort of fine and we'll all move on, ditching 5.30 pm Saturday kick offs for local derbies inthe process.  Which lets face it was dumb but purely to fit in with the TV.

We're going to Wembley, we're going to Wembley you're not, you're not...................

[Hillbilly]

How nice it's been to wake up this week and look for the Villa results!

[luke95]

The greed of the FA
& the BBC

[Loxton01]

Fantastic Victory! Fantastic Week and we are starting to get our club back!!! It's important complacency and ego doesn't kick in to the team!! As sherwood said there will be rough times too

Yesterday first half they had the chances but after the first half hour and the odd set piece they rarely threatened after that!

What I like so far is the players look they are improving and the belief is returning! Sherwood is getting the simple things right playing to players strengths!

Gabby was everywhere yesterday running moving something we haven't seen for months! The reason under Lambert he had become lazy and protected sherwood is letting none of them hide!

Lowton NZog and Cleverley all look much improved players! Scott Sinclair is also showing with a run of games what an asset he could turn out to be!

Sherwood wants to play direct with speed pace and power and we do have players who can hurt teams if played the right way!

What I'm encouraged by is I can't see many games now where we won't have a few chances and don't put the effort in

My MOTM yesterday was a toss up between NZog or Sinclair who would of said that a week ago

We must keep our feet on the ground and focus back on the battle and beat Sunderland and get something against Swansea!

In terms of the pitch invasion the timing of the game was stupid and the policing even worse inside but some of our fans need to take a long hard look at themselves many went on to celebrate others only wanted to incite trouble! We don't want the inciters as fans of our great club!!

[brian green]

Firstly, you had to be there to know three things - first the incredibly hyper atmosphere which had been pumped up - I have been to a few games at VP and the mixture of Lambert going, cliff hanging relegation and long suppressed performance frustration was more explosive than I have seen for many years. Secondly I think the stewarding was not adequate or properly deployed. At 90 minutes it was clear where the dam was going to burst but none of the stewards from the less volatile parts of the perimeter was deployed to the problem area and thirdly the TV decision to play the game at 5.30 at a time when the idiot faction had been getting tanked up all day was utter money driven madness. We in the vast majority voiced our opinion of the pitch invasion by chanting and booing the invasion. The media have very selective memories and no mention will be made of numerous pitch invasions by Manchester United fans at Villa Park. The whole episode is grist to the mill of the bourgeois football haters who take their opinions and outrage against life in general from places like the Daily Mail.
I was proud to be a Villa fan yesterday and no administrative error by the club or greed of the broadcasters or pissed up kids is going to change that.

[Tom_Mc9?]

N'Zogbia's been playing pleasantly well - nice to see glimpses of why we bought him. I'm pleased to see that we are beginning to find our goal-scoring mojo again. Sinclair looks like a good find for us - do we have an option to buy him in the summer?

adrenachrome you say the club 'trusted us,' but unfortunately if you look at the kick off time and the opposition, then couple those things with the fact it's the FA Cup quarter final, then think about the fact we played them on Tuesday so the tensions are already running high, then Pulis was right: it was horrendously short-sighted of them. I'd also say that whilst it was moronic, I didn't see much more than celebrations happening.

[Tom_Mc9?]

In essence, I agree with what Brian said above.