FA Cup Semi-Final: Aston Villa vs Liverpool Pre-Match Thread

[martin o`who??]

I shall be there as well.  I've got a 100% record of seeing us win at Wembley too.

Lets hope you can still say that on Monday morning!!!....

[Richard E]

I shall be there as well.  I've got a 100% record of seeing us win at Wembley too.

Lets hope you can still say that on Monday morning!!!....

Monday morning 1st June if possible please!

[The Laughing Policeman]

Sterling has been pictured allegedly taking laughing gas.
By the time we've finished with them on Sunday they'll all need it.

[PaulWinch again]

The pressure is all on Liverpool, the national media seem to have already decided that they're in the final and Stevie G will get his moment. Let's hope Liverpool buy into this and become complacent and we ruin their day.

[Witton Warrior]

I honestly have no idea how this will go - if we can shut their two pacy players down (Sterling and Couthino) then we have a chance to pull it off. A containing performance from the central defence with not too many fuck ups by the backs and we can give them a game. Press them and get forward...

[john e]

the national media are having a thing for Gerrard, mainly ex football pundits
and obviously all the red scousers will want their team to win

but don't get thinking that all the whole nation is behind Liverpool,
 everyone I meet wants us to win, we will be the nations favourites come sunday most nuetrals will be behind us in the semi,

I don't buy into this Gerrard thing as being as popular as people think, around here where I am no one can stand him and are desperate for him to be crying again

[Dave]

but don't get thinking that all the whole nation is behind Liverpool

I don't think that anybody has thought that for a single second.

[Damo70]

but don't get thinking that all the whole nation is behind Liverpool

I don't think that anybody has thought that for a single second.

I would have though that apart from the likes of Small Heath and Smethwick fans the nation will be behind us. I would think that after United and possibly Chelsea Liverpool are everyone else's least favourite team. Ironically our good friends United, including their Brummie reds will probably be cheering us on more enthusiastically than most. I would also guess the rest of the non Liverpool supporting nation feels the same as us regarding the media desire for a dream send off for Saint Stevie.

[Monty]

Absolutely everyone in Britain will be behind the Villa, with the exception of Liverpool fans, Bluenoses, Bitters, Spurs fans who hate Sherwood, the Red punditocracy and people with bets the other way.

[Chris Jameson]

but don't get thinking that all the whole nation is behind Liverpool

I don't think that anybody has thought that for a single second.

Apart from Liverpool and Blues fans, journos wanting a story and people who do those montages set to a Snow Patrol/Coldplay soundtrack I don't think anybody is wanting Liverpool to win.

[Brend'Watkins]

but don't get thinking that all the whole nation is behind Liverpool

I don't think that anybody has thought that for a single second.

Apart from Liverpool and Blues fans, journos wanting a story and people who do those montages set to a Snow Patrol/Coldplay soundtrack I don't think anybody is wanting Liverpool to win.

Housewives, some England fans and Phil Collins will want Liverpool to win.

[pauliewalnuts]

the national media are having a thing for Gerrard, mainly ex football pundits
and obviously all the red scousers will want their team to win

but don't get thinking that all the whole nation is behind Liverpool,
 everyone I meet wants us to win, we will be the nations favourites come sunday most nuetrals will be behind us in the semi,

I don't buy into this Gerrard thing as being as popular as people think, around here where I am no one can stand him and are desperate for him to be crying again

That's the thing with the national media, they seem to be incapable of realising that the rest of us, non Liverpool fans, don't see Gerrard as some sort of departing hero to be waved off with a white hankie.

Same when "English" teams play in the CL. They always seem to assume the nation is behind these teams because they play in our league, whereas actually, the default setting of fans of other PL clubs should be to want them to fail, as the better they do, the more money they rake in, and the bigger the financial gap gets.

Try explaining that to the media, though, when you have morons like Tydlesley creaming his pants at Liverpool playing some Bulgarian side and buying into that "the whole nation is behind you" bullshit.

[manic-road]

I think it will go to extra time and we end up losing to a dodgy penalty decision.

[Villa in Denmark]

the national media are having a thing for Gerrard, mainly ex football pundits
and obviously all the red scousers will want their team to win

but don't get thinking that all the whole nation is behind Liverpool,
 everyone I meet wants us to win, we will be the nations favourites come sunday most nuetrals will be behind us in the semi,

I don't buy into this Gerrard thing as being as popular as people think, around here where I am no one can stand him and are desperate for him to be crying again

That's the thing with the national media, they seem to be incapable of realising that the rest of us, non Liverpool fans, don't see Gerrard as some sort of departing hero to be waved off with a white hankie.

Same when "English" teams play in the CL. They always seem to assume the nation is behind these teams because they play in our league, whereas actually, the default setting of fans of other PL clubs should be to want them to fail, as the better they do, the more money they rake in, and the bigger the financial gap gets.

Try explaining that to the media, though, when you have morons like Tydlesley creaming his pants at Liverpool playing some Bulgarian side and buying into that "the whole nation is behind you" bullshit.

Absolutely no-one at work understands why I come in after another night of CL fiascos pissing myself laughing instead of declaring 2 hrs of official mourning.

[Nev]

the national media are having a thing for Gerrard, mainly ex football pundits
and obviously all the red scousers will want their team to win

but don't get thinking that all the whole nation is behind Liverpool,
 everyone I meet wants us to win, we will be the nations favourites come sunday most nuetrals will be behind us in the semi,

I don't buy into this Gerrard thing as being as popular as people think, around here where I am no one can stand him and are desperate for him to be crying again

That's the thing with the national media, they seem to be incapable of realising that the rest of us, non Liverpool fans, don't see Gerrard as some sort of departing hero to be waved off with a white hankie.

Same when "English" teams play in the CL. They always seem to assume the nation is behind these teams because they play in our league, whereas actually, the default setting of fans of other PL clubs should be to want them to fail, as the better they do, the more money they rake in, and the bigger the financial gap gets.

Try explaining that to the media, though, when you have morons like Tydlesley creaming his pants at Liverpool playing some Bulgarian side and buying into that "the whole nation is behind you" bullshit.

Danny Baker has been going on about this lately. It's because the media, advertisers and those running the game are so sheilded from the real world in their corporate style universe. No interaction with supporters whatsoever, a seperate, steralised existance away from the £56 seat in front of a roof support, away from the bile and abuse batted back and forth between rival fans, with no memory at all of aberrations by the players that they laud, of the twisted hypocrisy of so many managers and turning a blind eye towards the direction in which the game travels, gerrymandered by the adminstrators to reflect the fantasy world created in the name of money. Where we all love the game above our clubs, where the EPL is king, where half and half scarves become the norm and where everyone wants Stevie G to lift the FA Cup.

Fuck them.