THE MAGNIFICENT ASTON VILLA 2-1 LIVERPOOL FA CUP SEMI FINAL POST MATCH THREAD

[berneboy]

Wore my Champions of Europe DAVENPORTS shirt for the first time when we beat Spurs, so thought I'd wear it today. It will be my choice of attire every matchday for the rest of the season.

Thank you for your thoughtfulness, Mr Legion. Will it be washed investing times?

[silhillvilla]

Wonder will the club now make special FA Cup Final Shirts ??

[dave.woodhall]

Read somewhere that Benteke's goal was our first in a semi final for 60 years. Jesus that is as old as i am !

Until yesterday Small Heath had more living FA Cup semi-final goalscorers than we had.

[Bad English]

At 1pm I was having a meal in a restaurant in a village not far from home. I was planning to get the owner of one of the village bars to put the game on but when I enquired, he said he would be full of egg-chasers watching their semi-final. So, in desperation I phoned the owner of the bar in  the village where I live. He is usually closed on Sunday afternoons but he opened the bar for me so we could see the game on his big screen. I am so glad he was willing to do that. What a game!

Little things stick in the mind like the French commentators having a joint wankathon when Liverpool got a corner whereas we had already had three. Also Baker, what a fucking hipster beard! I'd fine him for that. Oh, and at 0-1 down the telly went into "Eco sleep mode" and by the time the bar-owner got it to "wake up", all our players were hugging Benteke which was a "fuck-me, we've equalised" moment. Anyway, the replay of the goal was delicious. She-who-must-be-obeyed even came up for the second half (although it was probably to drag me out of the bar before I spent the housekeeping on organic, unpasteurised, unfiltered locally-brewed Catalan beer ;-)

Can anyone get me a ticket for the final then ;-)

[Ron Manager]

Good morning boys and girls!  To quote Tony The Tiger I feel greeeeeaaaaaat. I have to admit I shed a tear when Benteke equalised. I didnt expect that to happen. When Baker went off I feared the worst. Intitally Jores was not at the races, wasn't even in the locality!. I thought we might collapse, I really should have more faith! Right, my man of the match. Not the usual suspects Benteke,Delph, Cleverley or Vlaar who of course
played to the upmost heights of their form. Not even Jack who was sensational. But someone who gets critisism aplenty Ashley Westwood.

Westwood hardly made a mistake in the 90mins. His performance was a model of the complete midfielder. His pass rate was excellent, he won tackles, he linked well. He was a credit to Aston Villa FC. Liverpool supporters we spoke to in a pub in Kentish Town afterwards were highly critical of Sterling who gave the impression he was not over interested but thought we have a very good chance of 'doin Arsenal over' judging
by their abject performance against Reading. You know what,I think they are right as well!

[Legion]

All the Liverpool fan at work has gone on about is the Balotelli non-goal. He is not happy.

[Legion]

He even had it ready to show me on his iPad this morning.

[Somniloquism]

All the Liverpool fan at work has gone on about is the Balotelli non-goal. He is not happy.

All three of our players stopped playing by the time he put it in. I would have liked to see him score like that with Okore crowding him out of Given spreading himself more.

Also point out their goal was very fluckey otherwise it might have been 2-0.

[UK Redsox]

He even had it ready to show me on his iPad this morning.

The Villa players had already stopped because the flag had gone up.

[robbo1874]

All the Liverpool fan at work has gone on about is the Balotelli non-goal. He is not happy.

fuckin fuck the ******- he'll get over it, the fucking ******!

[curiousorange]

I've been told by my boss she's not speaking to me, as her whole family are Dipper fans. She's from Milton Keynes.

[Jimbo]

I find it even more satisfying that some Liverpool fans might feel hard done by. This is what most teams have to put up with, so deal with it. Having said that, most of their fans and management have been magnanimous in defeat. Let's se how the Tarquins deal with it at the final.

[dave.woodhall]

All the Liverpool fan at work has gone on about is the Balotelli non-goal. He is not happy.

Can you understand his broad Scouse accent?

[Witton Warrior]

In work and feeling fragile but dear God I'm still so emotional - tears in my eyes as we celebrated to "Hi Ho Silver Lining" (a few of us oldies even knew all the words - are your boots shining?)

This is what happens when Club and Fans come together - the Villa Family are a force to be reckoned with. The whole day felt positive from the start - see what you will be missing Randy?

[NeilH]

I was watching it with my lads at my friends house in the sunshine (no chance of a ticket for us ex-pat fans) and the joy on my kids face at the end was something to behold. Over the last few years I had genuinely thought I had lost them to the local teams here, but when that equalizer went it yesterday they came back home to the club of their birthright. Very special moment and now I can once more dream of seeing claret and blue ribbons on the greatest cup trophy on earth, despite what Sky and the UEFA try to tell us.