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

[Hookeysmith]

shall remember that roar that came out of the Villa fans from the 85th minute for the rest if my life

Please has anyone a You tube clip of this - have not even seen any tv coverage yet as I am in work (God knows how though after the partying that went on last night  )

[usav]

http://www.espnfc.com/english-fa-cup/40/blog/post/2408590/aston-villa-fa-cup-dream-becoming-reality-as-they-book-their-place-in-the-final

Well written piece here.

Love this quote:

Villa's confidence in the closing stages is demonstrated by the arrival of Joe Cole, the equivalent of shooting pool with the cue in your weaker hand.

[PaulWinch again]

Paul Lambert's bitter other half speaks:-

"James Nursey ‏@JamesNursey  1h1 hour ago
But Villa fans, as #BCFC fan @TheSpecialRon pointed out amid Villa's jubilant celebrations, you don't get the trophy for winning the semi!!
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So you're not allowed to celebrate getting to the final then? No club ever does that. Moron.

[Ron Manager]

Suppose Randy Lerner sells the club. What else could he buy with the money that has the power to stir and rouse the emotions and raw, naked passion of forty thousand spectators in an arena and ten times that number all over the globe the way Villa did when we lifted our boys to glorious victory yesterday? Owning the Villa at 4.40 on the afternoon of Sunday 19th of April 2015 is the closest Randy Lerner will ever come to immortality. And he does not want to be part of it.

Randy,unfortunately had to stay at home (due to a family bereavement,I have been told),but he did get to watch the match. I do hope that he will be at the final to cheer us on.

[Diablo]

Looking at the feedback from Wembley and on the Liverpool forum RAWK it seems that the majority of Liverpool fans were extremely gracious in defeat. All credit to them (there are obviously going to be exceptions - it goes without saying every group of supporters have their idiots).

Well I think you can add Gerrard to that list looking at this...

Steven Gerrard has accused his Liverpool team-mates of letting nerves affect them in their lacklustre FA Cup semi-final defeat against Aston Villa.

Reds captain Gerrard, who joins LA Galaxy in the close-season, and had been hoping for a victory to set up the prospect of a fairytale farewell in the final on his 35th birthday next month, told Talksport: "We didn't play, we looked very nervous for some reason.

"We're a team that's built on passing and playing it quickly but we were very disappointing in that aspect and they were much better than us.

"I thought Aston Villa were much better than us and that's the overriding feeling after the game."

All credit to him! That defeat has got to hurt and yet he's shown some real quality there imo.

[AV82EC]

And let's be honest the reason Liverpool didn't pass it quickly was due to one Steven Gerrard.  I cheered extra hard when I saw he was playing as he's been total pony this year.

[pauliewalnuts]

Liverpool with Gerrard have maneouvred into that tricky area where you've got a player of immense emotional stature at the club, and you know he's leaving soon, so you get big matches like this and the heart starts to battle with the head over whether he should play or not.

He's clearly finished at this level, it was pretty pitiful to watch yesterday.

[Richard E]

Liverpool with Gerrard have maneouvred into that tricky area where you've got a player of immense emotional stature at the club, and you know he's leaving soon, so you get big matches like this and the heart starts to battle with the head over whether he should play or not.

He's clearly finished at this level, it was pretty pitiful to watch yesterday.

He seemed to spend all game yesterday trying to do Barry Bannan style "Hail Mary" quarterback passes.

[LeeB]

Liverpool with Gerrard have maneouvred into that tricky area where you've got a player of immense emotional stature at the club, and you know he's leaving soon, so you get big matches like this and the heart starts to battle with the head over whether he should play or not.

He's clearly finished at this level, it was pretty pitiful to watch yesterday.

The one time in the last two seasons I've seen him look anything like the player he was was against Wimbledon in the earlier rounds, which probably tells you everything.

[He wears a magic hat]

Has anyone got a clip of that last minute roar.

[PeterWithesShin]

He's clearly finished at this level, it was pretty pitiful to watch yesterday.

I thought it was fucking awesome to watch!

[pauliewalnuts]

A genuinely interesting thread on RAWK here, about their support, mostly yesterday but in general.

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=154980.5320

[olaftab]

That comment about no trophy for winning a semi final just shows how small minded and professionally torpid Nursey is. The silver pot is a lump of silver. Far bigger to the fans and the club is to take our place at the pinnacle of the world's oldest and most famous competition. The publicity and the media exposure is beyond price. What Aston Villa need now is a chance to put the immediate past and the horror show it all was behind us and that is what going head to head in the FA Cup Final against the London media sweethearts will enable us to do. That is what was at stake Nursey you bitter long range assassin.

Couldn't have put it better myself Brian. Yesterday we felt like a big club and we felt like we had our club back. I wanted to cry with joy.

Agreed. Winning the cup will be down to a bit of luck and lot of application and I don't care if we don't win it however what I do care about is Aston Villa FC competing. I want us to be in the semi or final on a regular basis. Yesterday and Saturday May 30th is going to be great days regardless.

[Richard E]

A genuinely interesting thread on RAWK here, about their support, mostly yesterday but in general.

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=154980.5320

"...outsung by a bunch of supporters who had probably averaged a pair of home games all season."

Spoken like a true Norwegian. F**k off. 

[brian green]

I forgot to mention. After we had all held up our pieces of card and eventually put them down, after a minute or two my son said "I wonder what it said?" to which I replied "Didn't you see it on the big screen?"  "No" "It said why didn't Gareth Barry take the penalty?" "Oh".