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

[Villa in Denmark]

Not happy on www.westbrom.com or www.that lot.co.uk either.

Ha fucking ha you sad, bitter twats.

Christ, they take bitterness to new heights, here's an example:

http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,1782854,page=1

Dirty, unwashed, bitter heathen scum.

Watford V Blose match thread 2 pages, Liverpool v Villa 5 pages

The guy mocking how long it is since we won the FA Cup evidently doesn't do irony.

Is that the one commenting about he can see the Wright brothers over Johnny Dixon's shoulder?

I was almost tempted to register, just to ask him how old their picture of a captain holding the FA cup was.

[Brend'Watkins]

Watched the full build up and game last night.   What stood out was how utterly fucking brilliant Grealish really was.  Totally unphased.  In fact, the whole midfield were brilliant with Delph the pick of the bunch if you had to pick one. 

Two months ago that lot looked disorganized, disinterested and lacked motivation or appeared to do so, Now just look at them.  We look like a side, a proper side with direction and a plan.  Dare I say it, we have the makings of a very decent outfit.  What Sherwood has done in such a short time is remarkable and he should get every bit of praise as he deserves all of it. 

[Clampy]

Not happy on www.westbrom.com or www.that lot.co.uk either.

Ha fucking ha you sad, bitter twats.

Christ, they take bitterness to new heights, here's an example:

http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,1782854,page=1

Dirty, unwashed, bitter heathen scum.

Watford V Blose match thread 2 pages, Liverpool v Villa 5 pages

The guy mocking how long it is since we won the FA Cup evidently doesn't do irony.

Is that the one commenting about he can see the Wright brothers over Johnny Dixon's shoulder?

I was almost tempted to register, just to ask him how old their picture of a captain holding the FA cup was.

Myself and a few others had a bit of fun with a Bluenose on Facebook yesterday who when I posted on Sunday night that we were celebrating after the game, he posted 'celebrating what?'.

After a bit of stick backwards and forth, he decided to block us all. I think that what's called 'losing the arguement and going off in a huff'.

[pauliewalnuts]

Watched the full build up and game last night.   What stood out was how utterly fucking brilliant Grealish really was.  Totally unphased.  In fact, the whole midfield were brilliant with Delph the pick of the bunch if you had to pick one. 

Watched the Grealish Sunday compilation clip posted in the last page of the Grealish thread, it'll stand out even more.

Like you said, totally unbothered, he made it look as much a stressful situation as emptying the bins or washing the car.

[saunders_heroes]

Got the day at home today so I think I'm gonna put the game on again.

[brian green]

Two days on and a little less light headed. What that whole day did for me was to enable me to rid myself if all the pent up anger and pain of the recent past. When the lions began that awesome, terrifying roar at the end, it all came pouring out. Right back to the Stoke 2-2, the MON premeditated strike, Houllier's Liverpool love in, TSM1, TSM2, Chelsea 0-8, Bradford, Millwall, Orient, the (alleged) bullying, the treatment of Marc Albrighton, Collins and Dunne fighting with Sid, the bomb squad - the whole lot came pouring out of me. Minutes later I was being hugged and kissed by total strangers with tears rolling down their faces and my rehabilitation was complete.

[Chris Smith]

Watched the full build up and game last night.   What stood out was how utterly fucking brilliant Grealish really was.  Totally unphased.  In fact, the whole midfield were brilliant with Delph the pick of the bunch if you had to pick one. 

Two months ago that lot looked disorganized, disinterested and lacked motivation or appeared to do so, Now just look at them.  We look like a side, a proper side with direction and a plan.  Dare I say it, we have the makings of a very decent outfit.  What Sherwood has done in such a short time is remarkable and he should get every bit of praise as he deserves all of it. 

It just shows what a bit of positivity and playing to our strengths can do. I watched it back yesterday, too, and we were so slick and inventive with the ball. I think the next couple of years and going to be something to look forward to rather than endure.

Just for good measure when the camera panned over the crowd in the final few minutes they managed to pick out our Steve and so by deduction I spotted myself.

[pauliewalnuts]

I only had a couple of pints on Sunday during the day (and a couple more at home that evening), but I spent all of yesterday feeling like I do when I've got an awful hangover.

Headache, achey, tired, unfocused, not really fancying much to eat.

It must be an emotional release sort of thing.

Basically it was as if, after four years of watching us and fearing my eye balls were about to start gushing blood, or that my broken spirit was going to rebel and smash my heart into pieces, finally something had gone well, and I was being swamped by endorphins.

Or serotonin, or whatever that "you're happy" brain shit is called.

[supertom]

Two days on and a little less light headed. What that whole day did for me was to enable me to rid myself if all the pent up anger and pain of the recent past. When the lions began that awesome, terrifying roar at the end, it all came pouring out. Right back to the Stoke 2-2, the MON premeditated strike, Houllier's Liverpool love in, TSM1, TSM2, Chelsea 0-8, Bradford, Millwall, Orient, the (alleged) bullying, the treatment of Marc Albrighton, Collins and Dunne fighting with Sid, the bomb squad - the whole lot came pouring out of me. Minutes later I was being hugged and kissed by total strangers with tears rolling down their faces and my rehabilitation was complete.

Just seeing all those painful moments listed out like that. Bloody hell. Such a horrible period of history for our club. Shambolic really.
And indeed, this is the best I've felt in years. It genuinely seems like things could turn a corner. And whatever Sherwood might lack, or lose, I don't ever see him losing that aggression and fighting spirit. He'll always want to have a go, and that's the least we should expect from our club. We've rolled over for the last 4 years. The lack of fight has been appalling at times. TSM1-2 spent the vast majority of the time here not looking remotely interested in actually winning football matches. It seemed more a crossed finger, rabbit footed hope that we might not lose on a given day (before inevitably bloody losing). An utterly pathetic footballing existence.

[Duncan Shaw]

Two days on and a little less light headed. What that whole day did for me was to enable me to rid myself if all the pent up anger and pain of the recent past. When the lions began that awesome, terrifying roar at the end, it all came pouring out. Right back to the Stoke 2-2, the MON premeditated strike, Houllier's Liverpool love in, TSM1, TSM2, Chelsea 0-8, Bradford, Millwall, Orient, the (alleged) bullying, the treatment of Marc Albrighton, Collins and Dunne fighting with Sid, the bomb squad - the whole lot came pouring out of me. Minutes later I was being hugged and kissed by total strangers with tears rolling down their faces and my rehabilitation was complete.

Just seeing all those painful moments listed out like that. Bloody hell. Such a horrible period of history for our club. Shambolic really.
And indeed, this is the best I've felt in years. It genuinely seems like things could turn a corner. And whatever Sherwood might lack, or lose, I don't ever see him losing that aggression and fighting spirit. He'll always want to have a go, and that's the least we should expect from our club. We've rolled over for the last 4 years. The lack of fight has been appalling at times. TSM1-2 spent the vast majority of the time here not looking remotely interested in actually winning football matches. It seemed more a crossed finger, rabbit footed hope that we might not lose on a given day (before inevitably bloody losing). An utterly pathetic footballing existence.

This has hit the nail on the head for me too.  There's a lot of niggling (mainly from our local nearest and dearest) that we were celebrating so hard but we've won nothing yet - which is very true, but the celebration was to me more of an exorcism of the shit we've put up with for the last 5 years, up to as recently as February.  It was us realising that if we could pull them over the line for the last 5 mins, we'd have our club back and have so much more of future to look forward to.  Yes we've won nothing, and we might get battered in the final if Arse turn up (but would YOU bet against us!!) but we've got something to look forward to now, light at the end of a very long dark tunnel. 

[RussellC]

Two days on and a little less light headed. What that whole day did for me was to enable me to rid myself if all the pent up anger and pain of the recent past. When the lions began that awesome, terrifying roar at the end, it all came pouring out. Right back to the Stoke 2-2, the MON premeditated strike, Houllier's Liverpool love in, TSM1, TSM2, Chelsea 0-8, Bradford, Millwall, Orient, the (alleged) bullying, the treatment of Marc Albrighton, Collins and Dunne fighting with Sid, the bomb squad - the whole lot came pouring out of me. Minutes later I was being hugged and kissed by total strangers with tears rolling down their faces and my rehabilitation was complete.

Just seeing all those painful moments listed out like that. Bloody hell. Such a horrible period of history for our club. Shambolic really.
And indeed, this is the best I've felt in years. It genuinely seems like things could turn a corner. And whatever Sherwood might lack, or lose, I don't ever see him losing that aggression and fighting spirit. He'll always want to have a go, and that's the least we should expect from our club. We've rolled over for the last 4 years. The lack of fight has been appalling at times. TSM1-2 spent the vast majority of the time here not looking remotely interested in actually winning football matches. It seemed more a crossed finger, rabbit footed hope that we might not lose on a given day (before inevitably bloody losing). An utterly pathetic footballing existence.

This has hit the nail on the head for me too.  There's a lot of niggling (mainly from our local nearest and dearest) that we were celebrating so hard but we've won nothing yet - which is very true, but the celebration was to me more of an exorcism of the shit we've put up with for the last 5 years, up to as recently as February.  It was us realising that if we could pull them over the line for the last 5 mins, we'd have our club back and have so much more of future to look forward to.  Yes we've won nothing, and we might get battered in the final if Arse turn up (but would YOU bet against us!!) but we've got something to look forward to now, light at the end of a very long dark tunnel. 

Completely agree with all of the above. The thing that excites me, is that we know we're going to go and have a go at beating Arsenal. We're not going to sit-back and try to hit them on the break, or try to keep bodies behind the ball in the hope that we'll nick a lucky goal and stay tight. We'll go and try to bully and dominate them, as we did to Liverpool, and it's a fucking beautiful thing to watch. As Duncan says, whatever happens in the final, I really feel like we've got our club back and the next few years are going to be enjoyable again.

[andrew08]

Two days on and a little less light headed. What that whole day did for me was to enable me to rid myself if all the pent up anger and pain of the recent past. When the lions began that awesome, terrifying roar at the end, it all came pouring out. Right back to the Stoke 2-2, the MON premeditated strike, Houllier's Liverpool love in, TSM1, TSM2, Chelsea 0-8, Bradford, Millwall, Orient, the (alleged) bullying, the treatment of Marc Albrighton, Collins and Dunne fighting with Sid, the bomb squad - the whole lot came pouring out of me. Minutes later I was being hugged and kissed by total strangers with tears rolling down their faces and my rehabilitation was complete.

Just seeing all those painful moments listed out like that. Bloody hell. Such a horrible period of history for our club. Shambolic really.
And indeed, this is the best I've felt in years. It genuinely seems like things could turn a corner. And whatever Sherwood might lack, or lose, I don't ever see him losing that aggression and fighting spirit. He'll always want to have a go, and that's the least we should expect from our club. We've rolled over for the last 4 years. The lack of fight has been appalling at times. TSM1-2 spent the vast majority of the time here not looking remotely interested in actually winning football matches. It seemed more a crossed finger, rabbit footed hope that we might not lose on a given day (before inevitably bloody losing). An utterly pathetic footballing existence.

This has hit the nail on the head for me too.  There's a lot of niggling (mainly from our local nearest and dearest) that we were celebrating so hard but we've won nothing yet - which is very true, but the celebration was to me more of an exorcism of the shit we've put up with for the last 5 years, up to as recently as February.  It was us realising that if we could pull them over the line for the last 5 mins, we'd have our club back and have so much more of future to look forward to.  Yes we've won nothing, and we might get battered in the final if Arse turn up (but would YOU bet against us!!) but we've got something to look forward to now, light at the end of a very long dark tunnel. 

I was at Hull and that really was 1986-87 all over again in terms of the sheer shiteness of what was going on on the pitch. To beat Spurs away and Liverpool at Wembley quite comfortably would have seemed impossible then.  Let's keep it going, take Citeh as another free hit but don't get too despondent if we lose, get safe and enjoy the final.

[Toronto Villa]

Got the day at home today so I think I'm gonna put the game on again.

I counted that I have now watched it about 6 times, the goals many more times. Even as just background noise while I'm doing other things lifting my head at key moments. It's fantastic to watch, and I'm hugely jealous of as much as I am delighted for those who experienced it. The closest I can recall to this level of emotion was Tranmere at VP. The feeling  I had after that game is still crystal clear to this day.

God this thread is fantastic reading. I really do hope we can finish the job now.

[brian green]

The great big cherry on the top is Jack Grealish. For a player like him to blossom he needs the opposition to fear him, not just do what Stoke did and kick him up in the air. The Arsenal will have seen what he did last Sunday and they will not know whether to stick or twist. It will be Stan Matthews and Bolton take 2.

[Toronto Villa]

The thing with Arsenal is they have lots of players like Grealish. Ok not exactly like him, but have incredible technical ability. We have to get right into Arsenal and really get into them and not let them have the ball. They have such fantastic movement off the ball that they are quite capable of slicing through a team. And they will be massively confident right now as they are on a superb run of form. It will be a very tough game.