Any particular reasons for winning the fa cup

[Lastfootstamper]

It's also the biggest scarf i've ever seen.

I wear one of a similar size. But mine's not red and white......

[john2710]

It's in our DNA as Football Club, it's in my DNA as a Villa fan, when Ray Stewart scored the last minute Penalty at West Ham - that was the closest I've ever come to tears about the result of a Football Match. If we win on Saturday - the Ghost of that moment will be Exorcised for ever.

Same here, but I don't know if the feeling I had at the end of that game was because of the result or the fear I felt. Either way, not an experience I'm willing to repeat.

[AV82EC]

I came late to supporting the Villa, 22 years old in September 1990. I read quickly about the history of the club in those early days and the thing that struck me immediately was this big FA Cup shaped hole in our modern history.  I can quite honestly say on each occasion over the past 25 years when we've been knocked out its the one result of the season it takes me weeks to get over. I was boycotting the club in 2000 so that kind of passed me by so Saturday is starting to take on far more importance in the life of a 47 year old man that it should. Oh and I've always wanted to sing Abide with Me at Wembley though I'll probably blub whilst doing so.....

Abide with me, fast falls the eventide.............

[ciggiesnbeer]

Unless my eyes have gone doolally that's red and white.

The mail didnt bother colour correcting the image. Here this took me 5 seconds.

[cdbearsfan]

Oh no, is this going to end up as another "The Dress" style dispute?

Anyway. The scarf is quite clearly green and yellow.

[cdbearsfan]

It's also the biggest scarf i've ever seen.

Not a Doctor Who fan, then?

[silhillvilla]

That is the anaconda of scarves

[Brend'Watkins]

It's a knitted scarf by his aunt. He"s had it for many years so has more sentimental attachment to it than he should.  It's most definitely claret and blue.

[Bad English]

That is simply the distorsion created by a wide-angle lens.

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Re: Any particular reasons for winning the fa cup
« Reply #53 on: May 22, 2015, 10:33:15 PM »
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As a spin-off from joe_c, I'm probably one of the youngest of the generation who started supporting Villa when we were at our lowest ebb yet we were always being told until we took it as a given that there was something uniquely magical about the club and the only tangible thing we could point to was most FA Cup wins, at a time when that was still the most important gauge of being a big club.

It's the only thing we haven't seen us win, but more than that it's the one thing we've looked forward to winning for decades. The glories of 1980-82 happened so quickly; they went from something that was so impossibly remote we would never even think about it, to happening, to gone, in a flash. The anticipation wasn't there, yet every year I'm pig sick jealous of the teams in the final, even when it was Stoke. I don't suppose I'm the only one of us who's daydreamed about the whole thing - what I'd be doing for the weekend, the night before, pre-match, Abide With Me, seeing the teams comes out, lifting the cup, celebrating - for so long that now it's approaching it doesn't seem real. 

Same for me - I've loved seeing us win these trophies but this has always been the big one for me. The first final I remember was Man City v Leicester in 1969 and from then on I watched the tv coverage every year from early morning on cup final day. After seeing us beating Chesterfield in the third division on that Friday night in 1972 as Division 3 champions I remember watching the Leeds v Arsenal final the next day and thinking what if! It's been just a dream as we've cocked it up so many times. Of course, I'll be thinking of the old man and old lady, and uncles and aunts,all solid Astonians, who are no longer with us, who took me down the games in the sixties when I was really too young to know what it was all about. It's my birthday on Friday, too, so what can possible go wrong this weekend?

[Chipsticks]

I've been going to Villa regularly since I was 10 in 2005 and I have never seen us win a trophy. I was there in 2010, I was there at the semi, and I'll be there on Saturday.

We need a piece of modern success to sing about, the best us lot have seen is almost finishing fourth and I imagine it's quite hard to keep the next generation of fans away from the big plastic clubs.

[itbrvilla]

I want to see us win another trophy....

[Holte L2]

I was 12 the last time I saw us win a trophy final.  I've been too every Wembley appearance since 1994.  I've never wanted anything more than a win on Saturday.

We deserve this.

[Villa in Denmark]

It's the FA Cup.

What other reason does anyone need?

[gnrpoison]

Simply because it will be so much sweeter because of the last few years, I can trace villa supporters from my family's history to the 1900s. Some would have been at our past FA Cup final wins and saw Villa dominate the early football era, I have family that saw us drop to the third tier and almost go out of existence and then come back and become Kings of Europe and almost the world. This is the one trophy many have not seen won. Its amazing that by the late 1920s we had won the thing 6 times. I am sure no one who would have seen those wins would have said in the next 80 - 90 years we would only make 3 more FA cup finals and possibly be only victorious in one of them. Simply we need this to help the club get back to what it once was and give new fans a taste of what the Villa were about. I managed to catch the 94 and 96 league cup victories as my introduction in my first few years supporting this fine institution but for many under the age of 25, successes has been few and far between. It would be nice to reflect on great cup winning teams in the Premier League era then on individual matches. This is why we need it and why I hope no matter the result we have 11 - 14 shattered players who gave it their all and did their best. We did not turn up in 2000 I hope we do this time. Come on Lads make history and your careers.