Aston Villa under-10's vs Arsenal -FA Cup Final Post-Match Thread

[SX150]

Sorry, can we get over the myth we had great support yesterday. It wasn't great. It matched the team. The support yesterday was poor. Only rarely did the crowd get going.

I guess everyones experience differs. I thought it was excellent until 2-0 when it went a little flat. Wealdstone, tube, Wembley Way, Green Man were all brilliant for me. Even the tube back to Wealdstone there was singing. Shudder to think how you would describe the Arsenal support not that it matters one bit.

[Flamingo Lane]

Hutton "didn't have a bad game"? He stood and watched while Arsenal got the ball for their second goal, and generally performed with the same level of expertise I'd expect from a camel attempting to play the piano.

That will have been his cameo then.

[john e]

I realise these OPTA Stats haven't been around that long, but is there any cup final in the entire world where a team, any team in history has registered 0 (zero) shots on target before?

we love breaking records, we are dead fab at it

[richard moore]

Hutton "didn't have a bad game"? He stood and watched while Arsenal got the ball for their second goal, and generally performed with the same level of expertise I'd expect from a camel attempting to play the piano.

Very good, made me smile, thank you. He really is not very good is he and so ugly he makes Ian Dowie look like George Clooney

[NorthYvillan]

Sherwood played for me is best team, he hasn't got much more to work

He could have played our good goalkeeper rather than the one who cost us the first three goals, and he could have played the right-back who has been one of the best parts of his short tenure.

Playing Guzan and Bacuna almost certainly wouldn't have won us the match, but I'd put my mortgage on the fact that it wouldn't have been as shit as that.

I can't see how Given could have done anything about any of those goals. All were good finishes. The second simply brilliant - for the third Benteke was pathetic.

Alexis Sanchez is 5ft 6 and won a header on our six yard line for Walcott to score. There's no way that Guzan would let that happen*.

The second is right in the middle of the goal from a shot from 30 yards out. It's a great shot, but it's not as it a bigger, better, not-39-year-old goalkeeper isn't just jumping up and taking it out of the air.

The third is a free header, again inside our own six-yard box. Has Guzan ever conceded a goal to a free header from there without at least trying to claim the cross?

I'm not saying that I expect Shay Given to come and take the ball of Per Mertesacker's head, because I know that he's not capable of it. It's just frustrating when we have a goalkeeper sitting on the bench who would take a cross like that in his sleep.

*before somebody gets there first, yes, he probably would have sliced a clearance straight to Walcott much earlier and we'd have been 1-0 down already. The rest still stands though.

Just reading the thread having got back to the wilds at 1.00am.
Your'e entitled to your opinion but, in my opinion, that's b*ll*cks.

Guzan isn't great at coming for crosses - except, perhaps, in your imagination.
The ball moved tremendously in the air for Sanchez goal - few keepers would have stopped it as it clipped off the bottom of the bar.
I missed the 3rd goal having a piss - but yes I have sean Guzan concede goals from free headers from crosses I thought he should have come for.

If it wasn't for Given we'd have been 2 or 3 down before Walcott scored - and the final score would have been more like 6 or 7 nil.

There's not a great deal to choose between the two keepers tbh, but Guzan blotted his copy book badly when he laid on Manchester City's opening goal and was then less than balmeless in at least one of the others. As a result, Given got his place.

It was a poor peformance all round but one of the few to have any credit for their performaince in the game was Given, and trying to blame the goals on him is just ridiculous.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Hutton was to blame for the 2nd goal?

 Sanchez cut inside, should have been running into the central midfielder, and then shot from 30 yds, right into the middle of the goal, and thats Huttons fault?

 Westwood and Given share no blame then?

[john e]

I still blame Thatcher

[SoccerHQ]

Hutton "didn't have a bad game"? He stood and watched while Arsenal got the ball for their second goal, and generally performed with the same level of expertise I'd expect from a camel attempting to play the piano.

Very good, made me smile, thank you. He really is not very good is he and so ugly he makes Ian Dowie look like George Clooney

https://instagram.com/p/pWnz0cye60/?taken-by=hutton02

I know this will cheer you up Richard...the perks of being a millionaire footballer.

[Clampy]

What's the fucking point? I wish I hadn't renewed already. We're never, ever going to compete again. We exist just to exist. Tossbuckets.

With respect, what melodramatic rubbish.

[Malandro]

Hutton was to blame for the 2nd goal?

 Sanchez cut inside, should have been running into the central midfielder, and then shot from 30 yds, right into the middle of the goal, and thats Huttons fault?

 Westwood and Given share no blame then?

My eyesight is poor but what I thought happened was that Hutton backed off and backed off, so I put the blame on him too. Although I've not watched the match at home yet.

[cdbearsfan]

Hutton had ages to clear it. The entire stand was shouting at him while he just stood back. I can't remember Westwood's involvement and not sure if it deflected over Given, as I'm in no mood to watch a replay I'm happy to defer to your judgement on their role in the atrocity. Hutton definitely should've got rid of the ball long before the shot came in though.

[cdbearsfan]

I still blame Thatcher

I blame her and Bono, jointly. To rub salt into my wounds, some bastard put U2 on the pub jukebox when I arrived back in Birmingham.

[richard moore]

Hutton "didn't have a bad game"? He stood and watched while Arsenal got the ball for their second goal, and generally performed with the same level of expertise I'd expect from a camel attempting to play the piano.

Very good, made me smile, thank you. He really is not very good is he and so ugly he makes Ian Dowie look like George Clooney

https://instagram.com/p/pWnz0cye60/?taken-by=hutton02

I know this will cheer you up Richard...the perks of being a millionaire footballer.

I can't access that Soccer but guess it is a picture of some gorgeous wife or partner. If so, it reminds me of the Mrs Merton question to Debbie McGhee about what attracted her to the millionaire Paul Daniels?

[cdbearsfan]

What's the fucking point? I wish I hadn't renewed already. We're never, ever going to compete again. We exist just to exist. Tossbuckets.

With respect, what melodramatic rubbish.

Maybe. I think melodrama is forgivable this weekend though.

[Malandro]

As for the fan criticism - I don't get that at all. We have a great following (with the usual odd idiot that you get with large numbers of people)