Fallen former football giant 0-6 Liverpool Post Match thread.

[auntiesledd]

I can't remember feeling so shell-shocked after a football match. I thought we were down months ago, but I now realise I was still in denial. Not any more. This morning I've had a think about what other experience(s) I've had that compare to this feeling - & the only thing that kept going through my mind was bereavement of a loved-one. I then argued with myself that to draw such a comparison is ridiculous and a complete over-reaction to a bunch of wasters who attempt to kick a ball through a couple of poles (and fail dismally), but then I realised such hyperbole was actually appropriate whether I wanted it to be or not. The football club I have loved dearly all my life has not just been relegated in all but name: it's been destroyed by the gross stupidity & incompetence of one man and his pathetic whims. So thanks for killing this wonderful football club Mr Lerner. May you burn in Hell for eternity. Bastard.

Comparing relegation to the loss of a loved one? It doesn't even come close.

I was just attempting to articulate the intensity of my feeling this morning, Clampy. I appreciate it isn't the same as losing a loved one (and my God how I miss my parents whom I've sadly lost in the last couple of years). And it's not particularly about relegation either - although that obviously hurts. It's about my love for this football club and the fact that the life & joy has been sucked out of it. I appreciate there will be many that don't feel similarly, but that's all good. In the end, we can only speak for ourselves - as ridiculous as we might well appear.

[AV82EC]

So another nail firmly added to a coffin that will surely be confirmed before long. Worst performance in my 25 years going down and a slow and sad drive home. The only positive was I loved the last 10 minutes, that's what Aston Villa is all about. We may be shite, we may have people who don't care about what we become but we can show who we are and that we do care about this Football Club. It may be seen by some as titling at windmills but those of us who stayed to the end know what we experienced, a love that will never die.

See you at Stoke, twirling your scarf.....

[Locko]

No Clampy to you it does not, I also would not put it in that context, but there are a few people who all they have in life is Aston Villa, it is where they see there friends, where they escape the dull monotony of daily work life, what gives them something to talk about, think about, dream, look at peoples faces in the semi final win last season, maybe not to all but to some and their way of expressing that feeling is down to them, not you or me.

But all that's probably going to happen is that we'll be playing football in a different division. Once a loved one has gone, you never see them ever again. That's the difference.

Perhaps a more apt analogy, would be finding out a loved one has a serious illness. The villa are sick and the custodian, can't or won't call a doctor. All we can do is watch and wait and hope there is a balm that will cure the patient, because the current neglect is looking terminal

[OzVilla]

Don't worry guys it's not like we needed to buy any players in January or anything, everything's fine!

Yeah we needed a striker in January but yet the clueless fool Garde concentrated on a goalkeeper which we aren't desperate for and wanted to spend over the odds for a half season loan of a right back which once again we don't need.  He can't see what's infront of him desperate for a striker but focuses in the positions we don't need replacing.

Oh and he also has no motivational skills what so ever this game proves that. 2:0 at half time just like Sunderland were he should have fired them up to get an early goal in the second half but he is incapable of that.  We should have stuck with Sherwood if moyes wasn't available.

100%, 5 star, big time drivel.

[auntiesledd]

According to the Official Site - Gabby is/was suffering from vertigo. How in God's name did that happen?! It certainly can't have been anything to do with his Salmon-like leaps yesterday...

[Dave Cooper please]

Vertigo isn't only caused by heights, it's a symptom of many different brain related issues. If he really is suffereing from it them I don't envy him, I had it for a while a couple of years ago (never did find out what caused it) and it was horrible. Like being drunk and feeling sick ALL the time, I literally couldn't get up for a couple of weeks.

[LeeB]

Vertigo isn't only caused by heights, it's a symptom of many different brain related issues. If he really is suffereing from it them I don't envy him, I had it for a while a couple of years ago (never did find out what caused it) and it was horrible. Like being drunk and feeling sick ALL the time, I literally couldn't get up for a couple of weeks.

My mate had the same, it really fucked him up for a while.

[rob_bridge]

Some nice pubs in Burton

Nice ground - I think you can still stand.

[darren woolley]

We are abysmal from top to bottom I didn't see that result coming no way would I have thought we would get beat 6-0 all little hope of staying up seem to be gone now.

[Billy Walker]

I can't remember feeling so shell-shocked after a football match. I thought we were down months ago, but I now realise I was still in denial. Not any more. This morning I've had a think about what other experience(s) I've had that compare to this feeling - & the only thing that kept going through my mind was bereavement of a loved-one. I then argued with myself that to draw such a comparison is ridiculous and a complete over-reaction to a bunch of wasters who attempt to kick a ball through a couple of poles (and fail dismally), but then I realised such hyperbole was actually appropriate whether I wanted it to be or not. The football club I have loved dearly all my life has not just been relegated in all but name: it's been destroyed by the gross stupidity & incompetence of one man and his pathetic whims. So thanks for killing this wonderful football club Mr Lerner. May you burn in Hell for eternity. Bastard.

Comparing relegation to the loss of a loved one? It doesn't even come close.

Of course it's not the same but in terms of all-consuming passions in life I find Villa is very high up on my emotional list.  Not including  deaths which is another sphere of emotion all together, some of the pain I have experienced over the past three or four years because of Villa (Lerner) has, on reflection, really taken me by surprise as I have not really experienced such footballing lows before.  As an example, the 8-0 v Chelsea left me feeling absolutely sickened.  I couldn't sleep properly that night (or the next few nights) and when I woke up the following morning the first thing on my mind was the scoreline and the return of that sickening feeling.  This was a matter of something I love dearly being publicly humiliated like never before - it's a different kind of hurt.

[saunders_heroes]

According to the Official Site - Gabby is/was suffering from vertigo. How in God's name did that happen?! It certainly can't have been anything to do with his Salmon-like leaps yesterday...

Vertigo is bloody horrible. Surprised he played any part in the game suffering from that.

[Chris Jameson]

We should have stuck with Sherwood if moyes wasn't available.

Sherwood who said last night on MOTD that Newcastle were safe because they have signed Shelvey and Townsend?
Sherwood who signed Richards, Lescott and Gestede?

[auntiesledd]

Vertigo isn't only caused by heights, it's a symptom of many different brain related issues. If he really is suffereing from it them I don't envy him, I had it for a while a couple of years ago (never did find out what caused it) and it was horrible. Like being drunk and feeling sick ALL the time, I literally couldn't get up for a couple of weeks.

That sounds horrible and somewhat like the symptoms of concussion (which I've had a couple of times). I hope Gabby's gonna be ok.

[TimTheVillain]

We should have stuck with Sherwood if moyes wasn't available.

Sherwood who said last night on MOTD that Newcastle were safe because they have signed Shelvey and Townsend?
Sherwood who signed Richards, Lescott and Gestede?

Who knows who he tried to sign though ? It would have taken the luck of the Olbyon to have stayed up this season.

[saunders_heroes]

We should have stuck with Sherwood if moyes wasn't available.

Sherwood who said last night on MOTD that Newcastle were safe because they have signed Shelvey and Townsend?
Sherwood who signed Richards, Lescott and Gestede?

I'm sure he'd have bought better players if he was given a transfer budget worthy of Aston Villa.