Your biggest let down as a Villa fan

[AV82EC]

Liverpool FA Cup Qtr final for me in 91-92.

Athletico in the 97-98 UEFA Cup Qtr final runs it a close second.

[Lucky Eddie]

Much as I'll never get over our falling short in '93, nothing comes close to the 2000 Cup Final.

[FrankyH]

 Losing Wembley Cup finals , surrendering winning positions against manure and one game that really sticks in the craw is getting dumped out of the Uefa Cup at home to Trabzonspor in 1994.

[walsall villain]

Both the Wembley FA cup final defeats. The first was the one I was more hopeful we could win but we just didn’t go for it. The second was really embarrassing, I don’t recall us having a shot, they murdered us.

[tricky59]

Randy Lerner

[Godfrey Brian]

Chelsea was awful but the Arsenal final was a bigger let down for me. I think I'd  built myself up to think we could possibly spring a surprise and added to that by thinking about laws of average etc. Anyway virtually from kick off it was obvious that we were into damage limitation. It was horrible trudging back up Wembley Way.

[LeeB]

Chelsea was awful but the Arsenal final was a bigger let down for me. I think I'd  built myself up to think we could possibly spring a surprise and added to that by thinking about laws of average etc. Anyway virtually from kick off it was obvious that we were into damage limitation. It was horrible trudging back up Wembley Way.

I think we kicked off, passed it to Okore and it bounced about 40 yards off his shin. I knew deep down at that point we were fucked.

[dcdavecollett]

The Trabzonspor game must go down as the most frustrating Villa match I have ever watched.

[wittonwarrior]

Mine was on TV  yesterday the 1/4 at West Ham

[SoccerHQ]

Losing the 2018 play off final was gutting seeing as I went to that one but couldn't get a ticket for the following years game vs Derby. I had a great day at Wembley and in the pubs in 2018 but the match itself was disappointing to say the least.

Worked out well in the long run but yeah that's one I was incredibly down about for a few weeks after, thought we'd blown our chance to get back into the prem for another 5 years after losing that with another unambitious Wembley performance.

Easy to forget how bad things got in the weeks after with cashflow, the whole squad being up for sale, not having the money to sack Bruce and general mudslinging between Xia and Wyness.

Thank god we sold to Wes and Nas otherwise we could easily be where Sunderland are now.

[SoccerHQ]

2000 FA Cup final. I thought our name was on it that year. We were a top side and had been for five or six seasons. We had won the League Cup at Wembley twice in the 90s. I was convinced that we would win. The build up was electric.

But the game, which I have never watched back, was a complete and utter let down. I don't remember any specifics but on that day I was gutted beyond words. None of our disappointments since that day even comes close.

It's on YT believe it or not. Couldn't bear watching the actual game but there's two hours of build up aswell (forgot Matthew Stride was our mascot that day, think he sadly has a terminal illness now) and after match discussion with Souness and Townsend was interesting. Souness basically said we had no flair players in the team aside from Carbone while Chelsea had 5-6 and probably summed up our limitations in that time and since in big games.

That match really ended our status as a top 6 team, Chelsea long since overtaken us with what they've won and bar a couple of decent seasons under O'Neill not really got close to getting back in that group since. Hopefully the next decade will be different.

[Matt C]

McGrath above, I can only pick one?!

The 2015 Cup final for largely selfish reasons; I flew back from LA in a crazy 48 hour trip, convincing myself we were going to upset the odds and I didn’t want to miss it. We were so utterly woeful. Longest journey home of my life, such a let down.

[supertom]

Chelsea at Wembley. There wasn't much between the sides back then, whereas you'd say Arsenal 2015 were significantly better than us (even still, the fact we were so good against liverpool in the semi, and failed to show for the final, was grating). I wouldn't say we were underdogs in 2000 by any stretch. We just never troubled them all game. To be fair, they did fuck all most of the game too and to lose to a sloppy goal like that was galling. A drab shitty final to close off Wembley, and it was the embodiment of Gregory's worst traits as a manager unfortunately, and why close but no cigar would always have been his ceiling. I don't remember us ever testing their keeper.

[dcdavecollett]

We should have equalised just after they scored, but Carbone had his half-hit shot blocked by Mr. Beef with the 'keeper out of position.

[SoccerHQ]

Anyone know why Hendrie didn't start the final that day, felt like that was the bit of spark we were missing centrally given we pinned all the creativity on Merson and Carbone.

Can't remember him scoring a penalty v Bolton in the SF which was even worse quality game and he was very good for most of 98/99 so had already broken through into team by then.

Barry started that day so wasn't like we just went with most experienced 11 we had either.