Fulham 1-0 Aston Villa Play Off Final Post Match Thread

[Nelson Lodge]

In this century Wembley has become something of a hoodoo venue. Since 2000 Villa's record there is appalling!
Had a look at previous years.
 Played 7 games. Won 1 in the 90 minutes - Liverpool. Drew one 0-0 aet and won on penalties - Bolton FA cup semi.
Lost 5.  Scored 3 goals (inc 1 penalty). Conceded 13.

I think that is correct, if someone wants to check.

Conclusion - Villa need to get promoted automatically.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Had a bloke in Block 128 in front of us trying to have a fight with another bloke about 6 seats down because he thought he was a Fulham fan

The alleged Fulham didn't say a word and kept his powder dry but the arsehole kept going on and on. I half wanted someone to knock his lights out to give us all some peace

Then some clearly pissed knuckle dragging types walking through the train barriers at a snails pace and giving grief to anyone that tried to pass them to get on the train

We do undoubtedly have a lot of twat fans. But so do every club i've ever encountered sadly

[olaftab]

Another one on fan behaviour. Both my train journeys, there and back, were delayed due to idiots pressing the emergency button. On return journey Transport Police has to board the train all the way from Banbury to Moor Street. Not good.

[Richard E]

Another one on fan behaviour. Both my train journeys, there and back, were delayed due to idiots pressing the emergency button. On return journey Transport Police has to board the train all the way from Banbury to Moor Street. Not good.

You must have been on the same train as me coming back.

[Chris Jameson]

Think it’s a bit unfair to blame the referee for missing the stamp on Grealish, unless he had a mirror positioned at the side of the pitch there is no way he could see it. Bruce is reacting to the original foul rather than the stamp which he doesn’t appear to see.

[rob_bridge]

Another one on fan behaviour. Both my train journeys, there and back, were delayed due to idiots pressing the emergency button. On return journey Transport Police has to board the train all the way from Banbury to Moor Street. Not good.

You must have been on the same train as me coming back.

And the one I got back in April 2015.

There some drunken twats singing about Fred West too

[Jon Crofts]

Think it’s a bit unfair to blame the referee for missing the stamp on Grealish, unless he had a mirror positioned at the side of the pitch there is no way he could see it. Bruce is reacting to the original foul rather than the stamp which he doesn’t appear to see.

I wasn't blaming the referee, the fourth official is stood in the technical area 3 yards from the incident and he didn't see it?

[Richard E]

Another one on fan behaviour. Both my train journeys, there and back, were delayed due to idiots pressing the emergency button. On return journey Transport Police has to board the train all the way from Banbury to Moor Street. Not good.

You must have been on the same train as me coming back.

And the one I got back in April 2015.

There some drunken twats singing about Fred West too

Sounds like we were all on the same train!

[CT]

I wake up this morning depressed enough, and then I think of our "fans" smashing the windows on that London bus full of totally innocent Fulham fans.

I know every club has them, but we carry some grade A fucking idiots.
[/quote

Very glad I didn't take Charlie in the end (he vetoed it in favour of sightseeing only in the summer).

From the fucking rail shambles with Chiltern where they cancelled all services from the Black Country, that had already been booked, but didn't tell anyone. To them changing train times back without telling anyone. To the farce of letting too many people on the platform and then telling those who couldn't get on to either stand all the way or leave station and start at the back of the queue again. And that is before we get to the dozy fuckers who kept pulling the emergency chord on the train on the way back meaning ten minute hold ups at every station  and everyone missing their local connections.

There was pushing and shoving by pissed up idiots to get into the ground with kids getting knocked by the wayside, people that pissed before the game they had collapsed on Wembley Way.

We had the usual wankers blocking the toilets up so they could smoke, people spending all game puffing on the vaping pipes in the ground and, as always at a big game with a late kick off, our gobby daytripping crowd constantly slagging the players (as well as anyone who didn't want to stand up and holler incoherently towards the pitch at all times) and these were the pricks playing up on the train.

Whilst we had a good day in Central London before the game I won't be doing another one. I can't be doing with being surrounded by such bell ends and I guess they were responsible for what CT saw.

It would have put Charlie off for life.   

Same mate. I won't go next time. Too many fucking Neanderthals. So many of them , cheering as the windows of a bus get smashed by loads of cans and bottles. I actually felt embarrassed.

For those that moan about 12 o clock kick offs, there's your answer.

[Chris Jameson]

Think it’s a bit unfair to blame the referee for missing the stamp on Grealish, unless he had a mirror positioned at the side of the pitch there is no way he could see it. Bruce is reacting to the original foul rather than the stamp which he doesn’t appear to see.

I wasn't blaming the referee, the fourth official is stood in the technical area 3 yards from the incident and he didn't see it?

I agree, i didn’t say you did blame the referee, others did!

[cheltenhamlion]

It is always evening games with a big allocation where the embarrassing fucking ballbags in our support surface.  Absolute fucking peasants.

[tomd2103]

Right then, time for a few observations.

Firstly, the standard of officiating in this division and yesterday is at best amateur and at worst criminally inept, how can a player be assaulted, because that's what it was if it wasn't done on a football pitch, under the nose of the fourth official and no action be taken? Time after time in the first half hour Grealish was fouled and yet the only player in the book was Chester for dissent.

Secondly, half time entertainment was to watch 2 youths play FIFA 18 on a PlayStation, you have got to be fucking kidding me?

Thirdly, let's be brutally honest, the Premier League outside of the big 5 or 6 teams is utterly shit, 12 equally fucking useless teams spending beyond their means to stay above the line season in, season out just doing enough to stay on the gravy train. That's what football has become and to be honest, it's shit. Fulham will bob along the bottom 6 for the next few seasons.

Fourthly, rather ironically, that's 4 Wembley finals on the trot we've lost and in the process have failed to score a goal from open play, 4 finals and we've scored 1 goal from a penalty, it's not fucking good enough, there still remains an air of oh well, unlucky Villa stinking out the place, the lack of shits given needs sorting.

Lastly, I've had it with 1 up top, cling on and nick a goal, yesterday should have been about setting Fulham the questions to be answered and that was completely reversed, they knew just as we all did we'd play Grabban alone up front and he was completely isolated and ineffectual, just like he was in the 2 semi finals.

As for Steve Bruce, I said as we walked back to the station yesterday he'd be gone by the end of the weekend for personal family reasons and I wouldn't blame him one bit.

Not sure about him walking (I hope so but could see him being bullish about it), but the rest of this is spot on. The bit about Wembley finals haunted me all evening yesterday and still lingers this morning. When it comes to the "shit or get off the pot" moments, invariably we end up falling off and shitting ourselves instead.

Obviously not been to a play off final before, but it just felt different to the cup finals we’ve been to previously.  It feels a lot different this morning as well.  In a cup final, unless you have been relegated, you have got your league place sorted for the next season.  With the play off final, it just feels like the rug has been completely pulled away on the season. 

[TopDeck113]

Mike Parry slagging us fans off on Talksport...

Obviously someone who has spent far too long in Alan Brazil's company.

[clash city rocker]

Mike Parry and Alan Brazil. I wouldn't wipe my arse  with those pair of twats.

[mr underhill]

i always thought they were the fat slags. Twats!