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

[olaftab]

There was some talk on here that Fulham half of the ground will have 100s if not thousands of empty seats due to their allocation policy but that was not the case. There were very few of any empty seats and it was a sea of white in their half.

[olaftab]

Yeah, me and Chelts got on at Marylebone at about 9:00.

And are arriving back to Moor Street some time tomorrow!

As long as Aftab stops pressing the emergency button.

I wish he would. Clearly got the wrong end of the stick about how much FFP will cause us issues. I don't think Chiltern class that as an emergency.

The lady with the whistle (Guard I think?)was very fast and far more alert than Hutton so no way I was going to press the emergency button with her around.

[Ads]

There were over 3000 empty seats.

[Des Little]

There were over 3000 empty seats.

M’lord

[pauliewalnuts]

There were over 3000 empty seats.

They weren't in the club allocations because they sold their full allocation too.

[The Edge]

Drinking in the Black Lion in Kilburn before the game with the London lions, all was fine and relaxed, though plenty of nerves. There was a big England flag outside with Villa Youth and the Football Lads Alliance badge which surprised me, as the group with the flag were not all white.

Chatted to Fulham fans on the tube - they were convinced they would not turn up. No Tarquinius, just normL fans who had never seen their team at Wembley. The only trouble I saw was on Wembley way where 2 Fulham twats were throwing first beer and then beer cans down at some Villa fans. Two went up to remonstrate and just as the Fulham fans were about to take a pasting  the police intervened.

After the game back in Kilburn we shared a few drinks with Fulham fans as well as the hordes in the pub watching the Other Final. Again, all fine and dandy, with positive comments about our support. For the fans we met it was the best day of their life.

I got off the tube and got absolutely drowned walking home  - torrential rain, thunder, lightning forks every 15 seconds. Summed up the bleeding day.

Oh, I hope we never play another London club at Wembley- Chelsea twice, Arsenal and now Fulham. 4defeats and not a goal scored.

I was in the black lion in Kilburn. That flag was the Democratic football alliance. It's not the racist bigots. They oppose them. The badge actually says "against all forms of extremism" Had my picture took in front of it with my pal who happens to be a black lad. Put the picture on our WhatsApp page and my brother (who Is a blue nose) got straight onto it and wanted to know why I was drinking with a load of bigots. I told him to look closely at the badge which he did and apologized to me straight away. Anyway onto the match ...... We were fucking crap. The End.

[PeterWithe]

Enjoyed the pre match atmosphere in Kilburn, some old faces about.

Like the Arsenal game, after 10 mins I feared this wasn’t going to be our day and we wouldn’t have scored if we’d have played till midnight.

No complaints, the better team won.

[The Edge]

On the bright side, at least we'll never again have to see Johnstone launching it at the head of whoever happens to be standing nearest to Snodgrass.

The other faint scrap of silver lining is not giving Micah Richards the world's least-deserved salary raise. He must be raging

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Lad in the pub last night was adamant that Richards will be centre half next season and will be fantastic for us.....I know,me either

[john e]

On the bright side, at least we'll never again have to see Johnstone launching it at the head of whoever happens to be standing nearest to Snodgrass.

The other faint scrap of silver lining is not giving Micah Richards the world's least-deserved salary raise. He must be raging

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Lad in the pub last night was adamant that Richards will be centre half next season and will be fantastic for us.....I know,me either

that would a Hutton like turnabout

[Pete3206]

Went with my son by coach from Northfield and had a drink at Wealdstone football club got the tube from Ruislip really enjoyed the day apart the result .had many great times watching villa but feel sorry for younger fans, need to get our act together and  be more direct personally don't think Steve is the man to do it

Our coach went there as well. The lovely weather made this a superb place for a pre match drink.

[Pat McMahon]

Drinking in the Black Lion in Kilburn before the game with the London lions, all was fine and relaxed, though plenty of nerves. There was a big England flag outside with Villa Youth and the Football Lads Alliance badge which surprised me, as the group with the flag were not all white.

Chatted to Fulham fans on the tube - they were convinced they would not turn up. No Tarquinius, just normL fans who had never seen their team at Wembley. The only trouble I saw was on Wembley way where 2 Fulham twats were throwing first beer and then beer cans down at some Villa fans. Two went up to remonstrate and just as the Fulham fans were about to take a pasting  the police intervened.

After the game back in Kilburn we shared a few drinks with Fulham fans as well as the hordes in the pub watching the Other Final. Again, all fine and dandy, with positive comments about our support. For the fans we met it was the best day of their life.

I got off the tube and got absolutely drowned walking home  - torrential rain, thunder, lightning forks every 15 seconds. Summed up the bleeding day.

Oh, I hope we never play another London club at Wembley- Chelsea twice, Arsenal and now Fulham. 4defeats and not a goal scored.

I was in the black lion in Kilburn. That flag was the Democratic football alliance. It's not the racist bigots. They oppose them. The badge actually says "against all forms of extremism" Had my picture took in front of it with my pal who happens to be a black lad. Put the picture on our WhatsApp page and my brother (who Is a blue nose) got straight onto it and wanted to know why I was drinking with a load of bigots. I told him to look closely at the badge which he did and apologized to me straight away. Anyway onto the match ...... We were fucking crap. The End.

Cheers for clearing that up - I thought it was strange.

[Chris Jameson]

Still not convinced they are what they claim to be, or don't claim to be.

[tomd2103]

There were over 3000 empty seats.

They weren't in the club allocations because they sold their full allocation too.

Only areas of empty seats I could see were a few in the middle tier of the Fulham section and some in the blocks either side of the tunnel.  Apart from that, there didn’t seem to be any at all really.

[Risso]

It was comfortably the highest attendance for a Championship play off final for some time.  About the only empty seats were the ones deliberately kept empty for segregation purposes.

[Leicester_Villian]

The fans turned up and were first class ......
The pity was the team thought the first half was simply a stroll ......
Second half much better but Jack apart we didn't create any clear chances
Next season will be hard as think we will be starting with a very different team