5 years ago today

[Chico Hamilton III]

Semi final v Liverpool

[curiousorange]

What a brilliant day. An undoubted high point in every Villa fan's life.

[sid1964]

5 Years ago! seems like 5 minutes, how quick is my life going.

Fantastic day out - one of the last games I attended with my dad (he is now in his 80's) and not very well and struggles to remember events in his life, but I would not have missed all those fantastic times with him and the 100's of games we saw together.

Grealish, Delph and Benteke were superb that afternoon.

[cdbearsfan]

I struggle to enjoy the memory of this game now, because of all the pain and suffering that followed. Feels like reminiscing over the great shag that gave you chlamydia.

[PeterWithesShin]

Doesn't matter what happened after it, it was a great day and is up there with my best Villa days and always will be. What happened afterwards will never change how I felt that day.

[cdbearsfan]

Fair enough. It spoils it for me. The best semis (pack it in) I remember were Tranmere and Arsenal because they resulted in a happy ending (again, pack it in).

[Des Little]

Finbarr Saunders to the thread...Bing Bong

[in exile]

It was nice of us to sing "Happy Birthday" to Steven Gerrard afterwards

[Rudy Can't Fail]

It was nice of us to sing "Happy Birthday" to Steven Gerrard afterwards

And they've hated us ever since. Fook sake, we didn't even mention 'Slippy Gee'.