Aston Villa v Tottenham Post Match Wake.

[Villa Lew]

Sky are saying that since they starting keeping records for this stat 15 years ago, that was the most saves a Spurs keeper has made in a first half of a match, which says it all. Thought we were superb, the best 1st half performance against a top 4 side since the 7-2, outside of the top 2, we played the form team in the league off the park. Now need to carry that form into the Leicester match, who thankfully won't have a world class striker in their team.

Is Vardy not yet fit for them?

Very doubtful, they were hopeful he would be available for their European match last Thursday, but he's had a setback, now maybe out for the season.

[curiousorange]

Pays your money, takes your choice. I probably wouldn't have stayed until the end yesterday in the same way I didn't hang around to watch Arsenal get their medals at Wembley. Buying a ticket for the football seems to me like the equivalent of a bet: it's my stake that I'll be temporarily happy. Sometimes it's better to cut your losses.

[olaftab]

Why wouldn't I say it to their face, if I was so aggrevated enough to be confrontational with a single individual? It's certainly rude to call somebody a wanker, I'll grant you and it might offend your sensibilities, it might not. Supporters leaving offends my sensibilities, as its a collective failure. Why would you want to upset me anymore than me upset you?

When a Villa fan is (hypothetically) arrested somewhere for being a racist scumbag at a game, I'm embarrassed by that. As we're a collective and when we behave like twats as a group, it reflects badly on all of us. We know that you or I aren't like that, but we're a heaving mass. So when the Witton Lane vanishes with 20 minutes to go, that dereliction is a reflective of us all. I'd prefer us all to suffer and be mardy and miserable as one until the end. Others disagree.

Nobody is calling you a wanker. That's the difference.

Amazingly!

[Drummond]

Are there wholly justified reasons for leaving early? A wedding? A birth? A break-in? If so then the whole question is moot.
No further questions m'lud.

We were losing four-nil. It wasn't any fun. Why would I keep doing something that is making me miserable?

Apparently so that you don't get called a wanker by a fan that thinks he's better than you.

[Ads]

I'm a supporter, not a fan.

[pauliewalnuts]

I'm a supporter, not a fan.

You're a customer. We all are, and have been since 1992.

[Ads]

I'm a supporter, not a fan.

You're a customer. We all are, and have been since 1992.

A loyal one. A foolish one. Not mutually exclusive.

[SoccerHQ]

Someone actually walking out with 5 minutes left of a play off final we were actually winning feels like one of the most absurd things I've ever read.

Miss the joy of us actually going up the Wembley steps and lifting up something for once and it could've gone to extra time or even penalties.

It was very tense but that seems more crazy to me than nipping out to get a head start on the M6 at 3-0 down of a long lost game as yesterday was.

[cdward]

There’s no need to call him a wanker……

[AV82EC]

I stayed to the end, applauded the 3 or 4 players (Mings especially) who could be bothered to come to the Holte and Trinity to get the applause from the few thousand of us left. I then sauntered over to Aston Station to get back to New Street, long queue but as soon as the first train arrived they packed just about the whole queue into it so as far as I could make out no train issues but that may have been better because so many people fucked off early.

I can see where Ads is coming from even if I wouldn’t express it  the way he has but it’s not just yesterday either, the Lower Witton Lane crowd are spectacular in their rush to the exits from about 75 minutes onwards. However each to their own, you’ve paid your money you can take your choice.

[RamboandBruno]

I always try to stay till the end, some kind of semi absurd loyalty. Saying that, of all the games, at the Sheffield Utd game in 2019, there were two blokes by me, probably my age, really going head to head in a big row, from memory, one swore in frustration, one took offence as he had his kids with him, and then proceeded to get more aggressive than the swearer, scaring his own kids. He also scared my lad who was only 9 at the time. It was a Friday night, we had been playing shite for months, we were losing 0-3 with 10 left and my boy was scared. It was 3-3 by the time we got back to the car!
My lad wanted to leave when the 4th went in yesterday and i said no, a form of child cruelty maybe, but for me it just teaches him to support the team even when we are shite, which is a quite frequent experience with Villa.

[Ads]

I've never said people can't do what they want or the like, I've just taken a dim view of leaving with 20 minutes to go. That's an eternity and it comes from a part of the ground in particular where they pay more for their tickets, as the patrons lose at least 2 games of football a year.

[wittonwarrior]

I left with 5 mins to go but I needed to escape the queue at Aston Station to get the train back to Trent Valley to get my connection back to the NW

[PaulTheVillan]

I didn’t even go. Was in a pub and didn’t even watch it. Guess that makes me a huge wanker.

[Risso]

I left at half time when Blackburn were 4-0 up in Sir Brian's reign. I was on a promise with a lass I shared a flat in Leicester with. I wasn't a wanker that night.