Biggest Humiliation?

[curiousorange]

Bradford, easy. With the first leg I avoided the news all week, brooded on it and all of that. Went to the home leg, froze my absolute bollocks off and got pelted with snowballs by their fans while waiting at Witton for the train back home.

Yesterday I ranted for about thirty seconds, turned the telly off and had my tea.

[Chris Harte]

Aston Villa 0 Bradford 5 - Simod Cup, 1987.

Good shout. I remember yelling "oh, fuck off, Villa" at the top of my voice as I stormed off when the fourth went in that night only to get home and learn there had been a fifth.

Probably Bradford over two legs for me was the worst. I left on 78 minutes yesterday because it was the option of watching us not get out of second gear all night or going to do something far more important.

[BC Villain]

Bradford was a shocker but we battered them twice, their keeper played 2 blinders and we had over 20 shots on target over the 2 legs. We just couldn't defend corners back then.

Yesterday we dominated but created virtually fuck all. But Chambers knocks in a pretty simple chance and we go through fairly comfortably.

Doncaster still edges it for me, purely because we were simply outclassed and outplayed for the entire game everywhere on the pitch. Any neutral watching it would have thought we were the 3rd tier side. Michael McIndoe absolutely destroyed us and 3-0 flattered us.

Doncaster for me.  Abject display made worse by the fact that O'Leary decided to have a pop at the fans afterwards.

[BC Villain]

Funnily enough, Bradford 3, Villa 1 was ten years ago to the day yesterday. For a bit of context, this was the team back then:

Given, Lowton, Baker, Clark, Bennett, Bannan, Delph, N'Zogbia, Weimann, Agbonlahor, Benteke
Subs: Guzan, Ireland, Bent, Stevens, Lichaj, Burke, Carruthers

Good lord

[Clampy]

Bradford for me too. Went to both legs and we were shite in both games.

[TopDeck113]

Losing 3-0 to relegation rivals Charlton during Easter weekend 1987. There have arguably been bigger one-off humiliations in the intervening years, but that's the most miserable I've ever been after a game.  A misery compounded by having to endure such an awful performance in a near deserted Selhurst Park.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

9th November 1968

Villa 0 Preston 1 (Turnbull og)

Attendance  13,374

[LukeJames]

Bradford. We'll never have a better opportunity at winning a cup.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Are we conflating disappointments with humiliation? I have quite a few disappointments but humiliation? Yesterday.

[curiousorange]

I think if the FA Cup still actually *meant* what it always used to, I'd be fuming at being this year's punchline. But it's not really made a ripple. That's both a relief and quite sad.

[tomd2103]

Doncaster not quite for me as it meant the walk the plank for Clueless.
Bradford neither as we were shit and soon forgotten.

Stevenage still hasn't digested as my rage hasn't subsided and no amount of chocolate will remove that yet.

Has to be the 8-0 Chavski. I literally want their club burnt to the ground. I lost the power of speech that night.

I think this thread shows that Bradford wasn't soon forgotten.  It was probably the lowest I have ever felt coming out of Villa Park.

[OzVilla]

I think if the FA Cup still actually *meant* what it always used to, I'd be fuming at being this year's punchline. But it's not really made a ripple. That's both a relief and quite sad.

That's kind of how I feel (easy to say this being a long way away of course). I loved the FA Cup as a kid and winning it completes the set for me but it's been so devalued down the years'. With so many teams playing their reserves now these sorts of upsets seem to happen all the time.  Its not only lost it's aura but it's ability to shock.

[Hillbilly]

Maybe some of the historians on the site could provide context but I'll bet that first relegation in 1936 was a touch humiliating. And the drop to Division 3.

[Toronto Villa]

The biggest humiliation is that there have been so many, that we can actually have a thread dedicated to the subject.

[ROBBO]

Division three for me as well, for those who are too young to have any knowledge of it, that was humiliating.