Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[frank]

Aston Villa last won a final game away from home in 2001.  Chelsea away.

That was May 2002 and it included what I consider one of the great Villa goals. The game was played a week after the cup final, which Chelsea had lost, and it was a balmy spring afternoon, proper shirt-sleeve weather. Villa won comfortably 3-1 and the final goal was a real rocket from Alan Wright which bounced down from the underside of the crossbar and (I thought) over the line and back out. But there was no goal-line technology then and Dublin nodded the ball back into the net and claimed the goal.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim is ready to offer an on-pitch apology to the club's fans at Old Trafford after the final Premier League game against Aston Villa.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cqj7y9q9g04o

[LostInMunich]

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim is ready to offer an on-pitch apology to the club's fans at Old Trafford after the final Premier League game against Aston Villa.

Hopefully, we can make it a particularly grovelling apology.

[AV84]

He kind of deserves it for bowing to their demands to leave Portugal mid season or forget about getting the job, but this can't be what Amorim signed up for. It's awkward to watch at the moment,  it's one humiliation after the other and his constant grovelling to a fan base who are entitled whingers is draining any remaining respect you could have for him as a person. Fucking get on with the job or leave, I'm embarrassed for him but also want to slap him for being so pathetic.