The FA Cup (Other football)

[cdbearsfan]

He's been pretty consistent with his criticism of the poor quality shuffling throughout this season's competition.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Brilliant day of football. Geordies and Manc scumbags out, and the draw gets pulled out massively in our favour for once.

Can't take anything for granted, but this HAS to be the year, surely?! UTV

Stop it! I'm taking nothing, NOTHING for granted until we all see John McGinn lift up the claret & blue ribboned trophy at Wembley, and wearing the lid on his head!

[cdbearsfan]

If McGinn can break a 114 year curse, 68 years should be a piece of piss, surely?

[N'ZMAV]

Just had a look, in 89-90 they beat us and Everton at home in their fa cup run and they got to the league cup final, beating Leeds, Southampton (decent team then), Arsenal all at home and thrashing West Ham in the SF 1st leg 6-0 at home. So we weren’t alone that season.

Oldham were brilliant at times that season

[TelfordVilla]

We will need to win this cup because Small heath are going to win a plastic toy also rans cup and we will need to have something to wave back at them.

[eye digress]

Just had a look, in 89-90 they beat us and Everton at home in their fa cup run and they got to the league cup final, beating Leeds, Southampton (decent team then), Arsenal all at home and thrashing West Ham in the SF 1st leg 6-0 at home. So we weren’t alone that season.

Oldham were brilliant at times that season

Andy Ritchie chests the ball down 25 yards out, big bounce of the plastic pitch and bang! Back of the net.
Rinse and repeat.

[Percy McCarthy]

For some reason I thought we lost 2-0 to Liverpool in 1992.

I hated that kit because of that game. We lost at Forest in it as well.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Aston Villa FA Cup Quarter-Finals, because why not:

1883 Notts County 4 Aston Villa 3
1887 Aston Villa 3 Darwen 2
1892 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 Aston Villa 3
1895 Aston Villa 7 Newcastle United 1
1897 Preston North End 1 Aston Villa 1
1897 Aston Villa 0 Preston North End 0 (Replay)
1897 Aston Villa 3 Preston North End 2 (2nd Replay)
1900 Millwall Athletic* 1 Aston Villa 1
1900 Aston Villa 0 Millwall Athletic* 0 (Replay)
1900 Millwall Athletic* 2 Aston Villa 1 (2nd Replay)
1901 Small Heath** 0 Aston Villa 0
1901 Aston Villa 1 Small Heath** 0 (Replay)
1903 Tottenham Hotspur 2 Aston Villa 3
1905 Aston Villa 5 Fulham 0
1913 Bradford (Park Avenue) 0 Aston Villa 5
1914 The Wednesday*** 0 Aston Villa 1
1920 Tottenham Hotspur 0 Aston Villa 1
1921 Tottenham Hotspur 1 Aston Villa 0
1922 Notts County 2 Aston Villa 2
1922 Aston Villa 3 Notts County 4 (Replay)
1924 West Bromwich Albion 0 Aston Villa 2
1929 Aston Villa 1 Arsenal 0
1930 Aston Villa 1 Huddersfield Town 2
1934 Arsenal 1 Aston Villa 2
1938 Aston Villa 3 Manchester City 2
1946 Aston Villa 3 Derby County 4 (1st Leg)****
1946 Derby County 1 Aston Villa 1 (2nd Leg) (lost 5-4 on aggregate)****
1953 Aston Villa 0 Everton 1
1957 Burnley 1 Aston Villa 1
1957 Aston Villa 2 Burnley 0 (Replay)
1959 Aston Villa 0 Burnley 0
1959 Burnley 0 Aston Villa 2 (Replay)
1960 Aston Villa 2 Preston North End 0
1962 Tottenham Hotspur 2 Aston Villa 0
1977 Manchester United 2 Aston Villa 1
1980 West Ham United 1 Aston Villa 0
1983 Arsenal 2 Aston Villa 0
1990 Oldham Athletic 3 Aston Villa 0
1992 Liverpool 1 Aston Villa 0
1996 Nottingham Forest 0 Aston Villa 1
2000 Everton 1 Aston Villa 2
2010 Reading 2 Aston Villa 4
2015 Aston Villa 2 West Bromwich Albion 0
2025 Preston North End vs Aston Villa

* now Millwall
** now Birmingham City
*** now Sheffield Wednesday
**** competition held over two legs for only time

Didn't realise we had 9 consecutive away draws from 1962 until 2015.
On a positive note we have only ever lost one QF when there is a 5 in the year,
It's our time.

[cdbearsfan]

Two wins out of two against Preston. Five out of five against Lancastrians, using the modern boundaries (I think Oldham is in Greater Manchester).

[Mellin]

We didn't make a semi final for 36 years?

[cdbearsfan]

Nope. For decades there were two certainties around Villa FA Cup Quarter-Finals. 1. We'd be drawn away. 2. We'd lose.

Franz Carr finally broke the latter jinx in 1996 but we had to wait another nineteen years for a home draw, which, of course, saw us go back to the Dark Ages.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

We will need to win this cup because Small heath are going to win a plastic toy also rans cup and we will need to have something to wave back at them.

The bankrupt Birmingham City Council have just announced that due to expenditure cut backs they can only afford one combined FA Cup/Tin pot trophy parade and civic reception. The open top bus will have Villa players on the top deck while Birmingham City players will occupy seats downstairs. Aston Villa players and officials will then have a 4 course meal at the Town Hall while council officials have promised Blues players a happy meal at the Mcdonalds down in Bordesley.

[DrGonzo]

Well they could have drawn us at home…disgusting…. These draws are always fixed!

[Exeter 77]

Just three home quarter final home draws in 72 years and only one since 1960! 9 consecutive away draws from 1960 - 2015.

[Mellin]

Thanks. I'm 37 so the majority of it pre-dates my existence, but I'm still surprised I've never heard about it. Remember the gubbing against Liverpool in '96, but just presumed we'd lost a couple of semis between that and '57. Madness.

*Well, we did, having checked. In '59 and '60, but you know what I mean.