The end of the line - Paul Lambert

[Jon Crofts]

I hated him. I actively avoided watching or listening to Villa games during his tenure.

[rob_bridge]

In terms of League games that Wigan match is one of top 5 worse games at Villa Park

[Jon Crofts]

Still holds the record for our heaviest ever top flight defeat. 8 bloody nil.

[ez]

And he would say, I thought we were outstanding, after another embarrassing defeat.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I was there that night at Hull, Christ it was grim.

I remember seeing the team coach arriving at the ground. Lambert was at the front of the bus looking thoroughly pissed off before a ball had even been kicked. Then again, we played a pre season friendly at Luton who had just come back in the league, we lost 2-0 and he looked thoroughly pissed off there when it was still goaless.

[VillaTim]

Still holds the record for our heaviest ever top flight defeat. 8 bloody nil.

Christ I was at that one .
And the hull away game .
And Smethwick away when Guzan started taking goal kicks backwards to Hutton hemmed in near the corner flag.
Halcyon days for sure .

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The post match thread for Hull away.

https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53601.0

[Exeter 77]

The post match thread for Hull away.

https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53601.0

I feel that reading that back would trigger some sort of PTSD.

[VillaTim]

The post match thread for Hull away.

https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53601.0

I feel that reading that back would trigger some sort of PTSD.

N-n-n-n-n-Nineteen. Vietnam Hull Saigon Aston

[Rory]

The post match thread for Hull away.

https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53601.0

I was unemployed, had dislocated my knee the day before, and my youngest brother was in intensive care with then-undiagnosed Type 1 Diabetes.

Great days.

[Charlie8182]

Still holds the record for our heaviest ever top flight defeat. 8 bloody nil.

Its the record defeat for any competitive Villa game in any competition, and was so nearly 9-0 if not for Guzan saving a last minute penalty. That winter outdid anything McNeill could do, 8-0 at Chelsea, then 2 consecutive home 4-0 and 3-0 losses to Spurs & Wigan in a couple of days.  And out of the cups in the new year at Millwall and 4th tier Bradford (over 2 legs). 

But we pick ourselves up and go again!

[Pete3206]

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[VillaTim]

Still holds the record for our heaviest ever top flight defeat. 8 bloody nil.

Its the record defeat for any competitive Villa game in any competition, and was so nearly 9-0 if not for Guzan saving a last minute penalty.

Bizarrely we had won 3-1 at Anfield the week before

[ez]

Still holds the record for our heaviest ever top flight defeat. 8 bloody nil.

Its the record defeat for any competitive Villa game in any competition, and was so nearly 9-0 if not for Guzan saving a last minute penalty.

Bizarrely we had won 3-1 at Anfield the week before

One of my favourite Villa goals is when Benteke backheeled the ball back to Weiman who scored at the top end.

[Louzie0]

Thanks, Dave C.

I suffered through the Lambert years on here and they were at least as excruciating as you describe; probably worse. Thanks for biting the bullet and addressing a dark time for The Villa and for us all. I still shudder at the words, We Go Again.

I loved watching Chris Benteke play and he’s one of the better memories of those times, with Andi Weimann.

A weird memory glitch is that I am convinced that I saw him play in what I remember as a pre season friendly v Luton for Villa right at the start of his stint with us, but you have him joining us after the season started. I don’t think it was the following summer, because he’d made his mark by then, but I’m probably wrong!

Anyway, he was a bit of a superstar for his goals ( thanks CB) and rather unpredictable, but we loved him while he was here, as you’ve described. Thanks for including the good bits as well as the gloom of the inexorable slide into the Championship.