Well what a game, you would have watched it, either on TV or at Villa Park and it is impossible to describe what a mad game and lots of credit to Blackburn for a fantastic effort but it is clear over two legs we throughly deserved to get to Wembley and a great chance of [...]
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There are no excuses for anyone not to shout and sing their heads off tonight and that includes you lot in the Witton and Trinity !
There is no excuse for anyone slagging off our players during the game.
In just a few hours we go into one of the most important matches since May 2000, we [...]
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90 minutes stands between us and a Wembley visit since the none event of 2000 and after the 1st leg last week we should be very confident of finishing the job.
We played so well last Thursday that the tie should have been over and done with and tomorrow a mere formality. However due to the [...]
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Great performance, should have been more but anyone would take 1-0 away win for the 1st leg and you could tell this game meant something to Villa, just magnificent support.
Villa came out for the game looking like they meant business and after 15 minutes of possession we created a fair few chances without actually managing [...]
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COME ON YOU LIOOONNNSSS
21:55 – FULL TIME – Should have been more but will take that, good game and advantage Villa
21:53 – Last minute corner kick to Blackburn, just headed over
21:51 – three mins injury time
21:50 – Fantastic save by Robinson from Gabby
21:49 – More good play from Young wins yet another corner
21:45 – Scrapy [...]
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With less than 8 hours to kick off the sense of excitement amongst the hoardes of Villa fans travelling up North or watching on TV can be touched.
Just some extracts from the Villa Forums
Villatalk
mjmooney
http://www.villatalk.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=58799&start=555
lowernorthvilla
i’m up for it now, finish work in an hour, straight down to villa(adventures) for my coach, come on villa boys
Heroes and [...]
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Confirmation from Blackburn that today’s Semi final is definitely ON, KO at 20:00, for those of you not going (like me) it is on Sky Sports 1.
Blackburn OS
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The third match in the saga that is Villa/Blackburn games is less than 24 hours away and it is almost certain to be played. So for the first time in nearly two weeks we actually get to play a game and this one is real important.
There is no doubt about the Villa fan’s passion and [...]
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According to a couple of posters on Villatalk only single seats left in many areas of Villa Park for the Carling Cup 2nd leg next Wednesday.
One poster (Sellyoakvilla) spoke to the ticket office staff and they quoted that only 2500 tickets left for the game in Villa areas but may get returns from Blackburn’s 6000 [...]
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The inevitable happened an hour ago and the Blackburn game was called off due to very tricky conditions up in Lancashire.
So a few minutes later James Collins updated his twitter feed with the following
Game off….and stuck in the fucking hotel in Preston of all places!!
Nice one James, made me smile
Of course we play at [...]
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