Tag Archive | semi-final

Pictures of the Semi Final, sunny day but disappointment at the end

James Spare, sat next to me at the game and took this excellent photo’s. If you have some decent photo’s of yesterday then please e-mail me and I will put them up.

Cheating ref’s and no noise from Chelsea fans

You have to say that the atmosphere from Villa fans was magnificent today, especially after half time there was a 20 minute wall of noise from the Villa end. Did anyone hear the Chelsea fans apart from the goals ? In fact after the game you would not believe which team had won and which [...]

FINALLY – SOLD OUT

From the OS That is not unexpected, went down just before 6 and only a few left with cars still coming in and ticket office opening for a bit longer. I wonder what the atmosphere will be like with a lot of people experiencing their only chance at Wembley with Villa Should be a cracker [...]

Semi-Final build up – Bright Hopes and Sunny Forecast

So have you seen the weather forecast for Saturday then in the North of London ? Well according to the met office we are expecting 19 degrees and sunny weather, perfect conditions for football, a few drinks and photos According to all the pundits we are expected to be thrashed. OK you can understand why [...]

Semi Final Build up – Time for Payback – The FA Cup MATTERS

No Villa fan needs reminding of the humiliation that Chelsea dished out to us two weeks ago but it should not be forgotten that for the first half we more than competed that we do know. So all that matters now is to think of the prize at the end of Saturday, concentrate on what [...]

Semi Final Build Up – Why have we not sold out by now ?

The Official site has now announced that from tomorrow Season Ticket holders can now purchases 2 tickets extra per season ticket for the semi final. Along with with this there is an effective general sale of tickets to anyone with a booking history this season. The rumour around is up to 5,000 Season ticket holders [...]

Webb the referee for Semi Final

It as been confirmed that England’s ‘top ref’ Howard Webb is the referee for the semi final on Saturday. He has been dodgy recently but can he really be worse than Dowd was ?