MadridVilla Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 With all this optimism around the club at the moment, it got me thinking... What are some of the worst Villa games you can remember? Games that left you feeling full of frustration, desperate, or just completely numb. Some recent ones I can think of to start off: Bolton away 17/18 - a horribly cold day that put the nail in pushing for automatic promotion, having just beaten Wolves the week before. Southampton away 14/15 - completely crumbling to a 6-1 defeat with that Mane hat-trick in 3 minutes. Stoke home 08/09 - conceding two late goals and drawing the game, effectively killed our chances of top 4 Anyone got any others that stand out? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 In recent memory: FA Cup Final 2015 Cardiff away 2017 Any one of the Brentford games under Bruce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston_Villan4 Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Chelsea in 2012 0 - 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozvillafan Posted July 5, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2021 Ipswich Town, September 2000 The end of the career of one Luc Nilis. What could have been... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Every game under Alex McLeish 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted July 5, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) Bloody hell there are loads. Probably a few dozen I’ve just blanked from my mind. Out on away goals to Trabzonspor home 1994. FA cup final 2000. Losing to Man Utd 3-2 having been 2-0 in the FA cup, about 2002, I think. The small Heath derbies that didn’t go our way. Chelsea 8-0 probably has to be included although I didn’t watch it. I remember feeling really down losing to Brentford 3-0. We’d just made a few signings and there was a positive feeling like the 2nd half of the season would come together. Bloody hell that game put paid to that. I remember thinking “Huh, this is what football is gonna be like now, isn’t it?”. Losing to QPR after hammering Wolves a couple of days before was a kick in the teeth. If I had known the extent of the abyss the club was facing following the play off final v Fulham at the time, I’d include that. But that came as a fall out of just a no show of a performance. Edited July 5, 2021 by Mark Albrighton 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chindie Posted July 5, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 Bradford semi final at Villa Park under Lambert. Absolutely horrendous match. 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Okonokos Posted July 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 1 minute ago, Chindie said: Bradford semi final at Villa Park under Lambert. Absolutely horrendous match. He should have been sacked on the spot after that travesty. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewieGriffin Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Bradford x 2 The 0-3 at home to Wigan The 2-0 (?) away to Spurs where McLeish started about 8 defenders Going back a bit further, there's (dis)honourable mentions for the 3-2 Cup defeat to Man Utd, the FA Cup semi against Liverpool at Old Trafford, the UEFA cup exists to Trabzonspor and Helsingborgs... If I really thought about it, Id be here all week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okonokos Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 CSKA Moscow away. Unacceptable. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoMkali Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 If not for NSWE, surely the 2018 playoff final. Most upsetting game I've ever watched for villa. Mane fastest hattrick ever as well. **** brutal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 FA Cup final v Chelsea in 2000 3-2 loss to Man Utd after leading 2-0. I forget the year, maybe 2003? I watched the game with a Utd fan and a SHA fan. Painful memory. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitvilla Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Don't remember the year but ca 1968 ... at St Andrews with my Blues mate Robert (Tilton Rd) Blues 4 Villa 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) 46 minutes ago, Chindie said: Bradford semi final at Villa Park under Lambert. Absolutely horrendous match. This is my choice too. I've never been so furious after a match, before or since. The 8-0 to Chelsea and then the 3-0 home defeat to Wigan a week later that same season are also up there. There were some absolute stinkers that year, although it's funny in a way because overall I think basically every season that followed that one up until 2017/18 was worse than 2012/13. Almost forgot: that 3-2 defeat to Leicester in 15/16. Just absolutely shameful. Edited July 5, 2021 by Mantis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Worst in recent memory… Drinkwater’s “magnificent” debut… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) Bradford both legs. I have never been as embarrassed in my life in watching Villa. I still have no idea what formation we had in the last half hour. Deservdly lost to a fourth division side over 2 legs to avoid played Swansea in the final. Losing 5-2 to Bolton in the first semi final leg. Had we won we would have played Middlesbrough in the final Losing to Watford at home under Garde which made us going down near certainties 6-0 defeat to Liverpool which was the final nail in the coffin for our relegation Both FA Cup final defeats and not a single goal Fulham play off final defeat and the realisation that Dr Tony was a fraud and we were staring financial meltdown in its face. Losing midweek to Barnsley under Bruce when we were lower mid table in the championship with about 27,000 in attendance- Is this what we have become? 1-1 draw at Wycombe in the FA Cup under Garde. Players messing about, complete loss of support from the fans. Awful atmosphere. Lucky to draw. The 3-2 lose at home v Spurs in our first season back. We actually played well but blew it. Convinced we were going straight back down after that. Numerous away games at the end of Lambert's second season when the atmosphere was toxic and he was on his way out- Leicester, Swansea, Palace. More of a personal note losing to Liverpool in 2009 (i think) boxing day. It was -2 at pitchside and I was woefully underdressed. Dunne felll on his arse and torres scored in the last minute. I am going to stop now as I feel a bit depressed. Edited July 5, 2021 by The Fun Factory 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshharris12 Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Blues at home 2-2 stern John last min horrendous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 West Ham 4-0 Villa - Marlon Harewood hat trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNVillan Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Most embarrassing was the FA Cup Final 2015. Completely overwhelmed by Arsenal from the off. Most depressing was the playoff final 2018. Watching time melt away and our Premier League chances with it. Thought we were in for a long rebuild after that loss. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam2003 Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 2 hours ago, MadridVilla said: What are some of the worst Villa games you can remember? Games that left you feeling full of frustration, desperate, or just completely numb. Basically game the season we went down. (Bruce has lots of faults and I don’t want to derail this thread but I do think he stabilised the culture of a club that just expected to lose every game after that awful couple of years). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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