lee_av Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I didn't live to see it, since I was born in 1985, but it is highly recognized that our win in the Champions League was due to poor opposition early on, luck and underachieving from the others, rather than us being the best. A great win, deserved non the less, but we were hardly the best.... like Liverpool and Greece, one can win, but it isn't neccessarily deserved. But **** it, that was ages ago. Like I have said elsewhere, Rome and Great Britain once were emperors in the world. Things change Villa have never competed in the "Champions" League. We did the business. End of. :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David-Copenhagen Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 And everybody needs luck to win, look at Man U, if that is not the biggest break of football luck in history, apart from englands "goal" in 1966, then I don't know what it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RantinRob Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Poor opposition early on???????? Dynamo Berlin were **** awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahamaad Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Bayern Munich in the final? Three times winners. Real easy game that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 I didn't live to see it, since I was born in 1985, but it is highly recognized that our win in the Champions League was due to poor opposition early on, Highly recognised by who exactly? Take it from someone who was there. We were awesome for three seasons. We were champions of Europe. That is officially the best club side in europe. Villa fans in playing down the history of the club shock. Or should I say you call yourself fans. Disgracfeul Onto the takeover. The month was up The 48 hours is now up What next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoski Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Onto the takeover. The month was up The 48 hours is now up What next? bollox all probably! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Graham Hill writes in "The Sunday Mercury" that the bid is expected to reach a conclusion this week - one way or the other. He refers to the Comer Bros. as having been believed to have held top-level meetings over the past few days to discuss the finer points of the deal. He refers to fears that this could go the same way as the Ranson bid but claims the Neville led group remain confident. He refers to sources close to the takeover having been quick to pick holes in a number of stories stating that the Comers had abandoned their interest. Graham Hill then points to something that I think is new, "Reports that Villa have had to fork out £150,000, just to make sure financial deadlines were met, have been denied with the figure more like £1,000 - a small amount considering the sums that have been discussed". So, does our CEO want the £1,000 paid by the Comers rather than by the sellers? Would he let small things like this get in the way of a deal that would make millions for him? Of course he would. :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahamaad Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Graham Hill then points to something that I think is new, "Reports that Villa have had to fork out £150,000, just to make sure financial deadlines were met, have been denied with the figure more like £1,000 - a small amount considering the sums that have been discussed". So, does our CEO want the £1,000 paid by the Comers rather than by the sellers? Would he let small things like this get in the way of a deal that would make millions for him? Of course he would. I don't understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricella Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Havent the 48 hours gone? Or was it 80 days around the world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 I don't understand. Nor do I Ahamaad. I just wonder if someone was not happy with signing the cheque. :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahamaad Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 So someomne has to pay £1000 in order to complete the 64 million quid deal, and Ellis is haggling over wo should pay that? Even though he is a few million quid better off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 To be fair, they only said that the next 48 hours would be crucial to the takeover. Nobody said they'd make an announcement in 48 hours. Something big - one way or the other - may have happened in those 48 hours. We'll find out tomorrow when the stock exchange opens I presume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahamaad Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 New Year, 48 hours? All I know is Ellis didn't look too healthy when the camera panned to him during the highlights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RantinRob Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Is he dead yet? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahamaad Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Is he dead yet? :-) I've seen some corpses in my time but Ellis wasn't far off yesterday. :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 I didn't live to see it, since I was born in 1985, but it is highly recognized that our win in the Champions League was due to poor opposition early on, luck and underachieving from the others, rather than us being the best. A great win, deserved non the less, but we were hardly the best.... ] You weren't there. Fair enough I'll forgive you this denigration of our finest hour. I was there, and we were a bloody good team. Rummenige, Breitner, Hoeness. That Bayern team would have destroyed Liverpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoccerHQ Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 And remember then the league winners were the only team from England that qualified for the European Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 To be fair, they only said that the next 48 hours would be crucial to the takeover. Nobody said they'd make an announcement in 48 hours. Something big - one way or the other - may have happened in those 48 hours I wonder if Sven had contacted Beckham and asked our chairman to hurry out of the club as he had things to do during those 48 hours Gilzmo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahamaad Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Any news yet? 48 hours is well up. Has Ellis **** off? Where's the party? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenjos Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Euro Lottery is £70 mill this week. WHEN i win it, im buying the club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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