The prospect of watching Villa is bad enough, never mind trying to find five reasons to be cheerful. Against Bournemouth, I couldn’t bring myself to do both, so skipped the Five Reason Column.
In terms of the Saints game, shortly before setting off for Villa Park in the morning for a Fan Consultation Group meeting with supporter reps, Villa chairman Steve Hollis and Brian Little, a friend offered me free tickets for both of the FA Cup semi-finals.
Decisions, decisions…
It was the perfect excuse to avoid watching the current shower in claret & blue, so after the meeting, I headed to News Street to catch the train to London. It was an opportunity to catch up with my old man, who’s a United fan, so it was a decent treat for him and also for me it was a rare opportunity to watch football in which both teams had a chance of winning.
Certainly the football was of a better class in the first FA Cup semi-final between United and Everton, but the interesting thing about the Palace vs Watford game was both teams’ support. Both teams have ultra-type supporter groups and they have obviously worked with their clubs to arrange their support at Wembley. it was fantastic.
Anyway, since i missed the Saints game, here’s a little later than usual five reasons to be cheerful as a Villa fan.
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2. Big Plans
One thing that did come out of the FCG meeting that provided a flicker of hope for the future was some of the potential buyers of Villa, according to Hollis, had big plans for the football club. You’d hope so, but reading between the lines, some of these potential buyers aren’t interested in acquiring Villa just to tick on by.
The context of the sale will be key. The good news is though, for Villa to fit into their master plan the club must be a Premier League team asap, so you’d expect such new owners to make that happen at all costs.
Hopefully Newcastle stay up, the money that they pour into the club will take them up , and take a promotion spot away from us. Hopefully its Norwich.
Newcastle could potentially have a meltdown if they go down. Not for that reason, but I’d prefer them to go down to provide them taking the pi** at Villa’s last home game.
Whatever, Worst season ever. The players lost interest, the owner lost interest, the board lost interest. Now its my turn.