Peter Doherty (AGAIG) wrote:Mikhail Chigorin wrote:Villa remind me a little of how City were in that 1980/81 season when John Bond came in, part way through it, to replace Big Mal.
Bond used the 'New Manager' syndrome to enthuse the side, tighten things up at the back and simplify things when going forward. Good results started to follow and, as confidence grew, the team had a good Cup run and reached the final.
The only trouble was that the following season was largely disappointing, as things didn't go quite as well as we'd all hoped it would and then, in the season after that (1982/83), Bond jumped ship and City ended up by being relegated.
I wonder if this sort of parallel will continue, in the same way, for Villa ??
Great shout! Hopefully they go and win the thing.
Absolutely.
Whinger's men have been having delusions of adequacy of late and, IMHO, they deserve to publicly 'come a cropper' in the Final, to bring them back to earth.
I also hope that the Villa players now have their minds on Wembley again and don't do themselves justice against us.
