Tom Fahy

And there's no better way to do that than to just spawn a 1-0 on Friday, hopefully, such would.

Yeah, there is kind of like an air about everything, which it felt like the last time we had this feeling was when we were in the playoff final.

And there was just kind of like an air three days before the final where it's like, what if we don't win it?

Because, you know, the last other big game, like...

epoch all defining game was the playoff final and we'd lost the playoff final the year before and that was like the the club's history and the club's existence was kind of riding on the line when we we went up to the premier league you know we we needed to win that game because in the summer we had we had had like hmrc winding up orders we hadn't paid our bills that jack realish was going to leave and then you know

we get back up to the Premier League and then we stay up on the last day of that season.

But everything it kind of feels has been built into this over the last 30 years.

I put myself through hell this morning.

I was like, how many finals or big games have I seen Villa lose in my lifetime?

And, like, I thought it didn't bear thinking about, but then I really drilled it down.

I've seen us lose two FA Cup finals, two League Cup finals, an FA Cup final, a playoff final, a semi-final against League 2 Bradford, which...

a conference league semifinal.

You know, we, we gave up on winning trophies basically as soon, as soon as, as soon as I could talk, we, we gave up on that.

1996 was the last one.

And there's a blues fans have gotten an online tracker of how many days since Aston Villa last won a trophy, which I would take that from like any other group of fans rather than the team that is in the championship and have won one league cup in their history.

So yeah,

There's going to be, if we win it, there's just going to be this huge cathartic release of, we've finally done it.

That monkey is off our back.

We can no longer do the thing like, oh, no generation, a whole generation of fans haven't seen Villa win a trophy.

And we can just ignore that.