Match Thread Aston Villa 0-1 Everton. Sunday 18th January 2026 @ 16:30

[Dario Terracotta]

I was there. We went into it in good form lol. Typical burst balloon Everton.
David platt ruined us. And wearing the horrible grey striped kit.
Long old day that.

I must have been mad,went to that,decent start to the season,Whiteside was looking excellent,we could have gone topthink it was televised Sunday afternoon,gate only around 16000 although we had a fair number in the North Stand and where I was in the Witton Lane,I remember being consoled by the new signing Beagrie coming on for a debut,doing a bit of Paul Daniels and thinking this fella might turn out alright for us

 

[Walken]

Think we may regret waiting that little easy run of games

 

[Marcus Kendall]

I must have been mad,went to that,decent start to the season,Whiteside was looking excellent,we could have gone topthink it was televised Sunday afternoon,gate only around 16000 although we had a fair number in the North Stand and where I was in the Witton Lane,I remember being consoled by the new signing Beagrie coming on for a debut,doing a bit of Paul Daniels and thinking this fella might turn out alright for us

Tony Cottee doing what he loved doing scoring unimportant goals . I actually loved the kit!

 

[Super Ken McNaught]

Its probably quite telling that most of the people who 'loathe our fan base' are weirdos called Dave....strange really, not sure what we've done to invoke such ire ?

As for getting results 'when not playing well' and 'their xG is ridiculous' ?

Deary me, last time I looked, we'd won 16 or 17 out of our last 21 in all comps....thats one hell of a lucky run....and xG is for 6th form statistics students. We'll keep worrying about whats happening on the grass....hope its a good game next week....but not too good

 

[ah11984]

Given the bizarre secrecy around our injuries we have no idea if anyone is due back. Besides Grealish after his one match ban.

Hopefully Iroebugnam was just a minor knock.

 

[hoppy]

Boss….is it on telly

Yes both games live on tv

 

[hoppy]

I woluld star azanou against villa

 

[Bob Elstone]

This’ll be a bad game I suspect.

Villa good rack up a few goals.

 

[Gilbert..]

I must have been mad,went to that,decent start to the season,Whiteside was looking excellent,we could have gone topthink it was televised Sunday afternoon,gate only around 16000 although we had a fair number in the North Stand and where I was in the Witton Lane,I remember being consoled by the new signing Beagrie coming on for a debut,doing a bit of Paul Daniels and thinking this fella might turn out alright for us

Bit of a blur now. But yeah i remember i think it was the big match game. Was it beagries debut? Id forgot that. I remember Adrian Heath coming on for Villa.
But lasting memory was not even being in the game at all and that god awful kit that looked like pyjamas worn by scrooge.

 

[Davideeyore]

No, but he played for them - the beginning of the end for us as a big four club that day.

For me it's was the year before ~ Arsenal in the League Cup semi. I know we had 'good times' like 95 but the game v Arsenal at home was us waving a while flag while Arsenal ushered in a new era.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Tony Cottee doing what he loved doing scoring unimportant goals . I actually loved the kit!

Yeah,I remember he wasn’t too bothered about the result only that he’d notched,other than the 4-4 derby,he scored very few “crucial” goals,a lot of consolation goals in defeats or am I being harsh?

 

[Del-boy]

Going to be painful this one.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Bit of a blur now. But yeah i remember i think it was the big match game. Was it beagries debut? Id forgot that. I remember Adrian Heath coming on for Villa.
But lasting memory was not even being in the game at all and that god awful kit that looked like pyjamas worn by scrooge.

Can’t recall Inchy,you may be right,I do remember him scoring for City at Maine Road in front of us and celebrated,he got dogs abuse off the Evertonians that day!!!

 

[Acrobat]

We will lose this. Heavily. VERY heavily!

 

[Gilbert..]

Yeah,I remember he wasn’t too bothered about the result only that he’d notched,other than the 4-4 derby,he scored very few “crucial” goals,a lot of consolation goals in defeats or am I being harsh?

The team/club was on a huge decline by then. Its crazy that we are here now talking about poor recruitment. Back in 87 and 88 liverpool went out and bought john barnes peter beardsley and ray houghton. We bought cottee. Stuart McCall, pat nevin and neil mcdonald. Neil mcdonald lol. Went from Gary stevens to mcdonald.
They wernt bad players. But they were not title challenging players either.