And now for a brief interlude...
I have to take a step out from World Cup content to mention the big event that I have been trying to ignore for 10 days even though the waiting is hard to take.
On Saturday before Liverpool take on Real Madrid in the Champions League final, Aston Villa play Fulham in the English Championship play-off final. It'll be the Premier League next season for the winners and another season of battling with the likes of Stoke, Swansea, West Brom to get out of the Championship for the losers.
On May 26th, 1982 I watched one of the first live football matches in my memory as Aston Villa beat Bayern Munich to win the European Cup. On this May 26th it's almost embarrassing what the prize is for Villa. But this is it, this is what is big right now. Huge.
Nigel Spink (oh Spink, what a hero!), Cowans, Mortimer, Morley, Withe, Shaw......all of them. What a night to remember it was. How I yelled, "Aston Villa scored" to the house when Peter Withe scored the only goal. Who's name will we be chanting this Saturday? Hogan, Kodjia, Adomah, Grealish, Grabban, Terry? John Terry!
"Shaw...Morley.....oh it must be...Peter Withe!"
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