Result/Shock of the season?

I could not believe what I saw on the BBC sports page this morning - a 3-1 win to Bradford City

Now bearing in mind they dumped out Arsenal in the QF, does this scoreline over-shadow that previous victory? Is this score against Villa the result of the season so far? and/or the biggest shock of the season, so far?

To my mind it is. Although beating Arsenal kids is still an achievement, but the Villa side was pretty much what turns up every weekend for PL football.

How do others see it?

 

arsenal played a full strength team. that was the shock of the season. the villa game was a major surprise but i still think they'll win the tie over the two legs

 

Yeah, Coquelin was the only non-first team regular who started that game, they had pretty much a full strength team out against Bradford.

I still think our 1-0 against ManUre has to be up there when you look at the results they had before and after that game.

 

i think our result is the shock premier league result of the season, but for a division four team (cos that's what they are - league two makes them sound higher!) to beat arsenal was utterly unbelievable and ranks right up there as one of the biggest upsets in english cup football for many a year.

 

I was more shocked when Arsenal beat Newcastle 7-3 tbh or Chelsea walloping Villa 8-0

 

My opinion (for what its worth) regarding "shock" results,is down to sheer strength and willpower.

The better players in lower leagues are mostly on a par with 60% of Premier League players, regarding
football ability.Getting that ability out of them is the difficult part.(Posh were a prime example of it not working)

If you can harness that ability with their physical strength (remember they play more games in lower leagues) and blind belief in the cause,that's what occasionally wins the day.

Teams from lower leagues will "turn over " the big boys,and I for one enjoy it every time it happens.

I think it highlights the depth we have in our football leagues.

This would never happen in Spain,as the gulf is much wider.

 

sunderland beating Man City 1-0 needs to be up there with our Man Ure result i'd say

 

What we need now is villa to win the replay 2-0 go to extra time lose on pens and be totally exhausted and dispirited and obviously pick a few cards and niggly little injuries in doing so

 

just to put this into perspective, if bradford reach the final they will become only the second team EVER team from a countries fourth tier to reach a major cup final, not just in england, but in the whole world! the only team to have ever done it so far?

rochdale. who lost to some team from norfolk in the league cup final in 1962.

 

don't away goals count? i'm sure they do - in which case, we'd want 3-1. much rather bradford just win again!

 

Unless they've changed it, away goals only count after extra time!

 

QPR winning at Chelski must also be up for shock of the season

 

thanks dave. that sounds right

 

of course! yeah, that's the shock of the season (premier league)

 

If that's the case it would have been changed only this season.

 

What, like the year they stopped using the Golden Goal rule in extra-time which stitched up as Iwan's goal in the play-off final against Brum would have seen us through the previous year.

 

I would say Norwich v Utd,Sunderland v City,Chelsea v QPR. No particular order.

 

iwan didn't even know! he thought he'd scored the goal which had taken us to the promised land!!