Yesterday Aston Villa beat Liverpool at Villa Park for the first time since Ian Taylor scored a last minute winner which was so long ago I think I was three stone lighter!

However, never has such a great victory been overshadowed by thousands of happy fans caring more about our rivals’ destiny than our own result.

What an amazing day to be inside Villa Park.

The last twenty minutes all the crowd cared about was if the Blues were going down and the place broke into hysteria every time another nail was hammered into their Premiership coffin.

I honesty think 99 per cent of the fans around me would have rather Blues let a goal in than Villa not letting Liverpool take a share of the spoils.

Despite the fact that we needed the win to be top dogs in Midlands football, yet again.

Who’d have thought we would have come ninth but such a close division and two brilliant wins against two of the biggest clubs in Britain assured us a top ten finish. Just three places behind last year in what has been a dog awful season.

What I loved was the fact that everyone had mobile phones but there were still false alarms and a reliance of looking at the scoreboard which kept on flashing up the scores. It was the day for the stattos, who knew every permutation of every goal, every row had one and they deserved their time in the sun.

The game was a sideshow and no-one must have been more relieved than our players because they walked out for their end of season lap of honour in front of a crowd in wonderland and who were too happy to bother reminding them how rubbish they have been.

Grown men were jumping around like we had won the league. I’ve always have been of the school of thought that the Blues should always hate the Villa more than we hate them, because we are Aston Villa and have no need to stoop to their level.

And derby days can be brilliant even though the police’s insistence they are played at noon has managed to castrate them on and off the field.

All the fans who went to Arsenal had set the tone with their non-stop 'they're going up, they're going down' and their enthusiasm got fans all over the stadium joining in the new anthem.

But it was hard not to love a wonderful moment for Villa fans everywhere. And it was also great to see Blackpool go down too after what Nasty Holloway said about our club!

My old mate Eamonn who I had the pleasure of spending the day with was over the moon and captured the moment perfectly by saying: “I know how the Americans felt when they killed Bin Laden now!”

We have not had much to cheer about this season but a good old fashioned laugh at our daft neighbours down the road made it a great day to be a Brummie Villa fan.

Up the Villa!

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