The winner of the replay between Forest and Leicester City will be ‘rewarded’ with a trip to Villa Park to face Aston Villa. Despite their Premiership status, that draw wouldn’t be a particularly exciting prospect, although it does give both clubs the opportunity to reacquaint themselves with Martin O’Neill, a not insignificant figure for both clubs in fairly recent history.
O’Neill was a player during Forest’s most successful era, and of course, as manager lead Leicester City to theirs, getting them promoted to the top flight via the playoffs, and taking them to three league cup finals – winning two of them. So I imagine it would be with fondness that he will be regarded by whichever of our two sets of fans gets to make the trip to the dreary West Midlands for an inevitable shoeing from the Premiership team.
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The “dreary” West Midlands? How would you know? When’s the last time your team had the privelege of facing the mighty Villa.
Some time ago now, but I was there
Of course, in more recent times we’ve faced many other West Midlands teams with a less illustrious record!
Don’t take it personally if I find it dreary!