Was losing to Villa such a bad thing? In one way, yes, it started the run of events that saw us go into admin and all the crap we've had to deal with since then.

On the other hand, had we gone up instead of Villa, what would have happened? We'd still have lost Mount, Tomori and Wilson, IMO. Jack and Waggy PL strikers? Nope. Bennett? Nope. We'd have needed to replace as many as 3/4 of the squad, maybe even more. How many of this lot would have made the PL grade?

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