HEROES AND VILLANS
A year ago to the day, Aston Villa’s 2024-25 Bigger Cup adventure – one that would take them to a mesmeric quarter-final with eventual winners PSG – started with a 3-0 victory over Young Boys, a performance with more fluidity than a Jamie Carragher drive-by and the Birmingham side’s first game back in Europe’s elite club competition in 41 years. In the next round of Bigger Cup fixtures, Bayern Munich were duly dispatched by Villa in a performance with more fluidity than a Bavarian title parade. Unai Emery could seemingly do no wrong and had everything from Jhon Durán’s left foot to John McGinn’s backside marching to the beat of his drum, with his team and tactics looking more fluid in the season’s early stages than Ozzy Osbourne’s long locks gently rocking in the soft Birmingham breeze (OK, that’s enough – Football Daily Ed).
