Football: Off-Day Caps Poor Season ; Aston Villa 1 Manchester City 2
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The success or otherwise of a team's season can be judged, not by the league table, but by the response to their lap of honour after the final home match.
When the players of Aston Villa emerged for theirs at 5.10pm on Saturday, the stadium was virtually empty, the applause muted, and the occasion farcical.See the full content of this document
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Football: Off-Day Caps Poor Season ; Aston Villa 1 Manchester City 2
The post mortem was already beginning.
And yet, almost forgotten amid the frustration of this 2-1 defeat to Manchester City, was a statistic that seemed to contradict the atmosphere: Villa's average home league attendance of 37,353 was the...See the full content of this document