Aston Villa: Three-One. Three-Three. Four-Three. You’re Welcome.

Aston Villa: Three-One. Three-Three. Four-Three. You’re Welcome.

April 21, 2026 · 27 min · Episode 610

About this episode

The episode discusses a chaotic Aston Villa match that highlights significant implications for the team's season and the Premier League landscape.

The most chaotic win of the season. And potentially one of the most significant. Three-one up and coasting. Then Sancho came on. Then it was three-three. Then Martinez stood up when it mattered most. Then Abraham scored the winner from a Digne cross that could have been measured with a ruler. Ten points clear of Chelsea. Champions League football confirmation is getting closer. The latest episode of the My Old Man Said podcast show unpacks the full emotional spectrum of a game that had everything — brilliant team goals, inexplicable defensive gaps, a substitution that nearly cost Villa everything, a goalkeeper save that may define their season, and a winner scored by the man whose bench time has been one of the running debates of the past three months. There is also a wider conversation about what this result means beyond three points. Spurs losing. Chelsea crumbling. The Premier League landscape potentially transforming. If Villa finish fourth and win the Europa League, two of the so-called top six miss out on the Champions League next season. Will it be potentially transformative? Plus: Emery admitting he expressed all his emotions and needed a rest day to full Match Club…

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