The last time the Villa got relegated I wrote an abusive letter to Doug Ellis - I was a distraught 12-year-old, writes Steve Zacharanda.

That day my dad had taken me and my sister to see Villa v Sheffield Wednesday.

It was unlike any other game I had been to, it felt like an electrical storm was over Villa Park.

Every kick meant something, there were fights on the pitch and in the stands.

Lee Chapman was unplayable and every time he scored there was a pitch invasion by irate Villa fans.

We were in the Trinity Road and even fans of the old stand tried to steam the pitch, I noticed one of my teachers in the number.

The final whistle blew and we were down, my last image of that match was a beery bloke chasing Lee Chapman down the tunnel.

It felt like I had witnessed something tumultuous - the club of my grandparents and whose crowd's roar I could hear from my garden from as old as I could remember - had been relegated quicker than any other team that had won the European Cup.

That game, more than any other, made me love the Villa as a kid.

This relegation? Our shower have not even given us a game to remember, not even a spirited loss.

How many of this squad would get in that team?

Spink, Hunt, Birch, Daley and Thompson would walk into this team, and they try and tell us product football improved with the Premier League in 1992.

All we have got now is foreign and substandard British slop not fit to lace Simon Stainrod's boots, and he was rubbish.

They gave up before Christmas, and now finally we are down. And you know what - I could not care less.

I've given all I can give over the intervening 28 years.

In fact I cannot wait to fall in love with Villa again next season.

Imagine a first game of the season where anything is possible? Incredible. And the first time that will have happened since Big Ron's time.

As a Premiership Villa fan you rule out winning it, obviously, and the Champions League places? They are locked off, as are normally 5th and 6th. So realistically, if everyone remains injury free, if a player excels before being cherry picked by a richer club, then we might finish seventh.

A race for 7th, wow, what glory. We have had some excitement with relegation battles recently but like a leisure boat with a snogging couple at the helm our time is up in the money spinning EPL.

We are not owned by someone who is in the fossil fuel game, so we can never challenge.

But what about fairytale Leicester? The Bluesmen with the racist talisman and the billionaire Thai owners who have their own questionable human rights record.

Forgive me if I am not dancing in the streets.

The fact how bananas everyone has gone about them just shows what a one off this season has been.

I will be getting a season ticket next season, the last two I've struggled getting anyone to go down with me.

Even my godson gave up, I'd taken him to ten games and he hadn't seen us win once, he had seen more naff protests than goals, and in the end he was only going to keep me happy, how sad is that? Now we go the speedway instead.

However next season, people want to go again, my phone has been red hot with old pals wanting to get season tickets. And away games will be great, loads within an hour away, the beautiful day out that is Fulham away, and now Brentford for the first time too.

And the bad smelling elephant in the room - Blues - two delightfully vicious and all encompassing derbies will be on our expanded fixture list.

There are so many reasons we have go down, there is no one decision, just a culmination of rubbishness season after season.

The biggest mistake Lerner made in my book was snubbing Sir Graham Taylor in his first few months, the great man attended a match and was expecting to meet the American but was told the Billionaire was too busy to meet him.

If Taylor had been recruited to the board to have some say about the footballing side of the business then the catalogue of poor decisions might have been avoided.

I never felt the same about Randy after the McLeish appointment, it just showed how far removed he was from the fans, Taylor would have known that appointment would be disastrous.

Paul Lambert was wanted by most fans but he wasn't given the money to compete, those last ten games of his first season were incredible to stay up - but no big signings came and his fate sealed.

Sherwood was fun for a while, especially as we got worse and his press conferences took on the air of a murder victim's guilty spouse being put in front of the cameras by the police.

Remi Garde always felt like getting Green Goddess manned by midgets when your in the middle of a raging inferno.

But I can forgive being rubbish, rubbish decisions about rubbish players made by rubbish managers and chief executives but I cannot stand being patronised.

And the Villa seem to be excelling at it, one week after admitting spending shed loads of cash on redesigning our club badge (some clubs don't change their badge for decades - not us - we are like a kid with adhd on an etch-a-sketch) the club top brass release a statement about people who are not on megabucks and who have never let the club down, like those above them and on the pitch, getting sacked.

As someone who deals with press releases every day I thought I would translate it for you.

"Aston Villa Football Club can confirm it has updated all staff on the proposed changes to the Club structure in order to put it back on a firm footing."

Translation: We thought we better say something before our imminently sacked workers slag us off on social media. However, we are still the biggest club in the Midlands hence we have the arrogance of using a capital C at the start of club despite the rules of the English language.

"These changes will result in a headcount reduction but every effort will be made through a voluntary scheme, to mitigate as much as is possible, the need for compulsory redundancies."

Translation: We obviously cannot use the term "livelihoods" or "jobs" so we will come up with some corporate speak crap to really rub the salt in the wounds, we thought about "ejection of multiple carbon lifeforms" but went with "headcount reduction".

"The objective is to secure a sound financial platform from which the Club can rebuild for the benefit of the fans, staff and sponsors."

Translation: We are three paragraphs in and still have not mentioned the millionaire footballers, just one of which's wages in a couple of months eclipse all the hardworking Brummies we are going to sack.

"We recognise this is an extremely difficult time for all staff and the Club will offer support to all staff affected."

We have hired some expensive HR types to ensure the redundancy packages on offer just sneak in the legal requirements.

Obviously we could have said what we needed within one tweet: "Our revenue will go down next year and will have to make several employees redundant."

But I didn't start supporting the Villa because of spreadsheets, parachute payments and headcount reductions, I support the Villa because my family always had and I'm from Perry Barr and see the ground most days of my life.

The Villa is not theirs, who ever they maybe at the top of the club, it's ours - the fans and it will be there next year in all its glory giving friends the chance to see each other every game to forge new memories in Aston and beyond.

I'm sure the next few weeks for Villa fans will be like having a bad back, a huge spot on our nose and our Mrs' running off with the pub prat - everyone we will see will be a comedian, and have a joke at our expense.

But they might not believe me when I laugh in their face and say: "I don't care pal and I cannot wait for all the fun of the Championship," and you should do the same too.