Wullie

Why the fuck isn't someone picking up the runner from midfield? Schoolboy stuff.

Great.

Now Pedersen's been sent off.

Dean Marney sent off for kicking Pedersen in the bollocks.

You know you're in a state when you go to Bolton and play more long ball stuff than they do (and less effectively). I've only just seen that Lua Lua is not on the bench. What the fuck's going on man?!

Decent spell, this. Enrique's pulling all the strings for us creatively.

Gerrard, Torres is probably the answer. Gerrard played.

Based on 70mins against a very iffy Liverpool side? Based on the fact that all they needed was a win, which they got on Wednesday. The real problem we face at the bottom is that nearly all our rivals have loads of Premiership quality - Blackburn, Boro, Spurs, Portsmouth, Bolton will all pick up points. Stoke and West Brom are the only real dross in there (and Stoke have a habit of grinding out results which doesn't help). We have Premiership quality too - the trouble is that we have no confidence, tons of injuries to much of that quality and the fit ones are being managed by people not up to the job.

Boro will stay up at a canter now imo.

Kuyt's just missed an open goal too.

Knew this would happen. Fuck.

Said in the week that Boro's FA Cup result could be a disaster for us. Liverpool seriously need to step it up in the second half.

Giggs was never eligible to play for England. [/nitpick]

Exactly. I keep hearing "ah but the UEFA Cup is a devalued competition" - yeah, and this is why.

Oh ok, my mistake. You definately made the correct decision resting your players though. Your 1st half performance against Chelsea was pretty abysmal tbh, and some of it was for sure down to all the energy the players used up on wednesday. Bet the Villa fans on their way back from Russia minus a grand agree entirely. Don't think they'll give 2 f***s if it means they'll qualify for the champions league. Says someone who couldn't pick out White Hart Lane on a map. The way both clubs have treated their supporters (you know, the ones who actually pay their money) is disgusting imo. Where did that come from? apart from it being an innacurate statement, i don't quite understand the need for it. I'm guessing you had a bad day at work today. ahhh i see, the ones who actually pay, what like Brummie (who doesn't seem "disgusted" to me) . Plain and simple fact: you see things like this from a different perspective because you don't get yourself to games. You reckon the Villa fans in Moscow now are buzzing I suppose, having probably spent the money they were going to spend on a holiday. brummie's entitled to his opinion but there'll be Villa fans on the other side of the coin. If it was us, I'd be fucking raging.

We don't lack battlers in midfield, we lack footballers.

Oh ok, my mistake. You definately made the correct decision resting your players though. Your 1st half performance against Chelsea was pretty abysmal tbh, and some of it was for sure down to all the energy the players used up on wednesday. Bet the Villa fans on their way back from Russia minus a grand agree entirely. Don't think they'll give 2 fucks if it means they'll qualify for the champions league. Says someone who couldn't pick out White Hart Lane on a map. The way both clubs have treated their supporters (you know, the ones who actually pay their money) is disgusting imo.

Oh ok, my mistake. You definately made the correct decision resting your players though. Your 1st half performance against Chelsea was pretty abysmal tbh, and some of it was for sure down to all the energy the players used up on wednesday. Bet the Villa fans on their way back from Russia minus a grand agree entirely.

That season we finished fifth and lost in the semi final, given the choice it would have been the trophy every single day of the week.

Think you'll find most of us did last week when the tie was chucked away (along with a load of Spurs' fans money).

Yup. What cost us was the fact Sir Les couldn't hit a barn door in the second half of the season and he lost if mentally. Rob Lee never scored a goal as well for a few months. Gillespie getting injured impacted the balance of the team. Plus having two jokers in goal didn't help either. Shaka in that last few weeks was fucking dreadful. The only two games I remember from Shaka over ten years on are Blackburn & Forest. Just so fucking slow to react I've long blamed him for the defeat at Blackburn.

Yup. What cost us was the fact Sir Les couldn't hit a barn door in the second half of the season and he lost if mentally. Rob Lee never scored a goal as well for a few months. Gillespie getting injured impacted the balance of the team. Plus having two jokers in goal didn't help either. Shaka in that last few weeks was fucking dreadful.

Hope Arsenal catch Villa now. Pretty pathetic from O'Neill considering it's the competition that really made him.

Luckily Boro have got Liverpool on Saturday (hopefully complete with the returning Gerrard). Them hitting some kind of form would be a disaster for us.

Lush free kick that. Hope Boro don't win this one, I worry about them turning the corner.