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Poyet's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking about the government The man in the SAFC coat Badge out, laid off Says he's got a bad cough Wants to get paid off..... *applause*

Honestly, if Gabby scores twice against you - in the same match - you've got big problems.

This. It's refreshing to hear a manager of a club like Villa come out and say that he expects his team to win and to attack. Unlike talking up the opponents and saying we can't compete. Then setting up his team and instructing them to do just that instead of keeping it tight and hoping one of your better players can produce some magic. I have to give him his due, he's sent us out with more attacking intent in the last couple of weeks than Lambert did in months. Not only that, for all the piss taking about "tactics Tim", he's looked tactically astute so far. In the last week and a bit, we've twatted Albion twice, reached the cup semi final, and won an away game 4 nothing. After the previous four years, that's exciting stuff for us.

62% possession, 7 shots on target. Crikey

This is like we're playing us two months ago.

Especially if you look at the end of Lambert's reign and count back how long a period it took to score our last five goals under him and realise it was in fucking December.

NB I rounded down 1.909 to 1.9 but it should actually be 1.91 I guess, which fits with Ronaldo's figures.

If you had owt about you as a poster you'd have done that for me. Just a criminally bad effort by Mistle. Spurs would've finished 3rd with their form under Sherwoord stretched over a full season. They're currently 6th. Vast improvement indeed. Over 28 games he averaged 1.64 points per game, which would've given them 62.4 points over the course of 38 games. This would be less than the 69 points they actually ended up with. They would have finished 7th and not 6th. Obviously it's just an average, but to state that he'd finish 3rd (>82 points), is rather far fetched. Surely if you're extrapolating something over a period of time to come to a theoretical league points total, you have to only look at league matches rather than throw in league cup or europa league games. In league games he picked up 42 points in 22 games, which is 1.9 points per game, which over 38 games equals 72 points. That's pretty good.

Sherwood is a bit of a bell end. He did a "checking pulse" thing to the Holte End after the league match against Ollbeeyun last week which was cringey along the same lines as that salute thing. I thought it was a fucking stupid appointment. Having said that, though, we've just been Ollbeeyun twice in five days, played some more than decent (by our recent standards) football in doing so, and secured at least one Wembley trip, to a semi final. Given that, it seems churlish to moan. He's also managed to get a decent performance out of Charles N'Zogbia and Tom Cleverley, which is something I never thought I'd see. He can open his big gob as much as he likes so long as he carries on making it actually pleasurable to watch us play. Before the second Albion game, I was poking around having a look at a few of our forums, and someone posted something along the lines of "I can't get over the fact that I'm actually looking forward to the match". Which basically said it all about what it had become. See also that pitch invasion. I would have preferred it not to have happened, it is a bit smalltime. But then again, this is a club which has had its two worst home seasons in 140 years last season and the season before. A club that had just put together a run of seven consecutive league defeats. A club which had managed a run of over 11 hours without scoring a single goal. A club whose fans have basically had big steaming buckets of liquefied horse shit syringed directly into their eyeballs at home matches for four years. Given all that, I don't blame anyone for running on, and I can see why people would like Sherwood. It is very, very early days, but it feels like I imagine VE Day felt. Thank fuck that is over.

So, it turns out that in the pitch invasion at our place the other night, that cunt McManaman was filmed shoulder barging several supporters trying to get them to kick off, and James Morrison was spotted tripping one up. Clearly trying to get it to kick off to elevate the problem.

re the cup draw, I am actually relatively happy with that. We seem to have a good record against Liverpool, so long as it's not on our own ground. We even won there this season. Just glad to have avoided Arsenal (although they're another team we have a not-bad record against, once more so long as it's not on our own ground). Anyway, the upshot of all this is that it is our year for the cup. Finally.

Also begs the question why people like Phil Neville's commentary? they mistake him for his brother and think it's cool to like it? Or maybe they just flick BT Sport on, hear three seconds of Michael Owen's pointless, nasal droning, and think "ah well, could be worse".

Too right, I absolutely fucking hate it. Apparently Villa is a "gigantic club" according to Tim He's right, although I refuse to believe he said htat. It'd be "gigantic football club". Hence the annoyance. STOP SAYING IT, WE KNOW YOU DON'T MEAN A FUCKING BINGO CLUB.

Too right, I absolutely fucking hate it.

I'm imagining that's the first time in about 2 centuries that events on the pitch at Villa Park have resembled in any way, shape, or form, events on the pitch at Barcelona.

Quality. Probably running from the dildo guy. I like how he keeps his flag perfectly by his side. It reminds me of the 'Super Phun Thyme' episode of South Park where the guys from the 1864 place wouldn't break character The last time I saw someone hit that speed across Villa Park, it was Tony Daley.

Anyway, despite all ^^^^^ I don't really care too much. Finally, something going right. And goals. And wins. Amazing.

They were in 2000 ah ok, 15 is a canny long time, just ask the Mackems. Strictly speaking, we went there in 2010 in the FA Cup, when Chelsea casually dismissed us without leaving first gear. We went there twice that year, lost both matches and I reckon managed one shot on target in 180 minutes football. 2000 was even fucking worse, that was horrific. Anyway, we've had a horrific four years, especially at home. We've had the two worse home league seasons in our history the last two years and this year was looking worse. It means a lot, which probably explains the over-excitement, and it was against Albion - although that only matters if you're a Villa fan from north of the city. I can honestly say, Albion mean absolutely nothing to me, no more animosity to them than Stoke City, it's not a derby match, despite the 4 miles between the two grounds. However, really, how fucking small time, running on before the end. Not only that, but we're pissing it two nil, about to win, and they're risking the game getting abandoned if it gets bad enough. Incredibly small time. Although I suspect a lot of it is to do with it being played in the evening on a Saturday, which surprises me quite a lot, especially with them getting 6000 tickets. Even though for me it's no derby against Albion, given that the police usually make us play Birmingham with a midday kick off, and the last time they didnt (CCC semi final at their place) it turned into a pitch invasion and gigantic rumble in the city centre, I am quite amazed they played this game at this time.

*blows imaginary smoke from end of imaginary pistols*

We've appointed Stan Petrov first team coach. Good. Good man, apparently knows his shit on the training pitch.

I can't imagine Kenwright will let you spend two and a half seasons licking the ringpiece of relegation before doing something like Lerner did, at least. I was surprised, until the other day I didn't notice you had sunk so slow. You're edging down towards the dropzone in a cunningly stealthy manner.

Fucking hell!

It's about time we had a bit of luck, to be honest. Eight shots on target tonight, apparently. I reckon our last eight on target under Lambert would stretch back over at least six games. And I'm not even joking.

http://i.imgur.com/uD8nhEx.jpg

Improves our chances. I don't know why Sherwood brought him back. Okore is better. Vlaar is half arsed and never totally fit.