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He will, must have been really distraught getting sacked earlier this season by *checks notes* Birmingham City.

So, this season - John Eustace has them sixth in the league, but hey, he's a lifelong Villa fan, so can't be having that, let's have someone more glamorous - appoint Wayne Rooney - sack Wayne Rooney - John Eustace guides Blackburn to safety thus playing a big part in relegating Birmingham. Genuinely, they're the best local 'rivals' you can possibly have. Nothing with ever top 'diarygate' with them, but this shit is great.

BOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!

Fuck me, if Spurs lose and we win tomorrow, I'm going to officially 'retire' weekends on the basis it can't get any better.

Come on, Plymouth, you weirdo southern yokels!

*looks at scores* *takes bottle of champagne out of fridge* *preps cigar*

TBF they are still fifth, so not that ruined. Sadly.

I just thought the same, it's a real clash.

Get in, you beautiful cockney bastards!

We are so injury-suspension-fucked, I am super nervous for this match.

I was thinking the same (about us, I mean). I genuinely haven't seen a single new Adidas kit in the leaks that has not been at worst absolutely horrific, and at best totally mediocre.

there have already been the same stories about us. It is in fact only you and us that attract these “have to sell “ stories.

Mostly, yeah, but I think there are two elements to it - finishing position plus more for appearances in live tv matches. However, I may have imagined that, and I am too lazy to google it so may be absolutely wrong here.

It's pretty unimpressive the way the Premier League have managed to box themselves into such a car crash of a mess on this. We now have: a multiple championship winner with 115 charges of financial misconduct against them, none of which have yet been addressed, and which, should they be upheld, cast serious doubt on the validity of the Premier League final tables of the last decade plus. whilst the above mentioned club hasn't been tackled, or has managed to tie the PL up legally for several years, we now have had two clubs docked points halfway through a season, one punishment having been changed, just to add more confusion. a club which has just been promoted to the Premier League, which also has outstanding charges against it an existing system which has only served to allow the 'big six' to accumulate the wealth and pull the ladders up, thus making the league even less competitive than it was beforehand a current system which has resulted in as much time being spent talking about football finances as is spent on the actual football. I thought the bad things about the Premier League - sapping every last penny of our finances, multi broadcaster tv rights requiring three subscriptions, matches at 8 on a Saturday night, the total disregard of supporters to the point they're really just considered customers, the random fixture movements, all those bad things, I thought the flip side would be that the league is as well managed as it is marketed. And these are just financial things - then there's the absolute cack-handed introduction of VAR, random pauses staring at lines on screen, 5 minute gaps between goals being scored and actual celebrations. Turns out, these guys are every bit as clueless as the local small businessmen done good who ran football during the 1980s.

Looking forward to seeing Everton weigh in with 45m they haven't got for Casemiro.

Apparently, we voted against, alongside Man United and Man City. I couldnt figure why, but this thread is interesting reading.

Too right, not won a single pot in almost 30 years.

I was also thinking, if we were to win the Conference League, that'd normally put us into the Europa League, but if that happens and we finish fourth or even fifth (which is mathematically guaranteed now), what happens to that extra Europa League place? Does that shuffle further down the league?

A good weekend for us, despite a dog shit performance yesterday. Of all the things that could have happened, Robin Olsen saving us at the death was the last I expected. So, now, if Spurs lose at Chelsea midweek and Liverpool next weekend, and we beat Brighton on the Sunday, Spurs can no longer reach us. And on top of that, there's a really decent chance Blues will get relegated and Albion will fail to reach the play offs. FUCKING HELL, please. However, what could possibly go wrong?

Get in, Arsenal, you beauties.

Barring 4 Man U wins, 4 Villa losses, and a GD swing of 20, we're actually going to finish above Man United for the first time in 34 years. Even the two times in that spell we finished second, they were first. God, I hate them. How the fuck they've managed to remain as high in the table as they are whilst being so utterly dog shit for so long, is beyond me.

Found myself trying to work out what "UTS" meant, not knowing their nickname, settled, childishly, on "up the shitter!"

The only surprising thing about Hillsborough was that it took so long to happen. Anyone who went to matches in the 80s and stood will tell you about situations where they were basically in a cage with far too many people in it, unable to feel the floor and unable to move anywhere. I remember a match at Upton Park in which we were crammed into way too small a space and I genuinely thought someone would die. It was that bad. I saw it on YouTube a while back and I felt sick watching it. Chelsea’s chairman back then wanted to put electric fences up. Google Stamford Bridge in the 80s and a photo of that place alone will tell you all you need to know about how football fans were treated. Although ironically I just read that the pricing for our home match against Chelsea this weekend had the cheapest adult seats at £58.50 - for a match played at eight o’ fucking clock on a Saturday night, so although we’re not treated like animals who risk our lives going to games any more, they’ve introduced a different kind of contempt - economic - instead.

Also, her face doesn't move, largely because it's 90% botox by the looks of it.

Also, isn't their stadium built into a cliff or something insane?