brummie

Our incarnation of the last four years is one of biding time until we go down. Not because the owner is a cunt - he isn't, he has spent a lot of money. The problem is that the owner is two things, uninterested and utterly, utterly incompetent. What is shocking, too, is seeing the gradual wearing down of expectations of the fans. "Maybe we can nick a point at West Ham", that sort of thing. FFS. Honestly, I think I hate almost all our supporters. Passive fucking sheep. In fact, that probably counts for most football supporters full stop these days.

That's the thing. Raging vs four wins on the bounce. That's why I am thinking whether I'd like us to win or draw versus lose by 5 tomorrow in terms of the bigger picture. Wanting the team I've supported for 40 years, and which is in trouble, to lose heavily. Fucking hell.

The problem you have is you've had this little good run now - four games or whatever it is - yet the rest of the football world (including your chairman, I suspect) will see that as incontrovertible evidence that Pardew is doing a great job. I noticed some comments today already - "hurr hurr, those Pardew Out signs will be disappearing", which has an undertone of "you were all fucking nuts to want him out in the first place, look how good he is" It is not at all unlike our first four matches of the season, in which the exact same things were said about Lambert, and it bought him time, too. Then we go on a five match, 15-0 losing run, but nobody outside the club thinks about that, they're all thinking about that decent four game run we had (whilst ignoring the fact that we managed four shots on goal in that same run, and got knocked out of the Capital One Cup at home to Orient). Sadly, almost the entirety of the football world is made up of utter fucking idiots who just want to read things which fit the "script" they have in their head. I'm both happy for you that you've had some good results, yet sad, as I know what the flip side of it all is, and how infuriating it'll be for you.

Since the last time Villa scored a goal, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 21 goals. Little factoid for you there.

That's the last time anyone smiled at Villa Park. Fact.

Four decent games in a row is all it took for our man to get one. Going on that, a decent game at the weekend and you need to start worrying!

No. He wouldn't have been given the cash to invest, just won't happen. I just want him to go. Between therm they are strangling the club, all the fun has gone. Apparently Lowton (turboshit last night) was arguing with one of our fans at the end. Just great. The media seem totally unable to criticise what is going on. It's like the manager is an untouchable with them. It is genuinely like we are in some sort of persistent vegetative state, desperately trying to tell them what is wrong but they're never going to hear it. I've just spent a while reading the relevant threads on the two major villa forums and there are so many people not just saying he has to go but cogently, logically and calmly pointing out the problems. If so many fans can spot this, why can't the media?

Fuck this, I'm going to bed, I am just making myself more angry.

Lambert's record. League record - W 23 D 20 L 42 Home League Record - W 12 D 9 L 21 Away League Record - W 11 D 11 L 21 Just staggering. He's had an immense amount of patience, too. The first season, we practically gave him, despite the awful statistics, we stuck by him. Last season was much worse and this season is horrendous. It is clearly not working. He has shattered record after record for shitness. Fewer home league wins in a season than ANY season since we were founded 140 years ago, and that includes seasons with a dozen teams in the league. Now we have five games without a goal, and zero points. But he got a new four year contract this time last month. The way we are run is horrendous, truly horrendous. He's under zero pressure for his job, because our glorious leader just wants the bare minmum - survival. We are run pathetically badly. I know people always say this, but this is honestly true, I know so many people who have been going to the games for years and who have stopped. I've done the same myself. Not been this season. In the last two years, we have lost 10,000 season ticket holders. That's how bad it has got. I genuinely am not going this season until something changes. f*** it. First match 40 years ago, the club in my blood going back generations, but this is the least belief i have ever had in us. Lambert would have been sacked five times over at any other club (except, sadly, you, probably). Nine hours without a f***ing goal. Handed our arses at home to Leyton Orient in the one competition we can even dream of winning. Check this out: The worst thing isn't the stats, it isn't the constant pathetic failure, it is the fact that it is considered acceptable. f*** it, I've had enough, I am through with these people. But Lambert's a good coach, deluded brummies should know their place, what do they expect? Champions League football? He needs time to gel these players together. Yadayadayada. Amazing how nobody else can see how bad our respective teams are! What's more, that "shots on target" stat - six of them were tonight, and four of them were against Hull, leaving just 8 across all the other matches.

I would against us. I wouldn't back us to beat anyone at the moment. And I mean anyone. I wouldn't back us to beat Blues, and they've just lost 8-0 at home to Bournemouth. We haven't scored for nudging nine hours. Since the last time we scored a goal, Watford and Leeds have had five managers between them.

They're not taking it lying down. They've stopped going. I certainly have. Fuck them, I have had enough, I am not wasting any more time or money on this shit any longer. If they can't be fucking bothered, then neither can I. The problem we have is, we can't do anything about it. We're fucking stuck. It doesn't make any difference if they lose 10,000 season ticket holders. They don't care. The owner wants out and will wait as long as he has to so long as we don't get relegated. There is as much chance of Lerner cutting Lambert lose - and let's not forget, he is statistically our worst manager ever, I remember the Graham Turner and Billy McNeill eras, and this is much worse - as there is of waking up tomorrow to hear that Cameron has decided to sack George Osbourne and give Ed Balls the job. That's the thing. We have a football version of that horrible locked-in syndrome. We have got all our wits about us, but we can't get the message across, that we're fucking awful, we can't make people understand. I've now found myself half thinking - and pulling myself back from the edge each time - that I almost hope Spurs put 5 past us this weekend, just because it would have the chance of edging change a little closer. To put in perspective how shit we are: you came to our place, had 60% possession, and we had ZERO shots on target.

Lambert's record. League record - W 23 D 20 L 42 Home League Record - W 12 D 9 L 21 Away League Record - W 11 D 11 L 21 Just staggering. He's had an immense amount of patience, too. The first season, we practically gave him, despite the awful statistics, we stuck by him. Last season was much worse and this season is horrendous. It is clearly not working. He has shattered record after record for shitness. Fewer home league wins in a season than ANY season since we were founded 140 years ago, and that includes seasons with a dozen teams in the league. Now we have five games without a goal, and zero points. But he got a new four year contract this time last month. The way we are run is horrendous, truly horrendous. He's under zero pressure for his job, because our glorious leader just wants the bare minmum - survival. We are run pathetically badly. I know people always say this, but this is honestly true, I know so many people who have been going to the games for years and who have stopped. I've done the same myself. Not been this season. In the last two years, we have lost 10,000 season ticket holders. That's how bad it has got. I genuinely am not going this season until something changes. Fuck it. First match 40 years ago, the club in my blood going back generations, but this is the least belief i have ever had in us. Lambert would have been sacked five times over at any other club (except, sadly, you, probably). Nine hours without a fucking goal. Handed our arses at home to Leyton Orient in the one competition we can even dream of winning. Check this out: The worst thing isn't the stats, it isn't the constant pathetic failure, it is the fact that it is considered acceptable. Fuck it, I've had enough, I am through with these people.

I think this is something that gets more and more noticeable with Manchester City. Players who are only there for the money, and they're not all like it, but a lot of them are. Toure, for example, is an absolutely world class player, but only when he can be arsed. When he's not particularly bothered, he puts in some truly pathetic showings.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7615655.stm What an absolute fanny Ashley is, in that case, then. Hated figures like Ellis, Swales, Bates were always at games in the 80s, despite being loathed by their fans, and despite this being at a time when the football attending demographic was very, very different indeed. Last time I saw Mike Ashley - outside the corporate entrance at Villa Park prior to a match - he had two blokes each the size of a small country with him. Billionaires tend to understand the concept of personal safety far more than the average punter, and take good measures to protect themselves. Chairmen do themselves no favours whatsoever when they trot out utter shite like that. If they have lost interest, they should just come out and say it, rather than inventing shit like that, which has the effect of making the fans look like twats, for no actual reason.

The worst thing is the total disconnect between people paid to talk about or write about football, and people who pay to watch it. I've heard plenty of the former talking about Pardew and being full of sympathy for him, and hardly anyone taking the point of views of the paying punter. As a supporter, that is the sort of utter frustration that others in the game (pundits, managers, players) can't possibly feel. I used to hear people frequently say what a good job McLeish was doing for us, for example, and it used to make me so fucking angry, I'd just stop watching or listening to stuff about football. They'll never, ever understand.

Yeah, I never had him down as a nutter but the way he speaks can only come from an insane mind Seriously? The things that I've heard from it just suggest that he's funny and slightly pretentious, whereas others probably think he's a bit mental. I can relate. Gave on Pirlo's book about 3/4 of the way through, he's insufferable. Shame as I love him as a player. I read it, thought it was quite interesting. However, it is so short, it is barely more than a magazine's length.

I once saw something very, very unusual happen in a match featuring Leicester in the mid 1970s. Can anyone guess what it was? I don't think it has ever happened since. It fact, I am pretty sure it hasn't.

It surprises me to say, having watched most of the Spurs - Ollbeeyun game, they looked good value for the three points. Played very well.

Balotelli replacing Suarez is almost as bad as Riviere replacing Remy. It's a bit like Major replacing Thatcher.

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4159105,00.html I thought something was up today. First 30 mins, we were the better side, conceded a flurry of goals, and spent the rest of the match looking like we'd been on the piss last night. It was all very odd.

Hutton has been brilliant this season. N'Zogbia was injured all last season, so wasn't a member of the "bomb squad" (as they christened themselves). Honestly, I don't f***ing know any more. I have zero idea. Bomb squad? The players we refused to let train with the first team squad for two entire years, mostly because we were paying them too much money and would do anything to get them off the books (Hutton, Given, Bent, Ireland). They christened themselves "the bomb squad" (as in bombed out), and it stuck as a term of reference for Villa fans. Truly dreadful management.

Four games into the season. Four. ANd i say that not in reference to where you are, but to highlight the STUPIDITY of giving a manager who has produced two years of relegation dodging with a new four year contract when he manages a decent run of FOUR games. Insanity.

Hutton has been brilliant this season. N'Zogbia was injured all last season, so wasn't a member of the "bomb squad" (as they christened themselves). Honestly, I don't fucking know any more. I have zero idea.

Paul Lambert signs new four year deal. And you thought your sights were set low.

Alan Hutton has signed a new contract with us. That's the same Alan Hutton we refused to let train with the first team for two entire seasons, because we were tired of paying him so much money and wanted him off the books. What a gigantic circus our club is. To be fair to the bloke, i thought he was awful in the McLeish work, but that's not necessarily only due to himself, but this season he has been excellent for us.