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I know this is really really pathetic and I am far too old to be amused by such puerile stuff, but I do find these people sticking dildos in SSN reporters ears, or shouting FHRITP to be absolutely hilarious. Fuck you, SSN, and your overhyped bullshit. I hope it means they have to stop doing this ridiculous training ground nonsense.

Villa's business over for the day. Just the £6.2m spent. Dreaming the dream.

The BBC see Savage as some sort of controversial national treasure who the public like hearing from. Almost the entirety of the rest of the country would gladly push him under a bus. It's like the BBC are in a reality distortion field.

Yeah...right. Hang on, "few could argue they've had a very good summer" - doesn't that mean not many people could argue you've done alright, ie you've had a poor summer? Or am i misunderstanding something?

You all thought he was the saviour after buying from deadly doug. He was for four years, until he got bored and started making Doug look like Abrahmovich.

Wellbeck is extremely meh. He's the sort of player who, if he'd signed for us, I'd have thought "meh" about. Wenger makes me laugh, though. Him being in Rome doing some charity match today of all days, and setting all those whining Tarquins off on twitter, moaning about him, nodding their heads every time that tit Piers Morgan tweets some cringemaking rubbish. Arsenal make me laugh. Just one of the increasing number of clubs which, over the last four years, have given me considerably more pleasure than the club I actually support.

That gross or net? Net. We haven't sold anyone. Oh, hang on, no we sold that useless potato headed t*** El-Amahdi to Feyenoord this morning for 800k, so that's just the £6.2m spent this window. More than us Jokes aside if anyone feels your pain it's us mate. Although you didn't finish last season with a squad you'd expect to see halfway down the championship I hate football.

"Arsenal fans hearing that Welbeck is having a medical at the club " http://i.imgur.com/DRYOv.gif

That gross or net? Net. We haven't sold anyone. Oh, hang on, no we sold that useless potato headed twat El-Amahdi to Feyenoord this morning for 800k, so that's just the £6.2m spent this window.

Looks like our total summer spend will be staying at £7m. And they wonder why nobody wants to go to the fucking games any more. I can't wait for Lerner to get the fuck out and sell up to someone who gives a bit of a shit.

I sort of get it, to be honest. It is the very fact that UEFA took a perfectly decent competition like the UEFA Cup, and butchered it, producing this absolute joke of a format. Now, maybe I am different on this because I can remember watching my club play in, and win, the European Cup (*obligatory mention*) so am tainted by this, but when we played in the final format of the UEFA Cup and then the EL under O'Neill, it had just been reduced to such a parody that it became boring. It started too early - I remember sitting in blazing July sunshine, watching us play Odense, and seemed to drag on forever, pointless fecking group matches against the likes of Mentalist Kharkiv or FC Boobtube of Slovenia. It just went on and on and on, and excited nobody. UEFA created that format thinking they'd have a television oriented second tier competition to cream it in from, but what they got was something that so few people wanted to see on telly, Channel 5 won the rights. Channel 5 don't win the rights to anything other than Big Brother and Home and Away. The excitement of potential European glory should be there for the likes of Hull, you're definitely right there, but if you look at the way they treat the competition, I honestly think it is down to UEFA butchering it in the first place. Incidentally, do Celtic now drop into the Europa League, effectively getting a third chance at European glory? How can you take that seriously?

Please, somebody deploy the brummie signal. I'm here. I don't believe we'd pay £8m for a player these days. Not a chance. We probably will buy him, but not for that much. He'd probably improve on Westwood, but that's not really the point, we need someone to create things from midfield, not someone who will be a vague improvement on some other player we already have, who doesn't create shit. Anyway, screw Villa, I don't care any more.

Fucking hell, Motson is all over the place, what's wrong with his intonation? All shouty when nothing is happening. Rambling on like he's having some sort of personal breakdown.

In fairness, our defending so far this season, whilst only on the basis of two matches, is infinitely better than it was last year. The absence of Baker and Clark has made a huge difference.

I think openly not giving a shit is worst. It's like "don't give a fuck, not going to even pretend I do". Depressing, the sooner he sells to someone who is even remotely bothered, the better. Till that happens it'll be season after season of arsing around the bottom half of the table like the fucking Albion or something.

Incidentally, I genuinely think Lerner has had some sort of nervous breakdown. He just went nuts when he appointed McLeish (who makes Allardyce look like Guardiola) and just lost interest overnight. Since then it has been offensively bad. Three consecutive seasons which are amongst the worst I have ever seen, especially at home. He just doesn't give a shit any more.

I'm not surprised it was such a poor crowd. We have spent a total 6.5m this summer, on a squad that has finished 15th, 15th and 16th the last few seasons. Now the owner wants out, he thinks that means he can stop even pretending we are trying. I know so many people who haven't renewed. Last season we lost more home games than we had in any year since 1874, ie when we were founded. I believe we won four home league games. Still, we only won one more the season before. Lerner has no ambition beyond survival, none at all and people have decided they've had enough. I'm not bothering until we change owner. I had my first season ticket in 1975, didn't renew last season and this season I am not bothering at all until we show some ambition.

Massive plus for us - two clean sheets in a row, first time in years. We need Benteke and Kozak back.

That's a fair question, I don't know if they did or not, but I just find it depressing that it all ends with Gazza looking like that, and it's hard not to conclude he's short of friends.

Either that, or be back here and looked after by his family. As I said elsewhere earlier, am not sure how all of his hangers-on can look themselves in the mirror. I often find myself wondering where Chris Evans and Danny Baker are while this is going on, because I seem to recall them spending most of the late 1990s carrying him from pub to pub.

So expect a 4-5 Ha, possibly, yes. I won't be there. Some of our crowds this season will be awful. This has been the most depressing close-season I can remember in decades, I can't believe anyone has been stupid enough to give these idiots the money up front for the season ticket.

Just saw this tonight: http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4088897,00.html Good idea publicising it.

"Banter" is the most fucking brain dead word out there. It is basically "vague excuse for being a brainless twat". To hear that from the LMA is just beyond belief.

Crikey, this is truly the meeting of two clubs who have just stopped bothering to fucking try.

I remember when I moved to Newcastle to be a student in the mid 80s, going to SJP to watch a match for the first time, and seeing this kid, with a really distinctive running style, chest puffed out, head held back, and he was swanning around the pitch like he owned it, absolutely fearless, and the best player on the pitch. To look at those photos now is so very, very sad. Poor bloke.