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Yay, we won at spreadsheets (________)o(___) I was talking to a friend of a friend in the pub the other day, talking about football. I was bemoaning our lack of ambition in the transfer window, how our expectations have been lowered so much the last few years, etc etc, and he started going on about how we've now got a much more sustainable wage bill, how it was once 85% of turnover, how now it's much more sensible and how with the new tv deal coming in, and commercial revenue on the rise, the figures look much better. I suddenly found myself reflecting that this must be how it would feel to be a supporter of, say, Marks and Spencer or WH Smiths or something, pleasure reduced to financial figures. Depressing.

Imagine how I felt 12 months ago tonight, watching us go out to Bradford Shitting City. As bad as when blues won it? Much worse. Actually, terrible yet at the same time so weird and inexplicable, it became hilarious. Lambert must have had some sort of stroke-like funny turn that night. Panicking and playing five up front for the last 40 minutes.

Imagine how I felt 12 months ago tonight, watching us go out to Bradford Shitting City.

Even as a neutral, that is fucking brilliant

We are truly pathetic. Manager lost 90 percent of the support he had, we've gone backwards so quickly this season, the league table flatters us immensely.

Apparently when he was talking to us, Molde's owner said he'd cut all funding for the club if Solksjaer left, put the pressure on big time, and he backed down and stayed

Kozak has broken his leg, apparently. Pisser. I like him. I wonder if this will affect our transfer plans.

We should have won by considerably more than one goal yesterday, too. Sunderland looked terrible.

Sometimes, having to share your city with other clubs can be a big bonus. Mostly because you get situations like this, when you just know they're going to be really, really fucking annoyed. http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~3580453,00.html New library to be turned claret and blue over christmas: http://www.avfc.co.uk/javaImages/7b/3a/0,,10265~12466811,00.png

He's not been the same since returning from injury. They all have barren patches, I am sure he'll return to form. The problem is, the whole team is abysmal of late, despite picking up decent points here and there.

I flicked on to Football Focus (or some shite like that) really briefly this morning, and Pardew was on. I saw at most 45 seconds of it, but from what I saw, he was basically saying "Not only are we doing very well, but look, that Southampton side is practically mine, too".

Good grief, Curtis "we'll call it £9.5m, Martin" Davies there. I wondered what had happened to him. Imagined he'd be driving a van or something by now

When he said that, this is the image which flickered across my mental television. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52891000/jpg/_52891356_mcleish640.jpg

More proof stats are bollocks in the grand scheme of things. First half Southampton had twice as much of the ball as us almost (34-66) yet we were the better team. Second-half we had more possession than the first, yet played worse. Means fuck all. We had 27% possession at Southampton, yet they hardly had a shot on target, their two goals came from balls whipped in to the far post and headed back across (so hardly the result of hours of tiki-taki passing), and we won 3-2.

agent was onto him quickly Refugee, grew up in Newton, doorstep of Villa Park. Clearly wants to move to us. Without sounding flippant, it's hard to imagine anywhere in the world with conditions so harsh you'd consider living in Newtown as somewhere worthy of refuge.

As i said here at the start of the season, my shout to go down. Especially now they've done this.

These stats are illuminating. #SFC 2 #AVFC 3 FT Possession%: 77-23 | Passes: 715-209 | Accuracy%: 85-50 | Final 3rd: 227-54 | Accuracy%: 73-30 | Shots: 21(9)-6(3) 50% pass completion rate is abysmal. We were awful.

Genuinely, can't believe we won that. A Dortmundesque* victory from a match in which we had 23% possession. Two stonking goals from Delph and Gabby, though. Nuts. * except the fighting to win the ball back, using it wisely, and other signs of quality.

Our match is the most one-sided affair I've seen in a long time. Great goal, though.

37 year old goalkeeper given 5 year contract. No wonder Lerner got tired of burning money.

Shane Long had the best game, and scored the best goals, he's ever going to have on Monday. He's not going to be putting in a performance like that again for a very long time.

"To shrine" That so needs to be an actual verb.

Hang on, hang on. Someone is defending Altidore? He out-Heskeys Heskey.

This tweet just made me chuckle. Ha ha ha. Poor Albion, irrayfair! irrayfair!

We have a problem, where we are either really quite good or we're absolutely terrible, not much in between. Seen both of those this evening.