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Cuellar and Heskey both played their last games yesterday. During the match - hundreds dressed in Cuellar wigs, masks and t shirts, after, Cuellar spends half an hour with the fans, giving out shirts, having photos taken etc. Heskey - apart from a few choruses of "he's Emile Heskey, he scores when he wants" which were entirely taking the piss, obv, everyone relieved to see the back of him. Nailed on for Sunderland methinks Wouldn't put it past O'Neill to sign Heskey either I hope Cuellar goes somewhere better than Sunderland, but I hope Heskey gets a 5 year deal there. I bet he does wind up there, too.

Not really. We've had three top six finishes, a ninth place, and a hellish season just now. If you want to know precisely what the biggest problem has been the last two years, I'll tell you. Lerner and co, having thrown money at it, and had a strong manager who ran the whole shebang on the football side, did no wrong for three or four years. Then the manager left in spiteful circumstances, and they were left to "run" the football side themselves, and were shown up as woefully out of their depth. I bet we don';t just change manager, I bet you what you like we get a "football person" in at board level.

I was looking at RTG last week, and they were talking about Cuellar and why he'd fallen from grace. One bloke said "not helped by that prick McLeish playing him at RB all the time" - totally missing the point that McLeish played him both at RB and CB, and it was "that prick" O'Neill who played him at RB all the time.

Cuellar and Heskey both played their last games yesterday. During the match - hundreds dressed in Cuellar wigs, masks and t shirts, after, Cuellar spends half an hour with the fans, giving out shirts, having photos taken etc. Heskey - apart from a few choruses of "he's Emile Heskey, he scores when he wants" which were entirely taking the piss, obv, everyone relieved to see the back of him.

Most important thing was to bin McLeish. Plenty still thought he'd stay. The fact they've booted him out less than 24 hours after the end of the season is to be rejoiced about (if you're me). Also to be rejoiced is Heskey has left the club. Honestly, could this week get any better?

Also good to see none of that mutual consent bullshit. He's been "terminated". Good old fashioned sacked.

That's not a bad list. Contrary to perceived wisdom, Villa fans wouldn't care about employing a former Blues manager. It is employing a manager with a record of shit football and getting relegated that riles us.

He clearly owed Whelan something, I think Lerner would respect that. My concern with Martinez is I don't think he's strong enough to grab hold of the club, which is what we need. Lambert would be.

Easily the best of the kids this season, he's definitely got a future. So long as he doesn't get filmed outside Gatecrasher on Broad Street trying to kick fuck out of the glass doors again.

That's where we expect to be challenging, as should every club like us, you, Everton. We finished with fewer points than he finished with Blues last season, amazingly. Yh that's true but currently you cant expect that surely? mind you i didnt expect that before this season so i suppose you have a point.... We did manage it three times in a row till the season before last. His point is that we should be challenging around there, at least. The football this season was so spineless and gutless, it was never going to happen. At Norwich on Sunday, our fans were singing "should have gone down, should have gone down, we're fucking lucky, should have gone down", FFS. You can't expect anything, but what we got was abysmal. It's also Lerner's fault for making such a shite appointment.

Shows how closely you've been watching. Heskey has largely been in midfield this season. Honestly, really. yeah I didn't watch Villa at all, the paint drying was more entertaining than the dross Mcleish threw up. Hell Houilier didn't do well but at least he tried to play a little bit of football That's the difference, entirely. Incidentally, McLeish also got a pretty easy ride off the fans. It was only the last seven or eight games when we heard any chants about him.

Yeah, but then again, how did you lot feel when you picked up Pardew and look how that panned out. My money would be on Lambert.

Moyes has said no twice already. I don't think they'd go near Bruce. Lambert, Martinez, some other fucker, some other fucker. Benitez was interviewed last summer, but Lerner cut the meeting short when Benitez started telling how much transfer money he wanted.

To say it was a close run affair is putting it mildly. If we'd gone into yesterday needing something, we'd have gone down, without a doubt.

Shows how closely you've been watching. Heskey has largely been in midfield this season. Honestly, really.

That's where we expect to be challenging, as should every club like us, you, Everton. We finished with fewer points than he finished with Blues last season, amazingly.

Some stats from this year. - fewer home wins (4) than any other season in our existence, right back to 1888, when we only played 11 home games a year - most ever draws in a season in PL history - not scored from a corner for over an entire season - lowest number of wins in the PL - equalled lowest ever PL finish - lowest number of goals Aston Villa have scored in a season since League founded in 1888 - equalled highest number of home defeats ever - only Blackburn won fewer matches than us And still, still many in the media tell us it's because of where he came from. What utter fucking nonsense. How many other clubs fans would have put up with that?

Don't forget the three away wins!

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I like Holt, it's good to see fat goalscorers again.

"no reason to think I won't be"

FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF

HESKEY SHOT!

Kenny never thinks Liverpool deserved to lose.

I'm pissing into my raisin wheats in anticipation. I only normally get this excited when i hear the opening tune of Animal Hospital. I especially can't wait for Shearer to say he's done a good job, and it's only because he managed Blues that we don't like him.