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In fairness to Routledge, though, being labelled the worst player offensively in a game you won 6-0 strikes me as the most forgiveable of criticisms.

Would make sense, knows the players (although he sold most of them) and has the horrible local accent. Can't see O'Neill stooping that low, will walk into any Premierleague job as soon as one becomes avail At least they'd be used to signing shit players from Scotland.

I said when you signed him that he wasn't good enough, and got ripped to shreds (although to be fair, i wasn't really clear about whether I meant good enough for the top flight specifically), but what we saw here was a player who seemed totally bereft of confidence, and didn't want to run at people. Admittedly, he didn't get much of a chance here, but when he did, he didn't look anything like up to it. I saw him play for the reserves a fair bit, and he didn't look the deal there, either, mind. He comes across as a shy bloke (thought that whilst watching the press conference when he signed for us), and he's got form in flopping in the top flight elsewhere, so maybe the current issue for him is just that - ie about confidence to have a go, confidence that he can do it. Maybe the fact he looked so poor even in the reserves suggests tha is the case - pressure to perform, to deliver, that affects him.

I really can't stand watching Stoke play. I'd rather have my eyeballs injected with molten lead than watch that dross week in, week out. That Delap throw in is one of the most horrible things in football. They also seem to have some sort of hex on us whereby they fuck us up in the very last minute. However, having said that, if Tony Pulis's job is looked at in terms of keeping Stoke in the top flight and establishing them, he's doing a fucking excellent job. Despite looking like a very minor member of the Soprano crew with that tracksuit / baseball cap look. You really can't knock the job he's doing.

Ha ha ha, that is absolutely briliant.

YES. What the hell is it? It is something Blues fans do, too. It is the Wolves fans chanting Villa Villa in high pitched kids voices, the suggestion being that impressionable children support us.

I've no idea.

"Have you won the European Cup?" Different tune. That's "Yellow Submarine".

He's becoming one of my favourite players. Everything you could ask from a winger. Skill, crossing technique, pace but most of all relentless workrate. Two years ago, he had a fantastic pre-season, and we all hoped for big things from him. He got ignored till about - I think - Jan, might have been a cup match, then got injured. After that he struggled to get into MON's first XI. Although in fairness, you'd struggle to break into his first XI if you were Lionel Messi towards the end.

When should we get worried 10? 15? 25? 37? See edit.

It must be disappointing, but it is only one game. You won your previous home game 6-0. There's as much reason to base your expectations of the rest of the season on that as there is on today's result

19 pages suggests otherwise, BooHoo. Oh, sorry, BooBoo.

Can you even begin to offer some rationale for this logic? It is a good appointment, as good as we could have made given the circumstances MON left us in. Just watching Merse on SSN. What a fucking idiot he is. Great player, and did very well for us, but fuck me, what a moron.

Any preference who do you want in, Brummie? To be entirely honest, I find it hard to choose who I'd prefer, it changes every day as new names are mentioned. The betting market on this has been insane. However, I know who I don't want: Curbishley, Southgate, Bradley, McDonald. There are some I'd accept: Svennis, Houllier. Then there are loads more who sound decent, but I don't know if I want them because they're names, or because they're sensible choices. Either way, it really is an amazing period. There's someone on VillaTalk who works at Bham airport and has access to plane movements and passenger lists, and has been listing Lerner's plane's movements the last two weeks. He's been all over Europe by all accounts. Was, intriguingly, in Paris yesterday. Milan two weeks ago. The carbon footprint of this whole process must be immense.

Donadoni interested. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6355015,00.html This has the feeling of the longest running managerial saga ever.

I'd rather have Big Ron back as manager than Curbishley.

Villa fans don't want Curbishley now, let alone when he took over. Talk about regressing to 2006.

Gerard Houllier. Meh. Infinitely better than Curbishley, and hopefully he'd be working with KM in some capacity. At least we'd have actual European scouts. The entire process has been tainted from the start by that cunt's decision to walk out, taking the five most senior football members of staff with him, four days before the start of the season. Regardless of what he did for us, it was always going to be nigh on impossible to salvage something in those circumstances.

I thought that ^^ was very funny. Fair play to him. He's a dodgy fecker but he's one of the few "characters" in the game these days.

I'll be honest with you. I stopped taking anything you said seriously after i read a comment you made in regards to Catmag's kid. That's when i finally found out you was a WUM that had no intention to talk football or hold a civilized conversation. Oh dear, don't say things like "you was" and then lecture people on holding a civilised conversation. Ok Mr 'we're on top of you after 3 games'. I'll take your advice. The difference is, I didn't come on here and start lecturing people about your team. You were the one doing that. I hadn't given you lot a second thought until then. Like I said, if you are going to tell people how to play football and call people "anti football", you might want to stop and think about the wider picture. Incidentally, feel free to respond to my points about the army of Spurs fans traversing the internet telling everyone who will listen how great and "pure" they are.

I have to say, I think he's a decent player, but I really, really do not like Barton as a person (for the easy to guess reasons, but then again, who does). Having said that, I was really impressed with him for keeping his cool yesterday, having seen the way Wolves clearly targeted him and tried to get him to lose it. Fair play.

I'll be honest with you. I stopped taking anything you said seriously after i read a comment you made in regards to Catmag's kid. That's when i finally found out you was a WUM that had no intention to talk football or hold a civilized conversation. Oh dear, don't say things like "you was" and then lecture people on holding a civilised conversation.

God, are you still going on? Your horrible long team side lost at home to Wigan yesterday, yet here you are playing the 'holier than thou' card and preaching to me. Why on earth would you think I, or indeed the rest of the entire world, would give a s*** about Spurs tedious rambling on about their great football? If you want to preach about the quality of your play, at least have something worth crowing about in living memory as testimony to it - a bit like Arsenal down the road, for example. Spurs problem is - and has been for years - that they are the incarnation of "all fart, no s***". I'm not a latin scholar, so is that what "audere est facere" means? What you mean like last season? the fact is we're the only team outside the sky 4 that have qualified for the champions league and we're the only team outside the sky 4 that have won a domestic trophy in recent history (you had 2 chances to do the same and failed btw). Btw I commented about your teams performance today. You brought us up and i replied. Yes we played shite yesterday...it happens. This is a thread dedicated to discussing games that took place on the day so please stop taking it so personally. I'm not taking it personally with you, KD, I am getting annoyed by the proliferation of Spurs fans who seem to roam the internet - they are on, quite literally, every single football forum I lurk on - telling everyone else how they play great football, they're the way forward, everyone else's brand of football is shite etc etc. Fuck Arpa, fuck the US military and fuck Berners-Lee and CERN, the web was invented for Spurs fans to be telling everyone else how lucky we are to have them. I might not even disagree with you on the way we play, I just disagree with your appointing of yourself as some arbiter of football taste. And, having seen the way Spurs are quite happy to lump it to Crouch when they've run out of ideas, it seems grossly hypocritical. You might have seen on this forum me moaning about the way we played at home under MON. You could take that and assume I hated the way we played full stop, but that would be wrong, we were excellent to watch away from home on a regular basis, and if you check our away results the last couple of years, you will see we were rewarded for it. What I don't get is what, having lost our manager just before the start of the season, you think should have changed? I also wonder whether you had the same opinion on the first day of the season when we took West Ham apart, playing some really excellent football? Yes, you won the league cup (not as impressive as Pompey with their FA Cup, mind), and I'm not surprised we've had the first outing of "we qualified for the Champions League" here) but my point is that if you're going to traverse the internet with the rest of the Spurs army of keyboard warriors telling us how lucky we are to have you, you might want to consider that there is a team down the road from you in a much more established place to do that, having won real trophies playing good football, yet I have never - ever - seen Arsenal fans finding it necessary to act Charlie Big Bollocks with other supporters. Why is that? Nobody likes a braggard, especially one who is doing so without anything to actually back it up.

I was in the Holte End the day that Ronnie Rosenthal skied it over the bar in front of us, and I'll never forget the reaction to that. It was that horrible moment of sinking feeling in the stomach as you realise you're about to concede, followed by an instinctive dropping of the shoulders and head, then realising that he's missed, then there's a period of what is actually about 0.5 second, but honestly feels like 50 seconds, when time stops, and you realise that, actually, he's skied it. Having said that, Tevez today was worse.

God, are you still going on? Your horrible long team side lost at home to Wigan yesterday, yet here you are playing the 'holier than thou' card and preaching to me. Why on earth would you think I, or indeed the rest of the entire world, would give a shit about Spurs tedious rambling on about their great football? If you want to preach about the quality of your play, at least have something worth crowing about in living memory as testimony to it - a bit like Arsenal down the road, for example. Spurs problem is - and has been for years - that they are the incarnation of "all fart, no shit". I'm not a latin scholar, so is that what "audere est facere" means? Incidentally, I can't help but notice that we - with our anti-football, lack of a manager (having had him walk out at the worst possible time), transfer policy in disarray, and even having lost 6-0 last week - are currently fourth, whilst you, with your channeling of the spirit of Brazil 1970 (and Cambridge United 1991 when it isn't going your way down "the Lane") seem to be 11th. God only knows how big the gap will be if we actually get ourselves a decent manager.