brummie

It's a bit harsh to beat a manager with the stick of one season which didn't go too well at Blackburn Rovers. Brummie your not your Villa messageboard now sonshine you know how we roll round these parts. Some people still hold a grudge against Nigel Pearson for his time as caretaker & Big Al for his 8 game spell, never mid one season. Oh, you're preaching to the converted there. I'm still holding a fucking massive grudge against Billy McNeill and Graham Turner. Especially McNeill, the massive, massive cunt.

Fuck that. How can they call it the "Champions League" when the fourth placed team, or, almost every season dross like Liverpool who haven't troubled the title for 20 years, get to enter? Call it what it is, European League or whatever, but the whole Champions moniker is absolutely absurd. I honestly don't know how people get excited about seeing the same fucking sides playing in the latter stages year after year. I don't know how many more times I can stand watching any two of Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal or Chelsea playing each other in the knockout stages whilst Martin Tyler wanks Andy Gray's cock into his mouth and they both scream as if it's the course of the second world war being decided rather than a massive yawnfest.

It's a bit harsh to beat a manager with the stick of one season which didn't go too well at Blackburn Rovers. Aye, he took them up to a 6th place finish in his first season. Had had some bad injury problems when he got sacked the following December too. He spunked money an absloutes shite ffs Why do his failings at Blackburn negate his consistent success everywhere else?

It's a bit harsh to beat a manager with the stick of one season which didn't go too well at Blackburn Rovers.

The UEFA Cup was ace. The Europa League is rubbish. When we were in it (beyond the first round, which turned out to be a blessing this season) last year, I just remember going to loads of matches nobody cared about and thinking "when the fucking hell is this going to end?" For every Fulham - Juventus knockout tie, there are 100 group games against FC Wheelbarrow from Moldovia.

Would definitely take him, O'Hara and Boateng from Pompey. Would look at Reo Coker as well. Please do take a look at Reo-Coker. I know i want to in the summer, mainly as he's heading either up or down the M6 never to return. Although if you fancy a look at Sidwell, I'll strap the useless ginger cunt to my back and walk up there with him.

He's doing a fantastic job there. I really like Fulham, fantastic little ground with an Archibald Leitch stand, oozing character, superb location, pleasant fans and the best away trip in the top flight by an absolute country mile. I'd be well chuffed if they won the Europa League

Jesus Christ, look at Fulham!

Anyone but Arsenal. I want that particular club to stay as exclusive as possible in this country, and that rules them out.

I think "Dave" would prefer that as "I was on Dave O'Leary's flight to Dublin on Friday" *PUNCHES MASSIVE HOLE IN WALL*

Villa Newcastle Sunderland Everton Man United Arsenal Liverpool Chelsea Nottingham Forest Leeds United Wolves West Bromwich Albion West Ham Tottenham Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield United Norwich City Man City Derby County Leicester City Would be my ideal top flight line-up.

Aaawww don't rub it in man!! He seems a decent chap,fair play to him..young player of the year surely this year. Don't ask me how N'Zogbia did before going off injured, then *wink*

FT Wigan 1 Villa 2 Milner was absolutely superb for us.

We're playing better than we have for ages. This is a really good game, Wigan are a decent side.

Interpolic's Clive Tyldesley one on the previous page is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages. Good work, sir.

That is because Gold and Sullivan are gigantic fucking gobshites who spout out nonsense like that then immediately contradict themselves. They actually made me feel sorry for Blues fans, they're so bad.

That's pretty much what every single Villa fan will tell you. Defensively, fine, but he doesn't know what to do with the ball when he goes forward. I think O'Neill likes him there because of his (understandable) tendency to drift in towards the centre backs, and help out, possibly more than a "dedicated" right back would do. He also has a thing about big defenders (which is probably one of the things which did for Shorey. Although the main thing in his case was his defensive weakness).

No, but he's played Cuellar at RB and Luke Young at LB loads of times.

He'll never play dedicated full backs if he can shoe-horn his favourite players there. Cuellar's an excellent CB, but he's no RB. Poor Luke Young. Poor Habib Beye (only a bit, mind *wink*)

We actually were. Very, very briefly. What isn't helping us is our growing fixture backlog. You know what i mean man. Arr, I do. I was just reflecting on the brevity of our participation this year. It was like when Hitchcock did all those cameos in his films. Blink and you miss it. We were like Hitch as the man just missing the bus in North By Northwest

We actually were. Very, very briefly. What isn't helping us is our growing fixture backlog.

Fantastic result for us, tonight. Three points behind Liverpool with three games in hand. Four behind Man City with one game in hand. Four behind Spurs with two games in hand. All looking pretty tight. And looking pretty unconvincing from all the teams in the mix, too.

Isn't there a difference between listing games and dates with them? ie - no dates there. EDIT and now edited.

re the run-in, we've got it pretty easy on paper: Home: Dogheads, Mackems, Likeablescouse, Filthyscum, Fat Sam's lot. Away: LoudestfansinthePL (copyright), 5000 men and three dogs in an Ikea stadium, Monied cockneys, Anti-football, Penniless, Vulgar lottery-winning arrivistes. *SNIP* Edited to stop falling foul of not actually listing fixtures with dates in any case, but hey ho The issue is we've got quite a few rearranged games moved back so may have something of a backlog to work through in not much time. Our problem is that we put too much reliance on the wings - I love watching us play with two wingers and seeing them run at people, but when that outlet gets snuffed out, we struggle to create through the middle. Give MON his chance, though, and I hope he'll rectify that in the summer. We also need a more reliable goal outlet. For every "unplayable" (MON's description) game Carew has, he has 4 anonymous ones. He's better than Heskey, though. He's shite. Was surprised not to see Delfouneso start yesterday.

I'm not making it out to be anything it isn't, I'm saying that - you played far more long ball than we did - we don't spend 90 minutes on the art of defending - we wouldn't have won as many games as we have if that were the case. Isn't that comment at odds with your "I'm not saying you play shit boring football in general" comment, incidentally? - you may have played the better football against us, and I said so at the time, but I don't judge our entire season on two matches.