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Robbie Shitting Savage.

I think you'll find the press coverage of the match show that to not be the case - have a look back. You constantly played it long to Crouch in the second half especially, whiilst berating us for being a long ball team (something which your fans were only doing because Wenger had mentioned it a few days before, now you come to mention him). Funny seeing Spurs fans jumping on some (widely ridiculed) notion an Arsenal manager had put out there a few days before. My point still stands. We still had a ridiculous amount of possession and a ridiculous amount of shots on goal. You literally did nothing but defend well. In both games can you pick out an attack minded player that played well for Villa? Wasn't the MOTM players from your team Cueller in the first game and either Dunne or Friediel in the second? The point is, I don't base our whole season on matches against Spurs. I could ask you about your record against other top 6/8 sides this season, and I bet it pales into insignificance compared to ours. Spurs this season are flat track bullies, beating the shit teams easily and struggling against anyone half decent. I could also point out that whilst you had plenty of possession against us at our place this year, I barely remember you causing the keeper any trouble, and the same goes for the match at your place. In fact, especially the match at your place.

Has Arteta played for Spain? If Almunia had a shout to qualify for England, does Arteta?

I think you'll find the press coverage of the match show that to not be the case - have a look back. You constantly played it long to Crouch in the second half especially, whiilst berating us for being a long ball team (something which your fans were only doing because Wenger had mentioned it a few days before, now you come to mention him). Funny seeing Spurs fans jumping on some (widely ridiculed) notion an Arsenal manager had put out there a few days before.

To be honest, after our 6-4 LC semi weirdathon, and the 5-2 freakathon of two weeks ago against Burnley, plus today's attempt to throw it all away at Reading, I'm not really sure what we prefer any more, either.

What's more, I wasn't even there. Despite being a season ticket holder, I was so keen to celebrate your demise - as indicated by my long history of spiteful, wind up, vindictive posting on here - that I didn't bother going to the match.

Have you got a needle and thread? Only, my sides have just split.

Crawling around this board, doing what, exactly? Chatting with people I like talking with about football and have talkied with for probaby three years now? How dare I. You're starting to make yourself look a bit daft now. I've a feeling Mr.Dawson is about to rip you a new hole - so as much as I was on the wind up - I may re-enter later. I look forward to it in the same way I would a bout of chemotherapy.

Think that would be a pretty decent game providing MON tells his team to actually try and play football this time. For all your moans, you don't actually seem to take many points of us, KD. I'd back you to do well against any lower half team. Put you against the better sides, though, and you spend 90 minutes passing in pretty triangles around the centre spot and generally don't deliver. You're the inverse of us. s*** teams = we struggle. Decent teams = we do OK. I just get fed up when a teams sole purpose in a game is to stop the other team from scoring (even at home). Villa have absolutely no excuse playing like that as your squad is filled with good footballers who can actually play football. It's like MON tells your players to soak up pressure and hit us on the break once or twice if there's an opportunity. The 2 times we played you this season was painful to watch. You used the exact same tactics Hull city and Stoke used against us. You actually played worse then both those teams too tbh. That's not actually true, though, There's a difference between defending well and ONLY defending well. We didn't win at Old Trafford and Anfield by sticking 11 men behind the ball. We're not Brazil 1970, either, but it is a bit too easy to label us boring as an excuse to detract from your own deficiences. Like your fans did at WHL against us this year shouting "hoof" at us whilst you spent 90 minutes hoofing the ball up to Peter Crouch. We've got plenty of creativity and are exciting to watch most of the time. The fact we defend well just gets twisted and used against us. I don't really know what we're meant to do, give a few goals away? (Although we managed that today, so maybe we're ahead of the game on that one).

Crawling around this board, doing what, exactly? Chatting with people I like talking with about football and have talkied with for probaby three years now? How dare I. You're starting to make yourself look a bit daft now.

Still, people will insist on reaching for easy / convenient stereotypes.

Nice. There's only one person on this thread coming across like a boorish, unwitty half wit who feels the need to refer to someone else as a "cunt". Here's a clue. You, not me.

How very erudite of you. Have you suffered some kind of massive head trauma?

Fireworks? I think you've stepped into some kind of reality distortion zone. A couple of banners. You'd probably have spent your time more fruitfully wondering why you'd got yourselves in that position in the first place rather than handwringing about old fashioned football gloating.

When you got relegated, most Villa fans barely batted an eyelid, mate. If you thought what happened at our place the last day of last season was any different to what would have happened if you'd played at any other ground in the country, you're kidding yourself. The time to worry is when you get relegated and nobody bats an eyelid, not when you get a load of pisstaking.

Last season we did that, started off against Odense in blazing sunshine in July, petered out in Moscow, what seemed about 12 years later. The competition is utterly fucking pointless, and lasts forever.

Think that would be a pretty decent game providing MON tells his team to actually try and play football this time. For all your moans, you don't actually seem to take many points of us, KD. I'd back you to do well against any lower half team. Put you against the better sides, though, and you spend 90 minutes passing in pretty triangles around the centre spot and generally don't deliver. You're the inverse of us. Shit teams = we struggle. Decent teams = we do OK.

Beat them once this season already. And the year before last. We can beat anyone if we raise our game. It just depends if we raise our game or not. Obviously. chelsea have a very good record at wembley though We'll see. I'd have preferred Portsmouth, but it is a semi final, so anything can happen.

Beat them once this season already. And the year before last. We can beat anyone if we raise our game. It just depends if we raise our game or not. Obviously.

Come on, Portsmouth in the semi, PLEASE

Surely, surely this must be our year after a turnaround like that?

He's the best player I've ever seen play for us, and the most effortlessly athletic footballer I've seen in 35 years watching the game. In short, he is God to us.

Oh, of course, it is you isn't it Burnip. I hadn't noticed. As you were.

Some interesting text rendering going on there. Safari on a Mac?

Oh, I had a nice day, ta. Nice boozer in Harrow before the match (loads of us there, just of the M40 innit, had plenty of locals randomly approaching us and wishing us luck), 7 or 8 pints of Guinness whilst i read the Observer and had a spot of lunch, 10 mins down to the stadium, 90 minutes of not much atmosphere (Wembley is the least atmospheric stadium on the planet) whilst being continually assaulted - visually and aurally - by Carling sponsorship, a pretty dull and evenly balanced match, uneventful journey back, bar seeing the dishing of a few bouts of 'slaps' by fans of both sides (nowt serious, but i do like reminders of the golden days), and a nice kip whilst someone else drove me home. I expected to lose, so it wasnt too hard to handle, but that's probably because we're still in the FA Cup, with a - touch wood - easy draw, and I'm absolutely fucking obsessed with seeing us win that competition.