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Carson is shite. If you'd asked me if I'd have swapped him for Harper for the rest of the season a few months ago, I'd have had your hand off. He also doesn't want to be second fiddle anywhere, so he won't want to stay there. Weren't you during the transfer (winter) window you were hoping for a double swoop (£20m IIRC) for him and Crouch? I said I'd heard there was going to be one, not that i was hoping for it (although Crouch I would). Carson was fine till his England cock up, and since then has been woeful. Robinson style fall from grace.

Carson is shite. If you'd asked me if I'd have swapped him for Harper for the rest of the season a few months ago, I'd have had your hand off. He also doesn't want to be second fiddle anywhere, so he won't want to stay there.

I love it. I like to think Man United are the nation's second team, almost like a second England. These are certainly the games that unite the entire nation. Come on you reds!!! (obviously, what I mean is it turns my stomach, and I hope these cunts lose so we don't have to listen to another 90 minutes of this rim probing bollocks)

Surely if he was good enough to get them in the top four (at some point) when they appointed him last year, he is good enough to do so now? Shinawatra has lost the plot.

What has it got to do with being foreign. It's more the case, that they don't have a clue, what football is all about... Find me a foreign owner in the Premiership who is in touch with reality. Randy Lerner Absolutely. He has been as close to perfect as possible thus far.

It won't come out if Sven wants his contract paid up. Do you know something I don't? Standard procedure. Get your contract paid up, keep your mouth shut.

mancityfans.net? I was reading threads about Shinawatra on there this morning. That stuff about "I won't be spending big money this summer, but the summer after I will" sounds very dodgy.

Villa didn't spend £50 million on players, then again they also weren't close to relegation last season like Man City were I suppose. I certainly wouldn't say Sven's been a failure at this point but he has made some pretty big mistakes. We were actually closer. We'd finished 16th the season before, Citeh finished 14th last season.

Luke Moore is a slouching, lethargic waster.

Baggies minutes from clinching promotion. I'm happy for them, I'm in the 25 percent of Villa fans who don't hate them.

I wouldn't swap. I think Hleb's great, too, by the way, he's a quality player. I just wouldn't swap Young for him.

Hleb was brilliant at our place this year. Young is fucking mint, though. MINT, i tells ya.

English grounds in the 1980s were frequently scary. Ayresome Park I found particularly primitive and frightening on a few occasions.

I hope we do come back in for Milner. We're desperate for some right side MF strength, and given past events with him, I'm not surprised journo's are putting 2 and 2 together. Still probably groundless, though.

Did you really? That's terrible. He's the greatest footballer I ever saw play for my club, what a legend.

Have there been any brilliant ginger footballers? Boniek? But was he a full ginger?

I think Sidwell is a decent player. He's just fucked in the head if he's staying at Chelsea.

Bit harsh.

WTF was Jaidi doing there? Scabby, tacky club.

NO!!!!!!!!

I don't think the UEFA cup is important these days, not since they royally fucked it up by changing the format. I do think that London location is a massive, massive advantage, though.

You win some, you lose some. I'd say the bright thing about this for you is that 1. Keegan had a go and 2. He had a go early. Shows he's not sitting on his arse waiting till the last day of the window (like a certain other PL manager I could name). I'd imagine it was the London factor which swung it, which is something clubs outside the capital are always going to struggle with when signing foreigners.

I don't know where you got the impression I said any of the above stuff. When we were playing badly, I was on here telling all and sundry our players were already mentally "on the beach". I also mentioned our loss to Sunderland in the very post you're replying to. I've also refrained from suggesting we're worldbeaters to anyone, so I don't know where you go that idea from. In fact, if you look at most of my posts on here on the subject, I'm pointing out that we've got a pathetically small squad and have been lucky to get away with it. Quite the opposite to what you're suggesting.

it's more to do with the way those reults have been achieved. pass and go...not perfect but a vast improvment and good for football looking to attack in every game home and away. a work inprogress gradually getting better,stronger and more confident I definitely understand that bit, as i said, results alone don't tell the whole story.

Shoot me down in flames (and I know you will), but isn't it a little bit early for some of the stuff on this thread? The result at Spurs was excellent, no getting away from that, and results alone don't tell the whole story, but wins at home to Reading, Fulham and Sunderland plus a draw away to Portsmouth don't really say that much, especially not with the awful results that came before them. As a neutral I like Keegan (and, to be honest, most neutrals do, it's pretty hard not to, he's such a heart-on-sleeve kind of chap), but surely the time to do the "shame on you who doubted him" thing is when you've had a decent spell to judge him on? Incidentally, before anyone raises it, yes, I know, beating Sunderland at home is something we didnt manage to do.