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They let their best centre half go to a championship club.

Ha ha ha ha.

Just the man we need! What was Lambert like with Villa when he first arrived? Did you have a good spell with him or were you just instantly terrible? Long-term I think Lambert's a terrible appointment, but if he keeps them up... First season - awful results but was trying to play football (remember, he succeeded McLeish), end of season barely stayed up, almost total support from fans. Second season onwards - hideous football, hideous results. Brain dead chairman gave him a new extended contract on the basis of a four match unbeaten run. Constantly negative and "woe is me". Apparently, his training routine consisted of not doing much training, and it showed. The only thing that made it worse was when he brought Roy Fucking Keane in as his number two.

Thinking of our poor friends in the Potteries at this moment in time.

Everton look exactly like us when we stopped circling the plug hole and went down. Remove prolific striker, don't bother replacing, act surprised when struggle.

CLEAR THE FRONT PAGE!

1537 minutes played, 1 assist, 0 goals, pass success rate 69% £15m.

Really? Why? What does he actually do? He did fuck all other than run in a straight line every now and then for us, and seems to have done the exact same for Boro last year. He's big, stocky and quite fast, but he has zero football awareness. I remember Village Idiot on here telling me *exactly* the same thing when we signed him, and he was absolutely spot on. I find it utterly bewildering anyone would want him, let alone pay some of the figures mentioned for him. He's not a winger. He's not even a footballer.

I agree with you, but would add that the London thing is massively important, especially for foreign players. If you are going to be a 20 something multi millionaire with lots of time on your hands, there are few better places in the world to do it than in London. Even if you do have to turn out for PornoDwarf's horrible fucking kitstealers.

*vomits*

I like those. Am even tempted to buy the away one (despite usual concerns about lardy late 40s bloke sportswear badness)

I was at the match on Sunday, and Brighton were shit. Couldn't beat us, and we were down to ten men after they were gifted a pen and a red card with 30 minutes to go. We were much the better team. I found myself thinking they look really badly equipped for next season, no matter how well they've done this. Oh and their players were doing the 'on knees, thumping floor' thing when Grealish scored.

Nah. Their team came through, weren't their fans still celebrating losing at one point? It's actually superb that they won us the title really. Weren't we celebrating losing? Eh?

Glad to have helped. We were much the better side today, even when down to ten men. We were the better team at their place too, for that matter. Anyway, congratulations and see you in a year or so I hope (in the top league obvs).

He's fucking useless. I'd genuinely carry the cunt to Burnley if it was the last thing I did.

Lescott was grotesquely not good enough last season, believe me. His legs have utterly gone, he was embarrassing to watch - one of, if not the worst in a team that amassed 17 points all season.

Absolutely gutted. Came into our club when it was a fucking shambles, stood up to Ellis, turned it around, and so very nearly won the league. Just saw this, elsewhere. Says it all.

Weird player, Rudy. Scores lots of headers but manages also to almost never win anything in the air. If you can work that out. Strange, though, had no wingers, signed a player who is only ever going to be useful from balls into the box. Then sign a wide player, stop playing him. All a bit odd. Nice bloke, though. Has been spotted helping serve homeless people at food bank places in the city centre on a few occasions. A good egg.

We haven't lost a single game at home this season. I'm genuinely utterly fucking perplexed as to how that is the case. It was like when I recently found out Doris Day is still alive.

Yeah yeah yeah whatever. Happy Christmas. And Up The Villa.

Immense improvement from us since Bruce came. Spirit, organisation, actual tactics.

I agree re God. I'm more worried about not looking like getting relegated than I am promotion, to be honest. Much more.

Fucking incredible. 438 days since our last away win. Our 5th win in the last 53 league games. Please, God, let this nightmare begin to end.

What utter bullshit. We've won 4 league matches from our last 51. Try finding other fans who have put up with worse than that. We don't want "instant" results, we just want the faint hope of a result every now and then. The thing about this side is it isn't actually that bad. We have turned 5 or 6 wins into draws in the last five minutes of matches. Fix that and there's a huge improvement straight away. Bruce would be a good shout.