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Fucking pissed that away. Villa are the most small time weird club I've ever seen like.weird club

Villa. You should probably have heard of them like, they have the 11th largest attendance % in the Championship.

reservation! Fucking hell

Pretty clear why they're doing it though. It's the same tactic the mackems and radge fat single mothers on facebook use. Tell yourself and anyone else that someone or something is git obssessed with you in an attempt to disguise your crippling inferiority complex.

Just gritted my teeth reading through that mocked up WhatsApp conversation. It's frightening that was made by an adult human being like. EDIT: http://i3.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article1525.ece/ALTERNATES/s98/matkendrick.jpg

I hop we're all voting Villa in their weird little poll?

Ahh god. I daren't look. Getting beat of these is going to be unreasonably bad

Rattled marra. That Birmingham Mail has completely went off the reservoir like. RTG stuff from a regional rag.

Like when we spent all winter perfecting the perfect corner.

Aye you're right obviously, that probably had something to do with it

pahahaha

In the beginning he was, he looked really energetic down the wing for a short while after he signed and then the following season (I think) he went through that patch of ghosting into the box and nicking the odd goal. Then he just got progressively more pointless as every game went by to the point everyone hated him Not even sure who's fault it was.

I certainly didn't know he could strike a volley sweeter than Matt Le Tissier

I thought they were homophobic and were from 5 years ago? Has he made more? EDIT: Just reading up on it now, completely missed that: "I hate lightys" Would have been playing Championship football then too, the absolute spacker.

Everyone's second favourite team?

Fucking hell that side is so bad

How is it so hard to understand that the long term benefits of being promoted are likely greater than winning a cup, and that's why people would prefer the former? I'd love to win a cup, it's be a ridiculous day/weekend. I just know that it would achieve basically nothing in terms of pushing the club forwards, and remaining in this league for another season could potentially be devastating. Had we been managed by Schteve still with no light at the end of the tunnel I'd have taken a cup win any day, but I really want to see what Rafa can do with us back in the Premiership and I fully believe he can win silverware under him.

Who cares what Roy Keane would have done, he is a bellend True - but there's no denying that he was one of the best captains around ( baring couple of incidents) and that the culture at Man Utd was something he helped maintain. Aye he just wouldn't have survived there like It's obviously for the benefit of the club in the longrun (having that kind of mentality amongst strong players in the dressing room). Our problem was that our Roy Keane was fucking Shola Ameobi

Basically this. I cannot blame Emery for not playing him, he has a ridiculous pool of attacking players to choose from. This is a completely different situation than he's ever been in though, and probably the first time since he was a bairn that he isn't head and shoulders the best player in the squad. There's absolutely no excuse for Pardew or Bruce not picking him and it pains me to read people looking back in hindsight now and acting as if there was any justification what-so-ever This isn't a hindsight thing. Pardew's treatment of him was shite at the time and he should have tried harder to find a way to make it work. What he never was was some beacon of light fighting against the evil force of Pardew, as was the general consensus on here. That was obviously a tongue in cheek reaction to people still backing Pardew when he was destroying the club. He was used as the 'anti-Pards' and it was hilarious when he was pictured holding up a Sack Pardew sheet, but before all that it was just the case of the best player in our squad sitting on the bench for no reason, it was beyond infuriating and I'm sure you could go back to posts from that time with the same arguments as gets used today. 'He's lazy, look what happened at Lyon and Marseilles' etc, most people never cared about that then and it only really matters now because he's no longer the best player at his club. I'm not in any way saying his attitude is ideal like, it's obviously a mental issue he has (not a mental health issue) and he seems to have had massive issues with motivation for whatever reason. It's pretty hard to get over that as we've seen time and time again. I doubt he wilfully destroyed his career for a laugh.

Basically this. I cannot blame Emery for not playing him, he has a ridiculous pool of attacking players to choose from. This is a completely different situation than he's ever been in though, and probably the first time since he was a bairn that he isn't head and shoulders the best player in the squad. There's absolutely no excuse for Pardew or Bruce not picking him and it pains me to read people looking back in hindsight now and acting as if there was any justification what-so-ever

As I said.

The jokey answer is HBA, but I would be surprised if anyone would actually take that like It's obviously Rafa all day, over any player tbh.

He was absolutely perfect for Newcastle, man Irritating as fuck knowing the memories/highlights we could be enjoying now had he just swallowed his pride and played the lad.

Literally their biggest claim to fame this year is that their our biggest 'rivals'