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  1. Totally shocked. I remember his last game, away at Everton, when we all knew he'd be leaving to manage England. "Graham Taylors" claret & blue army was sung not only throughout the game but non stop through the half time break. At the end of the game they had to get him out of the dressing room back & onto the pitch because the Villa supporters just wouldn't leave. Rest in Peace
  2. Just shocked. R.I.P. Dalian. Thanks for the great memories.
  3. Actually he was paid £60k-per-week to be our goalkeeper. He had no obligation to help out on the coaching staff nor did he owe Lambert any favours after being 'bombed out' by him. Except Given wasn't 'bombed out' by Lambert. He was dropped and rightly so at the time. Wasn't he dropped from the bench in favour of Steer? I'd count that bombed out He wasn't training with the bomb squad.
  4. Actually he was paid £60k-per-week to be our goalkeeper. He had no obligation to help out on the coaching staff nor did he owe Lambert any favours after being 'bombed out' by him. Except Given wasn't 'bombed out' by Lambert. He was dropped and rightly so at the time.
  5. I find it interesting how long it took Lambert to start getting serious criticism and how quickly some want to give it to Sherwood. I think Sherwood made mistakes today, luckily it didn't matter. The interesting thing (and something we should all look for) is how the team reacts next week. Yes it is a nothing game, but in a way that makes it even more important to see how they react. Under the previous manager, we'd go on really awful runs where we would lose a lot of games and play really poorly. So, all eyes on next week. Not sure the Burnley match will tell us much. I think he will rest players. Can he afford to rest players now? Do we want players running out for the cup final with their last performance being yesterdays debacle?
  6. I find it interesting how long it took Lambert to start getting serious criticism and how quickly some want to give it to Sherwood. Mate, we just got smashed 6-1. Lambert took a hammering after the Chelsea 8-0 and rightly so. However, he is also getting lots and lots of praise for the work he had done. Again rightly so. We are Premier League thanks to him. It's still OK to be annoyed at taking a pasting yesterday, especially those who travelled and nobody is calling "Sherwood Out" because of it! I think those who travelled have a right to be annoyed but like I said, as soon as the spurs whistle went the result is meaningless. Its been a hard task, that didn't look achievable a few months back. Now it has been, along with getting us playing great stuff and to a cup final I have no idea why anyone (apart from those that went) would want to focus on it or criticise the manager for it. So only those that went have the right to be annoyed? What a ridiculous thing to say. Just because you don't care about Villa being humiliated yesterday does not mean everyone has to follow suit. People are maybe focusing on it because the result was far from meaningless. In two weeks time we've got a huge game in the FA cup final. We're playing one of the best teams in the league and the confidence we've built up since the baggies double will be a big factor. The defeat, and more importantly the manner of the defeat, yesterday is very likely to have an effect. Sherwood has done a tremendous job so far, but that does not mean he's immune from criticism. It's not like it was just a defeat, we were ripped apart by a side who had one point from their last four games. If the team, and management, perform like that against Arsenal it will be a massacre.
  7. Three points will be enough. Hull have to better both our final two results to go above us.
  8. What a ridiculous statement. Really? Which bit? You don't think we already give them 6 points a season? I doubt he does think that, no. Have you followed us at all this season? You might recall we picked up a point just four months ago at home, a point that may well be the difference between survival and relegation come May. Think before you post. Think before you post? What an utterly patronising thing to say. Just for future reference, it's not needed. Thats hardly patronising considering you posted "You don't think we already give them 6 points a season?", when Man Utd haven't taken six points off us. I see that as him, maybe indelicately, informing you that you've got a fairly basic fact completely wrong.
  9. He was the guide for a tour of the ground I went on in the eighties. So knowledgeable and passionate about the Villa. Another Holte Ender in the Sky. Rest in Peace.
  10. You can imagine some poor kid working as hard as possible, in all weathers, to improve himself, to realise his dream of being a professional football. Then, hailed as one of the brightest prospects of his generation, he's drafted to Small Heath I used to dream of being a Mitre Ultimax when I was a kid but then I found the booze and ended up as a 99p beach football. Oh the regrets... obviously that was deliberate, just to see if anyone was paying attention.
  11. You can imagine some poor kid working as hard as possible, in all weathers, to improve himself, to realise his dream of being a professional footballer. Then, hailed as one of the brightest prospects of his generation, he's drafted to Small Heath
  12. We are. People noticed your suggestion the first time. it was bad then, and it's bad now. Slightly off topic, but I like when foreign clubs, after a goal, have the announcer say the first name of the player who's scored and the crowd chant the surname. If we are talking about the team we support then I go along with my original song of " Simply the Best" ( we are talking about our team ) Would you prefer something like " My Old Man`s a Dustman"or something simelar ?! I think everybody understands the connection you're making but it's a crap song. We want something rousing to get the players fired up not have them coming out with their fingers in their ears to try and drown out the music
  13. I'm a season ticket holder 'mate', so you can stick your 'better fan' crap. What were all these off the ball incidents between them then? Where was the provocation for that particular piece of stupidity. Are you saying Berahino was goading Hutton into a stupid challenge? Well if he was then Hutton is an idiot for falling for it. If that was the case then Berahino has got one over on Hutton and you're applauding Hutton for being stupid enough to take the bait and weakening our side. Berahino will be getting himself ready for a major cup tie, Hutton won't. We're down to the bare bones in defence and Hutton makes it worse, what a hero. 'Better fan crap'.....where are those words?.....they are not there....like making things up do you?.......Blue Peter badge is on its way to you as we speak lol The 'better fan crap' is an obvious implication when you've got somebody making up rubbish about being an 'armchair fan that takes every word spouted by tv pundits as gospel.' Then there's the ridiculous assertion that if you weren't at the game you can't comment on an incident. Somebody watching that on TV would have had a better, and more detailed, view of it with replays and different angles etc than I did from the Holte in real time. Your like a 6 year old kid in the school playground. Making stuff up to fit your opinion. Hope your not the whinger who sits near to me moaning at every mispass.....certainly sounds like it. Love to moan and get disappointed when we win (warped mind syndrome).. So when we 'deservedly win', you have to have a go at someone to ease your obvious pain. FFS its football NOT ballet dancing!......he kicked him......so what?.......he was instrumental in winning the penalty that ultimately won us the game...ah now I see why your so disappointed and bitter........ffs.....get over it....back to school on Monday? There's no point in trying to have a discussion with someone who has to resort to pathetic insults.
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