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So, I was watching Chelsea on the old telly box at the weekend, and I think I've seen the future, or the present, or something, of where Lambert wants to take Villa - and I notice Aston Villa Review agrees with me, although I'll need to listen to the podcast to find out why .. I am listening as I type, so will let you know.....
Chelsea are, albeit at a very different level, going through the same kin
Back from the game, and well, i dont quite know what to say about that......
First things first..... last minute winners away from home in the cup are bloody epic, and I dont care who it was against, but moments like that are what football addicts out of us. Absolutely fan-bloody-tastic, the away end went mental.
More rationally, we look very at home at this level.
Defensively we are just a joke. Comical really. First half we played OK, we contained the expected rush early on, put
Well, that wasn't very pretty, was it? I wrote on twitter that I felt uncomfortable about being outplayed (and we were very outplayed) by Norwich. Alan Hansen reportedly described our performance as embarrassing, and while i dont usually have much time for the miserable sweaty, on this occasion he was right. it was embarrassing.
I dont do knee jerk reactions, and while I remain confident that we will come through this, I'm not *quite* as confident as I was before. For me, what has changed
What Everton have been doing with Usmanov is not unlike this, unfortunately their is a serious lack of regulation in English football so they will avoid the same punishment.
I'm not even sure what he did wrong having watched the penalties about 4 times, he shushed the crowd, wow. Send him off. Fact is, he's in everyone's heads especially the media who are about 80% Arsenal fans.
If the league is feeling insecure about not doing well in Europe this season then maybe they could go down the US model and just name their national champions "World Champions".
He's not been brilliant and his form overall had been quite poor but he has been contributed fairly significantly this season with goals and assists. He's also been unlucky that a couple of his goals/assists ended up as og's and he's setup a number of good opportunities that should have been assists too.
Bailey was the same last season, his overall play wasn't great but he was involved in a lot of goals either through goals, assists or in the build up to the goals.
There's definitely a player in there and he can strike a ball well.
If the first yellow for time wasting happened while the ball was in open play, we should be appealing tha one - it's factually, demonstrably an incorrect application of the rules.