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The point being that when the choice is between a shield and a round badge most people end up in two camps and don't judge the badges on their merit as designs, either you grew up with the round badge and associate it with our crowning achievement, whilst seeing the current badge as being tainted by the Lerner era, or you grew up with the shield badge and associate it with "modern" Villa, whilst seeing the round badge as too nostalgic and being stuck in the past. This is highlighted by the vote thread, the fans that are able to vote, i.e. season ticket holders who are more likely to have more disposable income and be a bit older (the average attending fan to football games a few years ago was in their early 40s), favour the round badge, which they grew up with, but fans that can't vote, likely younger or more recent fans, favour the shield badge, likely because they don't have the emotional attachment to the round badge which we only had for 20 years of our history. The other things you mention of course shouldn't be ignored, they've been near constants throughout our almost 150 year history, the shape of the badge has changed multiple times however and shouldn't be seen as important as the vital elements of the club. And of course opposition fans can view a badge design objectively, the reason I think Blues' badge is shit isn't because it's Blues, but because it's a weird, shitty clipart of a globe on top of a football, their lettered badge they had a few years ago, whilst a bit messy, was a million times better than their current one. I hate both Man Utd and Man City, but I think both of their badges are really good for different reasons. Whilst I would have loved Leeds to use the proposed badge from a couple years ago, I still thought the badge was shit - hence wanting them to adopt it.

They have no emotional attachment to our current or old badges so are able to judge the current and potential new badges objectively from a pure design view.

**** it, it's poorly executed, but this is what I mean, to me it looks more Villa and less West Ham.

I know you said you changed it because it's too blue, but I still think the border and background should switch coulours, but importantly it should be the darker blue from the border. I think when people complained about the current badge colour being too similar, they overlooked the real reason the blue/yellow didn't work, because the badge as a whole is too light with little contrast. We have a white border with a baby blue background, a white star floating in it and a bright yellow lion, with barely any claret. The current badge works much better with a claret border, it instantly improves it 1000%. I did a crappy mockup in photoshop, and to me it looks amazing, but I won't share it as my skills are rubbish and I partly like it because I can see the intention. But take this badges, make the border claret, make the background the darker blue from the border, remove the star, change Aston Villa to claret, and keep the claret detailing on the Lion, and I think that becomes an amazing badge. Not expecting you to do that @jayEm, just my thoughts on what would make this badge really work.

Been stripped of the whip for it.

Didn't mean to come across accusatory or anything, I'm just saying that Asylum Seekers are a specific, legal exemption. Yes it is illegal to enter the country without permission, however if you do so with the intent to claim asylum it doesn't apply.

If you are an Asylum seeker you can not be penalised for the way you arrive in the country, they are a specific exemption to illegal immigration.

Since 2000, about 3.3% of corners have resulted in goals in the top 5 leagues - direct ones are closer to 1.1%. This season we've had 59 corners and scored from 3 (that I can immediately think of), or around 5.1%, i.e. we perform above average on corners and McPhee is doing a good job. Set Pieces are just hard to score from.

Jack Dorsey, Twitter Founder, already has a new platform in a Beta stage. It's blockchain-based which already signals bullshit to me, but it seems it based off the direction they wanted to take twitter anyway, so could be a ready-made replacement that scoops up the pieces if Musk continues down the "bankrupt Twitter ASAP" route.

I made about £3 off it a few days ago, Twitter was still publicly traded and every share got sold at the agreed price the moment it went through. Kind of crazy that the price was lower than the sale price, wish I had more forethought and bought more of it!

Reading between the lines of what Cavill has said in interviews and some of the claims by ex-writers, it's likely because the show isn't staying true to the books. There's loads of interviews with Cavill where he's said he loves the role but wanted the show to be closer to the books and with Geralt specifically, and an ex-writer claimed the source material was openly mocked and actively disliked in the writers room, so my guess is he walked when he saw the direction the show/character was going.

11 years on, how the **** does the exact same situation happen!?

Admittedly I've never listened to Gary Glitter, but sounds like Black Skinhead by Kanye West to me, however that's not much better right now...

Smith was on thin ice from before he even got the job?

Ah, so he doesn't like VP because of a weird lie he's told himself. He has played in front of a packed out VP plenty of times, just not when he was at Charlton or Fulham because no-one wants to watch **** Charlton or Fulham. You'd think he'd remember getting 2 goals and an assist in front of a packed out VP for instance when thinking about times he played there...

He was Rafa's Assistant at Valencia and Liverpool and was there for the 2005 CL.

It's what they get for trying to make the rules completely objective when stuff like handball will always have a degree of subjectivity to it. The excuse will be it didn't unnaturally enlargen his body therefore not handball despite the clear action to knock the ball up.

Not even 12 months is it, wasn't Smith sacked in November?

V in Spanish is pronounced closer to an English B than an English V, so when giving press conferences at Arsenal he would start by saying "Good Evening" but it sounded like "Good Ebening" as he wasn't fluent in English, then when things started to go sour at Arsenal the fans took the piss out of him for it. A bit shitty considering he was speaking a second language (probably third or even fourth) and those taking the piss would look dumbfounded by anything other than English.

I hope it's Emery, that way I win £60

Tigers winger Nadolo at the game today and apparently a fan, never would've guessed that. Another reason to love the big man!

Claims he got 102 nominations. "I totally could've done it, I just don't want to"

Not sure where to put this, but @Ingram85 is famous!

He followed that up to say that he wasn't clear with it initially and that it was a criticism of Gerrard not a defense