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Good finish.

Why has Atsu shot there? He should have looked up and slipped Gyan through.

Except the rules don't mention intention. It's all interpretation I suppose, but imo, if you're swinging your leg like Boye was when he jumped, it's dangerous as it swinging upwards with little control, hence why he kicked Dempsey in the face.

his leg came up because of the contact after he'd left the ground, he's going horizontal in mid air, its not his jumping technique thats caused his leg to come up, its dempsey jumping in to him, not sure what else he could do I understand it's not intentional, and I'm not saying he should have been sent off, but if you're kicking someone in the face, it's dangerous play. Yes, he gets a nudge, but he could try control his leg better, his leg goes so far up because it's already swinging upwards before the nudge, he's completely uncontrolled and reckless, therefore it's dangerous.

According to Savage, it's not dangerous play, it's not his elbow, it's boot! Surely that makes it even worse? He kicked Dempsey in the face whilst both were jumping, how is that not dangerous play?

Really liked the episode thought they did very well tying up all the loose ends of this series, all the way until the penultimate scene;

It's a huge spoiler, but then again it isn't, because if you know what it means, then you know the spoiler already.

Don't worry Sepp, we'll all shake hands and forget about this whole mess...

With no Benteke and Kozak (possibly) for the start of the season, not a bad short term solution. If he focuses on his footballer, he could probably be a very good player, just needs to get his head down.

According to the BBC, Rik Mayall died today.

Didn't watch the game, I was asleep, but got to say I'm encouraged that we only lost 20-15 with practically our whole team missing, hopefully with all our Sarries and Saints players back we can give them a good game next week! Add in all our currently injured players, and we have a very, very strong squad for 2015

No you don't play for so long at Utd if you're rubbish, that's why he moved there 12 years ago for £30m, but that was 12 years ago. Ferdinand is now 35, slow, injury prone and no where near as good as he was. Just because Ferdinand was a top, top defender, doesn't mean he is now. I'd rather Senderos now, who is still in his prime, than Ferdinand now, who is completely past it. Keane played for Utd for 12 years and was a top player, should we stick him in midfield instead of being assistant? Actually, that's not a bad shout... At 35 years old - lets say he played 10 games this season and is able to transfer his knowledge of the game etc. onto Clark/Baker/Okore. Would this really be a bad thing? No, but why pay someone what Ferdinand would demand for 10 games a season and some coaching? As I said, I'd rather Senderos, who is younger, will most likely be able to play more games, be better and cheaper than Ferdinand, who is not what he was.

No you don't play for so long at Utd if you're rubbish, that's why he moved there 12 years ago for £30m, but that was 12 years ago. Ferdinand is now 35, slow, injury prone and no where near as good as he was. Just because Ferdinand was a top, top defender, doesn't mean he is now. I'd rather Senderos now, who is still in his prime, than Ferdinand now, who is completely past it. Keane played for Utd for 12 years and was a top player, should we stick him in midfield instead of being assistant? Actually, that's not a bad shout...

It probably is just a rumour, and I'm not saying that I believe it, but, why is a random journalist in the finance section of the Telegraph gossiping about Villa? Why is it not in the sport section? It doesn't make sense, I mean, the rest of the article talks about Lord Mandelson and Tesco, Football gossip is a bit of an odd step to take in that article. Although it is more speculating about Arison's financial movements, but still, it's a strange place for the rumour to pop up.

Meh. Just like the Holt signing, not nearly as bad as people are making out on here, but not exactly good, just, meh. Although I would argue this would be a better signing than Holt, as cover for CB is probably our most desperately needed signing other than a CM or Full Back.

Casper is the ghost of Richie Rich!

I think that's the main thing about it,

Technically they can only invest £225m over that period Even if we some how generated a lot more income? It doesn't matter how much income the club makes, the owner is only allowed to put in £45m per year under FFP rules. He could technically invest more through other avenues like sponsorship or any other loop holes in FFP, but as pure cash injections, £45m is the limit.

A bit, it's more been more filler than usual, and as a book fan it's been the series where I've had to come to terms with the fact that the show tells the same story but differently, but I think there has been a few scenes that have more than made up for the filler, like Joffrey's death, Lysa's "suicide", Tyrion's "confession" and the trial by combat last night, plus I suspect that there will be a few more scenes in the next two episodes that will also be worth the filler. I'm especially looking forward to next weeks episode

Looking at the close ups of the kit, the pinstripe behind the badge doesn't come out at the point of the badge, that's going to annoy me no end! Just move the badge about half a cm to the left and you've got it symmetrical on the line! Other than that, nice kit

I heard this Jack Grealish fella is alright

I think Keane may be able to help with this. We never have enough backbone to see off the teams we "should" be beating, and for what ever reason Culverhouse couldn't put that backbone into the players. I don't think it was so much as just tactics, just that we seemed to roll over or be too nervous against those teams. Hopefully Keane will add a bit of bite to the players so they can stand up for themselves in the scrappier games. won't that bring even more stupid tackles and unecessary bookings? Tackling and closing down requires technique also, something our players don't really have. To be honest, if being hard to break down against the "lesser" sides in the division means we have to be a bit dirtier, get a few more bookings and give away some silly fouls every so often, then so be it, especially if it means we don't have to worry as much about relegation. All hypothetical of course though, we have no idea whether Keane will give us some backbone or whether he'll alienate every man and his dog at Villa.