MessiWillSignForVilla

Just came in here to ask if anyone had come across the April Fools Easter Egg, and here it is Never got it myself thankfully, I never seem to be around that point in the season at this time of year. Never got the birthday one either

He won't get punished for it, there wasn't any evidence of it on the replays, it's just pretty much Hartley's word against Youngs'. Having said that, when watching I did suspect he was guilty due to the fact he got immediately defensive as soon as Barnes said there's been an allegation of a bite, despite not saying who made the allegation.

Over the last two nights I finished some Uni coursework which I've been struggling to do over the last two weeks and is due in next Thursday It took me ages as I had to design 26 individual parts from scratch, assemble them all together and try make it look somewhat bicycle-ish, and then finally create an annotated drawing of both my most complex part and the final assembly, all in 3D modelling software. Doesn't sound much but it took me bloody hours. It's only cheered me up for tonight though, as I have a test on Tuesday I need to revise for and then 4 weeks to prepare for my finals

French rugby fans, **** off with yer booing when someone's taking a kick you cocks!

Maybe we should try it, I'm sure Guzan could have put away Benteke's chance earlier.

It's almost as if, despite them having a shit season, they still won the League last season and have a squad full of players who would walk into our team and it's still possible for them to finish 5th. We may not have covered ourselves in glory, but let's not kid ourselves here, it's not exactly embarrassing to go to Old Trafford and lose.

How the **** was Fellaini not offside?!

Looks like Lambert gave them a bit of a kick up the arse at HT.

Soooo, Benteke staying next season?

I'd say take off Gabby, problem is who for? I'd like to see Robinson, but maybe it's too much of a gamble away at Old Trafford, but then again, we probably need to gamble if we want to win.

If bravery in football is wanting the ball in front of 70000 fans, are only Utd players brave then? Or just the away teams.

I didn't realise Owen knew that combination of words then.

Did Owen just say we've not done much to deserve our lead? Or am I just mishearing him?

May not have touched him, but still a foul, if Albrighton didn't hurdle he'd have been snapped in half.

You do realise Okore turned down Chelsea just 6 months before joining us right? It doesn't take a genius to work out that he was a very highly rated prospect in Denmark and a lot of big European teams were sniffing around when we signed him, that's why people are excited to see him play for us.

Then so is the OS. He's 5'11" according to his player profile.

Glad his commentary has the same effect on himself, not just everyone listening.

I'm having a nightmare with my spelling and grammar at the moment. Keep telling me though, it's the only way I'll learn. I'd have gone with clicking the link made your IQ drop and made you forget how to use proper grammar for a moment.

Wenger takes charge of his 1000th game as Arsenal manager this weekend, and an interesting fact, Villa last won a major trophy 6 months before Wenger took charge. So I think I speak for all of us when I say, Wenger piss off so we can win a trophy again!

I think a fair deal for Bacuna would be roughly £7m due to his versatility and the fact he's been really flourishing as a RB. Having said that, I wouldn't want us to take anything less than £10m for him.

I had a premonition. Also I was about 15 when I signed up and I'm not good at thinking up names. EDIT: I just remembered the actual reason I picked it, when I first signed up I thought it would be funny to start a rumour that Messi wanted to actually join us, I was going to pretend I was ITK and knew someone at Barca. Boy, am I glad I didn't go through with that

Arsenal seem to constantly be eyeing up shock moves for our in form RB's, hopefully Bacuna's form doesn't mimic Lowton's after he was a "target" for Arsenal.

Fook me, it's windy today! Or at least is up here. Almost got taken out by a gust of wind which seemed to concentrate on my ankles as I was walking. Plus it's now pissing it down .

??? Isn't that like saying the war had nothing to do with ze germans!? Either I'm too old and need to be told to sit down, or possession stats have everything to do with possesssion and how long you are in possession of the ball, and number of passes are called pass completion? Someone put me out of my misery! The method you propose would give a far more accurate picture of possession but its way harder to track so isn't used. They just do a ratio of total number of successful passes instead. Hold on. Is this true? Not saying it isn't, but I literally have never heard that before. Link? It is indeed calculated by number of successful passes divided by the total number of successful passes, or at least it's how Opta do it. (Blog post about it: http://leastthing.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/how-ball-possession-is-measured-in.html) It seems silly to me, but as said in the blog, actually paying attention and recording whenever possession changes hands seems quite involved and hard to keep 100% accuracy with. Which makes it all the less surprising when people complain we are one of the worst teams for possession AND passes, well yeah, that's how possession's calculated.

perhaps that's the portion we are still paying That list was written on August 10th though. Neither of those two were out on loan at that time. Also Given is no longer on loan, even if the list was present, Given's wages would still be getting paid in full.