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nose is still all bunged up for about 3 weeks now , with the amount of snot coming out every time I blow my nose  I reckon I've lost a stone in weight and smashed Toxteth O'Grady's world record at the same time  still a fair bit of phlegm in the throat , but  physically I feel ok 

all a bit weird though 

5 minutes ago, alreadyexists said:

I feel like next year will be tougher, with Chelsea getting back on form, Liverpool likely challenging for the lower CL/Europa places post Klopp, and possible Newcastle resurgence if they can spend this summer. Plus teams like Luton and Sheff will be replaced by, in all likelihood, stronger teams. 
This season has been incredible, loved it!! 

I think it was only 3 or 4 weeks ago Chelsea fans wanted Poch gone  .. they've just had a lucky run of penalties and playing crap teams like United , so I still think they have one more season of being a basket case club 

Liverpool hopefully go down the Moyes type route United took 

Arsenal will get to mid season and finally realise Arteta is the Spanish Sherwood 

that leaves us v Citeh for the title .. and they will have a 20 points deduction so we might be able to nick it by a point  

51 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

Hit a bit of a snag here though

 

To bank with Chase, you'll need to:

• be 18+
• be a resident of the UK only
• have a smartphone and a UK mobile number
• be a tax resident of the UK

 

I guess I could ask my mum to open it

That would need your mum to have the app and fully operate the account I believe , if she is a UK tax payer than she would have to pay the tax on the interest earnt etc subject to her situation 

Long as you still have a UK bank account you could try premium bonds or ISA's with  NS&I   , fairly sure you can buy the bonds in a child's name .. it would be under your control until they turn 17

you wont earn interest on premium bonds , but obviously you have a chance of winning  £1m ( I'm getting around a 5% return on my premium bonds , but you have a chance of also getting 0% ) 

but they offer a Direct Saver account and green saving bonds as well , couold be worth checking out 

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To save with us, you’ll need a UK bank or building society account in your name. This is because we can only make payments to, and receive payments from, a UK account in pounds sterling.

6 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

Chelsea look scary guys. They could catch us 

I was looking at  that the other week  after they came back to beat Man U and how we also need them to beat Spurs for us  … then they went and dropped 2 points to Sheff U so I discounted  them 

but 68 is the max they can get so we just need 5 points to rule them out 

Surrey set 209 from 18  overs and have decided to go for it  

currently 79-0 going at 11.02  an over , its like a T20 game with a red ball 

3 minutes ago, bickster said:

Why did you wait 30 years? We only beat them in December, hell even at the Library we beat them as recently as 2020. In fact since the first lockdown we've beaten them 5 times in 9 matches

victories over them are a kinda given , but we haven't potentially stopped them winning the title before  ( least I don't think so) 

I used to travel to games in the 80's and 90's with the London Lions  , we'd meet at Euston and get cheap rail tickets to the games  

I bump into a few faces at matches from time to time but no idea if the club is still going or any of them are around  , I think sadly a few of the members have passed away  and one of them bizarrely has started support Crystal Palace instead ,

but they were great days , used to meet the London Wolves club on the train and have a good old time with them  

13 hours ago, AshVilla said:

So it's nearly 2am and i can't sleep because i'm still buzzing off the Arsenal result.

Work is going to suck tomorrow...

after about  a 30 year wait  i finally got to Lord it up over my  brother again who is an Arsenal fan and the reason I support Villa ( we beat them at Highbury  in the first live game i ever watched )

3 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

The culture of playing out from the back that he has instilled continues to amaze me.

We have never ever played like that as consistently as we do now.

We've had spells, but as soon as we're under the cosh it goes out the window.

 

Yesterday we just point blank refused to stray away from that tactic of playing out from the back. Under huge pressure at times, we stuck to it rigidly and it paid off massively.
Players like Pau, Tielemans and Martinez are key to that.

there was a tight game at VP earlier this season , where we had something like 6 mins of Fergie time to see out and I don't think we let the other team touch the ball during the whole period.

I was impressed in the 96th min yesterday where Bailey broke free and probably could have played in Watkins , but why take the risk of turning the ball over and give them a sniff  , he just sorta slow walked the ball into the corner and ate up another 40 seconds or so , the players are well drilled  and constantly learning.

10 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

He continues to get better and better with the ball at his feet by the way. He's absolutely key to the way we play at the back and it's priceless.

It's a big reason why it's such a step down when we have to play Olsen. No disrespect to Olsen, he was good the last time he played. But he's simply not capable of passing the ball like Emi

I've never seen a keeper so confident with the ball at his feet .. he gives me a **** heart attack every time when he almost goads the attacker closing him down to but he seems to be in total control 

to your other posts .. i think his first season he was immense and then there was a little dip , quite a few games where he costs us points when he let in a  few soft ones   , this season he seems to have gone back to the season one high ,possibly even surpassed it , i guess the swagger of winning a world cup does wonders to your confidence  

Watching match of the day had Bailey not scored then I wonder if  we’d have been given a penalty seeing as the defender went through the back of Torres and made no contact with the ball ?

today we didn’t  dominate in the same way as we did v City and for me The city home game was THE performance of the season , had we won it 5-0 there wouldn’t have been any complaints 

Still unbeaten in London this season I believe , only the draw at Wet Spam preventing us from a clean sweep of points 

7 minutes ago, the_eristic said:

Trossard save massive.

Is that a rival gang to Ali G’s West Staines massive ? 

15 minutes ago, GlobalVillan said:

Spurs fans on their forum, almost every single one of them, celebrating our win today as it stops Arsenal in the title race.

Very SHA of them to care more about hating their rivals than they do about their own success. Bizarre behaviour.

My Spurs mate last night was saying he would rather they came 5th and got Europa league as they have a chance of winning that !!

How are the BBC match ratings calculated 

every Villa play has a rating in the high 7’s and 8’s , all the Arsenal players are averaging around 4

17 minutes ago, Wurzel said:

Arteta " we should have been 3-4 up". I hate Arteta, he is such a terrible loser.

They only had 4 shots on target the whole game , does he think every shot counts as a goal ? 

Who else saw 8 mins of added time and thought , still time to lose this !! 
first half it felt like Arsenal had 12 men v our 11 but second half we thoroughly deserved the win as they ran out of ideas

Carlos with his best game in a Villa shirt and Zaniolo turned up for the second half but everyone was on it today tbf … and Emi probably gave Arsenal another reason to regret selling him with that wonder save in the first half

i feel more confident now that United won’t catch us , just need to see off Spuds now 

Has anyone done a headcount to see if they have a player more than us on the pitch ? 

Being out with your mates on an all day session whilst being stone cold sober 

my god drunk people are hard work

 But  on the plus side our local football team became Champions today and we saw a decent tribute band this evening 

Another disgusting VAR decision, what is the point of it ? 

Surprised William is out watching football what with Kate only being dead a few weeks

Super Villans on BT sport after our game tonight

I knew about them losing the European cup in a pub but never knew that Morley and Cowans broke curfew the night before the final and from the sheepish looks ended up in a brothel 

quality viewing , hopefully there will be a part 2 version in a few years 

also a great quote from Peter Withe  in the show about the winning goal .. i tried to play a one-two off the post but the back of the net got in the way