Heretic

GOAL! YES!

Biggest club in the vicinity, don't you know...

I wouldn't be so sure...

Keeping limpid happy.

Wrong thread. Try the SHA one.

I think 46 will be enough to stay up. They've got Middlesbrough next chasing sixth, at home. Then Cardiff looking to make second their own, that's away. Two games they could easily get nothing from. That's 16 points required from 9 games, one of which includes Wolves away. Assume a loss there. That's 16 required from 8, an average which would be good enough for promotion chasers.

If Cotterill's not careful, their fans will slash the tyres on his vehicle. The big ones, I mean.

I think we're better playing 4-5-1.

1 Sunderland win with 1 SHA loss, Sunderland go above them.

Next game is home to QPR who've just shipped 5 at home. Next game away for SHA - Notts Forest - who just put 5 past QPR.

Luke Moore's stunt double.

Should've got into Sheff Wednesday much earlier. They were there for the taking. Their defending for the Villa goals was atrocious.

Sunderland score in the 97th minute to grab a point. SHA with worse goal difference than them and into the bottom 3. Good day all round.

His creativity was crucial to not only the title win but the European Cup early rounds that got us to the final. If the op is true than I couldn't offer him more best wishes. A true Villa great.

Epic trolling of SHA by Brentford.

Perhaps risk of injury? He's the only option of that tough, bullying kind available for selection. Something like that could open up a game (even if for another person to play off him). With the transfer window shut, this squad is now the group to lead us home (or not).

You're still young. You've got a lot of potential. You'll make a first team place your own. Keep believing. Sincerely, Sir Gary Cahill.

My post wasn't aimed at you or any one person. As soon as we landed in second place there were some mea culpas about wanting SB's head in December. As you've quoted me, I can involve you directly in explaining my view. You expressed surprise that posters refused to admit they were wrong about him. Let's assume that their conclusion was and is measureable, e.g. SB cannot get us promoted at the end of this season. We can measure that as true or false. Why would SB getting us to second suddenly prove he was the right man for us or that those who wanted him gone were wrong? Why did getting to second place prompt these expressions of regret? What did we win or achieve? The debate over whether SB can get us promoted isn't settled so no poster who felt he couldn't do so hasn't been proven wrong about anything. Yet.

It did baffle me. 2nd with 15 games to go, acting like the job's done.

2-0. Goal from half-way line, Johnstone missing.

Fulham lead.

You're a real court Chester.

I recall him saying he's waited his career for a job like this. I can't see him walking away from that unless there's something very serious going on e.g. a family issue, or the England job.

Great derby day story. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/most-bittersweet-aston-villa-vs-14283343 It was the bittersweet moment that proves the excitement of a Second City derby lives on forever. Former Aston Villa midfielder Mike Tindall is in the grips of Alzheimer's and the illness has affected him so severely that he can no longer recognise his nearest and dearest loved ones. Yet Villa's 2-0 win over Blues at Villa Park on Sunday somehow sparked a glorious flicker of recognition in the 76-year-old's mind. Tindall, a claret and blue hero of the 1960s, is now 77, lives in a care home and by his own family's admission has next to no recollection of people and events. His son Dean explains: “Me and my mom started to notice things changing with him around the mid-2000s. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2010. “The last two years have been unbelievably bad. It’s taken it’s toll on my mom. In January 2016 she had bad heart problems because of all the stress. "I’ve had a few problems because it is such a lot to deal with. It’s a terrible disease. “When I go to see him he doesn’t know me from anyone in the street, but as soon as I told him Villa beat Blues 2-0 his eyes lit up and he said: 'I remember scoring against that shower!' "It made me laugh and brought a lump to my throat. He used to love the rivalry and used to joke that the Blues trophy cabinet was a shoebox. It was all good fun, the rivalry back then and I know he loved playing against Blues." (More about this story at the link).