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    Relegation - Merged

    in Villa Talk

    Posted

    Last season we had Bent, Downing and Young and were awful. This season we haven't had Downing or Young and have been without Bent for a good few games now. Take the three best players out of any team and they'll struggle. Villa are no different. Not all about Eck.
    We were nowhere near this bad last season. When we had Bent, Young and Downing together we actually weren't bad. "Eck"'s negative tactics are strangling the life out of the club.

    I disagree. I remember the West Ham game and the desperation of a win there and squeaking past them. The two seasons are a very similar. Only difference this season is that we don't have the attacking flair to accommodate an expansive game.

    Relegation - Merged

    in Villa Talk

    Posted

    Last season we had Bent, Downing and Young and were awful. This season we haven't had Downing or Young and have been without Bent for a good few games now. Take the three best players out of any team and they'll struggle. Villa are no different. Not all about Eck.

    QPR run in

    in Other Football

    Posted

    Ouch :shock:

    Still have to play United, Citeh, Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal and Chelsea.

    You don't get much better than evens on them staying up but must be a worthy bet. Might stick 20 quid down.

    Liverpool FC in 2011/12

    in Other Football

    Posted

    I had just come in here to post that very blog Pongo. It's a beaut.

    Isn't it just, mate. In the words of Captain Melchiot. 'That's it, Black Adder, if all else fails a pig ignorant refusal to look facts in the face will see us through'.

    Income tax

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Hey all, I just had a query about income tax and more specifically tax rebates.

    I work in sales, have done for the last year or so. I receive a basic monthly salary and commission is paid quarterly. As a result, I earn a lot more in the months January, April, July and October but am taxed as if I earn that figure every months.

    Has anyone else had a similar thing and/or have they been entitled to some sort of rebate?

    Ta in advance

    Liverpool FC in 2011/12

    in Other Football

    Posted

    The extreme reaction to Mr Bigley's murder is fed by the fact that he was a Liverpudlian. Liverpool is a handsome city with a tribal sense of community. A combination of economic misfortune - its docks were, fundamentally, on the wrong side of England when Britain entered what is now the European Union - and an excessive predilection for welfarism have created a peculiar, and deeply unattractive, psyche among many Liverpudlians. They see themselves whenever possible as victims, and resent their victim status; yet at the same time they wallow in it. Part of this flawed psychological state is that they cannot accept that they might have made any contribution to their misfortunes, but seek rather to blame someone else for it, thereby deepening their sense of shared tribal grievance against the rest of society. The deaths of more than 50 Liverpool football supporters at Hillsborough in 1989 was undeniably a greater tragedy than the single death, however horrible, of Mr Bigley; but that is no excuse for Liverpool's failure to acknowledge, even to this day, the part played in the disaster by drunken fans at the back of the crowd who mindlessly tried to fight their way into the ground that Saturday afternoon. The police became a convenient scapegoat, and the Sun newspaper a whipping-boy for daring, albeit in a tasteless fashion, to hint at the wider causes of the incident.

    Boris Johnson hit the nail on the head

    Liverpool FC in 2011/12

    in Other Football

    Posted

    Liverpool have turned playing the victim into an art form over the years. The latest offering is laughable at best, classless at worst. The squad statement which says 'Luis won't walk alone' smacks of David Brent. They constantly preach and bleat on about the need for 'Justice for the 96'. No one ever mentions 'Justice for the 39'.

    Kenny, you're an embarrassment.

    RIP Gary Speed

    in Other Football

    Posted

    I think what's interesting is that over the last 10 or 12 years, attitudes to mental illness are changing. When Stan was suffering with depression, John Gregory's attitude was pretty much 'buck your ideas up son,' and real stress is a single mother with 4 kids to feed. I think numerous people agreed with Gregory's summary and thought Stan should get on with it.

    Looking at things now, this is a very outdated, narrow minded ignorant view. This is indisputably a horrible, debilitating illness which can affect young and old, rich and poor. How a married family man who is wealthy, successful in his career and outwardly normal can suffer such inner despair is baffling to many, but the illness by its very nature is much more complex.

    *Assuming this is the case.

    Please tell me when to stop laughing at SHA

    in Other Football

    Posted

    Blues fans seem to think they can look down on us. Forgetting the fact we've lost the same number of games against them and they play in a poxy league, they've also drawn at home to Barnsley, Brighton and Peterborough.

    I do sometimes look on SHA and my god there are some fecktards. One guy, Paul Tait's t-shirt in particular. Name says it all and reeks of a small time club.

    I'll always remember that early summer Sunday afternoon at VP last May... GOIIIING UPPPP GOIIING DOWN.

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