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4 hours ago, villa4europe said:

someone said it last week

20/21 season aston villa's jack grealish 3 games 3 goals 3 assists made the squad thanks to injuries and made 1 sub appearance 

21/22 season man citys jack grealish 4 games 1 goal 1 assist made the squad starts 2 games 1 sub appearance 

if its not top club bias then its the FA seeing a poster boy and money spinner which is just as bad

It's not just Grealish that now has SL6 bias.

Haven't got the stats to hand but the second half of last season Jesse Lingard was on fire for West Ham and couldn't even make the Euros squad.

3 months later, and 4 PL minutes on the pitch for Man Utd this season, and he's not only in the squad but starting games.

14 hours ago, Jareth said:

Why WHY?

Why Delilah.....

4 minutes ago, nick76 said:

So the shit has just got greal 

FTFY

13 minutes ago, Tayls said:

I’d be wondering who on earth is getting ‘CHEESE’ on the back of their shirts. That’s three E’s right there. I don’t reckon there is another word that has that many Es in it. 

I see your 3 E's CHEESE so I'll match it and raise it to CHEESECAKE

4 minutes ago, Eastie said:

Are thongs allowed? 

Only if you thing them loud

2 hours ago, Kingman said:

Had mine last week but the missus not had anything yet.

Apparently they are sending them out in alphabetical order?

Not sure they are, I had mine last week, but my daughter with the same surname hasn't received hers yet

27 minutes ago, juanpabloangel18 said:

I'm guessing you're on of those that boo'd Gareth Barry after giving us 12 years

I recall hearing something along these lines when Shay Given left Newcastle for Man City.

Someone saying he deserves to go after giving us 12 years loyal service, and his mate counter acting by saying and Newcastle have been loyally depositing £60,000 per week in his bank account for 12 years.

5 minutes ago, PaulMcGrath_5 said:

That would be a freezer.

Thank you for the correction, maybe the reception was cold rather than frosty 

1 hour ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

FRIDGE!

This reply has got a bit of a frosty reception

1 hour ago, It's Your Round said:

I’m having a new kitchen fitted this week, the fitter has just spotted my Villa mug and told me that he thinks Grealish will stay at Villa. That’s all the proof I need. He’s got a great reputation as a kitchen fitter, so who am I to doubt his credentials. 
 

 

Freezer a jolly good fellow..........and so say all of us!

3 hours ago, Lord Willard said:

Even Radio 1s Nick Grimshaw who doesn't follow football has been talking about Jack. After that an influx of callers and texters into Radio 1 for a solid 24hrs. 

Girls were saying that they miss screaming at the TV "WHEN IS JACK COMING ON SOUTHGATE" etc 

He is all over people Tiktok algorithms. He is a national heart throb. 

One texter said that they miss him and might even come down to VP to get their fix... 

 

Why go to VP when he will be at the Etihad?

...................or will he?

3 hours ago, sheepyvillian said:

Its always tease, tease, tease.

You're happy when I'm on my knees 

One day it's fine and next it's black

So if you want me of your back

Well, come on and let me know

Should I stay or should I go".

Just out of interest - did anybody else sing this in their head?

I'm too old to really worry about football shirt designs/looks now, let just say my first Vila shirt was an umbro classic with a home made No.9 stitched on the back so that I could be Andy Gray

Anyhow NurembergVillan , I really do find your input on shirt design, why certain things will/won't work very insightful. It would also be great to have "one of our own" designing the club shirt.  Good luck!!

Another game that springs to mind is when we lost at home to QPR, can't remember if it was 3-1 or 3-0, but Trevor Francis scored a brilliant hat trick for them.  He was player manager at the time and must have arranged for himself to be substituted and went over to the Witton Lane stand so that he had to walk the entire width of the pitch to get off, at snails pace, whilst applauding the QPR fans.  Think there was only 14,000ish fans in the ground that day - felt like I'd got the Holte End to myself.

The game that left me feeling completely numb, empty and frustrated was the end of the first premier league season (1992) when we were going for the title with ManU.  Villa drew 0-0 with Coventry, which in itself was a bad game, but at least Utd were losing at home to Sheffield Wednesday when the Villa game finished and we left the ground.  By the time I was walking by the Aston Social a train went over the track above us with Coventry fans hanging out the windows, laughing, singing, waving and having a real good laugh, generally taking the mick out of any Villa fan they could see - strange reaction to a 0-0 draw I thought, until I got back to the car to hear that Utd had won 2-1 in the 9th minute of injury time

20 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Why add the Grealish bit? Why can’t the article stand on its own

It's their way of letting people know that Villa don't have any money to sanction such a deal without getting money from somewhere else first................If only they knew the truth 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/transfer-news-live-liverpool-coman-24410371

Arsenal rejected Villa's second Smith Rowe bid

Aston Villa have returned with an improved bid of £30million for Arsenal playmaker Emile Smith Rowe - but they have been turned down again, reports The Athletic.

Dean Smith's side saw an opening offer of £25million rejected for the talented Englishman, who has two years remaining on his contract at the Emirates.

Villa's fresh offer comes amid intense speculation that Jack Grealish could seal a £100million move to Manchester City.

Villa Park

Super Frank is available, could car share with John Terry

Could be heading back to Portugal now that it's on green list countries!

On 28/02/2021 at 07:38, Kiwivillan said:

I've seen another clip of it. Really bad

On 28/02/2021 at 15:34, flashingqwerty said:

Pretty sure that one is Drogba

Looks more like Dogba to me

Although they lost to a last minute goal last season, I thought Brighton were one of the best teams I'd seen play at Villa Park.

In my opinion it was only their early sending off that stopped them from winning that game.  Very confident in the way they play and in each other to receive the ball.  If I recall correctly they seemed to play through the middle a lot last season, from keeper, to centre halves, to midfield and then spread wider once they had engineered the ball forward.

Villa have improved massively this season so this could be a very good game.

I'd take another Southampton/Leicester/Wolves last minute win, but I'd love it if we could put 4 past them just to make the last few minutes a bit easier on my nerves.

I remember going to the opening of Bescot Stadium when the first official game played there was Walsall vs Villa, and if my fading memory serves me correctly it was also Dr. Jo's first game in charge.