http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22646131
Just watched an interesting video in which Pat Nevin discusses (albeit briefly) about the different dimensions of pitches in the premier league and how this may have an influence on the home & away sides.
The most interesting thing is that we (Aston Villa) have the largest pitch in square yards in the premier league (8602) compared to a team like Stoke who's pitch is 7654 sq yards. He then demonstrates on the video how large that area is - I was shocked! Its a huge area!
His question is do these bigger pitches lead to late goals. Well in our case it does lead to late goals - but for the opposition most of the time! Is there a reason Paul Lambert and the Villa team have decided to keep the dimensions big? What could that reason be?
Mods: I didn't know whether this was 'other football' or 'villatalk' so please move if need be.
Yep he'd have to be guaranteed starter in the United team and we'd get 50m for him.
Luckily though he won't go in January it will most likely by summer by which time there will be a bidding war and we'll probably get in the region of 40-55m for him
I never even thought he was a half decent footballer. I hated him when he played for us and I still hate him even now he's not playing for us. He was a liability.
If he wanted to play football so badly, he'd have **** dropped his wage demands or cancelled his contract.
The guy's a massive prick and I want him to rot, training in some far flung field in staffordshire.