TheSufferingVilla

Why all the hatred for Queen? Freddy's on stage antics must have made some of you question your sexuality during your younger years?

I can't help but admire the Beatles, their success and range of hits is astounding but on a personal level given a jukebox with 2 songs one a Beatles hit and the other a Beach Boys hit if I only could play one then it would be the Beach Boys. Now Beatles, Beach Boys or The Kinks and there would be no contesting The Kinks.

General I must say being 3,000 miles from Villa park I've never paid much attention to season tickets but looking at them now I can say, what a bargain, even with the increase they are still very good value over the course of a season. It's funny that some people are throwing their toys out of the pram. They have been paying less than everyone else for soggy fish and chips for years, now they are being served Caviar and fine Wine but expect the same price. Villa isn't a charity even though Randy has been more than generous over the last year and a half, anyway I'm sure there are a lot of rival fans looking at our new ticket prices with more than a touch of envy as they struggle to afford their own.

Bah we are basing this on some people understanding, conflicting reports and some finger pointing at Ellis, there's only one way to settle this: invoke the ghost of McGregor. I can't imagine that in the early years of our club the people running it would have accepted the term "Villain" it would have gone against what the club stood for. My guess is it was changed from Villan to Villain over the hooliganism years and Ellis simply tried to change it back.

We can spell

The Bluebells: Young at Heart. Young at heart Right from the start he's gonna **** you up He'll use his left He'll use his right Don't you know He'll win Villa the cup You know we love him now You know we love him more You know we love him now You know we love him more When all I wanted to do when I got here Was to watch Ashley score Young at heart He'll tear you apart We've got Young at heart Young at heart He'll tear you apart We've got Young at heart Young at heart He'll tear you apart We've got Young at heart

Number 3 because at that moment I just knew we'd have a couple more goals to look forward to :0

General with all your connections and influence could you perhaps do us fans in the USA a little favour. This Sunday we will be up at the crack of dawn and flock to the pub for the 7am kick off EST. This has been a struggle all year, I for one enjoy my weekend lie-in but have had to sacrifice it many times this season for the Villa. I understand there's not much you can do when the powers that be in the Premier League and the Police decide a game should be played so early but maybe you could do something about the time zones. A quick phone call to the joint chiefs and the President would settle it. Convince them that in the interests of security you find it is in America's best interests to move their clock back 5 hours to match Grenwich Mean Time. Think of the benefits: Terrorists would be left confused and off guard by the strange decision, any plans they may have for future attacks will be left in tatters. Agencies across the globe would be able to better communicate as they wouldn't have to count on their fingers trying to work out if Bob has arrived for work in Langley yet. With New York trading at the same time as London it would prevent any sudden upsets in the markets leading to economic stability. With 5 extra hours of sunshine in the evening the general population will be happier, will get more excersize, do more shopping and use less gas thus curing obesity, fixing the economy and saving the enviornment. Most importantly TSV and the other US based villans would have a nice lie in. Do you think you could swing it general?

If Blues are relegated then we can't beat them twice a season.

Glad you liked it, I haven't made it in a while must whip up a batch for the weekend.

I go to Shea stadium a few times a year, it's a great game to go to, you chug beers, eat hotdogs and abuse players. What's not to like?

My old company worked briefly on a partnership with LiveNation a couple of years back, I've nothing positive to say about them, on the surface they appear the lesser of two evils but deeper down it's just the same bunch of scumbags.

It depends on how you define a good Bond. If it's based on Connery setting up the character then every following Bond will be judged in comparison however based on the books, Moore was probably closest to the original character. Dalton was by far the best actor in the role but many people thought he was far too serious and Brosnan had no problems letting people know that he hated the Bond they made him play. If you watch the Tailor of Panama his charater is the type he believe Bond should be ruthless, selfish and slimy not Superman.

Pesto Donaldinho Pasta, preferrably fusili 1 Onion, chopped 10 Pork or Turkey Fankfurters, decent German ones 1 Jar of Sundried Tomato or Red Pesto 1 Tin of Coconut milk 1 handfull of Wallnuts or Pecans (optional) Olive Oil Cook the pasta. Cut the Frankfurters down the middle lenghtways, then once again to quater now chop horizontaly about 8 times, you are left with roughly 35 or so small pieces per sausage. Saute/fry the sausage, nuts and onion in Olive oil on high until the onion starts to caramelise but before the sausage or nuts burn. Chuck in the Pesto and the can of Coconut Milk and simmer for 20 minutes. Now drop the Pasta on top of the creamy pink goodness turn off the heat and mix it all up. Serve in a bowl to be eaten in front of the telly. Be sure to try the leftovers after a heavy night out, not only is it a fantastic boozy snack but it may well cure the hangover before it starts. No promises but some of my mates used to swear by it and wouldn't go home on a Saturday until they had been by my flat to take their dose. I've tried dozens of combinations, different meats, veg, cream etc. Nothing even compares to frankfurters, onion, red pesto and coconut milk. It's like the flaming Homer, on paper it makes no sense but when prepared is phenominal.

So I was just ordering tickets for none other than George Michael at Madison Square Garden, (yeah laugh all you want) when I came to the conclusion that Ticketmaster should be banned. So since this isn't the most serious of concerts I decided to grab the cheapest tickets available, no problem thats $49.75 a mere 25 pounds in the Brummy bills. Not too shabby but you know how these things work, tickets go on presale so in order to get the cheap seats you need to take some obscure route cause by the time they go on regular sale all that's left is the VIP $250 seats. So todays presale was open to people buying George's latest compilation on iTunes, the George Michael fanclub and American Express carholder. Firstly I refuse to buy anything off iTunes, secondly there's no way I'm joining George Michael's fanclub but thankfully I do have an American express card. Great, a couple of tickets at $49.75 but wait what's this a $10.50 Convenience Charge, well i guess that's how Ticketmaster makes their money, per feckin' ticket!!! so no matter how many I buy 10 or 100 I have to pay a convenience charge of bloody $10.50 because the fantastic service I was just offered by Ticketmaster is worth that much. I'm sure they have a professionally trained team of paper artists currently painting my hand crafted tickets before beautifully wrapping them and sending out a former olympic sprinter to hand deliver them before the ink is dry but wait, it appears I have to also pay for the delivery privallage. Behold if I want it sent by snail mail instead of the 40cent price of a stamp it's going to cost me another $10, I hope the person stuffing the envelope has a bloody PHD, 2 day, 3 day and next day deliveries are all more than twice what they should cost and behold, if I want to print the tickets myself I have to pay $2.50 for the Ticketmaster site to serve me about 60kb's of html. By volume that must be more expensive than Saffron. Now I know some other sites deliver the same shady add-ons and outrageous charges like Ryanair, but generally those sites are providing a service at bargain prices and a service you can get elsewhere. Ticketmaster have cornered the market, there is no way to get these tickets elsewhere as they will sell out before they go on personal sale or be gobbled up by touts. So how can Ticketmaster operate within the letter of the law? Surely it is anti-competative business.

Yes there is no alternative, unless we want to be like Newcastle.

Aren't they the basic requirements for a career in politics?

DeNiro by 2 oscars to 1. Seriously compare DeNiro in Awakenings to DeNiro in Goodfellas, much bigger range than Pacino.

Based on Brummieblokes comment above its easy and fun to have blitz days for kids, bring a couple of dozen youth 5-a-side teams to bodymore and have some of the Villa players referee games. Imagine it General your a young lad playing footie and Big John Carew or Gabby even MON is reffing the game, it would be magic and those kids would be throwing out their ManU or Arsenal jerseys the moment they got home.

Yes it was arranged by Ahin and Simon of the Toronto Villans. Basically the travelling Villa fans played a team of Columbus supporters and staff. heres a picture from the day I'm the fatty on the right with foot on ball. The New York Red Bulls hold a summer supporters tournament, where fans get to play off against each other in Giants Stadium, we did it last year and it was brilliant, basically we had 6-aside league and knockout in the afternoon prior to an evening match. Obviously this wouldn't be very viable for Villa due to the lack of an astroturf field as it would be cut to bits before the main game began but they do have another tournament which basically starts late Saturday evening and runs all night under the floodlights. Might work for Villa Park at the beginning of the summer break giving the pitch plenty of time for recovery. It might also be fun to have a game day at Bodymore Heath, where fan teams can go to play each other and maybe use the facilities, all money raised of course for charity. heres a pic from the Giants stadium supporters day to give you some idea of what it was like.

Blatant point scoring if I've ever seen it, careful General you wouldn't want to land yourself a yellow card for rubbing it in

Good lord 644 pages Astonishing, have any of you finished the game yet?

The wife has decided to make my life miserable by watching Notting Hill and guess what? Ronan **** Keating is singing. I feel like taking a scissors to my ear drums.

Yeah Vivec is mental, the scale of Morrowind can be daunting at times, especially when you know you've got to make a 20 minute round trip to talk to someone but that's a rarity.

General I think it would be a good move to give each of the Presidential candidates a Villa scarf next time you see them, whomever produces it on the campaign trail displays to the world that they are able to think outside the 50 states, building strong alliences with Europe and understanding what is most important for the world as a whole - "football". As a bonus the first to mention Paul McGrath in a speech gets the 45 million Irish American votes!