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The most inevitable goal in the whole history of inevitable goals.
Wasn't offside. Defender's foot and Carew's foot were both on the line of the 6 yard box.
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Bennett has actually been a joke. Given us nothing.
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I'd have rested Gabby myself, but strong team... be interesting how the CM handles a Palace side that'll be dirty and strong in the tackle.
What, you mean a CM including Delph?
Suspect he'll probably be ok
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VILLA: Guzan; L Young, Dunne ©, Cuellar, Warnock; A Young, Milner, Delph, Downing; Carew, Agbonlahor. Subs: Sidwell, Delfouneso, Davies, Heskey, Beye, Collins, Friedel
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Friedel in, guess Brad G has been told he's not playing in the final and will no doubt be leaving in the summer.
What? Laughable.
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VILLA: Friedel, Cuellar, Dunne, Collins, L Young, A Young, Milner, Petrov, Downing, Agbonlahor, Heskey. Subs: Guzan, Sidwell, Delph, Delfouneso, Davies, Shorey, Beye.
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Listen - I know what the rules are - and I know what SHOULD happen.
What I am saying is it would be logistcally impossible for Villa to do it, and we would presumably have to bite the bullet and play the home leg first.
Think about it.
We have sold over 40,000 tickets for a game that is happening next week. If it was re-arranged, Villa would have to re-issue all those tickets for an unconfirmed date (in itself virtually impossible). Look at this week, they had a 100 or so returns and that had to be done on a voucher basis - can you imagine 40,000 tickets to do !
We would also lose TV revenue as, any other week there are premier fixtures, FA Cup or Champions League on the telly - so we wouldn't be on TV
If we re-arranged it - first of all we would have to get Arsenals permission, which they may give, but I bloody doubt Arsenal will create their own fixture pile up that could cost them the league and Champions League for our benefit - it won't happen.
So the next possible date is Feb 3rd (although dont know if Blackburn have any commitments).
So Villa / Blackburn / Leauge have two options.
Just play the Villa leg on Wednesday and least they only have to worry about a logistical nightmare re-arranging one game - or re-arrange both and it will cause chaos.
Other matters no one has thought of.
Don't you think the Villa have had to book and pay for police assistance for next Wednesday. What happens if Blues are playing Feb 3rd , are Burney playing next Wednesday at home ...etc....etc....etc......
It would cause chaos - mark my words - if Thursday is off - the Villa Park leg will be Wednesday.
The only option Villa would have is to request the Blackburn leg be played Monday.
Not far fetched - we played Liverpool and Arsenal in 48 hours - AND LOST (another thing that I am sure Allerdyce may look at - he ain't daft !)
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I forgot - we cant play Monday - we've got West Ham Sunday !! - (which just shows how hard it would be to re-arrange two games)
1) BBC and Sky share the rights to show the semi finals live. What other live games on the bbc would get in the way of showing the league cup semi-final? One of the ten championship games they show each year? Sky have multiple channels and could show more than one match.
2) League games are bottom of the priority list when it comes to rearranging matches. Cup games come first. So Arsenal would have to bite the bullet and postpone the game at the end of the month. This was discussed in the papers at the time of the first postponement and also in the last couple of days.
3) Same goes for if it clashes with when Blues are playing at home. The cup game would have priority.
4) As others have said, the order of the legs would never be swapped around regardless.
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Think Cuellar is improving all the time . Had a blindin game v spurs , and deserved the mom
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Have we upgraded from champagne this season?
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Look what a bit of urgency does to our game
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What a f***ing start
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Saw Gervais a couple of years back and he did about 50 minutes overall and I felt very shortchanged.
Ross Noble consistently does 2 hours plus, and it's so good normally I wouldn't object if he did double that length.
Russell Howard did about 1hr30 when I saw him and that was fine for me, felt like value for money.
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Lawro:
Wolves v Aston Villa (1245 BST)Villa are not playing that well but they are still picking up great results which must make boss Martin O'Neill absolutely delighted. The team are really sticking at it and they've got great team spirit with new players coming in and giving everything.
Wolves picked up a well-earned point at Everton last week and their injured players are now returning to fitness. This could just be their best result of the season so far.
Verdict: 2-1
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Ah, apologies. Missed that at the end of the page.
Of everything posted in this thread, that has to be worth a repost though
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VILLA: Friedel; Cuellar, Dunne, Collins, Warnock; Milner, Sidwell, Petrov, Young, Carew, Agbonlahor. Subs: Delph, Heskey, Reo-Coker, Shorey, Guzan, Beye, Gardner.
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Cheers (although it's Dachau :winkold: )
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Here's some from my travels a few years back that I've finally uploaded - more (and bigger versions) on flickr here
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Also, here's a few from Beijing...
View from hotel room
Forbidden City
My mate Oli in the Forbidden City
Great Wall at Badaling (the most touristy bit, unfortunately)
Steep doesn't even come close...
Temple of Confucius
Oli again
Lama Temple
Olympic Stadium
Brilliant keep off the grass sign
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I've been meaning to take my camera out in Oxford for ages and finally got the opportunity the other day, so here's a selection.
Oxford Natural History Museum
Pitt Rivers Museum
New College
Magdalen College
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Codes in the Clouds
www.myspace.com/codesintheclouds
For fans of Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Mono, This Will Destroy You, Godspeed etc etc
PL: Chelsea a Match Thread 2010/03/27 15:00
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This ^^^