delboy54

If Villa are going to relocate VP then hopefully they will take on board my suggestion and move it to Cambridge. This means I have a 20 min journey to see the Villa play instead of 2 hours.... Not being selfish or anything....!

I am fairly confident that we won't go down this year, close to getting the 40 points now....

Wow that IS me!!!!!

I think to be honest the best and quickest way to get a pay increase is a new job somewhere else. A company car is not the perk it used to be. Sounds like your firm is "flogging a willing horse"

Married now for over 32 years but the phrase I fear the most when coming home from work is.... Wife: "Notice anything different?" Me: thinking...new hair?, clothes?, carpet?, car?, rearranged furniture? etc etc The problem is the longer it takes you to work out what actually is different, say like a new egg whisk or a new set of spoons, then the more trouble you are into ☺

I am an oldie, my choice of next years gigs are so far:- Australian Pink Floyd Paul Carrack Jethro Tull Steve Hackett

They beat us at home, away and in the FA cup in the season 1980 to 1981......I was there for all three games

I was at the game, and arsenal had plenty of genuine chances to score but didn't and just seem to rely on shirt tugging to stop our players, diving*, and play acting... * I know it was a windy night on Saturday night but didn't think it was that strong enough to keep blowing the arsenal players over.... Saka, first time I have ever seen him play to be honest, what a cheating, whinging, whining little sod he is.....worse than the cheating master Kane in my book. We got the result, they didn't and they kept resorting to the standard "sky scum 6" tactics i.e. cheat their way to victory and this time the referee saw sense and did not fall for it....although he was a little inconsistent with he decision making esp in the second half. All my arsenal colleagues at work are moaning about being robbed, poor Saka being constantly fouled, ref was their 12 man etc etc etc....suck it up cockney gooners!

If we are going to lose our unbroken wins at VP then it might as well be against this cheating club

Man yoo drawn away?????? They will be calling for the draw to be done again

Please change the thread title to FA Cup 3rd round Man Yoo v The Villa... (again)

My view is that while we all want justice for all the titles that they have bought at the expense of other teams, unfortunately I think they will get off lightly. The reason? This all happened under the premier league watch and they will be embarrassed because of this and will make sure it will appear to be a punishment but it will amount to no more to a slap on the wrist sadly. This will give the green light to man city and other clubs to carry on fiddling and doing their dodgy deals, but this time much more convoluted, hidden and infinitely more difficult to prove.

I stayed overnight at the holiday inn Express star city as it is a long drive back to newmarket in Suffolk after a night game. Checking out around 0815 this morning, I notice 6 guys together at the bar, one with a Legia top, all chatting in Polish ordering pints of beer with vodka shots. I said to another guy next to me in the checkout queue, "that's a bit hardcore drinking before 9am".......thankfully I wasn't wearing any Villa colours. Otherwise I would I would have taken them all on................................nah, not really............... At 65 i am not much of a trophy these days

Yeah he did ok, no chance of stopping their goal, bloody shame min a way, would have been a confidence builder to keep a clean sheet. Although we gifted them the opportunity, their player made the most of it and scored a beauty

I was there, I didnt see much to be honest walking towards the Holte End, but I could see stuff kickimg off at the far end of the DE stand. I think it was expected there would be trouble. Was very odd having no away fans and the atmosphere was also strange, even the PA announcements were quiet......for a change, so quiet I couldn't even hear it! Been going to football since the 1960s and seen loads of violence, I think the police did a good job and hopefully none of them got hurt. In these days this sort of behaviour is unacceptable and UEFA should ban them from competing Shame we never got that third goal

I want us to win the FA cup, qualify for chumps leage and win this European conference cup thingy ......

The episode "Holy" by Bottom.......wouldn't be xmas without watching that classic episode. Top class slapstick seasonal humour by Eddy and Ritchie

Isn't the only difference with the way man citeh play this system is that as soon as the opposition try to break through, they are cynically fouled and the resultant bookings are shared out as each player in the man citeh team take it in turns to do the fouling

I know a Villa supporter that I keep in touch with, was born and bought up very near VP. He said when he was a nipper and the Villa were playing a night game he could see the glare of the AV floodlights shining through his bedroom curtains.

I used to live in Gloucestershire, now I live near Newmarket in Suffolkshire, which is very close to Cambridgeshire. So yep a genuine Villa fan from shires...... ST holder and I get to about 70% of the games

I was in my normal seat last night in upper Holte surrounded by people I have never seen before rather than the usual rabble... It did seemed quieter, is there a sense of entitlement creeping in? Approaching the Holte end yesterday I looked up to the terrace view and it looked like there were chandeliers inside....meanwhile with the riff raff I had to stand juggling a cup of tea with one hand and a tray of hideous chips in the other............I think I have strayed off topic ☺

A school chum of mine way back in 1972 bought an unexploded anti aircraft shell into school (it was a bloody great rusty thing) that he found while exploring an old USA WW2 airfield.....that was exciting especially when the bomb squad got called in....and yes it was a live round In his defence though, he didn't intend to use it or set it off......just a bit of harmless innocent fun! Difference is todays kids would have have tried to set it off or chuck it on a fire

I used to go to Technical College years ago and a group of the guys on my course said they had to spend a year at Lewisham Tech College in London and this college had metal scanners (airport type) at the front door and this was in the mid 1970's.....!

Will there be anyone left on the list ?

My dad, ex army, now Holte ender in the sky, once said to me when I was a lad years ago "When you get to my age son, you fancy their mothers not their daughters" .....and strangely enough he was right, mind you at my age it's their grandmothers I look at now...!