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Picked up the book on holiday and thought 'I don't like Stephen King'. Couldn't put it down ( I know that's a cliche buts its true) In the top five books I have read. Loved the film as well.

I you are a higher rate tax payer the tax will be much higher as you will pay tax on the benefit in kind at 40%. Including the benefit you would have to be earning circa £42,500 per annum for this to be the case.

71 but missed some obvious ones. Didn't realise there was a time limit!

I'm with you RJW. I have lived amongst them for years and they hate us. Tossers I hope they go down. Remember what R.I.C.O.H. stands for.

Met him a few times. My younger brother went out with his daughter for a time. He was a nice guy.

IF we are struggling? Don't you mean WHEN? This will be my 50th year watching Aston Villa and I've seen some crap but this guy takes it to new depths.

Yes I have major sympathy with the fans as it's totally out of their control. Fans need to be involved but with all the money involved the pigs have taken over the trough completely. If it was our club we'd be devastated but until the whole philosophy of football changes I can only see things getting worse.

I hate paying tax because imo the government waste most of it, but it's a fact of life that it has to be paid. How these clubs keep getting away with it amazes me It's a though football is an exception to the rule. I can't get away with not paying tax and where I work if we didn't pay tax we would soon have a visit from HMR & C. Football is in a mess, too many greedy bastards involved. If it all collapses then good. Let's get back to reality for **** sake. Rant over.

Had to live amongst Cov fans for years. Hate them. Hope they go out of existence.

I'm a bit pissed off. I had a treble at 100-1 on Winehouse, Bin Laden and Mugabe!

Extremely disappointrd with performance of Allbrighton. If he can't beat Championship full backs he's got no chance with premier ones. So much now seems to be resting on N'zogbia re creation from wide. WE definitely need someone on the right with good premiership experience. SWP anyone?

Agree about Herculaneum, stunning place and a lot less people than Pompeii. Vesuvius is worh a visit.

Did you see Eidur Gudjohnsen's tackle last night which didn't even get a yellow card. It didn't look much different to Makouns.

My son works at the Forest of Arden and apparently SHA have cancelled their corporate subscription. They have all been told that any Blues players wanting to plat golf must pay. I don't know how much a corporate subscription is, but obviously things are tight!

Totally agree about our ball retention. Quite frankly most of the time watching Villa I'm just resigned to us giving the ball back to the opposition. I'm a bag of nerves watching us and after 65 minutes last night I expected to lose that game. During O'Neills tenure ( and I'm an MON fan) we have never been able to keep the ball. I sincerely hope that under Houllier this will improve otherwise I will not be watching Villa for much longer. I'll have a heart attack!

Although, IMO money has totally ruined the game why this hatefest against MCFC. As has just been said other clubs have been spending vast sums of money for years. Let Man City fans have their time. I reckon they deserve it. They have followed their club through some crap times.

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I really enjoyed reading that. A good comprehensive report of the game with some lovely comments that made me chuckle. Nice one.

Brinklow, Warwickshire-surrounded by people who support Coventry City. Did you knoe RICOH stands for Relegation is Coventry's only hope.

General, That's really bad news re the Holte Pub.I was there from 12.15 to just after the final whistle and I did not see any problems.That really pisses me off.It's a great location to watch away games. Why can't people just enjoy themselves.

Hi General, Watched the game in the Holte pub.It was my first visit.Fantastic place.What a superb job has been done renovating it.Needless to say the atmosphere in there was superb. Hope there will be more away games shown in there.When Gabby scored it was pandemonium. Wonderful stuff!

I thought NRC looked jaded.

Started the comeback against Coventry City which saw them relegated. Hero for me for that alone. I live amongst Coventry fans and most of them are a bunch of tossers.

I have supported this great football club since 1962 and over the years I have experienced the highs and lows as every football fan does. In the late sixties/early seventies there was a revolution when the old board resigned, but initially things did not work out and the club was relegated to the old third division.Despite that there were some highs,particularly the two semi final legs of the league cup against Man Utd, a wonderful friendly against Santos( including Pele) and a record third division crowd of circa 48,000 against Bournemouth which Villa came back to win after conceding a wonderful goal by Ted Mcdougall. I was at college then and and didn't miss a game home and away all season. In the seventies we won the league cup twice. The highlight of those two finals for me being the final game at Old Trafford when Chris Nicholl scored a 40 yarder with his left foot.I went to Wembley, Hillsborough and Old Trafford. In the eighties, well I don't need to tell you what the highlights of that decade were, my only regret being that I couldn't get to Rotterdam, I simply could not afford it. The nineties had highs of further league cup wins in 1994 and 1996 and the team Atkinson built played some very good football.After the league cup win of 1996 thats when the rot,imo, began to really set in. It has been stated that Ellis stayed 10 years too long and that would ring true as if he had sold out in 1996 then I firmly believe that this football club would be vastly further on(I know that's probably an obvious statement. Football for me has changed dramatically since the late seventies( Imagine Derby getting promoted, winning the title and then winning the champions league two years running. It will never happen, but Forest did it in the late seventies, ask MON) Anyway maybe I'm rambling on a bit but what I'm trying to say is that this wonderful football club is once again moving in the right direction, with excellent owners and a excellent manager and coaching staff and I have thoroughly enjoyed the last six months as I know have thousands of other Villa fans and can't wait for the next instalment.Let's all hope that we can fill Villa Park as it used o be filled and generate the noise that used to be generated in the past. Come on you Villa boys.

Nice report Blandy.I get the feeling reading between the lines of your postings that your philosophy is much the same as mine. Things at the football club in general are improving i.e. training ground re-development back on track, commercially aware business people being recruited,communication with the fans etc. Lets see what happens in January, but most of all lets remember, as I'm sure you do, 4 or 5 months ago AVFC was only going one place and that was downhill fast.I am very optimistic for the future, but it will take some time.This football had been pretty much stagnating for 10+years. Keep the faith