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That's possibly one of the most tedious halves of football I've seen

Sounds like we are going to have to score at least four if we want to win this one! Easy!

Wish we had Randy back

Randy was a simpleton bank rolled by a family inheritance, he was not a business man and we were a play thing to him. Xia was a gambler who borrowed money, rolled the dice in the hope of a quick return. Wes and Nas are proper business men. They have not only supported short term funding but are overseeing long term investment, in the form of the stadium and the academy, and are clearly putting in place all the pieces to give us a chance at long term success. The "worst" that happens is that they treat us as a business and expect us to start standing on our own feet rather than constant massive investment. Wes may sell at some point but when he does he will leave us in a far stronger position than he found us.

We don't care if he spells John wrong, He's our man, he's Jhon Duran

Every time we have a mini break we come back shit

Whilst I don't disagree that finding a new consistent striker would be very nice, I would add, for balance, that we have scored seven goals in the first three games under Emery. Friendlies are for fitness, I wouldn't read too much in to them.

No, but it does make it incredibly hard to stop. As soon as you introduce competition into sport and games you are going to get people looking for an edge and some of that will obviously be a mental edge. You could probably put a stop to mind games in penalty shoot outs but the rest of the game? The ref would have to be every where all the time. Personally, I find it interesting to see how people cope with mind games/ pressure and feel that taking it away would sanitise the game. I enjoyed watching Emi last night.

I think you maybe following the wrong game, this sort of thing has existed at every level in every game probably since football started but certainly since the 80s and onwards as I've heard and seen it even at the very low level I played at.

I reckon they'll completely ignore it and hope everyone else does too. The WC was already controversial due to its location etc. The last thing they want to do is make a brilliant final about one of the winners shagging a shit, plastic looking golden hand.

Maybe he has a golden gloved hand?

Those awards are tacky pieces of shit. The boot one almost fell apart whilst Mbappe was carrying it. They look like they cost about 50p.

For 80 minutes France were utter shit but Argentina have a Villa like* ability to crumble quickly. *Hopefully this will change under UE

Imagine a mouth full of glutinous fat, that's your average pig in blanket. Whether that's your thing or not is up to you

Mushroom wellington As many roast pots as I can fit on the plate Peas Baby carrots Sprouts Parsnips Stuffing Onion gravy Red currant jelly Christmas can't come quick enough

Yes, but who were the opposition in those 5 games/ how important were the games? The group stages of the champions league contains quite a number of sub par teams and dead rubber games. Without checking I would guess Jack has appeared in those games. Guardiola doesn't trust him. Jack got the amount of minutes on the pitch at WC that his current form deserves

Grealish isn't showing that though is he? He made the choice to go and sit on the Man City bench rather than play football week in week out. On form, Grealish was lucky to get picked for the squad. If he doesn't move and start playing again this will be his last major tournament.

In fairness, so starved are we of proper football at the moment, we will talk about any slightest Villa related news. Usually, this would have been half a page in the general transfer thread.

Harry Kane-esque. Lets hope he becomes as good!

You nerd Great books

He looked good last night but up until that point he'd looked like a diving, lightweight shyster. I don't know enough about him to know which is the norm.

Has some one been changing the vowels around on your keyboard? Ashley Young As it is, if the deal was right I'd have Grealish back in a heartbeat. It won't be though and he'll end up at Newcastle or some such.

Even without the injury I don't think he would have been good enough for us. Sadly, with the injury, he's now barely a footballer.

I think it will be interesting to see how our defence cope against France. They will be the first team we play with top tier forwards

The thing is with the penalty they wanted from the Cavani incident he clearly put his leg across the defender in order to get tangled up and wanted the penalty. If the defender had clearly put his leg across Cavani they would also have wanted the penalty. So never a penalty and the Uruguayan players are a bunch of sulky cocks