Spoony

we should sign Billy Sharp! It's time we took a risk with a couple of lower league players. He has scored 27 this season and he's only 21

It is still tradition today my friend And you would have to say it is deliberate because he moved his hands up with the intention of hitting the ball away from his face. If you apply the law, it's a penalty. I think Rob Styles is one of the better refs at the moment. He has shown a lot more consistently than some others and i personally think that if it happened the other way, that too would have been a penalty. What has he got to gain from being biased?

There has been alot said about this and typically the ref is the one getting the flack for everything. I've seen it about 5 times now and every time my opinion doesn't change. It is a handball and it is a penalty. I am a referee and if the same thing happened in one of my games i would not hesitate. It was not "ball to hand" because he moved his hands upwards to intentionally handel the ball. It doesn't matter if he was protecting his face, you just can't do that. The referee simply applied the letter of the law and people may argue that he should have used his 'common sence' but he would get a bollocking himself for not giving that. Thoughts? Boateng things decisions always go against him.....*cough* SOLANO *cough*

Gudjohnsen would never happen. From Chelsea to Barca to Villa? No...

I will second that. The man devotes his life to helping others and supporting Villa.

Happy birthday General! Hope you have a good one and ih ope that you can be celebrating a Villa victory!

Got to envy the academy teams who get the kits with no sponsor. I have run the line in an Aston Villa U16 academy game and they had the white kit without sponsor because it is illegal as they are under 18. Looks SOOO much better

no. If we're not good enough to get automatic qualification to Europe, is our squad really good enough to compete? Lets wait. It would be a shame to return to Europe after so long and then just be embarassed

Is it reasonable to ask if the sponsor has remained 32red? and is the price still going to be £40 ($80, looks even more extrotionate)? I am dead excited! WE're going to have a decent kit for a change!! Thanks a lot to Randy and yourself for aranging a kit make that will stop us looking like we're playing in the conference.

You can not die in Parliament! If you die in Parliament it has to say on your death certificate that you died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. That's true by the way i didnt' just make it up

I'm yay. Yay means that Villa are doing well. Nay means you're shagging a horse

i voted yes. Let them come up and let us piss on them until they drown with our millions and our built up stadium and our nike kit and our cracking strikers and our Celtic squad

How about Alfonso Alves from Heerenveen? He's scored 23 goal in the Dutch Prem this season and Dutch players usually succeed in the English Prem

We should go for a totally insane bid for a world class player that wants to experience the prem. Something mad LIKE Kaka. That would be fun to read even if it wouldn't work out

it is also unrealistic

Well to be fair there haven't been any quality signings. I mean ok, we have signed a Manchester United right-back with bag fulls of tallent. And fair enough, we have signed a striker who has played for the like of Valencia Roma and Lyon and made a mockery of a Real Madrid defence that included Cannavaro. Not to mention a winger who scored 15 goals from midfield last season, has been tipped as a future England international and attracted interest from 6 clubs including Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham. Appart from that, no quality at all... Not having a dig because we were all frustrated at the time, but we should all eat our words and celebrate our new team

to be fair i doubt there would be a video of him missing sitters on youtube

i live in chester and i haven't seen a villa kit here for 4 years

Defoe's phone bill is so high that he can't afford a pen to sign the contract

i think it is now only Ronaldinho that we haven't been linked with. But give it time....

people are expecting far too much too soon

so if we assume that MON was watching Curtis Davies, we will loan Wright-Phillips, buy Ashley Young and some form of striker (we can dream) our team would look a bit like this: Sorensen Bardsley Davies Ridgewell Bouma Wright-Phillips Petrov McCann Barry Keadefobelladica Moore Subs: Young Mellberg Taylor Agbonlahor Davis ooooh yeah. Coming at you like a flanel

Kevin Phillips...

I'm not being negative but i doubt we will make any big-money signings in january because all the clubs seem to lose their commom sence. Short-term fixes that will keep us in the prem may be more sensible than splashing £7m out on Young who could yet prove to be a disaster