Maradona10

Just thinking about it wheres Salifou?

Albrighton could be a star.

Of course he'll have to shift Milner and Ashley Young to get into the first team, but he's got some ability.

You like my prediction before the game, i know some of the youth coaches down at VP, they go watch this kid, he's going to be a superb player. I think he may be a reason why we didn't go after Bentley!

England have white shorts ! Anyway i like our kit!

25mins - GOAL - Andreas Weimann nicks a header home from close range. Great finish after a superb move involving Barry Bannan and a Marc Albrighton cross. That was against the run of play - like I'm bothered

My prediction was right about Albrighton!

The poor form continues lol!

I think Albrighton will be the star man today! Really have high hopes for this kid, could save us money by not wasting it on Bentley!

Anyone got the Leeds line up? Looks like he's off to me!

Ronaldo by a country mile for me!

Wheres the Best Ever player?

The thing with Messi is he is such a team player, Ronaldo wanted to win that trophy by himself and be the 'Hero'. I'm glad Barcelona win, people give me all this patriotic talk about being English, but i couldn't bare Fergie harp on about back to back trophies would have done my bloody head in. Has anyone else noticed United don't play to the same standards last year? Is it a coincidence, that Carlos Queiroz had an influence on the way they play? Plus the substitutions made by Fergie, he fell into the trap, even after the game he went on about his defence, the problem he had was no-one in his midfield could actually tackle.

Is this only an issue because of the timing of the goal, it knocked Chelsea for six. Its all 'Ifs' and 'buts' If Terry had headed it properly. I remember when we were denied 3 clear opportunities at Utd due to an inept linesman, but that all gets brushed under the carpet. Also those who say if Villa had defended like Chelsea we would be here celebrating, fact is Chelsea have spent MILLIONS to be able to compete with the likes of Barcelona, the way i look at it how many Chelsea players would get into our side and to be honest most of them would, but they got stung because of a brilliant Barcelona side who had 10 men which people seem to forget. Barcelona in my opinion will beat Man Utd in the final, not just because of the talent but just look at their workrate to try and get the ball back, they had 70% of the ball last night! Its all geared up to be an exciting game, can't wait as you'll see two great teams trying to win the game.

I've already asked that cheeky question Villa Shere! Plus with the Vaisakhi Mela's happening in the coming weeks it'll be good to wear!

General Krulak here:

1. Maradona10: The shirts were in recognition of the Vaisakhi Festival and of a group of people who make up a percentage of our Community. It was not intended to elevate one religion over another...it was just a gesture of recognition of people who support our Club. I would hope that it would be taken in the manner it was presented...low-key but with class.

Fantastic General thanks to you and Randy.Is there any chance i could get one of those T-Shirts?

Birmingham has a huge Sikh Community and shall i be honest with you the majority of them support the likes of Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool. But it was with great pride seeing what my club had done and telling people around me who are Sikh what a great club Villa are. I know people may say what about Easter and other events, but how many of you knew about Vaisakhi? The majority of people in VP probably didn't know it existed, but it is a huge event in the Sikh Calender. For one General i am proud of all the work you guys are doing by bringing the community together, just to let you know the Gurdwara's (Temples) even made announcements about what AVFC had done.

Hi General

I just want to thank you and the club for wearing those pre-warm up t-shirts to celebrate Vaisakhi (A Sikh Religious Festival) This club has just gone up in my expectations. Well done Randy, General, MON. Is their any chance i could get one of those t-shirts?

General, could you give me some information on the t-shirts worn by the players in the pre-match warm up

General

In the pre-match warm up, the Villa players were wearing yellow shirts, with what looked like a Sikh Religious Symbol on the back, It made me so proud as a sikh, that my Club was supporting my faith, is there any chance i could get one of those t-shirts? Keep up the good work.

Thats not funny because De La Red has serious injury problems which could affect his potential career!

not funny because the blokes injured? How does that work

Does that mean you can only tell Michael Owen jokes for one month a year

Mate, the guy had a heart attack on the pitch so it isn't your Michael Owen hamstrings if you know what i mean, the guys lucky to be alive never mind playing football!

Thats not funny because De La Red has serious injury problems which could affect his potential career!

General,

Could you please pass on my support to Gabby Agbonlahor. At this moment he must be feeling low on confidence, but tell him there are some Villa fans who are 150% behind him! The thing is we have fans who are quick to jump on the back of the players rather than support them. We do have short memories of this guy banging in the winner at St Andrews, also being the top English Goalscorer at this present time, they also forget the amount of assists this guy gets.

I really couldn't care less about how much Everton spent, fact is they were miles ahead of us when we had DOL/Ellis. I did like Everton and Moyes, plus (Arteta'sgirl) But after we beat them, the constant whinging of Everton fans about our style of play, how were lucky etc. The goal that Ashley scored in the last seconds was genious, if that was Ronaldo or Rooney they would still be banging on about it. Just bring it on for the FA Cup, can't bloody wait.

As I said, sorry for that by the way, just a bit happy and drunk (), we didn't play great last night, defensively we were good but going forward not so much but quite honestly...I don't care. Moan all you want buddy but we have played some great football over the last few months and we are missing a striker badly, as much as it seems we ain't. Can't wait til we have a good striker back now.

Oh and Phumfeinz it weren't about 6th place and paddy, watch your mouth mate :evil:

Just admit it Arteta's girl you had the 'Luck' with you last night! 8)

I really wanted Liverpool tonight (no offence Arteta's girl) but some Everton fans really irrittate the hell outta me, just hearing them whine on the radio about how ordinary Villa are and how they play some great stuff. I couldn't see alot of that tonight, I even said to my friend the only way Everton will score is from a set piece and i was proved right. Anyway i got that off my chest as watching Everton today they are not all that great either.

I believe if he played for us now in his Prime he'd be banging the goals in. Bottom line is we were rubbish, utter rubbish team when he was here and he's a confidence player. The one season we had a good run he scored 23 goals. Says it all.

I love JPA. Always will.

How about you turn that last bit around - the one season he actually performed, we did a lot better. That says to me we always had a decent enough side just never scored enough goals. For me there was one reason, and one reason only for that.

Lets put this into perspective mate, in GT's season where he was often criticised he had Leanardhsen/Kinsella playing alongside. Put it this way even if we had Dwight Yorke in GT's season he would never have scored the goals.