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Benteke a clear MOTM I think, two goals and that backheel that was absolutely world class by anyone's definition.

Weimann, Baker, Clark and Guzan were all terrific as well. Apart from the first 15, everyone played brilliantly.

Absolutely excellent win away from home. 3 massive points and a crapload of confidence.

This is like a dream. Up the **** Villa!

If you swapped the striker sets around, Liverpool would be about 8-0 up by now. How good are Benteke and Weimann?

BENTEKE!

Getting absolutely smashed in the midfield at the moment. We need to take a little bit of control back

I'd take it back if it's still in the bag, definitely.

Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway has looked the same for as long as it's been a website I imagine

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

Since I started listening to music, the one album that never been far from the tapedeck/CD player/ipod/smartphone playlist is Pinkerton by Weezer.

It was probably in the first 5 albums I bought as a kid.

Brilliant! What a legend. Would love to see the camera panning to the "crowd" after each goal

I can't find highlights anywhere

A new Villa fan on the way is good news to me I guess.

It would have to at least pay my mortgage off so the first figure that comes to mind is Aus$300,000.

Probably a lot more than that.

But who knows? It's not something I can really answer without the money on the table in front of me.

It's easy to say "i'd never do it" but if someone put $1,000,000 on the table in front of you, things might be different.

From what I've gathered:

* rugby union: mostly middle class and up fan base (akin to the UK)

* rugby league: middle class and down fan base, localized to NSW and Qld

* aussie rules: middle class and down fan base, the rest

* association football: young, urban, more immigrant fan base

Since the map doesn't show any regional variation, it wouldn't surprise me if the source is a national, as opposed to a per-state survey (indeed, only the US and Afghanistan, AFAICT, show regional-level variations), in which case the rugby league and aussie rules fans pretty much cancel each other out and cricket wins by default.

Pretty close.

QLD and NSW are Rugby, with as you say, the upper class leaning toward Union and the lower class leaning toward League.

All the other states are Aussie Rules dominant. The AFL is comfortably the biggest and most successful sporting league in the country.

Football is slowly emerging with the A League now about 8 years old. The support levels are still absolutely dwarfed by the AFL and NRL though.

Cricket is the one sport we all agree on I guess. Living in South Australia I think of Aussie Rules as our national sport because it's the one sport that's uniquely ours, and the AFL is enormous over here.

In the interests of open-mindedness, I gave that Alexander Cross track a listen. Horrible.

Yikes. Let's try again hey. This one is off his new album, which is fantastic if you don't mind a bit of bluesy alternative rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_TfQaLl4Yo

Goldeneye

Moore

Live and Let Die

Banning Serbia from hosting international matches seems like the most obvious way to go.

As others have said, take football away from them until a time where this sort of disgusting abuse doesn't happen.

This guy is excellent

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There are no fans in world football more deluded than Celtic or Rangers fans.

Even plankton looks big if you have a small enough pond

Any chance of Villatalk being available on tapatalk?

Just to make certain that I don't do anything at all at work?

I love our striker set at the moment. I'm a huge Gabby fan and he can be really effective when he's on. It's great to see him bag a couple.

Ball Park Music - Sad Rude Future Dude

OK Go - The House Wins

Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Gaslight Anthem - Stay Lucky

Um. That may be the greatest first five songs in the history of my iphone.

I thought he'd play quite well for 89 minutes but just do something really stupid to give up a cheap goal too often.

Hacking a guy down on the edge of the box, or being sent embarrassingly the wrong way by a winger and waltzed past.

Massive, massive signing for Australian football.

I mean the A league is low standard trash in general and i'd much prefer we send all our talented kids overseas as young as possible to proper academies, but this should definitely generate a lot of interest.

When Abramovich bought Chelsea, a mate of mine who had supported them all his life decided he didn't want to anymore because he felt they'd sold out and didn't represent what he wanted to support. He mulled over it and started to follow a few different clubs before coming back to Chelsea because ultimately, they were his club.

I'd absolutely love it tbh.

I hate international weekend.