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WHAT A GOAL!!!! Come on boys!

Had alternating bays of claret and sky, with VILLA spelled out in white, a letter on each bay. Looked great!

Hit your boss with a chair then tear your work shirt off Hogan style to reveal a WWE shirt underneath Depending on your time and budget, consider driving a milk truck into your workplace and dousing the staff with milk.

I haven't forgotten about him but Bojan surely fits into that "next Maradona" sort of category. He was all set to be the next Messi, but never really developed and is now a bit part player for Stoke City. It's a little staggering to think he got a cap for Spain at one point given his current level of output.

It's staggering that Leeds have been down for so long, given how big they are. Woeful mismanagement.

We'll have to play incredibly well to stand a chance, but you get the feeling we can score against anyone. When you're scoring, you're a chance. That was the issue under Lambert, we were just never going to be able to score enough to counter the goals that we'd concede. Now you feel like we're taking our chances a lot better.

**** selling him. Especially if Lerner is in charge, we're absolutely not going to get anywhere near the sort of value we'd be losing in terms of replacement players. Unless he's demanding a move, do what it takes to keep him.

Now that we've figured out how to score, and the beast has hit top form, we're a chance against anyone. As big a result as we've had in several years. Massive!

Oh what a free kick. That is the most important free kick for us in memory and he's hit it perfectly. <3 Tekkers

YOUGH **** BESAUTTTTYYYYY

We'd have been better off moving Grealish to RB than **** Richardson

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#Pray4Mendi

Yep. They needed to run Nitro under the WCW banner for a little while and work the invasion storyline over a longer time Vince's ego made him instantly make WCW look weak and pathetic which absolutely killed the storyline. As someone who was probably a 60/40 WCW to WWF fan at the time of the invasion, seeing Lance Storm feature prominently for WCW wasn't particularly inspiring. At that point Vince needed to do whatever it took to get Hogan, Nash, Sting, DDP, Goldberg etc on board and firing on all cylinders from the start. I know DDP was there, but he went from the enormously popular People's Champion in WCW to the weird stalker he started out as in the WWF. I really liked Booker T, but him and Bagwell as the faces of WCW for the start of the invasion was about as underwhelming as it possibly could have been. Bagwell and Scott Steiner are probably my two least favourite prominent wrestlers ever. They should have been nWo B-Team, not nWo elite. They cheapened what was already a pretty crushing storyline for a wolfpac fan

Agree. I'd go as far as to say that we haven't had a nicer kit, home or away, in the modern manufacturer/sponsor logo era. It's just a beautiful kit. We're due for a really iconic home kit.

I've never had anything peel off of a football shirt apart from Ian Taylor's name and number peeling off my 99/00 home shirt I wash everything cold though.

I missed this with work.

Swann is not popular in Australia. If we as a nation were able to move past the fact that Broad quite reasonably didn't walk, Swann would be the one we dislike the most. We quite like Pietersen at the moment but I feel like that would end pretty quickly if he were accepted back into the England fold and hitting tons against us.

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Yeah absolutely. Football has pretty well lost it's soul at the top level. Given that, I'd rather be winning soulless trophies than moaning about how football is soulless and worrying about relegation.

In a tournament dominated by batsmen, our bowlers were why we won it. Starc was a fitting man of the tournament.

I genuinely don't get why Broad is unlikeable to that extent - i.e "most unlikeable". I know Boof gave him stick for not walking when he hit the cover off one, and then the Aussie public gave him loads as a result, but that's hardly something unique to Broad - it's something that is ingrained in most cricketers, particularly Aussie ones (Gilchrist excepted) - "the umpire is there to decide if I'm out, I'm not doing his job for him" which is fair enough. I was at the Adelaide test when Mitchell Johnson got him first ball, after Broad held up play by moving the sightscreen and all that, and it was brilliant sporting theatre. I detect that the Aussies don't like Broady because as you say, he's one of the (few) English cricketers at the moment who are a genuine threat. If it's not for the pantomime aspects, then why is he so unlikeable? For me there are far worthier recipients of that tag, in the England team and generally. In the media in the UK, when Broad does radio or newspaper interviews he comes across as thoughtful and decent, with a good competitive streak - the same as most Aussie Cricketers. Jimmy Anderson is a good guy off the pitch, but his behaviour on it has been appalling at times. By and large almost all cricketers come across pretty well, overall. Mostly they are, like I said above, pantomime villains, but decent people. I tend to agree in general. Cricket is probably the one sport in the world where even if someone is a bit of a pantomime villain and they play for a rival nation, everyone loves to see good cricket played. I went to the Australia v Pakistan quarter final at Adelaide Oval, and everyone was absolutely loving Riaz's spell to Watson. Probably my favourite day at the cricket ever was watching Brian Lara hit a double ton. There is always a bit of argy bargy and good characters etc, but ultimately everyone loves the theatre of cricket and loves to see good cricket played, by whoever it is. It's nothing like football where i'd rather see an opposition player, even a nice one, break their leg than score a goal which could hurt our chances of survival. I love watching DeVilliers, Kohli and the rise of New Zealand.

I really hope they don't reduce the number of teams at the next World Cup. After the way some of the associate teams played in this world cup, it would be an incredibly unpopular move to kick them out. I hope we get more teams. Seeing the developing nations play is one of the best things about the World Cup. If it's about the length of the tournament, they just need to schedule more than one game a day for weekends and not have pools of 7 or whatever it is. The only reason the pools of 7 exist is to give the bigger nations a maximum chance of going through, even if they drop a game. It's a joke. You'll notice there is no such leeway in the football world cup, with only 3 group games making every game cutthroat. 16 teams, 4 pools of 4 with a single round robin for the group stage. 24 group stage games 4 quarter final games 2 semi final games 1 final. That's 31 games with 16 teams. 2 more teams and 18 less games than this world cup. The big pools are stupid.

Trophies are great, but the only trophies that count in the scheme of ranking teams are recent ones. Historical trophies are something that should be celebrated by the club that won them and they are a part of the fabric of the club. We should be incredibly proud of our history. However, we should not expect anyone else to do the same. We haven't won anything worth writing home about in 2 decades. Our European Cup is meaningless to the average football supporter in 2015. Do we rank Blackburn Rovers as a big club because they've won a Premier League title? Do we think Preston NE are a big club because of the major trophies they have in their cabinet, with the most recent one being won over 75 years ago? It's just a fact of life. How people judge a club in football is very much a case of what have you done for me lately. Winning the FA Cup this year would do a lot more for the standing of our great club than any league title won 100+ years ago. It's time to actually become relevant again rather than just pointing to our historical records.

The most unlikable character in cricket is probably Warner or Broad. You don't get unlikable by being a shit player. Johnson is a fiery competitor but what do people want? He's a fast bowler. Aggression from quicks is good for the game. How good was Riaz v Watson in the quarter final?