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Got up at 5AM this morning to watch the Villa game, then drove down an empty 405 to the gym blasting this out. Pretty good start to the day (despite the result).

Defence was solid, was particularly impressed with Beye as I think he only put a foot wrong once. Not bad for someone who's been almost completely written off. Not really enough quality in centre-mid; Petrov in particular was decidedly average for me today. Fair enough result, shame Ireland and NRC couldn't finish.

Couple of great goals but we were well outplayed by Wolves for most of that. Giving Cuéllar MOTM I think as he seemed to be there for everything, although I thought Ash and Albrighton had decent games too.

Mais oui, bien sur. Welcome Gerard!

The mind absolutely boggles how we can go from one of the best performances I've seen us put in in recent times to perhaps one of the worst and most embarrassing of all time. Utter disgrace.

Ok, this is probably the most embarrassing Villa performance I've ever seen.

Complete and utter embarrassment. Gonna take some to get over this one.

Got up at 5:30 to only to witness this scoreline and have to endure David **** Pleat. PICK IT UP VILLA!

General Krulak here: 1. jackbauer: My point was simply that you were mixing two different issues...Kappa vs. Nike. I am sure that if we were still with Hummel they could have produced a kit in rapid fire fashion...but do we want a Hummel kit? Nike is producing sporting equipment world wide and cannot spin around on a dime. We were late in providing them the sponsor's name...simple as that and we went back a bit in the queue. We are not happy about it...and the fans are not happy about it I'm not sure if that's the last time he talked about the new kit, but I think that's the reason. I'll have a look for more info on it. Thanks. Hopefully we don't have a repeat next season, then.

Incredible performance, absolutely delighted with both Albrighton and Clark in particular - both put in sterling performances and gave us an invigorated hope for the future. The only downside was Carew's lack of shooting boots but he worked so hard otherwise so I can let it slide. Well, and that it looks like goodbye from Jimmy. Pleased that our support made him give a second thought today at least - nice one guys. Martin O'Who?

What a run by Albrighton. Cheers Jimmy.

At least we don't have to endure the random subs/tactical decisions MON would've made any more.

Absolutely dominated that half, shame we didn't get one or two more but cracking stuff so far. Albrighton has looked fantastic.

Probably discussed somewhere but can't find it - anyone know the actual reason we have to wait until a full month after the season's started before we can buy even one of our kits?

Would love Klinsmann or Jol. What about Diego?

Home kit - Alright. Not my favourite kit ever, but alright. Away kit - Black's fine but, but black with claret and blue and a red sponsor? It just doesn't work. Stick with one or two primary colours, ffs! Goalie kit - I like it because it's as mad as a box of frogs, but I'd never wear it.

Kjaer and Cavani look like they're on the way to Spuds: Click

30m is definitely a ridiculous amount of dosh. I know Citeh are changing the face of the transfer market in today's game but just think about it - who could have ever even imagined we would be talking these kinds of sums for James Milner? When Robinho and Berbatov moved for around the same amount of cash it was mind-boggling. Jimmy's top class but we do have to be realistic about these things. For 30m we'd be crazy not to accept.

Yeah, I told my housemate (granted, he doesn't really follow sports) that we tied and ended up having to repeat myself 3 times after he couldn't understand the concept of drawing.

England for me, obviously. Picked up my shirt today and will be wearing it down the pub on Saturday.

Yahoo Ouch...

Not like Samsung - the world's largest electronics manufacturer - or Toyota - the world's largest car maker by sales - then. Sony have definitely used Playstation on a few kits as well.

Here are some stats from a guy on HFBoards to put how much of an upset it was into some perspective:

Amazing result, that. I'd expect it of the Sharks, but not the Caps. The NHL will be crying into their Cheerios tomorrow morning due to no Pens vs Caps series.