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On 04/04/2024 at 14:48, pas5898 said:

I disagree. There's never been a team this stacked and definitely as deep as Man City.

This is it for me.

For as much as the players and Pep aren't cheating, the fact that they can field these stars and have such quality back is blatantly foul play.  Added with @pas5898's points about other teams financial issues (partly due to teams like City trying to "keep up", then it all makes so much sense.

If they get away with a financial penalty, I'm done with football.  And it won't be that hard to do either as things stand.

They should be like the Harlem Globetrotters and stick to friendlies.

As someone with a powerful left foot shot myself, I adored Hitz

Today's the day!!

I'm having this played at your funeral @Xela, you big car bummer. 

14 minutes ago, blandy said:

Possibly, yeah. I guess that would depend on your (anyone's) view on freedom of speech v freedom from abuse and offence.

Literally, all I need to be able to do is say "would you like to bum?" like Leigh Francis did, whilst dressed as Elton John on Bo Selecta - that's it, I swear. 

I know it's not nice, but it really makes me laugh, even when I do it.  

1 minute ago, blandy said:

Well intentioned, but really poor, I'd say. So full of holes, contradictions, inconsistencies and loopholes. Well meaning but amateurish.

Can you see it as somewhat of a tipping point for being too "controlling"? 

The new laws passed in Scotland feel a bit Wokey, don't they? 

Not sure I like the idea of being able to report someone saying something to someone else and me being able to have them arrested for it. 

Albeit, I'm not entirely clued up on the new laws (which is an absolute ignorance on my part), but it seems a bit Orwellian. 

5 minutes ago, choffer said:

This ain’t it. I mean, I guess for some people that might be the case but for most people going through a tough time, having someone get in touch will be a good thing. 

2 minutes ago, Designer1 said:

In my own experience, having someone checking in once and awhile and asking me how things were going made a massive positive difference.

Then I shall continue to annoy! Woohoo, my favourite thing  

Whenever I message one guy, he'll often give me a huge message with an update on himself, but the other?  very much "yep, not too bad thanks" which makes me feel as though I'm stepping on toes.  But my thinking is "at least he knows I've given him a thought".  

It's hard! 

I always read this topic and I've never considered myself depressed or suffering with mental health. 

But my overwhelming question (and one I've never wanted to ask out loud) is: How do you know you're depressed or suffering with mental health issues?  What is it that makes you think "I need to see a Dr about this"? 

I understand this probably a very rude question, but I feel the need to ask it - apologies if anyone feels as though I'm making light of the situation, I promise I am not.

I suppose the reason I'm asking now is because there are a couple of people I know, who have been "fine" from the outside looking in, but have recently told me they are going through some difficult times and I often check in with them to make sure they are ok. 

Is there anything I can do to help, or is it very much "give them space, they probably don't want to be asked about it"? 

Yep, another for the "kids a quid" gang. 

My uncle was a season ticket holder.  I never went with him, I'd always go as a 13/14 year old with my brother, but I imagine it was my uncle who told my brother that was the deal and hey, it was football (kind of).  Probably went about 5/6 times in total.  Darren Purse/Stan Lazaridis/AJ era I think.  Definitely Darren Purse, he was an absolute thug. 

The best thing about it was regardless of what opposition player was coming onto the pitch, before the announcement the crowd "Shushed" and then screamed "WHO?!" when they came on.   Thought that was quite funny.  

But its definitely a pretty depressing place to go, and that would have been about 2000/20001!  

3 minutes ago, Tom13 said:

I also think Foden's third was a lucky strike. I mean he fell over as he hit it ffs. Really annoying to let him score those three goals.

To be fair, all of their goals were avoidable  

We just didn't try hard enough.  

There weren't any beautiful passages of play.  Fodens second was alright, but even Rodri got lucky when the ball bounced of X and into his path so he could lay it off to Foden. 

I guess that means the secret is:  you make your own luck   

I feel really pleased for him.  

If the wall does what it was designed to do, we go in 1-1 at half time, it's a different game in the second half.  We'd likely go on to lose anyway, but I doubt it would have been 4 (as Callum Chambers wouldn't have been brought on ). 

He made some good stops at 1-0 and 1-1 and he kept his distribution simple.

After some of the grief he gets, I'm glad he can hold his head up high against Man City. 

If Pep came up to me after the game, I'd ask him if he was the bloke who cameo'd on Ted Lasso

the slow-mo of foden celebrating in the corner and a few fans staring at their phones 

Always a freebie, but sometimes you wish we had a bigger set of bollocks than to let this happen.

1 minute ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Now that's a throwback!

If Tim can do for Jhon, what Isiah did for Chris Sutton, we'll be alright

Tim "Isaiah Osbourne" Ibrogum

I was also alluding to them being essentially Nazi's.

I went to haden hill park with my kids on Monday and there was an Indian family of about 12 (cousins etc I suspect) and every single one of them (mom's, dad's, kids) had this years man united shirt on!

It was literally a squad! 

Shame it's United, not villa!

40 minutes ago, tomav84 said:

i don't think there's any harm in discussing it. it helps to bring our own experiences to the table. whilst we're not in the demographics ourselves, we might have met some that are. many of us have wives/partners whom we could ask their viewpoints on particularly around the changing room/toilet topic which IMO is one of the most difficult to resolve.

as i type, i asked my mrs that question. she's fine with trans women using female facilities. they're women as far as she's concerned. it's straight, cis gender men that are their biggest fear. her view is that women that tend to have the issue with it are typically transphobes that hide their prejudices behind the line of feeling threatened.

The problem with what I see here is (and goes for a lot of male dominated circles) is men by nature are usually "problem fixers".  We see issues and come up with solutions.  

Your wife may feel like that, but I know my wife probably wouldn't, and she's not what I'd call transphobic.  

I can see why women have issues with the situations mentioned.  It's in almost living memory women didn't have voting rights, women couldn't have a credit card until the 70s/80s.

So I understand why some women want "born women" only spaces.  

Again, trans rights are only really developing and we all want what's best for everyone.

There are good and bad in all circles and when you're talking about very small communities of people it's very difficult to have an opinion that's not going to upset a large portion of that small community, on either side of the fence you sit on.

For what it's worth (largely nothing and absolutely anecdotal), I've worked with born men, now females who some do and some don't like going into female spaces, I thought that was peculiar, although on reflection, why would it be peculiar?

It's an infinitely difficult discussion, like the gender version of Israel and Palestine.

1 hour ago, bannedfromHandV said:

Every time I think I have an opinion on the wider debate I have to stop and remind myself that I’m neither trans or a woman, and I’m not sure if anything I think or feel is even relevant at that point.

I understand some men would prefer to live as trans-women, I understand some women are keen to protect the sanctity of womanhood. Where you go from there I’m really not entirely sure any longer.

Nothing on this forum so far helps, either.

We're missing one of the key demographics almost entirely, and have an extremely tiny number of the other (although I've not seen Eiolodon (sp) for ages, either!)

Anything else is just noise.

Leaders of Israel are becoming the very things they fear most.

22 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Definitely football, in my teens and early 20s id have watched 6 or 7 games over easter weekend, PL, EFL, la Liga, bundesliga, series A, now I'm 100% villa games, snippets of PL and bundesliga games, used to have soft spots for barca inter and dortmund and follow their results, don't do that anymore 

Films is interesting because at home I've gone off films completely, I prefer the big budget streaming service TV shows but I still love the cinema and I've had it taken away from me cos of where I live, I want to take my daughter more even if the films are in German and I dont understand them that's how much I love the cinema 

Gaming I've changed my habits, play a Switch or PS portal in bed and I'm as in to that as I've ever been 

Drinking I've found that a weird sense of futility has kicked in, yesterday watched villa in the pub had 5 pints, got home had a couple of cans, half way through the 2nd can I stopped and thought why am I doing this? To what benefit? Tipped it down the sink, I do that a lot, 10 years ago I'd have pushed on and finished the cans and probably a bottle of rum, an air of pointlessness surrounds drinking for me now 

5 pints and a can would make me sloshed.  Can't imagine what a couple more and a bottle of rum would do to me!

Are you overweight?  You're always talking about food and drinks.  You're Rick Waller in my head

I think them only ever being a tongues slip away from being mentioned is just because of the amount of fans (and therefore public interest) they have.

Liverpool in the 90s/00s were still talked about as "challenging the elite" clubs of Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal.. even though it got to 30 years between titles.  When Fergie won Utds first title, it was almost like a countdown to the media "the first title win in 28 years!" Or whatever it was.  It's just playing to the crowd innit?