brommy

Yes, I'd say similar in slang terms. But you definitely didn't 'have a fall', did you? My current thinking is 'A fall' is an expression reserved for those with reduced mobility who are adversely affected beyond very short term pain.

Slight change of tack but still on thread. I'm interested in the expression - 'a fall'. Since childhood to now in my mid-fifties, if I've ever stumbled or tripped over, I've 'fell over'. However, I remember as a child being told my grandparents had 'had a fall'. It's made me wonder - at what age does someone 'have a fall'? Unless it's just me that would say I fell over?

It does work well but I'd still like it on my phone. I end up double checking I've got the card on every journey to a league game, my wife always asks 'have you got the cards?' and then, upon picking my son up en-route we both ask each other - have you got your season ticket? I'm never likely to forget my phone and it'll avoid the slight jeopardy feeling of - have I remembered my cards.

Me neither, but my son received the invite (an email I've actually seen) and his season ticket is now in his phone wallet, all ready to 'tap on'. Hopefully the trial will be a success and the club will roll it out to all season ticket holders soon.

Some good news! Villa are trialling season tickets being added to a phone 'wallet' such as Google or Apple, enabling entry via a very quick tap on at the turnstile. Trial invitation is by email to selected fans who used their phone wallet to gain entry to the Legia Warsaw home game.

Poor that Mings and Buendia aren't included in the squad though.

I think the old days of retaliation, out of sight of match officials, disappeared when VAR was introduced. Any retribution guaranteed to do damage to an opponent is likely to be counterproductive.

Exactly. I've noticed a change over recent years - too many instances of what are clear yellow card fouls being claimed as possible reds. I suspect it's caused by the fans tending towards exaggeration to get noticed above all the other noise on social media and the media pundits need to add controversial talk points to drive up viewing numbers and clickbait. Cash's tackle was calculated and late but not forcefully uncontrolled or dangerous play. His tackle was just one of the many footballing offences that yellow cards are for.

In fairness and despite some lingering 'sob on the Tyne' bitterness, I think the majority of their fans accepted they were well beaten that day and they were soon distracted by their own CL qualification.

Possible your guy was contacted by someone else who saw Ty's social, assumed incorrectly and then began passing it on. I suspect that would cover 95% of ITKs behaviour!

The estimate was 2 years and that was including the new Villa Live building, so 2 years including creating Villa Live facilities in the existing academy building should still be feasible.

I think I read that transport infrastructure in the West Midlands is not funded directly by Birmingham City Council. My current guess for the short term future of Villa Park is - Phase 1 to be commenced in summer 2024 or summer 2025. Either date will ensure completion of a 50k capacity in time to host the summer 2028 Euros. No major redevelopment of the station beyond a minor tarting up of signage. 50k crowds increasing match day congestion delays, causing fans to complain to the club and local residents complaining to Birmingham City Council, who will then blame each other.

This call you received - were they claiming some kind of ITK status or were they honest enough to state they'd simply noticed Tyrone's social media update?

Everton told the PL that a significant part of their attempt to meet FFP regulations was thwarted by not being able to sell valuable players during a pandemic. I find it surprising if the commission ruled there was no footballing advantage to keeping, playing and benefitting from the performance and points gained from those 'valuable' players.

That's just one of F1's issues - it's often more about the relative performance of the cars than the drivers skill. Perhaps they should race drivers in exactly the same cars, or use self-driving cars with no performance limits (no safety restrictions required without drivers) to see how fast competing engineering teams can 'drive' a vehicle around a circuit with onboard views to make the audience feel involved.

It seems over recent years this could have been written about numerous egotistical, self-indulgent, self-obsessed, #blessed and all that, drivers.

I think their bunch are convinced the new hedge fund owner is in for the long haul and will invest whatever it takes to turn them in to an established top league team for the first time. Do they realise their type of owner isn't typically going to do anything more than the equivalent of flipping a house by fixing a leaking roof, reglazing broken windows, a lick of paint and then buying a feature advertisement in Good Home magazine? The previous owners abused them so much that even comparatively cheap common sense decisions, like repairing their decrepit stands, has been extrapolated to an upper PL future in a new 60k stadium. As such, many see Rooney as leading a long term change in their footballing fortune. How much patience will the goodwill towards the new owners buy Rooney, if he continues to offer poor results and a footballing style that was worse than Eustace's? How long will the owners give it if they're still stuck in the Championship for another few years?

But if, after equal results between two teams, they are still level, it then goes to a difference in points (a) against other teams in the group, they wouldn't be level to even start the comparison. It should state that it goes to goal difference (b) and then goals scored (c) and NOT even reference points (a).

Happy 70th birthday Mike! What a great start to your Villa Park life!

But you can dp to talksport?

Infected toe. I'm guessing it's an injury that prevents playing for a period and then is ideally left unstressed (competitive gameplay) for another period. Okay in the match day squad to help him feel included and to feature on a bench of 9 players (guessing Emery knows of an unlikely scenario where Duran would be required to play despite a small chance the recovery might be set back), but Duran wouldn't have been on the previous benches of 2 or 3 or 5 players.

I also haven't used a physical wallet for a couple of years and pay for everything using Google pay on my phone. I don't find it much hassle to shove my ST cards in my pocket, although I obviously need to remember them before leaving home. Can you add an ST card to Google wallet so you don't need the card at the turnstile for PL games?

I had added the ticket to my Google Wallet but didn't realise that then enabled NFC for 'tap on' entry. It took 2 seconds to scan my readied QR code so caused an unnecessary 1.5 second delay. I'll know better next time! Hopefully so will those fans who get to the turnstile and then start folding paper tickets or unlocking their phone and starting to search for the ticket. I'm still curious why ST cards can't be used for access to cup games? Got to be around 50% of Thursday night's home fans that could simply tap on as they are familiar with for the 19 PL games and reduce those queues.

It was other fans who were using paper tickets or being slow to access the QR code on their phone that caused delays to enter Villa Park (in comparison to PL games where around 75% of home fans quickly tap on with their ST card), so you're definitely off the hook on this one! I had my phone already showing the QR code which took 2 seconds to scan, so it wasn't me either, but I'm curious how to enable the 'ticket' to be able to tap on? Has anyone asked the club why ST cards can't be used for cup games purchased by ST holders?

My son queued from 2 minutes before half time to 5 minutes in to the second half (over 20 minutes), to be told the chicken he'd ordered and paid for had sold out so they needed to refund him. An unacceptable delay and unacceptable stock level in the Holte Upper. Given the high prices, the club are missing out on some serious profit, by not shifting as much food and drink as they logistically should be able to.