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I hope he plays Wednesday 4 sides of the ground singing Villa till I die is always fun.

Being paid by more than one company and paying the right tax is a minefield. HMRC should be all over this case. They can either prove there was evasion or failing that prove the organisations employees are paid more than declared for FFP. First thing the Premier League should be looking at. Its a merky world and City will argue it was not Football related payments for sure. Corporation tax on income for the club too should be easy enough to trace. I would think that is harder to say consultancy fees when it's an entity rather than an individual. Not a bean counter so I could be taking bollocks!

FA cup only trophy I have not seen us win. I was a kid for winning The League and European Cup. Been to 4 League Cup Finals seen us win 2. And 2 FA Cup finals both massive let downs. So the FA Cup is the holy grail for me.

Sunday is massive for me if we can get 3 points it sets up the City and Arsenal games to be epic.

Spurs fans will be saying Matty was on the Grassy Knoll next! I have made worse tackles against my 8 year old in living room football. Shame for Bentacur but that is football.

Villa use VAR for our advantage though with our offside trap. The technology is fine its the idiots interpretation of the rules that needs to change pronto.

Yep I worked in an office like that they were trying to make everyone into robots. HR were the pits just ticking boxes. As for the topic I liked that lady yesterday on Soccer Saturday and there are a few commentators on the championship gamea that are decent can't remember names mind you.

Nice dive by Gordon to get James sent off sounds like a Thomas the Tank Engine episode!

Birkir Bjarnason

Safegate has had piss easy groups so far so let's see how he does with some proper opposition. England should fear no one but the manager does.

I am not upto date with the local bus lanes but surely there are routes which could be used for match days. Sure fans would have to walk as far as they would to Aston Station but beats waiting ages for a train back to the centre or other places. I get they can't park up on Witton Lane these days but there has to be a way.

Just have a load of no7 buses lined up like the old days.

I am just glad he is working his way back to fitness Mings encompasses Aston Villa for me. The day he signed was the day the juggernaut started to where we are today on the pitch at least. A leader of men and all round brilliant human I love him. Looking forward to his next update.

Messi knows!

Watching the Ukraine v Italy game proper football match. England = Boring

Unai has made me look a managers/coaches in a completely different way. The man is a genius and his contemporaries behind the scenes should also be lorded. I look at the same players under Gerrard and it makes me imagine if someone competent took over England they would conquer all. I think other fans are seeing it too now quoting angeball and so on what a difference one manager and his coaches can do for a group of players. One day we will get the lowdown on it all from one of our players not just the bits they throw out here and there. Will be a fascinating read. The next few games are bloody tough but we have the best man to negotiate them. Even if we lose you know he will learn things and get it right for next time. The players and us fans are sponges lapping it all up and I bloody love it.

Entertaining game that. We have missed Dali she makes the difference for me very intelligent player.

Agree on the knee slide would never risk it myself. The South American commentators are great though love their over the top musings. On celebrations though the darts throw by Maddison really annoys me! clearing in the woods

Schoolboy error we all know it will be under water in a few years with global warming

This is why we all hate international breaks it's **** boring! Bore off Safegate.

Nice you made the players get on but bore off now Safegate.

The worst thing for me in playing Kane is you want your best players fit for the tournament so with him playing 60 plus games for Bayern plus all these pointless games he will be on his arse by the summer. Safegate is a clearing in the woods as per normal.

There needs to be a system in place where everyone knows if you are caught breaking the rules in a financial sense you are deducted a set number of points. Not the up in their mythical stuff we have now. Everton have a 10 point deduction for apparently a 20 million fudge of FFP. So we equate every 2 million over budget is a 1 point deduction. Teams can chose to go over the threshold but know where they stand. City have 110 breaches which is probably in the 100s of millions over budget. So will be deducted accordingly. Chelsea likewise. Probably a few other clubs too. The amount of spend would need to be agreed by all clubs pre this coming to pass. It should then level the spend on the team so it's equal for everyone not those that have the biggest sponsorship deals or stadiums. Obviously not all clubs could spend the agreed amount but the option is there should they wish to. And those seeking to cheat and go over budget will be starting on minus points.

When you are at the game watch his runs off the ball that creates space for others. Watch the runs he makes for the pass that never comes from Pau or Ezri trying to beat the offside trap. It will happen eventually. He is at it all game class player.

The boy talks well impressive not your average footballer seems we have some top guys in the team these days bodes well.