PaulMcgrathsknees

Still hate Melted Candlewax Face.

Screech is one dirty sod! Elbows ready....check. Lucas in my sights.......check. Right then.....elbow smashed into face......GOTCHA! Naughty. Arteta is needed back big time. When is he coming back?

I used to like Tottenham as a club. Hate them now. I used to hate Pompey. Like them now. I will always hate Harry the two faced, snidey, thief Melted face. Any manager who flicks the v's at football fans and then has the bear faced cheek to complain rather than apologise......... W@~ker.

Unfortunately alot of people have got yesterdays match all wrong. I shall explain why. Spurs were on a high and Lennon is having the sort of season we want Ash to be having. Lennon is on fire. Villa stopped any wing play whatsoever duing the first half. This was mainly down to Ash and Milner forcing the play inside. This gave the Spurs centre backs the ball. They did nothing with it. Lennon was lost in Luke Youngs pocket for 45 minutes and there was practically no threat. Our goal was scored because Crouch didn't stand where he was supposed to for 1 corner. Redknapp will have gone absolutely apesh@t at him. In the second half we should have put the game to bed on the break and this is where we are struggling this year. Ash is not doing his stuff. The sight of Ash Young, Milner and Gabby on the break is enough to worry any team. For some reason his mojo has gone. In the second half Reo-Coker got injured and Stan tired. Redknapp did the one thing he had to do. Get rid of the totally ineffectual Palacios. The game then became a struggle. Spuds attacked but only about twice all match did I think they would actually score. Huddlestone couldn't get his shooting boots going and I thought it had one-nil written all over it and hoped a break away goal would come. We were under pressure due to Spuds keeping the ball (but creating little) and the BIGGEST factor by a mile was Dowd. I like Crouch, but the bloke cannot head the ball without climbing all over players with his hands on shoulders and elbows all over defenders. This is why Capello will not play him. Every continental referee blows him for his constant fouling. Dowd just let him foul and win headers all match. Every single header he won was a foul. (And the wrestling of Milner to win a free kick was just one of the worst decisions I have ever seen) If Dowd had been strong enough (worst ref I have ever seen), we would have had about 15 free kicks which would have taken the pressure off. Crouch would have been subbed and Spurs would have had Keane on for Crouch rather than Palacios. We would have won. As an earlier poster had said if Dowd had received a bung I could understand his incompetence. The Spurs full backs were ineffective. Dawson on MOTD basically admitted it was handball. They had possession. It was given by Dowd. Has O'Neill ever come out and slagged off the ref? It's not his style. And if we are one down to Spurs, I expect us to press and keep the ball. I expect them to soak up pressure and play Lennon as their threat on the break. Sometime we play badly and win. Soemtime we don't turn up. Sometime teams get a good hiding. Sometimes refs make a team (who were on a massive high) look better than I think they are. Spurs have a tough run of mid/bottom-table type games coming up. The next few weeks will define their season, not a game of 12 vs 11 when they could only get the ball in the net with their hands. Villa will finish above Spurs IF Ash starts to threaten like Lennon. Spurs will finish above Villa if Lennon does not get injured. And I would like to finish on the fact I don't dislike Spurs. But my God, I effing well hate Melted Candlewax Face.

Leaving in 15 mins! Let's give Harry something to cry about! C'MOOOOONNNNNN!

Lennon is a headless chicken.

Madrid 4-0 down...... Against 2nd div team!

Friedal - 7 - Awesome 2nd half Cuellar - 6 - Not bad Dunne - 9 - Immense Collins - 9 - Immense Warnock - 8 - Solid Milner - 8 - Busy Sidwell - 8 - Worked hard and kept snapping their midfield Petrov - 8 - Good solid game, worked tirelessly Young - 3 - Hopeless. No confidence. Can't beat a drum never mind a defender Carew - 7 - Lumbered and caused problems. Outlet for keeper and backs Gabby - At times frightening. At times off the boil. Real danger man at the mo. Heskey............. Oh dear Ref - Biased waste of space with no bottle Fans - Loud, quiet, noisy, (Heskey boos not good), Villa Park rocking. In that order! Will now read what everyone else has put!

Can't we have a sticky thread for females in VT revealing themselves. A one stop shop if you like?!

Keeper and back 4 were all excellent tonight. Adebayor played well but was mainly kept at bay. Bellamy was well marshalled and SWP was mostly quiet. Warnock is a cracking buy along with the two in the middle who are rightly getting the praise tonight. Petrov was midfielder of the evening but tired which gave Citeh the last 15 mins of the 1st half. Milner was Milner and solid. Sidwell added bite,but not much more. Ash was crap and played at being injured. About 3 or 4 nice tricks which the tv viewers will then think he played well. He didn't. Gabby was a real threat and bullied their back 4. Carew worked his arse off for 30mins, then got tired. NRC was lost. Delph for Ash would have been my choice. Heskey is a poor man's Carew. Ref was ok. SWP should have gone for 2nd yellow for breaking up a counter attack with ten mins left. Barry was weak tonight, but at least he didn't celebrate their goal. Man City fans were sooooooooo quiet for most of the match which surprised me.

Thought I would risk peeking on this thread and can I say, "thankyou General for a fans' response". Total respect! I love the new steps and pub. Delph will be a star. Still hopeful for the season. Just think Heskey may be a jinx?!

Following the death of one infamous Michael: Simple really........which one?

Avoid relegation.

That's like saying, "When Carew scored with his header he closed his eyes, so he can't have meant it!" Eto'o was charging out to block the spiked ball! In a goal keeper "block the ball with my arms" stylee!

The red card incident: Agree with Souness. Anelka's leg was tapped as he was running.(The Redknapp, "He tripped himself" line is just stupid!) Foul. Accident. No red though.

Awful awful awful ref. (Could he have been told to not help Chelski?) Anelka h'ball - stonewall pen Ballack handball - the one with the volleyball block - stonewall pen Drogba foul - stonewall pen. Our little surrender monkey Platini will be laughing his head off.

True Romance - great! Dennis Hopper before he gets whacked - brilliant! Pulp Fiction - awesome! Harvey Keitel part and the "say what" scenes are ace! Some great music. CSI buried alive was quite good too.

The Candlewax face factor pulls in my vote.

Oh, and I live in B'ham. He's right, it's a bleedin nightmare of a place to drive through (M6 at M5 anyone?) If I didn't live here I would only drive in for a visit to Villa Park.

Excellent toilet reading books! Very funny. Dry Northerner though, so some will never like him.

This week: My views posted on one of the other threads. Probably sits better on here Thought I'd have another look seeing as the credit freeze should be loosening the banks' purse strings and current rates are at 0.5%: (LTV 90%) Lloyds - 6.29% HSBC - 6.79% Nationwide - No mortgages offered Northern Rock - No mortgages offered So, no bounce in the market coming anytime soon. Need to get lending to FTB's!

Telegraph article It isn't looking too clever at the moment is it?

James Milner has only ever worn 2 jockstraps. One was sold on ebay.

Interest rate cut - no savings, pointless. No savings - no deposit for 1st time buyers. Housing market will not recover. Stagnation Not worth saving - spend, spend, spend. Retail recovery?