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.

Eto'o had his back turned so how could that be a penalty

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.

"“Are you the little f***er that took my picture? If you do that again or it goes on the internet I will hunt you down and rip your f***ing head off.”

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.

About a fortnight ago:

Here are the current rates loan to value 90%

Lloyds 6.69%

HSBC 6.58%

Nationwide 6.59%

Northern Rock 7.69%

Interesting to check back next week! The housing market needs 10% deposit first time buyers to get it going again.

This week:

And ten days later.......

Lloyds - 6.59%

HSBC - 6.99%

Nationwide - 6.59%

Northern Rock - No mortgages offered

So a 1.5% base rate cut means:

0.1% cut

0.41% increase

nothing

or downright rufusal respectively.

You can forget house prices surviving in 2009 too. Minimum 10% further drop to come yet. And I think that is optimistic.

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!

The FTSE 100 closed down 204.8 at 3625.8 points - the 14th largest percentage daily fall recorded by the blue chip index. Since the banking crisis moved up a gear last October, the FTSE 100 has fallen by at least 5pc on eight occasions, with the steepest plunge of 8.85pc coming on October 10, 2008.

David Buik of BGC Partners said: "While it is very easy to get sucked into the spiral of doom and gloom in markets like these, the problem facing investors is that there really is negligible positive news out there."

He added that recent moves in major stock markets are reminiscent of the almost panic-selling we saw back in October last year. "The fact that markets have broken below those lows leaves the rally at the end-of-last-year as just another dead-cat bounce," he said.

Today's drop is still someway behind the FTSE's largest - which came on August 20, 1987, the day after the Black Monday when the index fell 12.2pc.

Today investors were spooked by HSBC's £12.5bn rights issue, which is priced at an almost 50pc discount to the closing price on Friday, while sentiment was also damaged by stock market falls in Asia.

HSBC, Europe's largest bank, had previously avoided any form of capital raising. However, in its full-year results, it warned that 2009 will be "difficult" and reported a $15.5bn (£10.9bn) loss in the US. The bank's shares tumbled 19pc to 399p, dragging Lloyds Banking down 15pc to 49.4p and other banking shares.

Sentiment was further dampened after ailing insurer AIG reported a $61.7bn (£44bn) fourth-quarter loss and the US government said it would give it another $30bn on top of the $150bn it has already received.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 144.8 - or 2pc - to 6918 points within minutes of opening and was trading down 3.3pc, or 237 points, shortly after London closed. Germany's DAX and France's CAC fell 3.5pc and 4.5pc respectively. Earlier, Japan's Nikkei index closed down 3.8pc.

In the last major bear market which ended in 2003, the FTSE 100 traded down to the 3300 area before starting the long-climb up. Britain's blue-chip index has not closed below 3,700 since the outbreak of war in Iraq at the end of March 2003.

"That’s the next level that traders are eyeing now," said Mr Buik. "But the nagging doubt for many is that the economy today is in a much worse shape than back in 2003- and at the moment there’s a distinct lack of any green-shoots of recovery."

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?