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Delighted with the result Up the Villa!

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fecking superb TSV!

I concur

The problem with the challenge system is that it would be used cynically. For example: Say Villa have a corner in the dying minutes and the score at 1-1. Villa throw everyone up front in an effort to get a winner. The ball, however is cleared and the opposition have a break, 3 on 1. O'Neill thows a challenge flag, citing that a player was fouled during the corner and the ref halts the game to check the replay, costing the opposition their chance to score. The only way round this (thatI can see) would either be: (i) That you can only challenge when the ball is out of play (in which case, in the above scenario, the ref might have to 'chalk a goal off' if the break was successful but there did turn out to be a minor foul) (ii) Only allow the ref to halt the game for a challenge in certain situations (say the last 2 minutes like the nfl) but then this will mean that the ref would be under pressure to review everything in case he dismisses a genuine discrepancy.

Thank you fans! :notworthy: Good timing!

We were poor first half but bossed the 2nd half. The conditions were horrendous though which made it hard to create chances We deserved a point and am pleased with it

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To me the owners calling in the police seems bit of a smokescreen to me to divert the gullible idiots from the ownership issue. Twattum and his ugly horde will surely fall for it. Meanwhile the excuses given to the premier league to avoid the fit and proper person test have begun

Spot on from the Rev. I'd also add that many crucial decisions are not clear cut. Video decisions will only add to the controversy not take away from it (especially when they look like they favour 'bigger' teams) This coming from a gutted Irishman

Posted by atomicjam on H&V - thought I would copy it and it & post it here From Forbes Basically they're buying a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands but the company they are going to buy will then hold a 40% stake in Grandtop, making them the biggest shareholder (by far) and their new owners could remain completely anonymous

you'd never have said that when stefan postma was at the club! Post of the day

I agree. Give me Goodison over the Reebok any day

Wouldn't begrudge any of my family playing for them but, personally, no.

I actually saw a fan yesterday who still was wearing an O'Leary is God badge (among others)

Ah, the inevitable Newcastle comparison. We haven't had "fickle" for a while now, that must be due soon. Or "at least we're not Leeds". I'd never use the 'fickle' argument but there are parallels to be drawn with Newcastle fans wanting Sir Bobby Robson out (and there were a minority who did, just like on this thread) and Villa fans wanting O'Neill out. He's made some errors but overall is doing a great job. I honestly think you have to be delusional to want him out

To get rid of a manager who stabalised an awful team, who rebuilt the team, led them to 2 consecutive 6th place finishes and replace him with another manager (who will surely lead us to the promised land) is a delusion of Newcastle-fan proportions.

We weren't at our best today but still looked more threatening. Wolves scored with what seemed like their only attack of the 2nd half. The defense were solid. I'm giving MOTM to Cuellar. I'm a big fan of Luke Young but you cannot drop Cuellar when he is playing this well. Thanks to Dudley Villa for the ticket

I hate them racing seats - probably deserves a post in a certain off-topic thread

Awesome, Rob. I was in the pub shouting, "That's Rob, that's Rob!" In between shouting, "Racist!" on every close up of John Terry. I saw that live and thought "I reckon that was Rob" Rob as in rjw63?

Great game today. Everyone played well. Cuellar Motm for me (dealt very well with Cole and Malouda) - though you could have given it to 7 or 8 players today. The game changed when Boswinga went off. Boswinga plays almost as a right winger when Chelsea are on top. When they replaced him with Ivanovic!? they lost their outlet on the right and we were able to close out the game. As for Ash - he works bloody hard and puts in tackle after tackle. It may not be the fancy wing play that we are used to seeing from him, but when he disrupts the opposition as much as he did today, he is a very useful asset.

Are you telling me that you can sit & watch the whole of that press conference with a straight face and no hint of a smirk?......... I can't

"Carson, Why did it take so long to buy the club?" "errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

A New Hope. The rest were very poor

Beckham, Ronaldinho This forum is comedy gold