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  1. 1 hour ago, wishywashy said:

    Ahahahaha

     

    It’s not “odd” at all for a club to be celebrating a good international performance from one of their own players.

    Mind you, I do wonder if they did this specially to taunt all Youri’s many detractors on Villatalk!

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    Dalian Atkinson youth fund launched

    Paul Atkinson with the bench
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    Dalian's brother, Paul Atkinson, said he still thinks about him "every day"

    Article information
    • Author, Ellen Knight
    • Role, BBC Radio Shropshire
    • 21 March 2024

    A fund has been set up in memory of the footballer Dalian Atkinson, who died after being tasered and beaten by a police officer in 2016.

    It was launched to coincide what would have been the former Aston Villa and Ipswich star's 56th birthday, and a memorial bench was unveiled in his home town of Telford, Shropshire.

    The fund will support young people in the town and Mr Atkinson's brother Paul said he hoped it would "give them some of the chances he didn't have".

    He added: "I think it'll make them realise that even coming from a small town like Telford you can reach the stars."

    Former team mates turned out to remember him: Tony Daley said: "What a fantastic player he was... on his day he was absolutely unplayable."

    They played for Villa together and he added: "Dalian was the joker of the pack, he always used to wind up the players."

    Unveiling of the bench
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    Family, friends and former team mates turned up for the bench unveiling

    The former Aston Villa striker died after a stand-off outside his father's home in Telford.

    Benjamin Monk, the police officer who killed Dalian Atkinson by tasering him to the ground and kicking him in the head was jailed for eight years.

    Paul Atkinson said it was good for friends and family to meet again in more cheerful circumstances.

    He said he and his brother spent a lot of time together.

    "We'd go on holiday together, go out clubbing together, cry together, laugh together," he said.

    Almost eight years after his brother's death, he said: "He's still in my mind every day."

    But he said he believed the fund would mean "the younger generation are going to know about him as well".

    The memorial bench
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    The bench has been set up opposite Trench Pool in Telford

    The fund will be administered by the Shropshire Community Foundation.

    Trustee Sonia Roberts said the launch would be a "milestone", but it was just the start and 2024 would be "a huge year of events and activities to remember Dalian".

    She described him as a "phenomenal" player who also had a lot of challnges.

    "He was subject to a lot of harassment as a player," she said.

    The fund will aim to improve the lives of young people through sport and Ms Roberts said: "He would have a strong empathy with what we're trying to do."

    Maybe some good will come of this.

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  3. 1 minute ago, Tom13 said:

    I know he's not expecting that. My question is with his character - if you're a passionate countryman - you do anything to help - you're not solely looking at what's in it for you - but it depends on how badly he's been treated I guess.

    Some are saying he's not happy because he had a disciplinary on his last callup when he stayed out late and missed the team bus.

    Whatever, it seems like a storm in a teacup..

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  4. 36 minutes ago, Tom13 said:

    14-16 seconds 'Playing for the national team not gonna make Real Madrid call me'. He definitely does say that.

    Right, got it now. It seems he is making a general point that playing for the Jamaican national team doesn’t raise the profile of players - it’s rather the other way round that the Jamaican team benefits from its players getting high profiles through success at top clubs.

    From the context, it’s hard to see that he is saying he actually expects Real Madrid to be phoning him any time soon.

    I don’t know anything about how the Jamaican Federation treats its players but if it is anything like the way Cricket West Indies treats its top players, this exchange is the least surprising I have ever heard.

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  5. 18 hours ago, Tom13 said:

    Complaining about the flights and standards fair enough - but saying the national team cannot give him exposure...surely you play for your country because you love your country?

    Also, does he say 'Playing for national team not gonna make Real Madrid call me' near the very start? He spoke too quick.

    I struggled to pick up any reference to Real Madrid tbf

  6. 23 hours ago, DJBOB said:

    For as poor as he's been in spells, Diaby is 3rd on the team in overall npxG+xAG.

    Still providing some end product. I think the build up part of his game is the weakest right now as he's a bit of a passenger (like Tielemans) when opponents try to press us high. But when we've got the ball, he's been pretty useful in the final third.

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    OK, I will call for this one. What are “PKatt”s and why is Douglas Luiz the only one who’s got any of them?

  7. Hi, just had a text from Jhon Duran. He wants to know why you have hijacked his thread to squabble pointlessly among yourselves about some guy called “Gabby”. 🙂

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  8. 6 minutes ago, DeepDish said:

    Bingo! There has been a lot of criticism against Cash this season, some of it quite unfounded IMO.

    Quite. I think I even read in the past week someone saying they never wanted to see him in a Villa shirt again, And yet suddenly he is apparently the obvious choice to start at RB. Gotta love VT sometimes…

  9. 24 minutes ago, Okonokos said:

    Completely agree. We started the first half on the front foot and completely dominated the second half. Apart from that 15 minute spell where we kept giving the ball away in defence, which also lead to their goal, I'd say it was a very solid away performance. Even more so when you remember how many players we have missing, getting bad defeat last week and it's a difficult place to go.

    We played some really nice stuff at times. Only things to work on for me are defending set pieces and maybe sometimes we could have got a shot away sooner rather than looking for one more pass.

    Emery tried something different. It didn't work so he corrected it during the match.

    But no, let's moan moan moan eh?

    UTV

    How many times have I read that after a match? It’s our main Achilles heel and has cost us a few points this season (have to keep remembering though, we are fourth, which is not too shabby).

    Lots of people here apparently think the starting line up was weird/disastrous etc. but we actually started the match really well and had West Ham on the back foot for the opening phase of the game. Then we lost control through poor defensive work, then we got momentum back after the 2nd half substitutions. Like you, I can’t quite buy into the narrative that this was a disaster.

    I thought the half time substitutions were decisive and effective, indicating a manager who knows what he is doing.

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  10. Would have taken a draw before we started and I think it’s a fair reflection of how we came back in the second half. 

    Good use of subs by Emery. Good to see the much slagged off Zaniolo get a key goal. Got feeling Diaby is hitting a bit of form , which is good news for our run in.

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  11. 1 minute ago, Kiwivillan said:

    WHAAAT? He scored 6 in first half of first season and many were saying trash then scored 13 more 2nd half of season. He had injury second season from memory was out for loads of games and was never the same again. He was definitely not dogshit

    No, I think he is saying the rest of the team were dogshit, which is less contestable.

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  12. 19 hours ago, nick76 said:

    Too many fans thinking of all the combinations of who’s going to get wins against who, where they are in the league, how points different, goal difference, European co-efficient and guessing all the combinations.

    Totally agree. I’m going to give this thread a break until I have completed that degree in Advanced Mathematics.

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  13. Enjoyed that a lot. 

    Good use of squad and good performances all round. Bit worried about Ollie. Please be OK for Sunday. 

    Could have given MOTM to anyone from 6-7 but gave it to Diaby for being so much more effective than in recent matches and for a sublime goal.


     

     

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  14. 4 minutes ago, thunderball said:

    It’s not working out for him, but today he turned out one of our better performances. No lacking in effort or determination, if anything he was channelling what seemingly only McGinn had in the game. 

    Don’t know why it hasn’t clicked, I don’t get the impression he wants to be here though. But I cannot accept anything negative against him today.

    I agree. I thought he tried hard to make a difference today - and to an extent succeeded - in very difficult circumstances.

  15. Ugh, that was horrible to watch. We did OK in the first half but capitulated in the second.

    I’m not going to name a man of the match because I honestly don’t think any of our players deserved it.

    Quite a lot of recovery needed to get us into shape for Thursday ☹️

     

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