punkiller1981

I’m happy to look paste the cap purely to hear somebody outside of this country and maybe outside of Birmingham talk about villa with passion and knowledge about what we are as a club these days also hear is his story about why he supports villa. It’s a good read https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/becoming-an-aston-villa-fan-how-a-peruvian-kid-in-england-fell-in-love-and-became-a-villan/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Agreed, it’s the real city fans that went to games 20 years ago when they were in league 1 know what Villa are about. The tourist that have now gone from supporting Man Utd to Man City are the arrogant ones but they will also be the first ones to disappear when the football cycle sees them on a decline which will happen as it does to all clubs, you only need to look at Man Utd and arsenal or Liverpool from the 80’s

I think he was calling her out for not supporting taking the knee then saying how appalled she was at the abuse so it’s the Hipocrisy of her actions that mings rightly called out. The ides she is an awful human can be up to others to decide

Is anyone’s else a little worried about Jack for this coming season? He has been sensational for us for at least 4 years now but im not convinced he is over his injury and with the come down from the euros I worry he might dip a bit this season. Although saying that I still think he will be our best player purely based on the fact he is a fantastic world class footballer.

As a man this guy seems like an immense human, love it when the tv are saying “England & Aston Villa’s Tyrone Mings puts the Home Secretary in her place over gesture politics” Shame Priti Patel hasn’t got the good grace to even do gesture politics much less “real politics”

Probably do a better job than Alexander Johnson and co.

I think the only game he got things absolutely right was against Germany. I thought we were a bit lucky against Denmark but after that game we won and made the final. I thought he got almost everything wrong in the final, I was happy that Shaw scored but I instantly thought it’s too early he is going to try and defend this now. I thought his subs were poor, saka was a lazy choice because of a couple of ok performances but last nights performance I thought was so woeful he looked like a completion winner. Rice going off made no sense unless he was injured. Mount I thought was anonymous for the whole game (and the semi final) and Jack should have been on at least half hour earlier. Lastly and this isn’t hindsight I said to my wife I hate it when managers bring on players just to take penalties because it almost never works.

I thought this watching him last night. We (Villa) are set up to get the most from Jack as our best player, England are not so times when the ball would go to Jack if it was Villa it doesn’t it goes the other way therefore looking less effective in and England shirt

I think courthnio is a good example, who I’m there right mind would say he was worth £120 million it really strikes me as lazy running of a club that used to bring through xavi, inesta etc. I have looked at Barca for the last 6-7 years and thought how they operate now makes very little sense to me which is also how I used to view us until Our owners came on board now it all seems to make sense

Never going to start a competitive game while Southgate is in charge

Changed the game

Why would Man City wait till after the euros to bid for Jack but feel perfectly happy bidding for Kane in the group stages. Sticks of no games on for a couple of days so nothing to talk about. I can’t see Man City buying both him and Kane, that even for City is a huge outlay on fees and wages we would be talking a commitment to around half a billion pounds on two players not accounting for the other massive earners like sterling and KDB. I would say it’s one or the other and Kane seems more likely.

According to the papers or the sun at least if that counts. Jacks agents have reached an agreement to let him out of his villa park jail and release him to join the club he supported as a boy Man City. Luckily that house he bought in Manchester last year before his dream move to his beloved Man Utd will be a good base for him

If I remember right the ref dropped his yellow card Gazza picked it up and as he gave it back pretended to book him and the ref then booked gazza

Also I think appointing Christian Perslow is a master stroke. He clearly understand and is on board with fully delivering the vision that these guys have and collectively the seems a plan to actually deliver it.

I do find the Spurs thing funny. They had 4-5 year’s of champions league football with a manager (poch) who over achieved with a fairly average squad. But the reality that seems to have been forgotten is that they are mid table premier league club at best and I would imagine the average league position over the last 20-25 years backs that up. This is why the phrase big 6 irritates me as it’s a phrase made up by the London biased press but it gives the impression they are a big club. Leicester and wigan have both won the FA cup since Spurs were last in the final. God knows how many different teams have won the league since Spurs did. Simply put they don’t win anything even with one of the worlds best strikers in there team. Thankfully I can see the big decline back to normality returning. Also throwing it out there I wouldn’t be surprised if levy was a key driver behind the super league because the stadium had **** them.

Given that Spurs are getting turned down by every manager possible at the moment would you expect any player to want to sign for them.

Biggest problem I saw with Engels was his pace or lack of it. I think this league was just to quick for him but I won’t fault his effort. I’m also on the bring back Axe bang wagon he is wasting a potentially very good career at Utd where they don’t rate or appreciate him.

Agree Foden might not start but seeing Southgate operate over the last 4-5 years I would say he will pick rashford who for me wouldn’t even be in the squad on current form

I wanted Villa to by him about 10 years ago. Always seems a good player to me and if a bit inconsistent.

Ukraine keeper looks decent.

I agree with your second team with the exception of Coady who I think is garbage especially in a back 4 and Phillips who I would swap out with Bellingham. I also expect Jack to be nowhere near the starting 11 all tournament I can see Southgate going with Kane, Sterling and rashford to keep it all nice and predictable with mount in behind (I have no problem with mount and Kane by the way). I find this tournament a tough one because I want us to do well and Jack to star but I think Southgate is so out of his depth that I might take a poor tournament to get rid of him but then he is the FA yes man so he probably still wouldn’t go.

Still not convinced this story has legs but I have noticed that the story does go into the detail of we are preparing/submitting a bid. I compare that to he Jack stories of “grealish changed preference to city over Utd” which are so clearly mad up. probably nothing in it but if I was a saints fan it would worry more than the grealish to city stories of zero substance. Assuming saints fans want to keep him which I assume they do as selling your captain is rarely a good sign for a club.

Playing rashford or Sterling would be the over grealish and foden wouldn’t surprise me with Southgate. He is a lazy newspaper driven manager. If the sun predict 11 has those two in it that’s the team that gets picked. wouldn’t expect anything less from Southgate he should have been sacked for failing to get us to the World Cup final with the easiest draw and England mangers ever had

Agreed good performance by mings, no idea why coady is in the squad