blunther

Who cares. Even their own fans probably don't care. Kick the **** out of the league.

But other teams seem to follow the rules (which already favour the rich teams). Man City don't, hence the investigation. If it's true they've been cooking the books, every trophy they have cheated to win needs removing, and they need a lengthy ban from the premier league.

Same, just glad to see someone that hasn't been in the top flight for ages, I was hoping for a Cov Luton final. I know they hate us, but I really don't care about them. They're in the same boat as Leicester to me - can hate us all they want, but I don't care enough about them to reciprocate.

**** him then

I've seen absolutely nothing from the bloke that suggests he'd be worth a place in this squad, especially if we bolster midfield in the summer. Plus he's had a year of doing absolutely **** all. No idea why we'd want to entertain the idea. If he really does want to make a career for himself he needs to drop down to Championship level and prove he's a good player. There are thousands of promising young players that end up either making a career at a lower level or just plummeting through the levels entirely. Haven't seen anything to suggest that's not the case here.

I don't think questions need to be raised, we all know what happened and why, as do fans of most other clubs. There are just no consequences.

I haven't sat down in the holte once since we came back up to the premier League so don't think that's much of an indicator. It was as noisy as it's ever been at times today though.

In fairness it took them a good five minutes to spot what was officially a "clear and obvious error"

It's going to be tought to get Europe now, and I think top 6 is going to be a bit too much of an ask. But to even be in the conversation after the start we had under He Who Shall Not Be Named is amazing. I really want Europe, I'd be delighted with the conference. I think conference instead of Europa could be good for us, there;ll be easier games, gives us a hance to see what some of the squad players and youngsters are made o f, and gives us a really decent chance at winning a trophy. But if we finish outside of the European places, I'll be looking on the bright side of us having fewer games next season, and a proper pre season with a proper manager, and seeing what we can do

I get the use of xG, xGa and xAss, but xPoints is a stretch too far since the pattern of the game would vary so much based on the actual goals vs expected goals.

Pitch looks an absolute state. Wouldn't be surprised to see a bad injury here. High line hasn't worked at all. Be surprised if we play the same way second half.

How many PL goals is he on now? I'll be glad when he's our top PL era scorer and we can get that knobhead Agbonlahor off top spot.

There are the examples of players in an offside position, in view of the keeper but not playing the ball being given/not being given as offside depending on what team is playing though. See McGinn's goal against Arsenal vs Arsenal's third against us this season. There was one the other week too which unsurprisingly went in favour of the 'big' team, when you can guarantee if the shirts were switched a different decision would be given.

It's the same as the offside player in the way of the goalkeeper thing. Just another way for the PL to decide who they allow to score. Villa against arsenal, oh no, definitely blocking the keeper, rule it out. Arsenal against villa, yeah no problem, give the goal. VAR just an extra method to get the results needed to ensure the teams that bring in money stay successful.

Farcical. I get it being too far back for one of the accidental ball-to-hand things, but that's a deliberate arm-to-ball leading directly to a through ball. It's an utter pisstake, and you know 100% if that goal is against Liverpool or Man U it's getting ruled out. Games a joke.

Two seasons ago, with that caveat.

That was like nothing I've ever seen down the villa. 3-0 against a good team, hit the woodwork twice, one ruled out. The saved Martinez needed to make were relatively comfortable. We absolutely bossed it. Hard to choose MotM today but two goals and an assist gets you that vote. But every player was absolutely magnificent. From the first minute Watkins had the better of them and seemed able to get behind their defence at will. I don't know what tricks were conjured up by Emery, I can't even pretend to understand what the man does as his level is way beyond my understanding - the man is a magician. I gave the ref poor. No idea what Newcastle fans are on about, but they should have had more yellows, the bloke marking mcginn had his shirt every time for the first hour. They seemed able to take free kicks and throw ins from anywhere on the pitch and they had the ball in a dangerous position in our box once from a rolling ball and once from a blatant foul throw. Terrible refereeing really but fortunately he never had any real big calls to make. I genuinely can't remember seeing the villa this good. The 7-2 is the only recent example but that was more of a mad fluke in strange times - this was just an absolute footballing masterclass. Moreno makes me very excited to see who we sign in the summer. What an absolute steal.

It's not about having no filter or not being able to have fun, it just isn't very funny, and it's even less funny the 50th time

I really like this little lad. Him and Buendia played some lovely silky European stuff together.

STATUE. NOW.

Tricky one this. But for once I have faith that we've got a manager who knows vastly more than any of us, whos been watching that and who can make something happen at half time to give us the win.

I'd love Conference League, and I don't think we're far from having the squad for it. It'd save loaning out a few players, I imagine Iroegbunam, Archer and Little Ramsey would love to play some games in Europe, and it'd mean we have them in the squad available for league/cups too. Plus players that are going to replaced but aren't bad players, like Konsa and potentially Bailey, if we get another second striker in. Plus Traore. And it'd give a good boost to us signing a fairly decent second keeper if we could promise some guaranteed time in the Conference. Along with other squad players like Dendonker, possibly Digne, Chambers, Ashley Young if he's getting another year, a chance to blood Duran, as well as whichever regular first teamers are fit and raring to go, we'd have a great chance of going deep in that competition without burning ourselves out. And all that is without us making an extra couple of signings on top. Unfortunately I think we're just a little too far away to land 7th. Next year though.

He's there quite often. Just busking I think, think the money used to be for charity but not sure.

Oh don't get me wrong, it panics me too - but let's not vocally get on their backs, as it's hardly going to help the situation.

It worked for the first goal against Everton. It worked today. Yet I'm still surrounded by buffoons screaming 'get it forward', and even cheering the few times we hoofed it and lost the ball. I really thought demonstrating today how playing from the back leads to a goal would shut people up for at least a game, but it didn't even last ten minutes. There were a few times the pass forward was on but our players seemed to still turn back and go back to the Konsa/Mings/Martinez starting pattern. Hopefully once the players are used to it we can be a bit more incisive as it's not brilliant to watch sometimes, but you can see it starting to work (if you're not a blithering idiot).