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2 minutes ago, est1874 said:

I hate them tbh.

Not only are they cheap and gimmicky, they're also boring and pointless. Don't see how they improve atmosphere. They're just - there.

agree 100%

1 hour ago, The Fun Factory said:

The first two banners for anyone under the age of 35 would have no clue what they are on about.

Nah you're wrong on this one, all Villa fans are born with an innate talent for historical knowledge. The noses said so

20 hours ago, danceoftheshamen said:

It's easy to be Bayern Munich knowing you will win something every year. I'm sure the atmosphere would be electric at Villa Park if we had that kind of success, heck even a fraction of it! 

Nah, youd still have blokes screaming to lump it forward and shouting "bring back Pongo Waring"

Complete non-entity of a club tbh.

Wasn't our recent record against them pretty good before they went down? Seem to remember us smashing them at VP quite a few times early-2000s.

Just missed out on them winning the PL against United, so I don't even have that to be nostalgic over

11 hours ago, sidcow said:

What happened to Brigada 1874 then?  A bit odd to proclaim yourself as an ultra dedicated obsessed fan group then just disappear

Several of them got banned from the ground under Lerner, and they faced a lot of violence and hostility from our hooligan element over their anti-racist stance

Thought we controlled the game well across the 90 mins and atmosphere in the upper Holte was class. UTFV

Miles off being a premier league footballer for me. Has some of the attributes but none of the skill or technique required at this level. Only came on as a sub, but I thought he was comfortably our worst player today 

Thought he played his part well in a very measured team performance if I'm honest

6 hours ago, Tom13 said:

Superb, thank you, I'll read it through in full later.

Btw, Hourihane saying he wanted 'to get back to the Premier League' - had he already played in it?

Think probably a bad edit from the Athletic - he wanted to get to the PL by getting the club back promoted to where it belonged

Thanks for posting this mate, really appreciated. Easily the best period I've had following the club and has to be one of our most likeable squads ever. That sense of togetherness still shines through here, and a few of these lads will always be Villa cult heroes

Got dragged to both Lourdes and Knock as a child, but sadly the Holy spirit did not enter me

8 hours ago, Enda said:

Sinn Féin are the largest party in the North. That’s the clearest indicator of NI’s preference for reunification. There are other more subtle indicators too, like the most recent census recording more Catholics than Protestants, and the surge of Nordies claiming their Irish passports post-Brexit. There is momentum towards a majority, but not there yet I don’t think.

The south absolutely can afford the North. That’s exaggerated imho. The Republic is one of the richest countries in the world, no bother to us.

The irony for me is that the northern PUL community would likely become a sizeable voting bloc in the Dáil and could well end up king-makers in future elections, with the power to stop SF taking office in a way that is clearly impossible to them under the current compromise of the GFA

10 hours ago, villa89 said:

The point about re-unification that people always miss is who exactly is going to pay for it. NI is a basket case economy propped up by billions of her majesty's pounds every year. The Republic can't afford to subsidise 6 counties like that. 

While this is true, ultimately NI is a basket case economy by virtue of being an artificial state specifically designed to maintain a fragile status quo that barely made sense in 1922, let alone 2022.

There's no reason that the six counties can't be fully integrated into a whole-Ireland economy over time 

3 hours ago, sidcow said:

I don't like the noises coming out of the DUP 

They seem like a worse bunch of Throbbers than the modern Tory party. 

They make even the most radical elements of the modern Tory party look like a student socialist society. They have more in common with bible belt fundamentalists than they do with anything/anyone in GB politics

Family from Derry so I have a few opinions on this topic to say the least. IMO a United Ireland is almost inevitable in my lifetime, and when it comes the unionists will only have themselves to blame - you have to wonder how long the UK government will commit billions to propping up a dysfunctional system that increasingly represents a manifestation of a minority view even in NI.

I think if the DUP keep on refusing to return to power sharing under a Sinn Fein first minister then the UK government will soon start to battle game for a united Ireland. I thought the warm welcome extended to Michelle O'Neill by Charles when the queen died, compared with the frosty reception offered to Jeffrey Donaldson really spoke volumes.

5 hours ago, CVByrne said:

I checked. It's based on 2023 so far. Players who have scored more than 3 goals. Their conversation ratio

This is my problem with Ollie, we need a little more action please

6 minutes ago, bickster said:

Motty gone at 77

The voice of football is no longer with us  

Terrible news. I thought he was much older than 77 as well, probably due to already seeming quite an old man to me when I started watching football nearly 30 years ago.

RIP.

8 minutes ago, KentVillan said:

Isn't it an outlier because in all the other cases where citizenship has been revoked, the dual nationality status hasn't been disputed by the other country? Bangladesh says she isn't a Bangladeshi citizen.

There may be an argument here, but I suspect it would be strengthened for her were she to form a legal challenge to prove her Bangladeshi citizenship, which was then in turn rejected. To the best of my knowledge, that hasn't happened (could well be wrong - must be honest I'm sick of the whole media circus around her).

The facts are that at the time her British citizenship was revoked she was a Bangladeshi citizen, so she was not made stateless by the decision to revoke her British citizenship. Thus its all a bit of a moot point and certainly not unprecedented

1 hour ago, StefanAVFC said:

The other thing here (that I was actually just read on twitter and hadn’t considered) is that it sets a precedent in law that there are potential punishments that cannot apply to all. 
 

Those with dual citizenships now have the possibility and risk of having citizenship removed. A punishment in the eyes of the law should not be conditional. It should apply to all or none. 

Does it though? Setting a precedent in case law implies this is the first such instance of a dual national having their British citizenship revoked. It isn't, and has been used on others recently too - same happened to Jack Letts in 2019 as one recent example.

I think this is a really complicated debate, but there's a desire from some commentators to present the Begum case as some complete outlier which is frankly a bit odd.

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A man famous for featuring in the famous Accrington Stanley advert as a boy has been jailed for murder.

Kevin Spaine, 43, - who wasn't seen on camera during the iconic advert - was jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years for the murder of Learoy Venner, who died after he was brutally kicked and punched in a horrifying assault in the Belmont Drive area of Anfield, Liverpool.

Spaine starred in the famous television advert for the Milk Marketing Board in 1989 in which he delivered the well-known line "Accrington Stanley, who are they?"

John Harrison KC represented the now jailed killer in court and said Spaine was once a "very promising young footballer."

Kevin Spaine, who is he?

Link - Daily Mirror

13 minutes ago, AVTuco said:

No, but that doesn't make the post wrong. He just failed.

It was a joke mate

8 minutes ago, AVTuco said:

I must say I don't understand what your point is at all.

That the second part of your initial post about Sherwood looking for winners didn't exactly come to fruition

12 minutes ago, Mic09 said:

I'm sorry, but Bacuna had CL aspirations at that time. 

What's he up to these days? 

Playing for Watford apparently. His brother is at SHA

1 hour ago, AVTuco said:

I can't see much wrong in that post tbf mate. You don't think we needed mentally strong winners back then? 

With the likes of flabby Gabby, Bacuna and Sinclair in the team? Not like we were short on winners in our squad 

On 06/06/2015 at 22:39, AVTuco said:

They need to be so strong that the others start singing their tune, not the other way around. I suppose that's my worry.

But like I said, I agree we need them, hopefully Tim finds some, I think he is looking for that quality.

You'd be hard pressed to find another post on VT that aged as badly as this one