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Probably a bidding war and starting at 8 million quid, we may not be able to afford him sadly. Birmingham born... so, is he an agent blue-nose, one of us or a tesco-bag?

What station? It might have been me... Next...

You could always try plane spotting instead ? And there wouldn't be anything wrong with that :-) Airshow summer just around the corner and I can forget football for a bit.

I just don't know. Part of me wants to protest at the shocking home form etc for the last few seasons... but part of me likes the social side with my best mate. Match days in the main this season in particular have made me miserable, so not sure I should spend the money on something I am not enjoying. Up the Villa always - just not convinced I really want to spend that kind of money. I expect a call from Nicola Key sometime in June. Not sure what I am going to say.

Yeah, I will go with that, especially since Benteke has been injured again so tragically. I can't see us winning again this season, and the injury situation I guess adds weight to pro-lambertism. I just want this season to finish now so we can dust ourselves down and try and go forward in the summer. I wonder to what extent Benteke's injury will have on his future sale value, and in essence what that means for us and our budget this summer in particular. I doubt I am alone in expecting that Christain was going to be on his velo after the World Cup. I am gutted for him and disappointed for us. Will Paul need to buy another striker to cover for Benteke using money that we would have maybe looked to spend on the face of selling him instead? What does that mean for strengthening the rest of our much needy squad? The problem is - even if we are struggling at Christmas, we are back to square one again with a change of manager. The goalposts won't necessarily have changed. It will still have the veneer of surviving on the cheap to comply with FFP. I'm struggling to see a win-win way out of this circle until the money bubble at the top of the game begins to leach or pop. Will be the first time in my Villa-fanboy tenure that I am actually dreading next season... Three strikes and you're out... maybe.

Good grief, Charlie Brown...

Study Fulham's away form and current league position and I think any self respecting club sitting in 12th position would be 'embarrassed' if they couldn't turn up and pump a couple of goals (at home) past them to win the game. We have to turn up for this game as a team. When was the last time Villa got doubled by the team finishing bottom in the league? Personally, it's a record I wouldn't want to see our current manager tagged with as part of his growing collection. Now Villa - do the bizz please.

There you have it - Ronaldinho in a dress...

FFP is quite frightening in the context of SuttonPaul's excellent summary on a differing thread. I had always thought that it was going to be to prevent people who don't have the money in their hands already from spending too much e.g Leeds and Portsmouth. Now, we have a 'rich' owner (I thought we were the new Chelsea when Lerner first came in as I am sure many others did too with what was 'promised') who is not allowed to spend the money it seems. Even if you have the money, clubs like us just can't spend it. That's what stinks, or appears to stink. It won't be long before blind loyality tails off and the fans of 'under' clubs like ours realise that their clubs can't actually compete, they make up the numbers, and are merely buying season tickets to ensure they have a seat to watch Yanited, Arsenal, Citeh, Chelski and a recently invigorated Plop. The late 20th Century spawned a plethora of chances for Villa to catch the boat... Sadly, they missed it and we're stuck on a pedalo with a mute tiger and an orangutan.

When you see their highlights on 'Goals On Sunday,' it is staggering just how empty St Andrews is. Where did all those proles who went to Wembley in 2011 go? Even for a club trying to claw it'sway to safety, that home support is most bizarre for a 'big' club in the West Midlands. Piss on 'em.

The thing is - this is us (12th) against bottom of the league opposition. They are there for a reason, as we are 12th for the many reasons trotted out. The random factor of Aston Villa makes this a difficult game to call. An ideal afternoon for sniffing glue. BTW - I loved the reference in a prior post to this being a 'low wattage' firxture. LOL.

Use Duct-Tape (TM?) to strap a stick to his head and have a false vagina dangling from it... That should motivate him.

Nasty piece of work that Fellaini guy. He does that quite a lot. I wish someone would shave off that hair while he was asleep.

Did not expect anything from the game and my apathy towards the fixture as a consequence was rewarded with no surprise, though the severity if the final score rankles with the symmetry of the previous week's offering against Stoke. the balance was that on Friday, this felt like a free game as it always seems to be against Yanited. But cuddly Aston Villa, nailed on to help stop you losing 3 games on the spin at home... 7-1 over two games - the gulf in class is still there, even in a United off-season. That's more about our Club as a whole, than the manager or the players - I cut the team and Paul some slack on that score in that fixture. Villa couldn't win anyway - even if we won, it would all have been about how poor Yanited were... that plane protest... how shit Moyes appears to be etc. We would never have got the credit for a win, whether we deserved it or not. If we drew the game, - it would have been how Yanited managed (just) to stop the rot... And so it goes. Media storm predictability. We are small time in comparison. Disappointing though, to go a goal up so early, only to be roasted in return by 4 goals. Could of, would of, should of applies for at least 1 Benteke chance. But we were well beaten. Always a cardinal sin for little teams like us (as smartly dressed as we were) to go a goal up so early at Mould Trafford. It's like kicking a hornets nest. NEVER - never, score early against United. It doesn't end well for clubs of our stature... Not for us anyway. This next bit needs you to imagine Sky Sports News from Thursday this week, that plastic little Irish girl who appears on there, or Georgie Thompson with her pretend sultry (sex sells sport) voice... Or even Kirsty Gallagher's hyperactive jaw movements... Or 'snappy' Jim White who always seems to be shouting or overexcited about his grandiloquent mutterings. So, how many times this season have we been in a position of 'Aston Villa play XXXX this weekend to prevent a run of 3 defeats in all competition (or 4)?' Just in time then to play plucky Fulham, coming off the back of a dismal 3-1 home stuffing to Everton... a Fulham team with a poorer away return than Stoke had... I really hope Villa turn up for the Fulham game. One frequent VT poster stated fairly that we can't do anything about the lengthy list of home defeats this season, that they are all in the past and we need to get over it, move on etc. Weighing up everything that I have seen and endured this season - I would be looking for regime change in the summer if we can't even beat the bottom club side at home after the rollickings that the gaffer must have dished out after our last two 4-1 defeats. There, I have almost said it. The difference being, I am not saying whether I think it should be a club that is sold, or a manager asked to jog in a different direction. Cue a 6-2 win. You just don't know what's in store for Aston Villa Football Club. #random

Ashley (word removed) Young - versus Aston Vanilla... Fingers crossed... surprise me Villa... please do.

Mobile phone signal might have something to do with policing on match days. Police can and often do suppress the mobile phone network in an area so that they can conduct incident management at major events/incidents/accidents. Not saying that is always why mobile phone reception is bobbins at Villa Park, but could be a factor. I wonder if the inhabitants of the Witton/Aston area suffer from poor signal, and whether this is only on match days - or if it's just confined to Villa Park. Balti pies - for the win.

Says it all really and sums up my view after a really good March so far... And as for those 'running scared' from the VT boards because of 'the Lambert haters' - LOL even more. And no, I am not a Lambert hater - just sceptical. Just when I thought we had genuinely turned the corner - we go and offer Stoke a result. A Stoke team who have done bugger all on the road this season until reaching good old cuddly and charitable Villa Park. Bad day in the office then - yeah, I can kind of accept all the thumb-nosing about how clinical Stoke were in the context of our most immediately preceeding two performances. But we set off like a train at full steam - we scored a great, patient build up interplay goal and Stoke didn't have a kick until about the 10th minute. So what happened? Maybe the injuries... maybe... But Villa - **** off with injuries as an excuse next season. The Stoke game was remarkably like Norwich, but in reverse and Paul nailed it on the head by decalring we deserved nothing. We really didn't. So what next? Are we good for a win at Old Trafford? Can we really win there for a second time in 5 seasons? And then the mighty Fulham come to Villa Park - be ready for that folks... Another club with sod all to cheer about on the road looking to end a dismal away record at our gaff. Be ready for that. They were crap at home until we played them at the Cottage. And haven't been much better since. Charitable Aston Villa. The way I see it - don't ever bet money on Aston Villa. You just don't know what you're going to get. Aston Vanilla (more than a fair chance of getting licked) or a box of chocolates? Hard work this week Paul.

Actually - a very pleasant shock when I heard the final score on radio... Especially shocked when I saw the stats on BBC sport the following day.

Still doesn't disguise the fact that they are a scumbag club, with scumbag fans. New money... meh.

Bravo Paul. Everything came together for you and the team on Saturday. More of the same going forward please. Build on it...

Wowzers... get in... MOTM - Delph, though honorable mentions for Baker and Bennett - the latter having arguably his finest game for us so far. Lambert's tactics - good... I'm no tactician, but something worked and I give credit where it's due there. We did play some nice football, we did play some long balls and we achieve a fantastic result. Refereeing - good. Look, given his positioning, I couldn't have blamed the referee for not giving Chelsea that goal.. On first glance, even I thought it was a goal... The ref saw something I didn't and I am surprised, that with Chelsea being a 'world class club' that the attacker wasn't given the benefit of the doubt. I wouldn't have given Bennett a red card - the ball was going sideways, and there was actually a small posse of players there. A soft 2nd yellow for Willian I have to concur... But on totting up, deserved to go. Ramires - no place in football for tackles like that. I'd have sent the rest of the Chelsea players off just for that... Kind of why I am not a referee. A fabulous win Villa... Great job Paul and the players. You need to do it more often though... There is still some bitterness on my behalf towards the Club for the Villa Park form over the last two seasons in general... But more days like Saturday, and I can buy into the dream again maybe. Back to back Villa Park wins for the first time in 3 years... Back to back Sky wins too... Things are looking up... Missing out on that game up at Etihad has been good for us. But, I'm not giving anyone any grief on the face of what I saw against Chelsea... Excellent stuff. Up the Villa... ITKish - My mate was out having a Sunday lunch drinky at a pub, somewhere in the West Midlands conurbation. Weimann and Clark were out celebrating yesterday too, at the same pub. Rightly so, Weimann was very merry indeed. I won't put here what my friend's actual words were for fear of starting a club investigation... But it wasn't a quenelle or anything like that... Sod it... he was pissed as a wheel!!! Get in son...

Yes indeed... Imagine two Fonzes up front for the Villa...

http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/Nuneaton-Town-sign-Emmitt-Delfouneso/story-20293886-detail/story.html Scored last night for the mighty Nuneaton Town in the local derby against Tamuff... Up the Boro!!!

I stopped reading at that point... Possible ruse to generate excitement to lure early season ticket cash out of fans. Locketts anyone? I doubt the Villa staff think Jenkinson rumours are going to cause fans to rush out and buy season tickets. He would be a good signing though, a similar one to the Bertrand signing, and if Lambert is having problems with Lowton it would make sense to get him in to compete for the spot with Bacuna. I've seen little of the player in question to give an opinion as to whether this would be a good signing or not, or a possible signing or not. My point really was that the article has been laced with a 'quote' from an alleged insider at the football club. If this insider is telling the interviewer about a 'possible' target, I am also suspicious that the statement claiming that it 'promises to be another busy summer etc' has been added as a tag line from the club to generate early sales. The promise of a busy summer. Someone will fall for it. Because of the Bertrand thing, this could all be made up lazy link bullshit anyway looking at the source... a 3rd party newspaper quoting a 2nd party article quoting a 1st party club insider... Has got Fu King Wong whispers all over it. It's all smoke and mirrors... Lockett... It promises to be a very busy summer down Villa Park... get your tickets now.

I stopped reading at that point... Possible ruse to generate excitement to lure early season ticket cash out of fans. Locketts anyone?