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Why don’t we just not consider having any premier league games played outside of the UK ever, surely that just makes more sense.

I’d give up a foot, maybe some fingers too

It’s the speed at which he can turn that gets me, I mean he’s a big youth, that combination is really intriguing.

Wow, I watch that and I can’t believe I didn’t vote him MoTM, but perhaps that’s the biggest compliment, that it doesn’t stand out now, that level is his new norm. What a player he’s become, I hope this week he can rest up that knee and come back fully fit and firing for the last (hopefully) 7 games.

Hi Mr Heck, how’s the new club crest redesign coming along? Been hearing great things about it………

Because it’s clearly designed to capture those who forget / omit (unintentionally) to not renew. Its the same kind of trick the insurance companies pull at renewal time when they send an inflated offer for the next 12 months and hope people don’t bother to question it, it’s money grabbing. Thats before you get into the complications (no doubt) of having to cancel memberships for those who are incapacitated or worse, at least previously it would have just expired at the end of the period. Its just not nice, and it’s very intentional.

Yep it’s naughty this is, clearly only one motive for it and it’s absolutely not with fans / customer needs in mind.

Barcelona are more embarrassing than Forest! Demanding the game be replayed from the weekend because of a goal/no goal situation that occurred in the 28th minute. Threatening legal action too, what a joke and what a bunch of clowns, a club that has benefitted massively from cheating (financially) off the pitch for a long time now.

I don’t think the first one is a penalty, but they’ve been given often, somewhat reminiscent of the Duran one at home to Burnley earlier this season. The handball, who knows anymore, sometimes they’re given, sometimes not, was it any more or less handball than the one Coventry got on the weekend? The final one though, clear penalty (and perhaps a red card), Young was never going to get to the ball cleanly through the back of the player, but okay, things can be missed in real time, this is what VAR is supposed to be there for, a clear and obvious mistake. I remember us being denied three penalties against Sheff United at home, two of which were stonewall for me (Watkins being pushed and the handball), if it came out afterwards that the VAR official was a SHA fan I can imagine all of us being pissed off and calling foul on it. To be honest though, whoever he supports is irrelevant because all it highlights for me is that Attwell is shit at his job, as we all knew. Let’s not forget that shortly before being fast tracked into the premier league he was the one who awarded the ‘ghost goal’ in a Watford match (it’s absolutely unbelievable, look it up if you don’t recall it).

The transformation in Bailey is astounding when you consider how he struggled to adapt over the first 18-24 months here, admittedly held back by injuries but his entire persona is different now, truly one of the leaders on the pitch both in terms of ability but also application. And you know what, I think he loves it here (now).

F**k VAR, absolutely detest it, a moment like that in a semi final ruled out for a minor infraction that had no bearing on the ultimate outcome. The jubilation and the emotions those Cov fans will have experienced should have been something to remember for all the right reasons, now it will only be remembered for the wrong reasons, clinical accuracy isn’t football, emotion and the eruption of those emotions is what football is about, and VAR kills it.

Great result and good performance, at times we overplayed in and around the box, probably should have scored more but given the efforts of the same XI (by and large) just three days ago in France this was a remarkable showing. I’ve long run out of superlatives to describe Unai and this team, part of me is still waiting for it all to go wrong but holy moly folks, it (whatever it is), may well just be bloody happening! What a time to be a Villa fan.

If we can find a win today it practically renders the chances of anyone other than spurs overtaking us to zero, we can go 16 clear of United and castle with both having 18 points to play for, they have to play eachother soon too. What an incredible position we can put ourselves into, my worry is that when we’ve had games like this (opportunities to put ourselves into strong positions, like Sheff Utd at home, United away etc) we’ve tended to choke somewhat. I’m hoping the euphoria from Thursday will help the players psychologically in this regard.

Shake and bake

I think we’ll aim to start fast and try to blow them away first half as we did to sides earlier in the season. I don’t see us rotating much because simply, we have no real options for it (aside from in defence).