Lichfield Dean

Standalone lion is by far my preferred badge option. Just no need for a shield or circle. And the trefoil looks great - be interesting to see if Villa count as an "elite" team or not

Dool - The Shape Of Fluidity

Darkplace rules. Surely it counts as a sitcom? It's a comedy, and it is set in a situation.

I just watched it. Staggering. Apparently Newcastle suffered similar last season as well. How can these pundits stand there and go along with this? It's just madness.

Haha. I've genuinely no idea what he is supposed to be, or if it's fancy dress, or if that's actually his day to day look.

There's a guy that appears to have half his head tattooed blue

Oooh Hancock, that deserves a place just for its sheer originality and influence. It was also genuinely hilarious too.

On the one hand, I can keep Christian Flippin' Horner and lose the greatest genius car designer of all time. On the other, I can keep the greatest genius car designer of all time and lose Christian Flippin' Horner. Whatever shall I do? There's only one way to settle this...

Excellent choices. Community, Always Sunny and Parks and Rec are just superb. Father Ted and The IT Crowd are nonstop hilarious. I might be tempted to add Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Black Books and Yes Minister (which is utter genius imo)

He does stretch the truth a bit at times doesn't he? I mean, yes, the original Villa Park was built in 1897 but it isn't like any of that still exists (as far as I'm aware) yet he makes it sound like we are actually playing in a Victorian stadium.

I can just see every single game the commentator referring to Liverpool as the "Slot machine"

Well, I guess maybe the weekend will be a good opportunity to give Chelsea that 8-0 we owe them.

V'ger does not need Teams to communicate with the creator

Off topic, but I am hugely angry at the state of these sticker albums. Panini and Topps have split the license of the teams between them, so you will not be able to have all teams or you have just "generic" players for certain teams (not in kit, or maybe not even actual squad members). Whole thing is a joke and makes me hugely angry. Do not buy these sticker albums, they have been utterly ruined by money like so many other things. However, well done Ollie for being enough of a "face" to make it onto the front of the Panini album.

Didn't he run at full speed across the penalty area with the card held as high and prominently as possible? That was my recollection... Could be wrong though.

Yeah, true. I just don't really like the idea of a CPO for a football club stadium expansion -makes me a bit uncomfortable.

Probably a very bad idea for some reason, but what about just knocking on every door and offering a bunch of money rather than attempting to get a CPO? I mean, I live in a nice enough house in a much better area than Aston and I'd happily take an offer 20% or so over book value if Villa came calling.

Just because the yellows go back to zero next game doesn't necessarily mean a suspension is also cancelled surely? You've already earned a suspension by picking up that many yellows before they reset to zero yellows, so why wouldn't you have to serve your suspension? If you have 11 points on your driving license that expire on New Year's Day and you get done for speeding on Christmas Day and you get a ban, they don't go "oh but these points expire in a few days so therefore you aren't banned" Admittedly individual competition rules may state otherwise but I haven't seen anything conclusive about this. Couple with this there is uncertainty about whether the ref revoked the yellow, and also some uncertainty about whether the penalty shootout yellow counts as a "quarter final" yellow because technically I think it can be argued the game had ended. Whether the penalty shootout existed in a no-man's-land between the quarters and semis I have no idea.

Probably something like that. Interesting that the BBC and Guardian use different spellings though.

They are wiped, but if you've picked up enough before the wipe then you're suspended.

Just noticed that lots of people here, including me, and also even the BBC have spelt it Olympiakos with a "k" when actually it appears it should be Olympiacos with a "c" Huh

That penalty that was saved, hit the bar and somehow didn't go in was astonishing. Anyway, well done Olympiakos!

Voted Martinez MOTM but to be honest I think Cash is worthy of a shout for weirdly being our only attacking outlet for 80% of the game and scoring an actual goal.

Absolute madness

This is a shambles