Mark Albrighton

Sorry to hear that mate. As a wise man once said - if that chick don't wanna know, forget her.

In my experience, girls particularly like being called "pretty". The slightly archaic compliment resonates a bit more with them rather than something more contemporary such as "you're well fit" (which I also find has a place in modern courtship). Stevo, for some reason I can't see this picture, but following the subsequent consensus of others, I'm sure it's safe to say "nice one playa!!".

Oh, you!

Had to say it out loud, but I got there eventually. Help yourself to a like.

I think we should turn to Emma Stone much more frequently than we currently do.

Terrible news about Alan Rickman. Fantastic actor, can't recall him ever giving a poor performance. The films he was in, he was regularly the best thing about them. Rest in peace.

Belated Happy Birthday Xann. I hear the "leftover cake for breakfast" diet is gonna be the big craze for 2016.

If the new national anthem is anything other than "Evidently Chickentown" then it's a missed opportunity.

That game against Everton last season was particularly farcical.

Norwich losing 3-1.

On second thoughts, I can make my peace with a Sunderland win

If we do go down, I'd rather get relegated with Sunderland as opposed to Swansea so if one of them has to win I'd prefer it to be Swansea. Still though.....come on score draw!!!

Really, really pleased I decided against going down the pub to watch the Liverpool-arsenal game. Sounds such a drab affair.

Swansea now winning - Ayew.

Swansea now down to ten men. Apparently a terrible decision.

Norwich down to ten men.

Mentioned elsewhere but fair play to Pardew for saying some things about us.

Well "in theory"....

Can we play you, Can we play you, Can we play every week??? (No, but seriously, can we play you every week, it would really help us out)

Rooney 3-2

Sounds good in theory. But it'll only be a matter of time before someone posts a picture and the following exchange occurs- "This is a picture of my ex, complete nutcase but she was great in the sack-loved and I mean LOVED DHUTWU!!" "That's my fiancé."

Ok, I don't completely hate that line up. Let's see how I feel in 3 hours

We're not hated so much as seen (rightly or wrongly) as irrelevant. My impression is the view of the club is generally "yeah Villa are a big(ish) club, good stadium, they won a load of stuff in the old black & white days, think they won a European cup in the 80's too, think it was Dean Saunders who scored the winner, but that's about it". I've always felt that a lack of seriously successful local rivals has never helped us with regards to the media. Roughly speaking, Everton are a club the same size stature as us (based on historical significance, fan base, stadium, trophies) and to a lesser extent maybe Spurs. Yet both of those clubs have massive, media friendly derbies with Liverpool and Arsenal respectively to get everyone excited. We have small heath and the baggies. With the current novelty exception of Leicester, I've always felt there's an overall apathy towards midlands football which is a shame considering how crucial the region was in the early days of the game.