The Moustache of Teale

1 hour ago, Jimzk5 said:

I doubt Mourinho would even entertain working under Mike Ashley and the budgets involved

According to sky they are talking to a ram grant..... 

Really not setting the baaa that high then are they?

15 minutes ago, GarethRDR said:

Like most of my recent BM's, at the very least he'll make a solid #2.

That’s good. A solid number 2 is always a good sign that things are working as they should. 

I wouldn’t normally go near the SHA forum but a situation as hilarious as this warranted it. 

This post made me laugh:

”Looks like we going to have a Dong Out protest, that won’t be a pretty sight.”

2 minutes ago, Dave-R said:

Gota have the faith, Smith will pull it off,  I think we could actually be surprised this coming season with the quality we could have along with Smith style..

8 minutes ago, villa89 said:

There appears to be genuine ITK's* that are saying this is a done deal and we are just waiting for him to come back from holidays in Burkina Faso or where ever he's gone. Also rumours Kalinic is off to Nantes so I doubt we would be shopping him around unless we had a replacement lined up.

I hope he’s not in Burkina Faso. The foreign office advise against all but essential travel there due to the terrorism threat. He could conceivably come back as a 3ft keeper with no legs.

1 minute ago, sidcow said:

Can't afford that on Farm Boys Wages. 

Fear not - Sgt. Rock is going to help him.

21 minutes ago, momo said:

I think having them both would make both better. And why not play with 2 strikers? Like Shearer and Ferdinand. That was some pair.

Created a nice pair of my own there!

20 minutes ago, momo said:

I think having them both would make both better. And why not play with 2 strikers? Like Shearer and Ferdinand. That was some pair.

43 minutes ago, Mazrim said:

Ashley Cole had to go out to cover Adomah, Tomori then had to cover Elmo. The cross was always coming in.

In anticipation of a Kenneth Williams jpeg... It was Bogle's fault for letting El Ghazi get inside him...

But once McGinn had shielded the ball with his body and turned it over to Conor to play that lovely quick ball outside, Derby were struggling to cope. I don't think Tomori can be blamed for any of that.

5 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Can you stop with the Bananarama puns now please.  It ain't what you do on here. 

 That’s really sayin’ somethin’. It’s totally out of hand.

4 minutes ago, hippo said:

Nathan Jones is though.

It’ll be a cruel cruel summer if we’re being beaten to signings by Stoke City.

Consummate professional without whom we wouldn’t be a Premier League club today. Whatever happens from here on in, I’ll always hold him in the highest regard. Good luck to him, I hope he goes far in the game.

15 minutes ago, CosmicVillan said:

Has anyone mentioned we have been linked to KIRIL DESPODOV  ?

https://youtu.be/1d_-Ry3znps

 

An anagram of his name is “skip over dildo”.

Sign him up.

On 02/06/2019 at 23:54, Taxahunter said:

We have a saying in Denmark that a "blind chicken can still find corn".

On 03/06/2019 at 13:06, rodders0223 said:

He would get roasted, let's be honest.

All this talk is making me hungry.

13 minutes ago, alreadyexists said:

He’s at Atalanta now, and they’re in the Champions League next year... 

Yes.

Good enough for the Champions League. Good enough for Italy, for whom he’s just had his first call up.

Not good enough for Mr Potato Head.

2 minutes ago, Dr_Pangloss said:

Right up there among the biggest shithouses I've seen wear the shirt, garbage player.

Unfair, untrue, disrespectful in my opinion. Limited but never gave less than 100% for the cause. Good luck to him, if not to his new prospective poo hole of a club.

10 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

I love Jack but I’m getting old and don’t get social media or glamorousing benders on it. 

But yeah they all deserve to celebrate hard.

Let’s hope that come Monday evening we’ll all be raising a glass to Jack...

Sadly I have to agree. Professor Green would have been more effective on the wing than him.

10 minutes ago, hippo said:

Ffs...8m watching this is a bar in lanzarote....theyve just switched to the tennis !!!!!

That is one seriously crowded bar. 

7 hours ago, JamesBCFC said:

R.E the penalty. Hourihane backed into Hunt, then collapsed and handballed on his way down.

 

When Hunt asked the referee and linesman what it was given for they gave contradictory answers- one said for pushing Hourihane, one said for pulling him.

Going back a bit into the offside, one thing that's quite telling IMO is the reaction of players. Not sure who it was, but you can see one of the Villa defenders shaking his head when the goal is scored, rather than appealing for offside. Usually if a goal is offside (and even sometimes when it isn't) you get plenty of appeals that it was.

 

Don't want a bollocking for derailing the promotion thread, but appreciate yourself and a few others being able to have a reasonable debate on it.

The decisions still frustrate, and while I dislike VAR, it's becoming apparent that it's needed as the refereeing standards are declining. Regardless I'm now looking forward to Reading on Good Friday, hopefully I'm over this illness by then!

 

*Bolded bit is a bit subjective.

For me the initial offence, compounded by the use of “ would of” instead of “would have” and the failure to use an apostrophe in “official’s”, all add up to a clear cut penalty.