DaveAV1

You should walk a mile in a man’s shoes before judging him, is the old saying that comes to mind in these circumstances and plenty of other circumstances too.

Welcoming for our players and intimidating for theirs too! Like the plans for the players tunnel on to the pitch. We want Villa Park to be a nightmare for visiting teams but a dream for us. Lots of teams like to come to Villa Park, that needs to change. Many years ago I read in a popular lads football magazine, which did players featured like , worse away ground etc and at the time a prominent Man U player, can’t remember his name, had Villa Park as the stadium he didn’t like going to most, because The stands were close to the pitch and “there was a huge stand at one end, which was frightening!” We call it The Holte End and this was when it was a single all standing terrace. Those were the days, I think this was in the 70s before Sky invented football but that’s what we need Villa Park to feel like for the opposition from the minute they arrive and start worrying about it from the time the fixture is announced, like anfield used to be and that was largely psychological mumbo jumbo!! A lot of it worked though. Make our players feel like super humans and make our opponents feel like they’re being lead to the slaughter!! In recent years lots of people, from other teams, name Villa Park as their favourite away ground, that needs to change, because of what happens on the pitch, they can still have a nice experience visiting a big famous club before they witness the expected and standard drubbing handed out by the mighty Villa, which is the team they came to see anyway!! The best experience of the season, despite the result, is what we want them to take away with them!! “5-0 on you big day out!” You know the type of thing I mean.

Smart thinking by the club again, build the atmosphere, make the players feel good and get people inside the ground to spend money with the club rather than elsewhere, wins all round for the club. UTV!!! Scrub my 4-0 prediction let’s make it 6-0 at fortress Villa!!!!

That’s a notable point!!

I’m happy to draw some confidence from your lack of confidence. They’ve hit some form but we’ve got plenty of form and momentum on our side too. Leon to play a blinder in a 4-0 victory, let’s start enjoying the run in to a brilliant season. Another brace or possibly more from Ollie!! UTV!!!!!!!

P. S. more sobs on the Tyne….

The FA want Howe to replace Southgate, Howe seems to be dropping off now so he’d be perfect for the trophy avoiding idiots at the FA.

It’s time for Slippy G to ride to the rescue with Hendo on the back of the horse and coach Rooney alongside them to help! Soccerball’s coming home!!!

He probably sees it as an opportunity to spend even more money and a justification to spend it. Loads of cash but no class I wouldn’t swap him for Unai or anyone else including the Colgate advert who read the same bumper book of excuses he got in his Christmas stocking from the PL a couple of years ago. As Villa manager Unai doesn’t get any Christmas presents from those in charge since 1992, he found a copy when he was at Arsenal but it was all in French so used it to level his office table, Arteta has searched high and low for it since he walked through the door and after last weekend’s game begged Unai to tell him where it was and had he seen the Spanish translation as he couldn’t read French even though he’d found Wenger’s original copy under a table leg but since taking it the table had gone very wonky……. although he could understand the diagrams but after a while he needed more help and Pep won’t tell him. Not even for £1.5 billion as he’s a purist that doesn’t care about money although he’s had offers from a bloke claiming to be from Liverpool but he couldn’t have been as he wore a blue shirt, another fella who asked did have a red shirt but wrong accent and a man from the FA told me they’d had problems in the past from his predecessor and they we’re working on sorting them out as well as the man in blue’s team but under no circumstances should I ever speak with anyone with a darker red shirt, like you’re wearing Unai, he said that your club has had the European Cup stolen more often than my club has ever won it, definitely not to be trusted with abything shiny, he also said that your team had lost the original FA Cup and think they have a plan to prevent your club from ever winning anything again but you’d made them very concerned recently and you must be stopped, I really tried but it was too difficult!

Right place at the right time for him, I’d agree, wrong as far as Englands chance of ever winning anything or playing decent football anytime while he stays in the job. The man is such a poor manager, he’s got BCFC written all over him. He stinks of failure, therefore a natural for the job. No PL club with any ambition would touch him with a barge pole. Perfect choice for them after coach Rooney, only Slippy G would be worse or funnier! We’ll possibly not much worse but that’s the level he’s at.

Master tactician Pep has solved his schedule crisis by getting knocked out of the CL and being immune to FFP that won’t be a problem either, well no more than playing in front of a half empty stadium despite their domestic dominance. If I didn’t know better I’d be inclined to think that the people who administer the game these days are crooks. Thankfully I’m not cynical at all……………..

And a couple of beers lads!!!!

The Gaul of them!!

Whilst I agree, the wailing from the Red Scousers to give the titles to them and Kloppity will be worse the PL will have to give all the points to them drip fed when they need them, almost certainly against us the FA will Chuck in a couple of FA Cups too including a replay of the 2015 semi final in which they will be given a 6 goal lead, if they think that’s enough. Then they’ll replay the final so the BBC can break the record for Klopping off during a football match with the Slippy G cup final. There’ll be no end to this mess that the PL has started but we should of course be eternally grateful to them for inventing the game in 1992 after the horrors of 1981 and 82 which the BBC will happily cancel and rewrite over a year or two!!

The bells will be ringing for the claret and blue that’s for sure!!

Ok let’s look more deeply into this, which useless bunch of losers managed to knock Bournemouth out of the FA Cup? The game’s gone!!!

First leg at home, no penalty shootout to worry about, stick 3 or 4 past them and we’re happy to play away to book another trip to Greece at the end of the month. European final on a warm day in May, ring any Bells??? UTV!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I couldn’t agree more. The difference in the personality of wanting to win and making sure that you win is huge Emmi epitomises being a winner regardless of the situation he’s in. We’re lucky to have him and hopefully this runs off on more of our players, I think our manager and the coaches already have it but you can never have too much of it. I’ve seen us lose lots of matches we should have won against teams that weren’t as good as us, last night was a huge psychological shift, which I think Gerrard was hinting was necessary but has no idea how to do it, along with his many other faults. He could do it on the pit it had no idea how to teach others how to do it. Last night our elite GK was doing elite GK stuff and our manager was doing elite manager stuff. We’re getting there now, it may have taken a while but finally the light at the end of a dark tunnel is much brighter than it has been for many years. Having been on the same journey as me for a similar amount of time, I’m sure you understand what I mean. We perhaps can stop banging our heads against the wall for a while and enjoy the next chapter as much as those we enjoyed all those years ago, on a good morning, with the sunshine beaming down up here in The Highlands, it can feel like it was only yesterday. A warm May day in Athens won’t be too dissimilar to a warm day in May 22 years ago!! UTV!!!! and look after yourself, we’ve got an FA Cup to win too!!!

Any news on punishment of Lille for failing to prevent their fans throwing stuff on to the pitch all night??

Goal keepers all have a huge disadvantage in many situations, particularly penalties, which is fair enough when a team is penalised in normal play, if the penalty is correctly given when a goal scoring opportunity has been prevented by a defensive player but in a penalty shootout the advantage is still massively with the penalty taker, Emi’s actions are merely trying to even up his chances. Even in normal open play one on one with the goalie is considered a huge opportunity to score so his growing reputation is a big advantage to the team. The world’s no. 1 in goal for us is never a bad thing, well anywhere but on the island of depression in the sea of Roasters!!

Progress in this competition will stand us in good stead for next season’s CL. We don’t just want to qualify and get knocked out early.

All the clubs in the SPL have limited funds.

They breaks yer heart…….mate……………..

We can’t expect any easy games at this stage of the season in any competition. UTV!!!!!!!!!! Keep faith in the Sultan of Unai, we’ll come through this test no matter how hard it is! UTV!!!!!! It’s getting exciting isn’t it? along with nerve racking too!!

Universal credit you’re more likely to find in Bradford!