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Heck is the President of Business Operations at V Sports; I suspect a good chunk of time is focused on V Sports' subsidiary Aston Villa. And in turn, likely a lot of this time is spent on alleviating the fears of the fashionistas at Villa Talk.

The formal meaning of the phrase 'beg the question' is to assume the answer in a question.

It's a way to deal with the disappointment that results from a chaotic universe.

As others have pointed out Bournemouth have had a decent run since 1st Nov. A bit of context since 1st Nov points games Villa 44 24 Bournemouth 36 23 Chelsea 35 21 Fulham 30 23 Man United 35 22 Newcastle 33 22 Spurs 34 22 West Ham 34 24 Wolves 31 23 and the match ... 9/10 ... Ollie 8/10 ... Konsa, Bailey, Diaby, McGinn, Rogers (MotM) 7/10 ... Emi, Pau, Digne, Tielemans, 6½/10 ... Cash

This drives me mad .... I'm sorry. Bookies respond to betting patterns and don't have some magic insight. If anything you might point to The wisdom of the crowd, where competing punters are the crowd.

Linesman?

If I were the owner of Villa Park, before I did any redevelopment I would make sure it made financial sense first. Assuming it did and assuming the North Stand is first, I would look at a design that could be integrated with future rebuilds of the adjacent stands to increase capacity and hopefully profitability. Did anybody take a look at how easily the last proposed North Stand could be integrated with future redevelopment of the adjacent stands?

It should not bother me but ... things like show a fundamental lack of understanding of how the game works. Bookies are not rich because of any particular game or result. They are rich because: People bet with bookies Bookies are really good at doing the math They take money out of the pot, called the 'vigorish" or "vig". Typically 5 to 10 percent Now bookies can screw up if they do the math wrong, or if there is a sudden change in betting patterns ... horse racing comes to mind here and there is a slow exchange of information regarding the change in betting patterns.

It is not an insult! It is a result of people not taking advantage of the odds.

Bedtime here.

Man City at home? 14th May

Consider it done.

Whoever knocked up this claret and blue rendition of the Union Jack has never looked to see how the flag is designed.

We played 90 minutes of good football and had a god-awful 9 minutes. The universe is chaotic ...

A convenient place to look at the remaining fixtures. Spurs Man United Aston Villa A Newcastle A Bournemouth A Arsenal H Man City H Newcastle H Bournemouth H Arsenal H Sheffield Utd H Chelsea A Chelsea H Burnley A Brighton A Liverpool A Crystal Palace H Liverpool H Burnley H Arsenal A Crystal Palace A Sheffield Utd A Brighton Chelsea Newcastle H Everton H Spurs A Brighton A Man United A Arsenal A Crystal Palace A Aston Villa H Sheffield Utd H Spurs A Burnley H West Ham H Brighton A Notts Forest A Brentford H Bournemouth