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West Ham are done for the season.

Nice of them to wait til after playing us to down tools completely.

1 minute ago, MotoMkali said:

Diaby and Bailey have so much chemistry when playing on the same side. 

Much better than when either of them is playing for the other side, I have to agree.

That is one hell of an attacking team.

28 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

 

"I miss him, I have to say"

Of course you **** miss him. Arsenal would have won the league twice in a row with him and not Ramsdale or Raya in goal 

Doesn't a card have to be physically shown to a player and their name written down?

This goblin of a ref did neither. He took the card out, then Luiz came over before he could flash it, then he told him to **** off and then put the card away again.

How exactly is that booking someone?

I honestly think these **** modern referees are touched in the head. They act like shell-shocked war vets sometimes, they lose the rag under seemingly innocuous circumstances half of the time and expose themselves as clearly not understanding the rules of the game the other half. **** nuts.

Pressure was on Arsenal last week. It's on us for Sunday.

Hopefully we can withstand and come away with the right result, as we are more than good enough.

UTV

Villa are now the only English club left in Europe! 

Wouldn't have predicted this, I must admit.

1 minute ago, TheMelvillan said:

I'll be honest it was a hairbrained suggestion at best

If only we were all as honest and reflective as you this board would be a better place

5 hours ago, TheMelvillan said:

all Cup games should be played at the lower league teams ground. Levels the playing field, more chance of an upset, home team gets the gate receipts. If a draw is made and its two teams from same league, then a draw is made as to where it is played

I like this in theory but means a few hundred Villa fans would get to see us in the cups each year. Majority would never have the chance.

1 minute ago, Stephen_Evans said:

A reference to bed wetters.

Wow. So original. A true visionary. Thank you for gracing us all with your genius.

3 minutes ago, claretman said:

I haven’t enjoyed watching a single minute of this, even when we scored I thought it would be chalked off.  Lille have been much better than us, we have passed to them regularly and the ref has been beyond wank.  

Correct

Fiorentina winning. If we play like this against them, we get absolutely mashed.

Ref is an absolute kant

Well this has been massively depressing.

The refereeing is highly suspect. Who books Unai?

Besides all that, why is Diaby so **** shit so often?

Just now, sharkyvilla said:

Silva's penalty wasn't that bad, just a cracking gamble by the keeper not to dive.

I still can't believe he took Haaland off, all he needs is a half chance and you can vary your attacks a bit more when he is there.  City did nothing in extra time.  Plus he'd have taken a penalty.

Pep's ego is beautifully self defeating

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Just now, foreveryoung said:

They'll win the league now.

They were going to anyway 

Wow!

Villa could be the last English team left in Europe after tomorrow...

3 minutes ago, duke313 said:

Turns out it’s harder to score lots of goals against elite European teams than it is Burnley, Sheff Utd and Luton.

Btw - they scored 4 goals against Newcastle, 6 against West Ham (how many did we manage?), and 3 against Liverpool. Not just relegation fodder, eh.

Just now, duke313 said:

Turns out it’s harder to score lots of goals against elite European teams than it is Burnley, Sheff Utd and Luton.

How droll. 

We're not talking about lots are we? 

The OP was talking about them failing to score 1.

The amount of low-hanging fruit responses on this board sometimes, jesus. 

1 minute ago, villan95 said:

Nobody in this arsenal team has a goal in them 

Which is bizarre given how many goals they were scoring every game not long ago.

Jesus wept. Some of this squad are made of **** glass, man.

22 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

FA cup semi final, they were due to play chelsea

Other clubs have midweek games during the period in question. Plus/or Europe matches. Spurs do not. There's no excuse for 2 weeks of no football for any club at this stage of the season, honestly, let alone one with games in hand

19 minutes ago, Talldarkandransome said:

They've got 6 in 21 days from 28th April to 19th May, they will be knackered

Not saying it's a bad thing for us and I've zero sympathy for them but it's ridiculous from the league. Could just as easily be us next season. Stupid and avoidable.

WTF is with Spurs' 15 day gap between games? They already have 1 in hand over most teams and they've got more than 2 weeks off?

Prem schedule sorely needs looking at.

On 11/04/2024 at 14:37, sne said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/11/premier-league-to-use-semi-automated-offside-speed-up-var-calls#:~:text=Semi-automated offside technology was,shown to fans in stadiums.

Great. Can we follow this up with getting rid of completely redundant and useless Linesmen/Linespeople now please? They're making a mockery of the whole thing by standing there with their flags down for 40 seconds waiting for players to gas themselves or potentially get injured, then they flag when the ball goes dead.

If technology can call offsides automatically then get rid.