hoaxn

I defended the 3-5-2 pregame. I was wrong. They were a class above first half.

Much better 2nd half but not enough to feel the 1-1 was a fair result.

Tish was immense. The last 15 minutes was awesome.

Much work to be done. Hopefully a lesson learnt for a very cheap price too.

1 minute ago, TheAuthority said:

Baker head injury sweepstake time:

I'm going for the 13th minute.

Gonna be a bit more ambitious.. 36th minute.

Wow. I feel old now. Gayle looks like that kid in secondary school who thinks he's a hard man cos his cousin knows someone who once spoke to one of the Burger Bar Boys.

Edit: Feeling a bit creeped out here.. He's only 6 months younger than me!

1 minute ago, DCJonah said:

The last game we played it we failed to have a shot on target. It doesn't seem the most attacking way we could play. 

That's true. Let's hope they've been using this week to work at it more then. We were terrible in the last game.

Just trying to be positive pre-game and not write us off 45 mins before we've kicked a ball.

Not sure why people see 5-3-2 / 3-5-2 as a purely defensive/negative approach. It's a good shape to start with as it's highly adaptable without having to make subs or major system changes.

Looking forward to this game. I'm hoping it's these or SHA that we first properly click against.

Just heard at the end "Di Matteo looking anxious on the sideline." Because hes a limp dick, passenger with no balls to kick his players up the arse and make use of our domination and embarass an opponent.

Already sick of it. Either **** him off or we're accepting this season as another of "transition".

7 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

City are dominating this so much.

Edit: Mourinho's team selection surprised me...where did starting Mikhytarian and Lingard come from?

Knows he won't win so he has a ready made excuse?

I hope hes bracing himself for some difficult questions.

Are the players shit? Is RDM tactically inept or the most boring team talk giver ever? Or maybe everything AVFC touches turns to shit and we should just accept it?

1 minute ago, briny_ear said:

Hmmm. Madrid, Sociedad, Betis, Mallorca, any more...? 

Cant forget Deal. They play in the Aston Power League.

Yeah, it's been replaced by Keep Right On.

Obsessed with us aren't they

4 minutes ago, Barney_avfc said:

 

5 minutes ago, pacbuddies said:

Why would his brother lie about him holding his father by the throat and threatening to kill him and claiming that he had already killed other members of his family? I am not sure where you got the information about the police kicking him to death. Any witnesses?

 

 

I think it's best to hold fire on settling on what happened that night. I've been seeing some very contradictory witness reports. I'm sure one said he was kicking the door repeatedly but never got into his dads house before police arrived. How can he strangle him if he couldn't get in?

That said, it's fairly reasonable to assume that his own brother and dad wouldn't lie, so these are the most reliable statements so far.

What is known as a fact at this point is that an idol of a lot of Villa fans here has passed away in possibly avoidable circumstances*. Whether he was a genuinely bad man (which goes against a lot of what has been said of him over the years) or suffering personal demons (drink, drugs, mental health) remains to be seen. 

*On this point; any police force on here? I'd like to know how threatened you have to feel to use a taser on someone? I know Dalian was a fairly big guy so its fair to say you could feel very threatened depending on his actions, but if he was as drunk as some reports say, surely it'd be relatively easy to incapacitate him without the use of a taser? I've seen some pretty incredible take downs on nights out. Hope that doesn't come across as pointing the finger, I'm just trying to see the situation from the coppers perspective a bit more.

Richards turned his back on the player with the ball and giving him a clear 10 yards of space to start with, then Amavi switched off.

Can we play without fullbacks?

21 minutes ago, Butterfingers said:

What you know about it all could be written on the back of a postage stamp.

To say that the English are to blame for people receiving life changing injuries is about as clueless as it gets.

He's just a Yank. The only violence he understands is friendly fire and gun-related massacres.

That does calm the nerves down a bit.

The question about Samuelsons role still remains though.

Being told by the media that my 2nd team is Liverpool.

"'AGUEROOOOOOO"

1 minute ago, bobzy said:

"You're forgiven mate, you just froze".

**** me.

That's not what he was saying. Freezing in the face of a terrible situation can happen to anyone. If you tell me that's not true, I'll show you a liar.

Just now, Woodytom said:

That because it was so long ago, and we live in a much different world, it's easy to forget what it was like in 1989. 

An easy example of that is health and safety and how our approach to it has changed so much over the last 3 decades. 

I agree with you here. I was born in 1990 so have no idea how things were back then. I have trouble remembering even the late 90's.

I can't imagine going to a public event without officials guiding you to where you should be almost every step of the way.

35 minutes ago, sne said:

Kanye walking onto the pitch mid game with a mike going: Hold on, hold on! Westwood had one of the best short passes ever, this ref doesn't care about Eric Black

Yo Ashley. I'm really happy for you, I'm going to let you finish, but Bannan had one of the best 5 yard passes of all time.

Where's Con?!
 

1 hour ago, AndyBM said:

can anyone shed some light on this story regarding gabbys mom?

if its true, then i dislike him even more, the one thing i dislike is disregard to parents, especially considering the money he is on, he could support her no matter what the past is

when it comes to that point in his life when it will be too late for him to apologise, or talk to her, or ask her questions that hes sat on for many years, he will regret it for the rest of his life and itll eat him up inside.

I have no other knowledge besides that article but it says she left him and his siblings when he was 2. Why would he care who she is? Regardless of the full story, he probably came to terms with it all years ago and has decided it wouldn't change anything so why bother.

4 hours ago, tonyh29 said:

can he sue for wrongful dismissal by the club , can he sue the woman in question ( though arguably she won't have anything to sue her for)  ..

I'm not a lawyer but I would assume there would be no case against his club. At the time they had reasonable grounds to dismiss him. There  was no way to know that 4 years later his conviction would be overturned.

As for suing her... I suppose he may have a leg to stand on to sue her for being the cause of loss of earnings and defamation. 

Spanish football is so unlikable.

What I'd give to be the ref to implement a rugby style of talking to the ref. And just red card each and every one of them. I can't stand it when players surround refs.

That Bolton pen messed up my 6 game acca.

Knew I should've cashed out as soon as my mate said "Looks like you're gonna win this one"

Willing Liverpool on to win feels dirty and unnatural. Seeing Delia looking like she's about to throw up makes it a bit better

Who's this Scouser commentator? He's really pissing me off with his ridiculous bias.

Would've been absolute carnage if he'd scored that