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Whatever you do Bournemouth, don’t let United win.

1 minute ago, villa4europe said:

No, it's if you deflect it on to your own arm 

Doesn’t matter who it deflects off, but needs to be a player immediately adjacent, not 5 yards away.

Adam Smith subbed off so he can go jot down his thoughts on capitalism.

I must have been hallucinating.    I thought I saw Rashford press someone for a second there.

Where do 6 minutes come from?

Let’s get another!

US feed keeps cutting out and they switch to another game.   Then they come back to Villa v Lille at the point it cut out.   So we’re like 2-3 minutes behind the rest of you.   

13 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said:

I guess it’s an acquired taste, but I had my first experience, listening to Ray Hudson as co-commentator on the PSG versus Barcelona champions league tie.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard any noise so annoying. How do people stand that? What’s the matter with him?

I don't think anyone could acquire a taste for that.  I think he was hired by the same people who think people will love Micah Richards' shtick.  If they could actually see their audience trying to puncture their own eardrums to escape the torture they'd fire them both.  I have to make sure I don't have any sharp objects around when watching in case I accidentally unmute my audio.

We need Athletico to hold on for the win.

8 minutes ago, 479Villan said:

(Also God, grant me peace from Ray Hudson)

Post of the thread so far

Amazing strike by Valverde vs. City.   Level again.

I’ve been lucky enough not to have had to watch Micah Richards on any broadcasts until today.   What a complete idiot.  Apparently he thinks beeing a loud, jolly lad is a good substitute for having something of substance to say.

I’ve counted at least 3 times that Rodri has given the ball away cheaply.   Why can’t he do that against Villa instead of when we need City to win.

Real v City is a cracking game for the neutral

25 minutes ago, Paddywhack said:

I think like most kids, my 4 year old never really tells you anything about what’s happened at school.  

Today though, he’s told me several times already that he’s told his teacher that I haven’t got a willy. 

Did his teacher reassure him that you do but it’s just very small?

17 minutes ago, MakemineVanilla said:

A quote from the opening page of the Manifesto of the Communist Party:

"The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done
away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression,
new forms of struggle in place of the old ones."

Would a supporter of 'Black Lives Matter' disagree with the sentiments expressed above?

I don't believe they would, they might want to substitute race and gender for class, but their view of the power relations in modern societies wouldn't be very different.

 

So if you don’t disagree with everything the CP has to say you’re a Marxist?   In that case, there are a shit ton of closet Marxists in this world, including the thousands of wealthy residents of that bastion of Marxism, Silicon Valley, who showed up at a Black Lives Matter march shortly after George Floyd’s death.

4C here a couple of nights ago.   It's supposed to top 26C tomorrow.  It's been a crazy spring.

59 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

 

I never got an answer…

They're all different accounts for Rod Stewart.

2 hours ago, Xela said:

People conducting job interviews in coffee shops. 

How else are they going to hire baristas?

Nice for Man U to be undeservedly on the losing side of an late goal for once.

8 hours ago, striker said:

Think the above post is a very honest summary of Villa’s present form in particular the second paragraph.

I too am alarmed at the drubbings suffered this season which are unbecoming of a fourth placed Premiership team. I’ve read some of the excuses like injuries and fatigue. While I have some sympathy for the first I do not believe you can use the second as most of the players used should have been reasonably fresh. You could also argue that City were under strength too resting two of their best players!

Arsenal demonstrated how to nullify City in the previous game so much so that a much lauded Foden looked ordinary.

Villa’s high line is an invitation to the better teams to hit through and over the top passes to break the offside trap. We’ve seen it time and time again even in pre-season against teams with pace!

Whilst I fully admit Villa were suffering from a spate of injuries last night I was frustrated to see Emery setting up Villa as he has done all season without adapting much to the opposition with no plan to nullify Foden.

Foden must love playing against Villa. For such a talented player to have the freedom of the park it’s no wonder he scored a hat trick last night.

It was naive in the extreme by Emery especially when the team was injury hit. He could have at least tried to smother City through the middle as Arteta did.
 

Arteta has learned the hard way against City in previous games against Pep so maybe Emery will now do the same next season at the Etihad rather than going toe to toe with a better team?

We didn't play the normal high line and, more important, they didn't get any goals or chances from playing an attacker in behind our not so high line, so I have no idea what you're on about here.  We pretty much followed Arsenal's strategy.  Their $200m midfield were able to keep them out.  Our injury-depleted midfield using an 8 as a 6 and and a youngster starting his first PL game weren't.   Our 2 most experienced midfielders who would still have started if we fielded the best available 11 are the ones who conspired to gift them a lead in first half stoppage time.  We scored and drew 2 fantastic saves from their keeper.   Arsenal had 2 shots.  We didn't lose because Emery blew it.  We lost because we had limited players to choose from and a lot of important games coming up in a short span and because City and their 115 FFP violations had much better resources and did what's expected in the stadium where they never lose.

The goal in first half stoppage time changed it from a game we looked well capable of getting something from to one that we were almost certain to lose.  I don't like to say "if only xxx..." when a great save or the woodwork denies a goal or even when poor excecution or simple lack of ability causes a player to gift a team an easy chance or a goal.  But when players just do stupid things and it turns the game, I can't help it.  You simply cannot give a free kick just outside the box when you're trying to see out the last couple of minutes and unexpectedly get in at halftime level.  And turning sideways in the wall is schoolboy stuff.  Unfortunately, Dougie has previous  for losing his head at the wrong time.  And we then had to listen to Peter Drury suck Foden's c*ck over a poor free kick that by all rights should have been straight into the wall at chest level.  Even with the compounded mistakes of Luiz and Zaniolo and the hit to the confidence and morale, we came closer to levelling in the 2nd half than they did to increasing their lead until they finally got the 3rd.   I think it would have been a very tight match if Villa had gotten to halftime at 1-1.

Where’s the whistle??

FFS.   Just knew they would get one right before HT.   That’s huge, mentally