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On 03/03/2024 at 11:48, Marka Ragnos said:

Can't believe he shoved a knife into his own chest. Permanent solution to a temporary problem. Such a lovely artist lost.

 

There's a lot of doubt as to whether he really did kill himself.  The circumstances with his girlfriend, autopsy report, etc. give good reason to be skeptical.   Either way, a tragic loss.  The amount of fantastic music he created in a short time is astounding.   

11 minutes ago, adw95 said:

Lots of talk of the setup being wrong, but spurs had very few if any shots in the first half. We then concede the first (a pretty much inch perfect cross to set it up) and then gift them a second. Not sure the setup was the issue there, except for Konsa's lack of options in buildup.

Probably still in the game until our captain puts in an idiotic challenge and, deservedly imo, gets sent off.

Bigger issue today was any time we were in promising areas we picked the wrong pass, or played the right pass poorly.

Ref was pretty good, actually.

 

This

Honestly, how many times are Villa players going to keep taking touches and then finally shoot or pass once the Spurs player is on top of them and able to make the easy block?

They all left their brains in Amsterdam

That’s not a red.  He made a play for the ball and was late.   No studs showing.   Should be a yellow.

We’ve got the 2022 Bailey today

The players seem up for it from an energy and desire standpoint, but decision making and passing are lacking

5 hours ago, DJBOB said:

 

 Katie Porter rightfully getting dragged by Democrats for calling her election rigged. A shame, I liked her too - but she lost fair and square and then to try and qualify "rigged" is just digging a bigger grave.

Difference between Democrats and Republicans is that you usually need to murder someone for the party to let you go whereas Porter will probably never hold a seat again after her sour grapes here.

Rigged was a poor choice of word because of it's association with Trump's false claims of voter fraud.   But she's actually spot on in her assessment of the situation.  Schiff spent a ton of money on ads bigging up the Republican, Garvey, to get Republicans to turn up and vote for him because he didn't want to face Porter in a runoff of the top 2 vote getters (it's a non-partisan primary in California).   Very cynical and while it might be "fair and square" according to the law, it's not a good look, particularly as it was not done to keep out the Republicans (who admittedly have no reservations about doing similar or much worse themselves).  It worked so well that Garvey was actually the top vote-getter, though the splintered Democratic vote will easily support Schiff in the general election and win it for him.

Schiff is an establishment, corporatist Democrat who got the backing of the machine and all its money.  We had a chance to put someone progressive in the Senate and went for the standard, cynical career politician.  I voted for Porter and would do so again.  She didn't win her house seat as result of heavy backing of the Dem machine to begin with, so I don't think it will matter that much to her what they think.  She's an academic, not a career politician, who flipped a red house seat and doesn't take PAC money.  If she runs for office again, she won't be looking to the party machine for help anyway. 

Stupid by Konya, as unnecessary, but Akbom grabbed his arm and went down.  Konsa didn’t bring him down.

A forearm smash to the face is not card, but Zaniolo’s is?

Netherlands won’t allow a betting company logo on a shirt but the pitch is surrounded by hoardings advertising BETCITY.NL 

Pau is really rusty

Making no effort to pass their way forward and just trying to make the long incisive pass.   It’s not working.

9 minutes ago, TheAuthority said:

That's Rogers

McGinn.   Look at the size of that arse.

9 hours ago, Wainy316 said:

We hate the Blues and we're gonna show it,

We hate the Blues and we **** know it

I think some clarification is needed

35 minutes ago, Xann said:

wouldn't be able to raise a glass to his lips anyway

13 hours ago, Davkaus said:

Seriously though @rodders0223, what kind of injuries? Can you not play full stop?

I've got a dodgy knee and a bad back and it's just not worth the aggro playing with a bunch of young, strong healthy lads in their twenties. Can still manage a more relaxed kick about with some older fellas which isn't quite the same but scratches the itch a bit.

I'm one of those older fellas, who may now finally have to quit, but at least I made it to my 60s so I bypassed the middle-aged, depressed alcohoic phase and can transition directly into old, depressed alcoholic.

Once the parking brake on the bus fails it’ll roll downhill fast

1 hour ago, villa4europe said:

But that's the thing, unless it's a foul they'll never judge that as interfering

But that’s not true, or at least shouldn’t be true.   The rule says if you’re in an offside position and pressure a defender trying to play the ball, offside should be given.   He clearly impacted Moreno’s ability to get to the ball and was in an offside position, so he should be whistled for it.   It’s the same rule that should have had Rodri ruled offside a couple of years ago when he came and nicked the ball off Mings from an offside position.

That’s not a yellow.

Chong is gravity-challenged

Why did Villa start attempting long, low-percentage passes?

FFS

Ref is taking the piss.   Nothing they do is a foul and all they have to do is go to ground and it’s a foul against Villa.