Friday 5 August, 1945 KO, Aston Villa teamsheet at home to Stoke City on Sky TV: Steer, Bree, Suliman, Dean, Roberts, Whelan, Hourihane, Lansbury, Adomah, O’Hare, Hogan. Manager Dean Smith.
Oh the horrible irony of the Liverpool keeper making the massive error I predicted, only for them to equalise immediately from a corner. Why can’t Villa ever do that? And also, bang goes Jimmy Rimmer’s record of ‘only player to leave a European Cup Final with a shoulder injury in the first half.’
“Hello. Is that Dean Smith? This is Tony Xia. I think you could blend academy starlets with bargain signings and get Villa automatic promotion. I mean, you even made Hogan look like a goalscorer.”
Being completely outplayed and they are not overawed by Wembley and our experience is counting for nothing. And the officials somehow cannot see Fredericks.
The only thing worse than wishing that Chelsea and MU could BOTH lose the cup final is expecting them to **** up my family’s wine & BBQ plan, by taking this to extra time and penalties and to 7.45pm instead of 7.10pm.
Almost avoiding the politically incorrect temptation to mention that many team sports ladies are not interested in scoring opportunities that involve making a genuine attempt for balls.
Jack’s “Weight of pass is different class”
“Weight of passsss is different classsss”
“Weight of pash is different clash”
Jack’s “Weight of passssh is different classsssh”
We are all utterly delighted to be going to Wembley. But, it will be futile unless a way can be found to defeat a far better footballing side in Fulham.
That is because they have been told to fear the opposition, instead of to play their game and win. If Dr Xia is there, he can only be thinking ‘If we don’t go up, I’d rather watch some actual football next season.’