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There’s also a photo of Gareth Southgate in a Villa kit in their museum from the UEFA Cup game.  

Was in Bilbao last summer and completely fell in love with the place. 
 

San Mamés is a million miles from the Bescot (and brilliantly is right in the city centre) but I’ll happily go to this game. 

Balatro.  I hate it so much yet I love it so much. 

2 hours ago, Keyblade said:

Any notion that he doesn't have it anymore is just wishful thinking. 

With Grealish it’s more a case of availability and the fact he’s wearing a set of golden handcuffs at Manchester City. 
 

He’s 29 three weeks into the new season, he’s got three years left on a contract that pays £300k a week (so £45m remaining) at Manchester City and he’s got a history of missing large chunks of every season through injury going back to his time as a Championship player.
 

So even if you don’t think his best days are behind him and he isn’t going to go the same way as Eden Hazard did after turning 30, then you’ve got to be pretty damn sure that the money it would take to get him out of Manchester City and the fact that he’ll have practically zero resale value at the end of whatever his next contract is wouldn’t be better spent elsewhere.
 

I still think he’s a fabulous footballer.  I wouldn’t want him back at Villa.  

2 hours ago, Spoony said:

Palmer should be taking pens over Kane. He bottled it against France. I don’t think Palmer has the capacity to let pressure affect him at all

Ezri has had a decent game tonight. While he’s not going to start for England I think he’s shown he can fill in pretty much anywhere that is asked of him and that versatility might be what sees him make the cut. 

20 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

Shoutout to the post-match analysis team on TNT again. Guy just rattled off the tales of Fiorentina's Euopean final misfortunes (sorry @GarethRDR) at will. Putting the rest to shame.

 

That’s James Horncastle. He’s been doing football podcasts for years, largely covering Serie A. He’s a big Roma fan, he appears to have lived in Rome on and off during his career and is fluent in Italian.  You can find him working with the ever wonderful James Richardson on The Totally Football Show. 

18 minutes ago, Zatman said:

El Kaabi has probably played his way into a decent move this summer.

Watch him get no goals next season for West Ham after paying 25 million for him

I’d be very surprised if he left. He’s 31 in three weeks and this is his first season at Olympiacos.  They’ll easily be able to talk him into staying for the Europa League campaign next season.  

This is a dull game of football.  

“National Service didn’t do me any harm when I stormed the beach at Normandy.”

- Kev (age 56) Essex. 

If you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail. 

What are the potential repercussions for her? I mean is being a figure of fun for a few days while she squirms in the dock as bad as it’s going to get or does the inquiry have any actual teeth?  I’m sure there’s an element of catharsis for the victims here but if the people who ruined their lives all just go back to comfortable lives in big houses next month then has anything actually been achieved? 

And now for something completely different: 
 

Why isn’t this match in the friendlies folder? 

2 minutes ago, sheepyvillian said:

Why Fury stopped with them body - shots is beyond me

Usyk made an adjustment, he moved further across to Fury’s left and that took the the uppercut to the body away from Fury as the centre line had moved and he couldn’t throw it straight anymore.
 

Usyk had superior footwork so he was always able to stay in that position. It seemed to me that Fury wasted several rounds trying to make Usyk walk onto a check hook in the corner too but Usyk wasn’t buying it, then Fury’s corner were giving him bad advice seemingly because his dad is a big loud dickhead people are afraid to say no to.  

I had it 116-111 Usyk.  Gave Fury rounds 4-7 but for me Usyk won every other plus the knockdown.  

5 hours ago, Jonesy7211 said:

Tamworth v Nuneaton is rather nasty, the last game was abandoned due to crowd trouble and violence. That might stem from the town's hating each other though.

That one was an evening kick off scheduled on the same day as the Atherstone ball game.  What did they expect? 

1 hour ago, Lord Willard said:

Why can’t we win it? 

I was hoping somebody had posted this.  If nothing else it shows we don’t need to have an inferiority complex. 

FWIW this is what I'd have us walk out to if it were my choice.  It's an absolute banger of a tune and that little piano riff is totally something the crowd would chant along with.

11 hours ago, Follyfoot said:

Just celebrate our return to the highest echelons of football. It’s got to  be theme from an unmade silent  movie for one season.

 

 

They actually played it at Villa Park on Monday night, probably half an hour before kick off. 

Any walkout song is better if it's easy to sing along to.  I think people fall into the trap of going for something they like listening to, but the reason why songs like Sweet Caroline or YNWA work so well is because they've got a chorus which is really easy to join in with.   Crazy Train is a superb tune but it's not a sing along tune.

Just realised Emery hasn’t taken us to Palace before. Last season we went there under Gerrard, somehow it feels like it was a million years ago. 
 

Don’t care too much about the result now. I’d quite like one of those crazy final day of the season score lines, like 4-3 or something. Ollie to get his 20th league goal. Is Buendia registered at the moment? 

On 07/08/2018 at 12:46, BigJim said:

So McGinn is the replacement for Jack?  

 

...wish I could see the funny side of it.

 

Worked out in the end didn’t it? 

From the BBC after their blistering start to the season (P10 W8 D2)  and they were 5 points clear at the top.  Their form since has been bottom half  (P27 W11 D4 L12) and I wonder if that drop off contributes to the mood.  I doubt Ange will leave and I do think Spurs will back him in the transfer market this summer, but the honeymoon is well and truly over.