Physicality, the Dark Arts, Sh*thousery & Menace: Aston Villa no longer a "Soft Touch"

[maqroll]

This Villa team is now comprised of players with a little bit of an edge and guile and it is good to see, even if it comes with a price tag sometimes. 

I like that these players stand up for each other.

Watching Diego Carlos play, you can see he was trained by **** favela warlords. He's not phased by anything, and he might be capable of anything to get an edge on the opponent. 

Villa aren't pushovers anymore

 

[Aston_Villan4]

In the words of Jim Beglin. “It’s that Latino temperament.” Lol

[MaVilla]

today wasnt the "dark arts", today was "brainless stupidity".

We are certainly cleverer under Emery, and not as much of a pushover as we have been for many years, but today wasnt that, today was just maximum brain fart mode.

 

[maqroll]

1 minute ago, MaVilla said:

today wasnt the "dark arts", today was "brainless stupidity".

We are certainly cleverer under Emery, and not as much of a pushover as we have been for many years, but today wasnt that, today was just maximum brain fart mode.

 

The thread isn't about just today's game. 

And I wasn't referring to the Kamara brain fart. I was thinking more about the Watkins incident after he scored and how Konsa and Zaniolo were right there with him. 

[maqroll]

34 minutes ago, Aston_Villan4 said:

In the words of Jim Beglin. “It’s that Latino temperament.” Lol

Oh dear lol

[MaVilla]

5 minutes ago, maqroll said:

The thread isn't about just today's game. 

And I wasn't referring to the Kamara brain fart. I was thinking more about the Watkins incident after he scored and how Konsa and Zaniolo were right there with him. 

On the whole I agree yeah, we are a more street smart team, or however you might describe it?

[Tom13]

In a league littered with many genuinely nasty/sly players, we've toughened up nicely.

[Powehi]

We're quite reminiscent of the 93/94 Man Utd vintage - Ince, Bruce, Cantona, Robson etc. Mixture of nasty and tough. Even the more traditionally lightweight players like Kanchelskis had an edge.

And they won things - not the League Cup though  

[DakotaVilla]

It’s great to see that we can fight as much as we can play. You need both to succeed. 

[PerryBarrPet]

7 hours ago, MaVilla said:

On the whole I agree yeah, we are a more street smart team, or however you might describe it?

Best described as properly professional.

[The Fun Factory]

Young was a master of the dark arts for us last season, and we let him go.