foreveryoung Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Not sure who the guy is with Lee Hendrie on SSN. But asked if the Villa can finish above Spurs, he replied "Watching Villa against Man City they just looked stronger". Obviously ain't watched us lately, gladly Hendrie put him right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Genuine top 4 challengers 5-0 game, an we are not on MOtD first. Shit me, if it was any of the 'big 4' they defo be on first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post It's Your Round Posted February 3 Popular Post Share Posted February 3 It was always gonna be Newcastle 4-4 Luton on first, an exciting score line and a great result for the underdog Luton. Villa kicked off later, later games usually feature further on in the show, don’t they? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fightoffyour Posted February 3 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 3 (edited) Disappointed that the commentator said that’s a “thumper” from Tielemans when he clearly could’ve called it a “thunder bastard”, but I’m nitpicking. 7 on 10. Edited February 3 by fightoffyour 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted February 3 VT Supporter Share Posted February 3 If a game has ended 4-4 between anyone, that will probably be the first up. Then its between the Villa game and the Spurs game for second spot. Taking the Villa specs off, I’d be tempted to put Spurs on before as it’s a bit more dramatic and it features two high profile sides while the Villa game is a rout and has one bigger side and one side making a swift departure from the league. I’d go - 1 Saudi game 2 Spurs being spursy game 3 Villa not ruining my weekend game 4 The “explain why this is a rivalry again?” game 5 Burnley 2-2 Fulham game (a bit unfair that this is last, but not much I can do) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dogg Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 1 hour ago, foreveryoung said: Genuine top 4 challengers 5-0 game, an we are not on MOtD first. Shit me, if it was any of the 'big 4' they defo be on first. You're dreaming. The game was over after 20 minutes, there was zero jeporady or drama. If Arsenal, City or Liverpool did that, they wouldn't be first either. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 14 minutes ago, Mr_Dogg said: You're dreaming. The game was over after 20 minutes, there was zero jeporady or drama. If Arsenal, City or Liverpool did that, they wouldn't be first either. we were probably the most boring game of the day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted February 4 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4 6 hours ago, fightoffyour said: Disappointed that the commentator said that’s a “thumper” from Tielemans when he clearly could’ve called it a “thunder bastard”, but I’m nitpicking. 7 on 10. My eldest son said the same with his variant called ‘thundercunt’ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted February 4 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4 MacAaaaaahlister! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68197575 So, after today's result the BBC chief football writer, Phil McNulty led his match report with the following headline. Arsenal 3-1 Liverpool: 'Arsenal have placed themselves at heart of three-way title race' I know the odds of us winning the league are the lowest out of the usual runners and riders but we are most definitely in the mix and have been all season. So much for unbiased and impartial journalism... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Odegaard was continually getting called Martinelli by Peter Drury. i think everytime he had the ball he wanted to call him Martin Odegaard instead of Odegaard for some sort of dramatic effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 1 hour ago, theboyangel said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68197575 So, after today's result the BBC chief football writer, Phil McNulty led his match report with the following headline. Arsenal 3-1 Liverpool: 'Arsenal have placed themselves at heart of three-way title race' I know the odds of us winning the league are the lowest out of the usual runners and riders but we are most definitely in the mix and have been all season. So much for unbiased and impartial journalism... I understand the impulse to feel annoyed about this, but at the end of the day you won't find really any unbiased (ie, non-fans) pundits/experts/blowhards who will tip either us or Spurs to actually win it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 1 hour ago, theboyangel said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68197575 So, after today's result the BBC chief football writer, Phil McNulty led his match report with the following headline. Arsenal 3-1 Liverpool: 'Arsenal have placed themselves at heart of three-way title race' I know the odds of us winning the league are the lowest out of the usual runners and riders but we are most definitely in the mix and have been all season. So much for unbiased and impartial journalism... The most egregious thing about that article is that they include Man United in the "top of the table" image, despite getting 6 points behind Spurs and having no chance of winning the league. If we were 6th with that total we are not being included in that graphic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPJCB Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 9 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: I understand the impulse to feel annoyed about this, but at the end of the day you won't find really any unbiased (ie, non-fans) pundits/experts/blowhards who will tip either us or Spurs to actually win it. I agree. Getting ready for the next phase though where spurs are included in the discussion and we aren’t. If we’d not won against sheff united then I’m almost certain that would have been the narrative. ATM were acting as a boundary line: anyone above Villa is in a title race; anyone below Villa is in a Europe race. We could be joint on points with 3rd and 10 points above 5th and that would still be the narrative 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister_a Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 It's getting ridiculous how much they want us to go away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 10 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: I understand the impulse to feel annoyed about this, but at the end of the day you won't find really any unbiased (ie, non-fans) pundits/experts/blowhards who will tip either us or Spurs to actually win it. I acknowledge we’re not likely to win the league but we’re far from out of the running as there’s still a lot to play for. we’re being written out of the narrative despite there being 15 games to play including games against the three teams ahead of us (two of which we beat earlier in the season!) if there were five games left, maybe narrow down the runners and riders but there’s a hell of a lot of football to be played yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 22 minutes ago, theboyangel said: I acknowledge we’re not likely to win the league but we’re far from out of the running as there’s still a lot to play for. we’re being written out of the narrative despite there being 15 games to play including games against the three teams ahead of us (two of which we beat earlier in the season!) if there were five games left, maybe narrow down the runners and riders but there’s a hell of a lot of football to be played yet. We wont win the league but it is incredibly disrepectful especially when teams like United, Newcastle and Chelsea get more air time in there bid for a top 4 finish 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted February 5 VT Supporter Share Posted February 5 (edited) We're 5 points off Liverpool in 1st who have an 11 goal better goal difference than us. Realistically it will be very hard to make that up seeing as though they and Arsenal are both averaging nearly 2.2 points per game. City are being included as they have 2 games in hand and realistically are likely to be at least 4 points (if not 6) above us once they've caught up. To win the league we would need to out perform all 3 of these clubs over the next 15 games and this was our first 'challenge' in over a decade. I think it's fair for the media to not involve us when talking about the title race. I've not seen Spurs fans annoyed that the media isn't saying they could win it. Edited February 5 by Rds1983 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinRichardsonsMoustache Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 1 hour ago, Mister_a said: It's getting ridiculous how much they want us to go away. Alarmed by the wrist grab and the amount of crotch in one photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 28 minutes ago, Rds1983 said: We're 5 points off Liverpool in 1st who have an 11 goal better goal difference than us. Realistically it will be very hard to make that up seeing as though they and Arsenal are both averaging nearly 2.2 points per game. City are being included as they have 2 games in hand and realistically are likely to be at least 4 points (if not 6) above us once they've caught up. To win the league we would need to out perform all 3 of these clubs over the next 15 games and this was our first 'challenge' in over a decade. I think it's fair for the media to not involve us when talking about the title race. I've not seen Spurs fans annoyed that the media isn't saying they could win it. If City didn't have 2 games in hand they would still be included Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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