The Football Thread

[pierrelm]

The 'Top Four' is now apparently a 'Top Six',judging by the inane wibble uttered by the pundits of late, the 'Top Six' consists of Man City, Man Utd, Spurs, Liverpool; plus Chelsea, Everton (!), Arsenal, and West Ham (!!) apparently forgetting Burnley who are being patronised in a manner all too familar to Leicester supporters.

In the meantime along with the plaudits for Roy H and Sean Dyche, a round of applause to Rafa Benitez for getting a Championship level squad of Newcastle players into mid table safety. A remarkable achievement. Arsenal could do much worse in their search for a new manager...

[victor meldrew]

Speaking of new managers we are currently rudderless. Apparently the three wise ones have decided that the new man will not be in place until early June, just after the season ticket renewal date (01/06/18)

ST sales not going very well then?

[pierrelm]

Originally Posted by victor meldrew

Speaking of new managers we are currently rudderless. Apparently the three wise ones have decided that the new man will not be in place until early June, just after the season ticket renewal date (01/06/18)

ST sales not going very well then?

Moyes is renowned as a manager who likes to plan everything down to the finest detail, including signings; the next options if any players leaves are identified well in advance and he is as thorough as BFS and Sean Dyche.

Hard to think that is going to be a possibility at WHU under the Three Stooges? I wouldn't mind betting he wants to be somewhere that matches his ambition and wants to take their club seriously. And his bullshine detector has been sounding.

Maybe even back to Everton? Stranger things have happened. EFC supporters think Silva coming in is a done deal, however BFWallet is curmudgeon-edly determined to keep his ample arse in the Manager's chair until told to go, banking on having a year to go on his contract and that he's done the job he was brought in to do in a club where the first team squad had lots of players but no recognisable team.

Moyes can't afford another managerial failure. No wonder he doesn't fancy WHU under the current regime.

[Knuckle_shuffler]

Originally Posted by Meini Again

Sorry Knuckles.... your owner is a conman.NOT a nice man
He's just tried to minimise FairPlay, by selling the naming-rights to your training ground Bodymoor.
He sold it to the RECON Group in China...which he owns

Remember him showing a Cheque (redacted figures) to prove how wealthy he was when he took over ? Classy The Telegraph printed it with the redacted sums...comment enough.

Lerner's CEO said Mr Tony designed the Beijing Olympic Stadium. I must ask him at least once a month on Twattles to deny this claim...I mean he got his alleged Degree from Harvard for Gardening !!!

He never does, and still hasn't replied nor blocked me...probably likes the abuse I get subsequently.
If the vile go up ~ God Forbid ~ they'll do a QPR and not pay for abusing Fair Play....keep appeals going for years/change owners etc etc.



He is NOT a nice man.... just a self-publicist, out on a financial limb after Xi decided he didn't fancy owning the footie world anymore.
Villa's debts are horrendous, and Blues are up the creek as well thanks to Redknapp... but nothing like Mr Tony's.

Comeon Fulham

Possibly a good call Meini Again, I won't argue your comments, don’t get me wrong, I’ve heard some very unsavoury things about him, but these days I have to see things thru Rose Tinted Spectacles, what else do we have left to do. I’ve seen the best of the Villa in my life time…. Saunders, Taylor and Big Fat Ron.. and a few may even call that desperate! But what is desperate is the never ending mileage we try to get out of Rotterdam 1982, though that’s another story.

Many of us feel that after Lerner, even Lucifer would have been more welcome at VP, so Dr Tony is the best of a bad bunch. His business interests and dodgy dealing to one side, I stick with the label that Dr Tony is a nice man, but that may change once the realisation sets in that we are not, and won’t be, possibly for a very long time… if ever again… A Premiership team. We shall have to see.

As for the Big Club ethos, which many Villa fans harp on about, though I know how it came about, and I don’t just men our history… Back in the early 70s when I was 11 years old I was taken by my brother in law to almost every game, home and away, at this time we were in the old division three. Everywhere we went it was just Claret and Blue, there would be more Villa fans than home fans, it was amazing. At such an impressionable age you couldn’t help but get that feeling you were part of a Big Club! But a lot of football water has passed under the football bridge, it’s time to get real about our future. Only the other day I was telling my son, who was just 12 years old himself when I took him down VP to see us play Inter Milan, that his lad will never see the Villa we once knew. The bigger you are, the harder you fall!

But if I can just drop this little footnote in…. If you believe the statistics for last season, Villa pipped Leeds in being the best supported home side, and Leeds pipped the Villa in being the best supported away side. Leeds and Villa, two footballing giants from the past…. Very much in the shadow of the Premiership!

KS

[judy84]

villa look like they have a couple of cavemen playing for them. Should be a good game at Wembley.


As long as dirty 'boro don't go through.

[Meini Again]

It's actually "Dirty Leeds"...

And Boro didn't go through... 0-0 and villa won 1-0 on Agg.

In theory and on paper, this play-off Final should be Fulhams... but villa are always 'lucky'...yes, I'm biased ....... but I think many nuetrals would say the same.
Watched the match and it was as if it was a BFS tribute. The bloomin ball went off the top of the screen so much, I moved the ornaments off our shelves.

Dire... isn't an adequate word for that match... and I love the way their fans started singing in the Last Minute of added time..... silent throughout but glorious arm-stretching screeching in the closing minute.

Entitled fan-syndrom

[buttsie]

Say what you wish about Gareth Southgate he doesnt appear to be a gambling fool

Joe Hart & Jack Wilshere left out of England's World Cup squad

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44132401


Now the scribes are screaming they'll be too inexperienced

Must be forgetting the over experienced line-up in 2010
that made some the biggest defensive blunders you could imagine.

[Knuckle_shuffler]

Originally Posted by Meini Again

It's actually "Dirty Leeds"...

And Boro didn't go through... 0-0 and villa won 1-0 on Agg.

In theory and on paper, this play-off Final should be Fulhams... but villa are always 'lucky'...yes, I'm biased ....... but I think many nuetrals would say the same.
Watched the match and it was as if it was a BFS tribute. The bloomin ball went off the top of the screen so much, I moved the ornaments off our shelves.

Dire... isn't an adequate word for that match... and I love the way their fans started singing in the Last Minute of added time..... silent throughout but glorious arm-stretching screeching in the closing minute.

Entitled fan-syndrom

Yes! I'd go with lucky Meini Again..... some times very lucky, if fact over the years we have been too lucky for our own good. Having said that... all teams get a bit of luck here and there, Johnson was lucky to stay on after the hand ball out of the box, though the argument was Terry was goalside, if that is an argument.... Rules is rules!

I thought Randolph, the Boro keeper played a blinda'. If Boro had go thru he'd most certainly had been Man of the Match.

Merson pointed out that the Villa fans were patient, with a goal in the bag, they were always going to be. But when they started singing before the end I said to my missis... "It ain't over yet"

Villa Park is undoubtedly a fantastic place, when it's full you get that buzz, but you can't beat going away from home, you don't get the whingers moaning for 90 minutes. We just having a "Disco" LOL

After the game I had flurry of texts, all pretty much saying the same thing.. "if we play like that on the 26th... We won't beating Fulham" I'm not a fan of Play Offs, just money making and pocket emptying, the third place team are entitled to be going up, and I'm sure that's how it will be.

I hope none of your ornaments got damaged during the game Meini Again, Dr Tony won't be wanting a compensation claim...

KS

[m100]

Originally Posted by buttsie

Say what you wish about Gareth Southgate he doesnt appear to be a gambling fool

Joe Hart & Jack Wilshere left out of England's World Cup squad

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44132401


Now the scribes are screaming they'll be too inexperienced

Must be forgetting the over experienced line-up in 2010
that made some the biggest defensive blunders you could imagine.

If he achieves nothing else southgate has got rid of rooney and hart and should be applauded for that. My only worry is one of the three keepers gets injured in the friendlies and hart sneaks back in. At least the (predominantly) youngsters will give it a go.

[m100]

Allardyce sacked by Everton. Ridiculous when you consider they were odds on for the drop when he took over. Moyes leaves West Ham. Mclaren said to be on the verge of going to QPR.