brummie

Fuck me, I mean, you're Newcastle fans and I'm a Villa fan, it's not like there's been a constant flow of good times to keep us interested.

I can't believe anyone who loves football doesn't do so at least in large part because of the joy of seeing others - cunts, basically - fail. Most of my happiest moments in football have been about seeing other teams fail.

Also, I mean, almost getting yourself sent off during a penalty shoot-out, fucking hell.

I knew, I absolutely knew as soon as it went to pens, we were through. They guy is a winner.

Genuinely there is not another keeper anywhere in the world I would swap for him. He's more than a keeper for us. What a guy.

Absolutely did not deserve to get through this tie, worst European performance I've ever seen from us.

He reminds me so much of John Burridge, he's a fucking nutter.

I understand why other fans think he's a cunt, but I absolutely FUCKING LOVE Emi Martinez. Genuinely, I love him, he's so fucking good when he plays for you.

I was thinking the same the other day. He probably hasn't got it on his LinkedIn profile, though, prob just went with 'career break' instead.

That City thing with the bin bags, fucking hell, that's the most cringe thing I've seen in a football stadium for years.

Arsenal fans on the internet.

As an outsider, I love that old badge on the white shirt. In my mind, I associate it with other cool badges of the time, inc the Leeds one and the Forest one, only I've just googled it and was surprised that one is from the mid 80s, i was positive it was a 70s thing. Anyway, bring that one back.

Hmmm. More suggestion we might be leaving or rebuilding Villa Park. First, selling a chunk of us to Comcast (who own Sky and NBC and also do stadium builds) so they can be our ‘infrastructure partners’ and today some more appointments as directors, including the person at co-owner Wes Eden’s’ company who oversaw building a new stadium for the Bucks. That doesn’t sound like a coincidence. i don’t think any of this would be on the menu were it not for football becoming even more of a rapacious money driven industry than it already was.

Kidding nobody. Let me know when you want to come down for a match, I’ll make your dreams come true toony

The thing that is impressive with Emery is the total shit show of Gerrard that he took over. He took us from 17th (and only not 18th on goal difference) and with a squad that was totally demoralised by Gerrard’s mind games after a third of the season and got us into Europe having added only one player in the January window. He’s been amazing, but I think the circumstances he took over in gets forgotten by the media, mostly because they can’t accommodate the evidence that their hero Stevie G was a total fucking fraud. One other thing worth memtioning that doesn’t get highlighted much in the media - they also changed the entire football management side of things - Monchi on transfers (another proven winner) and Vidagamy as Emery’s right hand man, they’re the triangle of power basically, it’s not all about the manager. They also binned Christian Purslow, who I thought largely did a good job, but made the fatal error of pushing hard for Gerrard when Sawiris and Edens (the owners) were apparently far from convinced.