Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: dave.woodhall on December 03, 2012, 11:11:17 AM
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www.thebirminghampress.com/2012/12/03/four-small-steps/
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Good article Dave.
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pretty bang on to be fair .
Stoke is going to be horrible.
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Just hope our midfield can pass their way past the Stoke Gorillas. Our centre backs should cope and obviously Gabby & Benteke are quite physical. Still expecting a bore draw 0-0 or 1-1
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Despise Stoke. Bringing my old Grandad along to his first match in ages (been quite ill). Hopefully it's a welcome return.
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I also despise Stoke. They troll and spam the referee by fouling so much he can't possibly blow for everything.
It seems refs just accept its going to be a "physical encounter" and relax the laws completely because it's Stoke and that's what they're like. I can't stand that horrible twat of a manager especially. He's a charmless old chav scumbag.
So with that in mind we should send our team out prepared to elbowing, leaning, shirt pulling, stanley knifing and so on.
It's like playing the German team in Escape to Victory.
Suffice it to say I hope we win. I really really REALLY hope we stuff those abominable bastards.
But no doubt, after Villa leading for most of the match some set piece or other will be given to them and Crouch will stand at the back stick, with his arms on his defenders shoulders stopping them from jumping. Then he'll nod it back across the goal for one of their other 9 foot donkeys to run through/over his marker and bundle it in. Probably kicking 3 people in the face in the process.
Everyone will look to the ref in disbelief, and he'll just shrug.
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I also despise Stoke. They troll and spam the referee by fouling so much he can't possibly blow for everything.
It seems refs just accept its going to be a "physical encounter" and relax the laws completely because it's Stoke and that's what they're like. I can't stand that horrible twat of a manager especially. He's a charmless old chav scumbag.
So with that in mind we should send our team out prepared to elbowing, leaning, shirt pulling, stanley knifing and so on.
It's like playing the German team in Escape to Victory.
Suffice it to say I hope we win. I really really REALLY hope we stuff those abominable bastards.
But no doubt, after Villa leading for most of the match some set piece or other will be given to them and Crouch will stand at the back stick, with his arms on his defenders shoulders stopping them from jumping. Then he'll nod it back across the goal for one of their other 9 foot donkeys to run through/over his marker and bundle it in. Probably kicking 3 people in the face in the process.
Everyone will look to the ref in disbelief, and he'll just shrug.
Haha, excellent. I'd love us to beat these too. Awful team.
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Maz that's as depressingly accurate a summation as I've come across.
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Is there anything good about Stoke at all? Horrible town(s), horrible football ground, and the bit of the M6 that runs past it always seems to have an accident on it. Must be people falling over themselves to get away from the place.
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Is there anything good about Stoke at all?
The Torch?
Not that I ever went
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They even practice set pieces on the training ground which consists of obstructing the opposing player .
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Stoke IS the accident on the M6.
It's a terribly tragic pile up of scum and villainy.
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I remember getting a coach to manchester airport and it had to pick up people from Stoke .
Made Royston Vasey look like Beverley Hills.
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Too violent to be pleasant. Not violent enough to be interesting.
Where you can ask the way to the town centre and be told you're in it.
Where the railway station is in a different town.
Where every pub on matchday is 'members' only.
Where you can't park anywhere between the motorway and the ground.
That's Stoke.
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Good article Dave.
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Is that the lyrics to the theme tune of the Stoke version of Cheers?
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When did we last beat these Stoke bastards ? I can't remember.
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December 2009, we last beat them
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Would love it if we could beat them.
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The Torch keeps on burnin'.
I went to a Mod 'do' in Stoke a few years ago. Word obviously got round the Five Towns and the Naughty Forty turned up. It was the best pub brawl ever, and we won.
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Is there anything good about Stoke at all? Horrible town(s), horrible football ground, and the bit of the M6 that runs past it always seems to have an accident on it. Must be people falling over themselves to get away from the place.
A500 out of it.
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Is there anything good about Stoke at all? Horrible town(s), horrible football ground, and the bit of the M6 that runs past it always seems to have an accident on it. Must be people falling over themselves to get away from the place.
A500 out of it.
It's a brilliant road that, like a giant boomerang that allows you drive through without getting out and takes you straight back to the M6.
Like a high-speed Safari Park.
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In the interest of some balance... I think Tony Pullis has done an amazing job at Stoke - European Football / established Premiership team / their first FA cup final / promotion from the Championship (I'm not saying that I like the brand of football and I admit I probably wouldn't be saying that if I had to endure their particular brand of football each week) but from where I'm stood he's worked wonders for them especially with their resources. He also seems like a decent honest bloke (seem to recall him doing various charity work) - All that said... NO I don't want him to ever manage Villa and yes I was at Villa Park when we spunked a 2-0 lead under O'Neil.
Oh I almost forgot... nice article Dave (maybe you can save the Bent issue for the next issue)
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The Old Victoria ground was a right dump but they've surpassed themselves with that new ground. Non descript void of a place. Worst ground in the UK. Yes worse than theirs.
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A well presented, objective view on why Lambert took the more cautious approach with his subs, of which I was critical at the time.
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Is that the lyrics to the theme tune of the Stoke version of Cheers?
"Where everybody's had your mom"