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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Legion on May 05, 2014, 02:46:14 PM
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Wednesday 7th May 2014. Etihad Stadium. KO 7.45pm.
Shock 0-2 away win.
Delph 4
Bowery 86
Focus on the new, improved orange purple dot:
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2-2
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Don't give a shit. We're safe.
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I'd love to be wrong but I can't see anything but a heavy defeat. 0-4.
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I think a major issue for us is confidence.
A win on Saturday, after a decent performance, and we should be able to go out and play with our tails up.
8-0 defeat.
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1-2 Euphoria on the streets of Merseyside.
Weimann, Delph
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Them 2 Us 6
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Given what's happened in the past few weeks, there must be another twist in the title race. We'll get twatted here though.
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I think a major issue for us is confidence.
A win on Saturday, after a decent performance, and we should be able to go out and play with our tails up.
8-0 defeat.
LOL.
3-0 down, unexpectedly get it back to 3-2, brown trousers on the kippax
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I am looking forward to this and I hope our team is as well. Go out and put up a fight. Let them know they have been in a match. They are going to be edgy so play on that and come back with a well deserved 2-1 win.
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We will give them a nice early goal to settle the nerves. If we don't I think the pressure will get too Citeh.
Might scrape a draw 1-1
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City win.
I would be using the last two games to give the likes of JB, Tonev, Robinson etc plenty of match time and give them a chance to stake a claim ahead of next season. Also I'm not sure on Gardners fitness right now, but we could throw him in and give him a chance to have one last fleeting stab at salvaging his Villa career.
I'd also be tempted to throw Steer in and see how he copes against two big clubs.
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3-0 Man City.
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Hammered 5-1
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hate this game this season want Villa to win but i do not want the bin-dippers wining the league
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3-0 to them, booo
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I`d love to do the smug mancs twats but what little common-sense i have left says it will be the usual pasting. 4-0.
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A shorts-down spanking. Don't care. Helps to stop Chavski winning the title
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I think a major issue for us is confidence.
A win on Saturday, after a decent performance, and we should be able to go out and play with our tails up.
8-0 defeat.
LOL!!....
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A shorts-down spanking. Don't care. Helps to stop Chavski winning the title
I think the same, though my thoughts are infinitely more that it will stop Liverpool winning the league.
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I reckon we could get a point. Either way I am looking forward to seeing a lot of the out of favour players get a start and Villa play with no fear.
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Heavy defeat.
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hate this game this season want Villa to win but i do not want the bin-dippers wining the league
I'm the same. I'll take an excellent performance and a narrow 2-1 defeat
If Villa have to go and spoil things by winning, nothing less than a Bowery hat-trick will do.
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CiŁy have a few injury concerns - Toure, Aguero, Nasri. We can play an expansive, confident and worry free style now. 1-3 away win to send shock waves through the slums of south Manchester.
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CiŁy have a few injury concerns - Toure, Aguero, Nasri. We can play an expansive, confident and worry free style now. 1-3 away win to send shock waves through the slums of south Manchester.
Something I've never known. Football-wise, is Manchester split geographically as much as Birmingham is?
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CiŁy have a few injury concerns - Toure, Aguero, Nasri. We can play an expansive, confident and worry free style now. 1-3 away win to send shock waves through the slums of south Manchester.
Something I've never known. Football-wise, is Manchester split geographically as much as Birmingham is?
No idea to be honest ? I think strangeways area is mostly CiŁy
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an optimistic draw. 1-1, playing some very relaxed football against a tense Man City side knowing any slip ups could be fatal to their chances of the title.
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Wednesday 7th May 2014. Etihad Stadium. KO 7.45pm.
Shock 0-2 away win.
Delph 4
Bowery 86
Focus on the new, improved orange purple dot:
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That'll be the 'Des Little - inspired 100% successful purple dot' (to give it is full name)?
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Back to reality. 5-1 loss
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CiŁy have a few injury concerns - Toure, Aguero, Nasri. We can play an expansive, confident and worry free style now. 1-3 away win to send shock waves through the slums of south Manchester.
Something I've never known. Football-wise, is Manchester split geographically as much as Birmingham is?
The inner City areas are Blue, unsurprisingly the west Old Trafford Stretford up to Salford is red. The further out you go then it generally gets more red.
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I think Delph and Weimann will be inspired and we'll win this one narrowly with Man City bottling the title.
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CiŁy have a few injury concerns - Toure, Aguero, Nasri. We can play an expansive, confident and worry free style now. 1-3 away win to send shock waves through the slums of south Manchester.
Something I've never known. Football-wise, is Manchester split geographically as much as Birmingham is?
Happy to help here.
I'd say NW, W, and SW (Salford, Worsley, Trafford, Wilmslow) of the conurbation are predominantly red, the E, SE particularly Droylsden, Reddish, Stockport, ironically Newton Heath way and out towards Oldham are predominantly blue but the overwhelming majority in most areas are still red. Citeh have also got a reasonable level of regional support from outside as well ( a bit like us) though that's nothing like united dominance of places like Bury, Rochdale, Bolton, and the Lancashire mill towns.
Lot more blues wear there shirts these days though, when I first moved here 10 years ago you hardly saw anyone, whereas now.........
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Will the last H&V be on sale on weds ? Or indeed on Sunday ? I didn't manage to get one on Saturday due to bad planning pre game and over exuberance after the game
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Totally sold out, unfortunately.
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Wednesday 7th May 2014. Etihad Stadium. KO 7.45pm.
Shock 0-2 away win.
Delph 4
Bowery 86
Focus on the new, improved orange purple dot:
(http://www.clker.com/cliparts/W/7/o/H/z/O/light-purple-dot-md.png)
That'll be the 'Des Little - inspired 100% successful purple dot' (to give it is full name)?
That was the old 'Ribena' dot. This is the new, improved one. Please give it your blessing and I will rename it accordingly.
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Wednesday 7th May 2014. Etihad Stadium. KO 7.45pm.
Shock 0-2 away win.
Delph 4
Bowery 86
Focus on the new, improved orange purple dot:
(http://www.clker.com/cliparts/W/7/o/H/z/O/light-purple-dot-md.png)
That'll be the 'Des Little - inspired 100% successful purple dot' (to give it is full name)?
That was the old 'Ribena' dot. This is the new, improved one. Please give it your blessing and I will rename it accordingly.
Please accept this as my wholehearted blessing.
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0-1 Grealish 90+4
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6-1
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We'll lose. Just hope that the defeat is kept down to less than 4.
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The inner City areas are Blue, unsurprisingly the west Old Trafford Stretford up to Salford is red. The further out you go then it generally gets more red.
Yes I have noticed that. Areas like West Midlands, Somerset, Essex etc!
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Too many injuries. With Benteke, Gabby and Okore playing we'd do them. We beat them before without key players. Probable 3-1 defeat.
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Weimann as centre forward makes us a lot more mobile and fluid, we could cause them a problem.
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A thrashing
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Too many injuries. With Benteke, Gabby and Okore playing we'd do them. We beat them before without key players. Probable 3-1 defeat.
We are top of one league, physio room.com has us top of the injuries league. Some clubs have one or two out, we have eight. We do seem to get more than our fair share, I wonder why?
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hate this game this season want Villa to win but i do not want the bin-dippers wining the league
I'm the same. I'll take an excellent performance and a narrow 2-1 defeat
If Villa have to go and spoil things by winning, nothing less than a Bowery hat-trick will do.
I'd hate Liverpool to win the league and it would be typical Villa to fucking win this game.
That said, Man City are too good so we'll lose 3-0. Wonder if Grealish will play?
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3-0 defeat.
Is ever thus in Manchester.
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Hmm... a severely motivated team of quality players who can smell the Premier League title, at home to a team who struggle to keep clean sheets, create chances and score goals, and who are now mentally on holiday.
I'd love to think we could throw a spanner in the works but I really can't see anything other than a Villa defeat by at least three goals.
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6-1
Nah, I just can't see us scoring 6.
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Home team score is first.
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One one. Bowery scores. Baker man of the match
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Home team score is first.
I was being facetious.
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4-1, Weimann for us
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I think we will be battered 4-1
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Wednesday 7th May 2014. Etihad Stadium. KO 7.45pm.
Shock 0-2 away win.
Delph 4
Bowery 86
Focus on the new, improved orange purple dot:
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This for me, all day long.
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Home team score is first.
I was being facetious.
I know. I was being pedantic!
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A shorts-down spanking.
For City.
They're not all that.
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Facetious?
Pedantic?
3-0 to The Villa.
Mortimer, Shaw, Withe.
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Pretend it never happened. 4-1.
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Facetious?
Pedantic?
3-0 to The Villa.
Mortimer, Shaw, Withe.
Totally irrelevant.
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5. Meh. As long as Negredo doesn't score. I had a bet with a Man City mate that he wouldn't score 10 league goals this season. He's been stuck on since early January I think. Typical for me that Aguero gets injured meaning Negredo may start. Expect him to score in the tenth minute opening the floodgates with him scoring ten times with only ten touches. I'm a fecking jinx. Thankfully it doesn't matter (well, kind of)
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Yaya Toure fit to play sadly
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Facetious?
Pedantic?
3-0 to The Villa.
Mortimer, Shaw, Withe.
Totally irrelevant.
Only in your head Leeg!
;-)
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We take points in this game we hand the title to Victims R Us FC?
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Joking apart, I honestly fancy us to do something totally nuts and get a point now the pressure is gone.
Of course, that would mean us winning the league for Liverpool which would be ABSOLUTELY FUCKING TYPICAL of Villa. Finally a result to be proud of, only to gift the title to fucking Liverpool.
I see you can get 22/1 on us winning there. That's a crazy price. 9/1 the draw is maybe worth a shout, though.
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Bowery to start I'd guess with gabby out
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Yaya Toure fit to play sadly
Good. Let's beat them with their best XI.
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Possibly the only time I won't be remotely arsed about us losing. A face-saving 2-0 loss and they'll go on and brutally remove Gerrard's grubby mitts from the PL trophy come Sunday as well.
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Bowery to start I'd guess with gabby out
Would be very interesting to see how JB plays against better opposition. He certainly deserves a start.
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Obviously I still think we'll be thumped...but Liverpool winning tonight would probably be good for us. Man City haven't played pressure games particularly well and I think we'll go into the game looking forward to it. Most of our high spots from this season is how we've played against the top 4 teams. Not one will have come out of our encounters unscathed this season. So to see where we are is just as remarkable. Benteke and Gabby would have been tailor made for this one but as they're (well, Gabby) not it's a huge chance for Bowery.
If he shows even the slightest glimmer on Saturday what he did last Saturday then it will be very interesting and we'll score goals.
But, I've been here too many times over the last 4 or so seasons thinking that the next game would see us kick-on just a little bit more and build on some confidence. Only to see it usually kicked the shit out of us.
5-0.
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I think Bowery did well at the weekend, but Hull gave him so much space I doubt he can replicate that.
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I'm convinced we'll win on Wednesday now, I just have a weird feeling about it and we'll hand the title to fucking Liverpool.
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I'm convinced we'll win on Wednesday now, I just have a weird feeling about it and we'll hand the title to fucking Liverpool.
Yep, I think it'll be a strange, nervy evening for City. I've never been in the position before where I won't know how to feel should we go in front.
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I'm watching the game with a Man City fan. I only watch Villa games in the presence of others when I can relax.
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I'll always want us to win, at least if we do we can always tell any gloating Liverpool fans that we won them the title.
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See it's things like Michael Vaughan on twitter saying 'congratulations to Manchester City on being champions' that really annoy me.
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How could you not enjoy Villa beating Man City and denying them the title.
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Well exactly.
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Because we hate Liverpool so much more than Man City?
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I don't care for either of them, but I always want Villa to win.
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Back to our usual 4-1 defeat of recent weeks, however, I hope that I'm wrong.
Think we will beat spuds though.
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I would dearly love to go up there and piss on their party. Let's ruffle a few feathers...
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I have a feeling this thread is going to turn into another discussion about who we'd all prefer to win the title.
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Villa.
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The game will be over after 30 minutes. It's then just a case of how many Man City decide they want to score. I'm guessing they'll take it relatively easy on us before a late flourish that will be embarrassing as they rip our defence to shreds.
6-0
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Any word on if Gabby will be fit?
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It would be nice to go up there & get a result.
But even before the money we've usually been rubbish up there.
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It would be nice to go up there & get a result.
But even before the money we've usually been rubbish up there.
Usually been rubbish is a slight understatement, as I quoted on another thread our league record at the Etihad reads:
P 10 W 1D 0 L 9 F 6 A 28
And that's been getting worse for the past 4 seasons. Any defeat by less than 4 goals will be a result.
So 1-1 and a goal for Bowery.
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Citeh have drawn once and lost once and won the rest at home this season.
I'd love to see us make a statement and I'd love to see Bowery make a statement.
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Because we hate Liverpool so much more than Man City?
Speak for yourself, I'm bored of the prize going unfailingly to the richest guy in the room.
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Lambert's swansong part 1. We can relax and play. We'll beat them so badly the price of petrol will go up 2p a gallon.
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We're going to beat them and hand the Dippers the title *sad face*.
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Everything suggests Man City will kick our sorry arses into next season. But this is Aston Villa, the world's most mysterious football club, which can lose twice in a season to Fulham, yet beat Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City. Good reason tells me we'll lose, heavily, but I won't be surprised if we sneak a win now the pressure's off, blowing this crazy title race wide open once again.
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We're going to beat them and hand the Dippers the title *sad face*.
As someone has said on another Villa forum (no, not that one) the dream scenario would be that we beat Citeh to give the Bindippers hope and they then choke at home to the Barcodes.
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It'd be great fun if we do to Citeh what Palace did to Liverpool last night with the added bonus of us getting a last kick of the game winner.
Highly unlikely I know, but to coin a phrase, it's a funny old game.
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Chances are slim!
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Because we hate Liverpool so much more than Man City?
Speak for yourself, I'm bored of the prize going unfailingly to the richest guy in the room.
Newsflash: All league championships are bought with money, and always has been ever since Sky invented football, and Liverpool themselves aren't counting for pennies.
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I fear a pasting, but I'd love a high-scoring draw to stop the Super Redstm winning the league on goal difference. Sorry, but that would make me happy!
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Hopefully we'll see a Liverpool away type performance now the pressure's off. I'd like to see Grealish get a place on the bench but i'd stick with the five at the back.
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Is Lambert capable of getting our lot to give a solid boring Liverpool V Chelsea type performance? Slow the game down from the off, break up any rhythm, feign injury all that stuff Mourinho is good at? I don't think he is. 3-0 City.
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Hopefully we'll see a Liverpool away type performance now the pressure's off. I'd like to see Grealish get a place on the bench but i'd stick with the five at the back.
Yes, agree, City are not invincible - Wigan won there in the FA Cup and Sunderland got a recent 2-2 draw. Pity Gabby is out (I assume?) as it's tailor-made for our counter attacking game. Defence worries me as usual.
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4 - 4
Dzeko & Toure 2 each within an hour.
Then meltdown begins, 4 Kompany o.g. within 8 minutes.
At the final whistle, Nasri does a Suarez.
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4 - 4
Dzeko & Toure 2 each within an hour.
Then meltdown begins, 4 Kompany o.g. within 8 minutes.
At the final whistle, Nasri does a Suarez.
Not if they draw he won't, they'll still be huge favourites to win the league if they draw.
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I start from the premise that we'll be two down within ten minutes and anything better than that is progress. Problem with this lot is they are the sort of team that can score 3 or 4 in 20 minutes as we have seen first hand on occasions in the past. It's the one in a million game where I'd be happy to see Villa lose 1-0 to stop the chavs or the dippers from being back in with a chance of the title.
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4 - 4
Dzeko & Toure 2 each within an hour.
Then meltdown begins, 4 Kompany o.g. within 8 minutes.
At the final whistle, Nasri does a Suarez.
Not if they draw he won't, they'll still be huge favourites to win the league if they draw.
In which case, I'd love a draw rather than a 1-0 defeat obviously!
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not really bothered
At least Liverpool hopefully wont win the league .
2-1 I can handle to $$ity
maybe try a few different players out .
$$ity 2 Villa 1
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Aguero not playing
we will win now ;)
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Bizarrely, I actually suspect we might snatch a point, but secretly hope we don't. What with having had to hope for Chelsea and Yanited victories at various points, I truly hate this season. It can fuck right off.
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All hail the purple dot.
Can't see us getting anything from this, I'll say 3-0 with Citeh taking their foot off the gas once they go 3 up.
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3-1 to Cit-eh
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I put a fiver on Liverpool to win the league before the season started (28/1, don't know why, mystic meg shit) so I'll have my fingers crossed. Glen Johnson you twat. Just wanted to put that after yesterday.
Oh and score, 3-2 city. Us to go 2-0 up and then crumble.
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Is Gabby definitely out? I rather fancy him up against Demich...Demichel, the twat with the pony tail who makes Holt look like Usain Bolt.
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either way they are beating West Ham ont he last day. I think the pressure will be too much for Liverpool against Newcastle, and their manager even if he was trying to play some kind of mind games has already thrown in the towel. I reckon we could get a point tomorrow, but fear will lose it late 2-1, maybe even 3-1 as push for an equaliser.
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Aguero not playing
we will win now ;)
Where is that quoted?
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We'll lose by four, five or six goals.
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Aguero not playing
we will win now ;)
Where is that quoted?
Pellegrini in his press conference.
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Aguero not playing
we will win now ;)
Where is that quoted?
Pellegrini in his press conference.
Sadly Man City have about 50 world class strikers available who could step in any replace him tomorrow. I might be exaggerating.
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Only Dzeko, Negredo and Jovetic to choose from, they're down to the bare-bones.
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Are there people who actually want us to lose? I can't get my head around that.
I have a sneaky feeling we'll snatch something from this game. Bowery to get his first and only ever goal for us.
Or they'll smash us 7-0.
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I don't want us to lose at all, I just won't particularly care when we get beat.
Although it would be our style to finish off this horrible season by belting them and handing those Scouse cry babies the title.
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I'm just really relieved it has no impact on us now in terms of relegation.
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I won't be holding up a 'Good luck from the city of Birmingham' banner, but if we do lose it's not the end of the world.
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Half of Liverpool will be loving us up until the point they score. Once we settle for damage limitation, and devoid of any attacking intent or attribute that might suggest we have an attacking intent they will be hating us as much as the most rabid nose.
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Half of Liverpool will be loving us up until the point they score. Once we settle for damage limitation, and devoid of any attacking intent or attribute that might suggest we have an attacking intent they will be hating us as much as the most rabid nose.
They'll accuse us of deliberately not trying so as to spite them. They were having the same dig at Everton on Saturday night, claiming that they weren't trying hard enough to equalise in stoppage time.
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4-1 defeat I think
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All over the world Liverpool fans are thinking about the Villa players and thinking to themselves "they have had some good results against the top clubs", "really a decent team when you think about it" and "they are due some good results"
Welcome to our world Liverpool. It is the hope that kills you.
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Give Jack Grealish his debut , you never know what could happen
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Give Jack Grealish his debut , you never know what could happen
Presume PL will persist with the 3-5-2 formation. I'd probably start with KEA, Westwood and Delph as the midfield 3, but look to bring Grealish on towards the end with an eye on him starting at Spurs. I'd maybe also look to give Robinson and Donacien playing time at Spurs.
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the most intriguing thing for me will be the line up tomorrow night. No need to keep things the same. At the end of the day the manager of Aston shouldn't care about the impact on other sides. not saying play a weakened side (not sure what that is anymore with us), but try a few things. FFS - play Helenius for example, give some of the young lads a game. Grant Holt shouldn't be in the match day squad for example, neither should Gabby be if he's not 100%. There's no pressure at all. Just go and enjoy tomorrow and Spurs.
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Well I've just safeguarded my future by investing a whole Ł2 on a villa win/Liverpool win the league double at 95/1. I will hand my notice in at work on Thursday morning.
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I'm going with a Citeh season-ticket holder. In all probability I will sit there in the Colin Bell and watch us get hammered, just glad we don't need to scrape a point to assure survival. However, part of me thinks, maybe, just maybe...
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the most intriguing thing for me will be the line up tomorrow night. No need to keep things the same. At the end of the day the manager of Aston shouldn't care about the impact on other sides. not saying play a weakened side (not sure what that is anymore with us), but try a few things. FFS - play Helenius for example, give some of the young lads a game. Grant Holt shouldn't be in the match day squad for
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, neither should Gabby be if he's not 100%. There's no pressure at all. Just go and enjoy tomorrow and Spurs.
Helenius is injured unfortunately.
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the most intriguing thing for me will be the line up tomorrow night. No need to keep things the same. At the end of the day the manager of Aston shouldn't care about the impact on other sides. not saying play a weakened side (not sure what that is anymore with us), but try a few things. FFS - play Helenius for example, give some of the young lads a game. Grant Holt shouldn't be in the match day squad for
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, neither should Gabby be if he's not 100%. There's no pressure at all. Just go and enjoy tomorrow and Spurs.
Helenius is injured unfortunately.
blimey you butchered that quote :)
And how in the hell did Helenius get injured again? Did he collapse on hearing despite being 100% that he had lost out to Holt and Bowery at the weekend?
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"Speak for yourself, I'm bored of the prize going unfailingly to the richest guy in the room"
This. I have no time for Scousers but I just happen to think they have played the best attacking football in the division bar none. Citeh & Chelski have thrown money at the title problem and looks like the Mancs may have bought better. The Scousers can't defend which has ultimately let them down at the death but should have been addressed sooner.At least they have unearthed a few diamonds in Sterling and Flanagan.
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"Speak for yourself, I'm bored of the prize going unfailingly to the richest guy in the room"
This. I have no time for Scousers but I just happen to think they have played the best attacking football in the division bar none. Citeh & Chelski have thrown money at the title problem and looks like the Mancs may have bought better. The Scousers can't defend which has ultimately let them down at the death but should have been addressed sooner.At least they have unearthed a few diamonds in Sterling and Flanagan.
They bought Sterling.
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It's funny how the fact Sterling was nabbed from QPR isn't ever brought up by the fawning commentators and media.
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Give Jack Grealish his debut , you never know what could happen
Exactly.
Our attitude to this game should be like England's to the WC should be.
Try something new.
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I honestly don't think I've ever seen a two horse race where one of them is 20-1 to win.
Surely it's not worth a fiver, or is it?
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Grealish hasn't got a squad number.
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Grealish hasn't got a squad number.
Can he not play as he's under 21? I didn't think he had to be registered in the 25 man squad to play.
I'd love to see him tomorrow. He could surprise people.
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Surely the rules don't prohibit a youngster emerging from the youth team late in the season even if not in the original squad. Would run counter to the point surely?
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Ah. No idea. Wouldn't start with him though.
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Ah. No idea. Wouldn't start with him though.
He should get Holts place on the bench. There's no real need to see Holt play again. We can look at a few fringe/young players and see how they cope. No point rushing Gabby back if he's half fit.
I'd like to see the Gladiator in the squad too.
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Surely the rules don't prohibit a youngster emerging from the youth team late in the season even if not in the original squad. Would run counter to the point surely?
United just given debuts to 4 kids tonight so we can do iy
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See, I wouldn't just be playing players for the sake of it. I'd send out our strongest team. They have two more performances that they owe us. And Lambert to be fair. Not to forget any potential new managers or owners.
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See, I wouldn't just be playing players for the sake of it. I'd send out our strongest team. They have two more performances that they owe us. And Lambert to be fair. Not to forget any potential new managers or owners.
Not to mention Ł3m for each place.
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See, I wouldn't just be playing players for the sake of it. I'd send out our strongest team. They have two more performances that they owe us. And Lambert to be fair. Not to forget any potential new managers or owners.
Agreed. Play our best team; with the exception of risking Gabby if he's injured (get him fit for Spuds?), and including Holt, who I don't consider being part of our best team anyway.
Bowery probably deserves a go after Saturday. Pity Kojak ain't fit, 'cos I reckon he really fu**ed 'em up at our place - Kompany and co. just couldn't handle him.
I want us to give them a scare at least and return home proud of our performance.
Robinson, Donacien and Grealish on the bench.
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Much as I'd like to see Grealish get a chance I don't think he'll learn much from a game where we're likely to get hammered and he won't get a sniff of the ball.
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We don't need the ball to take part in a game of football as the team has proved on many occasions this season.
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We don't need the ball to take part in a game of football as the team has proved on many occasions this season.
Well, taking that literally, we've proved that in every game this season, but I guess it depends what you mean by taking part.
If you mean competing, then I'd quibble with "many times" and suggest it's probably four or five times, that being the decent performances we've put in.
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Nothing to lose now that we're safe, so we should just have a go at City. All the pressure is on them.
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Nothing to lose now that we're safe, so we should just have a go at City. All the pressure is on them.
Is the right answer!
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Let's have Baker marking Nasri. I'd love to watch Baker kick the living sh*t out if that odorous little weasel all night.
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Let's have Baker marking Nasri. I'd love to watch Baker kick the living sh*t out if that odorous little weasel all night.
Hear hear!
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Would love to do the double over em, but would hate to hand the title to the bin dippers.
In my opinion, LIverpool fans have been gobby enough for the last 3 decades - Don't think I could face them (or the media outpouring!) if they actually won the damn thing! Dunno why, but I think I actually despise Liverpool and their armchair supporting, YNWA singing, scarf waving 'fans' more than any other club.
Lack of class too - The Dalglish/Suarez racism stance as well as Rodgers mentioning trying to play in a sportsmanlike fashion after the Chelsea defeat... Short memory considering the buck toothed wonder diving against us, which had results gone against us, could have sent us down.
Hate em - And for that reason I'm going for an entertaining 2-2 draw. Level points with Liverpool, then City can go and smash the Hammers for 6 on Sunday and draw out the agony for the Scousers till the last day. :)
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Give the away end something to shout about, protect our integrity and that of the league. Anything beyond that is a bonus.
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See, I wouldn't just be playing players for the sake of it. I'd send out our strongest team. They have two more performances that they owe us. And Lambert to be fair. Not to forget any potential new managers or owners.
On reflection, I agree with that point. With the game being televised, it would be nice to put on a decent performance rather than some of the horrow shows we given under the glare of the cameras this season.
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Our chances are being played up a bit in the media
I'm expecting a bit of a trouncing on the back of that. We've not generally coped well with expectation this season
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Let's have Baker marking Nasri. I'd love to watch Baker kick the living sh*t out if that odorous little weasel all night.
You have to be able to catch 'em to kick 'em. (And pretty sure that you meant odious, unless Nasri is notoriously smelly.)
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Odds have been slashed on a Villa victory from 20/1 to 18/1.
The draw is down to 8/1.
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And the ref is............
Mr Phil Dowd. Thank god we don't need to win.
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If there are any other Villa fans in Berlin today, come and meet the German Villans at the Oscar Wilde Irish pub to watch the game. From 8.15 local time
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And the ref is............
Mr Phil Dowd. Thank god we don't need to win.
Based on his generosity towards Man U he will probably give us everything tonight to stop Citeh winning!
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And the ref is............
Mr Phil Dowd. Thank god we don't need to win.
Based on his generosity towards Man U he will probably give us everything tonight to stop Citeh winning!
That's true. Also, how has he managed to put weight back on when he's been running round for the last 9 months? Does he have an half time pie do you think?
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Would love to do the double over em, but would hate to hand the title to the bin dippers.
In my opinion, LIverpool fans have been gobby enough for the last 3 decades - Don't think I could face them (or the media outpouring!) if they actually won the damn thing! Dunno why, but I think I actually despise Liverpool and their armchair supporting, YNWA singing, scarf waving 'fans' more than any other club.
Lack of class too - The Dalglish/Suarez racism stance as well as Rodgers mentioning trying to play in a sportsmanlike fashion after the Chelsea defeat... Short memory considering the buck toothed wonder diving against us, which had results gone against us, could have sent us down.
Hate em - And for that reason I'm going for an entertaining 2-2 draw. Level points with Liverpool, then City can go and smash the Hammers for 6 on Sunday and draw out the agony for the Scousers till the last day. :)
But it would be funny to win and then remind Redscouse fans that we had to help them win the league 'cos they f^&ked it up.
Saying that, I think we will lose 4-1.
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Grealish has travelled with the squad according to Mat Kendrick.
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I'd love him to get a chance tonight, I'm actually weirdly looking forward to this game. It's nice to have a game where there is no pressure on us at all.
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I'd love him to get a chance tonight, I'm actually weirdly looking forward to this game. It's nice to have a game where there is no pressure on us at all.
I am really looking forward to it, as well.
For the first time in ages, a match where there's no need to be worried about anything.
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Yes same here. It's a long time since I have looked forward to a game. It will be come on than city show us what you can do however I hope it's not over by minute 20!
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I'd love him to get a chance tonight, I'm actually weirdly looking forward to this game. It's nice to have a game where there is no pressure on us at all.
I am really looking forward to it, as well.
For the first time in ages, a match where there's no need to be worried about anything.
Yeah it's a real rarity and it's also nice that the opposition have a lot riding on it as well, so it's a game with meaning.
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As long as people don't level the 'you just lay down and let them win' one at us, I'll be happy with a decent performance.
It nearly goes without saying on current form we'll take a kicking. The only issue would be it might be difficult to draw a distinction between us really trying and 'laying down and letting them win'.
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Our chances are being played up a bit in the media
I'm expecting a bit of a trouncing on the back of that. We've not generally coped well with expectation this season
Over at Bluemoon they think we are Real Madrid!
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Oh I want us to win very much, because I think there's been a general level of disrespect towards us since Monday. There's this general assumption(with the exception of Gary Neville) that City now have the title won and it's a formality.
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We don't need the ball to take part in a game of football as the team has proved on many occasions this season.
Well, taking that literally, we've proved that in every game this season, but I guess it depends what you mean by taking part.
If you mean competing, then I'd quibble with "many times" and suggest it's probably four or five times, that being the decent performances we've put in.
Yes agree with your last para. I meant it as taking part but not competing.
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Interesting stats from the BBC:
Aston Villa
Villa's win against Hull at the weekend was their first in seven games.
They have picked up just two points from their last seven away games, and have lost the last four. They last lost five away games in a row in the league from December 2006 to February 2007.
Only Chelsea (16 points) have a better record than Aston Villa (10 points) against the current top four in the Premier League this season (W3, D1).
They have won their last three league matches on a Wednesday.
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Would love to do the double over em, but would hate to hand the title to the bin dippers.
In my opinion, LIverpool fans have been gobby enough for the last 3 decades - Don't think I could face them (or the media outpouring!) if they actually won the damn thing! Dunno why, but I think I actually despise Liverpool and their armchair supporting, YNWA singing, scarf waving 'fans' more than any other club.
Lack of class too - The Dalglish/Suarez racism stance as well as Rodgers mentioning trying to play in a sportsmanlike fashion after the Chelsea defeat... Short memory considering the buck toothed wonder diving against us, which had results gone against us, could have sent us down.
Hate em - And for that reason I'm going for an entertaining 2-2 draw. Level points with Liverpool, then City can go and smash the Hammers for 6 on Sunday and draw out the agony for the Scousers till the last day. :)
But it would be funny to win and then remind Redscouse fans that we had to help them win the league 'cos they f^&ked it up.
Saying that, I think we will lose 4-1.
Would be even funnier if we won tonight, giving Liverpool hope and then they threw it away again at the weekend.
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Be even funnier if we won tonight, Liverpool won their remaining game and then got docked points because some bloke who'd played 1 game all season turned out to have been ineligible.
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I'd love him to get a chance tonight, I'm actually weirdly looking forward to this game. It's nice to have a game where there is no pressure on us at all.
I am really looking forward to it, as well.
For the first time in ages, a match where there's no need to be worried about anything.
This is my first televised Villa match since the Albion away. I'll watch tonight because there is nothing at stake. But really, watching us on TV is complete and utter torture hence my abstinence until tonight.
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I'd love him to get a chance tonight, I'm actually weirdly looking forward to this game. It's nice to have a game where there is no pressure on us at all.
I am really looking forward to it, as well.
For the first time in ages, a match where there's no need to be worried about anything.
This is my first televised Villa match since the Albion away. I'll watch tonight because there is nothing at stake. But really, watching us on TV is complete and utter torture hence my abstinence until tonight.
We're not going either and like you I hate watching us on the tellybox.
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Interesting stats from the BBC:
Aston Villa
Villa's win against Hull at the weekend was their first in seven games.
They have picked up just two points from their last seven away games, and have lost the last four. They last lost five away games in a row in the league from December 2006 to February 2007.
Only Chelsea (16 points) have a better record than Aston Villa (10 points) against the current top four in the Premier League this season (W3, D1).
They have won their last three league matches on a Wednesday.
That can't be true. This is the worst Villa team ever.
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Tonight is a game where if we get battered then people will say we had nothing to play for anyway and Man City were going for the title. From our perspective, it only adds a bit more fuel to Lambert's fire but won't really make a difference either way to his future which has very likely been decided irrespective of what happens tonight or against Spurs. New owner, new manager, new start. Let's enjoy tonight and dream of an exciting summer and another new positive beginning.
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Grealish has travelled with the squad according to Mat Kendrick.
Good news. He'll probably be on the bench. What's the news on Gabby? The club aren't very good at informing the fans on these injuries.
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Pretty sure Gabby is out injured.
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Grealish has travelled with the squad according to Mat Kendrick.
Good news. He'll probably be on the bench. What's the news on Gabby? The club aren't very good at informing the fans on these injuries.
I think that might just have scraped the barrel of Things to Moan About.
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Interesting stats from the BBC:
Aston Villa
Villa's win against Hull at the weekend was their first in seven games.
They have picked up just two points from their last seven away games, and have lost the last four. They last lost five away games in a row in the league from December 2006 to February 2007.
Only Chelsea (16 points) have a better record than Aston Villa (10 points) against the current top four in the Premier League this season (W3, D1).
They have won their last three league matches on a Wednesday.
That can't be true. This is the worst Villa team ever.
It could be even weirder if you consider how we were dudded against Chelsea and Liverpool.
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4-0 City.
Meh.
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Pretty sure Gabby is out injured.
That's a shame - I'm sure City will be relieved not to face him - would be ideal for the counter-attack.
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Odds have been slashed on a Villa victory from 20/1 to 18/1.
The draw is down to 8/1.
Villa win down to 16/1 now.
OK. Hands up. Who's putting money on the Villa?
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Me me over here. Placed a full Fiver last night at 20/1.
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Grealish has travelled with the squad according to Mat Kendrick.
Good news. He'll probably be on the bench. What's the news on Gabby? The club aren't very good at informing the fans on these injuries.
Why would the club inform fans on injuries? More importantly why would they want that information public and therefore available to our opponents? Unless the injury is already known like Benteke or Okore it shoud be kept as private as possible.
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Felt like pissing some money away today.
10 quid on Villa to win 2-0 at 100-1
Fiver on Delph to score in a Villa win- 66-1.
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City 5 Villa 0 Another good hiding in Manchester i fear
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a draw please and let Man CiŁŁy take the title on Sunday with a drubbing of Wet Sham....
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Man City will come either all guns blazing and gives us a hiding, or then pressure has gotten to them and they can't score to save their lives.
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I can't remember the last Villa game we've gone into without a feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach. It doesn't feel right feeling this relaxed!
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A sound beating I fear, 4-0 cruise.
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Il be gutted if we win tonight, and I'm going
Draw would be a great result all round
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I think we'll lose
However with those odds I'm tempted with a few shillings on the win and a few more on the draw.
Won a few bib on the Liverpool game with silly odds.
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I can't remember the last Villa game we've gone into without a feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach. It doesn't feel right feeling this relaxed!
Just take a trip to the match thread later on. At 3-0 with 42 minutes gone you can get back to feeling suitably pissed off again...
Because we'll be winning 3-0 and Lambert will be staying and Lerner will confirm a few days later that he's bought a new house in the Midlands. Plus because of the exchange rate and cost of renovations he'll be giving Lambert Ł15m after sales to spend in the market.
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I can't remember the last Villa game we've gone into without a feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach. It doesn't feel right feeling this relaxed!
For once I agree with you Saunders Heroes!
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Win,lose, draw. Any result today outside of a spanking and I can enjoy it.
I just hope it is close until late on. That way we can maximize the stress for Liverpool, Chelsea and Liverpool fans :)
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Il be gutted if we win tonight, and I'm going
Draw would be a great result all round
You must be gutted we won on Saturday - you didn't want this one to be a dead rubber!
Enjoy.
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A draw is just fine. Anything that doesn't help Liverpool is a bonus.
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We'll win tonight.
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Don't care about Liverpool or CiŁy, just hope we win. Will have a few quid on it .
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Wednesday 7th May 2014. Etihad Stadium. KO 7.45pm.
Shock 0-2 away win.
Delph 4
Bowery 86
Focus on the new, improved orange purple dot:
(http://www.clker.com/cliparts/W/7/o/H/z/O/light-purple-dot-md.png)
225-1 that Leeg
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Someone posted earlier that they had bet on us to win and Liverpool to win the league at 95/1, what company was that with?
I've tried with 5 bookies but they won't allow it as it is 'related'. Which is annoying because if we win then surely they won't fuck it up again + I'd have been quids in.
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The thing I hate about all this is the patronising commentary about this game - no respect at all for us - we just make up the numbers
Go and stuff 'em Villa!
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The thing I hate about all this is the patronising commentary about this game - no respect at all for us - we just make up the numbers
Go and stuff 'em Villa!
Normally I'd agree with you but when one side is a lower-mid table team with nothing to play for and the other can effectively seal the title with a win, I can't blame the media too much for concentrating on the team that has something to play for.
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Il be gutted if we win tonight, and I'm going
Draw would be a great result all round
You must be gutted we won on Saturday - you didn't want this one to be a dead rubber!
Enjoy.
Ha ha , you remembered