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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: PeterWithesShin on February 03, 2024, 07:35:28 PM
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As no one else has.
46 points should definitely see us safe for another year.
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Great reaction.
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We badly needed that to boost the confidence. Sheff Utd were terrible, but some lovely goals in there. Hopefully puts us back on the right track.
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All good.
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Sheffield United 0-5 Aston Villa: Unai Emery's side dismantle woeful Blades to return to top four - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68115071
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We got lucky; hawkeye bailed us out of that one.
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So you meet some mates in the pub to watch some bunch of entitled wankers against a less fashionable team. Of course you hope the latter will make a game of it but they are a couple of goals down pretty quickly. You turn your back on the screen and barely give it a glance for the rest of the match, preferring to have the craic instead.
Feels like we're the entitled wankers on days like these.
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Routine win.
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Let’s use it as springboard for 2nd half of season.
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Easy peasy.
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I would’ve gone for more in the second half.
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Good reaction to Tuesday's defeat, and 3 points away from home. Job done.
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Got to be happy with that. Especially after the relatively poor last few weeks. Felt a bit sorry for Rogers skying that chance though. Would have topped the day off nicely if he'd buried that.
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Clean sheet no silly injuries or bookings and a few fresh legs here and there. managed the second half
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Great stuff: just hope we build on it now!
Chelsea then Manure will be different propositions for the next 2 home games.
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Well done me babbies
Some cracking goals and very good defending. Now let's beat Chelsea and hammer the red filth
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Best performance for me was the lady Sky presenter‘s blouse.
Sorry, old skool.
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Redemption week against the two Uniteds.
One down. The big one on Sunday.
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We got lucky; hawkeye bailed us out of that one.
never a freekick though 😃
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Redemption week against the two Uniteds.
One down. The big one on Sunday.
Yes hopefully we manage it a bit better than the Newcastle game.
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Just what we needs after our wobble. Shame Morgan didn't stick his chance away and Diaby didn't really do much, but can't have everything.
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Aston Villa became the first team to score as many as four goals in the opening 30 minutes of a Premier League away game since Chelsea against Bolton in October 2011
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Was sat with the enemy above the Villa fans. I had the choice of a seat after the 4th.
They were woeful but the goals were top notch. Then we controlled it and played in 1st gear for the rest of the game. Hope Konsa isn’t too bad as he looked in some pain when he went down.
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We had 1 run of 3 straight defeats and one of 2. Great managers like Emery find ways to fix issues quickly. We played with precisely the right attitude today. We played like a team vying for a top 4 spot against a team battling relegation. And had big decisions gone our way in the game at Villa Park we’d have smashed them there too. Well done boys. Great win. Let’s smash Chelsea next.
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Up the fucking Villa!
League title challenge back on. FTF.
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Excellent stuff but the main narrative, and perhaps justifiably so, will be how abject Sheff Utd were - though the strange thing was that all our finishes bar the first goal, McGinn’s tap in, were superb, in contrast to recent weeks when we’ve been suspect in front of goal. None of those four goals were straightforward. So it could easily, despite our good play, dominance, and Sheff U’s woefulness, have been 1-0 instead of 5.
So the story of the game IS also our excellent finishing.
UTV!
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ruthless finishing - we create chances every week, stay that clinical and we finish top 4.
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Five quality goals, we looked fantastic going forward but Sheffield were poor.
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So beginning of the slide downwards? Never in doubt. Utfv
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Best performance for me was the lady Sky presenter‘s blouse.
Sorry, old skool.
Eh ? Dalglish ?
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https://www.skysports.com/football/sheff-utd-vs-a-villa/report/482820
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Just what we needed really. Had the game won within the first 20 minutes or so.
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That was lovely and hopefully, just want we needed.
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Its true, they were abject but a couple of our goals were sublime.
Bring on the , Cockneys and Newton heath time to finish the job.
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That was lovely and hopefully, just want we needed.
Agreed, same next week please.
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Does this mean that the end of the world can be postponed for a few days? ;) UTV
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Absolutely needed that, Torres and Digne to come back soon too. Hopefully, back in the groove!
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Best performance for me was the lady Sky presenter‘s blouse.
Sorry, old skool.
Fuck off with this dinosaur level nonsense. Just gross
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Posted recently that I've only been to Bramhall Lane once and that was the season we got relegated to the third division. It was 0-0 at half-time and I thought we were going great and a point would be brilliant. We lost 5-0 and I've never been there since. Took a long time but we got our revenge today.
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I was there that day Grealish missed a pen . Bad day that was
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I was there that day Grealish missed a pen . Bad day that was
If Grealish scored the day I was there you certainly weren't, chances are his old man wasn't born let alone him.
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Absolutely needed that, Torres and Digne to come back soon too. Hopefully, back in the groove!
Yes, that team was 9 of the 11, playing in the same positions, that were the best team in the country for those four magical days in December. I was amazed that people seemed to have forgotten that when the line-up was announced. I’ve been salivating waiting for them to return.
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We got lucky; hawkeye bailed us out of that one.
never a freekick though 😃
It was the Wilder moan from 2020; thrown back at him. No excuses he could come up with today.
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Missed most of the second half, how did Rogers and Tim perform?
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Missed most of the second half, how did Rogers and Tim perform?
Late introductions so didn’t set the world alight but always good to get the minutes in.Rogers showed some good anticipation and positioning to get a shot in but unfortunately skied it.
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Missed most of the second half, how did Rogers and Tim perform?
Late introductions so didn’t set the world alight but always good to get the minutes in.Rogers showed some good anticipation and positioning to get a shot in but unfortunately skied it.
Ah ok. Thought they might have come on, certainly Tim anyway, a little sooner.
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Missed most of the second half, how did Rogers and Tim perform?
Late introductions so didn’t set the world alight but always good to get the minutes in.Rogers showed some good anticipation and positioning to get a shot in but unfortunately skied it.
Ah ok. Thought they might have come on, certainly Tim anyway, a little sooner.
Tim was on 71 minutes so, yes admittedly a bit more time. Nothing spectacular but got minutes in (happy to be corrected by others).
Rogers can on 81 minutes.
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Tim keeps things ticking over and does the simple things well, which is what I reckon he's told to do. I hope we can beat Chelsea so Tim gets a run out against Leeds or Plymouth in the next round of the Cup. Be great to see him get 90 minutes under his belt. Rogers played ok, shame about the skied chance but the ball was just a tad behind him.
Cracking performance, you can only beat what's put in front of you and we certainly did just that. Some quality goals too.
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TI looks pretty calm on the ball, seems to have a presence about him
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It doesn't feel like it, but we have kept 6 clean sheets in our last 12 games.
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Its true, they were abject but a couple of our goals were sublime.
Bring on the , Cockneys and Newton heath time to finish the job.
Startling how different they were from the side that cane to Villa Park just over a month ago.
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Tim keeps things ticking over and does the simple things well, which is what I reckon he's told to do. I hope we can beat Chelsea so Tim gets a run out against Leeds or Plymouth in the next round of the Cup. Be great to see him get 90 minutes under his belt. Rogers played ok, shame about the skied chance but the ball was just a tad behind him.
Cracking performance, you can only beat what's put in front of you and we certainly did just that. Some quality goals too.
Behind him, it was on a plate.
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Tim keeps things ticking over and does the simple things well, which is what I reckon he's told to do. I hope we can beat Chelsea so Tim gets a run out against Leeds or Plymouth in the next round of the Cup. Be great to see him get 90 minutes under his belt. Rogers played ok, shame about the skied chance but the ball was just a tad behind him.
Cracking performance, you can only beat what's put in front of you and we certainly did just that. Some quality goals too.
i don't think he had much involvement bar that chance . It was marginally behind him that cut back needed to be going into his stride
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One for the doubters. Onwards and most definitely upwards!
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That was proper big boy stuff. Respond to a poor spell with a real funeralling against relegation candidates. Ruthless stuff, totally without ruth.
We'll have harder days for sure, starting next week, but it's nice to see our slump has its limits. We were far, far too good for them today.
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That was not entirely unsatisfactory.
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Cracking performance, you can only beat what's put in front of you and we certainly did just that. Some quality goals too.
Agreed. Just what we needed after failing to turn up against Newcastle. The other positive was even though we didn't run riot 2nd half the subs fitted in better than they have done previously. Not perfect and not that we should expect like for like but better.
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Cracking performance, you can only beat what's put in front of you and we certainly did just that. Some quality goals too.
Agreed. Just what we needed after failing to turn up against Newcastle. The other positive was even though we didn't run riot 2nd half the subs fitted in better than they have done previously. Not perfect and not that we should expect like for like but better.
It was a perfect situation in which to bring on Tim and Rogers.
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Hopefully some much needed confidence for Wednesday, win that and we can go into a huge game v ManUre on the front foot
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How on earth did we not beat them 5 weeks ago?
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How on earth did we not beat them 5 weeks ago?
VAR
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Dougie’s pass for the second goal was pure sex.
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How on earth did we not beat them 5 weeks ago?
5 weeks ago, they didn't play to win but to keep us out as much as possible or at worst case, keep the score down as they were only 6 points from safety and away match points are a bonus. Even then they needed a weird VAR choice of judging phases of play and an incompetent ref, plus us missing Torres, Tielemans and Kamara and most players out on their feet after the tough finish to the year.
This match, anything less then three points wouldn't do as they are 10 points off safety so they had to be more open, plus McGinn was in a more favoured position and Tielemans to play the passes more decisively through midfield.
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I think we can safely say that the buy back obligation for Cameron Archer is going to be triggered.
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How on earth did we not beat them 5 weeks ago?
We didn’t score first.
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Sublime performance.
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How on earth did we not beat them 5 weeks ago?
We didn’t score first.
Pretty much this I think. When you have a match like this - which over the decade, we've been on the other end of - where an upper-league team plays a relegation candidate, the best chance the latter has is to grow in confidence by keeping it tight throughout the game. Exactly that happened at VP, and exactly the opposite happened today.
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I think we can safely say that the buy back obligation for Cameron Archer is going to be triggered.
Highly likely. One of the reasons Cam is on the bench as Wilder is already planning for next season in the Championship without him.
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Fantastic performance, only the FA Cup replay stopped us from getting 8 or more.
Must have really p*ssed off the big guns beneath us with an eye on that 4th spot. A bonus.
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What are the other reasons?
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What are the other reasons?
He's been unwell.
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What are the other reasons?
Wilder is a dinosaur.
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What are the other reasons?
Wilder is a dinosaur.
That is one of kinder ways I would describe Wilder.
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They had absolutely nothing up front and neither me or the Sheffield Utd supporter I was sitting with could believe Wilder didn’t make the change earlier. They were scared to come at us after the initial avalanche but Archer offers a bit of pace and can get you up the pitch. The difference between Wilder and Emery is embarrassing. I’ve always wondered why English coaches don’t go abroad to try and improve.
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They had absolutely nothing up front and neither me or the Sheffield Utd supporter I was sitting with could believe Wilder didn’t make the change earlier. They were scared to come at us after the initial avalanche but Archer offers a bit of pace and can get you up the pitch. The difference between Wilder and Emery is embarrassing. I’ve always wondered why English coaches don’t go abroad to try and improve.
Paul Lambert went to Barcelona once.
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That was a bit surprising and a bit good wasn't it?!
Wolves under O'Leary always springs to mind being 3 up away very early on. We marmaslised Derby too. But that was excellent today. The attacking play was so much quicker and incisive than it has been for a while. Very clinical too. The 2nd goal was such a high all round quality goal too; what a ball, what a finish! Bailey looking tremendous again.
Today felt quite derby-ish from the fans perspective too. Bordering on moody, lots of folks in the aisles and limbs going everywhere too. Can't recall any history between us, so maybe it's just a 17:30 in a decent city and ale and you know what taking its natural course.
Plenty of backing, easy I guess when the game is over inside 20 minutes. They were streaming out then and hard to blame them as they're absolutely diabolical. Hilarious for VAR to further piss on Wilder's chips.
I hope Konsa isn't too badly hurt. We were behind the goal to that side of the post so it was right in front of us near enough. He looked in some pain.
Rogers is massive, should have done better with his chance too, but useful that he's got some minutes. Diaby got into some good positions and was unlucky not to score, which is nice to see. Cash delays the pass to feed him too often for me. Let him stretch the opposition!
They huffed around for a minute or two before their disallowed goal, but it was so comfortable that there was no particular feeling of unease. Great to keep a clean sheet and some really good defensive work and goalkeeping. The early goal suits us a lot! More please
We have added Kamara to the list of hundreds of players that have a Tequila song too.
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How on earth did we not beat them 5 weeks ago?
Anthony Taylor.
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They had absolutely nothing up front
I was expecting to see McBurnley but he was out injured and that young Norwegian who played looked pretty clueless
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After the first few minutes we just passed it through them at will. They were 1 dimensional up front and I don’t really know what they were set up to do. We were just too good for them all over the pitch and scared them so much on the break they sat back and were happy just to keep the score down.
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Scintillating first 30 minutes, training match for the rest of the game...and all Unai had to do was drop the player out of form (Diaby) to the bench and replace him with the player in form (Leon). I think dropping Cash was a good move too given his inconsistent performances of late.
Utd were indeed poor, but we looked a much improved team with Bailey on the right and Tielemans more advanced.
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Are those bitter fans of theirs going to post ad nauseum that this defeat shouldn’t be counted because we should have been relegated for their goal at Villa Park wasn’t given?
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Great win. Very enjoyable.
Up the fucking Villa!
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Micah Richards open up with “for Sheffield Utd it was a bad day at the office”WTF in more ways than one.
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Micah Richards open up with “for Sheffield Utd it was a bad day at the office”WTF in more ways than one.
Having to hear his voice or see his face is always an abysmal day at the office for me.
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Vicario is a joke of a keeper.
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Micah Richards open up with “for Sheffield Utd it was a bad day at the office”WTF in more ways than one.
Having to hear his voice or see his face is always an abysmal day at the office for me.
Gurning imbecile.
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Having to hear his voice or see his face is always an abysmal day at the office for me.
To redress the balance, have a watch of the extended highlights on VillaTV, Sir Brian is on co-comms and is so wonderfully biased it makes for blissful listening.
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Micah Richards open up with “for Sheffield Utd it was a bad day at the office”WTF in more ways than one.
Having to hear his voice or see his face is always an abysmal day at the office for me.
Gurning imbecile.
Grinning.
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They were very complimentary about us on MOTD, and also rightly said Sheff Utd were shit.
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Fat, useless waste of space. Worst dive ever.
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Cackling hyena.
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Cursing that yet again I couldn't watch it because my local was showing something else, i. e. the bloody rugby.
Was worth going incommunicado for a few hours, though...
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We’ve beaten Sheffield United 5-0 three times, across three different centuries:
12.11.1894 Aston Villa 5 Sheffield United 0
23.04.1932 Aston Villa 5 Sheffield United 0
03.02.2024 Sheffield United 0 Aston Villa 5
Lovely.
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How on earth did we not beat them 5 weeks ago?
Chance to go top too...we bottled it that night really
Tonight was just utterly focused from the first whistle, it could have been 10 if we wanted. Put the blades to the sword etc. Notice served to the likes of Tottenham that we aren't going to fall away. Season defining stretch coming up but tonight was some response to mid week.
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Having to hear his voice or see his face is always an abysmal day at the office for me.
To redress the balance, have a watch of the extended highlights on VillaTV, Sir Brian is on co-comms and is so wonderfully biased it makes for blissful listening.
Haha. Cheers mate. Will do!
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Redemption week against the two Uniteds.
One down. The big one on Sunday.
I'm not allowed to explain my reaction to Kelly Dalgeish today or in general without accusations of being a sexual predator and pervert. All will say is she is damn close to perfection for me.
Oh and Villa did our job today. Professional, at last energy to our play again.
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They had absolutely nothing up front and neither me or the Sheffield Utd supporter I was sitting with could believe Wilder didn’t make the change earlier. They were scared to come at us after the initial avalanche but Archer offers a bit of pace and can get you up the pitch. The difference between Wilder and Emery is embarrassing. I’ve always wondered why English coaches don’t go abroad to try and improve.
Paul Lambert went to Barcelona once.
I've been twice. And I think I could have done a better job than he did at the helm.
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Oh it's a very satisfying day out that.
Took my lad to his first away, and now he can't wait to get back to school on Monday.
Made an appearance on the Sky TV coverage just before kick-off and on the stadium screen too.
Know a few of their fans who left after 20 minutes, they'd seen it happen too many times this season and couldn't take any more.
Good all over the pitch and back in a groove.
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That was great, each goal terrific too and that pass from Dougie *Chef’s kiss*
With the exception of Pau coming back in feels like that’s our best team - the McGinn/Tielemans/Bailey/Watkins front four gives us a great balance.
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Under Emery after a bad result we have always seen a reaction so I was confident we'd win today, although I didn't think we'd win so convincingly
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Oh it's a very satisfying day out that.
Took my lad to his first away, and now he can't wait to get back to school on Monday.
Made an appearance on the Sky TV coverage just before kick-off and on the stadium screen too.
Know a few of their fans who left after 20 minutes, they'd seen it happen too many times this season and couldn't take any more.
Good all over the pitch and back in a groove.
What a fab ‘away’ day for Rex! Yep he’ll enjoy school on Monday morning, send me a screen shot of the moment of fame! I went for a thai massage at half time having listened to most of the first half driving up from London, mildly disappointed to find we’d only added one extra!
The Asda cake printing machine has duly provided a 3rd birthday cake with my littlest one in claret & blue in a ‘part of the pride’ hoody 😅, better get wrapping for pass the parcel :O
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Dougie’s pass for the second goal was pure sex.
I said that to the guy witching with me. If that was Debruyner orTrent they would of interrupted strictly to show it.
World class
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Oh it's a very satisfying day out that.
Took my lad to his first away, and now he can't wait to get back to school on Monday.
Made an appearance on the Sky TV coverage just before kick-off and on the stadium screen too.
Know a few of their fans who left after 20 minutes, they'd seen it happen too many times this season and couldn't take any more.
Good all over the pitch and back in a groove.
I saw you on TV but then couldn’t decide if it was you because I thought your kids all supported Sheffield Utd!
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Nope, I bagged the one who actually likes football! 😀
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How on earth did we not beat them 5 weeks ago?
They came to Villa Park, put ten men behind the ball and were hard to break down. This evening they came out to give it a go, left massive spaces in central areas and we punished them.
I still think it would have ended 3-0 in the home game if Bailey's goal.hadnt been ruled out.
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That second goal was a thing of beauty.
World class from Dougie with that pass with the outside of his foot and great finish from Ollie.
If Arsenal want to buy Dougie they better have plenty of money.
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That was great, each goal terrific too and that pass from Dougie *Chef’s kiss*
With the exception of Pau coming back in feels like that’s our best team - the McGinn/Tielemans/Bailey/Watkins front four gives us a great balance.
Agree and with the defence of Konsa, Carlos, Lenglet/ Pau, Moreno / Digne to go with it
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We’ve beaten Sheffield United 5-0 three times, across three different centuries:
12.11.1894 Aston Villa 5 Sheffield United 0
23.04.1932 Aston Villa 5 Sheffield United 0
03.02.2024 Sheffield United 0 Aston Villa 5
Lovely.
Just need to win the FA Cup now , to be the first club to win it in three different centuries.
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Stats pretty much show this Sheffield United team are one of the worst top flight teams for a very long time if not ever, and they really did look it.
However, really good teams batter poor sides most of the time and thats what we did. I thought we were excellent in every aspect of the team. Hard to pick out any one player, but the Bailey, Watkins, Tielemans trio makes us such a threat.
A couple of other points, i thought Emery was short and to the point more than normal in the pre match interview. I reckon the players got a right going over on Wednesday after the Newcastle game.
Don Goodman was on co-commentary, he said in the match build up and when it was still 0-0, tgat we’ve been shipping goals lately. Three clean sheets before Newcastle, its just lazy research/commentary.
Long way to, go, but we’re not going away with this manager. Every time we take a punch, we bounce back up.
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Just brilliant Villa, could easily have been more, but understandably we took it easy for the last 30 mins or so, with the match on Wednesday, bring on Chelsea and Man United now, can wait.
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They will still end up with more points than we did when we were relegated…
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How on earth did we not beat them 5 weeks ago?
Chance to go top too...we bottled it that night really
Tonight was just utterly focused from the first whistle, it could have been 10 if we wanted. Put the blades to the sword etc. Notice served to the likes of Tottenham that we aren't going to fall away. Season defining stretch coming up but tonight was some response to mid week.
As much as I want acknowledge "we were simply much better" against Sheff Utd compared to VP - and we definitely were - it's also how the opposition set up. At our place they were ultra defensive, sat deep, and made us try and break them down while sitting just outside the box with no space in behind. That is most definitely our weak spot as a side right now. When teams have a go, and offer a reasonable attacking threat, we now have the players, tactics and all round ability to play through them and create chances. Yesterday we were pretty ruthless at taking those chances.
We've effectively played two completely different Sheff Utd sides. One that was doing it's very best not to lose, and one that was at home and "tried" to attack only to be picked off at will by a much better side. Our first three goals yesterday all game from quick transitions when we've won the ball, and then running into space in behind as they'd all pushed up. None of those opportunities present themselves in the reverse fixture as they were so rarely that far away from their own goal.
Yesterday was brilliant, and an indication of what we're capable of when teams "have a go" and we're on it. But we also need to find a better way to deal with teams who play like Sheff Utd at our place, which I imagine most teams will do if they ever get the first goal against us (apart from those going for the title/Europe)
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[Long way to, go, but we’re not going away with this manager. Every time we take a punch, we bounce back up]
That is a very good point and a great way to explain this manager and team
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We’ve beaten Sheffield United 5-0 three times, across three different centuries:
12.11.1894 Aston Villa 5 Sheffield United 0
23.04.1932 Aston Villa 5 Sheffield United 0
03.02.2024 Sheffield United 0 Aston Villa 5
Lovely.
Just need to win the FA Cup now , to be the first club to win it in three different centuries.
8)
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[Long way to, go, but we’re not going away with this manager. Every time we take a punch, we bounce back up]
That is a very good point and a great way to explain this manager and team
When was the last time we got into February in the league and had followed up every single league defeat with a win? We might not have been firing on all cyclinders of late, but we're resilient, and we don't tend to let the bad results drag out and affect our next match.
I thought last season as our form was improving that the key to really pushing on was achieving back-to-back wins on a reasonably consistent basis (which we hadn't done in a VERY long time). I think the reverse is also true, if you lose one, make sure it's just one and win the next.
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We looked more like ourselves in the final third which is what has been lacking lately and like others, delighted to have bounced straight back after a defeat.
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It’s about time we gave someone a thrashing away from home. This was really satisfying. What I liked is that there were 5 different scorers. Not many teams will live with us when we play like that. As many others have said, Dougie’s pass was the highlight for me but there were many. Brilliant
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Individually and collectively we were so much better. Players who had been below par in the last couple of games all stepped up to make it look easy. Obviously much tougher games to come but we’ll be going into them with renewed confidence.
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Dougie’s pass for the second goal was pure sex.
I said that to the guy witching with me. If that was Debruyner orTrent they would of interrupted strictly to show it.
World class
Spellbinding wasn't it?
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Great performance. Did the right thing making changes at half time / after the fifth.
Understand the GD boost 2 or 3 more might have given but then there's the risk of injuries and/or pointless tiredness for important players, plus the chance to give, for example, JJ some more match time to get him back where he needs to be.
The technique we showed in our goals was brilliant stuff. Dougie's ball for Ollie to score was just so utterly disgusting it would probably be illegal in a lot of countries.
Incredible to think that only a few weeks ago, Sheffield United were within a gnat's chuff of taking all three points at Villa Park. Amazing Archer can't get starts there, too.
Their players look so flabby and out of shape, it's really no wonder they're doomed.
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5 nil is a bit of a big goal difference boost. There's only been 11 games in 30 odd years where a side has scored 8 or more, so I'm a bit bemused people were critical or saying we lacked a killer instinct.
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Great performance. Did the right thing making changes at half time / after the fifth.
Understand the GD boost 2 or 3 more might have given but then there's the risk of injuries and/or pointless tiredness for important players, plus the chance to give, for example, JJ some more match time to get him back where he needs to be.
The technique we showed in our goals was brilliant stuff. Dougie's ball for Ollie to score was just so utterly disgusting it would probably be illegal in a lot of countries.
Incredible to think that only a few weeks ago, Sheffield United were within a gnat's chuff of taking all three points at Villa Park. Amazing Archer can't get starts there, too.
Their players look so flabby and out of shape, it's really no wonder they're doomed.
Can you imagine the wank fest if De Bryune or Ray Boy Fernandes played that pass?
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When the ball pings off my little toe at 45 degrees on a Tuesday night and goes out for a throw, I get called a useless donkey. Luiz does it, and bends it effortlessly into the path of Watkins and he's world class. One rule for one....! ;)
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5 nil is a bit of a big goal difference boost. There's only been 11 games in 30 odd years where a side has scored 8 or more, so I'm a bit bemused people were critical or saying we lacked a killer instinct.
No team has lost out on a CL spot because of goal difference in the last 25 years. Only winning 5-0 away from home won't keep me awake tonight.
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They will still end up with more points than we did when we were relegated…
I reckon it will be close though. They will be lucky to get close to 10 points for the second half of the season and might already be looking to replace Wilder unless Potter was there for some other innocuous reason. (Started monitoring opposition tactics for some other club is might join?)
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Martinez - world class on the 2 occasions required
Konsa - Rolls Royce of defender
Carlos - powerhouse
Lengelet - one uperb block and some very nice passing through the lines and to Moreno
Moreno - Looking like his former self
Kamara - anonymous which to me means he did his job perfectly. No last ditch tackles just effective and assured to allow the magician Luis to do his thing.
Luis - the pick up on the edge of our box then run into space and the vision and application to get that directly into Watkins without breaking stride was simply one of the best passes I have ever seen. I must of watched it 20 times. It defies belief
Mcginn - Simple as when he is on it we play well and invariably win.
Tielemans - much beer and influenced our play. Terrific hit for goal
Bailey - if ever there is proof not to write off a player too soon. He is the solid gold version. I think today will be spent untangling their defenders legs he was turned that much. And his goal is becoming his trademark and if he gets into that space I know expect a goal.
Watkins - 10/10 performance capped wih a fabulous run and goal.
SUE.- must of been well pissedoff after Newcastle shambles but no rnting or raving just calm and calculated got them ready for the next game. He celebrated each goal like his life depended on it
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Dougie's pass is on a constant loop in my mind, Outrageous.
What makes his performance even more impressive is he was ill but still insisted on playing.
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Tielemans - much beer and influenced our play. Terrific hit for goal
wish I was as good at football that pissed up
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Great confidence boost and sets us up nicely for an important week
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Dougie's pass is on a constant loop in my mind, Outrageous.
What makes his performance even more impressive is he was ill but still insisted on playing.
I feel like the pass deserves further examination: it went forward at an angle and curvature you’d expect from the side spin put on it by the outside of a top class midfielder’s foot. The most outrageous thing about it was, when it got past the defender, the angle changed again; it was travelling almost completely sideways (instead of forward) as it eased perfectly into Ollie’s path. So there was either backspin on it as well as side or Dougie is a non-fraudulent Uri Geller. When you watch it again, watch how the angle changes as it passes the defender. Incredible.
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Great performance. Did the right thing making changes at half time / after the fifth.
Understand the GD boost 2 or 3 more might have given but then there's the risk of injuries and/or pointless tiredness for important players, plus the chance to give, for example, JJ some more match time to get him back where he needs to be.
The technique we showed in our goals was brilliant stuff. Dougie's ball for Ollie to score was just so utterly disgusting it would probably be illegal in a lot of countries.
Incredible to think that only a few weeks ago, Sheffield United were within a gnat's chuff of taking all three points at Villa Park. Amazing Archer can't get starts there, too.
Their players look so flabby and out of shape, it's really no wonder they're doomed.
Can you imagine the wank fest if De Bryune or Ray Boy Fernandes played that pass?
To be fair to him, Jamie Redknapp made precisely that point in Sky's commentary yesterday, after waxing lyrical about how brilliant it was.
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Dougie's pass is on a constant loop in my mind, Outrageous.
What makes his performance even more impressive is he was ill but still insisted on playing.
I feel like the pass deserves further examination: it went forward at an angle and curvature you’d expect from the side spin put on it by the outside of a top class midfielder’s foot. The most outrageous thing about it was, when it got past the defender, the angle changed again; it was travelling almost completely sideways (instead of forward) as it eased perfectly into Ollie’s path. So there was either backspin on it as well as side or Dougie is a non-fraudulent Uri Geller. When you watch it again, watch how the angle changes as it passes the defender. Incredible.
Well expressed.
Football wizardry. Eat my goal!
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Great performance. Did the right thing making changes at half time / after the fifth.
Understand the GD boost 2 or 3 more might have given but then there's the risk of injuries and/or pointless tiredness for important players, plus the chance to give, for example, JJ some more match time to get him back where he needs to be.
The technique we showed in our goals was brilliant stuff. Dougie's ball for Ollie to score was just so utterly disgusting it would probably be illegal in a lot of countries.
Incredible to think that only a few weeks ago, Sheffield United were within a gnat's chuff of taking all three points at Villa Park. Amazing Archer can't get starts there, too.
Their players look so flabby and out of shape, it's really no wonder they're doomed.
Can you imagine the wank fest if De Bryune or Ray Boy Fernandes played that pass?
To be fair Redknapp made that point (not in those words!)
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I enjoyed a ham sandwich today while I watched the highlights. Maximum disrespect.
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Dougie's pass is on a constant loop in my mind, Outrageous.
What makes his performance even more impressive is he was ill but still insisted on playing.
I feel like the pass deserves further examination: it went forward at an angle and curvature you’d expect from the side spin put on it by the outside of a top class midfielder’s foot. The most outrageous thing about it was, when it got past the defender, the angle changed again; it was travelling almost completely sideways (instead of forward) as it eased perfectly into Ollie’s path. So there was either backspin on it as well as side or Dougie is a non-fraudulent Uri Geller. When you watch it again, watch how the angle changes as it passes the defender. Incredible.
Funny thing on the river I was watching, I’m sure the commentator said it should have been cut out!!
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Dougie's pass is on a constant loop in my mind, Outrageous.
What makes his performance even more impressive is he was ill but still insisted on playing.
Is that true? Legend. A luxury to be able to give him the second-half off.
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What a fuck-up Wilder made of the game! Yes, we were really good, but SheffU set up for us to exploit their open structure. They truly are a shit side, and I feel all the more disgruntled with the refereeing for our home game against them.
Yesterday, I thought Watkins played really well against a poor back 3. Luiz was - well! - imperious in his game-running role. Kamara also looked majestic, and Konsa is a Rolls-Royce (as someone above said).
What I really liked, though, was the addition of Tim: he is class and is going to be a magic player; hopefully for us (if FFP doesn't kybosh his Villa career). Disappointed that KKH didn't come on (rathe than Cash), to give him some minutes.
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Important we channel the confidence and build from this . We won't have an easier game til we play Walsall in August.
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Can you imagine the wank fest if De Bryune or Ray Boy Fernandes played that pass?
Owen Hargreaves made exactly the same point though he sadly missed out wankfest.
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I deleted all my favourite porn links this morning and replaced them with a clip of Doug’s pass.
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I deleted all my favourite porn links this morning and replaced them with a clip of Doug’s pass.
Dougie Style?
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I deleted all my favourite porn links this morning and replaced them with a clip of Doug’s pass.
Dougie Style?
;D Renamed!
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I deleted all my favourite porn links this morning and replaced them with a clip of Doug’s pass.
No need, it has already been uploaded to Pornhub.
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I enjoyed a ham sandwich today while I watched the highlights. Maximum disrespect.
The Guardian match report is well worth a read for sandwich lovers. Get your teeth into this. (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/feb/03/sheffield-united-aston-villa-premier-league-match-report)
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I laughed fairly hard yesterday when the Sky commentator made a remark about Wilder’s face telling the story of the game. As if Chris Wilder is usually some effervescent smiling happy go lucky chap.
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What a fuck-up Wilder made of the game! Yes, we were really good, but SheffU set up for us to exploit their open structure. They truly are a shit side, and I feel all the more disgruntled with the refereeing for our home game against them.
I agree with you here. They frustrated the hell out of us at Villa Park because they showed no ambition and just defended in a very compact formation, albeit doggedly and with concentration.
From behind the goal we defended in the first half my take was that they played a higher press and pounced as soon as Lenglet had possession. Their plan seemed to be based on the fact that he is a weak link in possession. He did make one awful pass but once we had got past them a couple of times and taken the lead they didn’t dare press high.
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Great win and great away day.
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That game at VP was all about getting the first goal, which we did until VAR bizarrely said otherwise. Like someone else said, I think it would have been a similar to result had it been given.
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That game at VP was all about getting the first goal, which we did until VAR bizarrely said otherwise. Like someone else said, I think it would have been a similar to result had it been given.
And now we see the same incident being let go.
The ref gave the goal and VAR intervened, and it was no where near a clear and obvious mistake.
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Any news on Konsa's injury?
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That game at VP was all about getting the first goal, which we did until VAR bizarrely said otherwise. Like someone else said, I think it would have been a similar to result had it been given.
And now we see the same incident being let go.
The ref gave the goal and VAR intervened, and it was no where near a clear and obvious mistake.
If Ramsey was just blocking the keeper off its fine, but i think they pulled him for holding his arm. Either way they went out of their way to rule the goal out and if it was Liverpool they wouldn't have even looked at it
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I tell you what, Sheffield is not a happy place right now.
A combined 9 goals against at the weekend and resignation, particularly in the red half.
I actually started to feel sorry for them on Saturday; it was just so easy for us and if we'd really wanted to we could have scored more, but conserving energy, and resting some players ready for Chelsea was the right thing to do.
I suppose my feelings were clouded by the fact I live here and my other half is a Sheffield United supporter, but it was so embarrassingly easy and makes the December result all the more frustrating.
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I bet it's not, two absolutely horrendous teams. Still, it's a great city with some lovely countryside not far away so they do at least have that.
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I tell you what, Sheffield is not a happy place right now.
A combined 9 goals against at the weekend and resignation, particularly in the red half.
I actually started to feel sorry for them on Saturday; it was just so easy for us and if we'd really wanted to we could have scored more, but conserving energy, and resting some players ready for Chelsea was the right thing to do.
I suppose my feelings were clouded by the fact I live here and my other half is a Sheffield United supporter, but it was so embarrassingly easy and makes the December result all the more frustrating.
On our way back to the car, a chap I'm assuming was a Wednesday fan asked us what the final score was. We told him 5-0, and so a Sheffield United fan by us piped up to correct us it was 5-1... we broke the news and watched him die a little bit more inside.
In the carpark, we got confused by the payment machine and didn't think it gave you back the little token. We were walking off to go when a Sheffield United fan called us back to give us the little coin thing so we could get out. Fair play to the man, friendly and helpful even in defeat.
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I tell you what, Sheffield is not a happy place right now.
A combined 9 goals against at the weekend and resignation, particularly in the red half.
I actually started to feel sorry for them on Saturday; it was just so easy for us and if we'd really wanted to we could have scored more, but conserving energy, and resting some players ready for Chelsea was the right thing to do.
I suppose my feelings were clouded by the fact I live here and my other half is a Sheffield United supporter, but it was so embarrassingly easy and makes the December result all the more frustrating.
On our way back to the car, a chap I'm assuming was a Wednesday fan asked us what the final score was. We told him 5-0, and so a Sheffield United fan by us piped up to correct us it was 5-1... we broke the news and watched him die a little bit more inside.
In the carpark, we got confused by the payment machine and didn't think it gave you back the little token. We were walking off to go when a Sheffield United fan called us back to give us the little coin thing so we could get out. Fair play to the man, friendly and helpful even in defeat.
People are generally good folks here, so I'm pleased you had a positive experience, though that last one being wiped off by VAR really was salt in the wounds stuff.
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Not spent a lot of time there but always found Sheffield people sound.
I will actually be there on Wednesday for lunch.
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Not spent a lot of time there but always found Sheffield people sound.
I will actually be there on Wednesday for lunch.
Where you going for lunch?
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Drummond, were you in with the home fans?
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Any news on Konsa's injury?
Is this the report?
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Drummond, were you in with the home fans?
Nope. Which was nice.
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Let's face facts neither Blades or Owls have any Gloryhunter idiots.
Always found Sheffield people to be amiable and very friendly.
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People are generally good folks here, so I'm pleased you had a positive experience, though that last one being wiped off by VAR really was salt in the wounds stuff.
The people of Sheffield also gave us Def Leppard, so it's not all good.
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Always found Sheffield people to be amiable and very friendly.
Chris Wilder and co certainly were!! ;D
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People are generally good folks here, so I'm pleased you had a positive experience, though that last one being wiped off by VAR really was salt in the wounds stuff.
The people of Sheffield also gave us Def Leppard, so it's not all good.
And Arctic Monkeys.
They have given us Richard Hawley though, so they're forgiven.
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People are generally good folks here, so I'm pleased you had a positive experience, though that last one being wiped off by VAR really was salt in the wounds stuff.
The people of Sheffield also gave us Def Leppard, so it's not all good.
Woah!! easy Tiger :-)
Pyromania & Hysteria are still class albums
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They are both decent clubs, with decent fans from my experience.
We've been on the receiving end of a couple of thumpings like that and it's a feeling of numbness as each goal goes in - I actually think they got off lightly as we dropped down a few gears after the 4th - which was the sensible thing to do with the games we have coming up.
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People are generally good folks here, so I'm pleased you had a positive experience, though that last one being wiped off by VAR really was salt in the wounds stuff.
The people of Sheffield also gave us Def Leppard, so it's not all good.
Woah!! easy Tiger :-)
Pyromania & Hysteria are still class albums
Yep, i wouldn't take that Lion down.
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People are generally good folks here, so I'm pleased you had a positive experience, though that last one being wiped off by VAR really was salt in the wounds stuff.
The people of Sheffield also gave us Def Leppard, so it's not all good.
And Arctic Monkeys.
They have given us Richard Hawley though, so they're forgiven.
See there you go, you can say something sensible! 🙂
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People are generally good folks here, so I'm pleased you had a positive experience, though that last one being wiped off by VAR really was salt in the wounds stuff.
The people of Sheffield also gave us Def Leppard, so it's not all good.
And Arctic Monkeys.
They have given us Richard Hawley though, so they're forgiven.
Plus the Cabs (Voltaire), the League (Human), Pulp (not juice), the Limit and the Leadmill. They're heavily in credit.
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People are generally good folks here, so I'm pleased you had a positive experience, though that last one being wiped off by VAR really was salt in the wounds stuff.
The people of Sheffield also gave us Def Leppard, so it's not all good.
And Arctic Monkeys.
They have given us Richard Hawley though, so they're forgiven.
And Jessica Ennis-Hill.
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People are generally good folks here, so I'm pleased you had a positive experience, though that last one being wiped off by VAR really was salt in the wounds stuff.
The people of Sheffield also gave us Def Leppard, so it's not all good.
And Arctic Monkeys.
They have given us Richard Hawley though, so they're forgiven.
Plus the Cabs (Voltaire), the League (Human), Pulp (not juice), the Limit and the Leadmill. They're heavily in credit.
Joe Cocker tops all of them.
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Let's face facts neither Blades or Owls have any Gloryhunter idiots.
Always found Sheffield people to be amiable and very friendly.
they're ok, just weird how they say reet instead of right
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I tell you what, Sheffield is not a happy place right now.
A combined 9 goals against at the weekend and resignation, particularly in the red half.
I actually started to feel sorry for them on Saturday; it was just so easy for us and if we'd really wanted to we could have scored more, but conserving energy, and resting some players ready for Chelsea was the right thing to do.
I suppose my feelings were clouded by the fact I live here and my other half is a Sheffield United supporter, but it was so embarrassingly easy and makes the December result all the more frustrating.
I like Sheffield and surrounding area as well. Although it was great to see us on the rampage, I did feel.somewhat for them.
We've been there, a bleak season and those kind of thrashings, particularly at home, just compound the misery.
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Even the Blades Business Crew shake your hand and offer you a coffee and a read of the financial times before kicking the shit out of you.
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Was it a Blades steward I saw ask Diaby for a selfie at the end of the match after Mouassa had handed his shirt to a little girl in the crowd? Fair play to him he obliged the bloke.
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Was it a Blades steward I saw ask Diaby for a selfie at the end of the match after Mouassa had handed his shirt to a little girl in the crowd? Fair play to him he obliged the bloke.
Yes indeed Dave!
We were quite near the front so had a good view of it all.
Also, Big Emi chucking bottles of water and Lucozade Energy type drinks to the first few rows of Villa fans once we went 3 up. He was a very happy chap!
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Cheers Frank.
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People are generally good folks here, so I'm pleased you had a positive experience, though that last one being wiped off by VAR really was salt in the wounds stuff.
The people of Sheffield also gave us Def Leppard, so it's not all good.
And Arctic Monkeys.
They have given us Richard Hawley though, so they're forgiven.
Plus the Cabs (Voltaire), the League (Human), Pulp (not juice), the Limit and the Leadmill. They're heavily in credit.
Top local knowledge Eamonn. The Leadmill was known nationwide but the Limit was more intimate and much more fun.
PS you forgot Heaven 17
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I'm only human, born to make mistakes.