Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: PeterWithesShin on May 24, 2026, 06:03:57 PM
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Never in doubt.
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First time we've done the double over Citeh since 1962/63.
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When was the last time we did the double over ManC?
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How in the actual...Can't believe our hungover/second string beat them away!
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Wow, what a second half.
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And the moral of the story for next season? Go into every Villa game not bothering how we do.
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When was the last time we did the double over ManC?
1962/63.
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This team, man. How some of them played the full 90 (+) is beyond me
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League double completed.
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Typical! We win up there when we didn't need to and I didn't watch it.
Hahaha hahaha!!!!
Up The Fucking Villa.
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Championies, Championies, ole, ole ole....
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We've had worse finishes to a season.
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What a f**king team.
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We’ve had worse weeks, Rodney.
What a season. UTV
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Fuck off Sky, get the cameras on our lot, we won the match.
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Freiburg can count themselves lucky that we didn't play our second string against them.
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Played like Brazil second half, Villa showed class on and off the pitch today.
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Coupon busters. UTV
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When is the last time we won at Man City? 2012?
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The greatest season ive had as a Villa fan. The way weve responded after that Spurs game has been magnificent. To win the cup is amazing, to finish.4th again with 19 wins just seals it. Magnificent.
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I weirdly may have enjoyed that nearly as much as Wednesday... Or at least way more than I expected to.
I've been nauseated by the C115y and Pep wankfest for years now, so taking 6 points off them and pissing on their chips has put a huge grin on my face.
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And the moral of the story for next season? Go into every Villa game not bothering how we do.
Nah, the moral of the story is we need to go on 2 night benders every Wednesday!
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I've had worse weeks as a Villa fan.
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Didn't expect us to win both our last two league fixtures. What an end to the season. Hell of a turnaround from a few weeks ago.
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Lovely.
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Fuck off Sky, get the cameras on our lot, we won the match.
No chance. You’ll only see that on Villa socials. Even MOTD won’t bother with us.
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It's a funny old game. What a great season.
Just need PSG to humiliate Arsenal and my cup runneth over.
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Regrets? Beating Wham, losing to Spurs.
I said some time ago that 60 points would be enough for CL. Who’d have thought it would be 58?
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What a great way to finish an incredible season. Enjoy the break everyone. Big summer ahead, as they all are. Get it right and the league needs to watch out...because Villa are coming.
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Jingle Bells
Can we play pissed every week? Can we play pissed ev-rey week.
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If Bailey wasn't Bailey we would have hammered them 1-4 minimum. He couldn't even slot a simple pass to Watkins for a deserved hat trick. Awful player, good riddance!
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The greatest season ive had as a Villa fan. The way weve responded after that Spurs game has been magnificent. To win the cup is amazing, to finish.4th again with 19 wins just seals it. Magnificent.
Yeah was thinking myself that previously for me it was undoubtedly either 89/90 or 92/93 as the highlight (was 20 days old for the European Cup final so can’t really claim that one!). Got to be this season now, hasn’t it?
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What a great way to finish an incredible season. Enjoy the break everyone. Big summer ahead, as they all are. Get it right and the league needs to watch out...because Villa are coming.
Well said
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that was a special second half - tactical masterclass at HT for that second half by King Unai.
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Can we show some respect here please? Three people will be employed by different clubs next season. How does a win away to the team who finished second count in comparison?
Quite right that they didn't show a second of our guys saluting the fans at the end. They should have muted the sound tbh
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Probably the best half this season. Should get pissed up more often.
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What a fantastic win, after the exertions of the last 9 days, on and then off the pitch. This gives out a strong message, we do mean business.
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The greatest season ive had as a Villa fan. The way weve responded after that Spurs game has been magnificent. To win the cup is amazing, to finish.4th again with 19 wins just seals it. Magnificent.
Yeah was thinking myself that previously for me it was undoubtedly either 89/90 or 92/93 as the highlight (was 20 days old for the European Cup final so can’t really claim that one!). Got to be this season now, hasn’t it?
81-82 was a mediocre seaon all in. We only just about scraped a top half place in the league
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We doubled mancity and got doubled by F ing Brentford.....hey ho.
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That was a lot more fun than I was expecting. Great players, great season. COYVB.
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I gave zero shits about the result before the game, but winning the ‘turning up at Pep Guardiola’s leaving do and pissing in the punch bowl’ bowl feels pretty great.
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Can we show some respect here please? Three people will be employed by different clubs next season. How does a win away to the team who finished second count in comparison?
Quite right that they didn't show a second of our guys saluting the fans at the end. They should have muted the sound tbh
Quite right. Utterly disrespectful. As was beating them at home with kids and hangovers. We need to know our place.
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Vomit inducing guards of honour.
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
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We were absolutely superb from minute 43 onwards. Bossed the second half. Onana, stay fit, absolutely superb. Other than Bailey, who was bloody crap, the rest of them, second half, were superb. I hope we can get some quality in because we really have the foundation of a very good side. Played some lovely football. Two nicely taken goals from ollie. Buendia, Barkley, Mings, Lindelof, all worked really hard. What a week, what win. 4-2 against Liverpool, beating Freiburg, beating C115ty. FANTASTIC.
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Also well done RCF. That's his other team in the Champions League group stage, I think.
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Great that Guardiola's swansong will always be accompanied by, the game itself won by Aston Villa....great way to sign off the season.
68, 66, 65 points, nothing if not consistent under Emery...very strange PL season in truth. West Ham down on 39 points.
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23 points gained from losing positions. The most in the league.
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If Bailey wasn't Bailey we would have hammered them 1-4 minimum. He couldn't even slot a simple pass to Watkins for a deserved hat trick. Awful player, good riddance!
He'd have fucked up the pass anyway.
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Fuck off Sky, get the cameras on our lot, we won the match.
It will allow our own supporters get away from the ground much easier
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First away league win since January.
Can't wait for next season. Is someone going to start the Walsall match thread ?
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Bailey was crap, but hit the post and absolutely never stopped for 90 minutes.
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The top 8 teams in the PL all lost at Villa Park this season
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Great that Guardiola's swansong will always be accompanied by, the game itself won by Aston Villa....great way to sign off the season.
68, 66, 65 points, nothing if not consistent under Emery...very strange PL season in truth. West Ham down on 39 points.
That feels like revenge for the.last.day in 2022.which i kept getting flashbacks to towards the end.
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I thought we played better at times today than we did on Wednesday. Lovely way to finish a top season. We're bloody good aye we?
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Glad we beat them
The Cheats That TheybAre!!!!!
(Ian Paisley Snr voice)
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A message to fans coming home and trying to get a fish supper. No chips! Villa pissed on them all!
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I said when we reached 58 points there was a strong chance that was enough even if we lost every remaining league game.
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I said when we reached 58 points there was a strong chance that was enough even if we lost every remaining league game.
Where's your quote?!! 🙄🤣
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Great that Guardiola's swansong will always be accompanied by, the game itself won by Aston Villa....great way to sign off the season.
68, 66, 65 points, nothing if not consistent under Emery...very strange PL season in truth. West Ham down on 39 points.
Shocking, we are getting lower points
season on season, Emery Out.
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I said when we reached 58 points there was a strong chance that was enough even if we lost every remaining league game.
Where's your quote?!! 🙄🤣
:P ;D
We qualified weeks ago. Odds are high that even if we lose every game we'll still have enough points for top 5. And we won't lose every game.
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This team, man. How some of them played the full 90 (+) is beyond me
Okay it was only Parks football back in the 80s & 90s but leaving a night club at 2am and playing 90 mins on a Sunday morning was a great way of sobering up I found.
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So much for Smithy wanting us to be 6 points clear of Champs League rivals before our last two league games ;D
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That game reminded me of the 2-0 vs Arsenal two years ago. Under the cosh first half, utter dominance in the second.
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So impressive in all areas of the pitch in the second half after being under the cosh for the first 45. Where on earth did they get that energy from?
Shout out for Bizot too for that lovely save when we were one nil down.
What a week to be a Villa fan.
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There aren't many things more Villa than losing to Fulham, Forest and Spurs and then twatting Forest, Liverpool, strolling a cup win winning at ManC.
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I've had worse weeks as a Villa fan.
Indeed mate. We were there in some horrendous weeks like Spurs and Wigan at home in the league and Bradford and Millwall in cups. We deserve weeks like this.
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So 4th, a few more pennies in the bank, and nice to finish above the Redscouse.
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Absolutely astonished that we won. Did feel like the subs meant we got stronger as the game went on.
Typical Pep leaves after we start always beating them.
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Who played well today?
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So 4th, a few more pennies in the bank, and nice to finish above the Redscouse.
[/quotSo 4th, a few more pennies in the bank, and nice to finish above the Redscouse.
First time since 2010 I think.
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Well, I cared about this game and I'm relieved/chuffed we won. Maybe we can afford Rashford's extra £20k a week now and pick-off Bournemouth's best players since we've deprived them of CL football. That and Liverpool being shit again.
It would have been annoying to finish lower than the Redshite having been 3rd for over half the season.
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Who played well today?
Lindelof Watkins Mings..... all of them. Bailey end product could have been better but he stretched their defence all second half.
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Who played well today?
Lindelof Watkins Mings..... all of them. Bailey end product could have been better but he stretched their defence all second half.
Luiz show any signs of life?
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Cash coming on changed things, as did their GOH guff.
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I thought I didn’t give a toss all morning, but I was gutted when Foden scored. Well done VAR (on Ollie’s goal as well).
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What a bloody result that is
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Can we play you every week. Can we play you every week…
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
I agree. I think winning Europa, hanging around in the top 4 all season and at times flirting with top place has fortified us as a team. We have the belief now and if next season we find ourselves in top 3 around xmas we will know that we belong there.
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
I agree. I think winning Europa, hanging around in the top 4 all season and at times flirting with top place has fortified us as a team. We have the belief now and if next season we find ourselves in top 3 around xmas we will know that we belong there.
And I think Unai will learn a lot of lessons from last summer!
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Hangover cure #115. Spend 45 minutes playing football barely getting out your own half let alone into the opposition half while keeping the score down to one goal. Rest for 15 minutes.
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Last 6 against them W4 L2. Pretty impressive considering their years of cheating, oil money and financial disparity.
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I’ve just watched the highlights. Ollie”s second goal is incredible. It’s a sign of a good goal when the last defender ends up on his arse.
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Cash coming on changed things, as did their GOH guff.
Cash always changes things.
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I thought I didn’t give a toss all morning, but I was gutted when Foden scored. Well done VAR (on Ollie’s goal as well).
VAR favouring the big European sides again.
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Pep's chips duly pissed on - YES !
OK first-half riding our luck somewhat. Second-half really good, especially when our regulars got on. Watkins was superb - despite apparently not being good enough.
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
I’d say it’s more 50/50.
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
I’d say it’s more 50/50.
We either will or we won't so it's definitely 50/50.
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If Bailey wasn't Bailey we would have hammered them 1-4 minimum. He couldn't even slot a simple pass to Watkins for a deserved hat trick. Awful player, good riddance!
Absolutely crucial in getting us over the line in that first qualification for the Champions League. He’s not the same now, but let’s not completely slag off a player who has played an important role for us.
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I'm so happy we've finished 4th - that's a proper season, imagine what we could have done if we hadn't wasted the transfer windows too.....
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It feels like in the last few weeks we've gone up several levels and now exist on a different plane to mere mortals.
We are 100% winning the league next year.
I’d say it’s more 50/50.
We either will or we won't so it's definitely 50/50.
33/1 to win it. Behind Arse, Citeh, Manure, and Plop which I sort of get. But Chavski at 11/1 ?
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I wonder what the odds were in August for us not getting a league penalty all season?
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My mind wanders back to when my youngest son, aged about 5 or 6 at the time, with a Conor Hourihane poster on his wall, realised there was another division that Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd and Arsenal were in and that being about fourth or fifth in our league didn’t mean we were one of the best teams in the country. I had tried and failed to keep it from him but no doubt some pesky schoolmate had exposed him to the uncomfortable truth.
“Why aren’t we in that league?” he asked.
“We’re trying son” I said.
Similarly, I grimaced when he wanted SJMs name on the back of his shirt in Gerrard’s one summer, thinking ‘he won’t be playing much in the coming season’.
Look at us all now.
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That result was a surprise: a very nice one nevertheless!
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Never in doubt. Unai was never going to give up the chance to piss on Pep’s chips.
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I wonder what the odds were in August for us not getting a league penalty all season?
I wonder what the odds were of us finishing top 4 and winning the Europa League at the end of August.
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Those half time Jagerbombs definitely did the job
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Great way to round off a truly sensational season. Unai and the players have done us proud. Again.
If only Booby hadn't got injured again... But perhaps we'll find out next season.
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I had today's game on a stream which game me the joy of listening to one of the worst commentaries I've heard all season.
The first half was a Guardiola love-fest to the extent that it was only by looking at scores in the top corner that you got a clue about the away side.
Then the pair of idiots seemed unable to understand why Villa were were so much better in the 2nd half
I'll give the pair of them a clue:
Garcia - Cash
Lindelof - Torres
Luiz - Youri
Bogarde - Onana
Barkley - SMJ
Replacing 5 squad players with first choice regulars might have played a part in the change.
And then late on, when Jim bloody Beglin began to give us some credit grudgingly he comes up with this pearl of wisdom:
" ...Villa must really back Emery financially to move the club forward ..."
WTAF!!!! Doesn't he know that his beloved RedScouse, C115ty and the rest of the Greedy6 (and their UEFA chums) have rigged the deck to stop the likes of Villa and Toon etc. breaking into their little cartel?
It's these lickspittles who constantly reinforce the Big6 bias and make life so much harder for other clubs to get the coverage they deserve.
Ps - Does anybody know how to get one of these gigs? Pretty sure I could spout bollocks for a couple of hours a week, and I need the money to pay off my Istanbul bill.
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Changing of the guard today. We are going to win the league next season.
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GvgfsmDYg_o
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Never in doubt. Unai was never going to give up the chance to piss on Pep’s chips.
Listening to his presser, it was all very gushing about Guardiola but equally clear that beating him was personally important to Unai. I think he will be ecstatic about doing the double over him whilst still praising him in public. I expect Mrs Emery may find him in a frisky mood tonight.
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It was great to be able to bring on Tielemans, Onana, Pau and SJM. But it's worth pointing out that the only change we made before Ollie scored his second was Cash at half time.
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Honestly, since about October, I've been looking at these last two league fixtures, terrified that we'd need something from them in order to secure Champions League football.
If, back then, you'd have predicted we'd win both of them, I'd have called you an absolute lunatic.
I love being so wrong sometimes. WHAT a way to finish the season. Such a different atmosphere around the club going into this summer. I can't remember a better time to be a Villa fan (well, my memory only goes back to the mid-80s).
Here's to world domination.
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It was great to be able to bring on Tielemans, Onana, Pau and SJM. But it's worth pointing out that the only change we made before Ollie scored his second was Cash at half time.
yep, the players that started deserve credit for turning the performance around. Cash helped, because frankly Garcia was mostly dire, but the other 10 who started deserve huge credit. I'm sure Unai must have tweaked something, but I wasn't watching intently enough to spot it.
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The most ridiculous VAR offside ever according to most unbiased media outlets meaning we unjustly spoilt the party. Fcuking ace.
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The most ridiculous VAR offside ever according to most unbiased media outlets meaning we unjustly spoilt the party. Fcuking ace.
I can show them a few more if they want.
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Great win, fitting way to end a massive week and a tremendous season.
Well done the lads and Unai, couldn't wish for anymore.
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I had never cared less about a game and then absolutely cared about it in all my life.
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The most ridiculous VAR offside ever according to most unbiased media outlets meaning we unjustly spoilt the party. Fcuking ace.
Some on here thought it wasn't as well. Everyone seems to be judging on the sideview from the automated, when it is the initial one that shows what was offside.
(https://i.ibb.co/7t3KbLvg/image.png) (https://ibb.co/7t3KbLvg)
Edit: Blue circle is the last part of the defender. Red line is the part of the body that is ahead of the defender.
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It doesn’t particularly look offside to me. Is the red line around his arse relevant to anything. I also don’t care.
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It doesn’t particularly look offside to me. Is the red line around his arse relevant to anything. I also don’t care.
The red line is the part of the body offside, so yes pretty relevant. Why post then?
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Finished the season giving out a few spankings, and qualified twice for the CL whists seemingly smoking on a Havana cigar. Goodness knows what could have happened if we hadn't lost Kamara/Tielemans/SJM for those few weeks
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It's ridiculous to give offside for that, but it was in our favour and after suffering so many shocking decisions against Manc teams I wish he'd been clearly onside.
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The most ridiculous VAR offside ever according to most unbiased media outlets meaning we unjustly spoilt the party. Fcuking ace.
Good job the Villa player wasnt SJM
Some on here thought it wasn't as well. Everyone seems to be judging on the sideview from the automated, when it is the initial one that shows what was offside.
(https://i.ibb.co/7t3KbLvg/image.png) (https://ibb.co/7t3KbLvg)
Edit: Blue circle is the last part of the defender. Red line is the part of the body that is ahead of the defender.
Good job the Villa player wasnt SJM
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It doesn’t particularly look offside to me. Is the red line around his arse relevant to anything. I also don’t care.
The red line is the part of the body offside, so yes pretty relevant. Why post then?
I mean in terms of right and wrong I don’t care but as a point of interest about the decision I do care.
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So how do they work out how far his arse sticks out? I love that we won because someone stuck their arse out.
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Superb
https://x.com/SKSturm/status/2058594549031677974
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Superb
https://x.com/SKSturm/status/2058594549031677974
Don’t do fascist billionaires. What does it say?
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Superb
https://x.com/SKSturm/status/2058594549031677974
Don’t do fascist billionaires. What does it say?
Our 4th place finish helped Sturm Graz move up a notch in the CL.
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SK Sturm Graz
@SKSturm
Translated from German
Thanks to @AVFCOfficial's 4th place in the @premierleague, we're seeded in #UCL-Q2! 🏆 #sturmgra\z
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJGYTZTXUAATNYV?format=jpg&name=small)
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What a team
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Eight changes and a collective hangover, I didn’t expect that result, thank you Villa.
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SK Sturm Graz
@SKSturm
Translated from German
Thanks to @AVFCOfficial's 4th place in the @premierleague, we're seeded in #UCL-Q2! 🏆 #sturmgra\z
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJGYTZTXUAATNYV?format=jpg&name=small)
Lmaooooo
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I gave zero shits about the result before the game, but winning the ‘turning up at Pep Guardiola’s leaving do and pissing in the punch bowl’ bowl feels pretty great.
Yeah. Fcuk those cant’s
Manager who has presided over a team which - for the best part of ten years - has bored the opposition into submission has finally had enough of maxing out the cheat code.
Sure, it’s a blow to the prestige of English football.
But I think English football will muddle through, somehow.
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It was great to be able to bring on Tielemans, Onana, Pau and SJM. But it's worth pointing out that the only change we made before Ollie scored his second was Cash at half time.
yep, the players that started deserve credit for turning the performance around. Cash helped, because frankly Garcia was mostly dire, but the other 10 who started deserve huge credit. I'm sure Unai must have tweaked something, but I wasn't watching intently enough to spot it.
Garcia looked like a proper competition winner - it was embarrassing.
Other than that, brilliant win today. City don’t like playing us these days.
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Brilliant result again for you just an question from this Fulham fan, how comes that if you had finished 5th there would been 6 clubs in the champions league, but because you came 4th there any only 5 in champions leagues
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Brilliant result again for you just an question from this Fulham fan, how comes that if you had finished 5th there would been 6 clubs in the champions league, but because you came 4th there any only 5 in champions leagues
Because the 5th place spot is a bonus slot granted by UEFA due to England's co-efficient, based on how PL clubs performed in Europe. The spots for 1st-4th aren't.
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In the small bit they devoted to Villa on MotD, Shearer was very complimentary on us and how well we have done with the little expenditure this season, something that doesn't get mentioned a lot this season which is why Andrews and Carrick get the nod in the manager nod.
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Two things that are true at once:
1) it is delightful to ruin the party for this very questionable project;
2) the gestures we showed their departing fellas showed, once again, that the Villa are pure class.
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Finished the season giving out a few spankings, and qualified twice for the CL whists seemingly smoking on a Havana cigar. Goodness knows what could have happened if we hadn't lost Kamara/Tielemans/SJM for those few weeks
There wasn't really anything on the game today, but that was actually a bit of a statement win today, even if it was a relatively minor one. There have been a few snidey comments in the media after the win on Wednesday night along the lines of it "only being the Europa League" and if we had gone there today and lost, then it would have been "told you Villa aren't at that level" type of comments.
The fact that we have gone there and won just puts a little marker down at the end of the season about where we are.
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We were much improved when Cash came on not sure why but it was a different team after the break, that was before the big changes in personell. Brilliant to watch brilliant result.
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Big shout out to our fans in Manchester today.
Giving it the ole' ole' in the first half when we managed to string a few passes together while we were getting battered.
Singing "sacked in the morning" to Pep on his big day.
I could hear them out singing Citeh all day.
Well done to all.
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I thought Ross Barkley, particularly in the second half, had a great game. An excellent pass for Ollie's second goal. Surely Villa will take up the optional third year of his contract?
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To think Konsa and Rogers weren't involved at all is incredible. Also, I thought Tyrone had a commanding second half.
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A gander at the Blue Moon forum is mighty revealing. Apparently VAR shafted them - again, they say, as apparently this happens often. Commentary mentioning the charges 'on a day like today' makes them 'subhuman scum', which is reasonable. Guardiola is only leaving because he 'doesn't trust these players' who've just finished second in the whole league.
They have the ugliest, crybully little victim complex and it is very very striking indeed.
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A gander at the Blue Moon forum is mighty revealing. Apparently VAR shafted them - again, they say, as apparently this happens often. Commentary mentioning the charges 'on a day like today' makes them 'subhuman scum', which is reasonable. Guardiola is only leaving because he 'doesn't trust these players' who've just finished second in the whole league.
They have the ugliest, crybully little victim complex and it is very very striking indeed.
And amusing
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I thought Ross Barkley, particularly in the second half, had a great game. An excellent pass for Ollie's second goal. Surely Villa will take up the optional third year of his contract?
He signed a three year deal when he joined us.
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I thought Ross Barkley, particularly in the second half, had a great game. An excellent pass for Ollie's second goal. Surely Villa will take up the optional third year of his contract?
He signed a three year deal when he joined us.
I think he's generally been great when he's played all season, he's looked much sharper this season than last.
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Just sobered up from Wednesday. No way did we actually win away at Man City
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Just sobered up from Wednesday. No way did we actually win away at Man City
It should have been by more in all honesty.
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That VAR picture, it looked like they had superimposed SJM,s arse on Foden.
Hilarious.
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Barkley had a very good 2nd half after being a bit loose with his passing in the first. Bailey similarly had a massive turnaround at halftime after a really poor first half where absolutely nothing he tried worked.
I thought Bogarde had a better game as well and did the Kamara/Lindelof job a lot better than he has previously, happily dropping into the defence when we had the ball and taking the ball in tight spaces.
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That VAR picture, it looked like they had superimposed SJM,s arse on Foden.
Hilarious.
Fiden looked offside in the freeze frame without the computer graphics, whereas Ollie clearly didn't.
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I was watching that 2nd half yesterday and I just thought these players have crossed the Rubicon now, they fully believe in themselves and each other and the others have serious problems next year.
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That VAR picture, it looked like they had superimposed SJM,s arse on Foden.
Hilarious.
Fiden looked offside in the freeze frame without the computer graphics, whereas Ollie clearly didn't.
Yep, agreed, Foden looked further offside than he was shown on the graphic and I'm really not sure why it didn't get flagged live.
There's also something ironic about them moaning about the officials given some of the shocking decisions they've had go there way against us over the last few years.
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The City players still running after the ref even after the var decision sums them up.
Maybe they'll be in favour of a var to look at var .
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I don't usually look at other team forums because they're full of hysterical drama queens and obsessives but Blue Moon saying VAR and the Premier League are biased against Manchester City is wonderful.
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I don't usually look at other team forums because they're full of hysterical drama queens and obsessives but Blue Moon saying VAR and the Premier League are biased against Manchester City is wonderful.
There's a Liverpool fan at work, in his late 50's, who is genuinely convinced there's a referees conspiracy against them.
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I don't usually look at other team forums because they're full of hysterical drama queens and obsessives but Blue Moon saying VAR and the Premier League are biased against Manchester City is wonderful.
that's farcical - assuming they're talking about the same Premier League that are dragging their feet over a punishment?
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Superb comeback Villa and MOTM display from Ollie, England's new number 1 striker!
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I don't usually look at other team forums because they're full of hysterical drama queens and obsessives but Blue Moon saying VAR and the Premier League are biased against Manchester City is wonderful.
A big contrast with the old gallows humour of King of the Kippax!
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I don't usually look at other team forums because they're full of hysterical drama queens and obsessives but Blue Moon saying VAR and the Premier League are biased against Manchester City is wonderful.
A big contrast with the old gallows humour of King of the Kippax!
The old-school seem to be the worst of the lot.
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These GOH whilst the game is going on are ridiculous, and a GOH for Silva, the same Silva who was fined and banned for a racist tweet. I'm sure he'll be crying at his new pay cheque from the next club. We had to then watch all the fawning over a bloke who splits all the time. The Sky commentary was just dreadful, had to turn it off. How can the 115 counts of rule breaking still be unresolved. These cheats along with the rest of the Sky Six have stopped anyone else from breaking into their domination. Lets just see. Chelsea have no Europe, finished 10th, but will still spend like a drunken sailor as will Spurs. Whilst we and Newcastle will have to be very frugal. MOTD is the same, they say stuff like " Just look what Emery has done with a tiny budget". The tiny budget is not our wish, but rules forced upon us by the Sky Six and the likes.
Football has indeed been changed by these dreadful people
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I didn’t mind the guard of honor really, particularly as we handed their arses to them despite most of our players still being pissed.
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I get the impression the GOHs totally buggered up Abu Dhabi's concentration levels. We helped them get all emotional and drained the aggression out of them. Psychological manipulation at its finest.
Ruthless stuff.
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Consider this. We sold Ramsey, Malen, Diary. Lost Kamara plus McGinn and Tielemans long term. Clawed back loanees because it's all we could afford. And STILL won EL and came 4th. Phenomenal!
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Consider this. We sold Ramsey, Malen, Diary. Lost Kamara plus McGinn and Tielemans long term. Clawed back loanees because it's all we could afford. And STILL won EL and came 4th. Phenomenal!
Not heard a Pepys out of him since.
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NO.
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Consider this. We sold Ramsey, Malen, Diary. Lost Kamara plus McGinn and Tielemans long term. Clawed back loanees because it's all we could afford. And STILL won EL and came 4th. Phenomenal!
Not heard a Pepys out of him since.
Must have been A. Mole
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I don't usually look at other team forums because they're full of hysterical drama queens and obsessives but Blue Moon saying VAR and the Premier League are biased against Manchester City is wonderful.
They seem to dislike us as a fanbase as well. Something to do with the league cup final a few years ago 🤷♂️
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Consider this. We sold Ramsey, Malen, Diary. Lost Kamara plus McGinn and Tielemans long term. Clawed back loanees because it's all we could afford. And STILL won EL and came 4th. Phenomenal!
That diary was Small Heath’s best-ever purchase.
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I don't usually look at other team forums because they're full of hysterical drama queens and obsessives but Blue Moon saying VAR and the Premier League are biased against Manchester City is wonderful.
There's a Liverpool fan at work, in his late 50's, who is genuinely convinced there's a referees conspiracy against them.
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That's because like man city et al for years they've had the majority of decisions go their way
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I don't usually look at other team forums because they're full of hysterical drama queens and obsessives but Blue Moon saying VAR and the Premier League are biased against Manchester City is wonderful.
A big contrast with the old gallows humour of King of the Kippax!
I just had a look at Blue Moon. They have definitely turned into their red neighbours.
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GvgfsmDYg_o
What's with the Coppers lined up there? Were they expecting it to kick off in the tunnel?
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I had never cared less about a game and then absolutely cared about it in all my life.
#StillFickle #DaveyOLeary
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There was no excuse for the lino getting Watkins' goal wrong. The shade of green patch that Ollie was in was clearly different to the last defender. Fucking idiot. Completely takes away the joy of Ollie's celebration.
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There was no excuse for the lino getting Watkins' goal wrong. The shade of green patch that Ollie was in was clearly different to the last defender. Fucking idiot. Completely takes away the joy of Ollie's celebration.
The same lino was buttering Guardiola's arse while they were checking Foden's goal for some reason.
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There was no excuse for the lino getting Watkins' goal wrong. The shade of green patch that Ollie was in was clearly different to the last defender. Fucking idiot. Completely takes away the joy of Ollie's celebration.
The same lino was buttering Guardiola's arse while they were checking Foden's goal for some reason.
Yep I commented on that to my lad at the time. Looked suss, probably wasn’t and if thats the case just a bit fawning and idiotic
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GvgfsmDYg_o
What's with the Coppers lined up there? Were they expecting it to kick off in the tunnel?
It was part of the guard of honour of course...
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Then the pair of idiots seemed unable to understand why Villa were were so much better in the 2nd half
I'll give the pair of them a clue:
Garcia - Cash
Lindelof - Torres
Luiz - Youri
Bogarde - Onana
Barkley - SMJ
Replacing 5 squad players with first choice regulars might have played a part in the change.
No, you couldn't be further away from the reality. Most of these players came on in the 73rd minute when we were already dominating and John came on with 5 mins to go to replace Ross who was running the middle and had set up Ollie for the winner.
Although I agree Matty Cash coming on at HT made a difference.
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Cash made a bit of a difference but more importantly I think they just ran the alcohol out of their systems in the first half and came out up for the game 2nd half. Man City, by contrast, looked like they came out having attended a wake at half-time and seemed much more interested in paying tribute to Silva, Stones and Guardiola than in actually playing the match.
Attitude and application more than anything else for me.
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Cash made a bit of a difference but more importantly I think they just ran the alcohol out of their systems in the first half and came out up for the game 2nd half. Man City, by contrast, looked like they came out having attended a wake at half-time and seemed much more interested in paying tribute to Silva, Stones and Guardiola than in actually playing the match.
Attitude and application more than anything else for me.
V possible although reminded me of the Chelsea away game. So may have been a similar game plan. We do seem to play in fast tempo bursts apart from v big games.
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Yep, that sounds about right.
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Cash made a bit of a difference but more importantly I think they just ran the alcohol out of their systems in the first half and came out up for the game 2nd half. Man City, by contrast, looked like they came out having attended a wake at half-time and seemed much more interested in paying tribute to Silva, Stones and Guardiola than in actually playing the match.
Attitude and application more than anything else for me.
V possible although reminded me of the Chelsea away game. So may have been a similar game plan. We do seem to play in fast tempo bursts apart from v big games.
It was similar in those three big games against Forest at home, Liverpool and Freiburg. We were superb in all three in the second half. Against Freiburg we didn't dominate completely until about 40 mins, against Liverpool after their equaliser, yesterday from 44 minutes - we ended the half well. Once we got going in those games we were a joy to watch.
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Cash made a bit of a difference but more importantly I think they just ran the alcohol out of their systems in the first half and came out up for the game 2nd half. Man City, by contrast, looked like they came out having attended a wake at half-time and seemed much more interested in paying tribute to Silva, Stones and Guardiola than in actually playing the match.
Attitude and application more than anything else for me.
I thought Cash made a massive difference simply by playing moderately well - Garcia really was that bad!
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Cash made a bit of a difference but more importantly I think they just ran the alcohol out of their systems in the first half and came out up for the game 2nd half. Man City, by contrast, looked like they came out having attended a wake at half-time and seemed much more interested in paying tribute to Silva, Stones and Guardiola than in actually playing the match.
Attitude and application more than anything else for me.
I thought Cash made a massive difference simply by playing moderately well - Garcia really was that bad!
agree, them not having freedom of the right side of our half helped an awful lot.
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Great second half, it's a pity that the result got washed away with the adulation of Pep. If you take into account all the restrictions we have played under this season our performance is far superior to any others. We should get team of the year and Unai should definately get best manager.
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These GOH whilst the game is going on are ridiculous, and a GOH for Silva, the same Silva who was fined and banned for a racist tweet. I'm sure he'll be crying at his new pay cheque from the next club. We had to then watch all the fawning over a bloke who splits all the time. The Sky commentary was just dreadful, had to turn it off. How can the 115 counts of rule breaking still be unresolved. These cheats along with the rest of the Sky Six have stopped anyone else from breaking into their domination. Lets just see. Chelsea have no Europe, finished 10th, but will still spend like a drunken sailor as will Spurs. Whilst we and Newcastle will have to be very frugal. MOTD is the same, they say stuff like " Just look what Emery has done with a tiny budget". The tiny budget is not our wish, but rules forced upon us by the Sky Six and the likes.
Football has indeed been changed by these dreadful people
Yeah I thought the GOH was shit but ah well, if thats all we've got to moan about then all good.
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AVFCStatto on x posted:
Aston Villa earned the most points from losing positions in the Premier League this season (23).
Huzzah!
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Also have the most outside the box goals.
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Also have the most outside the box goals.
There was a period when it seemed that we could only score from outside the box.
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It was still quite fun.
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Top of the Other 14 Table too. The one they all want to win.
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Also I believe the most fouled team. And yet, no penalties. Watkins scored more goals than Thiago excluding penalties because he alone took 9 and scored 8. We got all those fouls and no penalties? Really? What??
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The officials probably knew that we'd miss them anyway and figured it was better to keep the game flowing.
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We had a penalty for a bit. Then it was taken away from us. So much sadness, like all those Donald Trump assassination attempts that keep failing.
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The officials probably knew that we'd miss them anyway and figured it was better to keep the game flowing.
Can you pass backwards from a penalty? If so, can just do that if we get one, seeing as we always score from outside the box.
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Good point. Get McPhee on that for next season.
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The 2025-26 Premier League season in alternative tables
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1l229n3j9go
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QI looking at the points totals
(https://scontent.flhr3-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/705374238_122124745023196019_1796444860461881638_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=Wfg8fYs8i84Q7kNvwFM4RIG&_nc_oc=AdofFkCNOpZszJUmGZLbczIVZ7sNAOZcvJ58sCmdOQ_5FYOyDbJ7oO1Zhppr0_9Er-E&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-3.fna&_nc_gid=wWkShlbMKF1X5mcgBEaYTw&_nc_ss=7b2a8&oh=00_Af77K45ziTK6Si8d-yaf8Dq55FHyOYJqDB8NcsTOCFbsow&oe=6A1B9C1E)
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Joint most points against other top five teams. We were just a bit shit against the shit teams
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Shame Spurs didn't match last season's total.
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I was just thinking the same thing.