Aston Villa v Chelsea Match Thread

[DANNYG]

cheers come on villa lets sneak this

[TheSandman]

Typical gentle and fair tackle from Warnock.

[Edvard Remberg]

Get JC off...He does nothing...

[Mac]

Carew is pants

[Mac]

Bloody hell, only 7 pages! Must be a good game.

We're not playing badly.  it's not a bad game, no one wants to jinx it

[Edvard Remberg]

JC is like heskey last season

[Rudy Can't Fail]

We're really missing Gabby.

[Edvard Remberg]

I am trying to jinx it by speaking badly about our players, hoping they prove me wrong

[greenwichvilla]

40, 122

[Toronto Villa]

There's nobody up front that can stretch the defenders and thus open gaps in the middle of the pitch for the likes of Ireland to benefit from. Carew is never going to do that, so Gabby is a huge loss from that standpoint. It's all too congested and Chelsea are very good at closing gaps. The other thing is our wide players aren't getting the ball fast enough and when they do the delivery has been sub par.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Fonz coming on.

[Edvard Remberg]

"Apears that JC is suffering from cramp"...I think they mean from "crap"

[Axl Rose]

first half was good to watch...second half is shite...come on villa...theyre loking more likely.

[Jimbo]

We're not just finding it difficult getting out of our own half, we're struggling to get it to the halfway point of our own half.

[Mac]

Nathan coming on...