Aston Villa v The Blues Post-Match Thread

[Matt C]

Random fact: Warnock has now been booked in six of his last seven league games.

[sheldon nose]

My take on the game....it was mega bollocks.....and also how the feck did sidwell end up at a big club like chelsea.....

[Shrek]

Free transfer, but we now know why he never played.

[Rigadon]

My take on the game....it was mega bollocks.....and also how the feck did sidwell end up at a big club like chelsea.....

And you were doing so well.....

[PeterWithe]

I thought Sidwell did well when we didn't have the ball, he pressured them and covered a lot of ground.

Admittedly in the pub afterward I seemed to be in a minority of one.

[dave.woodhall]

I'm pretty sure that Franksy is a dog-head.

He's Villa.

[sheldon nose]

We should have had a pen though....mind you i think villa were in for a shout for one as well....oh yeh if baggies win at blackpool tomorrow they are 6/7 pts ahead of the pair of us.....now who would have thought that at the start of the season

[NorthYvillan]

Just back in North Yorkshire - some c**t broke my car window and took the sat-nav (late arrival meant I forgot to hide it.. hey ho)

Thought after a bright start we were rubbish for most of the first half. Improved after half time and might have snatched it at the death.

Question: If a central defender was as late in the challenge on Clark as Foster was then we would probably have got a penalty. Why are goalkeepers allowed to get away with things like this when, if another player so much as looks at them in an aggresive way then they most likely get a free kick - just as Foster did in the first half??

[Ad@m]

Random fact: Warnock has now been booked in six of his last seven league games.

Was he suspended for the other game?!  He's got more bookings than any other player in the top flight!!

[mozza]

Team selection and tactics today would have been understandable
playing Chelsea/Arsenal/Manu away............but surely not at home
against a team that doesn't win on the road

Plus points were Ciaran Clark who looked accomplished in front of
the back four and Barry Bannan who nearly won us the game late on

Mid table mediocrity looks increasingly likely but I wouldn't blame
current manager for that entirely   

[hawkeye]

Just back in North Yorkshire - some c**t broke my car window and took the sat-nav (late arrival meant I forgot to hide it.. hey ho)

Thought after a bright start we were rubbish for most of the first half. Improved after half time and might have snatched it at the death.

Question: If a central defender was as late in the challenge on Clark as Foster was then we would probably have got a penalty. Why are goalkeepers allowed to get away with things like this when, if another player so much as looks at them in an aggresive way then they most likely get a free kick - just as Foster did in the first half??

same thoughts, he took clarke out

[BC54 VFC]

I remember when villa went something like six games without scoring.  Then Cyril Regis scored. 
I'm pretty sure that was the first villa goal i saw at villa park.

From 11th Jan to Feb 8th, 1992 inclusive, we went five league games without scoring, Regis then scored in the sixth, a 1-0 win at home to Oldham on 22nd Feb. We then went on a run of a further five league games without scoring, from 29th Feb to 21st Mar (the day my younger son was born) inclusive, before Staunton scored in the sixth, a 1-0 win at home to Norwich on 28th Mar. 

[Legion]

Statto alert!

[Percy McCarthy]

Just back in North Yorkshire - some c**t broke my car window and took the sat-nav (late arrival meant I forgot to hide it.. hey ho)

Thought after a bright start we were rubbish for most of the first half. Improved after half time and might have snatched it at the death.

Question: If a central defender was as late in the challenge on Clark as Foster was then we would probably have got a penalty. Why are goalkeepers allowed to get away with things like this when, if another player so much as looks at them in an aggresive way then they most likely get a free kick - just as Foster did in the first half??

same thoughts, he took clarke out

It is a definite penalty but they never give them so I won't lose any sleep over it.

[The Situation]

Don't forget Gardner the Liar's handball in the penalty box in the second-half - the ref was never going to give it after not giving them a penalty.

What Foster did was a disgrace, did he even get a yellow card? I can't remember.