Gerard Houllier

[eastie]

Quite right Toronto, a decent run of results could still see us finish in the top 8 - there is little to choose between 8th and 20th and I hope yesterdays result was the turning point in our season.

[dave.woodhall]

I happened to read the Mirror and the Sun today. The Mirror's match report made two references to the players not celebrating the equaliser with Houllier, like that makes any difference. Steven Howard in the Sun talked about him "hiding behind the all-too-easy excuse of injuries." It's bollocks, and it shows there is definitely an agenda amongst the nationals.

[Percy McCarthy]

Today, Sky had its usual bias in commentating in favour of Chelski,

Why is it that every statistic that comes out of Rob Hawthorne's mouth is negative towards Villa? what is his problem? I bet if you put a camera on him, his hand went up for offside when we equalised.

Doubt it, he's a Villa fan.

[eastie]

Same as on Sunday supplement dave , and on goals on Sunday- today's extra saw kamara 3 times referring to mike dean as our referee yesterday- custis, woolnough and co seem to have a very one  eyed view of events at villa in recent months!

[cdward]

One good team performance over 90 minutes in 4 months. That performance at Chelsea is what we should be seeing as the normal not the exception.
The jury is still out for me.

[Ads]

I happened to read the Mirror and the Sun today. The Mirror's match report made two references to the players not celebrating the equaliser with Houllier, like that makes any difference. Steven Howard in the Sun talked about him "hiding behind the all-too-easy excuse of injuries." It's bollocks, and it shows there is definitely an agenda amongst the nationals.

Big time.

Ash celebrated by winding up the locals and on the other two occasions, practically the entire side celebrated in front of us in the corner.

[Clampy]

I happened to read the Mirror and the Sun today. The Mirror's match report made two references to the players not celebrating the equaliser with Houllier, like that makes any difference. Steven Howard in the Sun talked about him "hiding behind the all-too-easy excuse of injuries." It's bollocks, and it shows there is definitely an agenda amongst the nationals.

I read Steven Howard's piece in The Sun too. I think that was his way of papering over another dismal day for Chelsea.

As for the players not celebrating with Houiller, the players all ran to Clark who had a great game and quite rightly so. That was'nt our friend James Nursey doing the match report was it?

[Clampy]

The Monday after the Man Utd game, i read Brian Woolnough's collum in The Daily Jordan, i mean Star. He was saying what a  decent game the ref had and got very little wrong. I emailed him to remind him that he booked Ashley Young for running to the crowd after his penalty, but did'nt book Rio Ferdinand for doing the same.

He replied to me, without saying Hello or Thanking me for my email and said something along the lines of 'it's easy to find fault with minor incidents.'

I replied back by saying those minor incidents could have caused trouble amongst fans and a better journalist would have noticed that.

He did'nt reply back.

[cdward]

I happened to read the Mirror and the Sun today. The Mirror's match report made two references to the players not celebrating the equaliser with Houllier, like that makes any difference. Steven Howard in the Sun talked about him "hiding behind the all-too-easy excuse of injuries." It's bollocks, and it shows there is definitely an agenda amongst the nationals.

I do agree that the injury line is and has been an easy excuse, however in defence of Houllier he has not really been using that as an excuse, as much as some on here have.

[JUAN PABLO]

;-)

[JUAN PABLO]

I happened to read the Mirror and the Sun today. The Mirror's match report made two references to the players not celebrating the equaliser with Houllier, like that makes any difference. Steven Howard in the Sun talked about him "hiding behind the all-too-easy excuse of injuries." It's bollocks, and it shows there is definitely an agenda amongst the nationals.

thatds what makes me think we should get behind the manager even more, all these MON media bum lickers...  Its media bullying..

[davevillan]

I happened to read the Mirror and the Sun today. The Mirror's match report made two references to the players not celebrating the equaliser with Houllier, like that makes any difference. Steven Howard in the Sun talked about him "hiding behind the all-too-easy excuse of injuries." It's bollocks, and it shows there is definitely an agenda amongst the nationals.

I didnt read the mirror, but read the sun, and thought Howard was talking bollocks. Clark ran towards and celebrated with the fans, that was more important. Basically, it was crap journalism!

[JUAN PABLO]

Same as on Sunday supplement dave , and on goals on Sunday- today's extra saw kamara 3 times referring to mike dean as our referee yesterday- custis, woolnough and co seem to have a very one  eyed view of events at villa in recent months!

Oliver Cn**   sorry Holt is the worse. Talks bollocks about Villa...

[davevillan]

Clampy I've posted plenty of positives about yesterdays performance- too many on here are unwilling to give houllier a crack and always bigging up o neill- I'm saying it was nice to see us go to Chelsea and play some decent stuff- I was very impressed with the display and also the 2 centre backs playing at right back- both Clark and cuellar looked better than our current full backs.

It was a huge result and performance and now we need to follow up against sunderland- there are brighter days ahead and I cannot fault one player yesterday- nice to see dunne back to his best too and well done to everyone involved!

Ridiculous referreeing to book so many players in a game that never merited it, he seemed to brandish a card nearly every foul and was appalling!

I know im going to be in a minority here, but i thought overall the Ref had a good game. he booked 2 for dissent, we dont know what was said, however, id say it wasnt polite, and both yellows there were justified, Stans was the easiest yellow of the season, NRC stopped an attack from developing by a sneaky trip, another was for 2 attempts at stopping an attack devolping ( clark i think), in those cases, a yellow was justified, however harsh you may think they were.

[ROBBO]

I think the press are part of the problem Villa and any Birmingham based side has in attracting better players. Thy big up all the London based and Manchester sides now City have all that money, but rubbish Birmingham as teams not to be thought of as anything but mediocre and a terrible place to live. We had a clue as to how quick they jump on the bandwagon when we looked at one stage that we might beat Arsenal for fourth spot. You can tell how bereft of actual insight they are by their usage of sites like this and i notice Ian Robot appearing in newsnow fairly often.