Style over substance?

[Lobsterboy]

Winning is everything, simples

I am sure the Arsenal fans watching their team trying to score goal of the season week in week out and win rock all were much happier watching George Graham's teams boring the opposition to death, winning 1-0 and subsequently winning League titles

It never ceases to amaze me that anyone paying to watch a football match could have this attitude - are these the type of fans that leave after half an hour to join the queue for half-time sausage and chips.
If all that matters is the result why bother with the game, just toss a coin. Or just buy a Rothmans Yearbook every summer, that's packed with results.
Give me Arsenal's style of football and no trophies any day.

For information I have never left thirty minutes early to queue up for sausage and chips or anything else but if the result isn't that important then why bother to keep score? You get three points for a win, nothing for artistic impression.

Fair play if you prefer to watch pretty football and win nothing, that's absolutely your prerogative but I think you are very much in the minority

Yes both would be great but after last season I'll happily go with a winning team this time around

[Meanwood Villa]

Pretty football would soon become very tedious if you got turned over every week

[Salsa Party Animal]

I am for entertaining football but it need to be with strong defense and lot of firepower.

[Caiphus]

Hoofball can be pretty entertaining when you are winning by 3 goals a game.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Villa have so rarely been an entertaining team but you can have both as Ron Saunders proved, year after year.

Standards and expectations have dramatically fallen in the last 10 years.

[PeterWithesShin]

It can also be a case of what exactly is entertaining or good football? WBA supposedly played good football under Mowbray, didn't do them much good did it.

And we were rarely dubbed the entertainers in 80-82, but we played good effective football. 

I don't overly care what the style is, as long as it's effective.

[Austin1975]

Both, but I'm just greedy!

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