Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Brian Taylor]

How did tha 'appen?  I could visualise Mcleish on MotD syliloquising about it being 'nearly a draw' at 2-0 up..that last one wasn't fair at all and may puncture his patronising eloquence somewhat.

[olaftab]

We are very clearly in trouble of relegation and anyone who thinks we're not is mad.

Agree.

Disagree.

[myf]

Remember when we almost took their 4th place under Mon? almost like a dream now.

Its the defeatiist attitude that hurts so much. its unforgiveable and Im losing the faith

[PeterWithesShin]

On the plus side, a new series of Britain's Got Talent is about to start. The weekend just gets better and better. And I lose an hours sleep tonight. Fantastic weekend so far.

[Legion]

On the plus side, a new series of Britain's Got Talent is about to start. The weekend just gets better and better. And I lose an hours sleep tonight. Fantastic weekend so far.

Oh joy and rapture. It's great being a Villa fan, isn't it?

[LamBeast]

GRRR!

[myf]

36 points will be enough. draws against stoke Bolton and sunderland . cant see any other points though

[OzVilla]

This is a Manger that when his team were humiliated with a spineless performance in a local Derby 5-1 by their bitterest rivals shugged it off by saying they had 'different agendas'.  And oh how we laughed that Blose finally knew their place and couldn't compete - the one thing that they had always done despite their eternal handicap of being SHA.  Thanks to McLeish we had broken them - or he had for us.

He has major form, his teams routinely surrender on a scale the Italian Army would have been proud of, even in their biggest games of the season.

I take it next year, the Club will be issueing season tickets with a 30% reduction as we won't be competing in half our matches. 

How did we ever, ever employ this numpty.

[Kingthing]

The post game interview with McLeish on the OS is predictable. The bit where he says "people expected us to come here and win but we have to be realistic"

No we fucking didn't Alex. We expected you to lose, but in doing so hoped you would tell your players to give it a go. Maybe, just maybe we could have won.

We expected to pick Heskey and give them a white flag in the tunnel on the way out. You didn't disappoint us there.

He just don't get it, he can't understand and refuses to understand what Villa fans do expect, sad thing is, its pretty much no more or no less than most fans expect, none of us want to see football played as 1 step forward 2 back, none of us want to see a team that only a few seasons ago where set piece specialists, that other teams feared the outcome of giving away corners, free kicks to, correct me if i'm wrong wasn't we up there under MON as one of the leading goal scoring teams from set pieces and that side was without Bent........................................There is only one different factor to take into consideration here, it comes down to one thing and one thing only.

The only thing that cheered me up was....

He scores when he wants,
He scores when he waaaan'ts,
Emile Heskey
He scores when he wants.

[andyh]

36 points will be enough. draws against stoke Bolton and sunderland . cant see any other points though

Can you hear what you are saying??
How the fuck has it come to this?

[Kingthing]

This is a Manger that when his team were humiliated with a spineless performance in a local Derby 5-1 by their bitterest rivals shugged it off by saying they had 'different agendas'.  And oh how we laughed that Blose finally knew their place and couldn't compete - the one thing that they had always done despite their eternal handicap of being SHA.  Thanks to McLeish we had broken them - or he had for us.

He has major form, his teams routinely surrender on a scale the Italian Army would have been proud of, even in their biggest games of the season.

I take it next year, the Club will be issueing season tickets with a 30% reduction as we won't be competing in half our matches. 

How did we ever, ever employ this numpty.

Kingthing likes this.

[olaftab]

I am going to keep this simple as i am fed up of repeating myself.

This bloke is a championship manager.

If he is our manager next year we will get relegated.

You could be right there.

An Arsenal fan was on 606. Well spoken and said he came on to talk about Kenny Daglish. When asked waht he thought about Arsenal's performance he said he was embarrassed to gloat about it because McLeish's tactics were poor and  made it really easy for them. It was predictable what he would do and he did that.

[LamBeast]

This is a Manger that when his team were humiliated with a spineless performance in a local Derby 5-1 by their bitterest rivals shugged it off by saying they had 'different agendas'.  And oh how we laughed that Blose finally knew their place and couldn't compete - the one thing that they had always done despite their eternal handicap of being SHA.  Thanks to McLeish we had broken them - or he had for us.

He has major form, his teams routinely surrender on a scale the Italian Army would have been proud of, even in their biggest games of the season.

I take it next year, the Club will be issueing season tickets with a 30% reduction as we won't be competing in half our matches. 

How did we ever, ever employ this numpty.

A disgrace to our football club and Aston Villa.

[aev]

I don't get to many games and for that i am thankful.

That was utter gash.

[Mister E]

I'm afraid he just is not up to the job.
and he doesn't - like O'Dreary - understand the expectations, which aren't crippling; just Villa-sized.