Manchester United v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[danlanza]

Every bone in my body would love us to beat them at their stupid Disneyland stadium, among their arrogant gloryhunting brethren.

Every bone in my body would love to see Benteke punch a hole in a back of the net at the Stretford End and take out a couple of the Brummie reds who drape their stupid flag from the Stretford End next to the silly ‘One love’ nonsense.

Every bone in my body would love us to score in stoppage time and wreck their relentless charge to another title.

Every bone in my body would love to see crying Man Utd fans, as our team celebrates in the centre circle.

Every bone in my body would love to see Lambert sprinting across the pitch as Siralex shuffles off to the tunnel, whilst Chinese tourists take photos of him.

Every bone in my body would love to see Gary Neville looking on aghast from the commentary position as Tayls or Stan give him the w**k*r sign.

Every bone in my body would love to see the camera focus on the fat fu** Eamomn Holmes being consoled by Mick Hucknall.

Every bone in my body would love to see pictures of coaches labeled Bedford, Yeovil or Maidstone rolling out of the car park as Villa fans wave and blow kisses at the sad gloryhunting plonkers facing hours of travel home.

 ……..

Not going to happen though is it!

Maybe next season though.

Correction. This is the best post of the week.

[paulcomben]

Lawro says 3-0.  No need to say to which team. On a brighter note, he predicts West Ham 2 Wigan 0.

[Boz]

I fear we will lose and Rooney will be back on form and score at least two, typical of Villa's luck.

[Witton Warrior]

I have promised to introduce my Manure-supporting work colleague to true man-love if we get a point and probably inseminate him if we win - he stopped the "banter" about how many they would score soon afterwards - he may have booked annual leave for Tuesday ;-)

[supertom]

3-1 Villa.
Atkinson
Saunders 2.

Now... where are the keys to me DeLorean???

 

[Billy Walker]

I've just been watching Jack Woodward on AVTV and it's all "Theatre of Dreams" this and "Meccas of football that".  Apologies, but I need to let off some steam.

I like Jack but having him spout this type of shite in the faces of our young players doesn't half get on my goat.  Why does he constantly, constantly big up the opposition?  He's not being paid by MUTV, he's not even being paid by the BBC or ITV, he does not need to spout the cliched, hackneyed brand-building journalistic nonsense of that club.

Jack, you're being paid by Villa fans to give us news about Villa.  I'm not shelling out on AVTV every month to hear you chip away at the confidence of a Nathan Baker or to make Baker one day aspire to leave Villa Park and play at a "Mecca of football".  Who needs agents trying to sell other clubs to our players when Jack is around?

Jack, if you or anyone at all from AVTV is reading this, please, PLEASE stop it.  It's common sense.  You are in the privileged position of having close access to our players: don't big up the opposition.  You're in the faces of our players day in and day out - you have a huge part to play in how they (as well as us fans) see Aston Villa.  What you do and say affects their morale as well as ours.

[HK Villan]

I've just been watching Jack Woodward on AVTV and it's all "Theatre of Dreams" this and "Meccas of football that".  Apologies, but I need to let off some steam.

I like Jack but having him spout this type of shite in the faces of our young players doesn't half get on my goat.  Why does he constantly, constantly big up the opposition?  He's not being paid by MUTV, he's not even being paid by the BBC or ITV, he does not need to spout the cliched, hackneyed brand-building journalistic nonsense of that club.

Jack, you're being paid by Villa fans to give us news about Villa.  I'm not shelling out on AVTV every month to hear you chip away at the confidence of a Nathan Baker or to make Baker one day aspire to leave Villa Park and play at a "Mecca of football".  Who needs agents trying to sell other clubs to our players when Jack is around?

Jack, if you or anyone at all from AVTV is reading this, please, PLEASE stop it.  It's common sense.  You are in the privileged position of having close access to our players: don't big up the opposition.  You're in the faces of our players day in and day out - you have a huge part to play in how they (as well as us fans) see Aston Villa.  What you do and say affects their morale as well as ours.

Utterly utterly well said!

[Legion]

Completely.

[FrankyH]

Every bone in my body would love us to beat them at their stupid Disneyland stadium, among their arrogant gloryhunting brethren.

Every bone in my body would love to see Benteke punch a hole in a back of the net at the Stretford End and take out a couple of the Brummie reds who drape their stupid flag from the Stretford End next to the silly ‘One love’ nonsense.

Every bone in my body would love us to score in stoppage time and wreck their relentless charge to another title.

Every bone in my body would love to see crying Man Utd fans, as our team celebrates in the centre circle.

Every bone in my body would love to see Lambert sprinting across the pitch as Siralex shuffles off to the tunnel, whilst Chinese tourists take photos of him.

Every bone in my body would love to see Gary Neville looking on aghast from the commentary position as Tayls or Stan give him the w**k*r sign.

Every bone in my body would love to see the camera focus on the fat fu** Eamomn Holmes being consoled by Mick Hucknall.

Every bone in my body would love to see pictures of coaches labeled Bedford, Yeovil or Maidstone rolling out of the car park as Villa fans wave and blow kisses at the sad gloryhunting plonkers facing hours of travel home.

 ……..

Not going to happen though is it!

Maybe next season though.

Shakespeare would have been proud to have written that !

[garyshawsknee]

Jack, if you or anyone at all from AVTV is reading this, please, PLEASE stop it.  It's common sense.  You are in the privileged position of having close access to our players: don't big up the opposition.  You're in the faces of our players day in and day out - you have a huge part to play in how they (as well as us fans) see Aston Villa.  What you do and say affects their morale as well as ours.

Well said Sir.

[tomd2103]

I've just been watching Jack Woodward on AVTV and it's all "Theatre of Dreams" this and "Meccas of football that".  Apologies, but I need to let off some steam.

I like Jack but having him spout this type of shite in the faces of our young players doesn't half get on my goat.  Why does he constantly, constantly big up the opposition?  He's not being paid by MUTV, he's not even being paid by the BBC or ITV, he does not need to spout the cliched, hackneyed brand-building journalistic nonsense of that club.

Jack, you're being paid by Villa fans to give us news about Villa.  I'm not shelling out on AVTV every month to hear you chip away at the confidence of a Nathan Baker or to make Baker one day aspire to leave Villa Park and play at a "Mecca of football".  Who needs agents trying to sell other clubs to our players when Jack is around?

Jack, if you or anyone at all from AVTV is reading this, please, PLEASE stop it.  It's common sense.  You are in the privileged position of having close access to our players: don't big up the opposition.  You're in the faces of our players day in and day out - you have a huge part to play in how they (as well as us fans) see Aston Villa.  What you do and say affects their morale as well as ours.

Reminds me of McLeish's "the young lions went to the Theatre of Dreams" nonsense last season.

[Louzie0]

Jack, if you or anyone at all from AVTV is reading this, please, PLEASE stop it.  It's common sense.  You are in the privileged position of having close access to our players: don't big up the opposition.  You're in the faces of our players day in and day out - you have a huge part to play in how they (as well as us fans) see Aston Villa.  What you do and say affects their morale as well as ours.

Well said Sir.

It's easy, Jack.
It's: 'Old Trafford'.
The only 'Theatre of dreams' is Villa Park. Put it into your BBM or tablet or whatever, but please, please remember it.

[rob_bridge]

We're gonna lose

I remember winning against this lot more than once a decade.

[FrankyH]

I've just been watching Jack Woodward on AVTV and it's all "Theatre of Dreams" this and "Meccas of football that".  Apologies, but I need to let off some steam.

I like Jack but having him spout this type of shite in the faces of our young players doesn't half get on my goat.  Why does he constantly, constantly big up the opposition?  He's not being paid by MUTV, he's not even being paid by the BBC or ITV, he does not need to spout the cliched, hackneyed brand-building journalistic nonsense of that club.

Jack, you're being paid by Villa fans to give us news about Villa.  I'm not shelling out on AVTV every month to hear you chip away at the confidence of a Nathan Baker or to make Baker one day aspire to leave Villa Park and play at a "Mecca of football".  Who needs agents trying to sell other clubs to our players when Jack is around?

Jack, if you or anyone at all from AVTV is reading this, please, PLEASE stop it.  It's common sense.  You are in the privileged position of having close access to our players: don't big up the opposition.  You're in the faces of our players day in and day out - you have a huge part to play in how they (as well as us fans) see Aston Villa.  What you do and say affects their morale as well as ours.

Earlier in the season before we played man ure, the programme ,score board & press had adverts promoting the game at Villa Park.I didn't imagine this as my mate pointed it out-The text for the adverts had MAN UTD in big bold letters then Aston Villa in smaller typeface.How small time have we become.I know the club welcome extra revenue , but cant we draw the f*cking line  about pandering to tourists/gloryhunters/non Villa supporters on our media platforms in the interests of business.

[Billy Walker]

Spot on Franky.  A part of the process of getting Villa back to the top is sweeping away this infuriatingly small-time attitude that seeps up to the surface every now and then.  Being trained in the media, the people at AVTV and the PR dept surely must know the power of words and language?  There are no excuses for this and it all just seeps into the mindset of everyone at the club. 

Seriously, if I were Lambert I would get the AVTV people into my office and tell them: big up my players and this club only or get out of Aston Villa.  We work on the basis of Villa being number one and we take it from there.