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Offline abc123cox

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #375 on: August 20, 2013, 12:08:10 PM »
Done deliberately. It enabled him to cut inside and use his left foot...

i like your thinking ;)

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #376 on: August 20, 2013, 12:13:00 PM »
Is it only me who thinks it looks even cooler because he's left-footed?

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #377 on: August 20, 2013, 12:23:30 PM »
I dont care about Chelsea....

Grrr! I couldn't get that sodding tune out of my head for hours after the Wigan match. It sounds like something Zippy and Bungle might sing in an episode of Rainbow.

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #378 on: August 20, 2013, 12:43:11 PM »
can't believe i seen people comment that he shouldn't of been that high up for his goal, watch the replay he charged from back post blocked there shot and then when the ball fell to Andi he had the guts to burst forward receive the pass and finish like a forward pro.

was very impressed with his whole contribution on saturday.

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Yes he did well and you can't fault him in any way but people being surprised to see the left back leading a charge out from a corner in a game where there's 5minutes to go and we're leading 2-1 seems pretty sensible.  Particularly given that it shows an intent that villa fans in particular won't be used to, I can't recall many seasons where we've scored for fun, I think we will this year and it's going to surprise a lot of people.

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #379 on: August 20, 2013, 01:09:46 PM »
I dont care about Chelsea....

Grrr! I couldn't get that sodding tune out of my head for hours after the Wigan match. It sounds like something Zippy and Bungle might sing in an episode of Rainbow.

What is that tune? I'd never heard it before Wigan.

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #380 on: August 20, 2013, 01:13:00 PM »
I dont care about Chelsea....

Grrr! I couldn't get that sodding tune out of my head for hours after the Wigan match. It sounds like something Zippy and Bungle might sing in an episode of Rainbow.

What is that tune? I'd never heard it before Wigan.

I don't get it.  What's the point?  Why would we care about any other club and why would they care about us?

Am I missing something?

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #381 on: August 20, 2013, 01:13:08 PM »
I dont care about Chelsea....

Grrr! I couldn't get that sodding tune out of my head for hours after the Wigan match. It sounds like something Zippy and Bungle might sing in an episode of Rainbow.

I don't care about Freethinker...

The Noses sung it about Carson Yeung when they took 867, 875, 809 fans to Bruge.

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #382 on: August 20, 2013, 01:34:37 PM »
I dont care about Chelsea....

Grrr! I couldn't get that sodding tune out of my head for hours after the Wigan match. It sounds like something Zippy and Bungle might sing in an episode of Rainbow.

I don't care about Freethinker...

The Noses sung it about Carson Yeung when they took 867, 875, 809 fans to Bruge.

...he don't care about you...

Surely the fact that the noses sang it first should be enough to put anyone off.

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #383 on: August 20, 2013, 02:04:51 PM »
I dont care about Chelsea....

Grrr! I couldn't get that sodding tune out of my head for hours after the Wigan match. It sounds like something Zippy and Bungle might sing in an episode of Rainbow.

What is that tune? I'd never heard it before Wigan.

I don't get it.  What's the point?  Why would we care about any other club and why would they care about us?

Am I missing something?

I was in a box on Saturday, pretty much overlooking the Villa fans. I couldnt work out what they were singing at first but my mate (Forest) and I agreed it was catchy and sounded impressive. But that might have just been the occasion.

If we are beating Chelsea tomorrow then I'll happily join in with it. And I've taught the missus how to sing it too because she is coming to the game.

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #384 on: August 20, 2013, 03:36:38 PM »
I dont care about Chelsea....

Grrr! I couldn't get that sodding tune out of my head for hours after the Wigan match. It sounds like something Zippy and Bungle might sing in an episode of Rainbow.

What is that tune? I'd never heard it before Wigan.

I don't get it.  What's the point?  Why would we care about any other club and why would they care about us?

Am I missing something?

i liked it originally as it came about when everyone was banging on about Wigan slipping up to keep us up, but we were singing we don't care about Wigan as we'd kepp ourselves up and not have to rely on anyone else.

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #385 on: August 20, 2013, 03:40:10 PM »
I wasn't that keen on it when it first started but it did sound pretty good on Saturday.

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #386 on: August 20, 2013, 04:01:24 PM »
Is it only me who thinks it looks even cooler because he's left-footed?

Yeah, the shot was a casual kind of sweep of a shot, too.

As well as reminding me of that Staunton goal, it also made me think of one of my favourite moments of last season - and a moment I think sums up Lambert's Villa quite well - which was the last goal at Stoke, where we have four of our players bearing down on their keeper and not a Stoke defender anywhere in sight.

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #387 on: August 20, 2013, 06:34:21 PM »
Yeah, the shot was a casual kind of sweep of a shot, too.

As well as reminding me of that Staunton goal, it also made me think of one of my favourite moments of last season - and a moment I think sums up Lambert's Villa quite well - which was the last goal at Stoke, where we have four of our players bearing down on their keeper and not a Stoke defender anywhere in sight.

And he wrong footed Chez-Knee. It was the finish of someone almost expecting to be in that position.

And I loved that Stoke goal as well. The determination to attack in swarms whether winning or losing is so refreshingly different from any of the other Lerner-era managers (even the enlightened-but-flawed GH was more cautious in his style). It's made so many of us unable to wait for the next match, me included, just because anything might happen, and unpredictability in this way is a way of perpetually sustaining hope - and if football's not about hope, it's not about anything.

I love Tony Moon.

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #388 on: August 20, 2013, 06:47:36 PM »
There's massive Tony Moon love in going on here!!

To add some balance, just think how old he makes you feel when you realise he wasn't even born when Platty (aka Moonface coincidentally) scored his goal against Belgium in the 1990 World Cup and yet here he is scoring a goal on his Villa debut to make it 3-1 in Arsenal's back yard!!!

In my mind, anyone who's too young to have been around for Italia 90 can't possibly be old enough to play professional football (or do any other job for that matter).  It makes me feel VERY old!

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Re: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
« Reply #389 on: August 20, 2013, 07:39:17 PM »


i put this in match thread but thought it could be put on here

its a you tube clip of his goal filmed from the arsenal end just above the villa support.

That's a great video, the noise the fans make when it goes in.

its includes his goal and carries on til the end of the game


i put this in match thread but thought it could be put on here

its a you tube clip of his goal filmed from the arsenal end just above the villa support.

its includes his goal and carries on til the end of the game

 


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