Aston Villa v West Ham United Pre-Match Thread

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

6-0 win. Benteke to score 4, Delph to score 2.

Or 1-0 to us. Either way is fine.

[aev]

Presumably we have spent preparing the team to counter a West Ham without him, and then with less than 24 hours to go we might be faced with a different team ?

Farcical situation if overturned.

[Bully2345]

Please no Chris Herd.

That is all

[Chipsticks]

When can we expect the verdict?  Lambert needs to know so he has time tp decide whether to play Baker and Clark OR Clark and Baker... 

The FA have chickened out over the threat of legal action and are holding another tribunal today to re-examine the case.
Carroll WILL PLAY!

I'll be pretty smegged off if he's allowed to play but you just know he will.

[PeterWithesShin]

It will be very weak if they overturn it. Just isn't enough there to say the decision was wrong. And hand on heart if that was Benteke swinging an arm like that i'd say the same. Swing out like that and you are just asking for trouble.

[b23]

We could have brought a 1-legged defender in and he'd have done a better job than Baker and be less injury prone than Vlaar....

Wally Foot.

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Neasden_F.C..html

[Clampy]

It's not been overturned, ban still stands.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

What a shame, I was looking forward to watching Baker put him in his pocket.

[PeterWithesShin]

[Damo70]

It's not been overturned, ban still stands.

Not confirmed yet but when SSN lead with 'Sky Sources...' they don't usually end up looking silly. Unlike West Ham and their owners.

[not3bad]

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/458571/Andy-Carroll-s-ban-STANDS-after-West-Ham-lose-appeal

[Villafirst]

You'll always get situations where sometimes players deserve to be sent-off and other times they don't. It's swings and roundabouts, some you win, some you lose - it tends to even itself out over the course of a season. Anyway, ha ha ha! Fat Sam.....Sullivan & Gold!!

[richtheholtender]

2-1 Villa

[Richard E]

Why am I suddenly getting this foreboding that we are going to see an unjustified Villa red card, or a soft penalty to West Ham or some such tomorrow?

[pooligan]

Villafirst don't forget Brady !