Aston Villa v The Plastic Knobbers-Post Match Thread

[peter w]

Villa fans shock at goal. Don't celebrate for 2 more minutes.

[danlanza]

"You stick your right arm in, right arm out, up Terry's arse and move it all about.
You do the Holte End shuffle, make Terry scream and shout.
That's what it's all about.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE HOLTE END SHUFFLE
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE HOLTE END SHUFFLE.

[Damo70]

LOOK at the Holte End!! LISTEN to the Holte End - Guy Mowbray, BBC MOTD commentator. Beautiful moment, beautiful commentary. Will live long in the memory.

My brother will be meeting up with him in a couple of weeks, I've asked him to thank him for my favourite piece of commentary this season! I've always liked him, very good commentator.

I like him. I think he likes us. Wasn't it him who commentated on the Gary Cahill/Brazilian passport goal against the noses?

[peter w]

He did sound as if his voice was full of passion and emotion when describing the Holte End and the goal. It sounded like it meant something to him.

[Somniloquism]

LOOK at the Holte End!! LISTEN to the Holte End - Guy Mowbray, BBC MOTD commentator. Beautiful moment, beautiful commentary. Will live long in the memory.

My brother will be meeting up with him in a couple of weeks, I've asked him to thank him for my favourite piece of commentary this season! I've always liked him, very good commentator.

I like him. I think he likes us. Wasn't it him who commentated on the Gary Cahill/Brazilian passport goal against the noses?

He is one of us isn't he? I'm sure someone said he used to post on here although apparently not the obvious Guy M username (whatever happened to him?)

[phantom limb]

Excellent performance which fully deserved the three points.  Thought Chelsea for all their posession were pretty poor to be honest, and Mourinho blundered by not using Lampard given his record against us.

Just found this on Here is the City website.

"Jose Mourinho had a lot he could potentially complain it about last night. No matter what people say it is first and foremost clear that Chris Foy does not like him, and does not like Chelsea.

Whether that impacts on his decision making I am not sure but overall Foy had a poor game.

Joe Bennett should have walked for that foul on Willian, the Brazilian winger should never have been shown a second yellow and if Mourinho did enough to get sent to the stands then the entire dugout should have emptied.

Oh the Ramires tackle? No, Foy did not get that right.

Let me clarify.

Ramires 100% deserved to receive his marching orders. It was a horrendous, potentially career ending and perhaps the most petulant foul of the year so far.

But Chelsea players and their manager cannot disagree he deserved to walk for that - but they can say Foy didn’t see it.

Because he definitely didn’t.

He made the decision based on the reaction of Aston Villa players and hopefully his assistant referee - not from what he saw, so there could be grievance there"

Just wanted to mention that the Here Is The City articles are just clickbait. I don't know who writes for them and who they support but the articles seem to be consistently horrendous, biased twaddle that I made a promise to myself that I will never, ever click on again. The bits you've quoted don't surprise me at all.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

What a wonderful game to get 3 points from!
We came out of this game with dignity and spirit and with a lot of people thinking that we have something of great promise here.
Chavski came out of it looking like spoilt brats and thugs, led by the biggest spoilt brat of all in the Special One! He seemed to be shocked that the ref wouldn't stop the game so that he could talk to him! He immediately deflects attention away from his own team's appalling response to being q goal down to Lambert and Gabby being on the pitch. Has he said anything about their hoofball tactics in the last 10 minutes? Ramires' "tackle"? Foy giving them everything going in the 1st half? His players' constantly berating the ref for not giving them what they wanted?
Complete wanker leading some pretty choice complete wankers!

Hard to find a weakness in our individual performances yesterday. Been critical of KEA in the past. Thought he was immense yesterday, and Delph put the Chavski "stars" to shame!
Proud, proud Villain.
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[SoccerHQ]

Think Guy Mowbray is from the North east.

Simon Brotherton on MOTD is a villa fan, I was actually speaking to him on the tube back from Arsenal away a few seasons ago, he got onto my carriage at Holloway Road with his BBC jacket on.

Jonathon Pearce is another who isn't a villa fan but is usually complimentary about us when he does our games.

[Somniloquism]

Think Guy Mowbray is from the North east.

Simon Brotherton on MOTD is a villa fan, I was actually speaking to him on the tube back from Arsenal away a few seasons ago, he got onto my carriage at Holloway Road with his BBC jacket on.

Jonathon Pearce is another who isn't a villa fan but is usually complimentary about us when he does our games.

Although it might have been a bit of a radio share, Pearce used to do commentary on or games for BRMB.

[Nev]

Think Guy Mowbray is from the North east.

Simon Brotherton on MOTD is a villa fan, I was actually speaking to him on the tube back from Arsenal away a few seasons ago, he got onto my carriage at Holloway Road with his BBC jacket on.

Jonathon Pearce is another who isn't a villa fan but is usually complimentary about us when he does our games.

Although it might have been a bit of a radio share, Pearce used to do commentary on or games for BRMB.

He supports one of the Bristol clubs (he's from there) but went Uni up here when we won the League and was a regular at Villa Park.

[Richard E]

Guy Mowbray supports York City

[Louzie0]

I've been prompted to come share a pic here (thanks Martyn), couldn't work out which one, i took loads, these might be the best 4. At half time there was talk of a good omen in the claret & blue sunset.

I've said elsewhere, on 1st April I go offline for 4months on Buddhist ordination retreat. I can handle totally missing the World Cup, but I am might grateful to be going into the unknown 'spiritual death' of that of that space (kind of the end of the old me i get a new name, the 'spiritual rebirth') with a bit less relegation anxiety now. That was my last game in a while, just so great to share being in the Holte with my Dad. 3 points next Sunday would be marvelous too.

I've had one or two auspicious signs of late, some pretty miraculous Northern Lights on my birthday over Reykjavik, the day after which I got my invite to be ordained. A fellow buddhist villa fan couldn't make it, we met for lunch in town yesterday as i was up from London for the day, he reckons the Villa have given me a good send off. I'd have to agree, thanks AVFC!
I hope we show some patience in the tougher moments too.

Thanks for posting, purple trousers
Glad you got to share being in the Holte with your Dad, especially for a match and result like this. My mother's reaction yesterday was, 'oh your Dad was behind this! How brilliant!'
(My Dad died a couple of years ago)
Lovely photos.
Onwards and upwards.
Good luck on your course. UTV.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Watched the match on Chelsea TV. Commentators were talking like it was just a matter of time before they scored. Then when we scored the best they could say was "you have got to give it to the Villa defence, they have held out well" !! Love it .....

[Louzie0]

Loved the whole thing, we won!
Some seriously discombobulated journos and fans around here. Woooh!

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Those photo's from purpletrousesrs are amazing!
The real Special One was with us in spirit too!
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