Chelsea v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[not3bad]

The most interesting result today was Crystal Palace beating Leicester. I feel like watching some football but it doesn't seem like there's any football worth watching.  To Match of the Day or Not to Match of the Day.

[Dave]

You can't be certain of anything I'd say.

No, I can't.

But like I said, I don't remember too many people praising our positive attitude and the fact that we were pushing forward at 4-0 down in the equivalent match two seasons ago. If you did, then fair enough.

[kippaxvilla2]

Okay well fair enough ill reserve further assessments until after these games and the Benteke factor is in play.

[Toronto Villa]

nobody wants to lose, but there will be much better teams than us conceding 3 goals to that Chelsea side this season. In fact there already has been.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Time for spending limits and foreign player quotas, please. Otherwise, football can just fuck off.

Wont that just make things worse? That means clubs who buy their way to success (like everyone) will buy up a very limited resource (good british players) and less rich clubs will then be unable to buy up decent foreign players to help close the gap.

Also the quality of the league will go down if we start using more British players leading to a decline in the leagues European performances.

Fixed spending limits though, I agree. That would be helpful in leveling the playing field. Unlike FPP which makes things much worse.

No, because simply put, the best English players aren't much better than your average English player.

Well thats a fair point.

[Dave]

Time for spending limits and foreign player quotas, please. Otherwise, football can just fuck off.

Wont that just make things worse? That means clubs who buy their way to success (like everyone) will buy up a very limited resource (good british players) and less rich clubs will then be unable to buy up decent foreign players to help close the gap.

Also the quality of the league will go down if we start using more British players leading to a decline in the leagues European performances.

Fixed spending limits though, I agree. That would be helpful in leveling the playing field. Unlike FPP which makes things much worse.

No, because simply put, the best English players aren't much better than your average English player.

Well thats a fair point.

Wouldn't it also mean that we wouldn't be able to field all but one of our best half a dozen players?

[PeterWithesShin]

I suppose the point is neither would anyone else.

[clash city rocker]

It's mainly down to a clubs owners these days rather than the sort of crowds club's attract..it's not a level playing field anymore which is a shame although it mirrors modern day Britain perfectly..The have's and the have not's.

[Dave]

I suppose the point is neither would anyone else.

Quite, but it's not as if we have set ourselves up as the last bastion of using English players over foreign imports.

If we want to turn our defeat today into some sort of indictment of how foreigners are ruining the competitiveness of the league, we are no less guilty of contributing to that than anybody else.

[Risso]

I suppose the point is neither would anyone else.

Quite, but it's not as if we have set ourselves up as the last bastion of using English players over foreign imports.

If we want to turn our defeat today into some sort of indictment of how foreigners are ruining the competitiveness of the league, we are no less guilty of contributing to that than anybody else.

I bet we've used a lot more English players over the last 10 years than Chelsea or Arsenal.

[Dave]

I suppose the point is neither would anyone else.

Quite, but it's not as if we have set ourselves up as the last bastion of using English players over foreign imports.

If we want to turn our defeat today into some sort of indictment of how foreigners are ruining the competitiveness of the league, we are no less guilty of contributing to that than anybody else.

I bet we've used a lot more English players over the last 10 years than Chelsea or Arsenal.

Never thought I'd see you sticking up for the Harewood/Reo-Coker/Warnock/Davies/Knight/Heskey transfer policy *winky emoticon*

[SamTheMouse]

Imagine what a Chelsea or Man City first team would look like if it only had five non-British players in it. They could still buy up the best home-grown players, but let's face it, they already do that. And the rest of us wouldn't be as far behind, because - well, for instance, how much better is, say, Oxlade-Chamberlain than Agbonlahor, really? Better sure, but we're not talking orders of magnitude here.

Of course, they might struggle in Europe, but who cares?

[Matt Collins]

Chelsea had a reserve left back on the bench who cost more than or first team

I'd rather we were better going forward though. There's no reason aston villa shouldn't be able to play like Swansea or Southampton can

[andyh]

I'll start by saying I've had a little drink tonight.

This fucking attitude of , but it's Chelsea, or it's man city, or it's man UTD, so I can accept the defeat, is really pissing me off.
Ok, we got beat, but for fucks sake, let's not start to accept that it as the norm, and we should just accept it.
Let's get upset, let's be pissed off!

If we accept mediocrity,no shots on goal, a fucking total lack of attacking intension, then we may as well just pack in and go home.

Leicester didn't give up last week, hull had a go today.
Please stop  accepting mediocrity and show some fucking  passion, please.!!!

[Risso]

Never thought I'd see you sticking up for the Harewood/Reo-Coker/Warnock/Davies/Knight/Heskey transfer policy *winky emoticon*

Jesus.  If Lerner ever sits down and works out exactly how much that lot cost him in transfer fees and wages, he'd have some sort of breakdown.  It's probably most, if not all of the £100m he wrote off, right there.