Match of the Day

[godzvilla]

Ably abetted by Brad Friedel & Danny Murphy ,the sycophantic  Mark Chapman managed to produce one of the most one sided reviews of a Game I have ever seen . Friedel said a few kind words about the Villa before he and his cohorts embarked on an in-depth review of Tottenham,s performance in which they managed to completely ignore Villa,s participation altogether and OTT praise of ' flavour of the month' ( in London )Harry Kane who,s 15 mins on the pitch and ' scoring' of a goal that came off a wicked deflection by Villa Defender , Baker , was apparently enough to make him ' Man of the Match' ?!.  Friedel , who had no shame in showing his bias by using " we " when referring to Spurs  , condoned the blatant ' in your face ' foul by Spurs midfielder , Mason that got Benteke sent off and stated that the previous provocative tactics by Spurs were the " spice" that Spurs needed .
So apparently Friedel believes  its ok to win by foul means then and get fellow Pro,s sent off (?) , I guess he learnt that at Tottenham ?, because he certainly did,nt learn it at Villa.  ……..Godzvilla!

[Richard E]

I turned it over after the intro to the game in which they referred to Pochettino as being the manager under pressure!

[PeterWithesShin]

I didn't see it but I don't blame Brad for saying "we" and being biased as he is a Spurs player.

[Clampy]

Freidel is still a Spurs player so he's bound to refer to his present club as 'we'.

[OzVilla]

I'm glad I don't get to see MOTD anymore or hear the punditry on UK tv.

It sounds relentlessly biased and generally lazy. Commentry we get is the same feed and cringeworthy.

Back inthe day, at least Jimmy Hill told it like it was.

[SW9-VILLA]

Freidel is still a Spurs player so he's bound to refer to his present club as 'we'.

Same. He's a Spurs player so what's the problem?

[Tom_Mc9?]

He was fairly balanced I think. I don't think the media is against us: we're just not very interesting.

[JUAN PABLO]

We love the villa but most people watching will think , what's the point in Villa, it likes watching paint dry.

[not3bad]

It didn't really annoy me much and Friedel did correctly state that the game turned on the Benteke incident.

[Somniloquism]

I turned it over after the intro to the game in which they referred to Pochettino as being the manager under pressure!

Well he is the only manager under pressure in that match. Lambert isn't as even after the last few years and some early results this season without a massive difference in performances, they decide to give him a pay rise and a further 4 years.

[godzvilla]

My point re Friedel ( clearly not shared by many )is that , as a Pundit , surely he should maintain a minimal amount of bias ?. Last night,s MOD was supposed to be a review of our game but in reality it was a review of Tottenham,s performance .
 I watched the game on TV and thought this was a much improved Villa performance , consequently I was interested to hear  the
' key analysis ' of the ' expert pundits' , especially on the Benteke sending off , I really should have known better !...........Godzvilla!

[myf]

Haven't watched it since September for obvious reasons

[pauliewalnuts]

I honestly can't watch stuff like MoTD when we have results like we have recently.

I don't even read the sports sections of the sunday papers, let alone watch any pundit-based nonsense on Sky.

The last three years or so, I've seen MoTD a handful of times. For obvious reasons.

[TheTimVilla]

I honestly can't watch stuff like MoTD when we have results like we have recently.

I don't even read the sports sections of the sunday papers, let alone watch any pundit-based nonsense on Sky.

The last three years or so, I've seen MoTD a handful of times. For obvious reasons.

Same here. And I refuse to watch it again until Des Lynam leaves.

[SO Villa]

Lets face it, thanks to messrs Lambert and Lerner we're a complete non-entity, an irrelevance that nobody gives a shit about anymore.