West Bromwich Albion v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

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The police were filming it. They stood around and created an incident. Kettling is the tactics they deployed.

The area outside the station is pretty small, but they shrank it by parking a van making fans huddle into the space near railings. They kept is there for ten minutes and then decided to filter more police in. The police then started pushing people back, as the queue turned into a crush so they battoned the people a the front, but the crush that hard started wasn't stopping, so they opened the doors and it got worse.

[Nastylee]

Cleverley a loan player and I believe Hutton may have reached 5 yellow cards as well.

[Dan England]

I don't understand what Lambert thinks about tactically. In both this and the Spurs game once we went to 10 men we sat back and tried to hold on to the points, this makes sense, what dumbfounds me is both times we seemed to have tried to do this with 2 forwards on the pitch. Why don't we try to clog the midfield and makeus really difficult to play through? Whilst he is in no way to blame for either Red card he is responsible for what happens after them and he seems to be equally as inept at that with 10 men as he is with 11.

As a post script Wiemann possibly exhibited the worst 10 minds in a Villa shirt he has ever produced but why put another striker on without filing the creative gap in the middle of pitch.

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As for the game, difficult to make a judgment when we are down to ten men. Idiotic from Richardson and we aren't a good enough side to see it out with 10.

We didn't create a lot but then neither did they. Thought Benteke should have scored at the end.

[mattjpa]

I don't know why he didn't change it around 60-70mins when we were getting over run. It's always a reaction to a goal that prompts us to try anything.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Probably the worst team we have played this season. Even with ten men we only had to be set up to attack them and we would of at least got a point. Bentekes worst game ? Okore really starting to look a class player. When i seen Nzogbia in the starting line up, i knew we were doomed, even though he was no worse than Gabby, Benteke, or Weimann. Gardner with the winner is just the final nail in a coffin full of players that seem to have little confidence and no tactical awareness ......

[Kingthing]

The police were filming it. They stood around and created an incident. Kettling is the tactics they deployed.

The area outside the station is pretty small, but they shrank it by parking a van making fans huddle into the space near railings. They kept is there for ten minutes and then decided to filter more police in. The police then started pushing people back, as the queue turned into a crush so they battoned the people a the front, but the crush that hard started wasn't stopping, so they opened the doors and it got worse.

You'll be pleased to know their Twitter feed is all about their hilarious Christmas Jumpers they wore yesterday.

[Steve kirk]

After the Leicester win I didnt allow myself to get too excited as this is Villa and we dont do 3 wins on the bounce, also with Albion needing a result so badly I had a horrible feeling we would hand over the 3 points, there are some proper Albion twunts where I work so cant wait for Monday

[pooligan]

Hutton picked up his 5th yellow card today so thats him out of the United game

[kippaxvilla2]

I feel better now after being physically sick.

[Goldie.7]

Hutton picked up his 5th yellow card today so that's him out of the United game

Not good.

[Ducksworthy]

I went and watched Lancaster City lose in the last minute 1-2 to Scarborough Athletic in a thrilling match full of passion and end to end football. It cost me £4 entry and was £2.50 a pint. I didn't check the Villa score until the end and met it with a shrug.

I've said it before but given I used to be angry for a week whenever we lost - especially to the Albion who due to family ties I dislike more than the Blues - this state of affairs where I just don't care is quite sad.

Also very concerned to hear of kettling going on. As someone once trapped in one for hours it's a bloody horrible experience and does nothing to maintain public order but pushes people further. Hope everyone is (relatively) alright.

We go again...

[pooligan]

I said on the pre match thread yesterday that with Mike Dean in charge there would be a red.Richardson was just brainless making that sort of challenge .Our lack of discipline has cost us a second time in the last few weeks

[Goldie.7]

Gabby is also on four yellows mainly accumulated very late on in games.

[DeKuip]

Cleverley won't be allowed to play will he?

Oh. 5 yellows?

He's on loan.

And he's on five yellows after today's booking.
So he's banned for a game he couldn't play in anyway.