Club that cannot stop scoring lets yesterday's man go forth.

[LeeB]

Just had a thought. A thought that some of you are not going to like at all. When exactly is Benty's contract up at Villa park?  Derby,s last game is 2nd May and therefore from 3rd May he is once again our player,right?

The Cup Final is on 30th May, right

Wouldnt it be useful to have the on form Championship hot shot on our bench ready to come on in the last half hour if required? Benty is fit
and scoring goals. Sherwood knows him and apparently likes him. Lets lets face it he is more likely to score than Weimann.

Cup tied?

[berober04]

Yeah, played two, scored two for Derby in the cup.

[Ron Manager]

Damnation and Hell. Would have been useful.

[Dave]

Don't think that the cup-tie matters anyway:

53.2.3 A Player whose Standard Loan expires (or terminates) on completion of his Loaning Club’s League Matches will not be eligible to play for his Parent Club (where it is a Member Club) in any remaining League or Cup Matches in that Season notwithstanding the fact that he is a Registered Player of that Club and that such expiry or termination occurs during a Transfer Window.

[peter w]

Plus the season finishes on 30th june and not when your club finishes playing their games. So, his loan would be until june 30th.

[silhillvilla]

Not even a congratulatory tweet off Darren. That's piss poor form.

[AV82EC]

Dear Private Eye

I couldn't help noticing the similarity between Darren Bent going to Derby and them failing to reach the play offs. Are these two events related, I think we should be told.

Yours faithfully etc etc

[Villa in Denmark]

Not even a congratulatory tweet off Darren. That's piss poor form.

Probably more concerned about fucking up his current teammates promotion chances, which is more than fair enough to me.

[dekko]

I was listening to the Derby game on their local radio earlier and one of the commentators said something along the lines of 'the loan players from the PL may have scored some good goals since they came here, but they never put in the effort to track back and defend or do any of the dirty work'.

Which is why I like Darren Bent, but don't miss having him one bit.

[Malandro]

All a bit unfair on Bent, he's gone there and done what was asked.

My Derby supporting brother-in-law said he's been very good - he blames the whole season collapse on mclaren fielding a weakened team in the fa cup

[Des Little]

Bent missing that penalty today meant I missed out on an acca worth £176. The bastard.

[Percy McCarthy]

All a bit unfair on Bent, he's gone there and done what was asked.

My Derby supporting brother-in-law said he's been very good - he blames the whole season collapse on mclaren fielding a weakened team in the fa cup

Perhaps you could point him in the direction of H&V, where it was established (mainly by me) years ago that Bent has this talent for scoring goals whilst at the same time making whoever he plays for into a worse team.

[Malandro]

Bent missing that penalty today meant I missed out on an acca worth £176. The bastard.

Whoops.

[Matt Collins]

All a bit unfair on Bent, he's gone there and done what was asked.

My Derby supporting brother-in-law said he's been very good - he blames the whole season collapse on mclaren fielding a weakened team in the fa cup

Perhaps you could point him in the direction of H&V, where it was established (mainly by me) years ago that Bent has this talent for scoring goals whilst at the same time making whoever he plays for into a worse team.

I agree with your analysis but there were a few others who made the same diagnosis. See also Michael Owen and Jermain Defoe.

[Damo70]

Bent missing that penalty today meant I missed out on an acca worth £176. The bastard.

I missed out a a juicy first goalscorer/correct score double during Euro 2000. It would have come in  particularly handy at the time as it was a Friday, I was pretty skint and pay day wasn't until Monday. France 3 Denmark 1 I had. Last couple of minutes and it is 3-0 to France when Denmark get a penalty. My first goalscorer pick had already done the business for me. The game is already lost so there is no pressure and he just has to tuck in a consolation goal and I am quids in. The twat missed. I must be starting to get over it though as after years of slagging him off I have forgotten the players name.