The Famous Aston Villa vs Brummie Red Scum of Humanity Man Utd Pre-Match Thread

[Legion]

Hate this game. Hate them. Hate their wanky glory hunting fans. Hate their wanky Manc fans. Hate them far more than I do small heath.

I rarely go to this game, this season will be no exception.

Please Villa, twat the living fuck out of this lot.

Totally agree. I hate every single element and aspect of this fixture. I'm not going this season, though, so here's to a 2-0 home win.

Sinclair
Agbonlahor

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Let me know when its over.

[Matt Collins]

I hope Gestede is match fit to start, not sure he will be. I relish the thought of him and gabby up against blind.

Carragher was picking apart their lack of cover in central midfield against Spurs - they all press onto the ball / go man for man. I think we can hit them with pace quite directly.

[OzVilla]

Early in the season, optimism not beaten out of me yet.

Fuck it, we've got to beat them some time. 

2-1 Villa.

[passitsideways]

It's almost too obvious that Gestede should have a go at Blind - we've talked about it here and having had a quick look at RedCafe, they're also quite concerned about that prospect. For that reason, I suspect we will not try it a single time, just like how we didn't try to isolate Benteke on Bellerin during the cup final.

I'm never ever going to expect a win against this lot at VP until it actually happens, so I predict a 3-1 victory for them, with their newcomers inevitably being the goalscorers.

[CJ]

So predictable. The usual (mostly) routine win for them. Biased refereeing decisions. Rooney whinging at the ref all night. Young falling over a blade of grass then rubbing his knees. Pitch invasions which of course go unpunished (why don't we just reduce their allocation and put nets over the first 10 rows?). Plastic Brummie reds in the Holte, at least one of which gets a smack in the mouth (highlight of the night!). Get it out the way early in the season then move on (we go again?) to more enjoyable days. 1-3

[Tom_Mc9?]

Lovely club.

If we don't end this game with some feeling of disappointment, I won't believe anything is certain anymore.

Aston Villa 0-2 Manchester United (Walking in Memphis, Young)

[VicMackey]

It's being played at daft o'clock so here in Singapore it's the middle of the night - I will therefore be tucked up in bed and hoping to wake up to a stunning victory.  As usual though for night matches I expect to wake up at about 3.30am with us 1.0 up and then spend the rest of the game nervously refreshing Twitter until 2 late goals ruin my weekend...

United ain't all that though - so I think we'll finally do them.  Rudy to send a message to you Louis....

[phantom limb]

The thing that gets me is that all the Man U fans I know genuinely don't seem to realise why everyone else hates them with such blood curdling vehemence.

[pbavfckuwait]

That's because they are bigger wankers than we give them credit for Phantom.
Hate them, Hate them, Hate them, but this crap has to end some day so why not Friday. Villa 2-1 with a 97th minute winner from a Granny shaggers own goal

[silhillvilla]

I can see Hutton being recalled to do a job on Young

[olaftab]

Us 3 (Richards, Gestede, Ayew) Them 1 (Young).

No don't see that happening. How is Young going to score after he is sent off in the 5th minute for his second yellow for diving?

[Clampy]

Like a lot of others on here, it's one of my least favourite games as well. It is about we beat them again though and playing them early on might help.

[Dr Butler]

I am at the Great British Beer Festival in that London so won't be there sadly    I bet after years of me not seeing us win at home against this despicable lot....we will

2-0 to the Villa and the Timbo revolution continues !!

UTV
The Doc

[ADVILLAFAN]

Oh and "why is it being played on a Friday?" to rival "can they bid more than the release clause?" and "why didn't Barry take the penalty?" for the most asked question in H&V history.

Why is it on a Friday?  Is Benteke off the pitch getting treatment?

Something to do with there being an EDL rally on the Saturday in Walsall and West Midland's police's resources would have been stretched.

I think they should have moved the rally personally. Also, its gives Manure an extra day of rest before they play Club Bruges in the Champion's League (on Tuesday).