Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Ian.]

You might not like Chelsea, but they won the Champions League and deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin.

Way to make yourself popular.

If I've got the year right, chelsea did not even with the league the year, so would/should not have even been in the competition.

He got one thing right. I hate Chelsea.

[Hillbilly]

You might not like Chelsea, but they won the Champions League and deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin.

Way to make yourself popular.

If I've got the year right, chelsea did not even with the league the year before, so would/should not have even been in the competition.

Also, let's not forget John Terry's full kit wank.

[Clampy]

You might not like Chelsea, but they won the Champions League and deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin.

Clearly the winner of dumbest post of the year and it's only February.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

You might not like Chelsea, but they won the Champions League and deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin.

Clearly the winner of dumbest post of the year and it's only February.

It's the dumbest post I have seen on here ever. If somebody said that in their first 10 comments, I am sure they would be sent packing by the mods as a suspected small heath infiltrator.

Come on Ref !.............Off ! Off ! Off !

[Billy Walker]

You might not like Chelsea, but they won the Champions League and deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin.

I'm totally indifferent to Chelsea.  Having said that to compare how they "won" that trophy to the way Villa won it is a total  non starter.  When a traditional tin pot club lifts trophies after a billion quid of financial doping  all is null and void. See also Man City.

[Jimbo]

Christ, Mellin, you might as well have said Goebels was a nice chap, much nicer than that beastly Graham Taylor rotter.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Oi Mellin !
That Ron Saunders bloke ? Overrated, only won one major trophy because some bloke scored 250 miles away, and never got us near the FA Cup. ( I don't count League Cups, they are on a par with Leyland Daf trophies).
Billy McNeill could have done for us what Fergie then did at United, if only he had been given time.

[Stu]

You might not like Chelsea, but they won the Champions League and deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin.

I can see this going well for you.

[Tayls_7]

You might not like Chelsea, but they won the Champions League and deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin.

I'm totally indifferent to Chelsea.  Having said that to compare how they "won" that trophy to the way Villa won it is a total  non starter.  When a traditional tin pot club lifts trophies after a billion quid of financial doping  all is null and void. See also Man City.

Is the right answer. If only we had that amount of dirty money to buy our way to success. How gratifying that must be.

[andyh]

You might not like Chelsea, but they won the Champions League and deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin.

This is a typical example of the 'dumbing down' of football.
The Sky generation have a really, really skewed understanding of the game, and more depressingly, our club.

A 'jammy goal' ??
Chelsea 'deserved it' ??

Face palm.

[Steve R]

You might not like Chelsea, but they won the Champions League and deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin.

I don't like Real, Barca or Bayern either, but that doesn't alter the fact that they occupy the top rung of the European ladder and Chelsea are below that, despite all the money that they have thrown at getting higher up.

BTW, totally agree that Abramovic has used Chelsea for other purposes; but the money poured in still carrie dthe objective of best of the top table.

[Steve67]

You might not like Chelsea, but they won the Champions League and deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin.

I've slept on it. No, can't find any forgiveness for this comment. You should consider changing your name to Melon. That is all.

What you might also want to consider in this debate is that the format of the Champions League was altered so teams like Liverpool and Chelsea could win it because the top four, er, Champions from the Premier League get to enter the competition. Two things: shame it didn't happen earlier as we finished in the top four under BFR and Brian Little and might have enjoyed the riches. Secondly, that so called jammy goal scored by big Peter came after we won the league and only the Champions were allowed in to the competition. A fairer competition then in my view.

[Exeter 77]

You might not like Chelsea, but they won the Champions League and deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin.

Jammy? Err.... didn't Chelsea win it on penalties (and the cliche of a shoot-out being a lottery which is the definition if someting being based on good luck) after being completely outplayed in the final and scrambling a last minute equaliser? Compared to Bayern's other European Cup Final defeats to English clubs (remember Manure scoring from two set pieces in stoppage time) Villa's win was a stroll in the park.

[Lastfootstamper]

Mellin's gonna wake up, get in, whatever, see all the responses he's solicited, and think, "Where the fuck did me winky smiley go?".

[London Villan]

Nice that John Terry has signed up to H&V.