Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

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

He's the leader we've been crying out for, for years!!!
:-/

[Yossarian]

Paul Tait, Robbie Savage and Robert Hopkins are fine upstanding gentlemen whereas Paul McGrath, Peter Withe and Ian Taylor are all Jeremy Hunts.

Hey, I am narcissist and I just need everyone to notice me even if what I say is complete tosh.

[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.

Dear Mellin
Obviously describing the greatest goal ever scored as "jammy" was always going to provoke controversy. However, I have always thought that a bit of out of the box thinking and not just running with the pack is how many organisations progress.
I think the big problem was making your comparative analysis with those fine boys in blue from the west end of our fine capital city.

I myself would have worded it like this.

" You might not like Arsenal, but they have never won the Champions League even though they deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin. "

Nobody here is going to take issue with that are they ?
 

[four fornicholl]

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.

Dear Mellin
Obviously describing the greatest goal ever scored as "jammy" was always going to provoke controversy. However, I have always thought that a bit of out of the box thinking and not just running with the pack is how many organisations progress.
I think the big problem was making your comparative analysis with those fine boys in blue from the west end of our fine capital city.

I myself would have worded it like this.

" You might not like Arsenal, but they have never won the Champions League even though they deserved it. We won it through a jammy goal off Peter Withe's shin. "

Nobody here is going to take issue with that are they ?

no, as long as you edit the "jammy" bit

[OzVilla]

The Mafia used to have an old scam of building up a legitimate looking business, paying their bills on time every time for a few years, gain suppliers confidence before they'd put massive orders in for goods and disappear overnight with 0000's of dollars worth of stock.

Mellin's just done us, with comments like that he must be a Nose.

[Jimbo]

Right now Mellin is on the Catholic Talk message board saying, "That Mohammed knew his onions. But this Jesus Christ bloke..."

[Mellin]

Two pages of verbal I've done well there.

You'll have to excuse me, I'd had a few beers and didn't properly get my point across. Obviously we deserved it and it was incredible, jammy goal or not. My point is so did Chelsea. They did it against the odds (much like we did) and their comeback win over Napoli, semi final against Barca especially and late equaliser against Bayern were all brilliantly entertaining and showed real strength of character with an injury hit squad. Definitely not 'scummy'.

[Fasth56]

Two pages of verbal I've done well there.

You'll have to excuse me, I'd had a few beers and didn't properly get my point across. Obviously we deserved it and it was incredible, jammy goal or not. My point is so did Chelsea. They did it against the odds (much like we did) and their comeback win over Napoli, semi final against Barca especially and late equaliser against Bayern were all brilliantly entertaining and showed real strength of character with an injury hit squad. Definitely not 'scummy'.

Point still not made, even after a drink fuelled sleep!

[Toronto Villa]

It wasn't a jammy goal at all so you can drop that bollocks. And you seem to have a lot more knowledge of Chelsea's run to the cup than ours. Good for them for wining it but don't belittle our achievement in the process.

[MarkM]

Maybe it's me but I cant bring myself to support any other English team even playing in Europe

[MarkM]

Two pages of verbal I've done well there.

You'll have to excuse me, I'd had a few beers and didn't properly get my point across. Obviously we deserved it and it was incredible, jammy goal or not. My point is so did Chelsea. They did it against the odds (much like we did) and their comeback win over Napoli, semi final against Barca especially and late equaliser against Bayern were all brilliantly entertaining and showed real strength of character with an injury hit squad. Definitely not 'scummy'.

Your point being that you think Chelsea are ace! Init.

[LeeB]

Maybe it's me but I cant bring myself to support any other English team even playing in Europe

It's not just you mate.

I hate all that jingoistic "get behind our boys" bollocks. These are our competitors, I hope they all crash and burn at the first hurdle.

I'll make exception for tin pot clubs that go far (Middlesborough for example)

[Villa in Denmark]

Two pages of verbal I've done well there.

You'll have to excuse me, I'd had a few beers and didn't properly get my point across. Obviously we deserved it and it was incredible, jammy goal or not. My point is so did Chelsea. They did it against the odds (much like we did) and their comeback win over Napoli, semi final against Barca especially and late equaliser against Bayern were all brilliantly entertaining and showed real strength of character with an injury hit squad. Definitely not 'scummy'.

Sorry, there are few clubs that deserve the epithet scummy but Chelsea sit there, quite comfortably keeping that lot from B9 and Leeds company, based on my 45 years of walking this earth.

Anything they do is inherently tainted by their vile fans from the 70's,  80's an d early 90's, glorifying thugs like Ron Harris, Vinnie Jones and Dennis Wise; Ken Bates generally being a c##t (electric fences for fans anyone) through to Abramovich buying himself immunity from Putin.

They are the scummiest of the scummy.

[Yossarian]

Listen Kanye, Beck deserved his award and Chelsea's success bought off the back of a criminal enterprise was not deserved.

[CJ]

Right now Mellin is on the Catholic Talk message board saying, "That Mohammed knew his onions. But this Jesus Christ bloke..."

Or, "say what you want about Mussolini, but he got the trains running on time"