Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[brian green]

The trophy should be halved, like in horse racing.  If there is a dead heat, each owner holds the trophy for six months. Joint winners, nothing wrong with that.

[Lastfootstamper]

The trophy should be halved, like in horse racing.  If there is a dead heat, each owner holds the trophy for six months. Joint winners, nothing wrong with that.

Stop being sensible.

[Rico]

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! There was nothing jammy about our win. Apart from the first round against Valur we played the best that Europe had to offer,  Dynamo Berlin were basically the East German national team, Dynamo Kiev same but Russian, Anderlecht were a top team too. Then onto the final. We weren't playing some duffers,  Bayern were and still are a proper powerhouse of a club. There was nothing jammy about losing our goal keeper early on and having to rely on a sub that most people had never seen play. There was nothing jammy about our first half performance where we were clearly the better team. There was nothing jammy about Tony Morley destroying their full-back and their was nothing jammy about Peter Withe being in the right place at the right time.

As for Chavski I actually detest them. Their fans are the most obnoxious wankers I have ever encountered on my travels as a football fan. I loathe them so much, I actually dislike them more than SHA and Brumie reds which says everything really.

One more thing about our jammy win. We had to be Champions to even be in the final. Chavski, if memory serves me right were not.

Rant over, feel better now.

[paul_e]

I've always liked my idea that in extra time each team must remove a player every five minutes so after, say, 20 minutes of ET it will be 7-a-side, much better chance of someone scoring.
Then if still no goals after 25 minutes the goalies have to come off, six-a-side with no goalkeepers for a while. If neither team can score in this scenario then neither of them deserve the trophy so it's not awarded!

I mostly agree with this but I'd bring a few more changes.  At 90 minutes you get an extra sub and you have 10 minutes of play, then they switch ends and remove a player and do 10 more minutes and drop to 9 players but then allow a 5th sub and then 2 more 10 minute 'blocks'.  once you've played 40minutes extra if it's still level I'd be tempted to go with Brian and just call it a draw.  The idea of extra subs is to stop the game slowing down too much.

[Monty]

Also, Chelsea's Champions League win was perhaps the flukiest fucking win ever. How they got to the final, never mind won it (on penalties - how's that for 'jammy'?), is totally beyond me. We beat Bayern in open play, not because Arjen Robben forgot how to kick a ball for a fraction of a second.

[Lastfootstamper]

Twenty minutes as now, two halves of ten minutes. And then ten minutes with two balls. Although we may need an extra referee.

[Pete3206]

Peter Withe's goal was one of the best I've ever seen. The through ball from Gary Shaw was sublime, the wing play of Tony Morley mesmerised the Bayern centre half and Withe's positioning was perfect.

If that goal had been Hoddle to Ricky Villa to Ardiles, it would have been on the Match Of The Day credits from then until this day.

[olaftab]

Also, Chelsea's Champions League win was perhaps the flukiest fucking win ever. How they got to the final, never mind won it (on penalties - how's that for 'jammy'?), is totally beyond me. We beat Bayern in open play, not because Arjen Robben forgot how to kick a ball for a fraction of a second.

So were manure's two wins in the recent past.

[Matt Collins]

Peter Withe's goal was one of the best I've ever seen. The through ball from Gary Shaw was sublime, the wing play of Tony Morley mesmerised the Bayern centre half and Withe's positioning was perfect.

If that goal had been Hoddle to Ricky Villa to Ardiles, it would have been on the Match Of The Day credits from then until this day.

One of the best you've ever seen? For the occasion yes, but methinks you've got rose tinted spectacles and then some! Villa scored about ten better than that in the 92-93 season

Villa's fa cup goal is massively over rated too

[Toronto Villa]

Won't be at all shocked to see him call it quits this week. He's been incredibly let down by the club and players.

[mr underhill]

so is Remi still the man to lead us to a bright new future?

[Risso]

Won't be at all shocked to see him call it quits this week. He's been incredibly let down by the club and players.

On the other hand, he's hardly improved things much.  I know it's the shittest squad we've ever had, but still.  A coach who doesn't want to be here, and players who clearly don't want to play for him.  It's all just fundamentally broken.

[Toronto Villa]

Won't be at all shocked to see him call it quits this week. He's been incredibly let down by the club and players.

On the other hand, he's hardly improved things much.  I know it's the shittest squad we've ever had, but still.  A coach who doesn't want to be here, and players who clearly don't want to play for him.  It's all just fundamentally broken.

I'm not dismissing he's played a part in this but how on earth did it get this bad? Fundamentally broken is a good way of putting it.

[frank black]

Won't be at all shocked to see him call it quits this week. He's been incredibly let down by the club and players.

Won't be bothered if he quits.

[PeterWithesShin]

If I was him, i'd walk. The players have totally shit out today and let him down. The board let him down in January. I'd be out of VP quicker than shit through a goose.