Why Aston Villa 'Sucks'

[kippaxvilla2]

Now I looked at the start of this article and was about to move on from it given the American hyperbole.  Then I realised it has been written by a Belgian Analytics expert. 

The more I read of it the more interesting I found it. 

http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/analytics-premier-league-aston-villa-micah-richards-jack-grealish/

[Sexual Ealing]

Not much to disagree with but it seems to gild the lily of our shitness a bit. Sort of shitting around the edges of our terrible lily, I guess.

[dave.woodhall]

What language is it?

[kippaxvilla2]

No idea Dave.  Assume it's just broken English written by a Belgian.  My Belgian isn't too hot to be fair.

[kippaxvilla2]

On further investigation he is based in Antwerp (beat them over two legs) not necessarily Belgian however.  I think he's American.

[dave.woodhall]

He certainly sounds and writes like an American.

[Risso]

Definitely American - if his Facebook page is anything to go by.

[Chris Harte]

It lost me at the equation towards the end.

Is it really, for a large part, the fault of Micah Richards and players not wanting the ball in last third?

[Bad English]

The use of the third person singular with collective nouns (the team 'is', Aston Villa 'sucks') is a good indicator of someone being on the wrong side of a division by a common language.

[brian green]

Only an American could mangle the English language so cruelly.  Certainly no Birmingham ancestry. He can't moan properly.

[kippaxvilla2]

Good to see we are so fascinating in such far reaching quarters.

[Ad@m]

He went through all that to conclude that we're going down because our players aren't good enough?  I hope he didn't get paid too much for it.

[kippaxvilla2]

It is the first time I have seen Richards and co analysed in the same way some of us see them though.

[kippaxvilla2]

The use of the third person singular with collective nouns (the team 'is', Aston Villa 'sucks') is a good indicator of someone being on the wrong side of a division by a common language.

Exactly what I was thinking.

[ROBBO]

He was bang on with Richards though, never a captain and has no positional sense he plays with his heart not his head. I wonder whether he will be moved on in the summer as It seems the manager wants another right back to come in and as we've all seen Richards cannot play a central defensive role.