Arsenal v Already Relegated Aston Villa Pre Match Thread

[Steve R]

No, Black has got it cracked now. No shots at goal, 0-0. We are on our way.

[West Derby Villan]

Nil, nil to the Villa

[phantom limb]

I'm predicting a McLeish vs Spurs type formation from Black, which won't work either. 4-0 Arsenal.

[ChicagoLion]

Crack will still be our manager, us nil them 4 +

A nice send off for  Arsen and his boys, lovely.

[CJ]

Now that Black's avoided the ignominy of a record 12 consecutive losses, I think he'll go all out defence now - same line up as Saturday, but with Ayew and Sinclair replaced by Richards and a let-back-into-the-fold-horses-for-courses Okore in a  revolutionary 5-5 formation. We still get a pants-down spanking, but Black will eulogise about how the lads worked hard to keep Arsenal out for the first 14 seconds, and the fans responded magnificently to the extra effort by the players to limit Arsenal to only just getting into double figures.

[berober04]

Villa win 0-0!

[QuintonVilla]

I hope all these predicting a clean sheet are tongue in cheek. If not, put some after sun on as I think you may have sunstroke.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I've never started one of these before and this will be my last chance for a few months so indulge me.

It shows, Joe. Where's the poll?

[Yossarian]

Sixty four nil to Arsenal.

[UK Redsox]

No poll? Poor show from a Mod to make a basic error like that

[cdbearsfan]

I'll be happy if we get within six goals.

[PeterWithesShin]

we just can't get the staff these days! I've added a poll.

[brentastonb6]

I just hope many of the travelling claret and blue army take inflatable or other versions of the European cup to serenade our London chummies with. We might be going down but we have won it and not just been a fixture filler.
: )

[Richard E]

In the event of the self entitled Arsenal supporters attempting to do another of their pathetic protests that the Villa support take the piss on a massive scale and show them what supporting your team is really about.

It must be a right ball ache to be in the top three or four every single season, play lovely football, compete in the latter stages of the CL, win cups. I feel for them, I really do....

A Villa manager who had won two of the last three FA Cup Finals would have been given a contract for life, been beatified if not deified and had the ground renamed after him by now. Spoilt children.

[PeterWithesShin]

Some of their fans are utter Tarquin bellends, at the same I don't see how what they are doing is much different to us moaning that we were 'only' 6th, Charlton fans moaning they were 'only' mid-table under Curbishley and so on, fans always want more. They have the highest match day income in the world, they play in the richest league in the world, they sign players like Sanchez and Ozil. If it was us, I guarantee after years of finishing 3rd or 4th and getting knocked out in R2 of the CL that there'd be loads on here wanting, and expecting, more.