MOTD

[Brend'Watkins]

MancU ‘famously’ beat Arsenal today. I heard the f word twice, so it must be true.

It's an historic fixture between titans, apparently.

Between them haven't won the league for 36 years...someone tell the media please ....

Arsenal last won the title in 2004 and Man Yoo in 2013?

Yeah but, the incident between Viera and Keane in the tunne, that’s as good as a league win isn’t it?

[Chip Butty 111]

They'll cater to their audience though. Far more of their audience will be interested in Arsenal v ManU than in our game.

That's correct but it's really annoying.

As for winning the league, both of them have been in the wilderness longer than Grizzly Adams ffs

[tomd2103]

Nauseating earlier.  Gushing about Manchester United and Carrick after two wins and then a piece on how great rat-face was. Can't get much worse really.

[SaddVillan]

And in a similar vein

Todsy's Guardian's weekly feature:

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Points one: Casemeiro is thriving under Carrick
Point two: Arsenal lose their concentration
Point three: Newcastle are short of creativity

There isn't a point about Aston Invisible

[Olneythelonely]

Do most people really think that? I’d be surprised if most people wouldn’t just prefer a complete level playing field.

So we can spend as much on transfers and wages as every other club?

I don't think people would enjoy that very much.

Yeah. Is that not what annoys everyone about the “big 6”? It’s definitely what annoys me about it. Obviously it’s now impossible to have a level playing field, because all the best players will want to go to the clubs that have had the biggest advantage from the imbalance anyway.

But if we’re talking about a pretend world where we could change football, I just assumed everyone would think that football would be better if there were no unfair advantages.

[Dave]

And in a similar vein

Todsy's Guardian's weekly feature:

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Points one: Casemeito is thriving under Carrick
Point two: Arsenal lose their concentration
Point three: Newcastle are short of creativity

There isn't a point about Aston Invisible

They're just a hundred words lifted from the match reports from each of the ten Premier League matches to encourge people to read the full match report. The match in Newcastle was attended and the report written by their north-east football correspondent.

*shrugs*

[Olneythelonely]

And in a similar vein

Todsy's Guardian's weekly feature:

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Points one: Casemeito is thriving under Carrick
Point two: Arsenal lose their concentration
Point three: Newcastle are short of creativity

There isn't a point about Aston Invisible

Someone did an analysis of all the 10 talking point articles and I think it’s something like 80% of the Villa matches have been about the opposition.

[Dave]

Do most people really think that? I’d be surprised if most people wouldn’t just prefer a complete level playing field.

So we can spend as much on transfers and wages as every other club?

I don't think people would enjoy that very much.

Yeah. Is that not what annoys everyone about the “big 6”? It’s definitely what annoys me about it. Obviously it’s now impossible to have a level playing field, because all the best players will want to go to the clubs that have had the biggest advantage from the imbalance anyway.

But if we’re talking about a pretend world where we could change football, I just assumed everyone would think that football would be better if there were no unfair advantages.

So also removing the advantages that we have over all but six other clubs? A world where it's just as likely that Emery chooses to manage West Brom as Villa because we can't bully them with our money and status and prestige anymore? Where it's a genuine flip of a coin whether Rogers chooses to stay at Villa or sign for Colchester?

To 99% of clubs in the country, we are one of those clubs that have the biggest advantage, taking all the best players.

[aj2k77]

I brought it up the other week, ten talking points covered 8 of the top 10 in the table. The two that didn't get a mention were Brighton and Villa. It's all sycophantic Sky 6 drivel anyway.

[Crown Hill]

Always been disappointed by Guardian’s football coverage going by right back to when I was at Uni in the 90s. If you want decent reports and analysis read the Telegraph.

[Chris Smith]

And in a similar vein

Todsy's Guardian's weekly feature:

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Points one: Casemeito is thriving under Carrick
Point two: Arsenal lose their concentration
Point three: Newcastle are short of creativity

There isn't a point about Aston Invisible

Someone did an analysis of all the 10 talking point articles and I think it’s something like 80% of the Villa matches have been about the opposition.

Sounds to me like that  ‘someone’ has to much time on their hands.

[Chris Smith]

I brought it up the other week, ten talking points covered 8 of the top 10 in the table. The two that didn't get a mention were Brighton and Villa. It's all sycophantic Sky 6 drivel anyway.

This is from The Guardian match report, the biased bastards.

“ Much of Villa’s attacking play was so fluent and improvisational that, by comparison, Newcastle looked as if they were engaged in a footballing equivalent of painting by numbers.”

[lovejoy]

Embrace the success without the adulation. Every time we get the focus we drop the ball.

[Monty]

I wonder what it would take for some to acknowledge that the media is being very nice and complimentary about us (with some strange but isolated exceptions). Villa fever is sweeping the nation! Can Villa Do It?, the only question on the lips of the masses huddled round the newsstands. Scribes and priests hail the Divine Genius of St. Unai. It's actually a golden time.

Edit: genuinely, the cliché talking point about our manager in the mainstream media is that he's a literal genius. What more do we want!?!?

[eye digress]

And in a similar vein

Todsy's Guardian's weekly feature:

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Points one: Casemeito is thriving under Carrick
Point two: Arsenal lose their concentration
Point three: Newcastle are short of creativity

There isn't a point about Aston Invisible

They're just a hundred words lifted from the match reports from each of the ten Premier League matches to encourge people to read the full match report. The match in Newcastle was attended and the report written by their north-east football correspondent.

*shrugs*

And if you read her match report, her point is that the Jaudis lack creativity in comparison to the Villa (Rogers, Buendia). So really, a back handed compliment.