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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3855 on: February 01, 2026, 11:49:25 PM »
We are all posting on a football fanzine website, so you might want to lose the air of superiority. ;-)

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3856 on: February 01, 2026, 11:52:58 PM »
We are all posting on a football fanzine website, so you might want to lose the air of superiority. ;-)

No superiority from me, just that watching Villa lose is no good for my blood pressure!

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3857 on: February 01, 2026, 11:59:32 PM »
We are all posting on a football fanzine website, so you might want to lose the air of superiority. ;-)

This is fair. I reckon I do generally post a lot less when we have lost, mind.

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3858 on: February 02, 2026, 12:07:45 AM »
We are all posting on a football fanzine website, so you might want to lose the air of superiority. ;-)

This is fair. I reckon I do generally post a lot less when we have lost, mind.

Too busy enjoying the twists and turns of the Ollie thread, eh? Me too.

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3859 on: February 02, 2026, 01:04:20 AM »
We are all posting on a football fanzine website, so you might want to lose the air of superiority. ;-)

This is fair. I reckon I do generally post a lot less when we have lost, mind.

Too busy enjoying the twists and turns of the Ollie thread, eh? Me too.

The Watkins thread is more Punch and Judy than twists and turns, but it does stand as a testament to one man’s crusade to find every possible combination of words to say the same thing forever.

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3860 on: February 02, 2026, 01:20:15 AM »
We are all posting on a football fanzine website, so you might want to lose the air of superiority. ;-)

This is fair. I reckon I do generally post a lot less when we have lost, mind.

Too busy enjoying the twists and turns of the Ollie thread, eh? Me too.

The Watkins thread is more Punch and Judy than twists and turns, but it does stand as a testament to one man’s crusade to find every possible combination of words to say the same thing forever.

A monument to the indefatigable human spirit.

Online Sexual Ealing

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3861 on: February 03, 2026, 07:55:12 PM »
A short discussion by some journalists as to why they don't really focus on Villa very often (25ish mins in).



Online Sexual Ealing

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3862 on: February 03, 2026, 07:56:24 PM »
P.s the headline on the thumbnail is misleading. The show isn't about Villa so don't get excited.

Edit: but there are some Villa bits before 25 minutes. You can work it out.

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3863 on: February 03, 2026, 07:58:55 PM »
Watched the first 7 seconds of it. That was enough.

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3864 on: February 03, 2026, 11:37:15 PM »
A short discussion by some journalists as to why they don't really focus on Villa very often (25ish mins in).



I was going to share this video too.

 It’s worth finding the section where they discuss villa, if only for some semi sensible chat about the way Villa disrupt how pundits have become accustomed to using xG to talk about football. 

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3865 on: February 04, 2026, 01:04:47 PM »
Apparently only Chelsea (and Crystal Palace) have done the tactic of leaving more players up the pitch to force Arsenal not to overload at corners, and this is Shay Givens tactics, the genius that he is.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgk8v88gjxno

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3866 on: February 04, 2026, 02:01:00 PM »
Don’t worry, somebody will be along in a minute to reassure us that their analysts just forgot about Villa doing it.

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3867 on: February 05, 2026, 11:03:26 PM »
Just catching up on MotD.

Danny Murphy - what a prick.

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3868 on: February 07, 2026, 11:28:14 PM »
Just seen the 2nd Chelsea penalty award. Same as the incident where Rogers was bundled over in similar fashion v Everton, same ref but different outcome.

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Re: MOTD
« Reply #3869 on: February 07, 2026, 11:30:06 PM »
Just seen the 2nd Chelsea penalty award. Same as the incident where Rogers was bundled over in similar fashion v Everton, same ref but different outcome.

Same here, plus there's a strong case to be made that it was just outside the box.

 


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