Fans Worried Over Villa Future

[ROBBO]

Why? and what did it say?

It was more what was seen, imagine the Bull ring at the turn of the century it was not what you would like to see in a travel brochure. I didn't know it was possible to get so many people into such a small market.

[peter w]

It probably wasn't Islamabad itself then. this place is a bit like Canberra. A purpose buily city for govt. workers, diplomatic staff, ex pat staff in mobile phone companies. The areas that are like what you've said close to here are in Rawalpindi. Which is a twin city. And what you'd expect from Pakistan. This place is clean, beautiful, good roads, not much poverty, and mostly dull.

[ROBBO]

Must be a new third world thing just had a friend come back from China with the same story. From the airport straight to a gated business park and hotel which was spotless but five miles down the road was a place you wouldn't want to be.

[brian green]

The urban design of Islamabad is bound to be pretty dull.   Much of the master plan was done by planners and architects who had served their time covering Coventry city centre with brushed concrete, knobby iron railings and white clapboard.   Right dullards and not a Villa fan amongst them as I recall.  I failed my interview and went to work for the GLC.

[peter w]

The urban design of Islamabad is bound to be pretty dull.   Much of the master plan was done by planners and architects who had served their time covering Coventry city centre with brushed concrete, knobby iron railings and white clapboard.   Right dullards and not a Villa fan amongst them as I recall.  I failed my interview and went to work for the GLC.

Actually it was designed some 30/40 years ago by some Greek bloke, and is divided into sectors. HWich are big square things and are like sectors F7/1/2/3/4. Not avery big place and has a shite airport that you can fly to nearly nowhere from.


Well, except to the Uk for all those asylum seekers...

[peter w]

Can anyone rememebr a close season-even this close to the last season- where so little has been done. We are not being linked with anyone, apart from rumours. No-one from the club stating, ' we are after a certain player'. Nothing.

I do think money will be made available, but is it possible that we can't do anything until after the World Cup. So, whilst other teams -and lets be fair we're talking about only a few clubs- are seemingly moving for players it seems the football community as a whole are on hold.

[Legion]

Evening all!

[Drummond]

Is thgis really all that's happened in the last couple of days?

Very Poor. 2/10

[Stu]

Is this the longest thread we've had on H&V?

[Dave Cooper please]

Yes.

[Dave Cooper please]

Yes.

[JD]

Oh well, I haven't been around for a couple of days but it doesn't look like I missed anything. Pretty quiet on the news front I see.  8-[

[peter w]

With the World Cup less than a week away I do't think we'll be hearing anything at all for a month or so.

Morning JD.

[JD]

Morning Peter. Good to see you around.

Have just finshed painting the hallway, fitting a new lock and putting up a curtain rail. What an exciting day I've had.  :-

Still, my kids team drew 2-2- yesterday with the team second in the league. Came back from  2-0 down after ten minutes, so I suppose I should be pleased. We're still unbeaten, so thats good.

So nothing happening at Villa? See Crouch scored a hattrick for England today.

[peter w]

I'm worried about your kids team. Great fighting abilities to get back into the game, but you can't go 2 down in every game. Questions need to be asked.

What pissed me off with Crouch's penalty is that it was a piss take. Would he have taken it like that if it was 0-0? 0-0 v Brazil in the semi-finals? No. So, don't do your smart-arsed penalties. He deserved what he got, and would have learned a better lesson had he not got a third. He did, and it was a nice goal to, but he went down in my estimation after the pen.

Oh, and the cricket's crap at the moment too.