Press-ing about

[badluckeric(gates)]

I agree with what you say about our defending. We were under pressure for much of the second half but we didn't panic, unlike in one of our worst capitulations, when we allowed Arsenal to score 2 late goals at the Emirates after we'd led 2-1. Since then we've beaten them 3 times running without conceding a goal.

Here's the Peter Morris piece you refer to, for the few that don't know it

The door to the lavishly appointed Guest Room at Villa Park was open and out in the corridor the little boys, dodging the commissionaire, were calling for Brian Little and John Gidman. Quite rightly, they took no notice of myself and the elderly bald-headed man, bespectacled, stooping a little, who was quietly finishing his tea. He looked at them for a moment, a whimsical look, and moved to the long windows overlooking the now deserted playing pitch.
“Every time you come back here it must bring back memories Pongo” I said. He stared out for a long while. I thought he’d forgotten I was there. “Aye,” he said suddenly, “aye, they’re a great club…the greatest.” I stood and looked with him, this old man whose goals had set the Villa crowds roaring so long ago. It was not quite dusk on that March afternoon and I saw them too…they were out again, the old ghosts…Jack Hughes, scorer just about one hundred years earlier of Aston Villa’s first goal (perhaps to the very day)…George Ramsay…the Hunter brothers…Willie McGregor…Denny Hodgetts…legion upon legion of them on parade now, filling the field with claret and blue…the century with pride.

reading that sends shivers down my spine. I will definitely get that book now!

[The Edge]

It is criminal to think that Emi did not even make the bench in Argentina's last game back in November.

I know and the way Arsenal undervalued him too. I keep thinking are we missing something. He's been nothing short of immense this season. When I heard we were signing him I thought the club had gone mad paying 20m for an unwanted Arsenal keeper. He could well be one of the most significant signings we have made in donkeys years.