Villa v Man City Post-Match Thread

[The Edge]

Oh and what the fuck was the ref doing for Phil’s disallowed goal?

More to the point what was VAR doing? It was completely brushed over. How the hell did they decide not to review that? City players just stopped which obviously swayed the officials but that should not stop VAR getting involved. Bizarre really.

The linesman fucked up, not the ref or VAR.

Which makes it even worse. We're seeing linesmen not give the most blatant offsides and letting play go on regardless so that VAR can review it afterwards. This corrupt asshole puts his flag up for an offside that at best was marginal so what's it to be? Are they giving offsides or not? It's corruption in my view. The club should be asking for formal clarification from the Premier league.

[Brazilian Villain]

Its quite remarkable to see the change in attitude due to one game.

Iv been saying, give Gerrard time..he is class, and look what happens, he pulls out a plum against a side who were going to annihilate us if you were to believe all the naysayers.

Hopefully some of the idiots might get off his back now and let him do the job he was paid to do.

Ahh....Bless!

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

[LeeB]

No offense to the 13,000 or so souls I'm about to offend, but all Holte Enders are a bit yampy. The North Stand is the home of caravan owners, tartan blankets and thermos flasks.

FTFY

That may be the case but I've never owned any of those items personally, and it's a bit rich coming from you with your padded seat and laced hot chocolates!

[wince]

Its quite remarkable to see the change in attitude due to one game.

Iv been saying, give Gerrard time..he is class, and look what happens, he pulls out a plum against a side who were going to annihilate us if you were to believe all the naysayers.

Hopefully some of the idiots might get off his back now and let him do the job he was paid to do.

Ahh....Bless!

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Another holier than thou. Was a good performance but why has it taken Gerrard so long to pull out his plums.


And yes, I know that sounds dodgy!

[Risso]

No offense to the 13,000 or so souls I'm about to offend, but all Holte Enders are a bit yampy. The North Stand is the home of caravan owners, tartan blankets and thermos flasks.

FTFY

That may be the case but I've never owned any of those items personally, and it's a bit rich coming from you with your padded seat and laced hot chocolates!

Ha ha, fair play!

[olaftab]

No offense to the 13,000 or so souls I'm about to offend, but all Holte Enders are a bit yampy. The North Stand is the home of caravan owners, tartan blankets and thermos flasks.

FTFY

LeeB 8ers will be 8ers. We stand sorry sit together in the Witton end.

[wince]

No offense to the 13,000 or so souls I'm about to offend, but all Holte Enders are a bit yampy. The North Stand is the home of caravan owners, tartan blankets and thermos flasks.

FTFY

That may be the case but I've never owned any of those items personally, and it's a bit rich coming from you with your padded seat and laced hot chocolates!

Ha ha, fair play!

Is LeeB a snail then?
A mate of my dads lived in a mobile home in stratford and he was mightily offended when my sister called it a big caravan

[astonvilla82]

Stood outside the holte end before the game and said to my brother why do I put myself through such pain,I remarked that I done it for 40 odds years so another few won't matter, coming home walking back into town I said it's days like this I do it for,walking back from Aston remembering memories when I was a kid, when the pubs didn't open till 5/6?

[olaftab]

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

I bet you are ready to move up t the mountains.

[The Edge]

Sky sports just did an excellent review of our disallowed goal. They asked the question which really needs to be answered in full by the PL and PGMOL. Which is: are linesmen being told to flag for offside or not? We're seeing massive discrepancies in the interpretation by officials. There is not another sport on the planet where the rules of the game are applied in such a random and haphazard way. They have lost the plot.

[Paul.S]

The PGMOL is in disarray and has been for a while.   They still can’t implement the VAR system correctly and the standard of referring on the whole is poor. Just when you think you know what the latest laws of the game are it appears they’ve changed. When you can’t get it right after viewing replays many times over then something needs to urgently change.

[LeeB]

They should only be allowed to watch a reply on the screen at the side of the pitch in real time.

That's what they do for the other decisions during the game, and slow motion replays make challenges look far more dramatic. There's a reason Hollywood do those big action scenes in that way.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

No offense to the 13,000 or so souls I'm about to offend, but all Holte Enders are a bit yampy. The North Stand is the home of cool, reasoned debate.

Having a stadium with four distinct stands, it's this inter stand factionalism and lack of fan solidarity that has resulted in our clubs decades long underperformance. The sooner we fill in the corners or move to a purpose built lego stadium the better.
Having said that, I do miss the old Upper Trinity where one could mix with those of your own class away from the masses.

[clash city rocker]

Well yesterday Villa you did me proud. A critic of SG I will admit. But yesterday the manager..staff..players..supporters made me proud to support the greatest club the world has ever know. A draw I know but so many of us will have got the immense pleasure out of it that Dave eluded to. That's why I can never get them out of my blood.  AVFC...Stand proud forever.

[ROBBO]

I watched the replay of the disallowed goal many times. When the pass left the players foot he was onside but as the ball travelled the defenders move out slightly leaving him looking to be offside, the linesman got it wrong but we are talking about tenths of a second.