Unai Emery

[Bad English]

Anyone taking the comments on the match thread seriously should probably reflect upon Éamon de Valera's astute observation "Don't take everything you read on the internet too seriously!"

[Lastfootstamper]

I sneaked a very quick peek at it at half time. All I took from it was a feeling you and Risso wouldn't remember too much about it all later.

[Nunkin1965]

About 80% of the posts on the match thread are ridiculous in the cold light of day, I wouldn't worry.

Yes and more or less imitating stuff you hear at Villa Park when things are not going well except those comments are only there momentarily and not written down. Being a sad fucker, sometimes I do think sitting there in my seat what would be going on in the Match thread on H&V.

The match thread is just a reflection of whats happening and it's pretty much as if you're sitting at a game and listening to instant reaction from all around the ground at once!
Its a bit of a Marmite thing though and although I do like Marmite the match thread isn't for me!

[eamonn]

Anyone taking the comments on the match thread seriously should probably reflect upon Éamon de Valera's astute observation "Don't take everything you read on the internet too seriously!"

Thought that was Éamonn Deacy 

[Bad English]

I sneaked a very quick peek at it at half time. All I took from it was a feeling you and Risso wouldn't remember too much about it all later.

Well, exactly!

[Percy McCarthy]

If I can see or hear the game I don’t interact much with the match threads. I love reading them afterwards but only if we’ve won.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Couple of things about Unai that I've not seen mentioned. He needs to be loved and at Villa Park I think he'll get it. His experience at Arsenal left a very bitter taste and it's no surprise he's come out with that love letter to the club. He feels he'll be given time by both the club and the fans. These really are early days, he's just getting his feet under the desk and despite our recent performances not being as we'd all like them, he's getting points on the board. Right now, I'll more than take them.

The other thing that I keep forgetting to mention is how back in Spain, since he joined us,  the natives have taken an unusually collective interest in the Villa. It's very unusual because he's hardly the first Spanish Coach to move to the PL but for some reason it's captured the interest right across the country. It could be because he's highly rated or he's a very likeable fella, he's certainly a successful coach with trophies to prove it but whatever it is, it's really caught the imagination of the Spanish.

[Nev]

He's also buying the goodwill of the fans which could come in very handy in the future. Something the previous incumbent is unlikely to even understand. Deano had it in spades because of who he was but proved in his last role that he wasn't averse to getting pissy.

I don't think Emery is being cynical though, it looks like it comes from the heart.

[malckennedy]

Anyone taking the comments on the match thread seriously should probably reflect upon Éamon de Valera's astute observation "Don't take everything you read on the internet too seriously!"

I remember standing in front of a bloke on the old Holte in the late 70s or early 80s. Dennis Mortimer was a hero already at this point and picked up the ball in our half and moved forward with it. The bloke offered loud encouragement along the lines of “go on Den, go on Den”. Then Mortimer, to everyone’s shock, was tackled and lost possession. Without starting a new sentence the bloke screamed “you fucking twat Mortimer”.

Most people laughed and it obviously shows that “in match” comments are not always to be taken seriously.

[Dave P]

Beautiful, just beautiful. This guy gets what it means to manage football clubs.

That’s the sort of thing Dean Smith would say.

As you say, this guy gets it

If Dean Smith has said it, it would have been very well received but maybe over-egging the fan boy angle. For Unai to say it, does show how much he’s ‘got it’ in the past few weeks.

[Beard82]

It’s funny the stuff you hear in the game - I can remember as a 8 or 9 year old seeing Tony Daley fail to skin someone and the old boy next to me shouted - you’ve never been the same since you got married.

No idea if that was true or not - and I have spent a disproportionate about of time thinking about it over the last 30 years .  In particular since Ollie got stick  for being shit after having his baby 

[Lastfootstamper]

Different sport, but I remember a bloke yelling at Paul Smith as he ran to try to stop a boundary, "You'd catch it if you had a bloody haircut".
I was also in the members' bar with the big slidy doors when Robin Dyer was batting one rather chilly day. Upon leaving his two-hundred-and-eighth consecutive delivery, one of my fellow members calmly got up from his pint, walked over to the glass, slid it open, and bellowed at the top of his lungs, "Will you hit the ****ing thing!". Edged the next, caught behind.

[eamonn]

It’s funny the stuff you hear in the game - I can remember as a 8 or 9 year old seeing Tony Daley fail to skin someone and the old boy next to me shouted - you’ve never been the same since you got married.

No idea if that was true or not - and I have spent a disproportionate about of time thinking about it over the last 30 years .  In particular since Ollie got stick  for being shit after having his baby 

Hope Tone got married and never split-up.

[astonvilla82]

As  David Bradley said "you don't choose Aston Villa, Aston Villa chooses you"

[stubbsyandy]

Different sport, but I remember a bloke yelling at Paul Smith as he ran to try to stop a boundary, "You'd catch it if you had a bloody haircut".
I was also in the members' bar with the big slidy doors when Robin Dyer was batting one rather chilly day. Upon leaving his two-hundred-and-eighth consecutive delivery, one of my fellow members calmly got up from his pint, walked over to the glass, slid it open, and bellowed at the top of his lungs, "Will you hit the ****ing thing!". Edged the next, caught behind.

This made me chuckle…thank you