Aston Villa v Everton Post-Match Thread

[AV84]

DCL might have been fine fitness wise yesterday if he hasn't gotten his face smashed in.

[LeeB]

Quote from Andy Hinchcliffe during the game 'Diego Carlos looks like a wardrobe dressed in a Villa shirt'.  He was being kind, not ridiculing.  Diego was very good yesterday, whilst not massively tested. 

The way he manouvered that Everton player away from the ball despite them being seemingly put through on goal was lovely, like "fuck off mate, this is no place for you"

[Virgil Caine]

Without leaping to conclusions but we were playing Everton and someone’s had it away with the dugout roof. It’s going to be a bit parky for the subs if it isn’t returned by October.

[Bad English]

I did chuckle at Pickford being taunted with 'you're just a sh*t Robin Olsen' yesterday.

I'm not a fan of this sort of thing to be honest. He is going to be called upon now and again and he is having the piss taken by supporters of his club.

[Mister E]

Without leaping to conclusions but we were playing Everton and someone’s had it away with the dugout roof. It’s going to be a bit parky for the subs if it isn’t returned by October.

Couldn't have been the Evertonians; they'd all buggered off well before the end.
Actually, the club removed it because they had run out of materials for the refurb of the Terrace View and therefore 'repurposed it'.

[OCD]

I did chuckle at Pickford being taunted with 'you're just a sh*t Robin Olsen' yesterday.

I'm not a fan of this sort of thing to be honest. He is going to be called upon now and again and he is having the piss taken by fans of his club.

Absolutely. Saying we would like an improvement on forums is one thing but to be making derogatory chants about one of our own players isn't clever and doesn't help.

[Legion]

Agreed.

[pablo_picasso]

Just catching-up but what the hell is "bounty-gate" (see Page 3 of thread, Page 1 if Legion)?

Bouty-gate was a scandal in American football where New Orleans Saints players were given paid "bounties' to target & injure opposition players.

I say New Orleans Saints were guilty of it, they were just the ones caught.

Everybody was doing it.

The likes of Dyche & Pulis have that sort of mentality, but we just call it "*leaving a foot in..."

For clarifications sake, I am not saying that Dyche & Pulis specifically pay bounties for their players to injure players.


*To leave your foot in means to first go for the ball but continue after the ball has been won, or lost, and kick the opponent. The 'in' in the phrase refers to the tackle, giving 'in the tackle'. https://languagecaster.com/football-language-to-leave-your-foot-in/

[kippaxvilla2]

Calvert-Lewin's father has been having a right pop on facebook about the booing of Everton fans when he went off.  Something deep rooted and wrong there.  It is as others have said almost a replica of us 2010-2016.

[PeterWithesShin]

[Somniloquism]

Onana also racially abused online as well after the match. The Everton fans are not helping their side at all.

[Mister E]

Good on you, mate.

[Gareth]

When he went off I thought that he has tossed the game off but when saw tv pictures when got home it was obv that was quite a whack….these concussion protocols can’t be too hard to pass as he looked away with the fairies walking down the touchline…

[AV84]

Spurs took a player off very early last week after a knock to the head, he was on long enough to score a header mind, but it was good to see them taking it seriously, even if the player himself was fuming.

I think on the BBC live text yesterday they said one of the other Everton players was signalling that DCL needed to come off, but he stayed on for ages after that. People can argue all they want about the risks from heading the ball, but a clash of heads is serious business.

[OCD]

When he went off I thought that he has tossed the game off but when saw tv pictures when got home it was obv that was quite a whack….these concussion protocols can’t be too hard to pass as he looked away with the fairies walking down the touchline…

There was talk that he was dazed, which you would think was an indicator of a possible concussion. You would think that he would have been taken off then.

Then the cheekbone became more inflammed and his eye was starting to close. Suspected fractured cheekbone.