Chelsea vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[malckennedy]

In the 5 live sports roundup of the Prem at 7pm they didn’t even mention the result.

neither did Midlands Today  on Sunday evening

Not mentioned on R4 at 6.30, all the other scores were.

It's fine - everyone can ignore us like last year as far as I am concerned. Wank over Brighton and Hammers whilst being mortified over crisis clubs Chelsea and Man U

In BBC 1 news last night they covered Newcastle’s 8-0 win, Arsenal and Spurs’ draw and then went on to announce that “there were also wins for Brighton and Liverpool but Chelsea lost”.

[Axl Rose]

I'd had a few too many last night, and on seeing the lineup, threw a tantrum and refused to watch the game..

Usually when that happens, we win.

I have a number of very cuntish Chelsea fans in my university classes here. There's one class in particular on a Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Gobby, self important wanky Chelsea fans who are now considering changing to Liverpool (yawn) or Brighton (again, yawn. They have a Japanese player that's had one good season...he is very good, admittedly)

This morning, when everyone was accounted for, I turned on the projector and just played the highlights of yesterday's game.

I abhor Chelsea. I can't think of anyone I like that supports them. It seems you have to be a fully qualified wanker to even consider it.

[Nev]

The Guardian report really is something to behold.

[Rigadon]

The Guardian report really is something to behold.

It really is!  I like the Guardian but their Villa coverage is non existent - that goes for the otherwise enjoyable podcast. 

[JD]

The Guardian report really is something to behold.

Isn't it. It's like Villa had no shots and were totally overrun until we scored. Then you look at the stats under the report and we had more shots and more on target then Chelski. Ridiculous report.

[The Edge]

It's not just the Villa that get totally overlooked it's the city of Birmingham and the West Midlands that gets the same treatment. We have a mountain to move before our club even makes a blip on the media radar. The UK media is almost a cartel of London & Manchester based journalists.It began with the BBC building Media City in Mcr and their obsession with making the cotton capital the second city. The NW gets all the focus while you also have the capital media boys and girls which seems to be made up entirely of journos who massively favour London clubs with the obligatory Man Utd and Liverpool sections. The BBC is opening a new centre in Digbeth which may bring some local attention but I won't hold my breath as they will probably fill the vacancies with experienced media luvvies from Mcr and London.

[Dr Butler]

I was looking at the comments on the BBC Sport page about the Chelsea vs the Villa match and saw this which made me chuckle.

Blue is the colour
Football is the game
They're going nowhere
Isn't it a shame
All that cash but they still look lame
Cos Chelsea, Chelsea is their name.

UTV
The Doc

[lovejoy]

I think our progress going under the radar is no bad thing, keeps the pressure off. Although living in Sussex when you do tell people you support the Villa you often get a "Really?" response, as if you'd said Napoli or Ajax.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Hopefully we are finally getting it together defensively.

Lovely to beat those classless twonks. The New England Patriots of the Premier League.

[Percy McCarthy]

So Ian Wright was told to analyse Konsa with a view that the player is ready for England. That effort by Wright was the most laziest analysis I have ever seen. It was disjointed and incoherent totally incompetent and he finished with referring to him as a striker. Unbelievable, and he gets paid for that garbage!

Agreed, can't stand him as a "pundit".

Shay Given came out with a cracker while analysing a potential hand ball in the build up to the first goal in the Newcastle game. They were debating whether the ball went out of play which it didn't but it did strike Anthony Gordon's hand which then fell nicely for him to cross the ball into the goalscorer. He said "the ball does hit his hand but the goal couldn't be disallowed because he didn't actually score the goal" If a handball occurs in the build up surely the goal should be ruled out? If not I just don't understand the rules anymore.

Didn’t VAR get the ref to look again at a Shuff Utd hand ball in the build up to a recent goal? And the ref disallowed it? Sander Berge I think it was, and he wasn’t the goal scorer.

[pauliewalnuts]

I too was amazed at that brain dead Shay Given comment.

[RamboandBruno]

I like/read the Guardian, but the report yesterday was a joke.

On media bias etc, doubt this was purposeful and more down to just ignoring Birmingham in general, but this morning on talkshite they were asking whether the north London derby was the biggest in English football now….yawn. They then asked about other great rivalries….they mentioned everything, I mean from Manchester, Glasgow, to Burnley vrs Blackburn, Portsmouth vrs Southampton, to the fecking Bristol derby and beyond. Not once did they mention Villa Blues, the second biggest city in the UK, with Villa flying high and not once did they mention that derby. I actually hate the bloody derby and the under currants and threats of violence that are always there (WBA my big derby), but in these sanitised times that also for me has the double edged sword of raising the derby to something beyond the other derbies, only more heightened in Glasgow.

Natalie Sawyers and Ray Parlour were the presenters today & they are not bad to be fair, but to completely ignore Birmingham grates. Reminds me of when we were playing blues regularly in the mid 2000s and MOTD insisted on calling it a ‘midlands derby’ do feck off!

[Monty]

I thought the commentators during the actual match were fine, perfectly OK on the favourability thing.

Problem is, the Graun will assign London reporters to the London clubs' home games, so the bias of focus is expected, but then insist the Villa reporter have the same level of interest when Chelsea etc are the away team.

These are people who think 'going north' is the Cambridge train from Kings X.

[LeeB]

That 'Midlands derby' bollocks always really pissed me off too, like were Norwich and Ipswich or something, and it felt like a deliberate act to undermine any significance in the fixture or the city itself.

[Jon Crofts]

Looking at Chavski’s run of fixtures it’s not rocket science to say they’re in deep shit unless something miraculous happens very soon.