AZ Alkmaar Vs Aston Villa Post-Match

[Somniloquism]

Only see certain clubs have banned them, not necessarily a blanket ban. Ajax did it last year and them and FC Copenhagen seem to be the only ones to come up in a google search about Dutch Football banning shirt requests.

[Olneythelonely]

I see that the reason the steward took the sign away is that they are banned in Dutch grounds, that's the kind of small minded pettyness I can really get on board with.

That would strongly suggest he wasn't a local then.

Looked like he had a Dutch face to me.

Think he was wearing clogs too.

[gage against the machine]

Walking to the ground we came across a Villa fan climbing up a lamppost shouting “I’m not fuckin having that!” Thought, bit strange but he is pretty pissed…
Get to the next lamppost to see this beauty…
Gorra laff.

[pablo_picasso]

Superb result. Superb performance. Totally outplayed them for the whole game.

Thought Tielemans was superb last night. Not just because of his goal & assist, but his overall play was hard working. His closing down was superb. Passing crisp. When he was pushed back after Douglas Luiz went off, he wasn't as effective, but he still worked hard. This is the Tielemans we need.

Close behind Tielemans MPV game award performance was Bailey. Thought he looked excellent last night, & again, not just down to his goal & assist. He always looked dangerous on the ball, created chances & looked like a performance to show why we purchased him.

Watkins not far behind with another great game, along with McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Kamara, Digne. Even Lenglet looked decent last night.

Shoutout to the referee too. Thought he had an excellent game.

Overall, delighted with the performance & noticing more & more that commentators & the media are starting to notice us...

[pablo_picasso]

Fantastic result, Langlet really impressed me
If I am critical, I wish we would stop being so obsessed with tipy tapy at the back.
3 times Kamara lost the ball and we could have conceded, not for the first time this season.
However have to keep pinching myself wondering when it will go tits up as I am an obsessive Villa doubter.
Roll on Luton and six more to the tally

Its how we start our attacks by inviting the press so we can pass into the midfield areas...

I think that we need to be patient & accepting of mistakes in this area because the benefits far outweigh the negatives.

Thats how I see it anyways...

[Richard]

Yes re the referee, all the ones I've seen in European games this season are much better than the PL ones. Ours last night was excellent, along with VAR.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Yes re the referee, all the ones I've seen in European games this season are much better than the PL ones. Ours last night was excellent, along with VAR.

This.
With knobs on!

[LeeB]

Yes re the referee, all the ones I've seen in European games this season are much better than the PL ones. Ours last night was excellent, along with VAR.

This.
With knobs on!

I've been saying this for some time.

The problem in this country is not VAR, or rule changes, it's PGMOL.

[Clampy]

Yes re the referee, all the ones I've seen in European games this season are much better than the PL ones. Ours last night was excellent, along with VAR.

I'm not sure why VAR even looked at that one offside though. It was pretty obvious.

[paul_e]

Yes re the referee, all the ones I've seen in European games this season are much better than the PL ones. Ours last night was excellent, along with VAR.

This.
With knobs on!

I've been saying this for some time.

The problem in this country is not VAR, or rule changes, it's PGMOL.

Yep, agreed.

[pablo_picasso]

I don't see why we don't hire foreign officials to oversee the Premier League.

There would be fewer allegiance issues. Potentially fewer "sky six" bias issues.

And lets face it, a lot of them just seem to be better at it than ours are. Whether thats a training issue, I couldn't say.

But the Premier League claims to be best in most areas of football, so why not pay for the best referees from abroad?

[Toronto Villa]

VAR in the European games is just so much quicker and efficient. The PL have made it way more complicated than it needs to be and instead of acknowledging they should improve their process seemed to doubled down on their arrogance on their system being right. So much so that they ultimately defend their own actions and compound poor decisions with more poor decisions.

[UK Redsox]

Wasn't there some talk of Pierluigi Collina moving over here to ref when he left Serie A ?

[Gareth]

I don't see why we don't hire foreign officials to oversee the Premier League.

There would be fewer allegiance issues. Potentially fewer "sky six" bias issues.

And lets face it, a lot of them just seem to be better at it than ours are. Whether thats a training issue, I couldn't say.

But the Premier League claims to be best in most areas of football, so why not pay for the best referees from abroad?

What makes the Premier League anymore important than any other league in the world?? 

PGMOL need to stop hiding behind rule changes and pathetic apologies over mistakes and improve the standard of their officials…if Webb and co can’t or won’t do it then the FAs need to take control of PGMOL

[olaftab]

Saw this on BBC but I must have missed all these opportunities?

Alkmaar spurned several good opportunities before the break, included a gilt-edged chance for top scorer Vangelis Pavlidis when he was clear through on goal.