Champions League Contention

[Sexual Ealing]

Villa last won the league in 1981 and there will be many older supporters who recall the 1998-99 campaign, when John Gregory’s resurgent team led the table after 20 games and then slipped away.

Well I remember the 1998/9 season so have been described as an 'older supporter' for the first time, aged 33. This is depressing.

I remember when I was 30 and reading I Am Legend where the main character is described as a middle aged man when he's about 32... 

My dad wished me happy birthday when I was 33 and said, "well, you're middle-aged now." I'm 46 in two months and there's still no fucking way I'm middle-aged.

[SamTheMouse]

It's the opposite for me. I turn 46 in less than a month, but I've been middle-aged for at least 30 years.

[rob_bridge]

Very salty brummie-redscouse school pal of mine FFS'ing about how we think we are all that for being considered contenders for the title and how sad it is we have won nuffink since 82..........

Always ridicule Brummie Reds. They deserve it. All of them. All of the time

[Bad English]

[AV84]

Villa last won the league in 1981 and there will be many older supporters who recall the 1998-99 campaign, when John Gregory’s resurgent team led the table after 20 games and then slipped away.

Well I remember the 1998/9 season so have been described as an 'older supporter' for the first time, aged 33. This is depressing.

I remember when I was 30 and reading I Am Legend where the main character is described as a middle aged man when he's about 32... 

My dad wished me happy birthday when I was 33 and said, "well, you're middle-aged now." I'm 46 in two months and there's still no fucking way I'm middle-aged.

I read Sense & Sensibility recently and the characters were talking about Colonel Brandon as a love interest. They were writing him off as an old man, close to death. Why would he marry again unless it was to have someone to nurse him in his last years of life?  He was 35.

[Sexual Ealing]

Villa last won the league in 1981 and there will be many older supporters who recall the 1998-99 campaign, when John Gregory’s resurgent team led the table after 20 games and then slipped away.

Well I remember the 1998/9 season so have been described as an 'older supporter' for the first time, aged 33. This is depressing.

I remember when I was 30 and reading I Am Legend where the main character is described as a middle aged man when he's about 32... 

My dad wished me happy birthday when I was 33 and said, "well, you're middle-aged now." I'm 46 in two months and there's still no fucking way I'm middle-aged.

I read Sense & Sensibility recently and the characters were talking about Colonel Brandon as a love interest. They were writing him off as an old man, close to death. Why would he marry again unless it was to have someone to nurse him in his last years of life?  He was 35.

The very same father (an English and Philosophy lecturer) would always tell me, when I complained that Austen was boring, would always counter with, "it's satire, Patrick (my name is Patrick)". Doesn't make it any fucking good though dad (deceased).

[mike]

Very salty brummie-redscouse school pal of mine FFS'ing about how we think we are all that for being considered contenders for the title and how sad it is we have won nuffink since 82..........

Always ridicule Brummie Reds. They deserve it. All of them. All of the time

I would honestly rather my children supported Them than a team from 100 miles away who, coincidentally, were winning loads. I gave them that exact option, albeit when they’re 5 they only hear the bit that says ‘Daddy likes Villa’, rather than anything that comes after.

[AV84]

The very same father (an English and Philosophy lecturer) would always tell me, when I complained that Austen was boring, would always counter with, "it's satire, Patrick (my name is Patrick)". Doesn't make it any fucking good though dad (deceased).

Emma is the only Austen I have any time for. I've listened to a few recently in the gym simply because I was told as a way to get my brain into audiobooks I should listed to some things I already know the story of. So I did a few Austen and a few Dickens, and it actually worked. But yes, generally speaking, not a huge Austen fan.

[Monty]

I actually think Austen's brilliant, but I find her hard work because the idea that this is the totality of the horizons of women at the time (and at most other times)...I don't know, I find it airless and suffocating, which I think she's trying to do to an extent, but still. It's hard work.

[tomd2103]

Don't want to get too carried away and look too far ahead, but our league fixtures until the end of March are:

Sheff Utd (H)
Man Utd (A)
Burnley (H)
Everton (A)
Newcastle (H)
Sheff Utd (A)
Man Utd (H)
Fulham (A)
Nottm Forest (H)
Luton (A)
Spurs (H)
West Ham (A)
Wolves (H)

That takes us to the end of March and only 8 games left.  Not the worst run of fixtures on paper.

[Martyn Smith]

I think we can safely put to bed any talk of Villa being title contenders after this coherent, eloquent, highly assessment from a real knowledgeable expert...

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/noel-gallagher-delivers-x-rated-28303563?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=organic

[Sexual Ealing]

I actually think Austen's brilliant, but I find her hard work because the idea that this is the totality of the horizons of women at the time (and at most other times)...I don't know, I find it airless and suffocating, which I think she's trying to do to an extent, but still. It's hard work.

I admire people like you, Monty, but I can never be one of you (I get what you're saying though).

[Rory]

I actually think Austen's brilliant, but I find her hard work because the idea that this is the totality of the horizons of women at the time (and at most other times)...I don't know, I find it airless and suffocating, which I think she's trying to do to an extent, but still. It's hard work.

I'm a fan of Austen as well, as long as I am able to read it myself rather than having it womansplained (yes, I am claiming that).

I need telling to make sure I read Austen with 'gender in mind' as much as I need some savant telling me to read Achebe with 'postcolonialism in mind'.

[Bad English]

Villa last won the league in 1981 and there will be many older supporters who recall the 1998-99 campaign, when John Gregory’s resurgent team led the table after 20 games and then slipped away.

Well I remember the 1998/9 season so have been described as an 'older supporter' for the first time, aged 33. This is depressing.

I remember when I was 30 and reading I Am Legend where the main character is described as a middle aged man when he's about 32... 

My dad wished me happy birthday when I was 33 and said, "well, you're middle-aged now." I'm 46 in two months and there's still no fucking way I'm middle-aged.

I read Sense & Sensibility recently and the characters were talking about Colonel Brandon as a love interest. They were writing him off as an old man, close to death. Why would he marry again unless it was to have someone to nurse him in his last years of life?  He was 35.

I may be inviting a 'whoosh' but life expectancy then was half what it is now.

[ldavfc4eva]

Any guesses for how many points we would need to:

1 - Win the title
2 - Finish top 4

I think the league will be a high points one, so 93

4th - 71