Champions League Contention

[The Edge]

Some of the wankfest in the gutter press, especially about Spurzzzzzz is sickening

One hack even suggested Redscum could sneak into top 4 - unfuckingbelievable.

I really hope we discover some form  again and go on the march to ram it down these clowns throats

I saw a couple of similar things on SM today saying Top 4 a straight fight between Liv, Ars, MC, Spurs and MU. Title race over now DeBruyne and Haaland are back which is probably true. Ian Wright was the only one to even mention us as "doing well" Proper vomit inducing stuff. Yeah I would really love to make top 4 and 3rd would be amazing as it would probably push the cockneys below us.Ramming it down the throats of those pricks especially the ones in the Sky cartel would be immensely satisfying.

[Sexual Ealing]

If people find what they read in the media sickening or vomit-inducing, perhaps they ought to avoid consuming it.

[AV82EC]

If people find what they read in the media sickening or vomit-inducing, perhaps they ought to avoid consuming it.

There is an element of the “Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells” about it.

[The Edge]

If people find what they read in the media sickening or vomit-inducing, perhaps they ought to avoid consuming it.

Well excuse me. I watched an article about pundits predicting their top four this season. I was expecting us to be part of the conversation but we wasn't. I'll avoid all articles that could possibly involve the Villa in future just in case.

[Sexual Ealing]

That's probably a good idea if they upset you so much.

[LeeB]

Maybe just take a car sickness tablet first.

[eamonn]

I give a pundits a pass on this one, we've rarely been up there at the top in modernz timez. They're lazy but I prefer not being talked-up. I still feel there's a bigger chance we'll plummet downwards and finish 6th to 8th which admittedly is the long-standing Villan in me Stockholm syndrome'd into having been let-down.

Unai is different but even he couldn't shake-off the Villa curse at Old Trafford the other week. It'll be a wonderful surprise for me if we manage top four/five and Chumps League but I don't wanna dream about it cos our dreams have too often been nightmared.

[chrisw1]

I give a pundits a pass on this one, we've rarely been up there at the top in modernz timez. They're lazy but I prefer not being talked-up. I still feel there's a bigger chance we'll plummet downwards and finish 6th to 8th which admittedly is the long-standing Villan in me Stockholm syndrome'd into having been let-down.

Unai is different but even he couldn't shake-off the Villa curse at Old Trafford the other week. It'll be a wonderful surprise for me if we manage top four/five and Chumps League but I don't wanna dream about it cos our dreams have too often been nightmared.

I agree.  I don't think we'll finish top 4 and I watch every game.  I think it's reasonable that pundits draw the same conclusion. 

[Meanwood Villa]

It's a bit bizarre if people are throwing Man Utd in the mix ahead of us though. We're 11 points ahead of them. If we don't finish above them this season something will have gone badly wrong.

[eamonn]

Yeah but it should be 17 points and they'd be dead and buried but we fcuekd-up (again), against them. Hopefully we can kill-off Newcastle's chances of catching us in our next league game.

[cannock villa]

Our form isn't some couple of weeks fluke. We have been the second best team points wise behind Man City for 13 months now, so why is it not possible to finish in the top 4. I can understand pundits overlooking this but reading the comments on here even our own fans are.
Yes we drop points when we shouldn't but so have every other team around us.

[Sexual Ealing]

Our form isn't some couple of weeks fluke. We have been the second best team points wise behind Man City for 13 months now, so why is it not possible to finish in the top 4. I can understand pundits overlooking this but reading the comments on here even our own fans are.
Yes we drop points when we shouldn't but so have every other team around us.

There's no reason why we can't, but it's advisable to avoid becoming incandescent with fury if Lee Dixon or Chris Sutton don't think we will.

[chrisw1]

Our form isn't some couple of weeks fluke. We have been the second best team points wise behind Man City for 13 months now, so why is it not possible to finish in the top 4. I can understand pundits overlooking this but reading the comments on here even our own fans are.
Yes we drop points when we shouldn't but so have every other team around us.

The fact that it's possible doesn't mean that people have to think we will.

Perhaps it's just the natural scepticism of a Villa fan nurtured over the last 40 years. 

Or possibly it's because some people think we've ridden our luck a bit and probably punched a bit above our weight in terms of points vs performance.  Martinez alone has probably been worth 12-15 points this season.  Either way, until Villa start winning stuff or qualifying for the CL regularly people will always be cautious about predicting our success. 

Hopefully Emery will earn the respect we as fans want from the media in the next season or two. 

[The Edge]

Our form isn't some couple of weeks fluke. We have been the second best team points wise behind Man City for 13 months now, so why is it not possible to finish in the top 4. I can understand pundits overlooking this but reading the comments on here even our own fans are.
Yes we drop points when we shouldn't but so have every other team around us.

There's no reason why we can't, but it's advisable to avoid becoming incandescent with fury if Lee Dixon or Chris Sutton don't think we will.

I doubt if any Villa fan will be furious about what a couple of useless pundits like Dixon or Sutton think. File them in the useless buffoon column along with Danny Murphy and Danny Mills.

[Pat Mustard]

Our form isn't some couple of weeks fluke. We have been the second best team points wise behind Man City for 13 months now, so why is it not possible to finish in the top 4. I can understand pundits overlooking this but reading the comments on here even our own fans are.
Yes we drop points when we shouldn't but so have every other team around us.

The fact that it's possible doesn't mean that people have to think we will.

Perhaps it's just the natural scepticism of a Villa fan nurtured over the last 40 years. 

Or possibly it's because some people think we've ridden our luck a bit and probably punched a bit above our weight in terms of points vs performance.  Martinez alone has probably been worth 12-15 points this season.  Either way, until Villa start winning stuff or qualifying for the CL regularly people will always be cautious about predicting our success. 

Hopefully Emery will earn the respect we as fans want from the media in the next season or two.

I don't think we have ridden our luck at all - we've lost the games where we haven't played well, but we've deservedly won the large majority of matches in the last 12 months.  And, if we don't finish in the top 4 it won't be Manchester United who finish above us as we'll funeral those bastards once and for all on 11th February!