Aston Villa vs Tottenham Hotspur pre-match thread

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

The fans have a vital role to play tomorrow

Exactly. Hopefully those match day tickets have been bought by proper Villa fans and not day trippers because 'top 6' Spurs are in town.

You can kind of second guess what the atmosphere is going to be like pre-match, by the amount of fumbling around with tickets outside the ground at the turnstiles.

In fairness I still fumble around and I’ve been going best part of 50 years

Ha ha. Me too.

We’ve come a long way from Handing 50p over to the turnstile operative in the Holte End back in the 70’s

Yes, you youngsters you did read it right 50p to see Gidman Nicholl Little and Gray

1/6 when I were a lad! :-)

[passport1]

I expect nothing less than a Villa win especially  as I will be in the posh seats to see it. Onwards and upwards.

[olaftab]

What a shower of shit-outs you all are.

Again, your phraseology is spot on😂

[LeeB]

What a shower of shit-outs you all are.

Again, your phraseology is spot on😂

Cheers pal!

[Nunkin1965]

Going to be a special game with both sides going all out for the win.
An Emery masterplan will get us over the line.
3-2 to us.

[Bad English]

I have a feeling that this will be a game of football that either time could win. Or it could end in a draw or be abandoned.

[itmustbe_it is!]

Hope whoever scores the winner for us does the darts celebration.

If I ever see a villa player do that wanky nonsense, or the imaginary photo taking, I will be very disappointed indeed.  Just no. 

I'll be happy to see McGinn's beer goggles though

[PaulWinch again]

We haven’t beaten a top half side at home since December (I think) so tomorrow is the time to address that.

[algy]

I have a feeling that this will be a game of football that either time could win. Or it could end in a draw or be abandoned.

Insight!

[VillaTim]

I expect nothing less than a Villa win especially  as I will be in the posh seats to see it. Onwards and upwards.

Enjoy your chicken dinner .

[astonvilla82]

Is our match still on tomorrow as all I’ve been hearing is that Liverpool are playing Man City, full stop!!

Yep.  The only two matches I've heard being spoken about on Talksport this week are Luverpool v Man City and Man Utd v Everton.  Some clown on there this morning even described the game at Old Trafford as "tantalising".

And now the Tottenham love in has begun on sky sports news with interviewing Madison and some other bloke

Is it a love-in, or is it an interview with a couple of their players?

It's love, discussing darts considering we the home team

[Dave]

Personally I think it's beyond the pale that a 24-hour sports television channel would interview popular players from a popular football team.

Don't they know that there are supporters of other teams who might be offended by the sight of players on their televisions who don't play for their team?

[andyh]

If we want to taken seriously, we have to beat these fuckers.
No bottling it. No, happy with a point.
We have to show we are the real deal and belong in the top 4.

On a wider note, win tomorrow and we are six points off top of the table going into the last 10 games.
SIX POINTS !!! That’s incredible.

Bloody hell, its been closer to 60 points off top in our recent history.

Unai is a Don. A god.
I just want him to fire us up so strongly we batter this lot on Sunday.

[Forge10]

Due to me being a glass half empty kinda bloke I was going to talk about our inconsistency costing us today. It then struck me that to get in the position we currently find ourselves in wouldn't have been possible without performing consistently over the season. I think if we show up today we'll have too much, however a performance like Thursday night will result in a hiding. I'd probably take a draw now if offered.

[Clampy]

The positive in me is thinking 3-2 with a last gasp 25 yard winner from Matty Cash but my head says 2-2.