Aston Villa v Ajax - Post-Match Thread

[dave.woodhall]

There's a load of Ajax in the Wellington.  One of them has just shouted "Fuck the Albion".

[Nev]

The police were whizzing about all over the place on the walk back to the Bartons area.

[Somniloquism]

There's a load of Ajax in the Wellington.  One of them has just shouted "Fuck the Albion".

Is he looking around for his pint to be delivered?

[Flamingo Lane]

I thought the co-commentator on TNT was very good, seemed to know alot about us. Don't know who she was.

[Somniloquism]

Lucy Ward at a guess.

[Nii Lamptey]

Yin and Yang compared to last Sunday.

Great performance, great atmosphere, great result… Also thought there was a surprising increase in the number of kids attending tonight. What a game for them to attend - will live long in their memories.

Last 8 here we come. UTV

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Routine win. Good to see Diaby playing well and he was linking up well with Bailey, although not everything went as planned.
Good that Rogers got some game time and I thought he looked threatening when he drifted into the middle.
Durans finishing was a bit erratic when a bit of composure was needed but he certainly struck the ball well for his goal and he gave us a different dimension up front.
Ref, just like in Amsterdam, was dodgy. This was more down to the yellow cards that he gave for both teams.

[Rory]

Small point, and it's easy for me to say on this occasion because we were the beneficiaries, but I was pleased to see a ref brave enough to give a second yellow for shirt-pulling.

Pretty much every professional side does it, we do it, but I hate how common it is in the modern game, and consider it a completely unnatural impulse and one of the most cynical of fouls.

Some of the worst leg-breaking tackles you can see the misjudgment. They're worthy of punishment, naturally, but there's not necessarily premeditation. Sometimes it's just a tragic fuck-up.

Same with many handballs we see given, where the player has simply failed to move his or her hand from the path of a ball without knowing where that path was going to be.

Pulling an opponent's shirt, like diving or deliberately running across an opponent's heels, is one of those 'professional fouls' which is the product of a fundamentally cheating mindset.

I wish more players (most notably those playing for the likes of Man City) were pulled up on it.

[Dogtanian]

I enjoyed that.

[The Edge]

Routine win. Good to see Diaby playing well and he was linking up well with Bailey, although not everything went as planned.
Good that Rogers got some game time and I thought he looked threatening when he drifted into the middle.
Durans finishing was a bit erratic when a bit of composure was needed but he certainly struck the ball well for his goal and he gave us a different dimension up front.
Ref, just like in Amsterdam, was dodgy. This was more down to the yellow cards that he gave for both teams.

I'd love to know how the came to the conclusion that Ollie deserved a booking. Both the ref and the linesman were looking in the opposite direction. Ref was in the centre circle and the linesman was running towards the hall way line. There's no way either of them saw the incident properly.

[Duncan Shaw]

I think he was a bit late on the keeper tbh.

I really enjoyed that too! 

[Axl Rose]

Great win. Back to checking Athens flights.

[Paul.S]

We did what we had to and in the second half moved up a gear for an while and killed the game off.

[Olneythelonely]

Sunday's Rovers

New 5-a-side team name

[tomd2103]

Enjoyed that and felt we were comfortable throughout really.  Just thought we had that extra bit in every department and blew them.away when it clicked.  Not having away goals takes a bit of the jeopardy out of home ties like that, but we were rarely troubled.

What was going on with that big queue in the passage alongside the players car park up towards the Trinity Road?  I've never seen that there before and when I finally got up to the gates out on to Trinity Road, there didn't seem any reason for it.  It was made worse by some clown trying to antagonise people by bizarrely singing "where were you when we were shit?" repeatedly.