Sunderland vs Aston Villa pre-match thread

[Steve67]

Is this game on the tellybox?

[TonyD]

I met a group of Sunderland fans on one of my cycling trips in a pub in Solva in south west Wales on  the day they appointed MoN.
They were switched on professionals. 
But my god:
“He was too big for your Villa”
“We are going to definitely qualify for CL”
“And Mon will then lead us to win the CL ,  yes, yes definitely”

My god did I laugh. But they were adamant Mon was going to lead them to world domination.

I told them that he would spunk Sunderland’s money on expensive English players and get them relegated.

They thought I was mad……..

[Beard82]

Is this game on the tellybox?

Sky Sports Main Event Apparently.  Though my preference is normally to just watch the wall Ive painted next to tv

[paul_e]

I met a group of Sunderland fans on one of my cycling trips in a pub in Solva in south west Wales on  the day they appointed MoN.
They were switched on professionals. 
But my god:
“He was too big for your Villa”
“We are going to definitely qualify for CL”
“And Mon will then lead us to win the CL ,  yes, yes definitely”

My god did I laugh. But they were adamant Mon was going to lead them to world domination.

I told them that he would spunk Sunderland’s money on expensive English players and get them relegated.

They thought I was mad……..

I'm married to a Mackem so I have a lot of in-laws and friends up there. When mon got the job we were up there visiting for the FILs birthday and I had loads of them asking about him in the pub. I told them they'd love him for 6 months and then however long he lasted from there it would always be that they were 1-2 players away from achieving something but he'd never find those players and when he left some fans would hate him but others would defend him as having been let down by the board. As it turned out he did even worse than I expected and very few of them have anything good to say about him now.

They didn't have much good to say about Bruce when we got him in.

[TonyD]

I met a group of Sunderland fans on one of my cycling trips in a pub in Solva in south west Wales on  the day they appointed MoN.
They were switched on professionals. 
But my god:
“He was too big for your Villa”
“We are going to definitely qualify for CL”
“And Mon will then lead us to win the CL ,  yes, yes definitely”

My god did I laugh. But they were adamant Mon was going to lead them to world domination.

I told them that he would spunk Sunderland’s money on expensive English players and get them relegated.

They thought I was mad……..

I'm married to a Mackem so I have a lot of in-laws and friends up there. When mon got the job we were up there visiting for the FILs birthday and I had loads of them asking about him in the pub. I told them they'd love him for 6 months and then however long he lasted from there it would always be that they were 1-2 players away from achieving something but he'd never find those players and when he left some fans would hate him but others would defend him as having been let down by the board. As it turned out he did even worse than I expected and very few of them have anything good to say about him now.

They didn't have much good to say about Bruce when we got him in.

The guys I met refused to even listen to my retro opinion of MoN’s tenure a VP. 
In fact when I said I was Villa - their immediate response was that Sunderland was a much much bigger club that Villa. 
Maybe when I spat my beer out at this silly comment - lead them to go on to talk that MoN would win them CL in  2 years.
It was comedy gold.
As I walked away from the chat after about 20 minutes they were discussing how big the civil reception would be when they won the CL.

[pauliewalnuts]

Is this game on the tellybox?

I fucking hope not.

[adrenachrome]

Is this game on the tellybox?

I fucking hope not.

Don't shoot the messenger:

https://www.live-footballontv.com/aston-villa-on-tv.html

[Nev]

Something just clicks, a sudden change, a volte face, where there was desperation there is delight, hope is renewed and a midweek Thursday becomes something to be relished rather than resented.

1-2

[adrenachrome]

Something just clicks, a sudden change, a volte face, where there was desperation there is delight, hope is renewed and a midweek Thursday becomes something to be relished rather than resented.

1-2

Purely based on pattern recognition, I think we will win.

[Drummond]

Nah we'll get humped and this place will be unbearable for a few days.

[john e]

The worst thing at the moment about Villa is when you look forward to the next game win, lose or draw you know it’s going to be really boring

Unfortunately that’s what I expect at Sunderland Maybe we win 1 nill maybe we lose but one thing I can’t get out of my head is it will probably be very slow and boring
I know we’d all take a boring 1 nill at the moment but I would like to see some adventure back and I still trust in Unai to bring us through

[ChicagoLion]

It’s not quite a must win because redemption could be found against Bologna.

But you are right John e, there is zero excitement watching this version of Emery Villa.

Oh for those heady days and nights of only a season ago.

WtF happened?

[VILLA MOLE]

Watching some of the Newcastle v Barcelona last night showed how far behind we are at the moment.  The change in tempo and

movement at times from Barcelona was something to see

[London Villan]

Yet 6 months ago we battered the Champions of Europe…