Will we win the Premier League

[Chip Butty 111]

Or as Jonathan Liew put it graciously in his column, 'Aston Villa, lol, give me a break'. That's nice.

..the guy from Countdown lol, probably never kicked a ball in his life, file under 'bag of cement'.

[LeeB]

Or as Jonathan Liew put it graciously in his column, 'Aston Villa, lol, give me a break'. That's nice.

..the guy from Countdown lol, probably never kicked a ball in his life, file under 'bag of cement'.

A random dig at a club massively overachieving given what they're up against, gotta love the Guardian.

[Drummond]

Let's be honest, we don't expect to win the league so it's no suprise that nobody else does either..

We could win it, but history shows it's really hard to as a club of our stature (financially and experience of winning a trophy) in the modern game.

One thing is for sure though, were built to keep improving, and we've shown the last 3 years that we want European football each season at least.

The longer people don't talk us up, the longer the big pressure stays off us.

[Monty]

Or as Jonathan Liew put it graciously in his column, 'Aston Villa, lol, give me a break'. That's nice.

..the guy from Countdown lol, probably never kicked a ball in his life, file under 'bag of cement'.

A random dig at a club massively overachieving given what they're up against, gotta love the Guardian.

It is a bit bizarre.

[LeeB]

Or as Jonathan Liew put it graciously in his column, 'Aston Villa, lol, give me a break'. That's nice.

..the guy from Countdown lol, probably never kicked a ball in his life, file under 'bag of cement'.

A random dig at a club massively overachieving given what they're up against, gotta love the Guardian.

It is a bit bizarre.

Isnt it? Not like it's an Arsenal blog or the BTL comments. Could have just said the squad is a bit light or something.
He writes some decent stuff at times but at others he's an absolute knob.

[Sexual Ealing]

I think he was joking.

[Monty]

I think he was joking.

At Villa's expense, though.

Like I'm not offended or anything. I just found it quite strange to have a pointless swipe at an underdog.

[colin69]

Hand on heart I don’t think we can win it, but the longer we stay alongside the other two, who knows?
The fact we are saying things like this after our shit start to the season is just amazing.

[Rigadon]

It really depends on whether he’s channeling what he thinks Arsenal are trying to omit, which I think he probably is. 

We need to stop being so meek about a tilt at the title. 

[paul_e]

I think he was joking.

At Villa's expense, though.

Like I'm not offended or anything. I just found it quite strange to have a pointless swipe at an underdog.

I find they do it quite regularly and its not just him, 2-3 of their writers seem to basically think there's 5-6 clubs matter and then a bunch of filler to make up the numbers, it comes across in loads of the articles.

[LeeB]

I think he was joking.

At Villa's expense, though.

Like I'm not offended or anything. I just found it quite strange to have a pointless swipe at an underdog.

I find they do it quite regularly and its not just him, 2-3 of their writers seem to basically think there's 5-6 clubs matter and then a bunch of filler to make up the numbers, it comes across in loads of the articles.

Jonathan Wilson in particular, and I happened to listen to a Rest is History podcast from a few years back with him on this week. He started at Tom Holland (Villa fan if you don't know) about an incident in the 1913 cup final Sunderland weren't happy about, then went on the moan that the early league was really just a Lancashire - West Midlands league as Sunderland had been rejected for being too far. They were having a laugh about it all but it solidified my belief that he really doesn't like us.

[paul_e]

Spiderman, Zendaya and a Villa fan, what a guy! (winky face)

[algy]

Let's be honest, we don't expect to win the league so it's no suprise that nobody else does either..

We could win it, but history shows it's really hard to as a club of our stature (financially and experience of winning a trophy) in the modern game.

One thing is for sure though, were built to keep improving, and we've shown the last 3 years that we want European football each season at least.

The longer people don't talk us up, the longer the big pressure stays off us.

This is about where I stand on it all.

I don't expect us to win the league.  The system is set up in such a way that it makes it difficult for clubs outside the Sky 6 to do win it.

As you (Drummond) wrote, we've kept improving season on season since Emery came in, to the point where if we're honest this season a good proportion of our supporters would be disappointed if we didn't make the Champions League now.  That's a huge leap in a short space of time since we had Gerrard in charge.

With Emery in charge I'd not rule it out yet.  He gives the impression that he thinks we can do it, which is good enough for me.  However, if we were to win the league it'd go down as a shock win eclipsed maybe only by Leicester City since football was invented in 1992, and before that ... maybe Leeds 91/92 or us 80/81?  It'd be huge.

[Monty]

I think he was joking.

At Villa's expense, though.

Like I'm not offended or anything. I just found it quite strange to have a pointless swipe at an underdog.

I find they do it quite regularly and its not just him, 2-3 of their writers seem to basically think there's 5-6 clubs matter and then a bunch of filler to make up the numbers, it comes across in loads of the articles.

Jonathan Wilson in particular, and I happened to listen to a Rest is History podcast from a few years back with him on this week. He started at Tom Holland (Villa fan if you don't know) about an incident in the 1913 cup final Sunderland weren't happy about, then went on the moan that the early league was really just a Lancashire - West Midlands league as Sunderland had been rejected for being too far. They were having a laugh about it all but it solidified my belief that he really doesn't like us.

Wilson's a bit of a different case, who knows what's up with him. Maybe, like the Tifo twats, he dislikes how we're overperforming our xG difference. Kind of kills his gimmick.

[PeterWithesShin]

If we won it then it would be nowhere near as big a shock as Leicester.