Aston Villa v Manchester United 21.12.25 - Pre Match Thread

[London Villan]

Don’t mind him. When we stayed up in 2020 he made a point if saying well done to our players.

[Baldy]

Man Utd are under a lot of financial pressure. Desperate. They need Champions League money and fast. The 'wolves are at the door'.

Aston Villa are the biggest threat to them not getting in the top four (possibly 5). Clubs like Arses, Man City and Chelski are probably a gimme.

We win this and we are 10 points ahead of them in the league. 

The 3 points for us would be glorious. Putting another nail in their coffin would be the cherry on top of the cake!!

COYVB

[Crown Hill]

Don’t mind him. When we stayed up in 2020 he made a point if saying well done to our players.

And he was ref in the famous Sheff utd game!

[cdbearsfan]

Also referee in the FA Cup game where they spent an hour and a half or so desperately trying to find a reason to disallow our equaliser and, of course, found one.

[tony scott]

I’m old enough to remember us winning a few against them, for example a 4 0 home win when Denis Law was sent off for kicking Alan Deakin in the face.  I hope we beat them Unai knows how ,remember his first day in charge, I’m not one of life’s natural optimists, but I feel a win coming

[PGW]

I’m old enough to remember us winning a few against them, for example a 4 0 home win when Denis Law was sent off for kicking Alan Deakin in the face.  I hope we beat them Unai knows how ,remember his first day in charge, I’m not one of life’s natural optimists, but I feel a win coming

Law said in some form of mitigation that Deakin was kicking lumps out of him...if anyone really remembers Alan Deakin will know absolutely untrue...totally incapable of that.In his day as one of Mercer Minors a very good player

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Just wanted to join in the pile on and vent my own hatred, disgust and complete and utter contempt for the football side that represents the red side of Manchester.

Their supporters constitute the worst of humanity, vile human beings each and everyone of them.

I’d full Kevin Keegan ‘Love it’ if we smash the bastards into orbit this weekend, and despite the much catalogued years of misery and cheating we’ve endured at the hands of them, I really expect us to do it. Our home form is fantastic our current form stupendous, Unai will use the injustice of last season to fire the lads up into an unstoppable fury of fire and retribution.

Villa 4 Scum 0

[eamonn]

This will be our Sheffield United moment from two Christmases ago. Our long-winning streak shot to bits in a limp display against inferior opponents, saved by Evann fucking Zaniòlo Guessand. Merry Christmas!

[ADVILLAFAN]

One interesting stat I saw. Only Wolves have kept less clean sheets than Manure this season.

[PaulWinch again]

Pau out for a few weeks is a big blow.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Just wanted to join in the pile on and vent my own hatred, disgust and complete and utter contempt for the football side that represents the red side of Manchester.

Their supporters constitute the worst of humanity, vile human beings each and everyone of them.

Bit over the top that. I would never talk like that about another club apart from Dirty Leeds.

[Chris Smith]

This will be our Sheffield United moment from two Christmases ago. Our long-winning streak shot to bits in a limp display against inferior opponents, saved by Evann fucking Zaniòlo Guessand. Merry Christmas!

You’re not one of life’s optimists are you, Eamonn. <winky thing>

[Rudy Can't Fail]

One interesting stat I saw. Only Wolves have kept less clean sheets than Manure this season.

Nice. Outside the bottom 3 only Leeds and Bournemouth have conceded more.

[cdbearsfan]

Pau out for a few weeks is a big blow.

I have a nagging feel that it is going to be just like last season where we keep getting a centre-half injured every week and our season completely derails.

[john e]

Also referee in the FA Cup game where they spent an hour and a half or so desperately trying to find a reason to disallow our equaliser and, of course, found one.

Yep
How many phases did they go back