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The dislike of Wigan (well, mine certainly) is pretty much based on Dave Whelan. Martinez should be credited with laying the foundations at Swansea that now sees them enjoying their current success he deserves a shot at a club with a bigger budget but agree with Stevo that he and others are given more slack than others whose style of play is less "pretty".

I strenulously deny these evil and malicious allegations and will look to the Courts to defend my good name and my reputation.

It be jose win at all costs attitude that could put investors off. say what you want about Fergie but way he acted in Suarez/Evra incident was impeccable while Jose would have probably made it 100 times worst than it was Absolute rubbish. The club is floated on the NY Stock Exchange where local investors will know absolutely **** all about the nuances of football. You replace a Winner with a Winner, a King with a King, so if you seriously believe the appointment of a new manager would be a business decision you back Mourinho everytime, a massive successful name with a CL winning pedigree. Besides, half of Utd's global fans won't even have heard of Moyes THAT will hammer the share price not Jose.

eloquent as ever drat....

Sigh.... I had several at school... Captain Camp Phallen Dale Before eventually being left with Eames.

Neville - have a word with yourself. Not really fitting the current pattern is it. Sinclair - more likely but wages will be an issue. Plus he's done **** all for a season - there are equally effective, cheaper options that won't have been bench warming Bony - too much like Benteke..... plus its not really a priority area for next season.

Meaningless gesture now the season has ended. They will be back in come August. Just a PR stunt to shame them into paying the bills. Had they done this during the season the landlord knows they'd push the club under and get nothing.

Can't be arsed with the picture but Smooth by Santana. Not a cloud in the sky, perfect summer tuneage.

Farage is a salesman -a sinister and yet a very good one. What he sells is a 1950s vision of England. Jam sandwiches on the green, johnny foreigner comfortably at arms length and a nation populated by people just like you. If he was a television channel he'd be Dave or Yesterday. Populated solely by entities that don't exist anymore. Obselete and aging badly. His statements towards Europe are shortsighted and xenophobic appealing to a slightly better class of Little Englander than the BNP manage to. He is a man devoid of policy beyond "say no to this" and "stand up to that". He is not a force that must be stopped, rather than a self agrandising weasel that should simply be ignored.

:( This is shit.

There are several decent sporacle quizes to be had there......... English PL winners Countries whose players have won the Premier League Players who have won the PL....

Blimey, Mrs Roberts has let herself go a bit.........

Quite. Which makes every game a must-win There is that but I meant in the context current cirucmstances. I wouldn't fancy facing Wigan on the last day of the season needing a result to stay up. Far better we pretty much confirm our safety asap and then have a couple of weeks without worrying about how the Villa will inevtiably **** up.

It actually isn't, thanks to the Sunderland result. It's a 'really nice if we win' or a 'safe if we do', but if worst was to come to worst, we still have Chelsea and Wigan. So technically it's not a must-win. Well no its not technically a must win but in reality it would be better for all of us is we did.

Despite the results there just hasn't been the outright hostility to the manager this season - I think we have all seen what it is Lambert is trying to achieve and realised the challenges the squad has given him. Add that to the fact that the football (Chelsea aside) has been SO much better this season has meant that we haven't really had cause to get too far on his case.

There's no point wanting a manager to do something when the chairman won't pay the wages that would make it happen. The job of bringing in the odd established player is a lot easier to do now from an integration point of view, now that we have a good base and now that we know what we have. Ignoring the wages, from a playing point of view it could have been equally as dangerous to bring in a shed load of established players on big wages (see QPR). But as I say, the key point in all of this is that he didn't have the money to go down that route so the point is moot. Supplement the current squad with a few more league 1 players and academy kids - isn't going to produce a surge up the table Is it not? Lowton and Westwood from L1 and our "kids" such as Weimann, Baker, Gabby have been excellent at times this year. 2 wins before the end of the season and we will have surged up the table from where we were. I think Lambert is proving that he has got the formula right, pick em young, talented and hungry - why spend more buying players from WBA who will cost more upfront and on wages?

Lets face it - its a must win. 3 points gives us 40 and we are safe as houses - we can write of Chelsea and it would be lovely to go to Wigan already safe and spend an afternoon taking the piss. We could concievable finish on 43 points which puts us firmly midtable despite the utter shite we served up over Christmas. I'm going 2-1 Villa with Andi and Bentekkers to score and us to conceed our statutory goal once we've gone 1 up.

^^ Crown Code for Prosecutors - I won't bore you with the details but basically you have to have a better than 50% chance of winning before you go to Court notwithstanding all the public interest stuff, This is going to cause someone a massive headache? What sentence do you give Stuart Hall?

I got pissed on a school trip once (as a teacher) and accidentally took a kids ritalin instead of paracetamol the next morning. I realise that in the context of this thread that barely even ripples the water but I was beginning to feel left out. :?

Yay! Join the ranks of rocket polisher boyracer types chopping in their custom novas for them.

Their token Villa fan is a bit of a plank though..... 11:57, Tuesday 30 April 2013 The Beast won't be going anywhere... With our survival now guaranteed and the minimum 70 million payment we will get next year I firmly believe that we will be top 4 next season and probably challenge for the premier league.... Lambert will take us back to where we belong as champions of Europe.... Yippy ayyeeeee ayeeeee birmingham are ya listening etc etc

Fixed.

Is that the actual crowd or is that from the Dutch "You've Been Framed" If that was the reponse in the ground that is awesome. No abuse, no "ooooh" just mocking laughter.

Not for me. He's been a sack of shit as well.

This thread is haking me feel eel.