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"Miami" is making quite a push in the NL East now...new stadium, new uniforms, new name, shiny new players....'twill be interesting to see what develops.

Who is the Angels fan that posts on here? And how does he feel about getting Albert Pujols for 10 years/$250m?

Throw in John Terry too. Head first, that way he'll finally get a decent haircut

Liverpool made out like thieves.... 8)

If he's fit, it's got to be mental....just a complete collapse of self belief....stunning, really, considering what he did at Liverpool. He looked like he was gonna go on to break all kinds of records.

Yup, Grade A assh*le, that one...

Razor sharp intellect, and a very eloquent and fearless critic of religious fanaticism, and stupidity in general. I'll miss seeing him on TV making people squirm in their seats, lol.

D'oh! lemme go fix that

Put him, Joey Barton and Mario Balotelli in a pool of piranhas

F*ck Coventry City...that said, they should have the right to hold banners without being put in chokeholds...

Any player, any club, any era.

You are the goalkeeper....who would you choose as your 2 defenders and 2 forwards? (Can be former players as well as current)

Haha, too obvious a set up

O Tannenbaum - Vince Guaraldi

Some very nice goals in there....shame he hasn't done more of that

Any examples of this actually working in a PL setting? Many have tried it, some have ongoing experiments but none can claim to have succeeded yet Agreed....I suppose I mean that there is a role to be played within the club that was formerly performed by Steve Stride. A well versed Villa man who really seemed to be the glue of the operation for a long time. If he was there when MON was punch drunk on cash, we probably wouldn't still be saddled with flotsam and jetsam. So someone who can work as a intermediary between Lerner and the manager, the club and agents, etc...I don't believe for a minute that PF is astute at any of that.

I wouldn't mind playing a bit of keepy-uppy with her....

Who is that hot chick on the Chelsea bench? :shock:

Nice to see how a midfield can work

The referee is challenging John Terry for Dodgiest Haircut

I'm enjoying the savaging Downing has been getting from Liverpool supporters lately....haha, stuff it, Stew! 2-0 Liverpool

Funny ad. But I think the phenomenon really only applies to women, because the skimpy outfits and messed up hair really stand out the next day, whereas guys can just hop out of bed and go about their business more or less indistinguishable from everyone else. And I doubt they feel any shame

Anelka to Shanghai on massive wages :shock: I wonder how much of a player China will be in the future in terms of club football...

I'm just not sure how delving back into the archives from decades ago can inform someone to such a degree that it imbues them with some sort of magic touch on which to rely upon in matters current. I think the cure is as simple as bringing in a football man to act as DoF. It's pretty clear from my perspective that Paul Faulkner seems more of a liability than a benefit. What football nous Randy lacks should ideally be offset by someone who has that football nous, and Faulkner does not. History has little to do with it, in my opinion. Ship out Faulkner, and bring in someone of the Steve Stride mould, problem sorted.

For a foreign owner who readily claimed no prior knowledge of Aston Villa, or it's history, I think Lerner has actually done an admirable job in honoring the tradition and history of the club, and respecting the thoughts and ideas from supporters- from the Holte Hotel renovation, to consulting with supporters over the club crest redesign, to bringing back Ron Saunders to VP, etc. It's fairly clear that he's put in an honest effort to listen and learn about the history and traditions of the club. I don't see how one can interpret things differently. That said, he's stumbled badly the last couple of years. But his many mistakes have nothing to do with a lack of honoring or understanding the history of the club; it's a lack of nous, footballing nous, and how it's applicable to the business side of running the club. At this juncture, I'm really far less concerned about the depth of Lerner's knowledge of history than I am with his knowledge of how to operate a successful football club. We were just a few points off a Champion's League birth a few seasons ago and who knows where we'd be now? Lerner gave it an honest go from the start, and made every effort to show due respect for the club, it's traditions and it's supporters. Wasn't that what people were all happy about when he took over? I'm just not really convinced that you can blame our current situation on his history deficiency.