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Erm, can someone link an article or tweet that confirms what the injury is?

Our medical team seem to insist that our injured players with leg/knee/ankle injuries put their full weight on it and walk off the pitch.

We need a big response and I think we'll get one. 0-4 to Villa

I hate the feeling I get after results like today and against clubs like them. It really feels like a punch in the gut. A malaise sets in and lingers for a few days after. I **** hate that new era sh*t Man Utd continues to pull off these wins against us. We have to do better against our immediate rivals. The Spurs game is now the big one. A loss at home to them will be unacceptable. The players must figure out how to meet these moments, and the manager has to prepare them better for these moments of pressure and expectation. If they can't handle it, then we will find our appropriate level in the league table after the final match day.

He played well, but then the whole team was playing in a state of transcendent bliss. And he had Torres and Konsa flanking him. I hope he's not written off entirely. There's still a lot of games to be played, including in Europe. He'll have opportunities to showcase what he's capable of in a Villa shirt.

No, actually! (I've just resubbed to Netflix after about a 2 year break) I'll check it out.

I can only assume the injury has really degraded his level of play and mobility. He doesn't look like a top 6 CB. And his brain goes completely missing at times.

I like seeing him in a more advanced position in the attacking half winning the ball back and trying to make something happen offensively. He did so a few times today, and showed a flash of flare at one point near the 6 yard box.

Perhaps now that our great expectations for this team are cratering, the team might start feeling less pressure to meet our great expectations (and those of pundits, et al), and start winning again. The players and manager need us now more than ever. We can still qualify for the CL and we can still win a trophy. Don't let this bad run of results dampen our spirit. We can recover from this wobble.

The thing is, if Trump gets back in power and decides to carpet bomb Venezuela, they will enthusiastically get right back on board the bomb brown people bus (which is their traditional inclination as Republicans). It's a cynical position taken only out of political convenience.

If Trump gets back in, it'll only be a matter of time before the army is unofficially operational inside Northern Mexico, commerce be damned. For the MAGA GOP it all boils down to brown people at the border, owning the LIbs in the culture wars and gutting the government agencies (and regulations) they don't want.

Will Farange-types in the U.K. view Trump's open hostility and threats to NATO as something to be worried about, or do they share a similar antipathy? It is truly incredible that the GOP is now unofficially platforming the idea that it's nominee for President is willing to extort America's historical allies under the threat of military annihilation. Or perhaps there would be no extortion at all, he'd just green light Putin and pull the US out of NATO, the bases in Germany and Italy, and whatever installations we have in Poland.

I've recently gone on a Boston documentary spree. "Murder in Boston" -A notorious case from the late 80's with interesting historical context, not sure if it made the papers in Britain. "American Manhunt" -Marathon bombing, pretty well made, good interviews, slick production. For their dramatic reproduction scenes, instead of the typical corny style with corny looking acting, the actors looked like they were being recorded on realistic looking CCTV. And the faces of the actors playing the bombers were stylistically blurred. Both good choices, IMO. The main stuff is well known, but some of the law enforcement decision making and inter-agency drama isn't, as well as some personal testimony from victims. This is a better doc than the other one that's out there. "This is a Robbery" -Art heist, arguably the biggest ever (if you exclude the British East India Company's exploits )

Cops and robbers operating woefully is nothing new. Woefully incompetent, woefully corrupt, woefully diabolical, it's nothing new under the sun. And while the facts and details of the entire Gotti saga have been mostly in the public record, I thought as a documentary it was crafted better than most mafia documentaries I've seen, and as good or better than many other docs I've seen, regardless of subject matter. High production value, good pacing, good music (very important in documentaries), good interviews.

Ever since we got a last second equaliser to spare blushes at home against last place Sheffield United, the only league wins we've managed are outscoring awful Burnley by a goal while conceding 2, and the sugar rush 5-0 result against last place Sheffield United. During this timeframe, (3 days before Christmas until today ), we bottled a second half 2-0 lead to Man Utd at Old Trafford in a humiliating walk down memory lane, couldn't score and drew 0-0 against a poor Everton team, couldn't score and drew 0-0 against a mediocre Chelsea team, lost by 2 goals at home against a depleted and struggling Newcastle side, scored one late consolation goal at home while losing to Chelsea by 2 goals in an FA Cup replay implosion, and finally, today's bottling of a point at home against one of our two CL qualification rivals. And yet somehow we are still in 5th place. We had a chance to go top of the league at home vs the last place team and bottled it, and we've looked incredibly shaky since. I'm worried about team unity, how the manager will respond, will the players lose belief and hang their heads, will they tune out Emery and drop tools... They didn't play badly today, but you could see Jekyll and Hyde the entire 90 minutes. We need to sort it out fast because we are inching closer to a potential tailspin out of the CL contention. McGinn MOTM Ollie frustratingly passive when the ball was played to him, on several occasions. Ramsey got sharper as the game progressed, but very frustrating first half. Other players also spurned chances too. We could've scored 6 or more goals today with all the opportunities we had in their box. And of course, of the maybe three opportunities United had to score, they score two. On the balance of play, we deserved at LEAST a point, but we couldn't even see that out. I'm hoping the Super Bowl tonight can take my mind off Villa. I'll probably watch until the commercials start caving my head in. I still have faith that we can qualify for the CL and win the Europa Conference. We know we are better than what this run of flakey results might suggest. Right?

Running out of ️

**** tragic.

Too many extra passes in their box, it's our specialty! Shoot!

Stay behind the team if we lose this!

Won't be much stoppage time

Piss poor

**** all the way off

Ollie needs to attack these passes more, he's showing for the ball but being too passive trying to receive it.

Diego Carlos positioning and backwards movement make me nervous.

Diaby holy hell