VILLAMARV

Reading have done ok lately, their recent good form has been down to some amazing late comebacks. they try and play solid and hit on the break at pace with kebe mainly. we managed a clean sheet against them this year. I think they will find late goals a bit harder to come by and I can see them dropping back more than wigan. We dont need to bribe them either way

wait for it......

I think in the current climate this course of action would be a bad move

i went to sleep wondering how I could sum up what he's trying to do. Now Ive woke up and had a coffee I realise that if Barry had meant to score it would have gone well wide

0-0 half time in Stoke. Reading real quiet. Think someone should remind pulis they need to be 4-0 up with 10 mins to go against reading

1-0 Arsenal - Cazorla

stoke are racking the corners up against Reading. Footie not great as you'd expect. Stoke dominating posession but creating little.

lets hope hulk hogan is right then 40-1 chelsea home win

Dublin reckons Maloney playing really well for wigan on FS

2-0 Swansea - Rangel

seeing as we're not involved today I'm suddenly developing a never before felt soft spot for Swansea, Stoke, Man City, Chelsea even Arsenal. I expect it will last until about 20 past 7. get in Michu!!!

GK Thomas Sorensen 43 RB Aaron Hughes 41 CB Olof Mellberg 33 CB Liam Ridgewell 34 LB Wilfred Bouma 21 RM James Milner 33 CM Gavin McCann 38 CM Steven Davis 41 LM Gareth Barry 42 CF Milan Baros 29 CF Kevin Phillips 22 our "1st" 11 from 2005-06 the numbers after the name is matches started. So obviously not our first choice in terms of squad on paper but these are the players that we played most that season in relative positions and this was the first team squad No. Position Player 1 GK Thomas Sorensen 2 DF Mark Delaney 3 DF Jlloyd Samuel 4 DF Olof Mellberg 5 DF Martin Laursen 6 MF Gareth Barry 7 MF Lee Hendrie 8 MF Gavin McCann 9 FW Juan Pablo Angel 10 FW Milan Baroš 11 MF James Milner (on loan from Newcastle United) 12 MF Steven Davis 13 GK Stuart Taylor 14 MF Eric Djemba-Djemba 15 DF Ulises De la Cruz 16 DF Wilfred Bouma 17 MF Peter Whittingham 18 DF Aaron Hughes 19 DF Liam Ridgewell 20 FW Kevin Phillips 21 DF Gary Cahill 22 FW Luke Moore 23 MF Patrik Berger 26 MF Craig Gardner 30 FW Gabriel Agbonlahor and we finished 16th on 42 points

Cant do it. cant just get 1 album!!!! can do 1 list though Stone Roses - Stone Roses Pearl Jam - Ten Black Crowes - Amorica Floyd - WYWH and Meddle Alice in Chains - Unplugged Portishead - Dummy Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather Metallica - Master of Puppets Easy Star all Stars - Dub Side of the Moon so many more great albums to list but I wouldn't wanna live without any of them really.

Probably my favourite band from the UK at the moment is Lazy Habits

Cardiff's finest 6 piece funk machine that is AFROCLUSTER afrocluster/hip-hop-the-love-of-my-life

I think the point is that Pearce could easily and probably should have said Jones was missing with a virus and left it at that.

"Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky"

if the agenda was saving football and ensuring "portsmouth never happens again" then they could simply add up all the prize money from all competitions and divide it equally between all 92 clubs every year. if the agenda - as I suspect from reading those leaked arsenal letters - is the big clubs protecting their investments and investability and trying to stop Chelsea or Man City from happening again. It would have meant no investment fuelled pop at the top 4 from Lerner..... this was quite a good take on it i thought: arsenal-financial-fair-play-moans-don-t-add-up Unfortunately though, we only have ourselves to blame. We were part of the group that formed the Premier League running after Skys money with the FA. Then things changed. The Bosman ruling meant clubs lost all the power they had over the players and the ever increasing prize money has now led us to a point where most clubs receive more from prize money than from a whole seasons worth of ticket sales. hence ultimately no control over our largest income stream. If we took all the money out of it though, there would still be people here. wanting to play football, wanting to watch football. They would be football people though, with the game running through their veins. Not the seagulls that follow the trawler.......

Premier League?

always happy to prove myself wrong................ well about the ban anyway Pitroipa gets to play in ref admits making mistake shocker

just to keep it somwhere near topic I still think Vlaar is a great aquisition for us! While I agree that both Mellberg and Laursen were both great on their day and showed a lot of passion and commitment for the club I can understand people's opinions vary when it comes to legend status. It made me wonder how old people would be if they were born when God left for Derby - and they'd be 16 or 17 now. meaning there's 20 somethings around that cant even remember us being a good team or having great, legendary players. If I was younger than me and had the last 20 years of villa to pick a legend from I cant think of many better choices than mellberg. everyone posting here could well be in their 70's I dont know or care! I was just sharing

I thought both were acceptable? ^^^^ ok not the thread, move along. nothing to see here.

"Ipswich striker Jay Emmanuel Thomas posted his own message shortly after Chopra's, which read: 'Michael Chopra your a clown.' "

Just seen this on the BBC site. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21353178 To anyone who's not followed this story - when he left Cardiff for Ipswich he revealed he had a gambling problem and Ipswich alledgedly loaned him £250,000 to settle debts with some nastys. Last year he was implicated in a horse race betting scandal and subsequently banned along with others for corruption. He claimed not to have the £50,000 for legal fees from the enquiry.

When I'm watching us on the telly and my missus is in the room (she wont be paying attention) if I ever cheer for no reason at all she now asks "did that australian do a pass?"