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edited clearly still tetchy

Heskey was nowhere near being our worst player tonight. Did Ireland come back out after half time? Beye makes me realise I could still make it as Premier League player. And as for Davies, was that actually a shot at goal that lead to their corner? Bizarre. Hey, it's gonna be an interesting season of feeling morally superior for staying 'til the end of games. £40 petrol £60 on tickets £8 at Villa Chippy £10 Strensham services £10 programmes £5 parking watching the Villa, £133, effing priceless

Not whilst the Chinese et al aspire to be mini Americans. The driving force in China at the moment is not a desire to teach the world about co-operative farming or fabricating wheat yield statistics. It is a desire to have a nicer house, a funky phone and dvd’s of the Lethal Weapon franchise. As such, even though your tv says ‘made in China’ on the back, it is still showing ‘Britains Got Funny Mental Patients’. You could possibly argue that the USA has won the cold war. OK so China owns all our debt and could foreclose. But they appear more interested in joining in the race to achieve peak oil and acquire pointless crap they hadn’t even realised they needed until they saw it advertised. As such, the funky phone bling, pop music videos and desire to get Olympic excellence over universal well being suggests the American era is going from strength to strength. It’s just got a new funny accent.

hmmm slightly scary still not got mine and I bought a week ago.

Trouble is, there is a chance some plank will do some stupid revenge thing next Thursday. If that were to happen I wouldn't want Aston Villa blamed for the actions of a tiny minority. I'd suspect the perimeter fencing actually helps people of low IQ feel a bit braver. Perhaps we will see a little more restraint at an 'open' Villa Park.

unfortunately if you're only allowed out of the basement on matchdays this sort of thing is going to happen I suppose if you support a little team from a little country you've got to make an impression somehow

aaargh you shell out 60 notes for a bunch of tickets for the home leg to show a bit of support and then your told we are sending a second string for the first leg

anybody considering tearing up a season card on the appointment of their least fave candidate please see me first - I'd be more than happy to give you a tenner for it. you still have your principles and I get very cheap access to what will be at the very least an interesting few months. win win. if you could predict which manager fits which squad fits which owner then it wouldn't be worth playing the actual games we could just feed all the info into a computer and await the computer calculated result each week, printed out to three decimal places.

You mean the Ashley Young saga that was sorted out yesterday and Friedel going on live tv saying i'ver had no contact nor do i have any intention of leaving ? , come on man keep up will you er, that's not my quote, not sure how you managed it but that's not me! (not that it's important, it's not like we're judged and scored on our contributions)

Is there really any rush? I'd be happy to give MacDonald a little run and see how he does. Didn't we try something similar before with some guy called Barton? He did ok.

super furry animals :

I was just about to call it a night when it came on the tv, it was utterly compelling. How on earth do you go back to work as a police officer the day after that? The show still didn't really explain what had happened. Also, how on earth were they released the next day? Surely repeatedly running into motorway traffic and shouting I recognise you, you are not real, gets you sectioned?

I've just seen Dave Jones of Cardiff City buying a sat nav in Halfords.

hmm, I did that yesterday, and look where it's got us!

I don't think MON was fickle, i think he just didn't like us. It was probably time for a shake up 'cos it didn't look like we were going to improve regardless of budget. 15 minutes to go and we need inspiration and a goal - will the answer still be Heskeyesque? Hopefully not from now on.

waheyyyy! just tidied up a bottle of campo viejo rioja, 2005 pondering stopping there or moving over to some port

it is tricky extracting a liberal slant from just about any policy. I was going to try and get clever and mention things like the early 80's attitude toward the re patriation of Diego Garcia and attitudes towards homosexuality etc., but it all comes back to 'liberal'. yeah, point 'e' was really offering up alternatives to your point on only having the BNP as somewhere non-Labout to go, points 'f' and 'g' I kinda lost concentration due to an earlier incident with a bottle of Morgan's Spiced Rum. all good stuff though I'm on a works laptop right now so I have to resist logging any time on BNP or SWP style websites to dig a bit deeper on this. They don't mind a little bit of lovely ladies thread coming up in the history, but no heavy politics.

You would lose that bet. It's quite a strain to look for any policies that cannot be judged against Liberalism, but here goes: a) the BNP would be pro nuclear, Labour were traditionally anti the BNP would be broadly pro 'our boys' in their attitude towards the military, Labour in the 60's to 80's wasn't c) BNP is anti left wing unions, Labour never used to be d) old Labour would've told the Queen to stick her cucumber sandwiches e) Parties such as Respect, Green, SWP etc offer plenty of alternatives without voting racist grunting mouth breather f) old labour never denied the holocaust g) to the best of my knowledge the founders of the old Labour party were never convicted of organising neo nazi activity

I can accept they use mechanisms of the Left, but once they start discriminating they are not socialists. Socialism is about unity not segregation. they are extremists. Whichever direction you set out in as an extremist, you just end up around the back with the nutters from the other side.

I can't really get offended by the guy leaving. I'm a Villa fan, I'd pay to play for Villa. But as a Villa fan, if I was playing well for Fulham and getting a million and Everton offered me two million I'd be looking to move. It's not that he's not loyal. It's just a job for him. We will not be looking to replace him with Ian Taylor and as such we will most likely be replacing him with another player that will see us as the club between his last one and next one.

oh that coupled with a Small Faces pick is immense Primal Scream's 'Higher Than The Sun, dub remix' Sounds great, shocked to see 1991 written on it though!

apologies, I did have a much longer retort that calculated a need to clear up 9,985.75 gardens to get on the housing ladder, but even I was bored when I read it back.

No I didn't see it to be honest but please don't try and talk up the performance of Goves after the week he has just had, he made a total arse of himself with the errors in that list. I would imagine he is in for some very uncomfortable visits to some schools next week. I did see the Goves / Balls newsnight spat. By my recollection Goves half heartedly retracted what he accused balls of and changed his accusation from a list of specifics (which the civil servants corrected Goves on in writing) to a stumbling accusation of broad waffly intent. The dying days of Labour were very poor, with Balls being as poor as any of the others. Faced with this open goal Goves has **** up in the clamour to cut. He'd do well to just lie low for a good while.

NOT falling out of love. The game has always had big rich clubs that dominate and can flash the cash to ultimately influence league position. Not a definitive example, just one I’m familiar with off the top of my head. 1953 Barry Town were doing ok, lower league, but pushing on. They had a teenager called Derek Tapscott. Tappy came to the attention of Arsenal who made an offer. The offer of £4000 in 1953 was far more than the Barry team could possibly resist. For Tappy it was a choice of playing for free and earning a crust working in a butchers, or playing for Arsenal, being taught a trade, having a subsidised house and being paid a guaranteed retainer during the closed season. Small teams couldn’t possibly compete with that kind of muscle, and so the big teams guaranteed their position by soaking up the best talent. Not quite seeing what has changed. World Cup? Quite good so far. The Dutch and the Germans are still in it and could meet each other in the final, that’d be worth watching. For the eleventh consecutive WC England failed to beat any ‘major’ team in order to progress. So did the team underperform or were expectations out of kilter with reality? Am I more or less likely than 20 years ago to get hit by a coin whilst watching footy? Less likely. Am I more or less likely to be stopped on the motorway en route and photographed by the police for displaying football colours on a match day? Less likely. Am I legally obliged to buy a £45 nylon top advertising a casino? No. Do I have to pay who knows what for biased Sky coverage? No. All in all I think people worry too much about football. If the whole football monster collapsed tomorrow someone nearby would get hold of a ball and four jumpers and start it up again. If I was good enough I’d play in my local team (they’d have to be pretty bad), if I wasn’t good enough I’d go and watch them to meet up with mates and shout at strangers.

Reminds me of genius find, that's about to hit another site where I will claim to have found it myself ! I've got tickets for the gatorra gig, slightly over priced at £12 a pop but should be a giggle