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Aston Villa yesterday announced an extension to its corporate partnership with Rock Bottom. The personal despair specialists have forged a close alliance with the Villains in recent years as CEO Chris T. Weir-Orfell explained from a misery filled coach in Norfolk. "With Aston Villa we are redefining what Rock Bottom means all the time. We took the product to Preston a few months ago and our focus group told us, 'Yes, that's Rock Bottom!' but tonight we've reached another level. I'm delighted."
I'm not crying, it's just been raining. On my face.
Dreams come true ??
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 13, 2016
The heart-warming meeting of Murtaza Ahmadi and #Messi in Qatar
?? #FCBinDoha #ForçaBarça https://t.co/riKC0AAS77
Zlatan is amazing, he should've gotten a straight red though.
33 minutes ago, Stromboli1 said:Zlatan is amazing, he should've gotten a straight red though.
I was just reading about Ibra in Alan Shearer's 'ones to watch' list. Apparently, the lad is new to the Premier League but keep an eye on him, he could be decent. 
But in all seriousness, I'd say the referee got it just about right. It felt like one of those challenges where, although you know it's a bit worse than a yellow card, it's perhaps not quite bad enough to be a red one.
15 hours ago, Michael* said:
I was just reading about Ibra in Alan Shearer's 'ones to watch' list. Apparently, the lad is new to the Premier League but keep an eye on him, he could be decent.
Even by the standards of tedious piffle he usually spouts Big Al's obsession with 'world class' and who is and who isn't is eye watering in it's bizarro grumpy anti-logic.
7 hours ago, Frederick said:Even by the standards of tedious piffle he usually spouts Big Al's obsession with 'world class' and who is and who isn't is eye watering in it's bizarro grumpy anti-logic.
My teeth still grind at the memory of Wor Al's "we'd have nothing to talk about in the pub afterwards" argument against the use of video technology in the game, but he is mad keen on Newcastle and therefore, perhaps deserves more sympathy than most.
18 hours ago, Michael* said:
My teeth still grind at the memory of Wor Al's "we'd have nothing to talk about in the pub afterwards" argument against the use of video technology in the game, but he is mad keen on Newcastle and therefore, perhaps deserves more sympathy than most.
Usually it's the tag team of Hoddle and Owen that gets me reaching for the cyanide capsules but I got lumped watching John Hartson and Kevin Kilbane a few weeks ago and felt very much like God was punishing for being too efficient ahead of Christmas.
Rumor is James to PSG, Chelsea, or ManU.
14 hours ago, Frederick said:Usually it's the tag team of Hoddle and Owen that gets me reaching for the cyanide capsules but I got lumped watching John Hartson and Kevin Kilbane a few weeks ago and felt very much like God was punishing for being too efficient ahead of Christmas.
Michael Owen all day for me. How a man who relies so heavily on the 'say what you see' style of punditry, basically reiterating what we've all just watched onscreen without offering any kind of insight or depth, could so consistently manage to talk such absolute rot is a genuine mystery.
Nice chap though he obviously is, you wonder why Kilbo Baggins even bothers. He doesn't appear to get any particular enjoyment out of it, and goodness knows he’s not bringing much to the table. Hoddle is another constant source of irritation, but you at least get the impression that, if he wasn't so lazy, he'd be capable of more.
8 hours ago, Michael* said:
Michael Owen all day for me. How a man who relies so heavily on the 'say what you see' style of punditry, basically reiterating what we've all just watched onscreen without offering any kind of insight or depth, could so consistently manage to talk such absolute rot is a genuine mystery.
Show up, produce dead eyed smile for the cameras, collect money, go home and think about horses: the Michael Owen playbook since 2005.
RIP Graham Taylor
20 hours ago, Michael* said:RIP Graham Taylor
Feels terribly trite to say but he truly was 'one of the good guys'. There haven't been many outright great decisions made at Aston Villa in the past thirty years but his appointment was one.
On 13/01/2017 at 3:20 PM, Frederick said:Feels terribly trite to say but he truly was 'one of the good guys'. There haven't been many outright great decisions made at Aston Villa in the past thirty years but his appointment was one.
If I'm honest, I feared message boards and comments sections nationwide would quickly degenerate into jokes about turnips and Carlton Palmer when the news broke, but it's actually been really heartening to read so many warm tributes to a guy who genuinely deserved them.
Records are made to be broken, except the one about Sunderland never winning when Jack Rodwell starts.
On 14/01/2017 at 10:20 PM, Michael* said:Records are made to be broken, except the one about Sunderland never winning when Jack Rodwell starts.
Fair to say the lad has exceeded the statute of limitations on dining out as a top flight starter because you once bagged a brace against Exeter in the League Cup. Still no idea what he is, a poor man's Steve Sidwell?
Meanwhile, sub human football at Molineux from Bruce's Villa. We sold the comically limited but occasionally useful Gestede, only to be left with a Blobonlahor/McCormack front line while Kodjia's away. I've seen greater goal threat from a ballet shoe wearing Tony Hibbert than these two rotund chuckleheads.
Zabaleta in central midfield, eh, Pep? And to think Joey Barton was available on a free a little while ago.
You know you've lived a good life when even those who usually readily dispense copious amounts of snark are quite tender in their reminiscence.
RIP.
Well, if nothing else history will remember today as the day we signed Henri Lansbury.
Needless to say, the news about Joleon Lescott training with us in an effort to land a short-term deal left me as bemused as the next guy, but the really sad thing is that I don't expect the misery to end there. Despite our extensive collection of right-backs (Jones, Love and Manquillo), I still wouldn't rule out Tony Hibbert turning up and making the position his own.
1 hour ago, Michael* said:Needless to say, the news about Joleon Lescott training with us in an effort to land a short-term deal left me as bemused as the next guy, but the really sad thing is that I don't expect the misery to end there. Despite our extensive collection of right-backs (Jones, Love and Manquillo), I still wouldn't rule out Tony Hibbert turning up and making the position his own.
Between the dour Scot in the dugout, the aloof American owner, the shrinking transfer budgets and the striker somehow still able to find goals in a sea of dross, I thought Sunderland were already doing a fairly sterling impression of Aston Villa's descent into the gutter but obtaining Joleon would be taking matters into method actor territory!
The curse of Jack Rodwell is no more! 