Good news indeed. Though I'm not sure he'd go there to be honest, I don't think foreign leagues appeal so much to English players, less money, being away from home and the football is so very different.

If you spend that in one time of going to the pub to watch one game that you could see on Setanta, then I'd say yeah! Bearin in mind you will get like another 30+ games a month on even if you're not too interested in them.

I personaly think it is.

Who is faster, Young or Agbongorjhabsdkjbaskbaf?

Agbonlahor. He's the fatest player in the league, according to a thing Nike did.

Cool. I think will become a much important player in a few years though. For Villa and the NT.

By the way, I like it when right footed wingers play on the left... It's just cool.

Nah, I think that's Rooney

Hopefully, he works hard which is always a plus. Lazy players never realise their potential.

It is good, causes nightmares for the defenders as well.


You knew I meant fastest!

Last Premier League game of 2008 and we win!

Nice catch.

You guys are nuts. Cristiano Ronaldo is faster than a 1000 bhp Veyron, everyone knows that. Agbonlahor...hah!

Well... Surely you know how 'fast' he is...

I don't even think Ronaldo was even in the top 5, he isn't that fast at all! I think Rooney was even faster!

Facts don't lie Mr. Walker. You have to get over the fact that he doesn't play for Villa.

@Max: You don't have to hide your man-crush you know. There's nothing wrong with the way you're feeling. Btw I finally got myself a copy of Tony Robbins. It's huge..yeesh..

hey ... kurt ronaldo is fast man ... u can't hide from the truth .. and he deserved the best player in the world of 07/08 cauz he scored 42 goals and won with his team the C.L and the P.L ... but he doesn't deserve the way people look at him like wow christiano ronaldo he does the tricks blah blah blah .... cauz ronaldinho is the best in doin tricks and street football things and he won 2 consecutive time the best in the world ... and messi is faster then ronaldo ... and i think messi have the oportunity to be a legend too ... if pato doesn't do in the futur what messi is doin with his team now .... and btw rooney is the english gordo ... haha peace !

Pfft. He's fast, I'll give him that. But people that claim Ronaldo to be "fatest player in the Legaue" have clearly not see Gabby run, there's a huge gap between him and 2nd place, I'm not even sure Ronaldo would be in the top 10, there's a difference between quick and fast, Ronaldo is more quick than anything. I wouldn't want Ronaldo at Villa, we boo our players for diving enough as it is.

Really? I like that. Villa fans just moved up a notch in my book.

@ Jack: I'm really happy you did this. I'm rooting for you man!

u are saying it bcoz there in no chance of happening any team would want him in their team it is a fact

No it isn't.
We may not have won a sh*t in the last 4 years, but we must have more self-respect than THAT.

I'd steal Fishdoll's Chiellini jersey for myself if that person were ever to play for Milan.

i'd fight you for it!! no way do i want that at this club

Hah.

You'd have a real fight if you tried, after the Trani fish market comment!

it was only jest!

Yeah, Ashley Young started out diving alot, so we'd boo him when he next got the ball. If it annoys players and they want to leave, good, we don't really care too much for cheats.


His job is made easier because he plays for United, if he played on a lesser team he wouldn't be half the player. And I do realise this is the case for every player, but he wouldn't get every decision his way if he wasn't wearing a United shirt, so he'd be less effective.


Exactly.

FA Cup result: Spurs 3 - 1 Wigan. Goals by Pavlyuchenko (2) and Modric for Spurs. Wigan played mostly non-starters.

Spurs went 1-0 up through a penalty.. referee's are getting worse every week, it just simply wasn't a foul. Oh well, I suppose it just means Spurs and Redknapp can keep the illusion of them still being a good team, despite not being in the top half of the table since the end of the 06/07 season..

My thought, Kurt, was 'gee, lower division teams do sometimes beat Premiership clubs in this competition so it isn't a surprise'.

Do Villa play MU again this year?

Wigan are the most in-form team in the Premier League as it happens, putting them 7th in the league. Birmingham City clearly made the right decision is letting Steve Bruce go to Wigan..



Strangely, we didn't draw them! We're live on ITV away to Gillingham on Sunday morning, they obviously think there's a chance of an upset.

Oooh! We get that one live!!! Fishdoll will be pleased.

The bigger games in the FA Cup this weekend.

Arsenal v Plymouth Argyle - Involves a top PL team.
Birmingham v Wolves - West Midlands derby, also 3rd vs 1st from the Championship.
Chelsea v Southend U - Involves a top PL team.
Hull v Newcastle - All Premier League tie.
Macclesfield v Everton - Involves a top PL team.
Man City v Nott'm Forest - Big money Citeh!
Preston North End v Liverpool - One of the countries oldest and greatest teams.. against Liverpool.
Gillingham v Aston Villa - Involves a top PL team.
Southampton v Man U - Involves a top PL team. United were also the team that relegated Southampton. Revenge!
Spartans v Blackburn - Complete nobodies vs PL team. Should be interesting!

I bet you went through all that trouble just so you could say this...

No, I was just letting everyone know of the more interesting games.

If we go out in the 3rd round AGAIN, I might actually cry.

A couple of results of note from today's FA Cup games:

Chelsea 1 - 1 Southend (So they have to do a second game at Southend's stadium)
Man City 0 - 3 Nottingham Forest (why would any top level player want to come to this club? they're not playing in europe next year and at this point may not even be in the Premiership. OTOH, good to see Forest back playing well.)

city sign bridge, excellent signing in IMO.

very underrated player, should fit in well with them. upgrade from ball.

He's a LB, right?

That's what City was missing all the time. I agree, good catch.

The FA Cup games today.

Southampton 0-3 United. Scholes or Ronaldo not even in squad, Rooney on bench and they looked fantastic to be honest, very impressive win.

Gillingham 1-2 Villa. We deserved the win, but they played well and scored an excellent goal. 2 goals from Milner, including a late penalty to win the game puts us through.

Some interesting ties in th 4th round draw.
-United vs Spurs
-Liverpool vs Everton
-Derby vs Nott'm Forest

I hope they'll keep their form on the championship. They must win it since Chelsea are incapable of doing it! Go United!!!

Go Forest! (because they beat City)

Do you know why chelsea aren't incapable of winning it, because of games like chelsea vs arsenal and chelsea vs liverpool. We went ahead against arsenal, referee let van persie score an offside goal which changed the momentum of the whole game. 3 Points wasted by the ref. Against liverpool, Xabi Alonso scored with an ugly deflected shot early in the match, and liverpool defended with 10 players. another 3 points wasted. Add these, and we'll be top. Same thing last season. Chelsea vs Blackburn (Jose Mourinho's last premier league game), Kalou scored a perfectly clear goal. But for some reason linesman called it an offside. if it wasn't from this, we'd come into the last game of the season on top, and things could have been alot diffrent. And even in the CL Final, we hit the post 2 times (Drogba and Lampard), we should have gotten a penalty, and drogba was sent off, when clearly, it was either tevez or vidic that should have been sent off. It doesn't finish here, penalty shoot-out, captain john terry slipped, and we lost.

Luck has been against us all this time, and i hope something will happen to change this. Cause we deserve to be champions. And by the way, i'd prefer united winning it again this season, rather than liverpool winning.

I'd rather see Aston Villa win it, to be honest .. Not only because Kurt is a fan, but also because they have proven they have balls and will tussle with anyone in the EPL. Anyways, yeah anyteam but Liverpool

You lello are on my side!

I'm still amazed some people are even considering us after 20+ games into the season!

Of the 3 teams that I feel can realistically win the title, I want Chelsea to win it, I even would prefer United to Liverpool!

First about all this **** .... i can say this is football .... and u'd rather see man utd winning it than liverpool ... ??? that's bullshit ... if chelsea don't win it ... then u have to be upset because ... man utd or liver or arsenal ... ain't chelsea .. i want chelsea to win the championship .. hehe ... and btw the final of the cl ... after that fake world player of the year ronaldo ... missed his penalty and putted his team on the redline like he did in the semi final ... john terry had to put it into the goal ... this ain't a bad luck ... this is the shot that drogba had to shoot it ... but he was sent off ... and it was his fault because he slapped one of the man utd players ... same thing happened to zidane in the final of the world cup 2006 ! and his replacement wasted the penalty too ... heh this is why football is kool and nice to been watched ... ! Holla Brotha !

Fishdoll has his flashing claret-and-blue antlers. He's definitely cheering for Villa to win the title (or at least for sure make the CL). Failing that, it's a matter of lesser evils. Don't think the Goners have it in them this year, sorry Locke. That leaves MU, Chelsea, and the dirtyrottenscousers. Wish there were a 3-headed coin to toss on this one. Don't particularly - sorry chelsea - like any of em.

(btw, Kurt. You guys really need Freddie back. Shouldn't he be starting to play again soonish?)

and oh yea i forgot ... lsn ... the same thing happened to milan in the 05 champions league final .. when they were over liverpool (the top of the EPL now ) with 3 goals .... and then liverpool got again to the game and scored 3 goals to equilize ... and then in the extra time ur favorite milan player sheva (who sucks) shooted the ball in front of the goal to the post because he was angry heh ... but milan got again on the final of the cl. and won it and this is what shows that milan is a big team ! ... ! peace!

I like Chelsea, but I don't think Scolari is cut-out for a top club job at the moment.

We do need Freddie back! Due to the poor form of Nicky Shorey we've got an RB currently playing at RB, and a CM playing at RB. Not reallu syre when he's back, was meant to be early-Feb I think, I've heard nothing to suggest it'll be earlier/later than that.

abidal/sagnol was the replacement for zidane, not trezeguet who came on in 100th minute (to take a penalty regardless) while zidane was sent off in 110th.

You can't say luck didn't do anything. Hitting the crossbar two times. and drogba didn't start the fight, and speaking of the 2006 world cup final, that stupid inter player materazzi, should have been sent off as well. But drogba shouldn't have been sent off, he barley touched vidic's face. Whereas, it was both Tevez and vidic that started the fight, and at least one of them should have been sent off. And you're right, Cristiano Ronaldo is a fake player. For me, lionel messi is the best player of the world.

for what exactly? you not liking him?

btw a slap is a slap whether it's hard or not the intent was there, he dint control his emotions, although i thought vidic should have been sent off as well.

No, i don't think materazzi should have been sent off cause i don't like him. He should have been sent off, cause he said bad things about zidane's sister which caused the headbutt at first. If someone says something like this about my sister i wouldn't let it go.

Trash talking is and has been a part of football. Some guys are wind up merchants - Materazzi is one of them but far from the only one - but that's nothing new.