He'd be an upgrade. Really.

Now I've heard everything.

How about we switch coaches

Ah, Mr Halsey beats Villa with his decisions again. How he is allowed to continue to ref our games is laughable. He's basically relegated us.

For once it sounds like you did actually get done over.

walters scored two own goals in stokes game against chelsea and then misses a penalty later in the game what a sh!t night he must be having.

What was Koscielny thinking? You can't make such a blatent grab on a player and pull him to the ground and expect to get away with it, red card and penalty. Madness.

Dzeko hits Schezny with the penalty, it then hits the post and rolls along the line back to the keeper!

How did Adkins get sacked for some guy with a flamboyant name who doesn't even speak English properly.

Hope they go down.

Rickie Lambert might be a target for a few now, can hardly see an Argentinian playing him up front.

Very strange. They've recently got draws with Arsenal and Chelsea and won a relegation 6-pointer away at Villa and they sack him. Makes no sense. Especially when you replace him with a manager with little experience who didn't even do all that well in his last job.

What a way to repay a guy who took you from League 1 to the Premier League.

I've read somewhere that he was not sacked but replaced and it was a mutual understanding. Adkins battled with stress, maybe it's that "burnout" syndrome.

And again, this time it cost us 2 points.

Fucking ridiculous, it's every week this season. How can the ref not see the push? He shoved him right to the floor in front of the referee.

Switched over to the Man U - Spurs game

Man the weather looks rough out there!! I'd probably p!ss my pants if I had to step out in a pair of shorts and a t-shirt. But I gues these guys would be used to the cold, we've barely dropped below 10 degrees over here this winter...

We had a high of -5 last wednesday and currently have 4 inches of snow. It's ****. Especially when you have to walk a mile to work and back in it. .

RVP is going to win United the title without a doubt.

United deserve to know what's late equaliser feels like

United had a blatant penalty waived away, funny as if it happened the other way or it involved Liverpool/City there would be an absolute uproar.

Yeah, pretty clear penalty. Thought the ref had a very poor game overall.

Supporters Group have put forward a proposal that all away tickets should be £20, Premier League apparently looking into it. Premier League also considered making away travel free. People **** on the FA a lot, but they're about the only league who distributes tv money fairly and if either of these were to happen that would boost attendances again.

I think if any it will be the free travel which happens. It'll also allow clubs to keep a better eye on who is going to away games and try and keep the trouble makers out.

Well that looks after the PL but that would completely F over the lower leagues too.

Nothing new there I guess.

You're just worried for Torquay...

We're ok with finances, reason being we sell anyone who looks at all half decent and are left with a bunch of morons until we repeat the process, bit like Milan these days in that respect.

Villa 1-1 Bradford (they're in our division) after 60 mins, currently 2-4 on aggregate in the League Cup semi-final and Villa have a close to first available XI out. Pretty crazy. If they make the final it's probably the biggest shock in recent memory taking into account they knocked Arsenal (again near enough full strength) out on the way too.

Bradford make the final unbelievable.

Apologies to Kurt but seriously for a League 2 team to do this, is just ridiculous.

I'm clearly a fan of a team in the league and not just doing it to P you off.

As for Lambert, I don't know, where do you draw the line.

Tie was over when Dowd was appointed.

Fair play to Bradford though. Amazing story and their fans were superb before the game. Very grounded and respectful. Makes you wonder why they are where they are. Way too big a club with too good a support to be down there.

Saw a little kid in a Bradford shirt before the game with his dad and you could see the excitement on his face. "Daddy, look how big the stadium is!" made me smile. This is why I love the Cup. Part of me genuinely doesn't care we lost, Bradford deserved it and I hope they play Swansea in the final.

I don't know, our League 1/2 clubs are looked after as well as most 2nd division sides in other countries. Our Championship sides more than half the top league teams.

Anyway I think Lambert has to go. Not defending set peices is on the manager when it happens week in, week out, with different players. The only reason I was happy to give him a bit more time was that when you're in a cup SF I don't think it's fair to sack him. He's MONv2 for me - tactical knowledge of a fish. Having 4 strikers on whore all basically standing in the same spot, laughable.

I'd bring a defensive manager in until the end of the season who's got experience in relegation battles.

Hazard. Legend.

More like inexcusable idiot!!!

Who does sh!t like that??

I must admit the Swansea boy had it coming. But yeah Hazard should have been a 100 times more careful, this stupid acts just sends up so many bad vibes. Not sure he'll walk out of this for a fair while now.

Whether he deserved it or not is irrelevant imo. Was the boy being a right old pain in the @ss trying to win a couple of seconds for his team? Yes, but kicking him????? Just goes to show what classless, moronic idiots players are these days

True, true. Having said that classless, idiotic morons have been part of football for years on years now. It's the classy ones that are disappearing, that discomforts me the most. But the among of money that gets thrown in for hacks these days, that is to be expected.

Hardly a legend. Should be arrested for assault in my opinion.

Video?

I actually meant legend in a sarcastic way. I barely rate Hazard in my book, in any way.

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Nice cup final. Shows the magic aint dead. Anything's better than the same boring teams making it every year.

I can understand the frustration (the ball boy is a d!ck) but that's unexcusable.

Apparently he'd been saying on twitter before the game that he's going to waste time if the team need it. Hazard should get a big ban and this kid shouldn't be allowed to ballboy anymore.

he should be arrested for breaking the lil cvnts rib?ud swear he just shot him.

he kicks the ball from underneath him, just wasnt the responsible thing to do.

assault? LMAOOO

From what I understand of the situation, it looks like the guy was asking for it. Now Hazard is gonna be fined and bombarded with a tsunami of negative publicity. I don't think he did the "right" thing, but people also should not expect to get away with as much dumb sh1t as they they think they should. A kick in the butt once in a while gives you a bit of perspective.

Agreed. But it was more of a frustration kick.

By law it is. You can't push the kid then kick him, it's assault. Was he being a prick? Yeah. Would I have done the same? I'd have probably kicked him harder. Doesn't change the fact it's wrong.

It's wrong in a very mild sense. Calling it 'assault' is going overboard. The kid had it coming, and just like Hazard he should be punished as well.

FA have said he won't be punished. Seeing a different angle there really wasn't much (if any) contact at all as he clearly just kicks the ball from underneath him. I suppose a red card and the suspension he'll get is punishment enough.

QPR looking to make a few big signings. No doubt if they do stay up we'll hear about how great Harry is, by him of course. Well done, you outspent all of your rivals by a massive amount, how could you possibly finish above them?

see but the the thing is he doesnt even push him, the kid falls over by himself. its a complete and utter dive imo

Plus 'the kid' is 17, might be a bit too optimistic with career as ballboy

Hazard getting a taste of his own medicine.

Why the hell was the Millwall-Villa game moved to tonight? It's not even on TV. What a load of shite.

fair enough loll

Another conceded from a corner, happy days. Fortunately they won it in the last minute. A replay would've been the worst possible outcome.

Dad went and said there was a tonne of trouble and fighting. Some Millwall fan got on the Villa coach and ended up with a broken nose.

Incredible to say it but Eck was so much better for Villa than Lambert.

His reign has been atrocious, and while Eck wasn't Mr Popular it never sunk anything like this.

And that's not me being biased - I don't actually hate Lambert and think he's a promising manager, but he has utterly failed to grasp management of a club of this magnitude. And this is no insult Kurt when I say Villa are not the biggest side around.