IanRobo has submitted the following and I have a bit of news for you.
He has requested that he become an author again, so he can get his points up quicker.
While some of you will no doubt be groaning, there’s absolutely no doubt that he knows how to get a debate going, which I’m sure we all appreciate. Oohah and myself are certainly glad to have him back and we knew he wouldn’t be able to stay away for long;
There are times when you look at the club and think they could not fall any lower. Today was one of those for Aston Villa.
We had two distinct events today.
The first was Lambert saying no one cared for the FA CUP. At no time did he qualify this and say he did, it was clear for us and many Clubs the FA Cup is a total irrelevance.
I HATE that. The FA Cup is special, so special that I would go to every game and have done so for the last 4/5 years because I want to win it. The League Cup for me is something we have won in my lifetime, we have never won the FA cup, obviously. For a club whose whole name was about the competition it is awful.
Some Villa fans may defend this, some may claim the PL is supreme but we can never win it and we are likely never even to be 4th. We have the chance to only win two trophies a year and the FA cup should be a focus. However who cares as long as we finish 17th and survive ?
So after this broke I get home from work and see Hairyhands on Villatalk has spoken. This guy is an ITK and is a true one, he is right. He has said that Kozak is out with an injury for the season. This was confirmed by Dave Woodhall on H&V, this appears true.
IMHO I believe that HairyHands is a journo (HairyHands is what Richard Keys used to be called) and that he gets told information by Lambert and/or club for their own purposes. I dealt with ITK’s before but never a journo and never directly from the club and never was I using the info to deflect attention away.
What I hate about this totally is that it appears to me that the news of this serious injury was leaked to deflect away from Lambert’s comments.
Just how awful is that to use a player’s injury to deflect the attention away ?
Have this grand club of ours under Lerner become so low to use a serious injury in this way ?
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123 responses to “Aston Villa hits the lows”
Out of interest, how many are going tomorrow ?
I’ll be honest, I’m undecided as of now and it’ll depend on a couple of mates, I can’t be arsed to go on my own and be unlucky enough to sit next to some prat slating Villa all afternoon (though there would be room to move you’d imagine).
The FA Cup has become as inconvenient as International friendlies to sides with an eye on precious league points which is all basically.
The top, bottom and middle teams all play weakened sides. The Blades will probably turn out a second string against us.
Man U pulled out of the competition altogether with full agreement from the FA. Says it all really.
Didn’t we have a match on FA Cup final day last season ? It was once given it’s own precious day as the last domestic match of the season.
To say that you’ll go down for winning it is ridiculous, but managers do look to the next league game over winning a tie. Lambert is guilty of being honest.
Ironic, he’s usually lambasted on here for ‘spinning transfer activity’ to sell season tickets.
I was going but after Lambert’s comments I aint bothering and have also emailed the club to congratulate them on Lambert’s top draw marketing technique (not that they’ll give a shit).
Ive emailed the club too BWS and they responded with a free sticker and if they sell me a season ticket they have promised to sign Messi and Ronaldo…
A free Season Ticket? There’s some nasty b*****ds in that ticket office!
A free sticker whoopee doo!!
“Roberto Martinez said today the FA Cup is unique in world football after Paul Lambert claimed most Premier League bosses would rather do without the competition.”
“Martinez, though, believes that the Cup must be preserved. He said: “The FA Cup is unique. There are cup competitions across the world but there is nothing like what we have in this country. The Cup brings tradition and is quite unique with it’s unpredictability and the fact that anyone is entitled to chase the dream. We are going to give it everything we’ve got.”
He gets it and he isn’t even British!
spot on by martinez, that is exactly what the cup is all about, its the very spirit of everthing that is good about football.
still we should be able to rest players and still beat sheff utd tomorrow and when a team is in our position a good cup run is good for the club, what else have we to look forward to this season? a lot of tough games the majority of which we will loose but hopefully get enough points to survive, not very mouth watering is it?
so a good run is good for all, the club, the team and the fans, see if anyone on their way to Wembley on final day if they still think its shite and a waste of time.