Work. The curse of the drinking class.
That’s the saying, but it also applies to the footy fan class as well. I didn’t finish work until 3.20, so missed most of the first half.
What I did see of it looked pretty good and really it was all quite comfortable, with us doing our usual trick of playing some very slick, first time stuff that’s a joy to watch.
The goal came and that was it. Watkins was given it, but Bailey had it covered anyway and it was 1-0. All good at half time.
Then came the restart, with Morgan Rogers quickly scoring a really nice goal to make it two and I was thinking it was game over, Brentford crumble and we go on to win at a canter.
Oh, no, no, no.
It’s never that simple with the Villa.
Brentford go on to score, maybe a bit luckily, with the ball going in from the player’s back foot after he’d missed it with his primary foot. It gave Martinez no chance and that was that. How they go in isn’t important. The score is.
And then Brentford scored again within a couple of minutes which had me fuming. How can you go two goals up and then concede two in a couple of minutes?
It’s quite easy when you’re the Villa.
There was commentary that said it was a great goal, but I don’t care. For me, it was just poor defending.
And then to send me totally apoplectic, we conceded again after taking a free kick and instantly giving it away, for christ’s sake.
This is amateurish stuff.
Emery was apparently doing his fruit and no wonder.
Meanwhile, I was nigh on having a coronary myself, complaining about how we had switched off and had allowed a plainly inferior side to dominate the game.
We pulled the equaliser back, but we never looked like we were going to get the winner and quite simply I kept thinking to myself that’s a massive two needless points dropped and my guess is it will have cost us fourth place when we look back at the season.
I know everything is possible in Premier league football and anyone can beat anyone on the day.
But you just can’t afford to not get the win in this kind of fixture if you want to be successful.
My over-riding thought during the last few minutes?
How often do we get that last minute winner that the usual teams do?
And the answer is “hardly ever”, isn’t it? I certainly don’t remember many.
And that’s how I knew we wouldn’t win.
UTV!
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Haven’t listened to the podcast but this is an interesting take on McGinn
60,000! Blues! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know! It sounds crazy. I had to re-read the story many times before I realised it wasn’t 6,000!
Blues currently losing and 23rd in the league. Agent Rowett continues to secure relegation form to league one. Meanwhile another 40,000 fans apply for season tickets to their new stadium! 😂
🙂
If I’m right, the place where the noses are hoping to build the new stadium used to be called ‘The Tip’ in my day and it was a right eyesore. It had a few scrapyards and people would go there to dump any old rubbish.
So it seems that nothing will really change.
On a different note, anyone watch the Barca/PSG game last night? A totally different type of football to the one served up in the EPL. LOADS of space, very little press or tracking back. No wonder there are so many goals!
WHEN (note I say ‘when’, not ‘if’), we qualify for the CL this year, it’ll be interesting to see what type of game is served up later this autumn. While Eddie Howe may have had the resources prior to their injuries, Howe had zero European experience at Managerial level while Emery has…………………..F*CKING TONS!!!!!!! 🙂
It will be really interesting to see how the FFP or whatever it’s been rebranded as morphs into next season as it’s clearly not fit for purpose, and we need reinforcements, even with all our crocked players out. Any news on how bad Kamara’s ACL injury is? Will he be back for late August?
I doubt we’ll see Bouba before New Year, Bum Bum…
Interesting debate coming through about the French league postponing league games to allow their teams to have a better chance in Europe and subsequently improve their coefficient; they’ve stated it explicitly. Meanwhile, the PL pull Villa’s pants down. While Pep, justifiably, whinges about how it affects him and his team, Unai gets on with it with a can-do, no excuse attitude. Trooper. 👏👏👏👌
Also strange that both Real and Barca had well over a week to prepare for their UCL games with Barca playing on a Friday for the first time in yonks. Obviously some leagues feel that it might be a good thing if one of their teams won something whereas the PL doesn’t seem too bothered.
60,000? 🙈