Hi everyone big UTV….
Paul Lambert is to take the AVFC squad on warm weather training in Portugal.
This will probably be a small holiday as well.
This has come about as we are out of the F.A cup & Lambert thinks the team needs it.
Lambert says””We’ll train every day,” he said.
“We’re going over there to work. It’s just a normal week, the only thing is we haven’t a game on the Saturday.
“We’ve decided to give them a break, they deserve it for all the hard work they’ve put in.
“I’ve done it before with teams and it’s good, most teams who are out of the cup will probably look to go away and we’re not any different.”
Do you think this is a good idea taking the squad off to Portugal for training instead of Bodymore Heath?
What are your views?
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61 responses to “Villa off to Portugal”
arrh the good old days of spilling your bovril in the winter then some bugger knocking your pie out of your hand, then standing in someones puke when we scored and getting shoved into some BO ridden armpit in the warmer months …….
Saddened, and having to piss where you stand but if lucky into someone’s pocket, ho happy days.
Not if it was your pocket!
For several years now Villa have been a fair-weather team. Weather Shite = Villa shite. I will risk serious slagging for saying it is my observation that our Black players seem to hate the cold and rain more than the White ones and bad weather slows down their reaction times and the tempo of their play. It is not a racist comment but is it true – do you think the same?
So a week in the sun will certainly put them in a better mood, only question is – how balmy will it be in Newcastle on their return? Should they have gone to Iceland instead?
PS MDN8 – Portuguese birds? Grim – even after a shave!
I wouldn’t generalise black & white mate we all hate the rain some more than others probably something you’ve noticed in one player but probably many out there who can’t stand the rain more UTV
I get your thinking Originallondonlion and its a shame that in this day and age some people look into the wrong meaning, you only have to see how many have gloves on and kneck vests, could be that’s now what’s goes on with foreign players from warmer climate, I look at what Villa’s done as creeping around players, they get paid to work hard, he’s said they will work over there, you telling me that at night no gin and tonic or any booze won’t be drank ? Yer pigs will fly.
I don’t think he’s generalising JD, it’s all about skin and vitamin D.
True. There was an article in the Lancet about Somalians who live in the UK suffering with vitamin D deficiency because of lack of sunshine due to our cold weather.
Haha Originallondonlion
Also, nothing racist about the comment at all. There is some truth in there as BP touched on. This doesn’t go for the black French players in the league however, The climate in Belgium also, is not so dissimilar to that in the UK so I would count Benteke out as well and just think he’s lost interest in Villa altogether tbh, I would put it squarely down to laziness.
When we consider black players who have played in warmer climates and then make the switch to the PL or the African players, it definitely applies. At some level it is all genetic I guess. English born and bred players are for sure more used to the conditions and get with it, black included.
I would of sent them to siberia where they could of developed snowballs for bollocks.next we’ll be playing in climatized domes to keep the players happy,lets fucking roll out the cotton wool.laughable
if they come back and win a few games i could not give two shits where they have been..come back and lose a few and we are well and truly in the shit, and there next warm break should be Afghanistan