Rayvin

Apparently there were only a few thousand Villa fans left before 90 mins expired...That must mean about 20k people left early.

I think probably 0-1, although as has been said, we're defensively pretty good. We just can't score.

Have to say, I think spending about £15-20m in the summer would have made us contenders for fifth, looking at how the season panned out... obviously not worth it from Ashley's standpoint though.

It's just that the teams between us and Europa aren't actually that good...neither are we of course, but it's starting to look like a level playing field. I guess we'll know after Everton.

So, I think Southampton winning today will be good for us, cos it might mean Spurs collapse a bit and we could potentially catch them. We have a game in hand over Southampton anyway, so their victory is recoverable. ...I'd love to be thinking this sort of thing as if it could actually happen.

Louise Taylor is a charlatan, man. She's been banging on about Pardew's headbutt non-stop since it happened, presumably because there is nothing meaningful she can write about Sunderland and their exciting relegation campaign. Any excuse to unsettle us. She was also adamant that Pardew was going to get sacked earlier in the season, being informed by 'inside sources' etc etc, right before we started beating the Man Utds and Chelseas of the league. I find her insufferable, which is a shame cos the Guardian's analysis is generally pretty good.

Probably because Cardiff are an irrelevance.. Fair play to him though

Yep, Cardiff are gonna get relegated hard. Good riddance.

I love the sarcasm. On the goal, I agree with respect of lobbing generally, but 50 yards man... I know you see them attempted quite often and 90% of the time they're off target (and so odds are that occasionally they have to go in), but even so, fair play to him.

Rafael is a walking red card, it's bizarre - I'm sure he wasn't always like that. Not sure I agree on Rooney entirely though, I think his overall team play is actually a lot better than it used to be, he can be very unselfish. Have to say I don't watch them much though, but he played well against Olympiakos I thought - good team player.

50 yards?! Fuck me..

That would actually be an encouraging sign if we could trust our board. It'd just be a case of signing a decent forward. But whatever happens over the summer, we're still going to be limited in some way, either through not replacing Cabaye or selling Krul on deadline day...

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/we-will-finish-bottom.895272/ I quite like this one For the first post more than anything.

Arsenal are gonna come 4th again aren't then

Its better than finishing below them..?

Well, at least we won. Fuck knows where our season is going to end up, but we've an outside chance of finishing above Man Utd I think.

Yeah, to be fair, that was almost all Ben Arfa.

...Ok forgiven.

I mean how in fuck Cisse. How. In. Fuck.

Unbelievable.

Ben Arfa trying to do this on his own...

Has everyone noticed how many goals are going in elsewhere? Cardiff 3 Liverpool 5, Man City 5 Fulham 0, etc. And then there's us.

Oh hurrah, Marvaeux is on...