Aston Villa won't win the league - Premier League 2024/25

Kai Havertz get tae fuck

Looking more dangerous, is there something in it?

Shall see

Aw man Cunha just hit that one wrong

yeah it's been real nice but y'know without an end product

Goddammit. Switched off for two seconds

oh ffs just out of nothing

i need some kind of plug-in that tunes out commentators spunking over Arsenal

Well I didn't have high expectations for today but thought they played much better than expected, just Arsenal on the road is a hard test to begin a campaign.

Doesn't get much easier than Chelsea next week but Cunha had a hat trick against them last year.

yeah i don't like doing a centrist "we're ok" thing but we've looked pleasingly solid today for the most part

Cunha not fit, Bellegarde looking like he'll never step up, noobs like Larsen still finding their feet, hopefully at least one more good signing before the window closes...i've definitely seen us have shakier starts to the season

oh man Chiquinho's back :)

nice to see Rice getting a good 3 minute man on man video for his OnlyFans

Lol at that Hwang dive

i've always admired his Dirk Kuyt-esque workhorse steez but i don't think he starts in a marginally better squad tbh

can't believe he had the brass neck to call for a decision there either

Hoping that Onana might inject some physical threat for Vi-

Disastrous own goal from West Ham's Jhon Duran

holding my breath here to see you get the win against the bad and hated Hammers

enjoying how Steve Sidwell is somehow the BBC's Villa pundit

I'm not sure if their pen was soft or not, will probably come round to enh you can't Matty Cash someone like that after a few more replays

But very annoyed we didn't make it 2 or 3 first half

Our new players looking good though, and Torres and Youri looking fit n' classy

Stephen Warnock also seems to fulfil that role sometimes, despite once apparently having a meltdown in training and screaming he hated it at Villa and Birmingham's a shithole

Moyes Out

In my local pub sitting next to some exceedingly jolly Wolves fans.

That accent <3

damn straight :)

if ashley young is going to start getting reffed correctly then it really is time for the cunt to retire

with greatest fondness for our excellent villa posters and in fact the club itself, fuck matty cash and i hope awful things happen him every day

Now Ipswich are back in the Premier League… for how long… I’ll be bookmarking the Premier League thread for the first time :D

Considering we played 90% of a team we finished with last year yesterday I don’t think we did too badly, bit worried by Man City away next week though.

I hate how MOTD pundits call Alexander-Arnold Trent.

I also hate the barrage of pointless and forgettable statistics from commentators - "the fourth Dutchman to score on his Manchester United debut", I mean ffs.

There seems to be a strong consensus on the formatting. Trent and Gabriel are always first name. Jack is always first name only outside of a match and strictly Grealish during it, a pronunciation mullet. Emile Smith-Rowe never seems to go anywhere without all his names and seems a certainty to be knighted at some point

But I haven't worked out why Gabriel is pronounced differently than Gabriel Jesus and Gabriel Martinelli. Everyone does this and I'm no exception, I can't help it

Bass! How low can you go?
Smith-Rowe, what a brother know

Aint nuthin but a G thang baby
Two loced out n_s going crazy
Smith-Rowe is the label that pays me

Ok i'm done

jfc

He’s doing his best to make City winning the league more bearable…

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— Jay Motty (@JayMotty) August 18, 2024

Are we sure that isn't Tom Cruise?

countdown to deems saying 'we dont win this'

we win this but in spite of brennan johnson who has no footballing skills or intelligence

cunts?

take that as a yes

first half very strong and actually very surprised by the quality of delivery into box

johnson, son, werner on wings, eesh

not marking back post is a really, really, really strange trait in a defence and in particular in a centre half and i guess I'll never really understand it

i think ange will be free for xmas on the beach

i completely forgot werner existed. wasn't he once the next big thing?

only under an early werning system

Seems fine

🚨🔵 Maresca: “I am not working with 42 players. I am working with 21 players”.

“The other 15-20 players are training apart. I don't see them. It's not a mess like it looks from outside. Absolutely not”.

“They can even have 20 years contract, it’s not my point. I don’t care”. pic.twitter.com/bsmgRWbIei

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 21, 2024

yeah not insane at all. especially when you play the racist as the captain of your 21/42.

How long do we give this guy?

They'll presumably sack him about three weeks after the team first puts together a reasonable run of form

BREAKING: Jermaine Jenas has been fired by the BBC and taken off air from both Match of the Day and The One Show following complaints about "inappropriate behaviour," The Sun report. pic.twitter.com/BzUweAmYve

— That's Football! (@ThatsFootballTV) August 22, 2024

there was a

I just listened to a very enlightening (no, actually extremely pointless) interview with him in which he seemed have swallowed a lawyer