Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

I've gone with WBA-Villa. Extremely average so far.

grr. stupid pen. given away by fulham.

Watching and supporting Villa is absolutely soul-sucking this season.

Mostly Villa but West Brom've walked through them twice in two minutes there, Odemwingie missing stupidly after good work by Long.

p fucking crouch

Would you welcome relegation in some sense, EZ? For the catharsis, kind of thing.

Oof, Wolves two-down in four minutes - someone should call off the very gentle dogs.

Rvp scored. 1-1. I like our good-not-great older technical types when they actually play together. Rosicky and Benny Noon having a whole season together (and Arteta who is out today) would be fun.

Gervinho also playing really well for once.

Wigan are 2-0 up - a goal for West Brom would put them above Villa...

Can't see why anyone who wasn't a Birmingham City fan would consider the relegation of an ever-present Premiership club like Villa to be a good thing. Sacking McLeish in the summer would be the way forward. Although going down doesn't seem to have done Newcastle any harm.

I just don't want to lose the joy that is Venkys

That's the game up for Newcastle, probably? I feel like they had to keep this run going.

I like Villa as a club - used to get along to see them semi-regularly years ago - but there's a longterm decline going on that badly needs turning round somehow.

Also: big clubs going down is basically a good thing.

I don't think people see it as a good thing, more they're astonished by the scale of the collapse - reminiscent of Hull three or four years ago, or Doncaster in the Championship last year, but it's more shocking cos, well, it's Villa.

Swansea 4-2 Wolves!

Sunderland equalise.

4-2!

Wigan and Sunderland 3-0 too! MOTD is gonna be sweet tomorrow morning.

Christ on a bike, Wigan are 4-0 up.

Christ Victor Moses

Liverpool unshiftable in eighth too, really fancy us to take advantage and turn this into a points difference later.

Wigan have only scored more than 2 goals once in the league this season. In one afternoon, they may have completely unfucked their goal difference.

Would you welcome relegation in some sense, EZ? For the catharsis, kind of thing.

Sort of? I think it would force a rethink on the club, one which should have come several years ago. However, as a fan in the States I would never, ever get to see them play. So the selfish part of me wants to see them stay up, but I don't know if it's the best thing for the club in the long run.

told ye newcastle weren't a runner for fourth. i'm still not writing off third for us, not that i've looked at a table in a month

Z on Twitter: "Barcelona should have gone for Wigan manager Roberto Martinez to replace Pep Guardiola."

West Brom should feel hard done there. Obvious handball not given.

http://i.imgur.com/iHkZY.png

this game is horrible.

4-0 to everton. think i'll watch something else.

stoke-arsenal is a waste of time but i feel like something will happen so im not turning it off. better not be another shawxing but im not ruling it out.

Sort of tempting fate, but I started to look up the last time EFC scored four in three consecutive league games just after halftime. And now we have! I've gone back as far as 1975-76 so far and...no dice. We managed 12 goals in 3 games a couple of times in the mid-'80s glory years (5/3/4) but not this.

Just makes the enfeebled Wembley nonsense worse really.

btw as i bring that up, stoke fans who boo ramsey's touch can die in a fire

Was that Hutton clearing off the line for Villa?!

Wolves got another, only losing 4-3 now. Sunderland score again p much resigning Bolton to relegation.

i dont hate stoke for the crazy fouling so much as hate them for their reaction to every cynical fuck foul. "I ONLY PUSHED HIM OVER REF FOR NO BLOODY REASON, IS THAT A CRIME NOW? THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON NOW YOU HAVE GIVEN A FREE KICK FOR ME KICKING HIS SHINS" etc.

4-4!

Finally found a sequence to match this from Everton:
28/2/64 Aston Villa (H) 4-2
7/3/64 Spurs (A) 4-2
14/3/64 Nottm Forest (H) 6-1

48 years.

If there isn't a last-minute nude parachutist at West Brom, I'll've wasted my afternoon.

Benny Noon had a decent penalty shout. It was at pace and Whelan (I think) puts his arms on his back. Benny went down v. easily and dramatically though, when he most probably could have had a good shooting chance if he stayed up.

so i picked a good afternoon to take the kids swimming, basically

Ball over the line for West Brom and not given apparently? (I couldn't bear to keep watching). Villa having the luck today. Typical of them to cash in by drawing 0-0.

that cd wind up being a massive point for Villa. surely McLeish has got to go this summer?

Hutton handled off the line earlier, then I'm sure it was him headed off the line a few minutes after that too.

Looked like Given had his leg along the line. Definitely not conclusive. Definite deliberate hand ball in the box on a shot that would have been a goal for West Brom earlier.

Overall, Villa kicked the crap out of them (4 or 5 yellow cards, all legit), and West Brom should feel like the ref screwed them pretty hard.

poor seb coates must be wondering what he has to do to get a game. wait for carra to retire i guess.

Hutton handled off the line earlier, then I'm sure it was him headed off the line a few minutes after that too.

Cuellar boss

just calculated that mcleish' teams have scored 151 goals in 150 epl games

Villa aren't even in long-term decline, it was only a couple of years ago they were in the running for the top four.

Bonkers day all round really. What the hell has Roberto Martinez done at Wigan?

Urgh. Stupid defensive mistake by Norwich, and Liverpool are 1-0 up.