After seeing the line-ups, 4-1 Citeh.

4-1 bit optimistic I think.

Might turn off, getting f all from the home ref and look horrible at the back.

Balo elbow, no red.

Not covering himself in glory this week, Mr Clattenburg.

Oh dear, Clichy actually scored a goal!

Boooooo!

Villa fans epic as usual, despite us getting ***** by MC.

Looked pretty ominous for your guys. Saw the 1st half and City looked quite decent.

The starting XI was never really going to trouble City though.

As for Arsenal, it seems Bendtner has found his level United next up in the cup.

Silva is some player. Could get into the Barca side based on what I've seen of him lately, incredible touch and vision.

Indeed. he's my dream Pirlo replacement.

Really? But they are entirely different players! One of the reasons why I like Xavi and Pirlo is that the role they perform is unique in their teams.

I think only Schweinsteiger and Xabi Alonso comes close in football to the roles these two play.

I've always thought of Silva as a similar player to Pirlo. sure, Andy plays in a deeper position, but their vision, accuracy of passing, technique, etc. look really similar.

Alonso? yes please. Schweinsteiger, no thanks, poor mans Boateng. Played well in the WC but he to me is a bit hyped up by his home nation, just as Rooney is over here because he's like their golden boy nowadays.

Most German players play so much better for their NT than they do for their club... and they're not even Germans!

I like Schweinsteiger don't get me wrong but to me he is no where near the level of Alonso. I would probably put Alonso in my team above Fabregas in all honesty. This isn't because he plays for Madrid as oppose to Barca, I have just genuinely thought he was world class for years.

Kolo Toure failed a drugs test earlier.
Source

Fool.

Idiot.

I wonder who will finish higher now, Kolo Toure or Man Citeh?

I have no idea what we are going to do today. Young, Dunne, Collins, Cuellar and Baker all injured I think, Lichaj out on loan and Warnock is about as popular with everyone at Villa as Robbie Savage. That leaves Ciaran Clark.

We'll have to play a 1-5-4.

Hopefully that'll be reality next season rather than an error!

Myhill, Carson, Davies, Shorey, Ridgwell, Fahey, Gardner, Phillips. You can nearly make a team out of all the Villa rejects small heath and the boggies have!

small heath 1-3 Albion. 20 to go.

FT 1-3. Took their eye off the ball after last week and they could very well be in the bottom 3 by 5pm. Wonderful.

Yet another set peice conceeded. Yet another goal in injury time conceeded. Yet another lead thrown away.

Not good enough.

I like Hitzlsperger. His return + Ba signing was big for West Ham. They are on the way to the second win in a row Stoke have been garbage though.

He's okay, too much of a highlights player though. His overall game isn't that great, being in a bottom half club is about his level.

We're now 2-1 up. But Jesus Christ when is this luck of ours going to start? How many cleared off the line today? Off the woodwork? Now we've had a penalty saved.

When our luck even itself out we'll win the title next season.

We conceed another corner.

**** me. I did predict we'd conceed the equaliser in the last minute, we'll probably lose it in the last minute now. Fucking joke.

Wheater should have had 2 red cards now, he's still on the pitch. What a joke.

I have a feeling this ref is from Manchester.

3-2 Bolton? Wtf.

Torquay are actually winning 2-0.

Typical.

Another ball into the box. Another goal.

Talk about throwing a game away, should have been 4-1 up against 10 men. We're now 3-2 against XI men. Cheers ref and our back 5.

The refs are back.

Arsenal drawing at the moment, a United win at Anfield could blow their chance.

WTF???

They were back last weekend when we were not given 2 blatent penalties. Or mid-week when Balo assaulted Herd and got away with a yellow card.

We've had about 2 games where we've had luck this season, that's it. And one of those we lost!

I haven't seen so I can't really comment.

Why is ESPN free again? I might as well not pay for it, I swear its free like 1 weekend a month!

Oh yeah, this is why I hate Crawley they are 5-0 up, 1 point behind Wimbledon (who are top) but they have 6 games in hand - ridiculous.

And I was actually hoping that Arsenal can deny the title from United... Better accept with the #19

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Unacceptable.

Story of our season pretty much summed up in this game.
*Take the lead.
*Run rings around the opposition, create enough chances to be 3 up.
*Decide to sit back after we fail get a 2nd and conceed late in the 1st half.
*The referee forgets his job and either fails to give us a blatent penalty or a blatent red card to an opposition player.
*We then shoot ourselves in the foot by missing a penalty or getting a player sent off.
*Give away a late corner or free kick and conceed to lose.

This seasons Villa are the worst team I have ever seen defending set peices, it makes me wonder what we do in training. They just stand there and look at each other. Zonal marking doesn't make sense, it just gives nobody responsibility, nobody knows what they're meant to do and gives the other team an instant advantage. Fan of GH, but he has to sort the defending out, it's not acceptable.

Just seent GHs postgame. Not like him to criticise a referee, says it all. Not seen that emotional and pissed off before either. Got to sort this defending out, I'd be ashamed if a team I was in defended like that, but for an EPL team..

Talking about appalling referees.

Attwell takes charge of the Citeh game, this could be fun, especially what happened last year in this fixture!!

Apparently Clattenburg made a clown of himself for the 3rd game running as well, what's wrong with him.

Think he's swapped with Attwell. Who is actually having an ok game, I mean he's done nothing exceptional. You'd have to be a moron to not realise the bookings given and he played an advantage a few times. That's an excellent game for Attwell!!

Thank God for this mornings result. Made tonights party so much easier to endure!

Rumour doing the rounds here that Birmingham might be banned from Europe next season do to their horrible financial situation. The funniest thing of all is that them winning the Cup is probably the worst thing that could have happened to them as it triggered off a tonne of player bonuses. They actually have to pay out more than they got for winning it!


Not my words, someone on the Villa forum said it.

Of all the horrible mistakes the ref made yesterday, this one was by FAR the worst.

I mean come on, it doesn't even look like offside!

EDIT: and before anyone starts making snide comments about making excuses for not winning the league because we're simply not good enough, well, losing two points like this doesn't exactly help, does it?

There's a better picture going round from a different angle that makes the offside decision look even worse. From that angle it doesn't look as bad - even though he's clearly on.

Alot of clubs complaining about the refereeing of late. Funny that, I've been saying it since week 1 and it was dismissed as 'making excuses' (despite the fact we won 3-0 that week!0.

Wow terrible, looks like some people didn't want you going anywhere near Man U, considering they could lose today...

Liverpool-United KO at 1:30. Win would be huge for United, a draw wouldn't be bad given the Arsenal result. A loss would be terrible given they lost midweek too.

Oh and someone on the Villa forum slagging off Bent already. He's scored 3 in 7 so far which is good, not only that but we've had 3 penalties since he's been at he club and he hasn't taken any. If he'd have taken penalties he'd like have 6 in 7. Some 'supporters' are ridiculous, we're averaging nearly 2 a game with him in the side as well! It could be worse, we could have signed Torres, Suarez or Carroll for far more money, each of which have done F all.

Last night in Juve-Milan the linesman made a far worse mistake that cost us a goal. Seedorf was like 1 meter onside. this one, if you look at it from a non-Arsenal fan point of view, is a very close one. mistake, yes, but it's not true that it doesn't even look like offside. I mean, come on, the two players are level.

I don't think it was that close. Combine this with the terrible decisions in the Newcastle game and it does make you wonder.

Ha, Kuyt scores, not Suarez.

2-0, Kuyt again. Great assist from Nani!

Nani's dive was great!!! Made me laugh so hard, first he went down screaming, then came back up to fight it out, then after seeing the ref went down again and tried to hit one of the medics, then he was stretchered off!! Ridiculous!!

It is pathetic.

"We've won it 3 times, we've won it 3 times! Without killing anyone, we've won it 3 times". Oh dear.

3-0? Wow.

Kuyt hat-trick. Combined distance of the goals is about 5 yards.