8 minutes in, Arsenal 0-2 Wigan.

Wigan to win the league next season?

Vermaelen! 2-1! Get a few more!

Some real **** today.

Wiemann fouled when he went through 1-on-1, no red card (not even a free kick).

Their keeper handballs it outside of the box to stop a goalscoring opportunty, no red card. The red must have seen it because he gave us the free kick!

Total ****. MON got an awful reception, judas.

Sky boys said it should have been a booking, not a red. I'm not even sure on the laws with that nowadays if it's accidental by a keeper outside the box. Haven't seen it myself.

Fair enough, I always thought it was a straight red.

MON's post-game interview..



I've seen it back and Bendtner was level. For a linesman to get it wrong is one thing, but then that kind of comment is why I hate officials. Arrogant and they think they know everything and get everything right. Hopefully the Sunderland player in question points out to the linesman that he's completely wrong on the TV!

Unless it's Gardner, Bendtner or Larsson, in that case I hope he cries himself to sleep.

Not over yet. After losing to Wigan, United drew 4-4 with Everton. So the gap is only 3 points now (City is beating Wolves right now) and the derby next week will be super interesting.

Yes,next week's match will be huge.

IIRC, EPL tiebreaker is goal difference. United + 54, City + 60 right now.

Yeah it is, it's not head-head in our league.

Wouldn't Man city have the edge anyway?

United are screwing this even worse than us.

What a game it will be! can't wait. I haven't felt this way about an EPL game in a long time. I don't even know which team I'm gonna support, guess I'll have to wait for the game to start and see which team my heart sides with.

PFA Team of the Year

Joe Hart (Man City)

Kyle Walker (Spurs)
Vincent Kompany (Man City)
Fabricio Colloccini (Newcastle)
Leighton Baines (Everton)

David Silva (Man City)
Scott Parker (Spurs)
Yaya Toure (Man City)
Gareth Bale (Spurs)

Wayne Rooney (Man United)
Robin van Persie (Arsenal)


My changes:

OUT: Joe Hart, Kyle Walker, Scott Parker, Yaya Toure, Gareth Bale
IN: Michel Vorm, Yohan Cabaye, Antonio Valencia, Clint Dempsey, Sergio Aguero

Villa are getting relegated. Sad day for a former Euro Champ.

McLeish does not understand football, that much is clear.

C'mon, you are always prematurely negative. I would still put my money on QPR or Wigan to be the third team.

Nah. We can not win games. QPR and Wigan have shown they can beat anyone of late. We might get 1 more point.

Though I'm hoping the players have some pride and give the fans what they owe them and win the derby this weekend.

Still, it's between Bolton, QPR, Wigan and Villa and right now villa in a better position. It's far from over or anything.

I just look at us and them and see them as teams that know how to win.

Between them, Wigan and QPR have beaten Liverpool (x2), Arsenal (x2), United and Spurs in the past few weeks. Whilst we've been destroyed by United, embarassed by Wigan and lucky against Sunderland in a 0-0. You missed off Blackburn too who won this weekend.

Think I need to bet on these teams to not lose every weekend. It worked betting on Barca, maybe I'll get the same luck.

Chelsea play QPR this weekend, which means Terry may face Ferdinand again. Apparently he's going to refuse the handshake with Terry.

Who the hell is Anton Ferdinand? Nobody gives a **** about you, stop being an attention whore. Jesus.

If terry said what is alleged, even if it was in the heat of the moment and not meant to be racist...he should have apologized.

And if he hasn't then im with Anton.

Terry says he said "I didn't call you a black..". Which is not racist, if Anton did indeed accuse him of saying that and nothing can be proven, then Anton needs to be banned, fined and apologise to Terry. As of yet, Terry has been proven guilty of nothing and Anton's defense has more hole's than Suarez'.

It comes to something when you, literally, have 1 fan backing you.

Villa's relegation rivals all have far inferior GDs except QPR, so we need Chelsea to beat them today ideally by a few.

Chelsea 4-0 QPR

1' [1 - 0] D. Sturridge
13' [2 - 0] J. Terry
19' [3 - 0] F. Torres
25' [4 - 0] F. Torres

30 minutes gone at the moment.

Torres completes a hat trick,so happy for him

Can only imagine what Chelsea would have gone onto do had they given the same generous care to other forwards before Torres.

Come on you Spurs..

..I think I just threw up a little in my mouth a little.

Wouldn't it be grand if Spurs got 4th a Chelsea won the CL??

I wouldn't be able to stop laughing if that turns out to be the case

So that England can have possibly 5 teams in next year's CL?

Nah, if Chelsea win it, it will only be the top 3 getting entry + Chelsea.

Ahh okay, understood. Forgot that's how it works to be honest.

I would literally die laughing.

Villa 2010-2012 - Darren Bent

With Bent: 38 games, 13 wins, 14 draws, 11 loses, 48 scored, 48 conceded, 53 points
Without Bent: 36 games, 6 wins, 14 draws, 16 loses, 36 scored, 61 conceded, 32 points

Bent scored 18 goals in 38 games.

This season

With Bent: 22 games, 6 wins, 9 draws, 7 defeats, 26 goals, 28 conceded, 27 points
Without Bent: 14 games, 1 win, 7 draws, 6 defeats, 10 goals, 22 conceded, 10 points

Bent scored 9 goals in 22 games. We only scored 10 as a team without him..

It's amazing how a top striker can help your team, even defensively we're so much better with him.

Before or after Villa were relegated?

I believe the CL Final is after the EPL season is over, so after.

Took that one well, so kudos to you.

It's better to laugh than cry.

Newcastle just pulled a Newcastle this weekend! I love this club!

If Wigan carry on this form through to next season, they'll win the Premier League.

But they never do.

I've heard another popular one, "If Everton started the season, they way they finish it, they would be in the Champions League every year"

When does the Manchester derby start? (how many hours/minutes until the kickoff) I can't seem to figure out.

I'm amazed you don't seem to realise that was a joke!


6 hours 45 minutes.

Podolski confirmed to be going to Arsenal. I think Wenger's starting to lose it, they need a director of football doing the transfers.

Thanks.

I did. I responded with one of my own. You don't find me funny anymore. Soon you'll want to break up and see other people.

Man City team: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Silva, Y Toure, Barry, Nasri, Tevez, Aguero.

Man Utd team: De Gea, Jones, Smalling, Ferdinand, Evra, Nani, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs, Park, Rooney.

Think United could sneak this, City's fullbacks are really, really poor and they aren't going to get much help from the wide players.

KO in 10 for anyone interested. Don't think I will watch to be honest.

I've got it on, it will be a cracker if I don't.

Not sure what the end result will be, but I decided I will be cheering for Citeh

Even though I'm not a fan of United it would be completely hypocritical of me to complain about modern football and support City, can't bring myself to do it.

Both teams (especially Man U) playing too cautiously and so very few chances as a result. a goal will make it interesting.

I too am with Citeh. don't know why.

HT. 1-0, Kompany.

Can someone explain the reasons behind SAF's choice of captaincy? I just can't wrap my head around the idea of making Evra the captain when there's Giggs and Scholes.