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Listening to talkSport, it sounds like Villa fans are turning on Gerrard and they've got Arsenal and then Man City next. First PL sacking of the season? If so that may well ruin his chances of replacing Klopp who's inferred he has no intention of going on forever.
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Watched Villa lose against a very average Wet Spam team yesters and they were poor.Originally Posted by upthemaggies
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Not been a good start for the Midlands clubs, currently 14th, 15th, 19th and 20th.
The season we went down from the top flight under Larry Lloyd there were no less than 9 Midlands clubs at that level.
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I thought Villa were wrong to sack Dean Smith previously. Yes, he'd had a poor run of results but that can happen to most Premier League teams at any given time. Since arriving he'd kept them up against all odds, improved them considerably, and probably deserved more time.
Having made that decision, and having recruited Steven Gerrard from Rangers, you would hope they might give him more than 10 months before reaching a judgement, but it does appear the club (and their fans) are setting expectations more in keeping with the club Villa were 40 years ago than what they're entitled to expect now.
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Only teams they've beaten in their last 15 are Norwich, Burnley and Everton. After Arsenal and Man City they are away to Leicester which could be a whoever loses gets sacked scenario.
When I went there it was a very special place, a real sense of a grand history in full and total depth which I haven't felt anywhere else including Old Trafford and Wembley. For the chief club in the 2nd largest city in England they have massively underachieved in recent years, even more so taking into account their chief rivals Birmingham who have never challenged Villa's status as the city's no.1 club in the way Everton have with Liverpool or Man City with Man Utd.
Notts are unbeaten against them in the last six Meadow Lane meetings, including 4 clean sheets. Villa will almost certainly remain our biggest home gate since the 1950s as well when we got 34k against them in 1972.
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This is hilarious.
Chelsea fans.......
https://twitter.com/DirtyFootbaIIer/...92359113342976
Vaguely reminiscent of NCmad at times.
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Jeff Stelling
@JeffStelling
Well done VAR . One of the great goals ruled out for something nobody even appealed for. It’s a total shambles as it has been from its inception
Danny Kelly
@dannykellywords
Well done VAR again, you blood-sucking joy-vacuum. Another great goal wiped off WITH NOT ONE LEICESTER PLAYER APPEALING. VAR now totally in charge of the English game. No explanation, no accountability, just robotic searches for any reason to ruin the game as a spectacle. #VARout
Fan comment: "Football now governed by a parking warden mindset. "
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Danny Baker
@prodnose
Those of us who said from Day One that VAR was a giant corporate power grab, a means made for vampiric egos to interfere whenever they could, were decried as luddite nostalgics.
And here we are, where speed cameras are randomly applied to a Grand Prix.
#SmashAllTheCameras
Specsavers
@Specsavers
Are you free for a chat tomorrow, VAR?
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