I CAN SMELL THE FEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No chance. Not while I've got an orifice in my posterior.

As I said a few weeks ago, when they were a few points clear of Arsenal, I was amazed that people were getting giddy at the prospect of Villa finishing 4th - up until recently they'd only used something like 17 players in the league all season and they were always going to dip once they got a few injuries and fixtures started to take their toll, because they don't have that much depth, whereas Arsenal had played plenty of the season minus a few key men, who are now starting to return.

Providing they don't totally collapse it could still turn out to be a decent effort from Villa this season but, like Liverpool (if they don't win the title), it will end up being portrayed as a failure by many because they had a good start.

Great win for the reds today, keeps the pressure on.

only saw part of it at 1-0, villa were playing some reasonable stuff, the route one nature of the second (no dig intended) and the inability of villa to deal with it was reminiscent of last week.

why would there be a dig, if that was beckham playing a 80 yard assist, and not reina, the world would be having a giant party in their pants.

Two week break might have come at the right time for Utd, terrible for the last three games now.

Hopefully not....let's hope Villa react to a beating by pulling the stops out at OT!

They've turned the goal difference around as well. The rotters.

Squeaky bum time.

hmmm - our Newcastle fan at work (from Leicester) is attempting to take the p\ss this morning - he now has the league table as his PC wallpaper, not particularly fancying their run in either.

I agree when they had Carew and Agbonlawhatever playing up front there was a good balance, now they have two good headers of the ball who play the same drop off the back to head it on role.

Also from the game, i see no reason for us to sign Gareth Barry whatsoever.

How can a Newcastle fan take the pïss? Has he seen the table? I suggest he gets his A to Z out again.

he has now

Is he reading it through his backside?

not yet, he's too busy talking through it.

Funny how your form turns around when you keep getting penaltys and playing against ten men isn't it

Isn't that irony at it's best?

Aye, we just need the opposition captain to slip and miss a match winning penalty in the champions league final and we're quids in.

What about your captain slipping in a champions league final? That helps as well.

Thanks.

This thread has been dead today, what's up with everyone, where are you?

Everton, Man U and Chelsea got beat and Liverpool offered out another hammering over the weekend, surely that wouldn't have anything to do with it, would it?

Another brilliant display from Robinho at the weekend. He's clearly the best winger on the planet.

Bet he wasn't as good as Ashley Young.

he's not fit to lace Ashley Young's boots.