That really pissed me off. Sacrifice the Europa League, then lose to Villa anyway. Along with signing about a hundred players after you'd already gone out of Europe, it all seemed like such a waste.
There is nothing whatsoever about Aston Villa which turns me on. Villa Park is the most overrated ground in the country, Deadley Doug was so full of his self importance that it was embarrassing. Holte Legends on the old 606 was a tiresome bore and their current side is a mirror image of the current manager, Paul Lambert, bloody tedious. Their summer signings are cheap and will be proven to be out of their depth. Granted, Fabian Delphi is a good player, but the rest are an average bunch of mid-table at best squad. Alan Hutton may well be having an Indian Summer of a career, but he was an embarrassment during his time at WHL and quite frankly, I will be quite happy if Villa get relegated, especially as it will mean I will no longer have to endure their odious hissing noises/gas chamber noises with which they "welcome" us Spurs fans.
I agree with the rest (and Delph's out of contract at the end of the season), but Guzan, Vlar and Benteke are all good players.
Villa won't be unbeaten for long. Their next 7 games are Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, Everton, QPR then us. They desperately needed to get points in their first few matches to avoid being bottom of the table and looking certainties for relegation in my opinion.
Their owner is trying to sell so that was to be expected and one of the reasons players like Hutton are having a new lease of life is because their manager is forced to use players who before where viewed as having no future. Not a fan of Villa at all (as a club) just I like seeing the smaller teams prove their critics wrong and just happens to be Villa (at the moment). Benteke, Vlaar, Delph, Westwood, Guzan are talented and their summer signing Sanchez has good vision, although looks off the pace currently. But I reckon they will just stay up if Benteke is back soon.
Pound for pound, we have the better team and the greater squad-depth, so yeah, you beating us was a bit of a shock.
Last Sunday was a case of over confidence by Spurs and Poch's big mouth before the match. We will be back to winning ways.
Van Galling is running his mouth about us again, saying we'd be an "easier job" than going to Man Utd. ...wait, should this be on the No s**t Sherlock thread?
He's acting like an utter twat and I hope he fails miserably now. Trying to improve his reputation with the Utd fans is fine, but doing it by talking **** about Spurs simply shows what a classless ****er he is.
Realistically, the question is how the Spurs job would be "easier"? Man Utd could spend the best part of £150m on transfers this summer without having to balance the books, and on top of that several of those players are on excess of £200k per week in wages - things that we cannot do. On that basis alone, with the exception of Chelsea or City the Man Utd job is the easiest in the Premier League.
They don't even need to have a squad that deep either, as they're not in Europe and out of one domestic cup already. http://www1.skysports.com/football/...n-gaal-happy-with-manchester-united-challenge
