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I'm not sure it's been "over-achievement" before the collapse.... It's perhaps no coincidence that there isn't an English side in any of the ECL/Europa Semi-Finals (Villa are in the Conference one). This has been a "poor" English League this year and because of that perhaps we looked better than we are up until recently. City and Arsenal have come good, and I can still see City maybe pulling away in the last few games.

I have no idea really. Just theorising.

Double criticism.

Aside from occasional free kicks and Hollywood passes, it sounds like we're talking about a fairly average performer, who gets too many hall passes because he's "local". Perhaps.

It's not his fault what we paid for him. He's good, but the sample size on missed chances, and how similar they are, is big enough I think to suggest he is fundamentally problematic.

It really is. Because - whether it's "unprofessional" or not - these games mean more than others. They really are about pride in the shirt and the club, and frankly we looked lame and soft in these games. That they were also crucial matches just makes it worse. I'm not particularly arsed about this group going forward.

Harsh on Willard's ex that.

My eyes tell me Salah had 38 touches, but my brain tells me he had 207.

Perhaps that's why we never see Dave and Code in the same room?

I will never believe my eyes again.

Eating only dates once a day at sundown for a month, I'm not surprised

Shit?

Where would we - the blind, who only see with our eyes - be without you translating everything into "football" for us? Forever indebted to you.

There is that I guess... and I write the ads!

Yep. Sadly it has turned into a bit of a shitshow, with the League Cup as consolation. Mind you, it's as good an excuse as any to bin football for me. It is shite.