Had a very heavy night on the booze Friday, so I had a nice lie in on Saturday. In fact I was asleep when my cellphone started buzzing (calm down Ashley) not long after 2pm. The incoming messages made it pretty plain that Portsmouth had done football a huge favour by knocking small heath out of the FA Cup. The Laughing Policeman has been on heavy rotation all afternoon, hahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

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Just watched Tottenham Hoofspurs draw 0-0 at Fulham. Hoooooooooof to Crouch. Hooooooooof to Crouch. Oh and not forgetting hooooooooooooof to Crouch.

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Welcome aboard the roller coaster ride that is supporting Aston Villa. Sat down in front of the box to watch Villa at Reading, just 90 minutes between us and Wembley.
By the end of the first half it was more like 90 million light years. Villa were, to a man, fucking abysmal. Easily our worst performance of the season, and deservedly we went in at the break 2-0 down. Some of the posts on the Villa forums were, in hindsight, comedy gold.
But still, our season looked like imploding – but whatever Martin O’Neill said or did in the dressing room at half time had the desired effect. Villa pulled a goal back through Ashley within 70 seconds of the restart. Then it was The John Carew Show. Big John had already had one goal disallowed for a very dodgy offside call, but he headed us level on 51. At that point it was only a matter of “when” we scored again, and JC put Villa in front just 5 mintes later. Three goals in just over 10 minutes had turned the game around. Fantastic stuff.
And to top it off Carew won a last minute penalty which he despatched into the net like a fucking exocet. Hat trick completed! And a return to the wonderful Borough Of Brent!!!

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Well I can’t say I’m too upset at getting Chelsea in the draw; I’d rather play them now and risk losing than meet them in the final. And IF we can dispose of Bumboy Terry and his cronies we’ll surely be favourites to win the Cup for the first time in 53 years. We are well overdue……..but it’s a big if.

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Just switched the Radio WM sports phone in. Heard a small heath supporter saying that people were coming out of Fratton Park in tears.
I can hear the strains of The Laughing Policeman in the background, ohhhhh hahahahahahahahahaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
How I’d love to be the guy who does that radio show, I’d have a fucking field day with the unwashed ‘Noses.

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Good result for Villa last night as Wigan turned over Stevie Starfish and his boys. The wheels aren’t exactly coming off at Wankfield but they’ve certainly got a couple of punctures. Now we need Villa to capitalise on Scousepool’s fuckup and make sure we take a MINIMUM 1 point at Stoke on Saturday. It’s a tough game, but we can do it.

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Yes its that time again – season ticket renewal time.
Now…….I’m a huge fan of Randy and co, but I’m not particularly happy at the price increases. Once again the Lower North has had a huge £50+ hike, and for the worst part of the stadium I’m not impressed with an almost 20% increase.
Yes, I know it’s still a decent price.
Yes, I know we are going places.
But I’d rather Villa sorted out a lucrative shirt sponsorship deal than hit loyal and hard up supporters in the wallet. And yes, most of the fans who inhabit the Lower North do so because of financial constraints. So for us to get the biggest increases doesn’t make sense. It’s all well and good under 8′s getting £75 season tickets – us fucking adults are paying for it.
Still, even after a good fucking moan I’ll still be there next season.

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Aston Villa’s reserve team really is the dogs bollox. Top of the table and five points clear of the nearest challenger, and unbeaten all season. We have players like Bannan, Clark, Lichaj, and particularly Delfouneso and Albrighton, who are way too good for reserve games. This was shown only too clearly tonight as we thumped the dirty unwashed small heath spastics 4-0. And we had two goals disallowed. Wiemann, Albrighton and Delfouneso(2) put our scruffy no-mark visitors firmly in their place.
135 years of being in our shadow, no wonder they don’t like us very much.
I almost feel sorry for ‘em.

Nah, do I fuck!

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