arsenal to win the title for my ramsey please :(

Deffinetly, if the villa had won the fans would be going mental and so would the players!

looked like "man'ew" didn't give a donkey's about winning as they thought they were definately going to

fcking phil dowd

blame it soley on him

the ref was ****

omg he's so sh*te he's even had his own gif made of his "taxi" moment yesterday :(

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we need marshall nooooow!!!

Happy at the outcome:). Vida should have been sent off, I was thinking WTF when the ref didn't show the card but he makes the decisions so can be blamed for that.. even if Vidic had gone who knows whether it would have been a different outcome anyway?.

Both sides played well and had their chances:thumbs:. Villa are consistently improving and still in a shot for 4th place and FA Cup so can use this to continue their progress and take the positives out of it.

So Rangers, Liverpool and Spurs won then.

Dissapointed for Villa, thought they played well, as soon as Rooney came on i just went 'oh no' with his recent form i just knew he was going to score :( ach well, it's going to be Man United's only silverware this season so let them laugh it up.

we ll win the fa cup anyway

I like the sound of that:thumbs:. Reading could be tricky lol but I think you guys will win.

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Rooney could miss the Egypt match, has picked up a niggling knee injury:shocked:.

Yes. Not our best performance by a long shot, but we did enough to win and deserved it. I felt like we didn't 'want' the ball enough in a couple of key spots, and Blackburn were first to the ball a lot. Reina had a great game, made a few amazing saves and was my man of the match.
Every time El Haji Djouf got within 5 yards of the ball the whole of anfield just boo'd him... I guess nobody ever forgot about the spitting incident, years after it happened :devil:
Mascherano was playing right wing for a lot of the game, and he was really line hugging it. Worked very well, as Blackburns left back played fairly central. So what happened a lot of the time was Gerrard or Yossi would belt the ball from the left side over to the right win, Masch would sprint up the right hand side into the corner, cut across and put the ball in the middle... that happened a few times and it created a lot of good chances.

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You should go to every game, Tibb luck :)

Highlights was short and sweet, but victory was needed to stay in the 4th place race. Good to see Torres back and that should boost the players into action like the seasons of past..

You going to another game?.. Man Utd game at Old Trafford in 3 weeks.

Cool pics! :dance:

It's too far to travel, 4.5 hours there and 5 hours back. If I lived nearer I'd probably just get a season ticket :)
Yeah its a shame Tottenham and Man City both won this weekend. Just got to hope Torres stays fit, and we should give Man U a good match. Will be interesting if Rafa goes all out for the Europa cup. We are favorites, and it might be good for morale to try as hard as we can to win it. Don't want it to get in the way of getting that 4th place spot though.

4th place is going to be a tough ride, 4 clubs fighting for one spot.. We should not be in this mess. :(

If we fail to end the season 4th then there is always next season to fix our troubles, but my main fear is that Torres and few others might want to jump ship after the World Cup.. Maybe I've been reading too many newspapers.. Fek!

True the Europa League is within our reach and we have the know how to go all the way, just aslong our players keep their chins up.. Been a problem with us.

Faith in Rafa!

liverpool are going quietly about there business cause its so close at the top with chelsea manure arsenal..

if one of those teams was way out in front then liverpool would have more media pressure but the title race is proving a good distraction for liverpool

Europa League is in our hands.
4th place is out of our hands..

Villa have two games inhand, Man City have one game inhand..

we will have 3-4 games in hand soon

our next PL game isnt till the 13th i think cause we got Reading in the fa cup next week

oh for fk sake! God dam waiting game..

Next week is a big week for us.. if any of the top 2 drop points.

We need to jump at that.

Stoke City's midfielder Glenn Whelan has spoken of his anguish after being the first player on the scene of Aaron Ramsay's horrific injury at the Britannia Stadium on Saturday. He also said he had tried to help the player by trying to get the 19-year-old take his mind off the injury.

"I was the next one in from the tackle, and saw what had gone on," the Ireland international said. "I was just trying to take the lad's mind off it. It was the first time I had seen it [an injury like that], and touch wood it will never happen again.

"I was just there, and if I was on the other side of the pitch, I would probably have not gone anywhere near him. I was just trying to do what I could to take the lad's mind off it. The lad held onto me with the pain he was going through, and I was telling him not to think about it. He was in a state of shock. The medical team came on as quickly as possible, and then you just let them take over."

Whelan accepts players walk a fine line when it comes to tough tackling - but maintains there was no malice in Ryan Shawcross' challenge on Ramsey. "First and foremost, everyone hopes the young lad gets back as soon as possible, and at the standard he plays at, because he looks a terrific player. As for Shawcross, he was disappointed what has happened to the boy.

"I do not think anyone goes into a tackle looking to break a leg or injure a player, but there is fine line between being hard and being dirty. The two players could go in for that tackle 100 times again and nothing would happen. Hopefully this was just a one-off."

Whelan has not seen the incident again - and does not want to. "You have got young people watching the game live, who probably could not stomach something like this, and so they were probably right not to show it again at the time," the midfielder said. "I have not seen the tackle again, and if it came on, I would probably turn the television off.

Rory Delap and Danny Pugh, meanwhile, have defended Stoke's style of play in the wake of injury. Ramsey has been backed to make a full recovery but he is likely to be sidelined for several months after breaking both bones in his right shin in a challenge with Shawcross which led to the Stoke centre-back being sent off.

Arsène Wenger condemned the tackle as "horrendous and unacceptable" but Delap said the Arsenal manager was wrong. "The tackle didn't look at all malicious. I spoke to the referee and he said he didn't think Ryan meant it, but he had to send him off," Delap said.

"I know Ryan and he wouldn't mean to do that. Ryan was in tears and he is not a lad who would go out to do that. He will be devastated and we will need to pick him up. But our thoughts are with Aaron."

Delap added: "Everyone knows what we are about. We are physical, but there's not one person in our dressing room that would do that [deliberately injure an opponent]. It is very rare in the whole of football that someone does go out to hurt someone."

Pugh backed up that view by saying: "We are a fully committed side, but we never go out to injure anyone, just give 100% to the game whether we are playing Arsenal, Man City or whoever."

Ramsey can expect to make a full recovery according to the surgeon who successfully helped his Arsenal team-mate Eduardo recover from a similar injury.

Khalid Baloch was the consultant trauma surgeon at Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham when Eduardo broke his leg in similar circumstances following a tackle from Martin Taylor.

Eduardo made a return to action after a year on the sidelines and Baloch, who has only seen pictures of Ramsey's injury, believes the Wales international faces a similar rehabilitation.

"I expect it is deja vu for Arsenal's staff and will bring back memories for them. If you look at the pictures it is similar to where Eduardo was holding his leg," Baloch said.

"The Arsenal physios and doctors have seen this before though and it will be fresh in their minds. I expect eventually Ramsey will have the same type of intensive rehab and play again. Arsenal's physios did a great job with Eduardo.

He added: "There were some similarities with Eduardo and a leg break is usually six to nine months out."


You may not go out to injure players, but you know your team takes people out especially us to stop our play.