Monchi got another job quickly.

Just got a cheque in the mail from Plusnet saying they overcharged me when I cancelled my contract about 5 years ago. Not that I don't appreciate the £22 cheque, but I don't even know how they knew my current address, I didn't have Plusnet in this house lmao

The app that Villa recently released for the programmes is bizarre. If it wasn't linked on the official site I'd be sure it was a scam. Uses loads of resources on your phone, crashes constantly and everything is written in all lower case with spelling mistakes.

22 Sep 2025

The fact that UEFA have waited until now, when they've had months where they could have just drafted in whoever was beaten by them in the final qualifying round.

I love Ace Attorney because the lawyers have magic lie detector artifacts and can summon the spirits of the dead and read people's minds with robots - and the most competent and revered of them all's super power is "thinking logically about things".

McGinn last season hits that first time. This season he takes 4 touches then passes it backwards.

Definitely didn't think that said Home when I first scrolled past it.

Not been a sparkling first half, but have to say Bogarde has been class.

A goal!!!!!!

Hard games where the enemies have 1,000,000 hp <<<<< Hard games where the enemies have 10 hp, but there are 100,000 of them.

Rogers has been awful all season. Needs to be dropped.

Good job we have VAR (not that it affects the match, but on principle) because that was a shocker by the ref not to see that pen.

Inadvertently got into the habit of whenever I see an YouTube video from an account I have never heard of, I always check to see when their most recent upload was before I watch too much of it. Been stung too many times getting really into the content of someone who gave up YouTube 4 years ago.

I just learned that my work phone buried at the bottom of my bag that I haven't used in weeks still has a little bit of charge left.

Sign up this Andorra keeper.

Tried to get tickets for this match and they were sold out, weird seeing so many empty seats.

Dion Dublin seems like such a lovely guy.

That Ukraine cake on Bake Off was incredible. I bet a lot of thought went into what the best part to cut off and eat would be though.

There's probably a rule against giving an outfield player the Number 1 shirt - but it would have been funny if we had done that instead.

I wonder if Sancho or Elliott will get the Number 9 shirt. It's very small on the list of issues we have to deal with, but it bugs me we have no Number 1 or Number 9.

This will probably come back to bite me, because Palace are a bogey team that we could put out the 2011/12 Barcelona team and we'd still lose 3-1 - but I like that starting XI.

Lindelof obviously not in my top 10 wanted players at the start of the window. But we are where we are due to the rules. We need to replace Disasi without spending much money.

I've caught airport lurgey the day before a Villa match... Trying to beat it down with Lemsip. Desperate to go.

Along with Guessand, if we go after Paul Wanner too then we can sign player that the AI always signs for Villa on FM.

Just had a Cerveza Cristal in real life. Just like in Star Wars.

Just took a relatively short train journey across Belgium and I take back anything bad I ever said about UK trains. A UK train would have cost 4x as much for this journey. But would have taken a quarter of the time. I still see "rijdt niet" when I close my eyes.

I do hate VAR micro-refereeing games - but it does look like Bassey is judo-throwing the Man U player. What is he thinking?

Tom Hortons out here with a coffee that could feed a family, apparently.

20 Aug 2025

This is so frustrating.

Loads of the possession, but somehow we're still rubbish at breaking down a team who put 11 men behind the ball. Watkins desperately needs some support.

Collins makes zero attempt to play the ball and smashes into Martinez, which of course, according to this commentator - is Martinez's fault.

Villa match being on Irish TV means I've obviously taken a flight there to watch it legally. Brentford have an Irish manager and players, which has been mentioned about 17,000 times in this first 35 minutes. Im worried the commentator might run on the pitch and attack Martinez for not being Kelleher

I had a parcel delivered but I was in a work call so didn't answer the door. And the postman put the parcel in the box that the milkman uses for milk bottles. But due to his handwriting, I did for a moment just read a note put through my door that said "Milk boy".

Now he's officially joined Newcastle United, I can finally be honest about how much Ramsey pissed me off a couple of years ago with that "It's only the Conference League" comments at Villa fans' celebrations about qualifying to Europe.

Great use of taxpayer money having army adverts all over the Sky Sports Premier League coverage.

Should be illegal tbh

You'll see from my posts a year ago, if we have to sell someone, then Ramsey was always my first choice, solely because he's so injury prone that we know we can do just fine without him. There's not the pressure of finding a good replacement like there would for Watkins, Kamara or Martinez. #AVFC

I read about wplace. And the only thing on my town is that someone has put "I ❤️ Yuri" and a picture of a Sanrio character that I don't know the name of. So it turns out there is at least one other person under the age of 65 in this town. Or a very interesting old person.

Are the Villareal fans booing Partey too, or is there just loads of away fans there?

New season, same old wildly inconsistent implementation of the handball rule.

Mason Greenwood shows what he's all about as he kicks & spits on Amadou Onana. Tyrone Mings intervenes. Such a disgrace of a human being

Don't know why we organised a friendly with Nonce FC when we have another match tomorrow too. Recipe for disaster.

Greenwood not so tough when he's fighting someone who can fight back.

Tyrone Mings giving Mason Greenwood the beating he deserves.

Another unwritten rule of football manager is that because my deadline day deal for a CB fell through, of course by main starting CB gets a double hernia on a week we're playing 3 games in 7 days while 2 other defenders are on international duty.

Always odd when the AI in an FM save absolutely murder a club that you don't manage. Swansea in this save have tumbled into the National League, lost professional status, only have 7 first team players on non-contract pay-to-play agreements and are looking like they're about to drop to tier 6.

Everton surely can't have expected £18m for a first team player to be accepted? Is this one of those "Keep the fans happy" bids?