Not only are Crystal Palace out, but now a 4th round exit away at Man United (90+7, Fernandes, penalty) is also off the table. Is it our year for the FA Cup*? #avfc (*No.)

Never in doubt 😬 #avfc

Lovely stuff. #avfc

With our bogey team Crystal Palace now out of the FA Cup, I’m looking forward to Villa finding a new way of not winning the FA Cup this year. #avfc

I wasted a large chunk of my unemployment benefit buying a ticket to see Gay Dad at my local venue, purely led by press hype. "Think about it," I said to myself, "imagine if you missed the next Suede on their first tour". This was how we lived before the internet. We went along with it all. #totp

I had some grunt work to do today so I listened to all of the Johnny Cash American Recordings LPs in order. The song I Hung My Head really stood out. A brilliant song; an incredible, devastating, Wild West lyric. Anyway, I just found out that Sting wrote it. I’m fuming. youtu.be/fT3ZTurQyt0?...

Nature is healing.

Cool Runnings

Expensive Stoke 0 Liverpool 0 is a good result for Villa, which is - of course - the only thing that matters. #avfc

Kids have just been informed that their school is shut tomorrow. Joy is unbridled. We’re all off sledging in a bit. #uksnow B29 8/10 - snowing it’s arse off

I’m delighted with a point away at Palace. Unai is livid. Other results going for us, so as you were. #avfc

Some information from the #avfc Fan Advisory Board for any Villa fans planning their trip to Turkey for the Fenerbahce game later this month. avfcfab.org/important-in...

Nicolas Cage’s Walthamstow Nazi Flag Chaos. Three more from them later in the show.

In "celebration" of thr Pepto Bismol ad now being on the radio, I took some popular radio-friendly songs and added the "Diarrhea" guy.

4 things happened to me inside ~14 months between Aug 1995-Oct 1996. 1/🧵 1) After the pub on night, aged 21, I was sat on one of these in park, tipped over the handlebars, and broke my back.

Man U & Celtic both sack their managers on the same day. If you like listening to disappointed Irish fellas on radio phone-ins, today is Christmas.

Southgate or we riot.

Back to work tomorrow, lads. The last time I was at work, I was 2025 Me, and I was laughing at all the stuff 2026 Me had to do, and what a chump that guy was. But now I’m 2026 Me and it’s not funny.

Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man U, Sunderland all drop 2 points. Villa get 3. Do you want to bet against us? #avfc

Liverpool look *terrible*. Shape, passing, confidence…everything is flat. Obviously I’d be happy for this continue forever, but clearly it can’t/won’t.

After a blip at Billion Pound Stoke, the sun is shining once more on Aston Villa. Shout out to the bloke behind me, who relentlessly moaned his arse off through 90 minutes of total domination and 3 easy points. #avfc

I'm not necessarily saying that Grok should be set on fire, I'm just saying that in the early 1940s The Beano had a story in which Derek The Wild Boy of the Woods helps to build a giant robot Hitler, and in the end they decide to set it on fire, and it wasn't even a giant robot paedo Hitler

And Man City, Sunderland and (no laughing at the back) Spurs have all failed to win. It’s basically like the defeat on Tuesday never happened.

Liverpool, Chelsea, Man U, and Palace have all failed to win much easier games than our defeat at Arsenal. #avfc

A 2026 riddle: Every New Years Day I meticulously clean out the kitchen cupboards and chuck all the out of date condiments, packets, tins, sauces, etc. How come, then, do I *always* find stuff that is > 12 months out of date, such as this ginger, with a best before date of March 2023?

Well we had to lose eventually, so at least we’re doing it in style. And Arsenal fans are bound to be gracious in victory {sarcasm}. Take the licks and move on, Villans. There is a lot more to come from King Unai and this team. #avfc

Excellent first half, could/should have scored, and we’ve definitely turned the shithousery up to 11. #avfc

Come on you Villa boys. #avfc

Merry Christmas Villa fans. #avfc

Final episode of The Bill: 2010 Minidisc withdrawn: 2013 There’s yer window when it all went to hell in a handcart.

17 wins from 19 with a combined xG of “How do you like them apples?” #avfc

COMPLETELY UNSUSTAINABLE #avfc

We’ve been well and truly battered in that first half, so I’ll take 1-0 down to a terrible goal. Chelsea were much quicker, sharper. Some King Unai half time magic required. #avfc

Very tough test today, ahead of another one in 3 days. Come on you Villa boys. #avfc

#avfc fans: If you’ve not heard it, this interview with His Deanness is very good. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

The best thing about Boxing Day is that Christmas songs are on the way out. ~5 weeks of the same 20-30 songs, on repeat, everywhere, every year, until you die. You spend 10% of your entire life knowing you’ll likely hear Shakin’ Stevens, or Brenda Lee, at any given moment. That’s heavy duty.

Billy is right. Shit white bread, too much butter, salt on the turkey.

Merry Christmas everyone open.spotify.com/album/6kauYJ...

A Christmas treat for Bob Dylan fans, especially if you saw him recently. High quality soundboard recordings from his Glasgow shows in November. www.flaggingdown.com/p/the-glasgo...

Missed this earlier in the year. Birmingham’s brilliant Delta had their records reissued. We played with them a bunch of times, and they were great. Really should have been huge (but weren’t for - ahem - #reasons). If you like @thecoral.bsky.social etc then dive in. open.spotify.com/album/4u0Lkh...

This is a nice doohickey to explore your year on BlueSky. www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Standing in the huge Self Service checkout queue just now, I watched harried people emerge from the aisles with one or two last minute items in hand, who then - upon spotting the length of the queue - mouthed variations on “UFuckingWotM8”. I counted 14 instances of this.

I just had to go to the shops. Bloody hell.

Not much of a game (Man United dragged us down to their level), but otherwise delighted with that - doubly so because there were a suspiciously high number of half and half scarves on show at Villa Park today. Ten wins on the bounce. 16 wins from 18. Do you want to bet against us? #avfc

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

It is impossible for this Spurs v Liverpool game to produce a result that isn’t funny. #ElLOLico

It’s tempting to sneer at the farce boxing has become, but then I remember that I like football - which has VAR, and the World Cup in countries like Russia, Qatar, U!S!A!, and stuff like, y’know, Danny Murphy on the telly, or Chelsea being World Champions, and then I realise I can’t sneer at boxing.

Fairly sure I have this LP.

Here’s a photo of me from now until 8:59am on the 5th of January 2026, lads.