It has been 15 years since 40 points were 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 to survive in the Premier League, back when Birmingham City were relegated in 2010-11 with 39 points.

Villa playing in a Dean Smith Villa way. Sit in, be compact, look to counter. I guess this is what happens when a side has no other way, and right now, Villa have no other way. I'll take it ...

I usually like to summarise my analysis of games but I have said everything about this display a hundred times before. Probably more. So, Villa need to stop giving the ball away with stupid decisions when attacking is my only point today. I'm sick to death of it.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

#AVFC Ollie Watkins can deeply frustrate me, and it is clear he frustrates a lot of Villa folk. His first touch and close control can have me retiring to the bar instead of watching the game, however, having said that ....

#AVFC We can all look up at the stars and dream, but rockets are always fighting gravity, and in pro football money = gravity. Chelsea have full backs that are more expensive than our record signings. They have top talent in depth, and that talent if coached well, tells ... >

Kick off 18.45 for those with the foresight to sub to Villa TV 👍

Let's be honest. The loss of key players has exposed many of those we have been hailing as unable to perform or impact games without those key players. There is no point in making a list, we all have eyes. Our first half today was inept and anaemic >

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

2026 basically

Read and share all over..he nails it

When Kristi Noem claims she’ll make sure “the right people” vote and elect “the right leaders,” that’s not election security, it’s authoritarianism. Free societies collapse when leaders stop competing for voters and start curating them.

This is Bogie. This rope is his very favorite toy because it makes his tiny human smile too. 13/10 (TT: _chelsea_brown_4)

I'm speaking on the state of the AI market at Section's AI:ROI Conference on March 5. RSVP for free: www.sectionai.com/ai/the-ai-ro...

Villa stuff. We got lucky. BHA worked so hard and pushed us all over the pitch. Without the likes of Youri, Bouba, and SJM we struggle to hold the ball. Sloppy passing is a feature of this struggle. Get rid passes instead of passing with intent. It is like the start of the season again >

For those keeping score at home:

Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void. Here’s the Cato Institute report: www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well known before this for hobnobbing with Russians on yachts along with Osborne. Now do Boris with Lebedev after ditching his security…

Love a sticker or 20.....

This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

"An FBI affidavit issued following the incident also suggests that in the previous shooting cited by DHS, Zambrano-Contreras was not a suspect, but rather a reported victim of a sexual assault and robbery." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🎙️ Joined The Villa Park Podcast to catch up on all of the latest in the Academy including: 💫 Salzburg Showcase 📑 Loans, Loans, Loans 🫣 THAT Ian Holloway Comment youtu.be/T2cVFhM7jH0

Stop saying underage women. They are children.

Inside Aston Villa's transfer window: Gallagher €26m bid, Garner & Mbaye interest, Kamara's PCL injury, Bogarde, Tielemans contract, Abraham sacrifice, Douglas Luiz, Elliott impasse & a month of battling against finances & injuries. @theathleticfc.bsky.social #AVFC www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Blues v Villa in the U21 Premier League 2 is live on VillaTV for those of you wise enough to get it pre-season. www.avfc.co.uk/video/

Luckily, we can still listen to that in the present! The list is endless... :) youtu.be/8v8-RSyuUeE?...

Oh dear, this may well upset a certain section of the football community. Uncle Unai and his dark anti xG-magick 🪄

Well, that was a bit too dramatic for me 😂 Fair play to Salzburg. They came with something to play for and worked their socks off to get it. Villa again struggle when pressed and when the middle of the park is packed. Clown defending aside, Villa came back in part because RBS legs fell off >

I love Tyrone Mings. He will always be a key part of the rebirth of the Villa. He can be a magnificent warrior and a superb defender, but has a tendency to require good opponents, whom he may feel he has something to prove against. When I have seen him play without this drive, he makes ricks.

Time is ticking down fast to the release of HOW WE THINK on 12 March! Six weeks to go so I thought I'd give you a quick intro to the book. What it says. Where it came from. What it can (hopefully!) do for you. You can pre-order HOW WE THINK now! bio.to/HowWeThink @hodderbooks.bsky.social

My Girlfriend has started actually showing off her tattoo work. I'm biased but I think she's incredibly talented. #tattoos #birmingham www.instagram.com/p/DUF7WxoiIh...

"Clearly, Schumer and the leadership of the Democratic Party still, even now, have no real conception of what is happening in our country. Because these are not normal times, and we are so, so far from a normal America." - from today's First Draft

Talked with Storybench about the reporting process behind our visual investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti. Storybench's behind-the-scenes series is a resource I've used for years, and I'm honored my team's work is now a part of it. Read it here: www.storybench.org/how-an-open-...

I know I am not alone in this, but folk seriously underestimate just how big Tammy Abraham is. 6 feet 4 and a half inches. That makes Peter Withe look like Ernie Wise. A monster.

Unai appears to be putting the band back together 👀

If you have interest in engineering, aerospace, or history, or how politics can warp decision making in senior management. This is a must read. www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g...

How one year of ‘America First’ left workers behind ft.trib.al/YeRLrmR | opinion

Remarkable how Emery has drilled this team to confound and confuse the xG acolytes. NUFC gave it all the steam they had in the tank in that second half, and they were made to look impotent by Villa's relentless discipline and organisation >

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Found myself encountering a fellow Villa fan in the other place who sincerely felt Alex Pretti deserved to be killed. I was shocked at this, but the polarisation of political culture has removed respect for those with opposing views, and everything is left v right. It is awful to lose respect.

Currently #Arsenal is ranked 4th in the #UFCC Alltime Ranking - same number of wins as #Everton. If the Gunners can win today, they'll move to 3rd position! #NFOARS Full list of champions: www.stevesfootballstats.uk/ufcc_champio...

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

I was shocked at the brutal killing of Renee Good by a masked thug empowered by the US State. The video of another gang of masked men executing a man on a Minnesota street does more than shock. This violence is not a one off, it is not bad apples, it is systematic and sanctioned. What the hell?