Another seven days closer to the end of the world.
The week begins with a report that Alysson’s picked up a slight knock in training so he’ll miss a match or two. Or a year or two.
There’s going to be £50 million invested in transport links to local football grounds. Aston and Witton are being improved (this week’s contender for the Low Bar of the Century award), the station at Coventry might be big enough to handle football crowds eventually and the biggest and best tram stop on earth will be built.
The ref and linesman who made the mistakes against Newcastle last week have had their next matches taken from them. They were, of course, mistakes that favoured us; the last time a decision went against us and the ref got punished like that he missed Old Etonians v Royal Engineers. Marco Bizot has said he’s sorry for what he did in the same match. He will now have the most pointless suspension of all time.
Nothing to do with Villa but funny nevertheless – Spurs are losing their shirt sponsors from next season because they’re shite and haven’t got any idea how to be not as shite. Then again, it’s not as funny as the story saying they’ll be buying Morgan Rogers in the summer.
In the Europa League play-offs that might affect us Celta and Red Star both won away. Going on our past record Celta would be interesting. It doesn’t look like we’ll be playing Celtic again this season.
We have confirmation that the Harvey Elliott Clause (which sounds like a nineties radio sketch show) only counts for the league so Unai can pick him in Europe, which may happen. You never know. Anyway, he’s got a bit of an injury at the moment.
More of the Warehouse will be open for Leeds. Whether there will be any heating, or seats, you’ll just have to wait and see. Ticket prices for that one are causing a bit more controversy.
It didn’t really matter what the price was; it wasn’t worth it. Matty Cash was back and the line-up was a bit debatable, with a couple of last chances presumably being given. It was all a bit of a scrap with both keepers having to do some work until ours had to pick the ball out of the back of the net as well. Granted it was one hell of a free-kick but the best keeper in the world should have been positioned a bit better.
After that and to their credit the team lifted and started to dominate the game. We’ve now got a few subs who can change the game round and so it proved, with Ross Barkley and Jadon Sancho looking impressive. Then with four minutes left Tammy Abraham got the equaliser and if there’d have been fourteen minutes left we could well have got a winner. Still, one point’s better than none.
On Sunday Liverpool get a deep into stoppage time controversial winner. Not being paranoid, perish the thought, but have they ever conceded one like that? Evann Guessand scores a last-minute winner for Palace. And congratulations to Sheffield Wednesday, relegated already. That’s how to go down in style.
