Post Match Aston Villa 1 Leicester 1

[spionfox]

We were poor by our usual standards but if our final ball / finishing had been better on a couple of occasions we'd all be talking about a comfortable win. Fine margins.

Reminds me of the first three quarters of last season under Pearson.

 

[David Gwilliam]

That 2nd half was a ****ing insult to football.

You are quite right Lako. I can think of three insults to football;the Jimmy Gauld * match fixing scandal of the 1960s awarding the World Cup to Qatar and the second half of the Aston Villa-Leicester match. There is a precedent for FA action. The players involved in the match fixing were banned for life. Surely those Leicester players involved in losing 1-1 away to Villa should be treated the same.

Full confession: at the time I thought Claudio's substitutions' made sense. We were defending a 1-0 lead. Claudio brought on De Laet a defender with pace at a time when players were tired. He also brought on Ulloa who defends well for a striker and gives us height when defending corners.

* For the benefit of younger members Jimmy Gauld was the brains behind fixing a number of football matches. The result was a number of players being sent to prison including the then England centre half Peter Swan and left half (midfielder) Tony Kay.

 

[Redditch Fox]

Away draw in a (sort of) midlands derby by a team that was likely to be a bit drained after the Spurs game - another away game and only 3 days previous. It was always likely to be tough and it's been clear for a bit now that our stand out attacking players are a bit weary/ stale. Let's try to be slightly real for a change - I thought I was supposed to be the miserable bastard here but it's hard to understand some of the comments from some folk who need to try to at least partially embrace reality.

 

[bocadillo]

* For the benefit of younger members Jimmy Gauld was the brains behind fixing a number of football matches.

Thank you, David. It benefited me even though I no longer think of myself as younger.

 

[fox58]

You are quite right Lako. I can think of three insults to football;the Jimmy Gauld * match fixing scandal of the 1960s awarding the World Cup to Qatar and the second half of the Aston Villa-Leicester match. There is a precedent for FA action. The players involved in the match fixing were banned for life. Surely those Leicester players involved in losing 1-1 away to Villa should be treated the same.

Full confession: at the time I thought Claudio's substitutions' made sense. We were defending a 1-0 lead. Claudio brought on De Laet a defender with pace at a time when players were tired. He also brought on Ulloa who defends well for a striker and gives us height when defending corners.

* For the benefit of younger members Jimmy Gauld was the brains behind fixing a number of football matches. The result was a number of players being sent to prison including the then England centre half Peter Swan and left half (midfielder) Tony Kay.

I remember during the 90's stopping at a pub outside of Chesterfield, on the way back from a game in Sheffield. Where Peter Swan was the landlord, had pictures up on the wall of him shaking hands with Pele

 

[Motown Fox]

He always reckoned he was innocent in the articles up here I've read about the case.

 

[bocadillo]

I remember during the 90's stopping at a pub outside of Chesterfield

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