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@simonjordon So it’s OK to continually throw out uneducated, derogatory, inflammatory insults aimed a @AstonVilla without consequence?! This has been going on for far too long with the biased media & as I posted yesterday it was the straw that broke the camels back! A club who’s first Chairman William McGregor “the father of the football league” literally wrote the rules of the game under a gas lamp in Aston & as a founding member of the football league formed in 1888. Making a statement that MY club would “NEVER be as big as @ManUtd” when Aston Villa FC was not only the biggest football club in the world but was considered “the most powerful sporting entity in the world” too up until WW2 was ridiculous … @AstonVilla HAVE ALREADY BEEN far, far bigger than Yanited! ….Which is why Hitler invited the club to a preseason tournament along with the national teams of England & Scotland in 1938… as I posted yesterday… Implying that @UnaiEmery_ would need to leave the club for the shambles up the M6 …when Villa now sit joint top of the @ChampionsLeague table to ever win that competition after winning the @EuropaLeague last season, despite our squad being pillaged this summer! And when the fan base took JC to task about his insinuation that we accept our position as a second tier entity in the football food chain & basically accept our superb manager leaving for pastures new & that the club shouldn’t aspire to aim higher…we were all told to STFU Followed up by Sky pundits even resorting to putting out downright lies on Saturday night after the Fulham game ….that Villa fans booed Emery’s football at first! Absolute nonsense when in his first game in charge we beat Yanited 3-1 & were superb! #AVFC fans like our owners are not stupid & we ALL know that there is an agenda behind it all…..👇🏼

𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱? 🟥🟨 A big mistake from the ref not to send Ethan Laird off? 🤯 Let us know your opinion below 👇 #UTI

It’s really not. He was injured but was fine to pull off a worldie of a save then, strange. If he’s is injured, I hope it’s that bad he never plays again, cheating cunt.

The problem with Carragher's comments is that people who don't follow the Premier League closely might assume we're just a small club with no real ambition and any team can just take our manager from us #avfc

Any club looking for frivolous threats of law suits is setting a dangerous precedent. If a pundit says " your club supports genocide", then that's a very serious allegation worthy of sanction but a pundit works on the basis that they can give a heartfelt opinion in the safety that football discourse ( making clubs a lot of money in the process, no TV, no money it's that simple) can be discussed in the spirit that we ALL signed up to as players, owners, fans and clubs. That being edginess, forthright opinions fuel the on and off pitch beast. What next? Villa get sued the next time Blues come to VP and we sing some of our more exotic songs at them, live on TV? Using the logic of twitter defamation lawyers does that Blues can say " the Holte were heard singing songs that were damaging to our brand, we are suing you ". Then roll that out across the land, every player sung about sues the club who's supporters defamed him ( and there's a good few who could), every manager who hears his name being shredded by oppo fans behind him can sue for " occupational distress", etc etc etc. You see where this fucking ends? Chaos. There's a reason why Villa's statement pops out. It's because clubs don't fucking sue pundits for what we ALL as fans say, tweet and bring on Saturdays. It's an unwritten, unholy alliance that says.. "This is a 150 year old football culture that in a changing world with changing tolerances, manages to keep the essence, flavour and spirit that is irreverent, sometimes nasty, spiteful, humorous and dark, but it's one we all agree should be preserved as much as possible in a safe, inclusive environment for all" Today, more than ever that's a challenge. Forest 2 weeks ago asked fans to not chant a long standing song to the tune of Oh when the saints. Many thought it was woke, I'm sure many thought it's race had been run and good riddance. At White Hart Lane I had " you're mad and you know you are", weeks after being in a mental health institution. Derby fans still sing a song about me that is inappropriate. I honestly couldn't give a fuck about either because I understand that making the game 100% saccharin, brand awareness overloaded with frivolous law suits is a bad idea. A really fucking bad idea. For so many reasons. "They constantly put us down" isn't a legal defence, that's your pride and partisan nature bring hurt. Imagine rolling that theory out on here, we'd all be in court every fucking day! Any club threatening to sue any pundit is frivolous bar saying the owner funded ISIS, unproven allegations that they nicked club funds or something very serious that really could damage the club reputation. And tagging a whole fan base as being in need of protection is also bollocks. Villa fans nor any others are an amorphous block who all think or feel the same. Some will get the hump, many couldn't give a fig, but now my club has forced a loyalty test on me when I honestly couldn't give a toss what Carra said about Villa, like I couldn't give a toss what Gabby says or anyone else. I make my own mind up thanks, and the unintended consequences of this is other clubs will now look to scare pundits or journalists with lawfare as many wealthy people do in their other business. Be careful what uou wish for. Any club tweeting a threat of action towards a pundit for a legal and honest opinion within the boundaries of " normal football discussion" that any fan would have is absurd. Whatever the name of the club is and whoever its owner is and how many great things he's done. It's just a bad idea with ramifications that lead to censorship of honest opinions that do not meet any real defamation test in English law. "We'll frighten you in order to keep you at heel". That's not brand protection, that's lawfare.

An Egyptian investment firm chose not to invest because of it 👀

These pundits need to understand that they can't just say anything they want without some sort of comeuppance. Abusing a fanbase, & a club is all well & good. But when your platform has the potential to be seen by millions worldwide, it has the potential to cause monetary damage.

Sports Quarter retweeting this, so this video could be something linked to that.

Cody Rhodes: "I'm an X-Men" Andrew Schulz: "Wait... you are? What did you just say?" (via @nerdist)

Let’s clarify, flying is lift over drag. No lift is created when you are “falling” from the ramp. It’s simple physics. Not impressed on prototypes with boosters made to release for 3 secs in intervals. This is falling #tsla

Real life, baby

According to BBC sport Man City owe Blues £25m. Could put it towards redeveloping the Main Stand. #SaveStAndrews

Hands down the best header in Championship history.